# Mangetout, I MPSIMS you! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424 "2006-01-24T18:49:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/1 "2006-01-24T18:49:33Z")
You collect photos of lost gloves. I infer this from your sig: “I collect [photographs of lost gloves](http://mangetout.myblogsite.com/blog).” I clicked the link in your sig. Mrs. Call and I quizically and alternately stare at the screen and at each other and reach the conclusion, “Yes, there is room on the internets for everything.” But now… everywhere I go… I see lost gloves. There’re everywhere. Who knew? You, Mangetout, have chisled away a perceptive filter I was quite happy to have kept intact. Just this weekend I spotted no less than 12 lost gloves. Sometimes… when no one is looking… I… feel… the urge to take a picture. This rant is not pitworthy (barely read-worthy). So I pit you not. Instead I MPSIMS you! My [del]rage[/del] apathy burns with the warmth of a thousand care bears. Take that! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/2 "2006-01-24T18:52:25Z")
I see gloveless people. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/3 "2006-01-24T19:03:53Z")
Everytime I see a lost glove I wish I had my camera. As for myself, I collect photos of topless women. I wish I could find some of those on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/4 "2006-01-24T19:12:32Z")
Yes, the one I had like this was when I found out that all BMWs have nostrils. Suddenly, everytime I was on the road driving, I would just sit there scanning the fronts of every car behind me to look for BMW nostrils… They’re reallllly obvious, yet I’d never noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/5 "2006-01-24T19:54:39Z")
> [@Sage Rat](#): > > Yes, the one I had like this was when I found out that all BMWs have nostrils. Suddenly, everytime I was on the road driving, I would just sit there scanning the fronts of every car behind me to look for BMW nostrils… They’re reallllly obvious, yet I’d never noticed. Or how, when you buy a car you suddenly notice that model everywhere. I swear they were not there before 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/6 "2006-01-24T19:55:31Z")
Now if only we could see lost socks… ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/7 "2006-01-24T19:57:42Z")
> [@Sage Rat](#): > > Yes, the one I had like this was when I found out that all BMWs have nostrils. Suddenly, everytime I was on the road driving, I would just sit there scanning the fronts of every car behind me to look for BMW nostrils… They’re reallllly obvious, yet I’d never noticed. I do the same thing with the arrow in the [Fed-Ex logo](http://www.2dorks.com/gallery/2005/fedex/fedex_logo.gif). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/8 "2006-01-24T20:01:08Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > Now if only we could see lost socks… [Here’s one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=55718). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/9 "2006-01-24T20:15:22Z")
I read on another board a member’s claim that he collected hair barrettes that had washed up on the beach and interpreted it to obviously be a joke… until he posted pictures of several hundred he’d found. That was his deal, daily searches of the strandline for lost barrettes. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/10 "2006-01-24T20:21:15Z")
I wept that I had no gloves, until I met a man who took pictures of lost gloves, then I said, “Hey! That’s my glove!” ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/11 "2006-01-24T20:25:16Z")
Somebody here suggested I put ‘anal’ in front of car names. Gee, I thought, that sounds pretty boring. But then what do ya know, pretty soon I’m seeing anal probes, anal rangers, anal wranglers… ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/12 "2006-01-24T20:44:03Z")
What’s worse–I can’t get the link to work! Now, I can’t even see the lost gloves…one of them may be mine! Someone on the school bus muttered something as we crossed RR tracks (this was in 1978)–I asked what he said. He replied, “I’m not going to tell you because then you’ll always do it and it’s nothing, really.” To this day, I wonder what he said. I wish he had told me, then I wouldn’t wonder! ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/13 "2006-01-24T21:22:52Z")
**eleanorigby** you just reminded me: In university I dated a woman who claimed to have mastered the technique of astral projection. She said she could teach me how. Now, at the time I was a die-hard fundie and considered such knowledge occult or satanic (like that’s a bad thing?). The relationship ended badly (over other matters), but to this day I’m often tempted to look her up and ask, “Can you show me now?” Not because I believe her, I just wanna know her so-called technique ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/14 "2006-01-24T21:53:04Z")
What I hate is when you go see the doctor and instead of being cool and just quietly sliding on that single latex glove, he extends his hand proudly up in the air like some trophy, pulls the base out from his wrist like a rubber band and lets it go with a menacing “POW!” Why do they do this crap? Now where he wants to put that glove has suddenly constricted like a hungry boa forcing even your butt atoms to move through single file. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/15 "2006-01-25T00:06:54Z")
I’d like to know the rules. For example: Does Mangetout want us to send him pix, or all they all his? If you find a pair of gloves, is that one find, or two? If you’d go to the office of an elementary school, and take a picture of their corral of rounded-up strays, are those lost or found? Do mittens count? How about mittens on a lost kitten? Did you see the lost gloves in Beetle Bailey today? ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/16 "2006-01-25T00:28:23Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > …But now… everywhere I go… I see lost gloves. There’re everywhere. Who knew? You, Mangetout, have chisled away a perceptive filter I was quite happy to have kept intact. Just this weekend I spotted no less than 12 lost gloves… Me too! And not only do I now see them, but I pick them up. I lay them lovingly on a windowsill or a letterbox, where they may be found again by the owner despairingly retracing his steps. And everytime I take an extra second to adjust the glove so that it will look its best, I think fleetingly of **Mangetout**. Man, these boards are dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/17 "2006-01-25T09:54:54Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > Now if only we could see lost socks… Have you tried looking [here?](http://www.lonelysocks.co.uk) ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/18 "2006-01-25T14:14:18Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > Now if only we could see lost socks… My girlfriend bought a package of 3 pairs of socks yesterday. When she got them home, there were only 2-1/2 pair (five individual socks). I think we’ll be scratching our heads for awhile about this one. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/19 "2006-01-25T14:17:13Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > My [del]rage[/del] apathy burns with the warmth of a thousand care bears. Whoa! Care bears? You dirty neutral … 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424/20 "2006-01-25T14:50:29Z")
In my geographic area, there are precious few gloves, lost or otherwise. I did, however, see a lost wash cloth yesterday. I would have taken a picture of it, if I had only had a camera with me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangetout-i-mpsims-you/341424.md?page=2)