Ask anyone that knows me well, and they will eventually tell you Im an odd person. I own a personal grooming kit that is only allowed to touch the beard. I have a very specific way to wash dishes, and if someone else does dishes I have to leave or Ill go nuts. I also like/want to collect weird things. So Im wondering what DAKKA likes that isnt.....normal. Ill start things off of course
Firstly, Ive been looking for the perfect phone for my computer desk. And I friggin LOVE the way a touch tone desk phone looks. Infact any older phone with a squared touch pad just catches my eyes.
And lastly, I seriously want to own an older dental phantom. Mostly ones with the metal "gums" but even if it had the plastic ones would be fine
metal is on the bottom
Blank ceramic drama masks are one that I assume everyone here could guess from my avatar.
Another fascination of mine are the bodies of the recently deceased provided there are no visible wounds, humans to a lesser degree as their anatomy bores me. They have a look of serenity about them and are considerably easier to study than moving creatures.
Linked to the second one I adore bones, few things fill me with as much awe as the skeletons of various animals.
So if there's a murderer on the loose who leaves no visible wounds and scatters the bones of deceased animals around, with the only witness statement saying they saw someone wearing a blank ceramic mask fleeing the scene, we can safely assume you've gone off the deep end?
Avatar 720 wrote:So if there's a murderer on the loose who leaves no visible wounds and scatters the bones of deceased animals around, with the only witness statement saying they saw someone wearing a blank ceramic mask fleeing the scene, we can safely assume you've gone off the deep end?
Avatar 720 wrote:So if there's a murderer on the loose who leaves no visible wounds and scatters the bones of deceased animals around, with the only witness statement saying they saw someone wearing a blank ceramic mask fleeing the scene, we can safely assume you've gone off the deep end?
Probably.
Awesome!
*Goes off to scheme about how he can set-up Corpses* (In the wrong context, that sounds really weird...)
It's not an object, but tinkering with stuff. Just give me a decent set of tools and everything within a 20 foot radius will most likely be in pieces within the hour. If I took all the bits and pieces of bicycles lying around in my garage and actually assembled them, I'd probably have 4 or 5 bikes.
I also love broken sea shells. I just think they'e so much more interesting than whole ones.
I like seeing the way people tick. Not like corpses though, wounds are really cool to look at. I watched a surgeon do a spinal disc removal and he removed the back part of the spine and used something I can describe as a mini ice-cream scooper to scoop out the disc. Seeing that stuff is awesome, that and an open heart surgery was cool. They take it out and for a few moments the only thing keeping the guy on the table alive is a machine circulating blood. There's a huge cavity where the heart used to be and when they start putting in the new heart it started to beat after a few sutures were put it.
Truly surreal to watch and a main reason why I want to work in MASH like conditions, that and the instant gratification of knowing you patched someone up and maybe improved their future quality of life.
purplefood wrote:I like the whole discection/cutting part but it seems difficult to put things back...
"I don't think I should've removed this..."
"Well then put it back."
"I've tried, it's like my warhammer army. No matter how well I try to re-pack it, nothing will fit the way it did to start with..."
halonachos wrote:I like seeing the way people tick. Not like corpses though, wounds are really cool to look at. I watched a surgeon do a spinal disc removal and he removed the back part of the spine and used something I can describe as a mini ice-cream scooper to scoop out the disc. Seeing that stuff is awesome, that and an open heart surgery was cool. They take it out and for a few moments the only thing keeping the guy on the table alive is a machine circulating blood. There's a huge cavity where the heart used to be and when they start putting in the new heart it started to beat after a few sutures were put it.
Truly surreal to watch and a main reason why I want to work in MASH like conditions, that and the instant gratification of knowing you patched someone up and maybe improved their future quality of life.
That's similar to what I was going to say. I find human anatomy quite interesting. I'm thinking about becoming a surgeon if at all possible.
My coworker and I were having a smoke break over the winter, him in his black over coat and me in my khaki raincoat, and we see two guys similiarly dressed but with fedoras on. We both immediatly agreed that we should get hats.
