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PeniG Proud children's writer Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Total posts: 2902 Location: San Antonio, Texas Age: 52 Gender: Female |
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| Your subconscious is telling you not to use bin liners because the dogs will tear them up to get at the garbage anyway? |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 942 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
| Posted: 01-08-2013 17:14 Post subject: |
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 I hope no dogs can get anywhere near my bins! Brrrrr..... |
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| krakenten Great Old One Joined: 03 Feb 2012 Total posts: 175 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 02-08-2013 14:03 Post subject: |
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Why shoes as a memorial?
A mortician I knew told me it was very difficult to get shoes on a corpse, so they are omitted when a body id dressed for burial.
Since people from the 'hood have few clothes, and since the shoes(often quite expensive) are returned to the family, hanging the shoes is an effective memorial.
Life and death can be very strange 'down there', and the customs are far from standardized, they vary from city to city, even in the same city.
Very hard lives, often very short, of late, there is a rejection of lethal violence, which is bringing the crime stats down. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20322 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-08-2013 17:32 Post subject: |
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Today I laundered some bedding, etc, including a dark blue fitted sheet that's not been washed before. The instructions said not to tumbledry it, so I removed it from the other stuff before putting the rest in the dryer.
But I noticed that the sheet had whitish lines over it, mostly dead straight or gently curved, and sometimes branching out to form images that reminded me of some of the Nazca lines. Later I thought they also reminded me of particle physics experiments, like cloud chamber tracks, because, although straight, the lines weren't sharp and narrow, but 'cloudy'.
Nothing else that was in the wash had these marks, or indeed, any pattern that could be transferred. Maybe the sheet is just blotchy, and my eyes are 'joining the dots' to form the lines, like Schiaparelli's Canals on Mars. Quite a Fortean sheet, in fact! (Maybe a Catholic would see Jesus or the BVM - me, I see cloud chamber images.)
Just think, the secret of the universe could be encoded in that sheet!
None of the other items in that wash came out marked in any way, so this is all a bit baffling. Just to add to the Oz factor, we have thunderstorms here at the moment... |
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| special_farces Great Old One Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Total posts: 166 Location: Leeds Age: 48 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-08-2013 21:59 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Just think, the secret of the universe could be encoded in that sheet! Shocked |
Your washing machine could be a dark matter detector. Your sheet is doped with just the right sensitive chemicals to reveal the tracks of those wimpy elusive little buggers.
Best put it through a rinse cycle, that should clean it off. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20322 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-08-2013 22:13 Post subject: |
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| special_farces wrote: | | Best put it through a rinse cycle, that should clean it off. |
The washing machine has two wash cycles, plus a rinse cycle, which is why I'm surprised the sheet looks such a mess!  |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 5970 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-08-2013 22:43 Post subject: |
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Is it a line..n sheet?  |
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| pipling Grey Joined: 18 Feb 2011 Total posts: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 06-08-2013 12:10 Post subject: |
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| deadonmyfeet wrote: | A few times today I have had the feeling of water dropping on my skin, on either my forearm or my face, but there hasn't actually been any water there.
I was thinking that I always get this sensation on days when there is thunder and lightening, even though I am indoors and nowhere near to an open window or door to feel "real" rain.
I have kept this to myself, but my 4 year old daughter has just said she keeps feeling raindrops on her face.
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This quote above is me, for some reason this website keeps logging me on with 2 different user names, 
Anyway further to the above, yesterday (another thundery day with torrential rain) We were sat in the living room when daughter says "look at that floating ball". I can't see anything at all. She continued: "It's purple and floated behind the tv" She then pointed to where it had been and where it floated too, it had travelled about 1-2 feet and was about 2 feet from the ground. She then runs back and says "Look mummy, a green one now!".,
I asked her how big it was and she indicated it was 4-5" inches across
I am sat right next to where she s pointing and can't see anything at all. But she is adamant there was something there and kept asking "but where did it go?" and "how did you do that mummy?"
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17709 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 3 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 06-08-2013 15:05 Post subject: |
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indeed!
Sounds like ball lightning, which our Techy has seen! but it's not usually described as purple or green and can be seen by whoever is present. |
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| Zilch5 Vogon Poet
Great Old One Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Total posts: 1463 Location: Western Sydney, Australia Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-08-2013 23:08 Post subject: |
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| escargot1 wrote: | indeed!
Sounds like ball lightning, which our Techy has seen! but it's not usually described as purple or green and can be seen by whoever is present. |
I saw one too a few years ago during a thunderstorm - coming out of my phone socket and then running up into the curtains and then vanishing. But both my wife and son saw it too. I posted about it here as well. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17709 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 3 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 07-08-2013 08:00 Post subject: |
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Great stuff! Wish I could see it too!  |
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| Dingo667 I'm strange...but true Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Total posts: 1976 Location: Deep in the Fens, UK Age: 46 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 10-08-2013 20:44 Post subject: |
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https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/970500_4586706325957_1543130959_n.jpg
Cool. As a Gunner I love stuff like that. I obviously think it is a coincidence but the odds are interesting enough to smile and wonder.
Furthermore I think I have just stumbled across a really stupid conspiracy, if you can call it a conspiracy...but I tried to find a picture of Arsene Wenger from his years as a player [1973-81] but there are NONE!!!
I found one in conjunction with Patrick Swayze lookalikes but that's it. Googled lots of obvious things like:
- Arsene Wenger as player 1973
- Young Arsene Wenger
an so on. I can't find any pictures. Why is that? Did nobody take any? Does he not want to be seen young?
None of the above is in any way meant dead serious but I thought them weird enough to stick on here. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20322 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-08-2013 21:35 Post subject: |
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| Dingo667 wrote: | Furthermore I think I have just stumbled across a really stupid conspiracy, if you can call it a conspiracy...but I tried to find a picture of Arsene Wenger from his years as a player [1973-81] but there are NONE!!!
I found one in conjunction with Patrick Swayze lookalikes but that's it. Googled lots of obvious things like:
- Arsene Wenger as player 1973
- Young Arsene Wenger
an so on. I can't find any pictures. Why is that? Did nobody take any? Does he not want to be seen young? |
I just had a quick try using Duck Duck Go, but I think the problem is that if you use his name then the later years are bound to predominate, when he was getting oodles of publicity.
It might be worth just searching on the early teams he played for, and looking for team photos. Plus, a lot of relevent stuff might be written in French, Alsatian or German:
And early photos may not have survived, or if they did, may not have been uploaded onto the internet.
If no joy, it might be worth contacting a football journalist, who would probably have access to more resources, and might sniff the germ of an article in such a search.
I'd be interested in the results, anyhow!  |
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| Dingo667 I'm strange...but true Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Total posts: 1976 Location: Deep in the Fens, UK Age: 46 Gender: Female |
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