The Grand Theatre of Freaks

[OmniTense]

Welcome to the Theatre, Ann. I approve you as the Club's Master of Assassins. Henceforth, you shall be the coordinator or our club Rp. If you have any questions on the RP ask me or Ann.

ALSO please note that the Darkling position has been filled. I approve Celtic as Darkling. Henceforth he shall enforce the "No Flaming" rule in here and the general RP rules in the Club RP. I suggest you listen to him.

*does M*A*S*H pa voice*
"That is all"


-Sin

[Govinda]

Thane? I'd be honoured. I'll do my best, Sin. Cheers.

So! I've just landed here, in Aberdeen. Everything's fine, I'm living with an international collection of chainsmokers and Bowie fans, little mad at the moment. Still finding my feet, have been hungover for the past three days. Hair of the dog, you know...

I should have my Wireless web in my room going by next week, I'll be on more then. Apparently there's a French guy, the only person in Halls who knows how to work the damn internet thing... an offer of wine, smoke, and Italian pasta and coffee has been made by my flat, so he should be over soon.

I can't wait for the RP!

Also, re. the Discussion, my past few days have altered my perception. Everything new is strange. After that, we get used to it, the freak factor drops. The proper weirdos are the ones that stay unique, that don't falter, don't suppress themselves and drop. Those who don't want to melt into the walls here.

(That had more of a point when I was thinking it, I promise)

See you soon, dearhearts

[OmniTense]

Very well, then. It's settled. I approve Heather as the Club's Thane. Henceforth, when I am away, Heather is in charge of this club.

With all these definitions of freak/strange/weird I think this club stands on pretty firm ground now. We all know who we are, why we are that way. BTW, Club news is that the RP is in the makings.


BTW, we ought to have some say in some sort of contest or big-to-do for Halloween. Everyone please think of something we can do with the boards on halloween, if you please. It's still quite a long ways off so we have time to think. Just keep it in mind.



@Discussion2.0:

What is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you or that you've ever seen.

[Silver]

What is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you or that you've ever seen?

I think mine was getting whacked out of the 2nd floor of the pub and not being all that injured at all. Hell I went back up the stairs to get back into the 'business' up there.
Granted I was shaken for a little whiles and I did get some bruising and the like, but nothing major. Guess I was lucky.

[Halie]

What is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you or that you've ever seen?

Hm...that's really hard, because there are weird things that have happened to mee, but either they're equally weird or I can't rememer what actually happened...Um...but, one of the weirdest things that I've seen is the video for 'Black Hole Sun' - SoundGarden. That freaked mee out the first time I saw it. A lot. lol. It's not the weirdest thign I've seen though, but it is one of them. Um...Oh! More weird things I've seen are people that look like constipated animals. For example, there are two boys in my school, one of them looks like a constipated horse, and the other looks like a constipated duck. And also, my best friends' Dad dances like a constipated chicken, thus how mee and her came up with our very famous dance, 'The Constipated Chicken Dance' XD lol. Yeah...I'll shut up now. lol.

[Govinda]

The weirdest thing I've ever seen was over 150 people queing in the rain, just to get into a club that was full. Everything about that one scene confused me: why such a crowded place; why so forceful; where did this drunk culture come from; why did it have to be there, and not another club, just as decent, five minutes away? Humans are all odd, especially when in herds.

[joesteel64]

Why do you think you are unique?

Simply put, I've never found anyone exactly like me, making me by definition unique. Want something more heartfelt? I've never really found a lot of common ground with people, being as I love chemistry, physics, and reading all of the time. Also I love to spend a lot of time tinkering on old computers, a not so common hobby in rural north carolina.

What talents separate you from others? Be advised that I'm only looking for unique talents.

hmm, I still play the pokemon trading card game, but only with the really old cards. I'm the top ranked guitar hero player in my town. I also have a real knack for remembering clearly useless trivia. ( I won sixty bucks in a school competition)

Has anyone ever referred to you as different/strange/weird/freak/insane?

All the time at school, and when I go on a foray into town, usually to go to the bookstore to read, or to the library.

How do you deal with the rest of the world, being so absurdly different as you are?

I find solace in music of all types, except country and hip-hop. That and I maintain a vision that I will one day being asking these people to fill my food orders at the local burger joint.

What title would you select to describe yourself, which we may refer to you openly?(NOTE: Please be unique)

Either Joe or Steel will suffice.

[OmniTense]

A little autodidact book-learning and some technical curiosity are both hallmarks of an individual. Also, I have enough experience with you in the past in the SoI, to recognize an individual when I see one.

Welcome to the Theatre, Steel.


I'd also like to add to my opinion on the discussion:

@Discussion:
I've seen alot of strange things. I'm not going to insult my powers of observation by trying to seperate which of them were "real" or "unreal." So it will be safer for me to say the single strangest thing that has happened to me.


I took about twenty-five grams of fresh ground nutmeg weighed by a kitchen scale. At first, I was treated to a nice whimsical heady vertigo that wasn't unpleasant. Just enough to know that things were different and something wasn't right. Something wasn't right. A little more time and I was sure of it.

Something was dead wrong. I was alone at home. Did I smell smoke. Was there someone in the house. I found I was unable to sit down. And when I forced myself into a chair, I found my eyes darting around the room and drawing my knees up infront of my chest.

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT NOISE!?

I broke out into a sweat and my knees could feel my heart hammering against my ribcage like it was trying to get out. My mind began to tear over current stressful subjects.