I used to collect and restore old knives, the feeling of achievment I got from bringing an old rusted blade up to a shiny gleaming showpeice with a polished handle and supple leather pouch, most people thought I was weirdo though...and most still do!
I also have a strange affinity with anything related to the predator character from the movies, and also a massive fan of doug bradley and the Hellraiser franchise!
I've always had a penchant for destructive things. IRL, I'm one of the most timid and cautious people you could meet. But learning how an atom bomb works, or the development of napalm during WW II, I find that cool. I also love battle history, but I'm guessing that most people on a wargaming site agree with me there (the great Khanate for the win!).
I also make it a hobby to always try and find the optimistic side to any situation. I'm very pessimistic in my thoughts, but I always try to present the optimistic side of events to others.
Nothing like things with zero volume/finate surface area. Of course, Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches are pretty cool too. I also like bubbles. That and corpses.
Camping/nature. I love going away from all the hubub of city life and just chilling in a tent in a forest. Build a nice giant campfire, whittle some sticks, and relax. Heck, when I need to take a short break while studying at home, I'll pull out my pocket knife and hand sharpen my pencils with the window open. It's nothing close to the real deal, but it offers a nice little reminder of what I work for.
micahaphone wrote:Camping/nature. I love going away from all the hubub of city life and just chilling in a tent in a forest. Build a nice giant campfire, whittle some sticks, and relax. Heck, when I need to take a short break while studying at home, I'll pull out my pocket knife and hand sharpen my pencils with the window open. It's nothing close to the real deal, but it offers a nice little reminder of what I work for.
I really like Handmade wooden boxes. I don't know why, but I find them pretty cool. I usually pick up on at the flea market (bunch of rednecks selling their junk out of their cars at a parking garage.).
The thing is they all usually smell like pot for some reason, even the ones I buy off of 90 year old ladies. I put dice, cards, and other stuff in them, but it always seems like the previous owner of all of them was a pothead.
Leather Bracelets (braided), not sure why, but i love them. They have to be quite specific though and i cant always find ones i like.
O and Historical battles/ weapons/ wargear, all that jazz
micahaphone wrote:Camping/nature. I love going away from all the hubub of city life and just chilling in a tent in a forest. Build a nice giant campfire, whittle some sticks, and relax. Heck, when I need to take a short break while studying at home, I'll pull out my pocket knife and hand sharpen my pencils with the window open. It's nothing close to the real deal, but it offers a nice little reminder of what I work for.
+1! Me too! Nothing beats lying under a tree on a hot summer day after running around, or staring at a creek for hours while you sip ice cold water, or looking over a cliff after a long day.... I was fortunate to be brought up in an area where no matter where you go, you're always around nature :3
Also, exercising. Not like, body building... Just enough to make you feel good and be happy with yourself. It's a great feeling. Running, doing a couple push-ups in between commercials, stuff like that.
Vietnam Movies. Especially ones with the Airmobile. I'm a gear-nut. Looking at equipment from old wars is like, neat.
Oh, and this patch. I was considering joining the army just to be in the airmobile
Bikes and cycling gear, i mean, being in the military there arent too many of us guys who will ride a 3000 dollar full carbon road bike in the requisite lycra/spandex clothes.
Messing with electronics.. If I have a small screw driver, and there is an unattended electronic device lying around, more than likely i will take it apart, and see how it ticks (so to speak) It is partially my job in the army, and partly how i am (which also makes me rather successful in my job)
I also have a thing for classic stuff.. classic suits (complete with headgear), ultra classic cars, classic/antique furniture, original grandfather clocks (really want one in my house)
Annnnnd... the Organ.. something about the music that pipe organs in cathedrals and other opera houses/concert halls just strikes me. I guess the same could be said for the bagpipe as well.
Oh sweet this thread is coming along nicely. And oddly enough, its still on topic This is the reason I started the thread, because you guys have posted stuff you find fascinating and it really is a bit odd compared to normal things
I really, and I mean REALLY, like clocks. Not digital clocks mind you, they have to have the face and everything. I dunno why, but its like a shiny red ball to me, just grabs my attention when I see a boat load of clocks. Infact every single room in my house has a clock in it.
