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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 02:18 AM
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Guardian: Awesome Photos of Makeshift Helmets in Tahrir Square
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/feb/03/egypt-protesters-head-protection-helmets?CMP=twt_gu#/?picture=371390048&index=0
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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 02:24 AM
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1. Can't find it now, but saw one earlier today with loaves of bread
attached to his head for protection. And now I know why, lol.
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 02:27 AM
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3. I'd like to see that! nt
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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 03:10 AM
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4. Was it this one?
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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 03:17 AM
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5. Yes!
The intensity of his face is in complete paradox with the presence of bread upon his head. Good for you for finding it. :)
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:48 PM
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9. OMG - lol - I know that I, for one, would get the hell out of that guys way!
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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:45 PM
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8. Another Picture
Edited on Fri Feb-04-11 06:47 PM by PoliticAverse
Apparently this gentleman was protesting in Yemen:

"In Yemen, one protester was even more inventive - he created a makeshift helmet with two baguettes, a chapatti and clingfilm.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353166/Egypt-protests-Violence-continues-Egypt-protesters-streets-10th-day.html
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-11 11:26 AM
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14. Great! I will refrain from making puns about buns nt
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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 02:25 AM
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2. Funny and heartbreaking at the same time. n/t
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dmr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 03:29 AM
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6. Where there's a will, there's a way.
May they bring them the safety they deserve.
:hi:
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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 03:44 AM
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7. We need to send a shipment of helmets.
Edited on Fri Feb-04-11 03:45 AM by readmoreoften
And I have a contact in Cairo where we can send them (if mail service is even possible)
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 11:06 PM
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13. Interesting idea.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:51 PM
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10. The plastic bottle helmet is brilliant
Apparently, grass roots revolution is the mother of invention.
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:57 PM
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11. funny. The guy with the pot on his head actually looks like a nyc doorman.
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 10:56 PM
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12. I love the innovation. It may not be a fashion statement but it works!
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-11 12:04 PM
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15. Reminds me of a childhood rhyme:
I knew a man who always wore
a saucepan on his head.
I asked him what he did it for.
"I do not know", he said.
"It always makes my ears so sore
I am a foolish man.
I think I'll have to take it off
and wear a frying pan."
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