Something weird fell out of my washing machine. What is it?

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#261956 24-Dec-2019 23:43

Just did a small load in my AEG front loader washing machine. A pair of socks, underwear and a T-shirt.

When the load had finished, these two things were in the drum. Also in the drum is what appeared to be a LOT of tissue like substance. Like if I had 20 tissues worth. But there’s no way it could have been tissues but that’s what it looked like.

Any ideas what has happened ??

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#2381132 24-Dec-2019 23:49

looks like 2 dowel joints

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#2381146 25-Dec-2019 00:48

someone washed the dowels and paper thin instructions that came with a piece of furniture that they probably forgot to put into the thing when putting it together.

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#2381155 25-Dec-2019 07:04

Thanks for the replies.
I feel a bit more at ease.

Dunno how it would have gotten in with my load though. I would have expected it to have been in the previous load but that came out absolutely fine. I’ll have to ask around.

Cheers.

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#2381190 25-Dec-2019 12:42

They look like automatic assault rifle bullets to me, be careful

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#2381191 25-Dec-2019 12:47

Someone bought kit-set furniture, chair, entertainment unit, table, shelving, drawers all come with dowel often.

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#2381400 26-Dec-2019 00:20

shk292:
They look like automatic assault rifle bullets to me, be careful

Naah, those are wooden, they're ichluge bullets.

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#2383238 31-Dec-2019 11:19

GSManiac:

Just did a small load in my AEG front loader washing machine. A pair of socks, underwear and a T-shirt.

When the load had finished, these two things were in the drum. Also in the drum is what appeared to be a LOT of tissue like substance. Like if I had 20 tissues worth. But there’s no way it could have been tissues but that’s what it looked like.

Any ideas what has happened ??

Maybe they migrated from your fibre box after getting bored with thumping in there.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2383288 31-Dec-2019 13:17

eracode:
GSManiac:

Just did a small load in my AEG front loader washing machine. A pair of socks, underwear and a T-shirt.

When the load had finished, these two things were in the drum. Also in the drum is what appeared to be a LOT of tissue like substance. Like if I had 20 tissues worth. But there’s no way it could have been tissues but that’s what it looked like.

Any ideas what has happened ??

Maybe they migrated from your fibre box after getting bored with thumping in there.

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#2383298 31-Dec-2019 14:01

eracode:

GSManiac:

Just did a small load in my AEG front loader washing machine. A pair of socks, underwear and a T-shirt.

When the load had finished, these two things were in the drum. Also in the drum is what appeared to be a LOT of tissue like substance. Like if I had 20 tissues worth. But there’s no way it could have been tissues but that’s what it looked like.

Any ideas what has happened ??

Maybe they migrated from your fibre box after getting bored with thumping in there.

... or maybe they could be used as earplugs to block out the thumping from the fibre box - if that’s still going on - but how could we ever know about that? 😀

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2383567 1-Jan-2020 06:46

Cheese Sticks

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#2383569 1-Jan-2020 07:19

Two spying capsules from Google disguised as wooden dowel joints. You must wrap them into metal foil at home and evacuate to a rural area to their final destruction by a hammer.

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