It wasn't long before I realized something had happened in the calculation of dosage. I searched through the cabinets and found a touchstone. A bottle that said it was so many grams. I poured the contents into the scale and found to my horror that the scale was off an impossible "ten" grams!

I called the EMS immediately. They got me and kept me for a full four hours. They monitered my heart rate, which was (laying in bed) 168 at it's low point. I had taken 35 grams! Which I credit as unusually asinine of me as I'm usually more careful.

For the next three days, I was in and out of consciousness. I made it home to my bed. I remember waking up in my living room chair and not being able to feel anything. I couldn't tell the difference between the lightest touch or the hardest bite (which I tested). I saw dark gray things at night walk up to me out of shadows and babble something I couldn't hear. This happened several times. I called my mom and my friends later to find out if they had dropped by to see how I was, but they did not. On the third day I woke up, like one wakes up after a long sleep. All my senses were in working order. But I must admit that my body had a tingling sensation.

I then read up on body chemistry to divine what exactly had just happened to me. But that stands as the weirdest. I can't even lay out all that was truly strange about it in words or be troubled to describe all the sensations and hallucinations. But I died. For 8 seconds. All of it en mass, stands as the strangest experience.

[joesteel64]

Discussion 1 Being strange, what does weird mean to you?

Strange for me include the idea that society feels the need to conform everyone to certain standards (I.E. the status quo). It just seems so strange for society at large to shun others simply because they don't fit the typical image of what a person "should be" instead of what they are.

What I also find strange is that I'm currently enrolled in a college chemistry course, in place of High School Chem, yet I'm required to take the High School Chemistry standardized test, in order to "Prove my proficiency" as if being able to place into a college chem course didn't qualify me as proficient in high school.

Discussion 2 what's the weirdest thing that's happened to me or that I've ever seen?

Besides managing to find a date for junior prom, I'd have to say that one of the weirdest things I've ever seen was me about three years ago. I had worked for a feline-rescue mission, on a volunteer basis, and had contracted cat-scratch fever. during the course of the disease, a lymph node in my neck swelled to the size of a large egg. it also radiated heat. after about two and a half weeks of this, it ruptured, and I had to undergo surgery to drain the node. That was also the most painful experience of my life, since the anesthetic quit working almost ten minutes into the thirty minute procedure.

[Govinda]

Whoa, what weird medical histories. But being dead...well, that kind of takes the biscuit.

So, I have a question, and it's tricky.

Being 'weird', how do you feel about people you class as 'normal'? Or do you shun that whole classing-people-as-things agenda, and do something else? Well, all of us here must recognise that to a certain degree, having publicly labeled ourselves as different. have a think on it, dears.

[Silver]

Originally Posted by Govinda

Being 'weird', how do you feel about people you class as 'normal'? Or do you shun that whole classing-people-as-things agenda, and do something else? Well, all of us here must recognise that to a certain degree, having publicly labeled ourselves as different. have a think on it, dears.

People I see as normal..... Well I'll go with my definition that normal for a person in society would mean one who conforms with the majority in more cases than not, so I'll say I find most of those people predictable and boring. At the end of the day they wear the same clothes and say pretty much the same things, even if either is of a different colour. Like in the instance of clothing, a black suit to a dark navy suit, and speechwise they may say the same thing though worded differently.

I don't think it's plausible to not class some people, as there are some groups of people who do seem like they're just clones of each other. This is not always the case, as some groups thrive on differences of beliefs, views and opinions, but yes, there are cloned emo kids in most big cities nowadays. And some of the metal heads with the same long hair, the same taste in music and the same horrible BO, unnoticeable to them as they all share it.

But I do recognise it greatly. Mainly as I don't quite fit with any group due to my own unique tastes, and the desire to be myself. When you're the only guy wearing a dark Hawaiian style t-shirt in a mall full of people wearing hoodies and skate brand clothing, you do sort of stand out....

[isntitlovely]

Why do you think you are unique?
Oh, how to answer...Well, for one thing, I have a pet skull. His name is Yorick, and I dress him up for fun ^-^ which reminds me, I must change him into his Halloween costume. If you need something more, I'm the kind of person who gets incredibly random thoughts, but unlike most people, I choose to let them out and see what other people think. This is how I get into conversations such as what would happen if all of a sudden trees movements became faster and more fluid and they attempted to overthrow the human race. I believe they would have the power.


What talents separate you from others? Be advised that I'm only looking for unique talents.
Well, for one, if something interests me, I will remember it forever, unless it is unpleasent, and then I will not remember it for more than about 5 seconds. It's not necessarily a good thing, though, because sometimes it causes me to go through the same thing multiple times before I get the point. Oh, also, I know almost everything there is to know about the supernatural, and I can recall it at a moment's notice. This is probably because I write a lot of stories about creatures...or it may just be something strange I do. I don't know.


Has anyone ever referred to you as different/strange/weird/freak/insane?
It's kind of odd not to go through a day without being refered to as one of those. In fact, some of my friends have turned them into affectionate statements.

How do you deal with the rest of the world, being so absurdly different as you are?
I watch them. I mean, the rest of the world is so entertaining, and sometimes they themselves are odder than us "freaks". At times I attempt to connect with a "normal" person, but that usually ends in drama of some sort. Kind of fun, though.


What title would you select to describe yourself, which we may refer to you openly?(NOTE: Please be unique)
You may call me Ellie if you like.

[OmniTense]

Ellie, I'm very pleased to welcome you in g