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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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Februaryfeels · 05/03/2024 16:58

@Lavendersquare Please tell me that you have an actual toddler - or is it a random toddler sock 🤣

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

Frumpitydoo · 05/03/2024 17:02

Ironing board gate.

ClaudiaWankleman · 05/03/2024 17:04

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

Inside your pillowcase, or inside a pair of shoes you keep under the bed.

Rosestulips · 05/03/2024 17:07

Why does my sleeve or belt only get caught on the door handle when I’m already annoyed?!

KateLizAn · 05/03/2024 17:08

AccidentallyFabulous · 05/03/2024 15:18

More in line with the tone of the thread, where is my black top?

Seriously, where? Not in the drawers (mine, DH's or DC's), not in the washing basket, not drying.

Stuck down the back of the drawer. That’s where my lost tops always are!

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 05/03/2024 17:14

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

Wedged between the headboard and the mattress at the top of the bed, where it's jammed against the wall and an absolute bastard to get at.

I have the opposite with teaspoons, I have acquired at least one, direct into my 'teaspoon pot' on the top of the microwave. It doesn't match any of the others and I have no idea where it came from.

Avonandice · 05/03/2024 17:16

Why doesnt my orange cat have a brain cell?

TheChosenTwo · 05/03/2024 17:17

I really want to know why excel is such a cunty bastard arsehole.
But it’s an entirely unsolvable mystery 🥴

LutonBeds · 05/03/2024 17:21

Why do supermarkets discontinue everything I like and/or replace it with something vastly inferior.

Why did Soda Folk go back on their word and now their root beer (which was God tier) is only available with sweetener 🤬🤬🤬

DyslexicPoster · 05/03/2024 17:22

Timeforabiscuit · 05/03/2024 14:46

Designers of secondary school wear, do you understand that many of your customers will be an adult women size 12, why is your sizing so off?!?

On this theme, do they also know that as teen limbs get longer, they don't nessarly get fatter. So my 8 stone 5,8 son isn't as wide as he is tall.

Andthereyougo · 05/03/2024 17:23

AmaryllisChorus · 05/03/2024 16:08

Pick me! I know this! It ran off with the tupperware lid.

Where do all the Tupperware containers go though? I have a drawer full of lids, all colours and sizes, but can’t find the containers anywhere.

Lincslady53 · 05/03/2024 17:23

MardyBra · 05/03/2024 14:50

I came on to say who killed the princes in the Tower of London and was Elizabeth the First really a virgin. But I guess we’re talking different types of mystery.

I reckon Henry Tudor was behind the killing, and the subsequent cover up.

Sharontheodopolodous · 05/03/2024 17:50

I did solve one mystery

I was walking from the kitchen to the lounge-pasta bowl full of pasta in one hand and a drink in the other

I dropped a piece of pasta out of the bowl-i saw it fall

Hands full,so I carried on and went back to pick it up

Could I fuck has find it-i even opened the cupboard under the stairs in my quest to find it (pasta is too big to roll under the gap at the bottom of the door)

mystery solved when I went back to my pasta to find my ds's dog sat by the now empty bowl with a half satisfied/half guilty look on his face

Best laugh is-normally he won't eat bloody pasta-ds says he looks longingly at it but won't touch it if offered

Guess stolen pasta tastes better

Years ago,I moved in with dp-i bought two sets of four cutlery (so 8 forks,spoons,knives and teaspoons) from asda

A year or so later we had 8 knives,8 spoons and 8 tablespoons

And 3 forks

So I bought a set of 10 forks from ebay-they arrived,where washed and put in the drawer-by my maths we should have had 13 forks

But now we have 8 knives,8 spoons,8 teaspoons and 1000 forks

Fuck knows where the rest have come from

Teaspoons,socks and glasses etc are just one of life's mysteries-i swear they go into corners and breed

SiobhanSharpe · 05/03/2024 17:51

I watched a programme about the two Princes in the Tower recently that posited with documentary evidence that they were released/escaped from the tower and spent their time in Europe as young men trying to get an army together to invade England. They had significant support from European royalty.
One of them was possibly killed in a subsequent battle in England after such an invasion/uprising. (There were some minor invasions during the reign of Henry VII.)
But as we know, history is written by the victors.

AmaryllisChorus · 05/03/2024 17:52

Andthereyougo · 05/03/2024 17:23

Where do all the Tupperware containers go though? I have a drawer full of lids, all colours and sizes, but can’t find the containers anywhere.

Oh, your containers are round at ours, sprawling all over the shelves with my lot. They've befriended a few stray lids that tuck inside them or prop against them, none of which fit them. But will they listen?

moreminieggsplease · 05/03/2024 17:53

Why do they keep making the presenters on CBeebies sing?

tennesseewhiskey1 · 05/03/2024 17:53

The same bellends who design a white/cream sofa.

SiobhanSharpe · 05/03/2024 18:02

And sorry to deflate old mysteries but the Marie Celeste was though to have been abandoned due to a fire on board. Apparently the way to deal with a fire then was to evacuate everyone into the life boat and tie it with rope to the main vessel. The crew would then wait for the fire to go out, or maybe left a few men behind to fight the fire. (Unsuccessfully ?) There may be flaws in this theory.
But it was suggested that the rope that tied the two vessels together somehow broke or came adrift and the crew had no way of getting back to the main ship. And so they would have all died of thirst/starvation, leaving the 'ghost ship' to sail on.

VirginiaDares · 05/03/2024 18:07

What happened to the lost Roanoke colonists?

11NigelTufnel · 05/03/2024 18:15

MardyBra · 05/03/2024 14:50

I came on to say who killed the princes in the Tower of London and was Elizabeth the First really a virgin. But I guess we’re talking different types of mystery.

I think she was a virgin, because the stakes would have been too great of she got pregnant. Kings could have bastards all over the place, but it would be dangerous for a queen.

anxioussister · 05/03/2024 18:19

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 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Ah this I can explain scientifically. You see socks are the larval form of coat hangers. Which is why gradually over time one accumulates so many of the latter.

SpongeBobSquarePantaloons · 05/03/2024 18:20

wevegotthepower · 05/03/2024 14:55

What happened to that ironing board?

Oh my GOD the ironing board. Absolutely Grin

AsTheyPulledYouOutOfTheOxygenTent · 05/03/2024 18:24

What was Marcia Falkender's hold over Harold Wilson? Nobody would put up with that sort of behaviour just from a former lover.

Chilliandbanana · 05/03/2024 18:26

JudgeJ · 05/03/2024 15:17

Keeping the teaspoons company maybe?

I solved this one in my house when my eldest went to university and I found all the missing teaspoons in her room!

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