BS: problems with the little people

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Oct 15 - 12:24 AM

The Fairies

UP the airy mountain,        
Down the rushy glen,        
We daren't go a-hunting        
For fear of little men

William Allingham. 1824–1889

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As Lord Peter Wimsey said: "Always a quotation for everything. It saves original thinking."

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 08:38 PM

I keeps me smokes in me pocket. As fer me drink, I takes that too. Can't trust no one no way nowadays. Not even in a slophouse fer goshsake! What's she all comin to eh?

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 06:30 PM

So, your at a bar, and yous go to the toilet. When yous comes back, tings'ar gane, missin
.
Did does little people steal yer smokes?

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 06:18 PM

Little bastards have been messing with me for a few years. If I catch sight of them, they are toast.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 05:45 PM

It's all a part of the proof of something I recently postulated on another thread: Viz ·····

They are taking over


Who 'they'? You may well ask!

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Penny S.
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 05:00 PM

I don't know if I've posted this before, but at my last place I had something very peculiar happen. I had an early version of radio door bell, as I couldn't always hear the original, and could carry the speaker round with me. Unfortunately, the speaker ate batteries fast, but it did have the option of plugging in to the mains, which I usually did. This only happened when it was plugged in.

One day, the bell rang, I went down (I had an upstairs maisonette) and there was no-one there. Or anywhere near. This became repetitive. I had two possibilities in mind. That someone had a similar device, and I was picking up their signal, or that the son of a family two doors away was playing Knock Down Ginger. The first I could eliminate - I'd been up the road collecting for charity, and there was one other version, outside the range of the receiver. The second I could eliminate by looking out of the window upstairs quickly enough to spot any movement. There wasn't any.

I added the possibility that it range when someone affected the current somehow, by turning something on or off (it was often close to the hour), and stuck a notice by the bell push, asking people to ring twice.

The false signals started doing it twice. Then, one evening when I happened to have a bunch of physicists in, it went completely haywire and built up the number of rings (I think I had put a new notice requiring three rings, which was followed by the next false event). I think it started to respond to the mere suggestion that I up the ante, and got as far as five rings. There was no trace of anyone in a position to enjoy the results. I asked an AA man in the road if he had been doing anything to the car he was working on that would have caused sparking. No. I rang the electricity suppliers the next day to see if there had been any surges. No. So I took it back to Argos, who insisted on taking it away for a refund - I had wanted to keep it and have a good look inside, but no chance. I didn't ask the person with the same model up the road if they had had problems.

There was no-one in my block, except the boy, who would do anything like it, and no-one with the skills. It was very weird that evening.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 04:57 PM

Amazing the way basic knowledge is forgotten.

If items (esp. pretty, shiny items) are appearing and disappearing, the thing to do is to leave a nice dish with home-made cookies on it on the counter overnight.

It works for Santa and it works for tommyknockers.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST, ^*^
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 08:20 AM

Not a believer in god/s or ghosts, but I find some of the stories charming to consider. The Shoemaker's Elves, in particular, I could use a few visits from those little guys.

Many years ago a friend died, by his own hand. It was troubling for many of us as we sorted out what might have led to such an act. There was a mystery involved that was eventually solved. During the few weeks that followed more than one of us reported odd events. My silverware drawer is probably typical - a jumble of items each in their own long narrowish compartment, but on a couple of occasions I found the forks and spoons completely aligned and nested together. The kids weren't home to have done it (kids put anything away? Ha!). His rather complicated belief system seems to have contributed to disturbances in our worlds for a while. I'm pretty sure of the purgatory where he ended up and he hasn't fooled with the flatware for a very long time.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 07:02 AM

""We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.""

Leona Helmsley

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Oct 15 - 02:24 AM

Steve S, I agree, you have been remarkably restrained in this thread. but you *did* say on 20 Oct 15 - 09:14 PM

"Yeah, getting late. Yawn emoticon."

I thought you were intimating boredom.

But no probs. The time will come when you will have fun with it. :)

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,Ebor Fiddler
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 05:02 PM

Have you considered that it may be brought about by the Goddess Anoiea (SP?) in one of her manifestations?

