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Where do socks migrate to?

  • 13-12-2009 03:46AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭


    I don't know if you are like me but do you have a drawer full of unmatched socks? Where on earth are the matching items? Any clues anyone?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭boomkatalog


    stolen by my mother... only to be returned after i have dumped the lonely socks that had been in the drawer for months. typical :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,775 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    Go back to The Ladies Lounge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭TheScribbler


    stolen by my mother... only to be returned after i have dumped the lonely socks that had been in the drawer for months. typical :rolleyes:
    We've all done that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭pagancornflake


    Lenihan introduced a sock tax in the new budget. 1 sock from each existing and new pair of socks is now owed to the government


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,419 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Sockland of course.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭TheScribbler


    That figures. It sits alongside the Indicator Tax, the one that taxes drivers who use signals at roundabouts (bet that's where the socks end up - the fairy folk have buried them)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭TheScribbler


    Sockland of course.
    Clever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Soky the sock monster!

    (Why was/is his name spelt like that :confused:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭pagancornflake


    Sockland of course.

    facepalm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,775 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭pagancornflake




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Kevin Bacon


    I haven't worn a pair of matching socks in years...... worrying I know but when do you look at
    a man's socks?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭Jesus Juice


    This is a terrible thread you know EXACTLY where socks go,back to Guineys(Talbot street one).

    Where do socks go,pfft.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Kevin Bacon


    This is a terrible thread you know EXACTLY where socks go,back to Guineys(Talbot street one).

    Where do socks go,pfft.

    Not all of us live in "town" i.e dublin...(**** hole)

    I'm in the fine city of galway where are my socks god damn it?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭Jesus Juice


    Not all of us live in "town" i.e dublin...(**** hole)

    I'm in the fine city of galway where are my socks god damn it?!
    I whole-heartedly agree,I live in Tipperary.The socks in Galway go to the Aran Islands where they are broken down and re-knitted for Americans.Most likely into Guinness jumpers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Not all of us live in "town" i.e dublin...(**** hole)

    Easy Now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Kevin Bacon


    Easy Now.

    Ahhh.. no harm it was just a joke. I love Dublin honestly! Although.... Nahhh I was gonna say something nasty but you know....you're all right:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    1) buy new pack of socks
    2) wear socks
    3) laundry day: sock A gets left behind, under bed
    4) Laundry done yay wait wheres my sock grrrhax
    5) repeat


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Solution is simple

    Buy 20 identical pairs.
    Wear as usual.
    By the time nature has taken it's course you will have 20 socks left which you can make into 10 pairs
    Continue as above until you only have a single sock left, then start again
    (works for me anyway)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭lorebringer


    Most of our socks end up in dog beds, or are transported (by dogs) to behind the couch or under beds where they are tortured for information, dismembered and left ot die.

    We buy a lot of socks.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Remember too, younger lads, that while cracking one off into a sock is convenient and ergonomic, it can also result in a large number of single socks floating around in your drawer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    Beasty wrote: »
    Solution is simple

    Buy 20 identical pairs.
    Wear as usual.
    By the time nature has taken it's course you will have 20 socks left which you can make into 10 pairs
    Continue as above until you only have a single sock left, then start again
    (works for me anyway)

    This is what I do :D
    And primark (pennys) do 10 pairs for 2 quid!
    But to answer your question OP, they go to Narnia



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    The day we solve the missing sock phenomena is the same day we find a unified theory of everything (which accoring to some won't be long...but i doubt it)
    The ans given thus far are not convincing - we must solve this problem!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    They usually end up on my feet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    Wolfram Alpha knows where the socks go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    25 replies and not even one attempt to play on the South Park 'Underpants Gnomes' joke...I'm disappointed.

    http://www.southparkstudios.co.uk/clips/sp_vid_151037/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭triple-M


    they get robbed and shipped to finglas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    25 replies and not even one attempt to play on the South Park 'Underpants Gnomes' joke...I'm disappointed.

    http://www.southparkstudios.co.uk/clips/sp_vid_151037/
    They werent socks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    stovelid wrote: »
    Remember too, younger lads, that while cracking one off into a sock is convenient and ergonomic, it can also result in a large number of single socks floating around in your drawer.
    Good theory S, but we girls also experience the disappearing sock phenomenon...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    They get taken by the sock gnomes who use them for **** into.

    The silkier the better. The only way to beat them is the solution offered by Beasty (also posh snobs for having anything other than penney's white sports socks) :pac:.


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