Rice pullers step aside!!

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Fluke
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 00:50 #
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There is a new phenomenon in town!! :O


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272092545025?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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dptashny
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 00:57 #
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The link will be dead soon so let's preserve it for all eternity! :D

chomp-master
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 01:06 #
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Too much... stinky :O
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neilithic
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 01:15 #
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Looks like Victoria ate too many beans over Christmas ;)
PajaSkot
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 13:57 #
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Can anybody please explain "the rice puller joke" to me? I keep seeing it over and over on forum but don't know the origins.
pnightingale
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 14:22 #
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It's a litmus test to help identify Indian scammers. "CHANGE OF NAME PENDING" for example had a few, or so he claimed, which underlined the already clear notion that he was a crook.

A rice puller is supposedly a small metal object, typically old and usually a coin, which has magic properties. The magic properties are restricted to attracting rice, or in the case of rice repellers..... repelling it. They are sold by sketchy people via sketchy websites, often for ridiculous amounts and even have forums and fan sites. Quite what the use of such a thing might be I have no idea.

Apart from proving the P.T. Barnum rule, I reckon it's all pretty harmless and no more irrational than some of the beliefs shared in the first world nations.
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dptashny
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 14:22 #
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Google: What is a rice puller?
bam777
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 16:21 #
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Quote: "dptashny"​Google: What is a rice puller?
​Best person to ask, I guess.
pnightingale
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 16:38 #
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Quote: "bam777"​
Quote: "dptashny"​Google: What is a rice puller?
​​Best person to ask, I guess.
​Ha! Good eye Ben.
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neilithic
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 19:19 #
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Ha! yes I believe he has a few at his other house with all his silver and gold coins
dptashny
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 19:25 #
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Its quite the house....

pnightingale
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 22:08 #
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Yeah, but his other house is even better. That one with all the gold and silver coins.

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dptashny
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Posted: 5 Jan 2016, 22:10 #
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Fluke
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Posted: 6 Jan 2016, 02:25 #
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haha, happy days with Mr I sell $5000 coins and diamonds every day.
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