Clocks freak you out?! No my friend, THAT is weird. Sides, Im hoping that being surrounded by clocks, that someday we have a solar flare and it changes me into some type of badass super hero that can bend/control time. Ill call myself Timepiece. Eh?! Like that?
Anything with a mechanism which is visible (preferably geared and moving, but anything will do) - especially Hunter Pocket Watches with exposed mechanisms - I've wanted one of those all my life, and never found the time to actually buy one...
Also, to a lesser extent, I enjoy things which work in a clever manner. It's similar to my first thing, but it can encompass anything which works reliably and cleverly.
Albatross wrote:Smoking crack and playing Subbuteo.
Your a Rock star, those are normal things to do arnt they? This is about odd things you, the rock star, would do. So if you said you liked to sit quietly and knit sweaters, then that would be odd.
KingCracker wrote:Oh sweet this thread is coming along nicely. And oddly enough, its still on topic This is the reason I started the thread, because you guys have posted stuff you find fascinating and it really is a bit odd compared to normal things
I really, and I mean REALLY, like clocks. Not digital clocks mind you, they have to have the face and everything. I dunno why, but its like a shiny red ball to me, just grabs my attention when I see a boat load of clocks. Infact every single room in my house has a clock in it.
The coolest clock I've ever seen, was made by my great grandfather. It has a nice chime that goes off every every 15 minutes(surprisingly not that annoying), and each time, the song gets more complete, until the top of the hour when it plays the full song, and rings a number of times equal to the hour.
Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Annnnnd... the Organ.. something about the music that pipe organs in cathedrals and other opera houses/concert halls just strikes me. I guess the same could be said for the bagpipe as well.
The organ I thought of first was not related to music, but still related to pipes.
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Dastardly Dave wrote:Anything with a mechanism which is visible (preferably geared and moving, but anything will do) - especially Hunter Pocket Watches with exposed mechanisms - I've wanted one of those all my life, and never found the time to actually buy one...
Pre WWII German international Friendship League lapel pins. I have about 10 of them. The Anglo German Friendship one and the German Japanese one are my two current favourites. Also, I would love to find the 1936 Olympic German Hockey Jersey they wore. They tied for 5th. Somehow, Great Britain won the Gold (Canadian Ringers - cough cough)
Penguin paperbacks, from 1935-c1950, and the poetry series that ran from '63-'65. Absolutely love them, I have a collection of about 100, but am on a buying hiatus until I have more space for them. I would direct you to my avatar for evidence but I changed it.
@KingCracker: I'm with you, clocks are awesome. I particularly like old railway station clocks.
Dastardly Dave wrote:Anything with a mechanism which is visible (preferably geared and moving, but anything will do) - especially Hunter Pocket Watches with exposed mechanisms - I've wanted one of those all my life, and never found the time to actually buy one...
Also, to a lesser extent, I enjoy things which work in a clever manner. It's similar to my first thing, but it can encompass anything which works reliably and cleverly.
I would agree with this - one of the reasons I like "steampunky" things.
Gitkikka wrote:I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Consider your reference caught and chuckled at.
I find physics fascinating. In particular, Quantum theory.
Also, desk lamps. Don't know why, but a desk never seems complete without a lamp.
I'll take your quantum theory and raise it to string theory.
Also, I would really like a clock, if possible, to tell the time accurately yet still have an irregular tick. It would annoy me, but it would annoy other people too.
htj wrote:Penguin paperbacks, from 1935-c1950, and the poetry series that ran from '63-'65. Absolutely love them, I have a collection of about 100, but am on a buying hiatus until I have more space for them. I would direct you to my avatar for evidence but I changed it.
@KingCracker: I'm with you, clocks are awesome. I particularly like old railway station clocks.
Oh, and streamlined 1930s steam trains are cool.
Oh yea, Ill agree with that for sure. Id LOVE to own one... but not only would that cost as much as my house, but where the hell would I put something that large? Itd be cool as hell though.
And Steampunk stuff is just the tits IMO. Very cool looking.
htj wrote:@KingCracker: I'm with you, clocks are awesome. I particularly like old railway station clocks.
