[an0n]

In order to get Unnatural Selection screen-shots from my VCR to my TV-card and thus my computer, I need a bog-standard TV aerial. So, if you were me, and you had a psychotic mother who loves to hide everything so I can't friggin find it (*****), where would you look for an aerial?



Yes, I know it may seem like a stupid thread, but maybe you guys will think of some unlikely or blatantly obvious place that I never thought of.

[an0n]

Nevermind.

Found an aerial. At the back of the 4ft x 4ft x 6ft airing cupboard, behind the 3ft x 3ft x 5ft water-heater, wrapped around a pipe, parcel-taped to a 50ft external, end-less aerial.

God I hate my family.

[diamondgeezer]

It wil be on one of two places - on the side, or in the drawer.

When women_™ "tidy" things, they will be placed in one of these two locations. Men are unable to locate these places, even in a their own home of thirty years. Once the item in question has been placed on the side or in the drawer, no male will ever see it again, unless he can convince the offending female to retrieve it for him.

Fact.

[EDIT] Too late. If it's any consolation, I hate your family too

[Stealth]

you were asking us where to guess where your mom hid the aerial!?

1)  Why would your mom hide the aerial!?
2)  Why do you need an aerial?

[01010]

Originally posted by Stealth
you were asking us where to guess where your mom hid the aerial!?

1)  Why would your mom hide the aerial!?
2)  Why do you need an aerial?

Because mothers hide things that are placed on any kind of surface and are not being used for more than a minute.

[Bobboau]

everything you look for that you find, will be in the last place you look

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
on the side

So, so true. that's my Mum's favourite word for it. "On the side of what?" I ask, but to no avail.

Another thing, I ask her where something is.

"Upstairs"

Great, that narrows it down, or better still.

"Where ever you had it last"

And as for mothers hiding anything that is on a surface, in my house, any surface instantly becomes a shelf. I put a box of biscuits on the table and came back 5 mins later to find things piled on top of it! Arrgh!

[an0n]

I wanted the aerial so I could hook up my VCR to my TV-Card and make some SG-1 screen-caps from Unnatural Selection (some shown below).

http://www.fattonys.com/images/repliship1.jpg
http://www.fattonys.com/images/repliship2.jpg
http://www.fattonys.com/images/repliship3.jpg
http://www.fattonys.com/images/repliship4.jpg

And usually **** in my house ends up "in the loft". For those of you not in the know, The Loft™ is the tiny, cramped space inbetween my upstairs ceiling and my roof and is packed with wedding dresses, old board-games, water-pistols, broken record players, Lego and about 200 dead spiders and the only way into The Loft™ is through a 2ft x 2ft hatch in my bedroom ceiling. We have no steps or rope or trampolines to get up there and the only way to store and retrieve things from within it's gloomy grasp is by getting some ladders from my shed, trawling them through my house and up the stairs, balancing the feet precariously against my wardrobe, plugging in the 300W halogen lamp, climbing up the rickets ladders with one hand being used to carry the lamp, shoving the hatch open and being barraged by old speakers that have been balanced on top of the hatch, clipping the lamp onto a rotten old wooden beam and hoisting yerself up into the stuffy, warm lair of the mutant flies.

I have a theory, the spiders didn't starve to death, they were killed by the super-flies. These things jump like fleas, run like really fast spiders, can fly and are barely big enough to see and they swarm you when you open the hatch and disturb tha layer of fiber-glass dust (much like how face-huggers pop out when you break the mist on the ship).

...err.......Anyway, I found an aerial, my mom's a ****ing psycho and you can get the screen-caps here

[Ulundel]

Originally posted by an0n
...err.......Anyway, I found an aerial, my mom's a ****ing psycho and you can get the screen-caps here

[psycho mother voice] Don't you hang up on me! Do you hear me?! [/psycho mother voice]

[CP5670]

When women_™ "tidy" things, they will be placed in one of these two locations. Men are unable to locate these places, even in a their own home of thirty years. Once the item in question has been placed on the side or in the drawer, no male will ever see it again, unless he can convince the offending female to retrieve it for him.

I really know where you are coming from there...

[Stealth]

our loft is a 2x4or5 foot thing, and when you pull a handle a 2 foot rope comes down, and if you pull that (keep pulling) this thing pops down, and stairs unfold, and then you can climb up, flick two light switches, and the lights go on

the only time i've experienced it is the condensation catcher thingy of our A/C unit got blocked last summer (it's basically a very large metal tray about 3 inches deep that sits directly below the actual air condition condensor, or whatever it's called, and all the condensation, drips (well, in the summer it POURS) into the tray, and the tray has a half inch pips that pretty much goes and dumps the (clean) water outside at the back of our house.)  well the one time what thing got clogged, so at like 2:00 in the morning one time, i woke up and saw a shimmery, light-catching substance running down the walls of my room... scared the crap out of me... i didn't know what it was till i went and smelled/touched it.  heh

so i spent half an hour, in the 150 degree heat up in the attic, and like 97% humidity, replacing the pipe...  the whole condenser unit (about 6 feet by 6 feet, and 3 inches deep) was completely full, and was buckling under the weight.  if that thing had fallen cause of the weight i would've had a 800 pound air conditioner fall through the ceiling and into my room... heh...  what's even worse, is the actual tray was like 30 feet through the hatch, so i had to crawl to get to it, and sweat was running off me.  i've never sweated like that since, well...