to think my friend is right and I do actually attract all the weirdos on the bus?

[OwlLady]

as it's happening here now :( . I have posted on several threads in my limited time here in the last few weeks and a fair few have been deleted as they were started by frogs, badgers and hares

is this an affliction that only I have been blessed with?

[Wheresmycaffeinedrip]

kizz they move singularly usually in buses as two together cancel eachother out.

[TheSmallClanger]

They quite often frequent railway stations, although not necessarily to catch trains.

A large number of incidences of flashing, experienced by me and people I know, have happened at train stations.

[perplexedpirate]

I have long been called weird. That's ok, I am weird.
I also have some (diminishing, yay!) mental health issues. The one has absolutely fuck all to do with the other.
Tbh Sugarmouse, the way you've responded to this thread boggles the mind. Do you generally have problems with keeping things in perspective?

[SPsCliffingAllOverMN]

Clanger I was flashed for the first time by a pissed old man outside a shopping centre in the middle of the day.

[TheSmallClanger]

Interesting common denominator there, SP.

I think I've only been flashed at once at night, but it might just be that visibility is better in the daytime.

[EuroShaggleton]

Only on MN.

[Wheresmycaffeinedrip]

I was followed after getting of buses. I think they have timetables programmed in . I escaped one by running into a bus only to get another one sit next to me on a bus.

[SummerRainIsADistantMemory]

Owl shouldn't have bought it up, I DIDN'T! - SugarMouse

So, let me get this straight, it's ok to make a grossly offensive comment because Owl mentioned her daughter, which you feel she shouldn't have done

And you can see no correlation between that and bullying behaviour ie: using another's weaknesses to mock and hurt them?

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[KateSMumsnet]

Hi all,

Can we please remind you of our talk guidelines, in particular the bit about personal attacks.

[Kizzit]

soooo,the lessons for today has to be.... using public transport increases your chances of being confronted by unusual behaving singular people right?

[SummerRainIsADistantMemory]

Clanger and Sp.... when I was in holiday in portugal years ago there was a man strolling around some caves on the beach butt naked except for a hat, sunglasses and sunblock all over his langer. Something about the sunshine that draws the flashers out

[SugarMouse1]

Why is it offensive that I wish Owl's daughter (and other disabled people) to be treated equally and with respect?

I'm so sorry if this wish offends!!!!

[meddie]

I used to attract these when i was younger, not so much since I got older. Havent had a good flashing for years. AIBU to feel so invisible these days.

[Kizzit]

TheSecondComing are you in any way or shape related to a certain man in a cabbage van though??

[SPsCliffingAllOverMN]

Sugar You knew exactly what you were getting at when you wrote that. I weren't the only one who thought what you said was wrong. Trying to back track now a bit I see

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

I was assuming this thread was about the steretypical old boys who like to waggle their eyebrows and wiggle their tongues lecherously at you while you sit not-so-happily on the bus, the little old ladies who insist on showing you every single item of shopping they have bought or the off their faces drunkards that have been drinking all morning and are trying to get home for tea...

That was my perspective on the thread, nothing to do with MH at all. Quite that I have upset you babyheave. I wasn't intending to be offensive.

[SugarMouse1]

This is difficult because there is no blanket definition of WEIRDO!

To some (ignorant/small-minded people) it may mean a mentally ill person etc

And for those of you saying you just mean public drunks/alcoholics- Jeez, it wouldn't kill you to have a little empathy- nobody ever wakes up one day and decides to become a white-lightening swilling park-bench dweller.

How do you know the circumstances leading to them ending up like that?

And SHOCK HORROR- beggars and the homeless are actually people too- not just 'weirdos' as you so politely put it

[SPsCliffingAllOverMN]

I dont give a shit TSC. She came on defending the use of weirdo and now its been explained what was meant by it shes now changing what shes offended by and making out people are taking the piss out of the homeless and the alcoholics when nothing of the sort is happening

[LadyClariceCannockMonty]

Jeez, I came on here to make a 'ha ha, I attract freaks and weirdos on the bus too' type comment but now I'm not sure I dare!

I feel a bit like leaping around chanting 'Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah' ...

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

Yes you're right Sugar, you don't just wake up alcoholic, it just creeps up on you, the odd drink here there. A bottle with your meal. Few more glasses after that. Then you start substituting your meals, who needs to eat. I'll have a liquid lunch. The God awful shakes when you need a bottle or two just to sleep. That's when you have to start hiding it. watering it down so family doesnt notice the levels going down.

I don't need empathy Sugar.

I've been there.

[OwlLady]

I thought weirdo meant someone who didn't conform to a mainstream stereotype. I certainly didn't think it meant someone who had mental health problems

Can everyone stop discussing my daughter as well, even though I bought it up as an illustration! She would tell you all to fuck off anyway :o well actually she says another word for fuck that sounds like it, but if I post it everyone I know will know it is ME

[SugarMouse1]

SP-

So it was someone just a bit merry on a night out?

Totally normal, doesn't make you a weirdo, maybe you should try it sometime