# Photos of Lost Gloves find ... fame?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-lost-gloves-find-fame/772838>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 23, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-lost-gloves-find-fame/772838 "2016-11-23T20:17:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-lost-gloves-find-fame/772838/1 "2016-11-23T20:17:48Z")

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**Mangetout** missed [his shot](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12262238&postcount=33) at the big time 😃

[Self-confessed boring man says he is proud of having one of Britain’s DULLEST hobbies - taking photographs of lost gloves](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3964654/Mark-Leigh-spends-time-photographing-gloves.html)  
But we know **Mangetout** isn’t boring

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-lost-gloves-find-fame/772838/2 "2016-11-23T20:37:33Z")

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Heh, I’ll occasionally see a single glove on the ground and I always immediately think of Mangetout or atomic shrimp.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-lost-gloves-find-fame/772838/3 "2016-11-23T21:13:16Z")

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He’s been doing it for three years and has collected 300? Bah! Amateur. I’ve been at it for about 15 years and I have many thousands of them.

> [@kayaker](#):
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> Heh, I’ll occasionally see a single glove on the ground and I always immediately think of Mangetout or atomic shrimp.

And like this, I shall live forever.

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**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-lost-gloves-find-fame/772838/4 "2016-11-24T04:47:49Z")

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I thought it was you! But the details were wrong.

And same. Single glove spotted in the wild, and Mangetout is in my mind.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-lost-gloves-find-fame/772838/5 "2016-11-25T06:44:01Z")

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“Dull Men’s Club annual calendar”? Reminds me of the multi-volume classic **Boring Postcards**.

[https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb\_sb\_noss\_2/151-1622912-4526303?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=boring+postcards](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2/151-1622912-4526303?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=boring+postcards)

I am grateful for this reminder. I knew there was someone here who did this but didn’t remember it was **Mangetout**.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-lost-gloves-find-fame/772838/6 "2016-11-25T07:02:43Z")

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I still take glove photos and I think I always will, but I haven’t actually uploaded any of them to my site since [2010](http://atomicshrimp.com/post/2010/12/05/Lost-Gloves) (how time flies)

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-lost-gloves-find-fame/772838/7 "2016-11-25T11:20:31Z")

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Tom Hanks does this too. Not as a hobby (he already collects typewriters), more of an obsession.