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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: PGit on October 25, 2005, 07:07:19 PM
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Is there some kind of creature that eats them, I keep running out?
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I don't know about eating them, but the first person I would ask about disappearing socks is our very own Bloodline :-)
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Well, I guess there are two probabilities:
first one is a wormhole alike vortex generated in the washing machine, where smaller things like socks dissapear. But ppl only notice it with socks since socks always are in pairs.
Another probability is a cult of sock-worshippers, who probably steal socks to sacrifice them in a most horrible way.
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You're almost right. This 'creature' is normally seen wearing an AROS T-shirt, although it doesn't devour your socks, best not ask about that though (Lets just say be very suspicous if only one sock is dry :-o)
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some say the vortex in the washing machine leads directly to the sock god, but of course that's superstition, I guess the explanation can indeed be found near home, thinking of greedy sweaty hands which like to grab.
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How many people do you share your house with? Socks have a habit of being stolen by other people living with you....you can only hope no sticky fate befalls them after that....
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Maybe he lives with a black troll and he even doesn't know it :nervous:
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When I was at boarding school there used to be a trick called a pie-bed. What they would do is untuck the top sheet on a dude's bed, at the foot end, then bring it up to the top and turn it back before tucking the whole lot in and putting the blanket back exactly how it was. I can't tell you how irritating it was when they got me with that, because I had spent a late night studying and I jumped into bed and found myself cooped up halfway down. It is quite a rude jolt when your feet meet resistance when least expected. No amount of kicking could free the 'pie' and I heard raucous laughter from around the corner.
In the same spirit, imagine if someone 'pied' your sock. By that I mean...imagine if they 'gummed' it closed halfway? :evilgrin:
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I just discovered today I have 7 odd socks...on a total supply of perhaps 14 pairs or so. Amazing really..
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The Eater of Socks!
It looked like a very small elephant with a very wide, flared trunk up which one of the Chair´s socks was disappering.
From the discworld book Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.
Read it, Terry Pratchett is better than even Douglas Adams.
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This is really weird, but a large quantity of socks have suddenly appeared in my sock drawer... I had assumed the G/F had ventured down the side of the bed and found my stash... but now I'm not sure :-?
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they are multiplying - after you have impregnated them.
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But only sock-incubi, servants of the great sock, can do such a thing
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I keep getting holes in mine.
Is there a brand/model of sock that is better than all the others?
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I got several pairs of black socks with a blue toe line many years ago in South Africa. These things must be mil-spec because they survived three years of permanent night duty, all the shooting/tactical courses I went on, a good deal of hiking in SA and lately a lot of squash games. I haven't seen them here in the UK, but if I return to SA I will definitely be looking for them (I think I got them at Edgars).
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X-ray wrote:
These things must be mil-spec because they survived three years of permanent night duty...
:-o
;-)
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When I was at boarding school there used to be a trick called a pie-bed.
I can't tell you how irritating it was when they got me with that,
so they short-changed the sheets/ :lol:
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iamaboringperson wrote:
I keep getting holes in mine.
Is there a brand/model of sock that is better than all the others?
The first really big hole is supposed to be there. It's where you put your foot (exceptions duly noted) in..
As for the rest, keep your toenails and any nice rough bits of your feet under control, less abrasion then.
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ASDA used to sell these fantastic lycra cotton socks with a reinforced heel and toe, they were truly hard-wearing and so comfy. Then one day they just stopped stocking them. But whatever, one less reason to shop at Wal-Mart.
Marks & Spencers have good socks, if you can handle the embarrassment of setting foot on the premises in the first place. ;-) I haven't put my toe through a pair yet. Buying cheap socks really is false economy when you consider how much longer a really decent pair will last.
As long as you're putting them on your feet, that is.
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X-ray wrote:
I got several pairs of black socks with a blue toe line many years ago in South Africa. These things must be mil-spec because they survived three years of permanent night duty, all the shooting/tactical courses I went on, a good deal of hiking in SA and lately a lot of squash games. I haven't seen them here in the UK, but if I return to SA I will definitely be looking for them (I think I got them at Edgars).
I think you should get bloodline a pair of these. Don't you owe him a a pair or something?
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Karlos wrote:
X-ray wrote:
I got several pairs of black socks with a blue toe line many years ago in South Africa. These things must be mil-spec because they survived three years of permanent night duty, all the shooting/tactical courses I went on, a good deal of hiking in SA and lately a lot of squash games. I haven't seen them here in the UK, but if I return to SA I will definitely be looking for them (I think I got them at Edgars).
I think you should get bloodline a pair of these. Don't you owe him a a pair or something?
:-D
Actually my personal favourites are the expensive ones from Next, made from "Modal"... very soft, very stretchy... nice...
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I swear by my merino wool Sealskinz socks, which keep my feet toasty warm and dry during winter off road bike excursions.
Perhaps a bearded Bloodline would like to enthrall us with his own version of "The Joy Of Sox"?
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I bought 12 pairs from Auchan in Boulogne-sur-Mer for 5 Euro. Since then I've had no sock problems. Socks are like underwear - just keep buying them and you'll have NO problem....
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Karlos wrote:
iamaboringperson wrote:
I keep getting holes in mine.
Is there a brand/model of sock that is better than all the others?
The first really big hole is supposed to be there. It's where you put your foot (exceptions duly noted) in..
As for the rest, keep your toenails and any nice rough bits of your feet under control, less abrasion then.
Thanks...
I really don't have a problem with 'lose' socks. Not these days, anyway...
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Cyberus wrote:
I bought 12 pairs from Auchan in Boulogne-sur-Mer for 5 Euro. Since then I've had no sock problems. Socks are like underwear - just keep buying them and you'll have NO problem....
One more tip, buy them all the exact same size and style. No more pairing, or showing up to work with dissimilar socks. (Although I imagine Bloodline's socks have dissimilar stain patterns on them all anyway, maybe they could be explained away as a tie-dye pattern if anyone asks) :-P
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T_Bone wrote:
Cyberus wrote:
I bought 12 pairs from Auchan in Boulogne-sur-Mer for 5 Euro. Since then I've had no sock problems. Socks are like underwear - just keep buying them and you'll have NO problem....
One more tip, buy them all the exact same size and style. No more pairing, or showing up to work with dissimilar socks.
Yeah, ALL my socks are black - its just that after a while they all end up being different shades of black...
(Although I imagine Bloodline's socks have dissimilar stain patterns on them all anyway, maybe they could be explained away as a tie-dye pattern if anyone asks) :-P
Ewwww!