Oh yea, Ill agree with that for sure. Id LOVE to own one... but not only would that cost as much as my house, but where the hell would I put something that large? Itd be cool as hell though.
Very true. A man can dream, though. A man can dream.
I do love me some steampunk, but it really bugs me when it's pure aesthetic, and doesn't apparently do anything. Cogs are not just for display!
personally, i find stetsons brilliant. i bought one in Oregon and wear it fairly regulary. I also love archery. nothing quite like a good bullseye at 8 bays. Poetry, i love writing poetry, its a good release. Gun manuels. im 16 so cant own one but i love learning about how guns have changed, how they work and the different trains of thought from each gun company. The SR-71 blackbird. ill never fly one but it was one of my happiest moments when i got to sit one at the boeing flight musem up in seattle.
assultmarine wrote:personally, i find stetsons brilliant. i bought one in Oregon and wear it fairly regulary. I also love archery. nothing quite like a good bullseye at 8 bays. Poetry, i love writing poetry, its a good release. Gun manuels. im 16 so cant own one but i love learning about how guns have changed, how they work and the different trains of thought from each gun company. The SR-71 blackbird. ill never fly one but it was one of my happiest moments when i got to sit one at the boeing flight musem up in seattle.
Stetsons, poetry, and guns? Sounds like you've got the makings of a cowboy poet. Riding through the West, seducing women with your rough and ready, but surprisingly deep ways, and shooting down blackhats in duels. Replace the horse with a SR-17 and you're set.
assultmarine wrote:
personally, i find stetsons brilliant. i bought one in Oregon and wear it fairly regulary. I also love archery. nothing quite like a good bullseye at 8 bays. Poetry, i love writing poetry, its a good release. Gun manuels. im 16 so cant own one but i love learning about how guns have changed, how they work and the different trains of thought from each gun company. The SR-71 blackbird. ill never fly one but it was one of my happiest moments when i got to sit one at the boeing flight musem up in seattle.
Stetsons, poetry, and guns? Sounds like you've got the makings of a cowboy poet. Riding through the West, seducing women with your rough and ready, but surprisingly deep ways, and shooting down blackhats in duels. Replace the horse with a SR-17 and you're set.
i wish i could be assed to learn to ride, but im not. i'd drive a quad though?
Not unless you plan on becoming an evil scientist. *this was directed towards Corpses*
Then maybe
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assultmarine wrote: personally, i find stetsons brilliant. i bought one in Oregon and wear it fairly regulary. I also love archery. nothing quite like a good bullseye at 8 bays. Poetry, i love writing poetry, its a good release. Gun manuels. im 16 so cant own one but i love learning about how guns have changed, how they work and the different trains of thought from each gun company. The SR-71 blackbird. ill never fly one but it was one of my happiest moments when i got to sit one at the boeing flight musem up in seattle.
Stetsons, poetry, and guns? Sounds like you've got the makings of a cowboy poet. Riding through the West, seducing women with your rough and ready, but surprisingly deep ways, and shooting down blackhats in duels. Replace the horse with a SR-17 and you're set.
i wish i could be assed to learn to ride, but im not. i'd drive a quad though?
Make it a segway and thatll fit right in this thread
OoooooooOOOOHHHH!!! YEAH! weapons development is up there with mad science. Death rays? Planet Blower upper guns? Yea thats mad science and total weapon development.
Dastardly Dave wrote:Anything with a mechanism which is visible (preferably geared and moving, but anything will do) - especially Hunter Pocket Watches with exposed mechanisms - I've wanted one of those all my life, and never found the time to actually buy one...
Also, to a lesser extent, I enjoy things which work in a clever manner. It's similar to my first thing, but it can encompass anything which works reliably and cleverly.
I would agree with this - one of the reasons I like "steampunky" things.
Yeah, Steampunk for the sake of Steampunk just doesn't appeal to me in the same way - those gears need to have a purpose (however, if those cogs on that pen drive move... well I might have to change my mind...).
I do love Orreries though - they are some of the best looking clockwork devices in existance:
Dastardly Dave wrote:Anything with a mechanism which is visible (preferably geared and moving, but anything will do) - especially Hunter Pocket Watches with exposed mechanisms - I've wanted one of those all my life, and never found the time to actually buy one...
