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Universalpsykopath tugs our coat and says: Tell us about your feats of deduction and the little mysteries you've solved. Alternatively, tell us about the simple, everyday things that mystified you for far too long.

(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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"The Promise" by Girls Aloud has a very cryptic message hidden in it.
This revelation came to me when the song was in the charts, I worked 12-hour shifts and the local radio station was apparently playing it every hour 24/7. My reasoning ran something like this:

* The chorus has a train-like rhythm, "pro-mise-to-me pro-mise-to-me / pro-mise-to-me pro-mise-to-me".
* In Morse code, this is .... / .... / .... / .... (H H H H).
* HHH in World War I era radio signals means "halt".
* The rhythm and the Morse code translation suggest a train moving forward but halting as well. Reversing?
* Where on the rail network, apart from the end of a line, does every incoming train reverse to leave?
* Castleford.

Therefore, "The Promise" has a hidden message related to Castleford. Buggered if I know what that message is though.
(, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 1:02, 11 replies)
Is this your way of saying that long shifts combined with repetitive crap music drives you insane?

(, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 9:31, closed)
I'm saying my former employer made a poor choice of station to put out over the tannoy.
Or Ridings FM needed to buy a few more records.

Or I needed to find a job somewhere so noisy that you could hardly hear the music.
(, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 18:33, closed)
I would say,
"You are The Goat AICMFP", but I know that you aren't. Clay is.
(, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 15:01, closed)
And I don't send people threatening gazzes if they dare to disagree with me.

(, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 18:34, closed)
Or get upset and start whinging via gaz when their version of past events diverges with reality.

(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 21:06, closed)
never let the truth get in the way of a good story, eh
could you actually tell us who these users are meant to be that the goat "sent bad gazes to because he disagreed with them".

because it's complete bollocks matey

and i think i know who started that rumour and why.

edit: I notice how you've gone strangely quiet on the pms too after chatting, until I actually asked for proof over what you'r alleging. never mind hey ;) .

edit2: so you're deleting your posts i'm replying to now to delete my replies. nice
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 21:14, closed)
I have no recollection of that.

(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 21:31, closed)
let me jog your memory

(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 22:21, closed)



And I agree, we've always been at war with Eastasia.
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 23:10, closed)
I can think of two more stations where you have to reverse out
Battersby and Fort William
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 8:41, closed)

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