H2 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Did your know that in many modern cars there is an arrow beside the petrol pump on the fuel gauge to tell you which side your petrol cap is on. Anyone else got anymore more trivial but useful information? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Chinese people and Europeans use different parts of the brain for reading. As a result, Chinese people are much less likely to be dyslexic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CompleteIdiot Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 A lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dChWjfAGVb4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor FinnBarr Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Motorcycles always have the filler cap in the middle of the tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Did your know that in many modern cars there is an arrow beside the petrol pump on the fuel gauge to tell you which side your petrol cap is on. Anyone else got anymore more trivial but useful information? Sadly not true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Grimes Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Chinese people and Europeans use different parts of the brain for reading. As a result, Chinese people are much less likely to be dyslexic. never heard that. surely that must be because the Chinese use a pictographic language, making them use the right hand side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beverley Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 never heard that. surely that must be because the Chinese use a pictographic language, making them use the right hand side you're spoiling peoples fun being all logical like at 3am:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladtheexhaler Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Chinese people and Europeans use different parts of the brain for reading. As a result, Chinese people are much less likely to be dyslexic. A widely held misconception. Whilst the chinese language is based around semantics rather than phonemics, studies have found that the left hemisphere of the brain is similarly activated for Chinese and European languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladtheexhaler Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 A widely held misconception. Whilst the chinese language is based around semantics rather than phonemics, studies have found that the left hemisphere of the brain is similarly activated for Chinese and European languages. Sorry replied to the wrong post there. That should have been in response to jam tartan. Different parts of the brain are indeed used but they are both on the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Drago Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Did your know that in many modern cars there is an arrow beside the petrol pump on the fuel gauge to tell you which side your petrol cap is on. Anyone else got anymore more trivial but useful information? oh, the hibees are gay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2 Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Sadly not true. You confuse me, how is it not true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2 Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 On many modren cars you can get your tyre pressure on a plate or sticker on the upstand of the drivers door. That's the bit the door closes onto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 On a Sunday Morning - I just couldn't care less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2 Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 On a Sunday Morning - I just couldn't care less. One assumes you had an enjoyable night last night:oopsoops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 One assumes you had an enjoyable night last night:oopsoops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 You confuse me, how is it not true? Because it isn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Sorry replied to the wrong post there. That should have been in response to jam tartan. Different parts of the brain are indeed used but they are both on the left. They are indeed different and both on the left. It's got to do with the sematics v phonemics point vladtheexhaler made in his other post. Chinese reading involves mapping symbols on to whole words, but in European languages it involves mapping symbols to sounds that have to be combined into words. That's more complicated and more likely to go wrong in the brain, hence the higher rate of dyslexia in Europeans. Apparently, dyslexia is also much more common in the UK and Ireland than in "Latin" countries because the mapping of letters to sounds in English is more complicated. So now you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2 Posted April 15, 2008 Author Share Posted April 15, 2008 Because it isn't Ah - it's not the handle of the petrol pump. Many cars actually have an arrow BESIDE the petrol pump pointing to the side the filler cap is on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Grimes Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 A widely held misconception. Whilst the chinese language is based around semantics rather than phonemics, studies have found that the left hemisphere of the brain is similarly activated for Chinese and European languages. so i've been reading since. all very interesting. also noted that when looking at paintings & pictures apparently westerners tend to focus on the characters in the foreground whilst the chinese tend to take in the background far more, looking at the picture as a whole. almost a different way of looking at the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Whittaker's Tache Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 The steam catapults on the USS Nimmitz could throw a landrover over a kilometer I love Channel 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taffin Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Because it isn't Thats not what he said though....he said there is an arrow next to it on some. Which happily, is true. I just checked on my friends 07 plate golf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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