Also, to a lesser extent, I enjoy things which work in a clever manner. It's similar to my first thing, but it can encompass anything which works reliably and cleverly.
I would agree with this - one of the reasons I like "steampunky" things.
Yeah, Steampunk for the sake of Steampunk just doesn't appeal to me in the same way - those gears need to have a purpose (however, if those cogs on that pen drive move... well I might have to change my mind...).
I do love Orreries though - they are some of the best looking clockwork devices in existance:
Pfff more like second best
But I agree if I could afford some Orreries Id totally own a few
EagleArk wrote:Anyway, i find steam trains soo awsome, dont know why...
Because they are scientifically, medically, and Biblically proven to be awesome. It's a simple fact, no use disputing it.
and you cannot possibly be a dastardly villain if you don't put the damsel onto the steam train tracks, and then curl your mustache as you give your evil laugh.
assultmarine wrote:
personally, i find stetsons brilliant. i bought one in Oregon and wear it fairly regulary. I also love archery. nothing quite like a good bullseye at 8 bays. Poetry, i love writing poetry, its a good release. Gun manuels. im 16 so cant own one but i love learning about how guns have changed, how they work and the different trains of thought from each gun company. The SR-71 blackbird. ill never fly one but it was one of my happiest moments when i got to sit one at the boeing flight musem up in seattle.
Stetsons, poetry, and guns? Sounds like you've got the makings of a cowboy poet. Riding through the West, seducing women with your rough and ready, but surprisingly deep ways, and shooting down blackhats in duels. Replace the horse with a SR-17 and you're set.
i wish i could be assed to learn to ride, but im not. i'd drive a quad though?
When I first read your post, I had to check your flag. 16 and sans gun? Oh, not in the USA, where 8 year olds can go hunting with dad. And the SR-71 was a great plane. My town had an A-12 (precursor, and pretty much the same thing) that you could even sit in, and had seen actual combat/used in the military. Then the CIA stole it from us, despite the fact that we refurbished it from a pile of rusting junk into a fully operational (if we put the engines in) state. Oh, they turned it into a nice little ornament for their parking lot. Jerks.
Sorry for the rant, I really like planes.
And if you like fast planes, get yourself into a MiG 25 foxbat. They're much more common than the blackbird.
I'd also put down physics, but for me it's the little scenarios in quantum mechanics that can let you completely mess with someone's head, like John Wheeler's astronomical two slit experiment, and the fact that I could hypothetically affect an action made billions of years ago.
Goliath wrote:I'd also put down physics, but for me it's the little scenarios in quantum mechanics that can let you completely mess with someone's head, like John Wheeler's astronomical two slit experiment, and the fact that I could hypothetically affect an action made billions of years ago.
Also fezzes.
Fezzes are cool.
Fezzes
purplefood wrote:So are bow ties...
Jokes aside, you two just hit the odd button. Bowties and fesses are pretty odd. You just dont see them very often. Nice addition to my thread
I find Windows 98 quite cool. I'm running it on an emulator right now. It runs immensely fast on something with hundreds of times more ram than it needs
Fractals in nature (the shapes of leaves, blood vessel netrworks etc). Love thinking about the relationship between maths, data structures and living things.
Mongoose! Mongoose are awesome. They are the Trollslayers of the animal world.
My folding shovel. I bought it because it is cool. Whenever I go camping, I bring it with me because it is cool. I have seriously used it (not just like, demonstrating my awesome folding shovel)...twice.
Underground places. I love tunnels, caverns, especially flooded ones. The cliffs where I live had old army fortifications on them, and we used to break into them all the time when we were kids. They were always half flooded, infested with rats, dripping with moisture and festooned with fungus, slugs and other nasties. Still couldn't get over the fascination.
Lighthouses. Lighthouses are freaking cool.
Polling figures! I am a poll junkie. I follow them constantly and try to predict elections.
KingCracker wrote:Clocks freak you out?! No my friend, THAT is weird. Sides, Im hoping that being surrounded by clocks, that someday we have a solar flare and it changes me into some type of badass super hero that can bend/control time. Ill call myself Timepiece. Eh?! Like that?
