Where do socks migrate to?

TheScribbler

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?

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:

Midnight_EG

Go back to The Ladies Lounge.

TheScribbler

boomkatalog wrote: »

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

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

jimmycrackcorm

Sockland of course.

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)

TheScribbler

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Sockland of course.

Clever

Atavan-Halen

Soky the sock monster!

(Why was/is his name spelt like that )

pagancornflake

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Sockland of course.

facepalm

Midnight_EG

pagancornflake wrote: »

facepalm

http://sockyinsockland.livejournal.com/

pagancornflake

Midnight_EG wrote: »

http://sockyinsockland.livejournal.com/

http://blog.ecchi-squad.net/wp-content/uploads/lolwut.jpg

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?

Jesus Juice

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

Where do socks go,pfft.

Kevin Bacon

Jesus Juice wrote: »

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?!

Jesus Juice

Kevin Bacon wrote: »

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.

Sharpshooter

Kevin Bacon wrote: »

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

Easy Now.

Kevin Bacon

Sharpshooter wrote: »

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

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

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)

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.

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.

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
And primark (pennys) do 10 pairs for 2 quid!
But to answer your question OP, they go to Narnia

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!!!

orourkeda

They usually end up on my feet

Aodan83

Wolfram Alpha knows where the socks go.

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/

triple-M

they get robbed and shipped to finglas

Overheal

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

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.

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...

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:.

CrazyRabbit

Overheal wrote: »

They werent socks.

I know....but haven't you ever heard of the sock gnomes? They're cousins of the underpants gnomes.

INSCOPE

The washing machine eats them.

dsmythy

Sock is one of those words you don't pay attention to. The word 'socks' just looks weird.

MizzLolly

INSCOPE wrote: »

The washing machine eats them.

This is true

Joey the lips

TheScribbler wrote: »

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?

I only buy 2 colours Bales of brown bales of black.... Problem solved.

jumpguy

I have a sock + underwear drawer hybrid. Only problem is, when there's loads of socks, there's no underwear, and when there's loads of underwear, no socks! And there's NEVER matching socks.

triple-M

Joey the lips wrote: »

I only buy 2 colours Bales of brown bales of black.... Problem solved.

you'll probaly still end up with one brown sock and one black one when you've lost the rest of them

orourkeda

India

dr.bollocko

Testing.
Testing.
Moved form After Hours.
Oh that's how you do that.
I have one black sock on and one navy sock on.
Until now I was sure they were the same colour and now I feel inadequate.

I thought that I had some black socks, but then I found out that they were very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very dark blue!

Joey the lips

triple-M wrote: »

you'll probaly still end up with one brown sock and one black one when you've lost the rest of them

Nope. I buy 15 pairs of black and 5 pairs of brown....

TheScribbler

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)

In my case that is closer to the truth than you think. It reminds me of the wonderful 'Underpants Bots' sketch in South Part where the Bots (pseudo little people) continuously steal underpants and are warehousing them

TheScribbler

Sorry that should read South Park

triple-M

TheScribbler wrote: »

In my case that is closer to the truth than you think. It reminds me of the wonderful 'Underpants Bots' sketch in South Part where the Bots (pseudo little people) continuously steal underpants and are warehousing them

were they not underpants gnomes

TheScribbler

You are quite correct

Sarky

Well I'm glad that little mystery was solved. Cake?

Sharpshooter

No thanks.
Communion?

Sarky

Ooh, yes please.

*kneels with mouth open*

Sharpshooter

Cushion?

Sarky

No, thanks, I like it rough.