Is this weird behaviour on the underground?

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I promise I’ve not lead a sheltered life . I don’t live in London but have been there numerous times and always use the underground.

Today a girl stood next to me and started swinging around the pole (like a pole dancer) and then stopped and started doing squats and lunges whilst holding the pole.

I’ve used to get public transport every day when I lived in LA so I have seen some sights. But that’s odd right?

How am I clutching my pearls?

Yes that was the intention Bonny but you know ...

I was at a gathering in London today and someone I know told a story about their tube journey, which involved squatting around the pole.

Either this strange person is an acquaintance of mine or there’s more than one of them at it.

Honestly op I would move on. What a load of shite this thread has turned in to. People falling over themselves to prove how utterly unbothered by this they would be.

Ooo it’s the battle of the bitches 🤗

Someone wake Reddit up.

@thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter
I’m a social worker 🙈
This is purely an office based pastime though, I’d get sacked if I did it with clients!

Passmethecrisps sadly you’re right.

PLEASE STOP POSTING ANYMORE LIGHTHEARTED STORIES ON THIS THREAD.

THE THREAD IS NOW DEAD. RIP.

Peace out bitches

(Thanks to the lovely people who commented like a ... normal human being. Let the fun suckers bitch to themselves, it’s obviously making them feel better for some sad reason)

You wouldn’t get pole dancing on the Central Line

Maybe it's a new Thing Dafspunk?

OP. Not sure how this post has gone pear shaped. No idea how anyone has the space to twirl around on LU during the times specified. Always madly busy.

A post has been deleted. What did I say?

This was a fun thread. Odd behaviour spoilt it.

@Mooey89 - I imagine it wouldn’t be terribly professional! I must admit many a time I’ve sat at work and done my pelvic floor exercises after being reminded by appearance of the poster whose name is something like ‘dontforgettodoyourpelvicfloor’ on a thread (of course only after reading MN during lunch break )

Sad you have to put an OP about someone doing their own thing while going about your daily life.
Doing their own thing? The nutter was pole dancing on the bloody tube
It's not the OP that is sad, it's the attention-seeking-pole-dancing/hula hooping-ooh-look-at-me types and the miserable bitches that have brought down this thread

I always do that on the underground. Lighten up maaaan

If it’s not The Disco Bunny. I’m not blinking at it. Poles and rails are always a challenge to some people.

Have I stepped into the twilight zone.....

ERM OP yes that is weird behaviour.

Outside I'm so glad I moved out of Streatham! 😂

This is one weird thread.

It was just a social commentary type of thread, like hundreds of others. Couple of posters on here need to have a check and see if their HRT patch has fallen off.

OP once I sat opposite a man on the tube whose hands were covered in blood. I have never studied the floor so intently.

Phaedras that would have totally freaked me out!

Three times recently people have offered me seats on the Tube. I’m in my 60s but am fit and healthy and would never expect to be offered a seat. This strikes me as much stranger than pole practice.

Could have been worse, you could have seen the Moxi skate team roller skating on the tube, inc pole dancing on skates.

Oddest thing I ever saw was a man in a tiger costume who chased me up the escalator in kings cross growling at me, got in front of me and then tried to prevent me getting off the top of the escalator. Then kept randomly lunging at me on the concourse at the train station for the next 30 mins!

I think TigerMan wins, it makes pole dancing on the tube sound rather tame in comparison

I was once on the tube in the middle of the day on a weekday, so it wasn't that busy. I was sitting reasonably close to the big gangway near the doors and there was a young guy standing in the gangway by himself. He had headphones on and was obviously lost in his own world of whatever he was listening to. Suddenly he started practising some dance moves, including theatrical arm gestures. I caught the eye of the guy sitting opposite me and we exchanged amused smiles. DancingGuy carried on completely oblivious to the rest of us trying not to giggle. Mind you, we were between Leicester Square and Covent Garden!

Wish there was more of this type of behaviour on the waterloo and City line to be honest, it’s so dull..