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Minor Strangeness (IHTM)

SHAYBARSABE said:
solsticebelle said:
I was facing away from the water flow so I didn't see the handle move, but I did have to pull it all the way out again to turn the water back on so I know it did, and, oddly, the water was hot instead of the warm temp. it should have been based on the position of the handle.
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You backed into the handle without knowling? Or, perhaps, something moved through the pipes; old bit of plaster, perhaps.

solsticebelle said:
At least I know where those voices are coming from.
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What were they saying?
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I did not come into contact with the handle in any way or I wouldn't have been so startled when the water turned off -- it would have been quite difficult to the point of requiring some contortion to push in the handle with my back. Moving the handle requires external force -- plus the handle has to be pushed IN to turn off the water -- so whatever it was was not related to anything in the pipes.

As I thought I made clear in my post, I ended up watching TV - which were the voices I referred to as knowing where they came from.
 
I just saw a man come out of a quiet suburban street and put a plastic bag full of something in a public litter bin. He then returned to the street.

Assuming he lives in that street, does he not have a rubbish bin at home? Perhaps he's like my neighbour, who I frequently see putting things like cardboard tubes in the litter bin in our laundry room. Recycling considerations aside, it would surely be less hassle to put these things in her own bin?

So is the man's behaviour suspicious? Should I inform the police? Perhaps he's distributing body parts away from home! :shock:

FWIW, he appears to work for M&S...
 
That all sounds very suspicious, I think you should immediately report it to the plod. He's probably a covert ops guy dropping off a secret M&S dossier for another agent to collect - shame you didn't hang around to see the pick-up.
 
rynner2 said:
I just saw a man come out of a quiet suburban street and put a plastic bag full of something in a public litter bin. He then returned to the street.

Assuming he lives in that street, does he not have a rubbish bin at home? Perhaps he's like my neighbour, who I frequently see putting things like cardboard tubes in the litter bin in our laundry room. Recycling considerations aside, it would surely be less hassle to put these things in her own bin?

So is the man's behaviour suspicious? Should I inform the police? Perhaps he's distributing body parts away from home! :shock:

FWIW, he appears to work for M&S...
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Hes a double agent for Sainsburys.
 
Rynner, have you never had to get rid of - ahem!-"rubbish" discretely?
I expect the man you saw, was getting rid of love letters/ betting slips/ porn magazines/ restaurant receipts/ etc etc that he didn't want his wife to see!

I've just got rid of a "dead" lawn mower, myself, with the help of a neighbour's bin!
 
Recycled1 said:
I've just got rid of a "dead" lawn mower, myself, with the help of a neighbour's bin!
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Tsk! Not living up to your name...
 
And was it with the neighbour's knowledge?
The neighbour probably wouldn't have minded so long as it was put in properly. I have little rubbish and it drives me crazy to come out the morning of the collection to find my bin overflowing and unable to shut or broken bags of rubbish put in the recycling bin.
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Desperate situations call for desperate remedies! :(

Where I am, we are meant to take dead electrical items to a certain distant collection point for recycling. But I haven't got a car, and would have to pay for it to be collected by the council.

I always put my neighbour's bin(s) out on the pavement for her.
She has a large general bin, I have opted to have a small one. I had dismantled the dead mower as far as possible -the "naughty" bits -motor etc -were in my own bin. When I saw that my neighbour's large bin was nearly empty, it seemed an ideal opportunity to get rid of the large orange plastic "skirt" -which might have got stuck in my own smaller bin!
No, my neighbour didn't know, but she wouldn't have cared! She has dumped stuff in the past in the little patch of woodland at the back of our houses. and I've had to get rid of it gradually via the bins!!

The other solution to the lawnmower problem would have been to have buried it in my garden, but it would have needed quite a big hole!
 
Where I live, people leave stuff like that out on the front and either the scrap men or passing neighbours 'recycle' it.

We once left a knackered aircraft battery on our doorstep. It took two men to lift it, with difficulty, but it still disappeared overnight. Wish I'd seen THAT getaway! :lol:
 
Yes -I left my defunct Flymo on the front grass where it had died mid mow, in full view of passers by, while I caught the bus to the nearest Argos to buy a new one. I was hoping to find it gone when I returned, but no such luck!
(I'd tried unscrewing bits to see if a wire had come loose, but it hadn't. There was a tiny bit of broken off orange plastic, that I think was to blame.)

When this next mower dies, I'm having the grass replaced with gravel!
But I'm in a terrace, and at present I cut my neighbouring two front patches of grass, and I know I shan't like looking out at their uncut weedy patches if I stop mowing them!
 
Turn it into an herb garden. Your neighbors will love you for it.
 
My daughter lived in a flat above a shop and had no wheelie bin or anywhere to keep one, they had to put all their rubbish in town bins at night when no one was about.
 
The lost sock is a household enigma of long standing, but we might contemplate the One Shoe Mystery.

