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Where do all my socks go?

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  • #32
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Pfft ... paint your feet black , none of sock nonsense OP.

    On a slightly different note , herself sent one of the smaller offspring into the hotpress recently , he eventually returned with a set of bath towels she'd never seen before.


  • #33
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    True story.
    My brother in laws dog had a habit of eating stuff he shouldnt like pebbles,toys,that sort of thing.
    He awoke to his dog roaring in pain one morning.
    He went out into his yard to find his poor mutt in the process of sh1tting out a football sock.
    The dog was running around yelping with a sock hanging out of his arse.
    Thats my best sock related anecdote.


  • #34
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    What if you weren't losing a sock every time you are doing your laundry but actually gaining a sock?


  • #35
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Mr.McLovin wrote: »
    this seems to be an epidemic, if only wearing sandals were cool this wouldn't be a problem

    It's because of years of slandering by the sock industries lobbyists
    5starpool wrote: »
    Every 18 months or so throw out all your socks and buy 20 new pairs all the same colour for everyday wear.

    I wear odd socks every day. I started about 7 years ago. I just couldn't be bothered anymore. They're only socks. Today one is green striped, the other is orange striped.


  • #36
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »
    True story.
    My brother in laws dog had a habit of eating stuff he shouldnt like pebbles,toys,that sort of thing.
    He awoke to his dog roaring in pain one morning.
    He went out into his yard to find his poor mutt in the process of sh1tting out a football sock.
    The dog was running around yelping with a sock hanging out of his arse.
    Thats my best sock related anecdote.

    Sounds like my friends dog , Wankbag.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=82334154


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  • #37
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    I'm always losing socks they go in a pair and only one comes back :s I'm convinced there's a some kind of creature in the machine stealing them lol.


  • #38
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    *tip of the day

    the solution is to buy all black socks that way when you lose one you still have lots of unpaired but yet matching socks in the drawer.


  • #39
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Socks?

    Rich bastard!


  • #40
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Den_characters#Socky


  • #41
    AndonHandon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭AndonHandon


    Wash your socks at 40 degrees or lower and they won't melt in the washing machine.


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  • #42
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    pharmaton wrote: »
    *tip of the day

    the solution is to buy all black socks that way when you lose one you still have lots of unpaired but yet matching socks in the drawer.
    Some wise words.

    My drawer is always full of black socks and I never really have problems matching up. Even if two pairs are slightly different nobody is going to notice anyway. Well they look like black socks but they're not, only priest socks are truly black. You see, ordinary shops sell what look like black socks, but if you look closely, you'll see that they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue.


  • #43
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    Some wise words.

    My drawer is always full of black socks and I never really have problems matching up. Even if two pairs are slightly different nobody is going to notice anyway. Well they look like black socks but they're not, only priest socks are truly black. You see, ordinary shops sell what look like black socks, but if you look closely, you'll see that they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue.

    I have to ask this ..... have you been looking through a priests drawers ?


  • #44
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I have a selection of odd socks that I keep until their match (or their comrades as my mum used to call them) turn up. Every so often one does turn up but most are long gone to sock heaven, I think.


  • #45
    Mr.McLovin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Mr.McLovin


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Give me your address OP and I'll drop around with my 36 odd socks. If we combine ours, perhaps we can find some matching pairs.

    if the washing machine worm hole theory is correct as posted, our socks may most likely be the same socks and if we meet up it could tear the universe apart or maybe just the socks and then we would have no socks at all... :D


  • #46
    Auldloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Give me your address OP and I'll drop around with my 36 odd socks. If we combine ours, perhaps we can find some matching pairs.

    Ye won't and you should know that.


  • #47
    ruthloss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    emmabrighton wrote: »
    Hence why I only have black socks in my drawer. Then the only challenge is not to be left with one trainer sock and one ankle sock.

    Black socks are subversive, they infiltrate the 'white's only wash' and cause havoc. Their aim is to turn everything into a paler shade of grey.:mad:


  • #48
    folan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭folan


    Phase 1) Steal Socks.
    Phase 2) ???????
    Phase 3) PROFIT


  • #49
    intellectual dosser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭intellectual dosser


    folan wrote: »
    Phase 1) Steal Socks.
    Phase 2) ???????
    Phase 3) PROFIT

    Phase 1) Steal Socks.
    Phase 2) Repack & Resell
    Phase 3) PROFIT

    - Manifesto of Dunnes/Pennys secret agents


  • #50
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Every sock I own is the same colour for this reason, so that I can match pretty much any of them to make what appears to be a pair. Nevertheless, the number of socks I own diminishes over time. I'd don't know where they go, but clearly this effect still applies even if you try to cheat the system.


  • #51
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


    I have begun to wear unmatched socks...so they are a different colour ..who the fec k cares.


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  • #52
    emmabrighton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    I would wear different colours any day before I would wear different textures.


  • #53
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    caustic 1 wrote: »
    I have begun to wear unmatched socks...so they are a different colour ..who the fec k cares.

    The fashion police, they're coming to get you now.


  • #54
    heroics
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,873 ✭✭✭heroics


    I got around this by only owning two types of socks. Black ones for wearing with shoes and short white ones for runners. All the same brand. never have a problem matching socks :)

    Have a friend who never matches their socks. just grabs 2 from the drawer like a lucky dip and goes with it.


  • #55
    emmabrighton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    its amazing this thread is four pages deep... the things we find interesting, eh?


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