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  1. Swifty

    The Scariest Moment Of Your Life (Fortean Or Not)

    Jesus Christ. That's mental. :oops: .. I'd have legged it as well. I had something close to that happen two nights in a row about 25 years ago. I made the mistake of helping someone out who turned out to be seriously dangerous. I didn't know at the time but he was an ex pimp who'd slashed a...
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    The Vegetarian & Vegan Thread

    I'm not an individual.
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    Elvis Presley

    (obviously I can't verify this is Elvis)...
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    A Rather Unwise Tattoo

    Watkins was way worse than Glitter. I'd recommend you don't even look those details up.
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    Sleep: The How-To Thread

    Sorry about your friend sKaRGs. Not really anything I can say to cheer you up except this months Viz has a good puerile strip (for a change) .. 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe of Porn'. The lads go in, past the fur coats, Narnia's there except there's a large pile of their Uncle's 'bongo...
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    Out Of Place Animals

    I'm not sure where to post this one. Is this Oasis getting back together?. Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years...
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    Postbox Cosies

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    The Loch Ness Monster

    It's a beastie laddie .. a terrible beastie!
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    Local & Dialect Words

    Men where I live call each other buddy to this day which is unusual for England. It's put down to the American troops who were stationed in my town during WW2. Until a few years ago, we even had a nightclub called Buddies. The only time I've heard the expression 'doughboy' was for the marketing...
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    What's The Most Boring Fortean Subject?

    That's a fair point Gordon. I was just going with the spirit of the title of this thread. I'd have been more impressed if the article had also included and reminded us of Robert Johnson selling his soul at the crossroads in the ('20's?) and that this is nothing new then gone on to include other...
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    The Enfield Poltergeist

    Because she wasn't possessed but instead attention seeking?. That seems more likely to me. I wasn't there but possession by a demonic overlord or a 13 year old looking for attention, no brain scan anomaly's and the incident was never repeated? .. I'm going with the later conclusion. I attended...
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    What's The Most Boring Fortean Subject?

    I'm not cross with you but I am a bit with FT magazine because I paid money for the latest issue. I couldn't care less about some pop star's religion, politics or sexuality and even less what other people think might or might not be happening with their religion, politics or sexuality...
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    The Mandela Effect: False Memory

    Thanks. I've never seen the lollipop version. They were big on sherbet in the 70's weren't they. My Sister used to buy rainbow sherbet out of those big tubs so just multi coloured sherbet. It's a miracle she's still got all of her own teeth.
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    What's The Most Boring Fortean Subject?

    Anything whatsoever to do with something called Taylor Swift (who's trying to creep into the Fortean corner and for some reason the editors have actually done an article about her in the latest magazine). Give it a couple of years and I'll also not give a shit about someone called something like...
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    The Mandela Effect: False Memory

    That's also how I also remember them and how they were supposed to be used but given the choice of Kola Cubes or liquorice back then? .. liquorice was vile so Kola Cubes, rice paper constructed Flying Saucers containing sherbet etc won every time.
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    The Optical Illusions Thread

    So, hunk's ring jokes aside .. I'm still going with if I bumped into the artist Piper ZY one day on a street somewhere and she was wearing one of her creations, my own eyes wouldn't be looking at a genuine live looking gap in someone's finger. That would be ****ing amazing if she could do that...
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    The Mandela Effect: False Memory

    I've personably never known them as dib dabs. I only knew them as 'Sherbet Dips' and that was in the mid 80's in Staffordshire in our school tuck shop. They were packaged in a thin cardboard tube, logo on it, yellow and red from memory with the liquorice stick protruding out of the top.
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    Charles Manson

    This is it, creepy crawlies ..
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    Robot Round-Up

    Robots don't know how to use a lasso.
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    The Optical Illusions Thread

    What hunk does on his weekends is his own business.
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    The Optical Illusions Thread

    She's claiming in that second video that she doesn't use green screen though. She could just simply be fibbing of course then come out with some bollocks later about how it was all a 'mixed multi media stunt', that's the only way I can imagine she's achieving this effect?. She's got a few videos...
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    The Optical Illusions Thread

    I've absolutely no idea how this illusion works but .. augmented reality rings designed by the artist Piper ZY. Answers on a postcard please. How is she doing this?.
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    Robot Round-Up

    Its 'face' looks like my ALEXA. I'm wondering if Boston Dynamics have incorporated A.I. at last into ATLAS 2?. I reckon an old school lasso could bring it crashing down.
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    Movie Mandela Effect

    The BBC seem to have done a deal to play those films?. Let's return to topic.
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    The Enfield Poltergeist

