Mythopoeika
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Yeah, that's weird. Your arm is also sagging a bit. Leads me to believe it's something to do with the camera or phone.
Yeah, that's weird. Your arm is also sagging a bit. Leads me to believe it's something to do with the camera or phone.
Yeah, that's weird. Your arm is also sagging a bit. Leads me to believe it's something to do with the camera or phone.
That just links to Deck of Cards but it made me think of the sketch from (I think) I'm sorry I'll Read That Again which is based on Deck of Cards. Is that it? "The three cricket stumps make me think of Shadrach, Mechach and Abednago. Or three cricket stumps."Made me think of The Cricket Bag (safe YouTube link)
Maybe you have to be of a certain age to get this!
That just links to Deck of Cards but it made me think of the sketch from (I think) I'm sorry I'll Read That Again which is based on Deck of Cards. Is that it? "The three cricket stumps make me think of Shadrach, Mechach and Abednago. Or three cricket stumps."
Ah okay! Yes, that's it. Very good.Nope, it links to Frost's The Cricket Bag, the parody of Deck of Cards. For some reason it's mislabelled and is indeed the song you're thinking of.
Last week I tipped out t'banger ready for the MOT and found several folding seats, like for outdoor concerts. One was actually a camera tripod in a long nylon case. Have you done that?My own weirdness seems to revolve around camera tripods. 3 have gone missing.
I even bought one that I put in plain sight right next to my coffee table here. I didn't notice when that went missing.
I bought a new high security lock for my front door after that.
They may turn up sometime (I hope).
Not in my new car. They won't be in there.Last week I tipped out t'banger ready for the MOT and found several folding seats, like for outdoor concerts. One was actually a camera tripod in a long nylon case. Have you done that?
Entirely understand. If I'm looking for anything and picture it as being black rather than red, ex. manual can opener, I cannot find it even if it is right in front of me.Camera tripods are like sink plungers. <nods wisely> You have an image of them in your head and when they don't look like the version in your head, they are invisible. I am physically incapable of seeing a sink plunger that is lying down.
We have a pair of scissors like that at work. Put them down and they become invisible - because they have a kind of shaped handle, which means they don't fit the mental image of 'scissors' that our brains have. They can only be found by someone who isn't looking for the scissors...
with digital camera, if there is movement the image is distorted like your hand/glove was. On film this would have been a slight blur. One time I took a picture of a rabbit while it was jumping away and it looks like stretched out to a foot long like a piece of elastic.We've been out on t'mokes and Techy took a photo of me, on which my right hand/glove looks really weird. The gloves fit tightly and they were fastened as normal.
He took a couple of others at the same time and on the hand/glove looks normal on them. Some kind of glitch I s'pose.
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Better bury that old bat under some rocks, or it might come back to you!Think I will stick with the new bat though, as it feels livelier and springier, so will donate the mysteriously reappearing bat to the club pool of equipment.
This reminds me how "records" are now referred to as "vinyl"! ( Grrrrr.... I'm shaking my damn fist!!)Is it not called corrugated iron anymore?
All taps? Now, that would worry me.And now the timer is working again. I have piping hot water out of all taps.
On weird minor strangeness, I've been noticing something with cars lately....
I take regular walks (I'm still self-isolating because the states don't know what they're doing), and lately, I've seen some odd trends....
1. There was a week where I saw 10 different cars pass by which didn't have hoods. Like they were in accidents, but hadn't had the money/time to have a new hood put on.
2. Absolute parades of the same color car. This isn't like for a car show, these were wholly different styles/years. But there I am, walking down the street and suddenly I see 15 of the same color car pass by.
3. Older cars. Now, I get it, it's nice out so people who've done some work and maybe have a collector car or something take 'em out for a spin. That's fine. But never in my life have I seen 6 different T-buckets pass by within a couple of days.
You could chalk it up to the baader-meinhof phenomenon, but I'm always attentive to the vehicles passing me (it's all about survival) and I've never seen this kind of thing. How many times have you seen 4 different hearses pass by you over the course of a day?
Edit: Mind you, I'm not saying this is directly Fortean, it's just very, very weird.
The Matrix. That is all.On weird minor strangeness, I've been noticing something with cars lately....
I take regular walks (I'm still self-isolating because the states don't know what they're doing), and lately, I've seen some odd trends....
1. There was a week where I saw 10 different cars pass by which didn't have hoods. Like they were in accidents, but hadn't had the money/time to have a new hood put on.
