Haunted Appliances

[Orang Utan]

The kettle switches itself on every now and then. The switch has to.be pushed down physically to turn on. I cannot explain it, so obviously it must be haunted, even though ghosts don't exist.
Do you have any haunted aplliances?

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Sounds hazardous

 

[8115]

It's probably haunted by the ghost of the last person it electrocuted.

 

[bi0boy]

My fridge leaves it's door slightly ajar. Not only does the cold air leak out but the light bulb stays on and overheats. Perhaps there is a ghost of a half-eaten large pot of yoghurt doing these things in protest at me forgetting about it at the back of the fridge and having to throw it away for fear of being deaded by listeria.

 

[Pickman's model]

The kettle switches itself on every now and then. The switch has to.be pushed down physically to turn on. I cannot explain it, so obviously it must be haunted, even though ghosts don't exist.
Do you have any haunted aplliances?

the logical explanations are

1) someone is pushing the switch down;

2) the flat rather than the kettle is haunted

 

[story]

You have a Brownie!

I had a Brownie once, but I didn't treat him right and he left. I regret my ignorance and foolishness to this day.

 

[laptop]

Is it connected to the Internet of Things?

 

[Pickman's model]

You have a Brownie!

I had a Brownie once, but I didn't treat him right and he left. I regret my ignorance and foolishness to this day.

ime brownies stay where they're put until you eat them. or throw them away.

 

[Pickman's model]

story unless you mean a brownie like a girl cub scout

but they are shes not hes

 

[cesare]

The kitchen tap occasionally and of it's own volition suddenly gets rid of any water that's in it without being turned on

 

[story]

ime brownies stay where they're put until you eat them. or throw them away.

No no!

Although a Brownie would enjoy the gift of a brownie, or some porridge, or bread and milk, and a wee dram wouldn't go amiss either.

 

[story]

story unless you mean a brownie like a girl cub scout

but they are shes not hes

Oh no no, not them either. They were probably named for the proper Brownies.

 

[Pickman's model]

The kitchen tap occasionally and of it's own volition suddenly gets rid of any water that's in it without being turned on

do you know how difficult it can be to climb up several floors on the outside of your building, open your window - from the outside too - and reach a stick across your front room to do that without your noticing?

 

[story]

I did wonder what pronoun to use for my Brownie; I started to say she, and then realised that was an assumption and could be incorrect.

 

[Voley]

I used to have a stereo that would come on in the middle of the night. Did it twice. Played Spiritualized once (Wooooooooooooooooooooooo!) and, erm, less spookily some drum n bass.

 

[cesare]

do you know how difficult it can be to climb up several floors on the outside of your building, open your window - from the outside too - and reach a stick across your front room to do that without your noticing?

You've been practising for years, you should have got the knack by now

 

[Pickman's model]

I did wonder what pronoun to use for my Brownie; I started to say she, and then realised that was an assumption and could be incorrect.

oh! you mean a harry potter brownie!

they're imaginary

 

[Pickman's model]

You've been practising for years, you should have got the knack by now

nonetheless it's not made any easier by your cooking whenever i try it

 

[story]

I used to have a stereo that would come on in the middle of the night. Did it twice. Played Spiritualized once (Wooooooooooooooooooooooo!) and, erm, less spookily some drum n bass.

That's... quite odd, because when my multi-stack stereo did that for a few weeks, it was always Spiritualized that came on, ve after inched the stacking order....

 

[cesare]

oh! you mean a harry potter brownie!

they're imaginary

Dobby is was an ELF.

 

[cesare]

nonetheless it's not made any easier by your cooking whenever i try it

 

[story]

oh! you mean a harry potter brownie!

they're imaginary

Well, yes, the Harry Potter ones are made up. But saying that something is "imaginary" doesn't mean it isnt real, you know.

 

[Pickman's model]

Dobby is was an ELF.

yeh they're imaginary too.

beholders, on the other hand, aren't

 

[Pickman's model]

Well, yes, the Harry Potter ones are made up. But saying that something is "imaginary" doesn't mean it isnt real, you know.

elves do not have a physical existence.

 

[Voley]

That's... quite odd, because when my multi-stack stereo did that for a few weeks, it was always Spiritualized that came on, ve after inched the stacking order....

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !

 

[cesare]

elves do not have a physical existence.

They do when you're not looking

 

[story]

elves do not have a physical existence.

Who said anything about physical existence?

Now you're just being daft.


ETA and what cesare said.

 

[harpo]

I had a haunted telly once. Sometimes I couldn't switch it off, sometimes it switched itself off, other times it turned itself over. I was living in the crypt of a church at the time with the body of Samuel Pepys nearby and I used to assume it was him. Telly is the sort of thing he would like, I think.

 

[story]

I had a haunted telly once. Sometimes I couldn't switch it off, sometimes it switched itself off, other times it turned itself over. I was living in the crypt of a church at the time with the body of Samuel Pepys nearby and I used to assume it was him. Telly is the sort of thing he would like, I think.

Pepys would SO have his own telly show!

 

[harpo]

Pepys would SO have his own telly show!

Well he had to make do with pissing around with my telly.