KingCracker wrote:Clocks freak you out?! No my friend, THAT is weird. Sides, Im hoping that being surrounded by clocks, that someday we have a solar flare and it changes me into some type of badass super hero that can bend/control time. Ill call myself Timepiece. Eh?! Like that?
Lord Scythican wrote:I really like Handmade wooden boxes. I don't know why, but I find them pretty cool. I usually pick up on at the flea market (bunch of rednecks selling their junk out of their cars at a parking garage.).
The thing is they all usually smell like pot for some reason, even the ones I buy off of 90 year old ladies. I put dice, cards, and other stuff in them, but it always seems like the previous owner of all of them was a pothead.
Well theres only a few things a box like this is good for.
Me I'm in to miniature service ware like mini pizza cutters and the like IDK its just cool. Also I have a strange obsesion with buying broken stuff on craigslist and trying to fix it. ( I have not manage to fix even half the stuff I've picked up.) Also I collect random bobles things that make no sense to get but i still do like I own a radioactive symbol for a honda accord but no honda to put it on. Or the random pins, viles, glass sculptures and ceramic eygptians.
Reinforced concrete. Maybe not to strange given I want to be a civil engineer but when I tell people that reinforced concrete boarders on sexually arousing people back away from me. Ok maybe I'm exaggerating but the first day I learned that putting rebar in concrete lets the steel take the tensile loads while the concrete takes the compressive loads I tried to share it with everyone, and learned to my dismay that no one care.
Da Boss wrote:
Underground places. I love tunnels, caverns, especially flooded ones. The cliffs where I live had old army fortifications on them, and we used to break into them all the time when we were kids. They were always half flooded, infested with rats, dripping with moisture and festooned with fungus, slugs and other nasties. Still couldn't get over the fascination.
Lighthouses. Lighthouses are freaking cool.
Buddy, you need to see the sea caves in the Apostle Islands, off the north coast of Wisconsin. That's the southern part of Lake Superior. The entire "North Shore" area of Minnesota also has some wicked light houses.
And the best part about the sea caves? The only way to see them is in a sea kayak. Want to kayak through caves?
I thought so.
Antique Shops have always fascinated me - I think it's the sheer amount of things in there you don't normally see anywhere else, and the feeling of nostalgia and age which just hangs over everything.
Also: empty churches, especially large ones with stained glass windows. To me, there's something deeply special about them - it's difficult to describe though - they're just so peaceful - something that's not all that common these days...
Dastardly Dave wrote:
Also: empty churches, especially large ones with stained glass windows. To me, there's something deeply special about them - it's difficult to describe though - they're just so peaceful - something that's not all that common these days...
Very much agree with you on that. Especially big ol' cathedrals, although we don't have too many proper cathedrals here in the states.
corpsesarefun wrote:Thirded on the empty churches.
Stone buildings in general strike a chord with me.
Fourthded. A couple years ago there was a small church for sale about 10 minutes from here. It was AWESOME looking. Had a small tower looking deal where a bell used to be and the windows were stained. Problem was they wanted a gak ton of cash for it, and it was in pretty bad shape for the price. I figured 30k because of the land tops, but the owner was asking an impressive 150k for it. Sadly it was demoed last year.
Personally, while the big, stone cathedrals are cool (if you ever go to D.C. you MUST see the National Cathedral), I prefer the awesome tiny churches in rural areas. One big room up top, with a small bell tower over the door, and a nice cool basement for quaint lunches afterwards. I remember when I helped to paint one, the big news was that it just got an indoor toilet. However, the members of the church liked their outhouses, so we cleaned those up and repainted them, too.
Oh, and I love knots, or making them. That's what happens when you're a boy scout. Give me 4 feet or so of a decent synthetic rope, and I can entertain myself for a loooong time. Also, give me enough wood and enough rope, and I can build an entire playground out of it. Oh Pioneering merit badge, how I love thee.
Libraries and bookstores. Really just books in general.
