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Which mystery do you want solved.? Very very lighthearted..

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Scaffoldingisugly · 05/03/2024 14:14

What sort of half - wit designs /manufactures pale cream ddog beds?
Trawling the aisles of a popular pet store for aged creaky ddog-willing to spend as she isn't comfortable in current one (my sofa /chair) Majority have cream interiors.. The bit ddog will put her dirty paws and bumhole on!!

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laylababe5 · 06/03/2024 19:48

Outthedoor24 · 05/03/2024 15:09

How is my laundry basket never empty?

Laundry is a constant cycle. Best accept that you'll never have an empty laundry basket!

Roxy69 · 06/03/2024 20:07

Why my really good friend ignores me. I have repeatedly told her (in general conversation, when I can) that I want no more 'stuff'. She agrees. Last Christmas I got yet another sack of gifts and am dreading my birthday. I take them to a far off charity shop so no harm done and I wouldn’t upset her for the world. Just why??? It's a mystery.

Stigolini · 06/03/2024 20:11

A Pedant writes:
"Mary Celeste"

SpiritOfEcstasy · 06/03/2024 20:14

What happened to Maddie McCann.

PuzzlingMonkey · 06/03/2024 21:32

BlackCountryWench2 · 06/03/2024 18:50

Re: the mystery of the missing socks. I made this to go in our laundry room - just hang up the odd sock until you find its partner!

Genius idea! I don't know any German but I'm thinking the "die" instruction on the coat hanger may scare away any socks of a nervous disposition from reuniting with their lost partners though

SkiingIsHeaven · 06/03/2024 21:52

DrunkenKoala · 05/03/2024 14:21

Where the other sock goes? I knew I put both socks into the washing machine but only one came out 🤷🏻‍♀️.

I think I have it. I have 37 odd socks. Fancy a swap?

ThistleTits · 06/03/2024 21:58

@Scaffoldingisugly why do accessible toilets never have a hook for your coat or bag?

Catsmere · 06/03/2024 22:01

Where that huntsman came from in the five minutes between me getting in my car, driving to the petrol station and pumping the tyres, and going to open the door again. It was sitting under the door handle when I went to get back in! Car was in the open all the time.

ThistleTits · 06/03/2024 22:13

WeeOrcadian · 05/03/2024 16:07

Where that bloody ironing board went

What ironing board?

Alltheyearround · 06/03/2024 23:20

Luckyduc · 06/03/2024 00:24

@MardyBra imi was at the Jack the ripper museum in October and there were onoy a handful of suspects but one of them does match the dna that was on a victims scarf. So case closed.. they know who it is now.

Not according to the BBC podcast about the 5 women. The scarf was discounted as poor evidence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gx101s/episodes/player

BBC Sounds - Bad Women, The Ripper Retold - Available now

Available episodes of The Ripper Retold

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gx101s/episodes/player

notjaneausten · 06/03/2024 23:21

Who ‘designed’ the effing turntable in microwaves which always falls off centre when you put something in. Surely they weren’t paid!

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 06/03/2024 23:56

If the earth was scorched by the meteor blast, and all the plants died because of the five year darkness, how did the dinosaurs which evolved into birds survive? (And the little ratty mammal ancestors)- had they built a special Dino shelter? Did the rats have lots of stores in the burrows….

How do evolutionists get away with such big gaps in their logic? don’t let’s even get started on the human evolutionary profile, more yawning chasms than the Grand Canyon.

Which leads me to the other great archeological mystery of out time, viz: how does Alice Roberts part her hair like that?Closely followed by ‘why?’

Outthedoor24 · 07/03/2024 00:25

laylababe5 · 06/03/2024 19:48

Laundry is a constant cycle. Best accept that you'll never have an empty laundry basket!

There seems to be stuff appears in it before the load that is in the machine has actually finished.

It's like a bottomless pit.

Mamanyt · 07/03/2024 01:10

DrunkenKoala · 05/03/2024 14:21

Where the other sock goes? I knew I put both socks into the washing machine but only one came out 🤷🏻‍♀️.

OH, I KNOW THAT ONE! It's the sock elves. They live in washers and dryers, and take ONE sock of a pair, whisking it away to elfland! And, occasionally, they will leave some item of clothing that you have never seen before in your entire life. MY sock elves once left a pair of USA size 64 men's tighty-whities! I didn't know they MADE them that big. My sons, then aged 8 and 9, could have used them for a tent!

Kidding about the sock elves, sorta, but absolutely NOT kidding about finding those men's drawers! I was just stunned. I mean, HOW DID THEY GET THERE???

