Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Scaryduck - twitter.com/duckorange, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:00)
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Smiling at people on the undergroundI have tried this twice, on the London Underground and the Paris Metro. Paris people are surprisingly more friendly - 58 of them smiled back, compared with 23 Londoners.
Surprised I wasn't stabbed...
Going to London on Tuesday, though, so I shall try again.
Edit: At the smiling, that is, not getting stabbed.
(, Sat 26 Jul 2008, 21:24, closed)
Haven't you thoughtthat the people in paris might simply be grimacing at you?
(, Sun 27 Jul 2008, 8:30, closed)
I'd smile back..If it didn't encourage the loonies.
After a week of being polite on the Tube when I first started work in London, I realised why everyone is a miserable bastard - survival.
Two days in to my new job and after smiling when someone smiled at me I then had to escape the tube asap when they wanted to show me their scars - by starting to loosen their trouser belt.
(, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 13:08, closed)
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