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Potential threat of snipers

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CompulsiveNameChanges · 02/05/2024 21:55

Does anyone else always close curtains/blinds before turning on lights in a dark room just in case there's a sniper lurking outside? I'm not a woman who's likely to have a hit on me, but I feel like it's a sensible thing to do nonetheless.

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HollyCanDoAnything · 04/05/2024 09:34

AngelinaFibres · 03/05/2024 07:00

I sleep naked, unless my husband is away when I wear pyjamas. Pyjamas will save me from being violated by bad men who will break in because my husband is away.

Yeah, i get this, but strangely it's even more comforting to be wearing socks in bed. If it has to be one or the other, naked but with socks is safer than pyjamas.

wompwomp · 04/05/2024 08:13

JamieJ93 · 02/05/2024 22:02

No but, when I'm driving and somebody pulls up besides me I have an irrational fear I'm gonna be taken out by a drive-by shooting 😬

Ohhhh. Me too

VestibuleVirgin · 04/05/2024 07:16

123dogdog · 03/05/2024 21:49

Indeed 😂 but we never have better weather than down south, I will be smug 😂

Enjoy! Because I can guarantee the next time I'm up on a family visit, it will rain. Or snow. !!

TheTartfulLodger · 04/05/2024 06:59

tommika · 03/05/2024 07:51

It is possible to unsee and forget an image that you have seen.
I have done so myself

The problem is that when I saw it again I had the fresh horror of ‘seeing it for the first time’ promptly followed by flashbacks to the real first time

I hear you sister. I tend to cover the mirrors in the mornings. I can give me my own PTSD without intervention ta very much 😂

PostItInABook · 04/05/2024 01:33

Do man spiders actually have willies? 🤔

Echolocation zoombies

Sounds like something my crazy black cat would do…

123dogdog · 04/05/2024 01:32

ThursdayTomorrow · 03/05/2024 23:29

No that’s puddles. Haven’t you seen Dr Who? They will reach out and pull you in to the puddle and drown you, or else you will be trapped forever in the puddle waiting to get your own victim to replace you.

Also the slow, stupid Zombies are easily defeated by placing treadmills all around the outside of your house. They just keep walking and walking on the treadmill, with their stupid green arms outstretched, never getting anywhere.

I have watched a lot of the new doctor who’s, but I lost interest Clara left, watched some if the Bill episodes and a few of the with the guy off the chase, and haven’t watched it since. I vaguely recall a puddle episode but not particularly. I love 9 and 10, 11 was not bad, 12 with Clara was good but when she left I didn’t seem to gel with the companions after that. They were good but I just found them a bit stale compared to the previous ones, I could take it or leave it tbh. And now I feel like I can’t start watching again because I missed so many and it wouldn’t make sense 😂

the mirrors don’t trap you in them, but the thing will come out and attach itself to you 😂 that’s my concern.

Grumblevision · 04/05/2024 00:46

EliflurtleAndTheInfiniteMadness · 02/05/2024 22:43

Dont forget your laundry being darked on. I can't stop thinking about spider's willies and laundry being darked on when it's not dry enough to take in by sunset.

Personally I'm more worried about zombies and werewolfs then snipers. The fast smart type of zombies, not the slow dumb types in older movies. At least with a sniper if they're good it'll be quick and there's no trying to run away and failing while terrified. Im overweight and very sick and literally couldn't run to save my life.

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It's the clickers you have to be careful of. Echolocation zoombies.

ThursdayTomorrow · 03/05/2024 23:29

123dogdog · 03/05/2024 19:51

I only did the curtain thing because of snipers, before I went on anti psychotics 😂 😂

however, I don’t do second hand mirrors, just in case someone or something is trapped in the mirror.

No that’s puddles. Haven’t you seen Dr Who? They will reach out and pull you in to the puddle and drown you, or else you will be trapped forever in the puddle waiting to get your own victim to replace you.

Also the slow, stupid Zombies are easily defeated by placing treadmills all around the outside of your house. They just keep walking and walking on the treadmill, with their stupid green arms outstretched, never getting anywhere.

ThursdayTomorrow · 03/05/2024 23:09

bloodyplumbing · 03/05/2024 12:39

Snipers aren't in the cracks that's unwelcome spirits, unless of course the snipers have sniped them.

No. It’s crocodiles. Obviously.