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 02:12 PM

Yes, typical conversation in our household:
Him: "Where's my xyz?"
Me: "Exactly where you left it dear".

And going through the turnstiles at Circular Quay, Sydney, while on holiday there:
Big shout from him - "I can't get through, I can't get through, I can't get through - my pass won't work" (More effective when you say things 3 times over, of course!)
Me: "Because that's your hotel room key, dear!" - except that I didn't say "dear"!

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 01:22 PM

Had you lived in the UK forty years ago, Dave, you'd have called the mysterious milk thief Margaret Thatcher.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 01:06 PM

When my daughter, Monica, was little, more than forty years ago,
it started one night at the dinner table when she refused (or
maybe I should say "delayed and delayed and delayed") to drink
her milk, despite repeated commands to drink it up.

Somehow my attention was distracted just for a moment, and when I
looked back at Monica, the milk had mysteriously disappeared! She
told us that someone else sneaked in and drank it.

This developed into a traditional household routine: "Drink your
milk!" I'd make an elaborate and obvious visual search, first
peering down a hall into another room and then under the table
and chairs. I couldn't see that anyone was hiding in any of those
places. But I'd look back to Monica, and Voila! The milk had
vanished! Mirabile Dictu! We came, in time, to blame the
disappearances on "the Milk Sneaker".

To this day, if something is missing in our house we blame it
on The Milk Sneaker, The Comb Sneaker, The Glasses Sneaker, or
some other member of the multitudinous Sneaker clan who populate
our abode.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: CapriUni
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 08:38 AM

One night, before bed, as usual, I put my glasses down on my bedside table.

In the morning, I went to put them on, and they weren't there. Figured I must have taken them off, absentmindedly, someplace else in the house after shutting down the computer while going through my "Toddling off to bed" routine (I've known that I have a 'flighty poet's' brain since I was about 7 years old, so this is nothing alarming).

But I searched every surface within reach -- first, in all the usual places where I pause to do something, and then in all the other places I where it was possible to put them. Still, no glasses...

Finally, around two in the afternoon, while doing another sweep of the house, I glanced down and saw them on the floor -- directly under the the table, and the spot where I had put them. They were even in the exact same orientation in which I remember placing them (open, right side up, with the earpieces facing the bed).

...Now, if I'd somehow knocked them off during the night, or one of the cats had, I'd expect them to be on the floor near the edge of the table. If they'd fallen and bounced, somehow, I'd expect them to be flipped over, or facing a different way.

But this looked as though they had somehow dropped down in a straight line through the table and rematerialized on the floor below. I still have no firm idea of how or why it happened. But, just in case I share my house with a Person of Peace, I laughed out loud and congratulated the prankster(s) on the cleverness and subtlety of the joke. I also said "Thank you" for returning my glasses before the end of the day.

Good manners, and a cheerful habit, are no guarantee that you'll be treated well. But holding a grudge and bad manners are a guarantee that you won't.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 07:17 AM

Why do folks never blame the unexplained on tall people? Seems to smack of prejudice to me.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 05:59 AM

How does that emanate from anything in this thread, Ebbie? I think I post with good humour a lot of the time, including in this thread. Wassup?

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Oct 15 - 01:14 AM

Steve S, you miss out on some just plain good fun. One needn't sign onto supernatural gobblygook to grasp that there are things that one simply doesn't understand.

Me, I happen to suspect that we are surrounded by the unexplained- and can cite examples 'til the cows come home. And that doesn't mean, if pushed to it, that I won't admit that the mind is a wondrous thing.

The point is that it is fun to just imagine.

That brings to mind two ways of looking at a common phenomenon: the placebo effect.

#1: It is amazing and disgusting how easily fooled the human mind is.

OR

#2: It is amazing that we don't yet accept how much on our side our brains and bodies are.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 09:17 PM

.. too many day to day trials, tribulations, and petty botherations for too many years
to have thought about this sort of thing...

Bugger it.. which dusty old box are my Gong and Steve Hillage CDs in...???

Which drawer are the candles and night lights in...???

