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Strange clubs and societies

No star here laces

08:19 / 24.04.03

Do you know of any strange little clubs or societies of people? People who have some very obscure or unlikely obsession and bond together to share it? Pray tell, and I will be v. grateful.

waxy dan

08:35 / 24.04.03

We steal socks. But only the left ones.

Unencumbered

09:12 / 24.04.03

But surely the ones that you don't steal are the ones that are left.

Jub

09:19 / 24.04.03

comic genius

Quantum

09:34 / 24.04.03

The Camarilla, an international organisation of people who dress up as vampires and pretend to be them once a month. Check "Vampire: the Masquerade" on Google, or CamarillaUK or whatever. There's plenty of them out there...

captain piss

09:47 / 24.04.03

Someone was telling me a while back about the Test Card Society, of people who meet to celebrate their interest in the test card (that wee thing that used to come on TV between normal scheduling periods in the UK- it was often just a picture of a little girl sitting at a blackboard). Anyway, apparently they contacted this girl, who's now grown-up, and asked her to come to one of their annual dinners or something and she was, understandably, like: "aaagh, fuck off- you weird bastards!"

Kit-Cat Club

10:13 / 24.04.03

There are all sorts of peculiar collecting clubs out there if they're any help to you - clubs for collectors of commemorative ales, cereal packets memorabilia, old lawnmowers, buttonhooks, carnival glass, &c. &c.

Quantum

10:14 / 24.04.03

MB- my Uncle did security for a test card convention, no lie. He said they were really weird, but he said the girl goes around giving talks to them for the money

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:15 / 24.04.03

I'm gonna hold off on this one until Rothkoid gets a chance to post from his Antipodean climes... he's always much funnier talking about the Furries than I could ever be...

captain piss

10:34 / 24.04.03

Quantum- fuck, didn't really think that one was true, heheh- cheers

Quantum

10:46 / 24.04.03

If my uncle said they were weird, believe me they must have been WEIRD. He spoke to some to try and understand why they do it, and the guy was telling him all about the different test cards, which ones were rare, how the little black dot was introduced in 1979 etc... Freaks.

Baz Auckland

13:48 / 24.04.03

Ah, it could happen to the best of us. One day we end up old with a very strange obsession like collecting barbed wire. I'm assuming that this sort of thing is mostly a male thing...

that

13:58 / 24.04.03

I suggest bog-snorkelling. It's not really a club or a society, but more a one day a year world championship sport sponsored by Ben and Jerry's. A bunch of hardy hopefuls go and swim the length of a bug-infested swamp in Wales in August. Really.

that

13:59 / 24.04.03

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