Wierdos in the train

[Mich the Tester]

Yes, Love, you were in there!

I suppose it's a possible explanation, but I'm not of that preference.

WTF has happened? Fit birds used to sit opposite me in the train and give me suggestive looks; now it's 6'5'' scarfaced nutjobs with wooden legs.

Where's Zeity? He knows about nutters in the train.

[russell]

I suppose it's a possible explanation, but I'm not of that preference.

WTF has happened? Fit birds used to sit opposite me in the train and give me suggestive looks; now it's 6'5'' scarfaced nutjobs with wooden legs.

Just be glad your not getting urinated on by 20 chavs. Which I am sure happens regularly in London.

[Signo_cypher]

He was just a weirdo, the worlds full of them, when using public transport your odds of bumping into a few increase greatly.

It is the fact that you where caught by surprise, you don’t plan/expect this scenario to happen, if you did you would have a few choice words/tools of your own to show him

[Mich the Tester]

He was just a weirdo, the worlds full of them, when using public transport your odds of bumping into a few increase greatly.

It is the fact that you where caught by surprise, you don’t plan/expect this scenario to happen, if you did you would have a few choice words/tools of your own to show him

Yep, and certainly plenty of wierdos in Amsterdam. But I wonder whether someone like that realises that people are likely to find him rather creepy; maybe he's just a sad and lonely individual trying to strike up conversation, but so socially inept that he doesn't know how. But then the scar and the glare suggest something different.

[TimberWolf]

In some monkey societies a stare is a hostile gesture or threat/challenge, in others it's not (chimps?, bonobos?). I thought in humans it was a threat gesture until I learnt that in interviews you are meant to hold eye contact.

Anyway, here is a solution:

(note the gaze is averted)
Print Your Own Gaze-Averting Glasses: To Aid Sketch Artists, Prevent Gorilla Attacks | Geekosystem

apparently it works great on apes at the zoo, so I don't see why it shouldn't work on trains.

[Mich the Tester]

apparently it works great on apes at the zoo, so I don't see why it shouldn't work on trains.

It won't work on trains because zoo apes are higher primates; train wierdos aren't.

[Doggy Styles]

A few months hence you will see yourself on the Dutch version of Candid Camera.

Due to the higher tutonic quotient it's not as funny as the old British version. Which wasn't all that funny anyway.

Not to us, anyway.

[GreenLabel]

Yep, and certainly plenty of wierdos in Amsterdam. But I wonder whether someone like that realises that people are likely to find him rather creepy; maybe he's just a sad and lonely individual trying to strike up conversation, but so socially inept that he doesn't know how. But then the scar and the glare suggest something different.

If push had come to shove, could you have taken him?

[Mich the Tester]

If push had come to shove, could you have taken him?

Umm, probably (if you mean defend myself), but I can't know what he was concealing in his jacket.

[Sysman]

But serious question; is this behaviour typical of some drug?

It's hard to say without having seen the fella myself, but it could be a side effect of prescribed drugs he's taking for some condition or other.

A once good mate of mine ended up on some kind of prescribed drugs (antidepressants?) when he was going through a nasty divorce and he turned a bit strange and verbally aggressive. He simply wasn't like the mate I had known for several years. I still don't trust him.

I do occasionally come across weirdos on the train. On the latest occasion the dodgy looking guy I had clocked as I was getting on the train was being a bit hyperactive during the journey; he couldn't stand still, used the bog, paced back and forth etc.

Sure enough when he got off at my stop I saw him discreetly exchange something with a bloke waiting on the platform, and they then proceeded to ignore each other as they exited the station. I was pretty sure that was a drugs thing.