... should I chew those banana peels raw.. or boil them up in a tea...??? 😜

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 09:14 PM

Yeah, getting late. Yawn emoticon.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,Time stamp
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 09:04 PM

Oh shut it Steve you old spoilsport. Aren't you tired yet.
       G'night 8)

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 09:01 PM

...oops...!!! 😬

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,Time stamp
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 09:00 PM

"Oh shit... far too many magic mushroomz when i was 19...!!!??? 😱 "

    Or not enough.
'punkhippyfolkrocker' great tag btw.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 08:56 PM

Ah,Jaysus, don't get the bugger going, PFR!

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,punkhippyfolkrocker
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 08:53 PM

Once you start thinking about what might be going on at a sub atomic particle level of the brain,
potentially leaking and leaching conciousness between alternate universes...

it could open your mind to all sorts of possibilities...
.. or fry it completely...

Oh shit... far too many magic mushroomz when i was 19...!!!??? 😱

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,Time stamp
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 08:24 PM

RnC's post triggered a vague recollection of reading about someone experiencing the exact same phenomena.   
             Anthony Peake is his name and he will be on ytube. He was driving and was told turn/dont turn, I can't remember the exact details, but listening saved his life by avoiding a pile up. He left his career and spends his time writing books and researching it.
            If I remember right he calls it the Daemon as past cultures have, but I can't get anymore specific as I'm not sure as it's been a while. He has some 'interesting thoughts on deja vu too.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Rumncoke
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 04:42 PM

I don't even believe in all that - stuff - but I once heard my mum tell me to slow down, just as though she was sitting in the back seat of the car.

Naturally I put my foot on the brake, and around the corner there was a tractor and trailer and hay bales all over the road. The corner of the trailer was just where I'd have ended up if I'd not slowed down before the corner.

Even though by then it had dawned on my that my mother was long gone I turned around and looked at the back seat - just in case.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 04:12 PM

So, lastvweek I was in a bar. A little fella came in and asked the bartender "do you serve shrimps".

Darn, where did the rest of that story go. It just dissapeared. Weird.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 04:02 PM

Beware of folks who cant spell elevator, little folks.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 04:00 PM

Beware of crowded elevatirs, little people.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 01:12 PM

My real problem with the little people is that they NEVER seem to get your coffee to you on time. Often the scone or doughnut isn't as fresh as it could be, and they are sooooooooo lacking in a knowledge of their proper station in life!

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,#
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 10:40 AM

Thing is, ya usually find things in the last place ya look for them.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 07:53 AM

"Steve as to who I am (the whoever you are line) We first engaged a good few years ago on a different site. I said I was going to buy you a new hat if we ever met. You also put up a nice pic of Bude canal that I asked for. "

I don't remember that. It would be nice to know who you are, but your anon is your prerogative!

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 20 Oct 15 - 03:42 AM

I have refreshed a former thread of mine called An Odd Unexplained Incident, which deals with a similar occurrence, as some of the responses there might help to explain Dick's experience here. Not that any explanation was actually forthcoming. These things just do happen from time to time, & no-one ever really seems to get to the bottom of them.

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Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 10:06 PM

Well, I spent 12 plus years in an old house museum where I saw and experienced a number of unexplained things. One of them was when a docent, there for the summer, asked me to come to her bedroom to help her find her red socks so she could go do her laundry. I helped her move things around but they were not to be found. She decided that they had to wait until next time and left. Some time later she came back upstairs and I heard her call me: Oh, she said. You found them! I hadn't been back in her room but in the middle of her white chenille bedspread (remember those?) were her red socks.

A tenant told me, the manager of an apartment building years later, that she was moving, that her unit was haunted, that she had seen a dinner fork fly across the room.

I told the owner that I would move into that unit, that I didn't give a flying fork about it. :) PS I never saw anything mid-air.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 09:57 PM

...sort of sorry if I touched on a raw sensitivity Dick..
But some things we need to see the funny side of...
I reckon me and the mrs will start going doolally at more or less the same time, that'll be a barrel of laughs...😬

I'm frequently putting things down and unable to find them a minute later

- usually screwdrivers and mini torches -

I attribute it to my poor close up eyesight, having to take my glasses off,
and concentrating too intensely on the job at hand, and literally right in front of the tip of my nose
[risky, I ought to wear safety goggles],
that I neglect to mentally register where I lay down tools I've just used..


