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QI - Where did that tin go?
Geggs Posted Mar 13, 2011
It's not really the nature of the borrowing that is important - it might be unasked or not, it's not entirely clear - it's more the extent of the borrowing that is interesting.
Geggs
QI - Where did that tin go?
hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 13, 2011
Is it one of these tribal honour type things, where someone says something along the lines of "My house is your house" and they get taken literally, and have to put up with it?
QI - Where did that tin go?
Rod Posted Mar 13, 2011
Don't know the nature of your deviousness - yet, Geggs...
We've done some moving around and on a few of those occasions have lost / had swaps imposed / won stuff, not usually realised until boxes were opened much later.
Indeed we're still unsure about a few things after two years here (did we throw 'em out, were they left behind?).
So, roll up the circumstances & give 'em one name:
Pantechnicon
QI - Where did that tin go?
Geggs Posted Mar 13, 2011
Not exactly, though I am going to give you DGI +1 for 'house'
I think there's enough known now to work out the answer to the question in the OP.
C'mon, it's there for the taking!
Geggs
QI - Where did that tin go?
hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 13, 2011
All the contents of your house go missing.
QI - Where did that tin go?
Geggs Posted Mar 13, 2011
>>All the contents of your house go missing.
hd +3. Spot on. That's the answer!
Does anyone want to guess at the meaning of tingo?
Geggs
QI - Where did that tin go?
hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 13, 2011
If it's not straight-forward theft, it's hard to think what it might be. Some odd set of circumstances where passers-by think that they are allowed to walk into your house and take something they fancy?
QI - Where did that tin go?
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Mar 13, 2011
i helped my perents move house
went back to barracks
the weekend after i went to visit
forgot they had moved
and went to the old house
only remembered when a stranger
opened the door!!!!!
QI - Where did that tin go?
Rod Posted Mar 13, 2011
Tingo tingo tingo - sounds like a cash register, onomatopoeic?
When the thieves visit - or the auctioneers go to the wrong house?
QI - Where did that tin go?
Geggs Posted Mar 13, 2011
It's not a tradition or odd custom, it's more, well, stating the extreme case of a certain type of person.
Geggs
QI - Where did that tin go?
Geggs Posted Mar 13, 2011
It's nothing to with going to the wrong house either. It's more of a gradual process, too.
Geggs
QI - Where did that tin go?
hygienicdispenser Posted Mar 13, 2011
Is it a sort of anti-kleptomania? A compulsion to keep giving stuff away?
QI - Where did that tin go?
Geggs Posted Mar 13, 2011
It's to do with the receipient than the giver...
Geggs
QI - Where did that tin go?
bobstafford Posted Mar 13, 2011
it sounds like a cousom from a small enclosed community. Eg Island or tribal
QI - Where did that tin go?
Geggs Posted Mar 13, 2011
Well, does come from an island community, but it's not a custom. If it was in English it would be a whole sentence, but in this language it's covered by a single word.
Geggs
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