No trousers? No problem: London underground users bare their legs for Official No Trousers Tube Ride
It isn’t a brand new custom and the one purpose is whimsy. Here is every part it’s worthwhile to know in regards to the Official No Trousers Tube Journey occasion.
A whole lot of Londoners headed all the way down to the Underground on Sunday afternoon, stripped all the way down to their underwear. As you do.
This custom will not be new. Yesterday was the Official No Trousers Tube Journey, an annual occasion with no level apart from injecting a little bit levity into the awful midwinter.
No deep that means, no larger motive. The one purpose is whimsy, if just for one afternoon.
“There’s a lot dangerous, a lot not enjoyable happening,’’ mentioned ringleader Dave Selkirk, a 40-year-old private coach. “It’s good to do one thing only for the sake of it.”
Selfies have been taken. Grins have been exchanged. Vacationers seemed puzzled.
Take a look at a number of the pics from yesterday’s occasion:
The primary stunt on this vein was held in New York in 2002, the brainchild of native comic Charlie Todd. His concept was this: Wouldn’t or not it’s humorous if somebody walked onto a subway prepare in the course of winter carrying hat, gloves, scarf – every part however trousers?
Or pants, as they name them Stateside.
“It might be uncommon in New York, though you’ll be able to see something on our subway system, however what would actually be humorous is that if on the subsequent cease, a few minutes later, when the doorways open and extra individuals obtained on, not carrying trousers as properly,” Todd informed the BBC. “And so they act like they don’t know one another, and so they act like … it’s no huge deal and so they simply forgot their trousers.’’
The concept took off, and no pants days have been held throughout: in Berlin, Prague, Jerusalem, Warsaw and Washington, D.C., amongst different cities.
London hosted its first huge reveal in 2009.
