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Points: 20031 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2008 at 10:28
Blimey, I've gone back into rant mode again, must be getting old. Thanks for the blues/shed songs though guys, hilarious. We should start work on a shed concept album.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2008 at 11:10
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Anyway - here's a giggle: [COLOR=#810081 size=2">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GuBdvA7Qus[/COLOR">

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Points: 20031 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2008 at 12:56
101 uses for a shed number 73.

Just caught a glimpse of "Come Dine With Me". A woman kept all her shoes in the shed... and it was full! She must have had 400 pairs at least.
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^^how many feet did she have, Alan?...Ermm
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Funny you should ask Jared. Do you know most people have more than the average number of feet?
'Tis true.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Funny you should ask Jared. Do you know most people have more than the average number of feet?
'Tis true.
 
I somehow knew I shouldn't have asked that one...Ermm
 
would this be something to do with having found someone living in a yurt in Mongolia who has three feet, menaing that the human race has on average 2.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 feet each??Confused
 
I'm sure I'll be (imminently) enlightened by one of the Shed's (many) wise old Sages on this one..Wink
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Funny you should ask Jared. Do you know most people have more than the average number of feet?
'Tis true.
 
I somehow knew I shouldn't have asked that one...Ermm
 
would this be something to do with having found someone living in a yurt in Mongolia who has three feet, menaing that the human race has on average 2.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 feet each??Confused
 
I'm sure I'll be (imminently) enlightened by one of the Shed's (many) wise old Sages on this one..Wink


It would mean that the unfortunate folks with one or zero feet brings the average number of feet to a value very slightly less than two.

It also highlights that sometimes it's important to know the distribution instead of only it's expected value.  Wink
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Whether you believe this or not is up to you but I heard a fact (?) that your average woman spends £31,000 on shoes in their lifetime. (OK so I am sad - it was on the 'Wright Stuff Show')
 
Sounds to me like a new topic for a poll - shoes or prog music?
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^^£31,000....Ermm...I find that a little hard to swallow...assuming the average pair costs £20 (most women I know have a penchant for sniffing out a bargain...Wink)...that's 1550 pairs in a lifetime... Rachel/ Vicky...would either of you care to comment??...Confused
 
notwithstanding, it's good to be see back on the forum, Rob...Thumbs%20Up
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88.2% of statistics are made up on the spot.
'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

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^^all I can say is 'the spot' must be an extremely busy place...LOL
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Shoes for £20 a pair!!! Shocked

 

...I assume all the women you meet must wear wellies.
What?
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Points: 19937 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2008 at 17:50
^^...LOL
 
oh come on...women often buy a cheap pair of shoes to go with an outfit...Ermm
 
...maybe the women in your life don't though, Dean...Embarrassed
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

^^£31,000....Ermm...I find that a little hard to swallow...assuming the average pair costs £20 (most women I know have a penchant for sniffing out a bargain...Wink)...that's 1550 pairs in a lifetime... Rachel/ Vicky...would either of you care to comment??...Confused
 
notwithstanding, it's good to be see back on the forum, Rob...Thumbs%20Up
 
£20 a pair - if only! Whichever way you look at it, that's a serious quantity of footwear though, which is fair enough given what most of us here spend on music, hi fi and various other essentials. What I can't understand is why about two thirds of the shoes most women buy seem to make the transition from shoe shop to shoe cupboard to charity shop without, as far as I can tell, actually being worn.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2008 at 17:57

"What? these old things? I've had them for months. You never take any notice..."   and now it's all my fault...
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^^I think I must be talking Herefordshire prices...Ermm
 
...and I think I'm going to withdraw from this debate before I lose my last shred of credibility...Embarrassed
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(what do you mean, that has already been lost before page 25 of the Grey Room??...Confused)
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2008 at 18:01
Welcome to:
 
The Last Shed of Credibility
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Points: 65487 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2008 at 18:11
 ^ maybe you shouldn't have shed that
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2008 at 18:26
We're shedding all sense of proportion here!
'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom


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Points: 4252 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2008 at 02:25
to somehow understand the "shoe" thing (i have 3 pairsEmbarrassed) you could say women never have enough pairs of shoes in the same way as men never have enough LP's / CD's, or guitars...Wink
 
though unlike LP's and CD's, guitars etc. they are worthless once they have been used...Ermm
 
 


Edited by mystic fred - September 09 2008 at 02:29
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