History UnusuallyUninterestingSight / RealLIfe

* As the image shows, things that happen in Russia are "ok" for them. No wonder why people in the internet mocks the country and nickname it "The Country of Madness"

* Thomas Paine argued in his book ''The Age of Reason'' that, assuming it happened, the rising of the dead described in the [[Literature/TheBible Gospel of Matthew]] must have been this, since no one appears to have written down any other accounts about it. Nor does it say [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what happened afterward]]-did they return home to their families, attempt to reclaim their property, or just go back into their graves quietly.

* [[http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2012/07/heavily-armed-and-bikini-clad-female.html This photograph]]. A bikini-clad female Israeli soldier is at the beach with an assault rifle slung across her back and no one else at the beach seems to be paying attention to her. People in other countries were somewhat shocked to see this, but Israelis are used to seeing armed soldiers in many different places.

** Channel 4 apparently messed this one up when they televised one of Derren Brown's live shows- he had a man in a gorilla suit come on stage and take a banana from a podium that the audience had already been told to watch out for, but at the time it happened they'd been told to concentrate on a woman's reactions shown on screen. Unfortunately for anyone watching on TV, the camera was also focused on the woman, meaning we really couldn't see the gorilla and don't much appreciate being mocked for missing it.

** This all means that in NewYorkCity, there's probably a lot of outrageous stuff you can do without anyone so much as batting an eye at you.
** Southern California, especially {{Hollywood}}'s Sunset Strip and SanFrancisco, has people doing a ''ton'' of strange things, but no one ''really'' notices because it's all "doing their own thing". In the Castro, there are people who walk around completely naked as a way to make a statement about nudity laws, but they've been at it so long no one takes a second look.

** Also weird is relative, the natives of major con sites tend to not really notice cosplayers after they get use to seeing them. To them it's no different than a man dressed as Santa in the mall at Christmas. Of course, around con times, the amount of wierdness tolerated rises far beyond normal levels, to the point where one can walk around in full combat gear without being questioned.

* There are (or were) some pictures on Facebook of somebody dressed as [[Series/DoctorWho a Silent in a shopping centre]], that no one noticed.
** Or did they?

* TruthInTelevision: In big cities, you get a lot of strange people to the point where it becomes regular, and many people accept extroverted behavior to not cause a fuss or offend someone for being different. It isn't so much that they don't notice things like strangely-dressed people as that they think it's [[BystanderSyndrome not for them to deal with]].
** Also weird is relative, the natives of major con sites tend to not really notice cosplayers after they get use to seeing them. To them it's no different than a man dressed as Santa in the mall at Christmas.

* Studies on attention that the human brain is capable of remarkable focus when given a task, to the exclusion of all else. For example, when asked to count the number of passing trucks in a video clip, many viewers will fail to notice the random guy dancing around in a gorilla suit. And despite spending significant time looking at such sights, participants in a driving study [[EasyAmnesia could not remember]] details of a scene or signage passed by.

* [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/74542573@N00/sets/72157619004094598/ This]] series of images with Bowser doing political protests.

* Studies on attention that the human brain is capable of remarkable focus when given a task, to the exclusion of all else. For example, when asked to count the number of passing trucks in a video clip, many viewers will fail to notice the random [[BunnyEarsLawyer guy dancing around in a gorilla suit]]. And despite spending significant time looking at such sights, participants in a driving study [[EasyAmnesia could not remember]] details of a scene or signage passed by.

* A book about the making of ''Series/DoctorWho'' tells about how, before the first Cyberman serial aired, the makers had someone walking around in the middle of London in a Cyberman costume for some reason. No one freaked out, no one asked what was going on, and there were almost no one reacted in any noticeable way.

*** To the point that this troper saw a fellow college student walking around with a Gouda wheel under his arm and found nothing strange with it. There was also the guy in the bunny suit around November.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iViD-iepDxg This guy]] walked into a JC Penney's at a shopping mall with a military-style semi automatic weapon slung on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip. Both perfectly legal, of course. There was less running and screaming than you might expect, particularly after [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnA71s0QDI these events.]]

* TruthInTelevision: In big cities, you get a lot of strange people to the point where it becomes regular, and many people accept extroverted behavior to not cause a fuss or offend someone for being different. It isn't so much that they don't notice things like strangely-dressed people as that they think it's SomebodyElsesProblem.

* "Open carry" is the law in several US states, meaning that unconcealed firearms are legal in public. Notably averted recently by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKQJ4-N7LI media coverage]] of protesters outside a presidential event. A [[http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-17/politics/obama.protest.rifle_1_protesters-weapons-assault-rifle?_s=PM:POLITICS Secret Service]] spokesman noted that the individuals would never have gotten in close proximity to the president, regardless of any state laws on openly carrying weapons. A venue is considered a federal site when the Secret Service is protecting the president and weapons are not allowed on a federal site, he added.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iViD-iepDxg This guy]] walked into a JC Penney's at a shopping mall with a military-style semi automatic weapon slung on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip. Both perfectly legal, of course. There was less running and screaming than you might expect, particularly after [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnA71s0QDI recent events.]]

** Note, however, that many people do take notice if walk around with a rifle on your back, and you will most likely be talked to by the police about it, unless you do it regularly. Or have other hunting gear equipped.

** Inverted in a common symptom in people affected by ADHD: Even things that are actually uninteresting are constantly getting a second and look, making it difficult to stay focused on one object.