    I went to school with a lad who became infamous for hiding 'girlie' porno mags on top of our school cistern in the boys toilets. We only found out about this because he stood on the toilet bowl one day, slipped and his foot became stuck in the U bend of the toilet bowl so they had to call the...
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    Movie Mandela Effect

    To be fair, it was the only way we knew it was Easter when a Bond film was on the telly. That or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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    The Optical Illusions Thread

    She's anything she wants to be and she always wears two belts.
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    The Optical Illusions Thread

    The last man who questioned Stacey on her decision to always wear two belts lost an eye so we just leave it now Sid.
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    A Rather Unwise Tattoo

    That was my first guess as well. I've had a skin graft if I had to to get his name off me.,
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    The Optical Illusions Thread

    That's 'two belts' Stacey.
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    Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): Compendium Thread

    Whatever you say Fl-o-oid. (sorry mate, I'm a bit grumpy today, been rained off going to the zoo again so I'm sulking).
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    Depression

    While you're in there, ask for a set of those free NHS headphones that ward patients get. I was only in recently to get my kidney stones blasted but I asked the nurse using the excuse that I needed the headphones to listen to work and health related things. She was totally cool with that .. plus...
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    The Optical Illusions Thread

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    UK Haunted Hospitality - Volume 1: Pubs And Clubs

    Their pricing looks way more honest than most places these days, I hope they do well.
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    UK Haunted Hospitality - Volume 1: Pubs And Clubs

    Are their sign boards painted 'gentrified' grey or are they identifying as black signs with 'quirky' white chalk pen painted advertising quips instead?.
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    FT444

    I set the ball rolling by asking a local newsagent to start stocking FT magazine over 10 years ago. Ownership has changed hands since then but the new owners still to this day get 3 copies on their shelf which is good for me except I've felt a bit guilty because I can't always afford to buy the...
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    Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): Compendium Thread

    I've got a mate called Sophia and .. it's not her fault her parents chose to cram three sylables into six letters but now I can't call her Sophie which would be rude but which would save time because it's two sylables and rolls off the tongue easier. That's not her name though. I just call her...
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    UK Haunted Hospitality - Volume 1: Pubs And Clubs

    A pub/restaurant in my home town has changed names so many times, I struggle to keep up. Arthur Conan Doyle stayed there and wrote some of Hound of the Baskervilles there but there's no blue plaque to celebrate that .. then The Sex Pistols stayed there one night after doing a local gig. Cilla...
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    Horror Films

    tHis thread's making me want to re watch a Friday the 13th, 3 or 4 or 6 .. and other slashers: "I'm coming down into this cellar right now! and I've got a big haircut and a 'flashlight' which will make you squint!" THUNK (axe in some teenager's head although the actor looks about 30)
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    O, To Be In England...

    So the light from the sun rising in the east is reflecting off the sea, back up into the sky, hitting the contrail which is in the high cirrus layer so thus causing contrail shadows on the clouds above. It could even be that the breaking waves in the foreground are acting as a mirror? .. so she...
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    O, To Be In England...

    Without mentioning the name of the town, what do you make of this strange capture old chap?. It was taken over my home town by a mate a few days ago, she's truthfully called it 'Right time, Right place'. I've never seen a contrail cast a shadow on the sky above, the sun in frame must have done...
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    Have You Got A Double?

    Robert Plant could now fake his own death and you could take over. Like Paul McCartney and Elvis and those times I stunt doubled for John Holmes. Phone him and ask him. What could go wrong?.
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    Conjoined Twins

    R.I.P. X
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    Feeling A Terror

    You are Cellar Dweller :cool:
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    Amityville Horror: Where Do You Stand?

    'Actress Christine Belford is perhaps best known to horror fans for her role as Arnie Cunningham's abrasive mother in the 1983 film "Christine". However, a lesser-known bit of trivia is that Belford actually lived in the infamous Amityville house for a period of about five years when she was a...
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    Depression

    Kick it in the nuts :mad: .
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    Conspiracy Theorists Think The Eclipse Will Begin A 'Massive Human Sacrifice Event'

    The usual get out clause for end of the world is nigh types when the world doesn't end is that they were going by some random calendar like the Aztec one all along or something instead. We need to start asking these tossers beforehand which calendar they're going by before the predicted date...
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    Superstition

    I was told the same. Like those benches you'd sit on for school assembly and if someone farted on them, it'd be really loud and funny so all the kids would crack up then the scariest teacher would be frowning at everyone and going "SHHHHH!".
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    Superstition

    Surely any apprentice who worked unpaid for 7 years would starve to death within a month?. You'd just quit and find another job.
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