Murph Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 I have become convinced that there is a phenomenon called a Grey Hole. A grey hole manifests itself when you put 12 pair of socks in the dryer and get back 11 1/2 pair. Or you go looking for a USB drive and discover they are all missing. It used to happen with Floppy Disks where you would buy a box of them, and before you knew it they were gone, and you had no clue where they went. Or you go to get the last slice of pizza for breakfast that you had stored away and discover it is gone. The only explanation is that a "grey hole" absorbed the device. Discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd1 Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 it just transformation of matter, the missing stuff transforms into women hairpins kinda like radioactive decay, one sock´s half-life is 2 hours into hairpin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted June 26 Author Share Posted June 26 No kidding, I find those little monsters everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sardaukar Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 I have found that my T-shirts somehow transform to woman's night-shirts/leisure suits/and artistic material.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futon Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Toddler age toys such as shape blocks. The flat purple rectangle had been gone for almost two years. It returned from the grey hole a few days ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Niehorster Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Cheepie, wire coat hangers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Veet_Voojagig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Sielbeck Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 I remember reading a sf short story, many years ago, that involved the life cycle of paperclips, wire coat hangers, and bicycles. One guys speculated that the paperclips were the larva, hangers the nymphs, and bicycles the adults because he was always finding them in quantities one after the other. His friend soon finds him dead by hanger IIRC. The things I lost to grey holes were small model parts. I could drop a part and see it where it bounced under something but when I went to retrieve it couldn't find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETAC21 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 On 6/26/2023 at 4:23 PM, Murph said: I have become convinced that there is a phenomenon called a Grey Hole. A grey hole manifests itself when you put 12 pair of socks in the dryer and get back 11 1/2 pair. Or you go looking for a USB drive and discover they are all missing. It used to happen with Floppy Disks where you would buy a box of them, and before you knew it they were gone, and you had no clue where they went. Or you go to get the last slice of pizza for breakfast that you had stored away and discover it is gone. The only explanation is that a "grey hole" absorbed the device. Discuss. It's a well known phenomena, particularly in the presence of children and wives. As they age, phone charges join the Bermuda triangle or missing items. Everybody will swear that they have their own, yet there will always be one missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 2 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said: ...The things I lost to grey holes were small model parts... I have recently found part of model that I have lost few years ago. Thing is that I was assembling model at a local wargaming club, and I have found part at home... WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Sielbeck Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Might the grey holes be trapped in our own gravity well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted July 6 Author Share Posted July 6 I am now missing a 2tb WD external HDD. I had it, I know I had it, but it has vanished. I have ripped my office apart looking for it, and it is nowhere to be found. My oldest daughter thinks she might have borrowed it, but she cannot find it either. This is annoying. The kids borrow stuff, do not tell me they are borrowing it, and then do not put it back where I keep things. I am pretty OCD when it comes to drives, and they get put in one of two places depending on whether I am going to need them RSN. I just had "words" with the youngest who kept borrowing my cables and either not returning them, or not telling me she had them. I also keep cables in ONE location since I know where they are located. The same goes for my tools, I can no longer find a SINGLE screwdriver in my tool box nor my vice-grips since they were "borrowed" for "things", and now they have no clue where they put them! I am tempted to get a padlock for my toolbox. I went and looked for my tools, and all, I mean ALL, of my screwdrivers and Allen wrenches are not in the tool box, and of course NO ONE claims to have borrowed them at all. Grrrrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 24 minutes ago, Murph said: I am now missing a 2tb WD external HDD. I had it, I know I had it, but it has vanished. I have ripped my office apart looking for it, and it is nowhere to be found. My oldest daughter thinks she might have borrowed it, but she cannot find it either. This is annoying. The kids borrow stuff, do not tell me they are borrowing it, and then do not put it back where I keep things. I am pretty OCD when it comes to drives, and they get put in one of two places depending on whether I am going to need them RSN. I just had "words" with the youngest who kept borrowing my cables and either not returning them, or not telling me she had them. I also keep cables in ONE location since I know where they are located. The same goes for my tools, I can no longer find a SINGLE screwdriver in my tool box nor my vice-grips since they were "borrowed" for "things", and now they have no clue where they put them! I am tempted to get a padlock for my toolbox. I went and looked for my tools, and all, I mean ALL, of my screwdrivers