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Facebook Groups

By Vicki Exworthy

Anyone who uses Facebook will know how annoying it can be when a request pops up inviting you to join a group that you’ve probably never heard of, probably don’t want to join and, if you do, will probably never look at again. But, just occasionally, something arrives that catches your eye. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of obscure Facebook groups.

 

Bendy Bus
Petition to make bendy buses make accordion noises as they go round corners

(19,538 members)

Self-explanatory! Wouldn’t it be fun if bendy buses played pretty tunes? Might brighten Londoners’ days a bit... "to increase the enjoyment of public transport", they say.

 

Heiroglyphics
All the Cool Kids Know Dead Languages

(16,042 members)

Fluent in Latin? Aramaic? Anything not spoken today? Then yep, you are a cool kid. Or, as I can say in Latin, "Tu adulecens suavis es!"’... We might disagree with this, but over 16,000 people don’t, therefore... hooray for Latin!

 

Colonel Sanders in an elevator with a chicken
Awkward moments define my life

(241,990 members)

For anyone who has ever been part of an ‘awkward moment’. That would be all of us, then. Awkward moments that have been enshrined in this group include: "2. Gone in for a hug and had your arms the wrong way or your heads both go the same direction then you bump heads", "18. Joining in on a random conversation followed by stares", and "22. Told a joke that no one laughed at (or one that only YOU thought was funny)".