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/03/2024 01:25

Mamanyt · 07/03/2024 01:10

OH, I KNOW THAT ONE! It's the sock elves. They live in washers and dryers, and take ONE sock of a pair, whisking it away to elfland! And, occasionally, they will leave some item of clothing that you have never seen before in your entire life. MY sock elves once left a pair of USA size 64 men's tighty-whities! I didn't know they MADE them that big. My sons, then aged 8 and 9, could have used them for a tent!

Kidding about the sock elves, sorta, but absolutely NOT kidding about finding those men's drawers! I was just stunned. I mean, HOW DID THEY GET THERE???

ahem....

https://wiki.lspace.org/Eater_of_Socks

Eater of Socks - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki

https://wiki.lspace.org/Eater_of_Socks

WaystarRoy · 07/03/2024 01:30

Why am I the only person in the house that can find anything?

Mamanyt · 07/03/2024 01:33

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/03/2024 01:25

LOL, Lord, I had forgotten Terry Pratchett! How did THAT happen? I should immediately begin re-collecting his books!

BlackCountryWench2 · 07/03/2024 01:55

In answer to some questions…

Who killed the princes in the Tower of London? Richard III. If it was Henry VII, why did no one see them at all in the interim two years? They were under the protection of Richard’s staff, so who else could gain access to them? Who immediately benefited from their deaths in August 1483, when Henry was still in France? Please don’t be misled by a TV producer who claims to be a historian (hint: she isn’t) who has a documentary to flog.

Was Elizabeth the First really a virgin? Yes, and she was examined to confirm this during marriage negotiations. It was far too risky for her to have unprotected sex - she was hardly ever alone and could not have hidden a pregnancy. Whether she was in love is a different matter.

Jack the Ripper’s identity? The police never really had any credible suspects, at the time nor since, and all suspects have been based on pure conjecture. The DNA evidence referred to was on a “shawl” (more likely a table runner) which was said by family tradition to be that of Catherine Eddowes, although there is no evidence for this, as it was not logged as present at the scene of the murder. Interesting article here: www.jack-the-ripper.org/kosminski-dna.htm

What happened to Shergar? He was mercilessly machine gunned by the IRA four days after his theft, after breaking his leg in terror from the poor handling he received. Noble freedom fighters, eh.

But what I really want to know is, how do all the other items in the tumble dryer manage to climb inside the duvet cover, even though I buttoned it up before it went in?

ElizabethanAgain · 07/03/2024 01:58

YeahIsaidit · 05/03/2024 14:59

Where my glasses are... They've just vanished and I am very annoyed

Mine are usually in the dog's bed. Chewed.

Minimili · 07/03/2024 02:12

dontforgettofloss · 05/03/2024 17:00

Where is my ear phone?
I have some wireless earbuds, and I fell asleep with them in a couple of weeks ago listening to an audiobook. I woke up and one was missing- I've looked everywhere, and it's nowhere to be found, I just can't think where it could've gone

I had exactly the same thing happen two years ago, we took the house apart looking for it and it shouldn’t have been flat but didn’t show on “find iphone” Apple devices (it was an AirPod).

Two years and never seen again…

ElizabethanAgain · 07/03/2024 02:14

ElizabethanAgain · 07/03/2024 01:58

Mine are usually in the dog's bed. Chewed.

The culprit

Which mystery do you want solved.? Very very lighthearted..
TheShellBeach · 07/03/2024 02:23

MardyBra · 05/03/2024 14:52

Oh and who was Jack the Ripper?

David Cohen

TheShellBeach · 07/03/2024 02:24

Why can't I stop buying jumpers?

SomethingUniqueThisTime · 07/03/2024 02:31

Just a few months again, after nearly 40 years of marriage, and raising a DS I found out where all the missing socks have gone in our house.

I noticed a sock with a hole in it in the bin. Asked DH where the other one was, he replied he only throws the sock with a hole in it away not its matching hole-less partner and just pops that in the wash or back in his drawer. I was shocked and had to explain I kept all the odd ones in the hope the missing one turned up. Chatting to DS about my amusing discovery a few days later, he broke the news he did it as well. I was gobsmacked that neither of them had considered why they kept one of the socks!

The hours I must have wasted sorting through the clean socks trying to match pairs when many of them were now singletons. It has only just occurred to me that it is very rare for any of my socks go missing, so the answer was there all the time.

changeme4this · 07/03/2024 03:04

People on shared driveways who mow 1 strip, despite a longer and wider section needing mowing too.