Haunted Appliances

[kittyP]

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

You weren't tempting him with cheese that his noncorporeal form couldn't touch were you?

 

[DotCommunist]

I've got a DAB that turns back on after you have turned it off, but it isn't haunted it just has a sensitive on button that you can easily 'double-tap' if you have sausage fingers and are angrily stabbing at it to make the song go away

 

[Orang Utan]

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.

What?

 

[Orang Utan]

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

I rather think it does.

 

[Greebo]

The kettle switches itself on every now and then. <snip>Do you have any haunted aplliances?

Certainly not. In the case of a kettle, it'll be a dodgy thermostat, loose connection, or partly oxidised contacts. Do not tolerate, replace.

 

[Orang Utan]

Sounds hazardous

That does worry me. I try and remember to keep some water in it at all times.

 

[Orang Utan]

Certainly not. In the case of a kettle, it'll be a dodgy thermostat, loose connection, or partly oxidised contacts. Do not tolerate, replace.

Nope. It switches itself on. The switch needs to be pushed down.

 

[Greebo]

Nope. It switches itself on. The switch needs to be pushed down.

I repeat: Do not tolerate, replace.

 

[harpo]

You weren't tempting him with cheese that his noncorporeal form couldn't touch were you?

Oddly enough I was doing a very cheese-based job at the time.

 

[tufty79]

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

Yup

Originally the girls were called Rosebuds, but were renamed by Lord Baden-Powell after the girls had complained that they didn't like their name. Their name comes from the story "The Brownies" by Juliana Horatia Ewing, written in 1870. In the story two children, Tommy and Betty, learn that children can be helpful Brownies or lazy boggarts.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(Girl_Guides)

 

[Hocus Eye.]

"Who you gonna call?"

 

[Orang Utan]

I repeat: Do not tolerate, replace.

i quite like it. i like the idea of a haunted appliance

 

[DotCommunist]

"Who you gonna call?"

Derek Acorah

 

[Orang Utan]

the logical explanations are

1) someone is pushing the switch down;

2) the flat rather than the kettle is haunted

nah, unless it is an invisible person. oh right, i get ya. a ghost is pushing it down.

 

[Orang Utan]

Is it connected to the Internet of Things?

What?

 

[Sprocket.]

Not an haunted appliance but a strange mystical voice that calls to me when the sink is full, it calls,
'' Are ya washing pots or what ya lazy bastard!''
Strange yet familiar!

 

[kittyP]

I've got a DAB that turns back on after you have turned it off, but it isn't haunted it just has a sensitive on button that you can easily 'double-tap' if you have sausage fingers and are angrily stabbing at it to make the song go away

Is it a Pure One?

 

[DotCommunist]

Is it a Pure One?

Virgin Radio (thats how old it is) branded model by Roberts.

Won it in a phone in lol

 

[kittyP]

i quite like it. i like the idea of a haunted appliance

Even if it kills you?

 

[Orang Utan]

Even if it kills you?

it won't kill me. it's a kettle.

 

[twentythreedom]

"Who you gonna call?"

Not that Sally. Acorah is the real deal though

 

[Greebo]

it won't kill me. it's a kettle.

If it overheats and causes a fire, or produces enough toxic fumes as it melts after overheating, it could kill you.

 

[Orang Utan]

If it overheats and causes a fire, or produces enough toxic fumes as it melts after overheating, it could kill you.

it probably won't though. it just switches itself on every now and then. i always leave water in it, as i said.

 

[Greebo]

it probably won't though. it just switches itself on every now and then. i always leave water in it, as i said.

Until you don't. Better to leave it unplugged.

 

[Orang Utan]

Until you don't. Better to leave it unplugged.

yeah, didn't think of that.
will leave it unplugged in the daytime

anyway, enough sensible advice, this is a silly thread - no place for humourless earnestness.

 

[Sprocket.]

I once had a radio burst into life in the middle of the night blaring oh happy day out by the Hawkins family, I then realised I had set the timer by accident. I thought an heavenly host had come to claim me as a sunbeam but turns out it's due to clumsy fingers!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I think there is a Philip Glass song about a haunted fridge.
So you're in good company.

 

[Orang Utan]

I think there is a Philip Glass song about a haunted fridge.
So you're in good company.

Philip Glass is the punchline to my favourite knock knock joke

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Philip Glass is the punchline to my favourite knock knock joke

Come on you can't leave that hanging....

 

[Orang Utan]

Come on you can't leave that hanging....

knock knock?
knock knock?
who's there?
knock knock?
who's there?
who's there?
knock knock?
who's there?
knock knock?
who's there?
knock knock?
who's there?

PHILIP GLASS!