2. Absolute parades of the same color car. This isn't like for a car show, these were wholly different styles/years. But there I am, walking down the street and suddenly I see 15 of the same color car pass by.
3. Older cars. Now, I get it, it's nice out so people who've done some work and maybe have a collector car or something take 'em out for a spin. That's fine. But never in my life have I seen 6 different T-buckets pass by within a couple of days.
You could chalk it up to the baader-meinhof phenomenon, but I'm always attentive to the vehicles passing me (it's all about survival) and I've never seen this kind of thing. How many times have you seen 4 different hearses pass by you over the course of a day?
Edit: Mind you, I'm not saying this is directly Fortean, it's just very, very weird.
I would think it's partly due to owners getting out in their cars, having been locked down for so long. I've seen the same phenomenon here in the UK and I've done the same. The hood thing is weird though- perhaps project cars and hoods being the last thing to be installed but owners couldn't wait to get out or a defence against the heat? The same colour cars in convoy I've seen here too. Black, silver and white are very common and I often see this around where I live. Envious of seeing T Buckets around! Hearse thing is also common where I live (aged population) and the increased death rate due to Covid increases the chances.On weird minor strangeness, I've been noticing something with cars lately....
I take regular walks (I'm still self-isolating because the states don't know what they're doing), and lately, I've seen some odd trends....
1. There was a week where I saw 10 different cars pass by which didn't have hoods. Like they were in accidents, but hadn't had the money/time to have a new hood put on.
2. Absolute parades of the same color car. This isn't like for a car show, these were wholly different styles/years. But there I am, walking down the street and suddenly I see 15 of the same color car pass by.
3. Older cars. Now, I get it, it's nice out so people who've done some work and maybe have a collector car or something take 'em out for a spin. That's fine. But never in my life have I seen 6 different T-buckets pass by within a couple of days.
You could chalk it up to the baader-meinhof phenomenon, but I'm always attentive to the vehicles passing me (it's all about survival) and I've never seen this kind of thing. How many times have you seen 4 different hearses pass by you over the course of a day?
Edit: Mind you, I'm not saying this is directly Fortean, it's just very, very weird.
I would think it's partly due to owners getting out in their cars, having been locked down for so long. I've seen the same phenomenon here in the UK and I've done the same. The hood thing is weird though- perhaps project cars and hoods being the last thing to be installed but owners couldn't wait to get out or a defence against the heat? The same colour cars in convoy I've seen here too. Black, silver and white are very common and I often see this around where I live. Envious of seeing T Buckets around! Hearse thing is also common where I live (aged population) and the increased death rate due to Covid increases the chances.
Talking of Hearses... in the town where I live, I catch a bus into Town then I had to cross a very busy road in order to catch another bus to get to my destination on the day. So, walking towards a crossing point I pushed the button, waited, then on came the crossing sound. As we begun to walk across the zebra crossing, my friend paused as we stepped off the curb and said, I don't think we should have pushed the button just then, as a big black shiny Hearse had to stop at the crossing. Made me think ~ "was that being inconsiderate, or not... " to stop a Hearse (with an occupant in the box) on it's journey? If I'd have realised it was a Hearse, I might have hung back until it had passed us by, but it did make me feel a bit guilty at the time!I would think it's partly due to owners getting out in their cars, having been locked down for so long. I've seen the same phenomenon here in the UK and I've done the same. The hood thing is weird though- perhaps project cars and hoods being the last thing to be installed but owners couldn't wait to get out or a defence against the heat? The same colour cars in convoy I've seen here too. Black, silver and white are very common and I often see this around where I live. Envious of seeing T Buckets around! Hearse thing is also common where I live (aged population) and the increased death rate due to Covid increases the chances.
You might have done the occupant a favour, depending on their ultimate destination...Talking of Hearses... in the town where I live, I catch a bus into Town then I had to cross a very busy road in order to catch another bus to get to my destination on the day. So, walking towards a crossing point I pushed the button, waited, then on came the crossing sound. As we begun to walk across the zebra crossing, my friend paused as we stepped off the curb and said, I don't think we should have pushed the button just then, as a big black shiny Hearse had to stop at the crossing. Made me think ~ "was that being inconsiderate, or not... " to stop a Hearse (with an occupant in the box) on it's journey? If I'd have realised it was a Hearse, I might have hung back until it had passed us by, but it did make me feel a bit guilty at the time!