Anyway, I think we all have a pretty tenuous grasp on reality at the best of times...

.. but then I grew up in the west country on an adolescent diet of cider and mushroomz...

My memory is already f@cked... 😜

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,Time stamp
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 09:37 PM

Steve as to who I am (the whoever you are line) We first engaged a good few years ago on a different site. I said I was going to buy you a new hat if we ever met. You also put up a nice pic of Bude canal that I asked for. Used to love that stretch when I used to fish. You probably don't remember as it is a bit ago now, oh and I used my real name then for a good while. You're still fekin high maintenance btw ;-).
         No the above wasn't what initially got me into consciousness,just an odd one that still baffles me.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 09:17 PM

I take no comfort from your near-death experience, but perhaps it enlightened you as to some of your original ideas about consciousness and the universe. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,Time stamp
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 08:58 PM

Aw C'mon this could be interesting and fun. A lot of people experience weird stuff that defies logic. I've got a couple of crackers from childhood that still puzzle me.
       Here's one to give Steve Shaw comfort, so as not to take anything I say to heart as I'm batshit.
       I'm aged about 10 and Mom's in the garden hanging washing and talking over the fence to nextdoor. The twintub is in front of the sink and I start fecking about with the water and pipe and flooded the floor.
       The next room is the dining room and the hoover was out...so I know, I'll hoover it up quick before she comes in. Instead of getting down to it my attention turned to the full sink and started to try and find a sweet spot where the suction would raise the water up, but not up the pipe. I got really into it and was deep in concentration and in a world of my own happy as larry.
         A voice 18" to 2f above my head commanded "get out of the kitchen now" I didn't look up but it's presence sucked the chi out of me, and bent crooked I shot out the back door and was shaking like a leaf. My mate on his bike was coming down the park next to our house and pulled up,seen me and said fxxxing hell what's up with you,but I didn't say.
      So what was it,that told me as a ten-ish yr old child stood in water in bare feet messing about with electricity in the kitchen, to stop. I don't know but it did happen. Was it a one off episode of schizophrenia and luckily the timing was spot on. Was it my own subconscious warning me, haven't a clue. Took me about a week to stop creeping out about it.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 07:28 PM

You do know about Borrowers, don't you?

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 06:47 PM

All of ye clurichauns of Ireland! Free booze at Richard Bridge's place!

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 06:41 PM

.......because real poltergeists are fairly rare.

That must be the understatement of the year.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 06:37 PM

Oh be serious.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 06:35 PM

Could be a bean-tighe if you're lucky -- the house-woman, who keeps things neat and tidy. They like fresh strawberries with cream. If you're not lucky it could be a clurichaun, and they'll drink you out of house and home, but they're usually good companions.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 06:24 PM

I went rushing around the house in a panic once, searching for my lost front door key. Eventually I found it. It was in one of my hands.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: GUEST,#
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 06:16 PM

Two things, Dick.

1) You may have a poltergeist.

2) You aren't concentrating on where you put the knife in the first place so when you finally locate it in strange places it's a surprise. I do that frequently. Have since I was a teenager.

Please understand I'm not making fun of you.

If it is a poltergeist, is this its first 'appearance' at your house? Not all ghosts--for lack of a better term--are bad or evil, Spielberg notwithstanding. I'd opt for #2 first because real poltergeists are fairly rare.

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Raggytash
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 05:39 PM

not being a smart anything dick, i couldn't comprehend your first post as i am sure you will understand if you re-read it

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 05:19 PM

A particular knife has started to be moved and then suddenly reappeared then disappeared and was put away in the drawer.
neither of us, moved the knife.ok smart alec raggytash

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 04:17 PM

I couldn't find the half-gallon of milk in the fridge that I had used as early as that morning. Finally found it wedged into the narrow shelf on the door. ??

Subject: RE: BS: problems with the little people
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Oct 15 - 03:59 PM

I tried opening the front door with my car's remote control key. My mate lost his kettle. He found it hours later in the fridge.