ThursdayTomorrow · 03/05/2024 23:06

I’m not worried about the snipers, but I do always have to have the weight of a duvet over me (no matter how hot it is) to protect me from the demons.

PalomaColumbine · 03/05/2024 23:04

123dogdog · 03/05/2024 19:51

I only did the curtain thing because of snipers, before I went on anti psychotics 😂 😂

however, I don’t do second hand mirrors, just in case someone or something is trapped in the mirror.

I can’t use my late MIL’s lovely mirror in case she’s watching me through it.

Also, cracks are something to do with Jacks and squares are bears surely?

123dogdog · 03/05/2024 21:49

VestibuleVirgin · 03/05/2024 21:44

You're just boasting now.

Indeed 😂 but we never have better weather than down south, I will be smug 😂

VestibuleVirgin · 03/05/2024 21:44

123dogdog · 03/05/2024 21:08

It’s been lovely and sunny here the last two days and very warm (a lovely 12-14 degrees), I’ve had the windows open. The west coast has had the 20s!

You're just boasting now.

123dogdog · 03/05/2024 21:08

VestibuleVirgin · 03/05/2024 20:51

This thread is the perfect antidote to the shite weather and endless winter we've been eduring (in the UK at least!).
Someone bottle it

It’s been lovely and sunny here the last two days and very warm (a lovely 12-14 degrees), I’ve had the windows open. The west coast has had the 20s!

VestibuleVirgin · 03/05/2024 20:51

This thread is the perfect antidote to the shite weather and endless winter we've been eduring (in the UK at least!).
Someone bottle it

SocksAndTheCity · 03/05/2024 20:39

Cracks is definitely where the bears are 🐻

I assume everyone already knows to smash the shells of their boiled eggs so that the witches can't use them as boats and come and get you?

FarmGirl78 · 03/05/2024 20:34

CompulsiveNameChanges · 02/05/2024 21:55

Does anyone else always close curtains/blinds before turning on lights in a dark room just in case there's a sniper lurking outside? I'm not a woman who's likely to have a hit on me, but I feel like it's a sensible thing to do nonetheless.

My Dad does. I'm surprised anyone else is as a loony as him! 🤣

He is generally of the "everyone is out to get you/con you/cheat you" sentiment which is getting worse as he gets older, but he's been doing it since his 40s.

He'll sit in the dark before he'll put the lights on, and then only when he's closed the curtains. It can't be switch light on THEN close curtains, it's got to be curtains closed first, which means my Mum shuffling round furniture in the dark on her way between the window and the lightswitch. 🙄

PostItInABook · 03/05/2024 20:20

This thread has cheered me right up. Thanks people. 😂

PostItInABook · 03/05/2024 20:18

dreamfield · 02/05/2024 21:59

"Sensible" is doing some heavy lifting there.

😂🤣

123dogdog · 03/05/2024 19:51

I only did the curtain thing because of snipers, before I went on anti psychotics 😂 😂

however, I don’t do second hand mirrors, just in case someone or something is trapped in the mirror.

DustyLee123 · 03/05/2024 17:02

Everyone knows that if you step on a crack, you break your back.

bloodyplumbing · 03/05/2024 15:38

Giggorata · 03/05/2024 13:57

Re the cracks. - isn't that where the bears come out or do they just appear, like those bloody zoombies? (JC on a bike, btw)

Actually you are correct it's bears,🐻

ChristmasFluff · 03/05/2024 15:22

I never pull my downstairs curtains, otherwise the cats climb up them and chase eachother and pull down the curtain poles.

The upstairs ones I close but leave a crack to get some light. Except on a full moon, when they must be fully closed and not opened until daybreak, for fear of werewolves in cahoots with Diana Dors.

Giggorata · 03/05/2024 13:57

Re the cracks. - isn't that where the bears come out or do they just appear, like those bloody zoombies? (JC on a bike, btw)

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 03/05/2024 12:58

TinkerTiger · 02/05/2024 22:07

Don't be silly.

It's Richard Ramirez risen from the dead that I'm afraid of.

I watch too much true crime docs.

I watched a documentary about Richard Ramirez a couple of years ago. I woke up that night laying on my front with something pressing me down into the bed. My elderly cat who could apparently no longer get on the bed was standing on my back, something he'd never done in all the years we had him! He scared me half to death!