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Post by Moose on May 16, 2013 17:38:57 GMT
If you could become invisible for 48 hours, what would you do?
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Post by Alvamiga on May 16, 2013 18:48:03 GMT
Oddly, being invisible isn't especially appealing to me. Annie Lennox sang, "I wish I was invisible. So I could climb through the telephone." I don't think she understands what invisibility means. I love the Son of the Invisible man sketch from Amazon Women on the Moon.
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Post by JoeP on May 16, 2013 19:05:04 GMT
"If"? It's what my avatar's all about.
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Post by tangent on May 16, 2013 20:15:53 GMT
If I decided to do something that would otherwise get me arrested, I would feel guilty about it.
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Post by Kye on May 16, 2013 20:29:08 GMT
I'm already invisible enough!
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Post by ProdigalAlan on May 17, 2013 19:53:23 GMT
I'd help myself to the optics behind the bar at The Harrington when Nicci the landlady had gone up the little wooden hill to Bedfordshire
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Post by Christy on May 18, 2013 2:29:46 GMT
Supposing that being invisible doesn't mean I have to stay undetectable, I'd watch myself eat and digest food. Then I'd play ball with my kids, and see if I had more than the usual trouble with catching and throwing. I would see what the covers look like from the underside when I go to bed. I would pet my cats and watch their hair bend for no particular reason. I would go swimming and see the funny bubble I made in the water. I might even sneak up behind someone I dislike quite a lot (I don't have anyone in particular in mind), and hit them very hard.
If I had to stay undetectable, it would be difficult to do much. I couldn't even lie in bed without bending it, shifting the covers, and having to worry about Sam coming to bed and tripping over me. I couldn't drive, go through doors, order food, walk in any kind of store, carry things, eat, clean, read, type.... in short, I could do anything that required moving something else.
Now, if I wanted to fool people, and didn't care about detection so long as they thought it was the wind or something and not another person, there are all sorts of nasty things I could do. I could wear a sheet with eye holes cut out, for instance. Someone peering in the eye holes or jerking the sheet off would get a really nasty shock. I could drive anyway, and cause an accident. I could order at the drive through, then pull around and bark at them for not giving me my food. They'd probably drop it, and have to make it, again. I could pay football or soccer and have an unfair advantage; I'd hold the football out to one side by the tip, and people would be trying to tackle the air beside me.
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Post by jayme on May 18, 2013 3:14:59 GMT
I would put on my fanciest outfit and go through my normal daily routine just to scare the ship out of everybody.
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Post by tangent on May 21, 2013 11:39:29 GMT
If I could become invisible for 48 hours, I would sneak into a top-level BNP committee meeting and a UKIP committee meeting and video-record anything that is racist.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on May 21, 2013 16:04:48 GMT
That's pretty much everything then
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Post by bill on May 21, 2013 18:07:24 GMT
48 hours might be OK but invisibility as such is problematic if you read HG Wells "Invisible Man".
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Post by Mari on May 22, 2013 14:32:40 GMT
I don't want to be invisible.
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Post by JoeP on May 22, 2013 14:54:09 GMT
Has anyone seen Mari?
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Post by Mari on May 22, 2013 18:20:29 GMT
Waaaah!
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Post by Alvamiga on May 22, 2013 19:22:01 GMT
If Mari has not seen Mari in the mirror then it could be a case of vampireism, not invisibility.
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Post by Mari on May 22, 2013 20:35:42 GMT
I see myself just fine, thank you. And so do my cats. They knew how to find me around dinner timer well enough in any case...
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Post by jayme on May 22, 2013 21:44:20 GMT
But cats have a strong sense of hearing. They don't need to see you to know where you are.
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Post by Mari on May 23, 2013 7:00:06 GMT
Perhaps invisibility comes with inhearability?
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Post by tangent on May 23, 2013 10:30:49 GMT
That would be our cat. I wonder if she is going to become invisible some day.
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Post by jayme on May 23, 2013 11:09:46 GMT
Perhaps invisibility comes with inhearability? No. I'm fairly certain that invisibility makes you sound like Claude Rains.
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Post by Mari on May 23, 2013 18:40:18 GMT
Who is that?
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Post by Alvamiga on May 23, 2013 20:39:20 GMT
He was the eponymous Invisible Man in the original film; the one being parodied in the link I posted above.
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Post by Mari on May 24, 2013 7:37:53 GMT
Ah. And apparently he wasn't the most silent.
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Post by Shake on May 25, 2013 1:50:16 GMT
Boo!
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Post by Mari on May 25, 2013 9:03:52 GMT
Aaaah!
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Post by Alvamiga on May 25, 2013 9:24:59 GMT
I've discovered the secret to invisibility!!!
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Post by Shake on May 27, 2013 20:00:50 GMT
Some days I feel pretty invisible anyway. It's not all that it's cracked up to be.
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