The Seminary Co-Op bookstore at U Chicago is one of my favorite places in the world. Its in the basement of the University church, which is all old stonework, and has a ceiling that's maybe 6 feet. Cramped, stuffed with books, and basically just very academic in feel. I spent hours in there when I was a kid.
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Da Boss wrote:
Mongoose! Mongoose are awesome. They are the Trollslayers of the animal world.
They have nothing on guinea pigs, miniature cattle they are.
Also, platypuses, the most absurd animal in existence. My primary goal in life is to own one, and take it on walks.
Exploring abandoned buildings/institutions. Especially the underground of cities. Some large towns have entire streets you can walk down beneath ground level that used to be the surface. Its just fun to look around them and try imagine what it was like when they were active. I also think reptiles are awesome. And own a few bearded dragons and a texas western hognose snake.
Lexx wrote:Exploring abandoned buildings/institutions. Especially the underground of cities. Some large towns have entire streets you can walk down beneath ground level that used to be the surface. Its just fun to look around them and try imagine what it was like when they were active. I also think reptiles are awesome. And own a few bearded dragons and a texas western hognose snake.
Agreed. There's an abandoned mental hospital about 20 miles from me. Some of you who live in lanham, maryland may know what I'm talking about I want to explore it soooooo badly. But I'm pretty sure there's security cameras everywhere.
My favorite store of all time is this little (well, it looks like it's little from the outside) 2nd hand bookstore nearby the local university. The Walls are nothing but floor to ceiling bookshelves, and the entire store is a labyrinth with many square side rooms. Nothing but floor to ceiling books. At ever corner and every 3 feet in the main hallways there are 4-6 foot stacks of books. They even have a basement in similar condition, and they have even more books in storage, that you can browse online. When you walk in, you are completely consumed by the smell of old paper. Not nasty moldy paper, but dry parchment. It's an incredibly clean store, and every time I go in I end up walking out with 3 or so books. I never have any shopping list when I go in, I just browse and find books that look good. I've found some real gems in there.
Lexx wrote:Exploring abandoned buildings/institutions. Especially the underground of cities. Some large towns have entire streets you can walk down beneath ground level that used to be the surface. Its just fun to look around them and try imagine what it was like when they were active. I also think reptiles are awesome. And own a few bearded dragons and a texas western hognose snake.
Agreed. There's an abandoned mental hospital about 20 miles from me. Some of you who live in lanham, maryland may know what I'm talking about I want to explore it soooooo badly. But I'm pretty sure there's security cameras everywhere.
by a cheap dog lead, material preferably, chew/tear the end off and take it with you, if a security person sees you on a camera or in person, say you're looking for your dog which broke off the lead
Lexx wrote:Exploring abandoned buildings/institutions. Especially the underground of cities. Some large towns have entire streets you can walk down beneath ground level that used to be the surface. Its just fun to look around them and try imagine what it was like when they were active. I also think reptiles are awesome. And own a few bearded dragons and a texas western hognose snake.
Agreed. There's an abandoned mental hospital about 20 miles from me. Some of you who live in lanham, maryland may know what I'm talking about I want to explore it soooooo badly. But I'm pretty sure there's security cameras everywhere.
by a cheap dog lead, material preferably, chew/tear the end off and take it with you, if a security person sees you on a camera or in person, say you're looking for your dog which broke off the lead
Good Idea!
Ever been to Pennhurst asylum up in PA?
They actually did a Halloween show there last year, but only used one building out of more than a dozen. The place just oozes creepy.
I forgot which forum it was, but basically someone was asking about it, and just copy pasted it from the FW site, and it was listed in caps for DRAMATIC EFFECT. So everyone in that thread just kindda.....went with it. You know how it goes here in DAKKAland
Also guys, try and leave out the songs in the thread Make another music thread for that. I mean odd stuff, not covers of crappy tunes
Medieval castles (i want to own one, lol wait im in Australia...), heraldry, gloves, those leather jackets the ww1 pilots wore, drizabone's (i have a few, you feel so warm/badass in them while @ the farm, look into em) & those old thermionic devices (diode valves etc)
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This is the reason I started the thread, because you guys have posted stuff you find fascinating and it really is a bit odd compared to normal things
Fezzes 
