Things you've always wondered about but couldn't be bothered to find out

[Maple Leaf]

11 hours ago, New York Fleapit said:

''Sord''

Also ''Scon'' or'' Scone""?

 

Scoon, if you come from Perthshire.

[Maple Leaf]

2 hours ago, Morgan said:

I assume that's a toothbrush?

 

Unnions or Unyins?

 

My wife tells me I say this wrong.

 

 

 

I've even heard ung-yins.  It's enough to bring tears to you eyes. 

[Bridge of Djoum]

6 minutes ago, Maple Leaf said:

 

I've even heard ung-yins.  It's enough to bring tears to you eyes. 

[Morgan]

16 minutes ago, Maple Leaf said:

 

I've even heard ung-yins.  It's enough to bring tears to you eyes. 

No wonder you’re hiding your head. 

 

[Morgan]

10 minutes ago, New York Fleapit said:

You tell ‘im.

 

Honestly man, quite ridiculous.

[Helzibob]

13 hours ago, New York Fleapit said:

''Sord''

Also ''Scon'' or'' Scone""?

 

Scon for sure. 

[peter_hmfc]

Why is Sunday league so violent? Do the people playing it not want to be footballers so just spend the time actively trying to see who can get closest to assault as possible?

 

I always thought it was full of players who wanted to make it as a professional but just needed to make their way up the leagues, but they spend so much time diving in and fighting that the only thing missing is Jerry Springer.

Edited May 25, 2018 by peter_hmfc

[FWJ]

Idly looking out the window of a train and noticed there seem to be two types of pylons (the Beauly to Denny line). There are more of the ‘wires hanging from arms’ type than the ‘wires going straight through’ type but it all seems fairly random.

What’s the difference?

[FWJ]

On 24/05/2018 at 17:43, jb102 said:

If you are a bonafide Gorgie laddie such as myself who has had the misfortune to live in Gullane it is known as Goolani. Winds up the hand wringing middle class made a few quid wallopers who have moved down from the town. 

Honestly I can’t wait to retire and move back. 

A friend from Bathgate was once asked directions to “you-fil” ....

 

 

Turns out they were going to Uphall.

Edited May 27, 2018 by FWJ

[whodanny]

On 5/24/2018 at 17:21, Morgan said:

I assume that's a toothbrush?

 

Unnions or Unyins?

 

My wife tells me I say this wrong.

 

 

Ingins

[FWJ]

7 minutes ago, whodanny said:

Ingins

Twa pehs.  A plain ane an’ ane ingin ane an’ aw.

[whodanny]

3 minutes ago, FWJ said:

Twa pehs.  A plain ane an’ ane ingin ane an’ aw.

Ingins is not exclusive to Dundee though. I come from north west Perthshire originally and it's pretty prevalent here too. Some infidels now call it Stirlingshire, the very thought.

[Maple Leaf]

10 minutes ago, FWJ said:

Twa pehs.  A plain ane an’ ane ingin ane an’ aw.

 

Good grief, I can understand that!!!

[Morgan]

27 minutes ago, FWJ said:

Twa pehs.  A plain ane an’ ane ingin ane an’ aw.

Thankfully I’ve been drinking and can actually understand that!

[Morgan]

36 minutes ago, whodanny said:

Ingins

Yep, heard that one too.

 

[El Diez]

Ungyins.

 

 

[Morgan]

1 hour ago, Highways and Byways said:

Ungyins.

 

 

I thank you

 

That’s the closest to my way of saying it I’ve heard.

[El Diez]

1 hour ago, Morgan said:

I thank you

 

That’s the closest to my way of saying it I’ve heard.

??

[Tommy Brown]

3 hours ago, FWJ said:

A friend from Bathgate was once asked directions to “you-fil” ....

 

 

Turns out they were going to Uphall.

Need Gaelic assistance here.

Original name for Uphall was ubhal (?spelling) meaning orchard.

So I do wonder often if it should have pH pronounciation and not up hall

 

[milky_26]

20 hours ago, FWJ said:

Idly looking out the window of a train and noticed there seem to be two types of pylons (the Beauly to Denny line). There are more of the ‘wires hanging from arms’ type than the ‘wires going straight through’ type but it all seems fairly random.

What’s the difference?

pylons are different due to the voltage that they carry being different. 

Edited May 28, 2018 by milky_26

[FWJ]

1 hour ago, milky_26 said:

pylons are different due to the voltage that they carry being different. 

But these are on the same line? There’ll be 3 of one sort and then one of the other or else two of the other - just random it seems?

[redjambo]

26 minutes ago, FWJ said:

But these are on the same line? There’ll be 3 of one sort and then one of the other or else two of the other - just random it seems?

 

Perhaps it's some sort of code for aliens looking down from their UFOs? Like motorway markings, perhaps?

[FWJ]

3 hours ago, redjambo said:

 

Perhaps it's some sort of code for aliens looking down from their UFOs? Like motorway markings, perhaps?

Like the order of washing on a line used as a signal in WW2?

 

Could be.....

[redjambo]

6 minutes ago, FWJ said:

Like the order of washing on a line used as a signal in WW2?

 

Could be.....

 

Ah, now, you've piqued my interest. Is this true? Was it a French resistance thing?

[FWJ]

10 hours ago, redjambo said:

 

Ah, now, you've piqued my interest. Is this true? Was it a French resistance thing?

