OKAY, I'M SCARED NOW

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Right, I have a talking Pikachu. Since repositioning him, the last few nights he has been saying goodnight (well "Pika!") when I switch the bedroom lights off. There's nothing on it that could be a light sensor, I've felt inside for wires, and I genuinely had trouble getting to sleep last night over this.

Even weirder, it only works when I swicth off the humdreds of fairy lights on my ceiling, not with the main room light. eg:

fairy lights -> darkness = Pika!
room light -> darkness = no pika
fairry lights + room light -> room light = no pika

― Graham, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New answers or I'm TEARING HIM APART

― Graham, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm glad the internet isn't really full of mentalists like the papers say.

― N., Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(maybe I should point out that he's meant to talk WHEN YOU SQUEEZE HIM)

― Graham, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

PIKACHU WUVS YOU GRAHAM

― katie, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So every night before bed I sneak into your room and squeeze your Pikachu. JESUS! it's not the end of the world. I mean if I did it with the lights on you'd see me.

― Ronan, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i haf a mug which plays the coronation street themetune
i. when you pick it up and alter its verticality
ii. when you turn the kitchen light on at night
iii. when rosy-fingered dawn glow sneaks into my flat of a morning and all things spring to attention

this is TRUE!! it *IS*!!!!

― mark s, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you want this harmed?

http://www.pokemon.dk/spil/Pokemon/products/gfx/58103l98.jpg

I want answers.

― Graham, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

probably electromagnetic flux caused by the sudden change in voltage

― mike hanle y, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you should just tear it to bits regardless. Evil evil Pokemon!!

― robster, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i hear possessed pokemon go for $500 on ebay these days...

― misterjones, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have the very same talking pikachu - I just turned him off. He is GRATE. I assumed it was the sound of the light switch - or VOLTAGE, like wot Hanle y sez. After all he is an electronick pokémon.

― Sarah, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You need to experiment more.

Does he Pika when he hits a wall? Does he Pika when you stamp on his head? Does he Pika when exposed to naked flames?

Science is a wonderful thing.

― Simeon, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had an ancient Philips record player that picked up Radio Moscow english langauge broadcasts when you din't put the needle down. This was in the eighties when I was a pup. It scared me the first time but I grew to love it.

― misterjones, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So Graham, are you the samurai or the butterfly?

― Dan Perry, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel an affinity with both.

― Graham, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

After further experimentation Pika! Chu appears to have light sensors attached under his/her (Sarah, what did we conclude on this?) fur on he/she/its back and head. Why it only responds to fairly lights I do not know, locking it the wardrobe didn't work. Perhaps it feels an affinity with unspeakably cute things.

― Graham, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

An ex of mine bought me a duck that sang songs when you sqeezed his paw... he reacted to light switches too, but only ocasionally. Scared the living daylights out of me frequently, especially when I was in halls at uni, and I was next to the kitchen. On many occasions I was woken in the middle of the night by the scary singing duck.

To preserve my sanity the duck had his insides removed (batteries) I recommend the same for Pikachu.

― celeste, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

why so scared, graham? that is so cool! we do stuff like this on purpose in my house b/c we all went to engineering school and our minds are fucked for life as a result. when you open our freezer a demonic furby skeleton stripped of his fur laughs nonstop - and several sad clowns live in our fridge. i had friends in college who re-soldered the insides of their tomagotchis to make them do fucked up things, and someone i know remade their tickle-me-elmo so it would cry "rape" when you squeezed it. we took one of those dumb singing fish things that they sell at wal-mart, took out all but its most essential components, dressed its head up in a fish-sized gas mask, and added a dial so that you can alter the speed of its singing, etc. anyway, in my opinion you should be doing more, not less, to make things like this happen!

― geeta, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

geoff says you should do a richard gere, insert the little thing in an empty orifice and then see what it has to report.

― Queen G the abreviated, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In Taxus we would just fuk th e little guys! It were fun!

― George W. Bush, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As it happens, I'm also sacred and scarred.

― Graham, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And turning into Ptee. sob

― Graham, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The PC I'm on is chugging and snorting and weezing. I can feel the desk vibrate everytime it does it. I think it's gonna blow.

― Graham, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's getting quite violent and has now been accompanied by an elaborate rattle.

― Graham, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

I'm staying on Oxford over the Easter holiday, as far as now everyone else has gone home, but... Yesterday morning the junk mail I left on the stairs the day before disappeared, and just now I heard creaking on the stairs and possible voices, but there was nothing when I checked. Nothing else in the house appears to have been touched. What the fuck is going on?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Could it be someone from the lettings agency or the landlord doing a quick inspection (assuming that you had all gone home for the holidays) or has one of your housemates possibly lent a key to a friend?

Unsettling, though.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you still have the pika? Have you created an altar for him?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Polterghoosts!!!!!

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

If I'm feeling paranoid that someone else is in the apartment, I first check that all doors/windows are locked. Then I go to the back of the apartment and check out that room. When I'm sure there's nowhere else anyone can hide in that room, I shut the door and proceed to the next room until I'm down at the front door and I know I'm safe.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Set traps!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 10 April 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yesterday morning the junk mail I left on the stairs the day before disappeared, and just now I heard creaking on the stairs and possible voices, but there was nothing when I checked. Nothing else in the house appears to have been touched. What the fuck is going on?

http://www.funschool.com/images/gameicons/evil_elves.gif

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 April 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Polterghoosts!!!!!

http://www.michael.phatcatz.net/awtv/Comedy/SoundVision/fridge.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Rentaghost!
http://www.culttelly.co.uk/top100/12_003.jpg

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

Is that Dennis Miller?

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"That is wrong is so many ways."

"oooKAY, I didn't need to see that!"

"My eyes, my eyes."

― DarrensCoq, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'm being mean.) WINK!

― DarrensCoq, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0205/free/

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

that's fuckin killer

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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