There's a Wikipedia article, so, I'll be brief and say that no satisfactory explanation has ever been found, nor has any reason to give a hoot surfaced. I take note of these stray bits out of habit.

Last year, I saw a single shoe, smiled and continued walking my dog. Perhaps twenty yards further along, there was the mate. I realized that I had never seen that before, the single shoe was never associated with another, not even an odd one.

The local girls, and even mature women have a tendency to go barefoot in spring and summer, I even saw one running down the street shoeless on Christmas night, in a snowstorm, so perhaps these were dropped from a moving auto?

I've always wondered about these shoes, Even the most insecure shoes, mules or sandals, will be noticed if lost. and some of these singletons are men's shoes, lace ups and even boots. After Vietnam, I know that a boot may contain a surprise, but none I''ve seen were laced and tied, thank God.

Mysteries occur when we see the end result, if we were there from rhe beginning(of course) there would be no mystery.

Even a real dilly like the Somerton Man has a simple explanation, if anyone could think of it.

Imagine the puzzle Operation Mincemeat(The Man who Never Was) might have become if a few records were misplaced, or a buzz bomb had struck at a certain spot?
 
Dropped a bar of soap (save the jokes) and it landed on the end and stood there. I must have tried to re-create that from the same height 1,000 times and couldn't do it again.

Reminded me of a time when I threw a rubber piece toward the trash and missed by a good 5 feet. But it bounced off 3 objects and ended up in the trash. Awesome. For some reason men think this kind of thing is way more entertaining than women do.
 
Human_84 said:
Dropped a bar of soap (save the jokes) and it landed on the end and stood there. I must have tried to re-create that from the same height 1,000 times and couldn't do it again.

Reminded me of a time when I threw a rubber piece toward the trash and missed by a good 5 feet. But it bounced off 3 objects and ended up in the trash. Awesome. For some reason men think this kind of thing is way more entertaining than women do.
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No joking at all: its just the time Aliens would get in a bit of probing.
 
Many years ago I became aware of the angry flaming sun (sun in splendour) while walking in Maastricht. Once I was sensitized I now see the symbol everywhere. On each of my Dutch country walks I see it at least once. Why is such an ancient symbol so popular in the modern suburbs? Is it an archetype that cannot be suppressed?

My pet theory:
Our modern culture has banished all elements it considers irrational or primitive, especially: magic, superstition, religion and symbolism.
Our modern architecture has banished all ornamental elements and details. It is functional and bland.
But somehow we cannot live without irrationality and ornamentation. So the banished elements crop up in unexpected places.

Pictures here:
http://uair01.blogspot.com/2012/05/flaming-sun.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uair01/7275013150/in/photostream
 
My friend and the people next door to her each have the sun with the cupped hands under the chin on the front of their houses.
They put a couple of coins in the cupped hands for luck. She's just repainted the gold as it had faded a little.
 
I need an expert in skid-marks! (The type on tarmac, that is!)

I photographed a longish tyre track not far from here. Just a single one, so presumably made by a motorbike. The tyre tread seems to have impressed itself into the road surface, getting deepest near where it finally stopped (I assume). But the tread was clearly defined all the way, with no sign of skidding or wheel spin, and fairly straight.

I showed the pic to the landlord of the nearby pub, and he said they'd heard a lot of noise and screeching, and all rushed outside, but the only thing to be seen was a cloud of smoke!

This is rather baffling. I've never known rubber tyres impress into the road surface like that unless the tarmac was so hot as to be near melting. It has been warm here today, but more of a humid, windless heat than 'Phew! What a scorcher!' My first impression was that the wheel must have been made of metal.

Ther other odd thing (assuming I'm right about the direction of tavel) is that the machine seems to have come the wrong way down a one-way street, and crossed a main road by going the wrong way round a roundabout, before coming to rest in a side street!

I may check some more tomorrow, and perhaps take some more pics.
 
Sounds like someone was trying out a one-wheeled time machine.
 
I've spent most of today reading this entire thread on and off, this morning I read for about an hour in the quiet of the living room (no telly, radio etc).

We do have a fish tank which runs with a slight hum, only I suddenly became aware of a really loud buzz coming from somewhere, I checked the tank and it wasn't that, nor was the bathroom fan running but I couldn't tell where the sound came from, although it was definitely within the flat.

Eventually I traced it to the music station in the corner of the living room. It wasn't the speakers, which were unplugged, nor the actual CD unit thing but was actually the record player (plain old turntable) which is separate to the whole lot and wasn't connected to anything at the time. It was plugged in but completely off, off at the wall and switched off with no led lights on.

Can anyone explain why it could have been buzzing so loudly?!
 
If it was turned off, no idea. :shock:

Unless there's a very large wasp or bee stuck inside?
 
Unplug it from the wall. Turn off the amp and unplug that too.
See what happens.
 
Are you 100% certain the turntable is to blame? There isn't a fridge on the other side of the wall, is there? I have a VERY noisy fridge -freezer!
 
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