I don’t know TBH - but I’ve heard references to it, maybe it’s a bit of an old-wives-tale, but compared to some of the exploits of the SOE it seems perfectly possible!

Edited May 29, 2018 by FWJ

[3fingersreid]

Is it just me ( using I-phone or I-pad ) that has difficulty in getting the evening hibs to load when trying to read an article or is it just they have a piss poor web site ? 

[gjcc]

3 hours ago, 3fingersreid said:

Is it just me ( using I-phone or I-pad ) that has difficulty in getting the evening hibs to load when trying to read an article or is it just they have a piss poor web site ? 

 

Not just you. I've struggled today. 

[3fingersreid]

Travelling down the A1 , kind of opposite the Queen Margaret uni , what is the big newish building ? It was lit up so brightly last night it was like a beacon for ET and his buddies to find planet earth . I've yet to have a passenger who knows what it is .

[Tazio]

54 minutes ago, 3fingersreid said:

Travelling down the A1 , kind of opposite the Queen Margaret uni , what is the big newish building ? It was lit up so brightly last night it was like a beacon for ET and his buddies to find planet earth . I've yet to have a passenger who knows what it is .

 

The Edinburgh And Midlothian RERC Project according to Google maps.

[Stuart Lyon]

I think it is a new recycling centre

 

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/144m-recycling-plant-gets-council-green-light-1-3887795

[3fingersreid]

Cheers.?? , any benefit of recycling will be wasted on the electricity used by the looks of it though 

[iantjambo]

Why do some magnets resist others?

[Stuart Lyon]

Because they don't find them attractive!

[iantjambo]

4 minutes ago, Stuart Lyon said:

Because they don't find them attractive!

 

 

[Justin Z]

47 minutes ago, iantjambo said:

Why do some magnets resist others?

 

Conventional magnets have two poles (all magnets do, really, but bear with me), so anytime you see one magnet repelling another it's because two like poles have been placed next to each other, either north next to north or south next to south. Flip one and they'll attract instead of repelling.

 

But, many magnets we see these days though have undergone a manufacturing technique resulting in a Halbach array, which almost completely cancels the field strength for one of the poles. In reality they're a bunch of discrete magnets, with two poles, arranged together in a pattern that greatly reduces the magnetic force on one side. So they're sort of an artificially one pole magnet, and that's why you might have a situation where you've got two magnets that won't ever attract towards each other--they've both got strong fields of the same polarity, with weakened fields of the other polarity, so their repulsion overpowers their attraction.

[Morgan]

3 hours ago, Stuart Lyon said:

Because they don't find them attractive!

[Morgan]

Why do folk on mobile phones walk around in circles.

[Stuart Lyon]

'cause they're Ringing someone?

[Morgan]

2 hours ago, Stuart Lyon said:

'cause they're Ringing someone?

[gjcc]

3 minutes ago, Morgan said:

 

That the face someone makes when someone rings them unexpectedly?

[Morgan]

2 minutes ago, gjcc said:

 

That the face someone makes when someone rings them unexpectedly?

So I've been told  

[Pennywise]

See yer 4k UHD TV's, do you need to set it to 4k? Just got a new one but it doesn't look like 4k. Netflix looks good but normal telly not so much. 

[The Internet]

4 hours ago, Pennywise said:

See yer 4k UHD TV's, do you need to set it to 4k? Just got a new one but it doesn't look like 4k. Netflix looks good but normal telly not so much. 

 

The content needs to be 4k. Very little normal telly is shown in 4k. Netflix has some and BT Sport show some games in it but standard channels are still plain old HD whether you have a 4k tv or not. 

[John Gentleman]

4 hours ago, Mauricio Pinilla said:

 

The content needs to be 4k. Very little normal telly is shown in 4k. Netflix has some and BT Sport show some games in it but standard channels are still plain old HD whether you have a 4k tv or not. 

The CICO principle — Crap In, Crap Out.

[3fingersreid]

Walking the dog over the Pentlands today and I got stung a few times with nettles , what I want to know is what’s in Doc Leaves that when rubbed on the sting takes the nip away ? I’ve done this for years and years and never found out why 

[Maple Leaf]

4 hours ago, 3fingersreid said:

Walking the dog over the Pentlands today and I got stung a few times with nettles , what I want to know is what’s in Doc Leaves that when rubbed on the sting takes the nip away ? I’ve done this for years and years and never found out why 

I think it's just the moisture in the leaves that has a cooling effect on the hot sting.

[jamboy1982]

5 hours ago, 3fingersreid said:

Walking the dog over the Pentlands today and I got stung a few times with nettles , what I want to know is what’s in Doc Leaves that when rubbed on the sting takes the nip away ? I’ve done this for years and years and never found out why 

 

I think the best thing for a nettle sting is actually a nettle. However it’s inside the nettle and difficult to access.

[3fingersreid]

52 minutes ago, Maple Leaf said:

I think it's just the moisture in the leaves that has a cooling effect on the hot sting.

 

31 minutes ago, jamboy1982 said:

 

I think the best thing for a nettle sting is actually a nettle. However it’s inside the nettle and difficult to access.

What’s bizarre is it’s stinging more now than it did hours ago ?

[Samuel Camazzola]

Not so much something I've always wondered as I've only noticed it within the last few days.

 

Why are there hundreds of cars parked to the side of the runway at Edinburgh Airport? It's the bit of land where all the private jets are usually stationed. 

[Stuart Lyon]

Because based on the traffic chaos there about 4pm last night they couldn't get out of the place!