and Allen wrenches are not in the tool box, and of course NO ONE claims to have borrowed them at all. Grrrrr. You raised your daughters too well, looks like, as in a mostly female household that should not be usually a problem. Possibly, a good multitool, Leatherman or Swisstool, could be a short term solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 7 hours ago, Murph said: I am now missing a 2tb WD external HDD. I had it, I know I had it, but it has vanished. I have ripped my office apart looking for it, and it is nowhere to be found. My oldest daughter thinks she might have borrowed it, but she cannot find it either. This is annoying. The kids borrow stuff, do not tell me they are borrowing it, and then do not put it back where I keep things. I am pretty OCD when it comes to drives, and they get put in one of two places depending on whether I am going to need them RSN. I just had "words" with the youngest who kept borrowing my cables and either not returning them, or not telling me she had them. I also keep cables in ONE location since I know where they are located. The same goes for my tools, I can no longer find a SINGLE screwdriver in my tool box nor my vice-grips since they were "borrowed" for "things", and now they have no clue where they put them! I am tempted to get a padlock for my toolbox. I went and looked for my tools, and all, I mean ALL, of my screwdrivers and Allen wrenches are not in the tool box, and of course NO ONE claims to have borrowed them at all. Grrrrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETAC21 Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 11 hours ago, Murph said: I am now missing a 2tb WD external HDD. I had it, I know I had it, but it has vanished. I have ripped my office apart looking for it, and it is nowhere to be found. My oldest daughter thinks she might have borrowed it, but she cannot find it either. This is annoying. The kids borrow stuff, do not tell me they are borrowing it, and then do not put it back where I keep things. I am pretty OCD when it comes to drives, and they get put in one of two places depending on whether I am going to need them RSN. I just had "words" with the youngest who kept borrowing my cables and either not returning them, or not telling me she had them. I also keep cables in ONE location since I know where they are located. The same goes for my tools, I can no longer find a SINGLE screwdriver in my tool box nor my vice-grips since they were "borrowed" for "things", and now they have no clue where they put them! I am tempted to get a padlock for my toolbox. I went and looked for my tools, and all, I mean ALL, of my screwdrivers and Allen wrenches are not in the tool box, and of course NO ONE claims to have borrowed them at all. Grrrrr. As Sherlock Holmes said: "When you have eliminated all which is impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." I once lost the cell phone (no children involved) because I left it in the library rather than the usual place. For a week I was incomunicado and as I was pondering buying a new one I saw this thing among the books, and voilá, there it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 Fondest memory of my late father. He had a churn brush he kept handy for cleaning the lawnmower and other tools. Anyway, one day he was looking for it in the shed, couldnt find it, and he started ranting about how he was absolutely sure his nearly 80 year old neighbour had improbably climbed over the wall and stolen it (which to be fair, in his younger years, he seemingly had some rep for). 'I know where it is' I said sagely. 'WHERE!' here demanded angrily. 'Hung on the back of the shed door, where you left It', I said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said: Fondest memory of my late father. He had a churn brush he kept handy for cleaning the lawnmower and other tools. Anyway, one day he was looking for it in the shed, couldnt find it, and he started ranting about how he was absolutely sure his nearly 80 year old neighbour had improbably climbed over the wall and stolen it (which to be fair, in his younger years, he seemingly had some rep for). 'I know where it is' I said sagely. 'WHERE!' here demanded angrily. 'Hung on the back of the shed door, where you left It', I said. Right up there with looking for my reading glasses when I realize, after several, several minutes of course, that they are perched on top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim the Tank Nut Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 all of which was foretold in Life of Brian... a man shall lose his friend's hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R011 Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 6 hours ago, Rick said: Right up there with looking for my reading glasses when I realize, after several, several minutes of course, that they are perched on top of my head. Even better. Looking for my glasses while wearing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 On 6/26/2023 at 10:21 AM, bd1 said: it just transformation of matter, the missing stuff transforms into women hairpins kinda like radioactive decay, one sock´s half-life is 2 hours into hairpin Proof that we are living in a simulation; this morning at work when I went to put my little bottle of milk in the classroom fridge, on the bottom shelf there I find a hairpin. I have a female coworker, but in 2.5 years have never found a hairpin anywhere. Until yesterday. Cannot be a coincidence. So, is bd1 an NPC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd1 Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 waves hand - there is no glitch in the matrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd1 Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 waves hand - there is no glitch in the matrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 5 hours ago, R011 said: Even better. Looking for my glasses while wearing them. 😲 Have not done that yet. I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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