Ricardo Quaresma Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 (edited) - Edited November 9, 2014 by Ricardo Quaresma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ortarkod Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 - They blow the glass around the ship mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ortarkod Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Is 'he's got it in both hands' an actual footballing rule or a myth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Quaresma Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 They blow the glass around the ship mate. Ah, but there is another way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlasgoJambo Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Do birds ever fly just for pleasure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussieh Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Why an Elephants sex organs are in their feet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Do birds ever fly just for pleasure? Read Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac_fae_Gillie Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 as washing powders made clothes whiter than white in the 80s how did they manage to make washing powder new and improved over the last 30years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GforGallo Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 as washing powders made clothes whiter than white in the 80s how did they manage to make washing powder new and improved over the last 30years. how can something be new and improved? Surely if it's new, then nothing came before and if it's improved then it can't be new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoJack Horseman Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 as washing powders made clothes whiter than white in the 80s how did they manage to make washing powder new and improved over the last 30years. Who wants whiter than whites in the 21st century? It's all about slightly off white now, so maybe they've regressed their formula to suit? how can something be new and improved? Surely if it's new, then nothing came before and if it's improved then it can't be new. The second iteration of something can clearly be defined as the new version of it, and subsequently an improvement on the last iteration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hearts007 Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 (edited) Why an Elephants sex organs are in their feet. not sure but most 80-90 year old womens are at their feet Edited November 12, 2014 by hearts007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iantjambo Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 How did the terminator get sent back in time when it was parts from its own body that inspired the research that would eventually lead to Skynet being built in the first place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambo Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 How does an old fashioned compass work. The wee dial that points to the North? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlasgoJambo Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Read Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. Having looked this up, I think I will. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoJack Horseman Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 How does an old fashioned compass work. The wee dial that points to the North? You mean all compasses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 (edited) You mean all compasses? I have a compass on my phone, it doesnt work the same way. Edited November 12, 2014 by 2NaFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoJack Horseman Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I have a compass on my phone, it doesnt work the same way. Uses magnets, pretty similar to the "old fashioned" way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I have a compass on my phone, it doesnt work the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 well smack my ass and call me charlie, so it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoJack Horseman Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 well smack my ass and call me charlie, so it does. Not sure if you're joking. How did you think it worked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Not sure if you're joking. How did you think it worked? I thought magnets would've been a hindrance to the electronics in the phone, so i'd discounted them. I never use the compass on my phone, so hadn't really put together an alternative beyond GPS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambo Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 (edited) Uses magnets, pretty similar to the "old fashioned" way. I know about the 'magnetic pull' but if my wee dial on my old fashioned compass was not held by a pin or enclosed, would it keep inching it's way north until it hit the pole? P's I also thought that a compass on smartphones was by gps. Edited November 12, 2014 by Gambo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I know about the 'magnetic pull' but if my wee dial on my old fashioned compass was not held by a pin or enclosed, would it keep inching it's way north until it hit the pole? It'd need to break its inertia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ortarkod Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 When you're drinking and you gulp - is the noise actually that loud or is it just because it's happening in your mouth that you hear it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ortarkod Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Do Australians/South Americans actually automatically think that Dec-Jan-Feb is summer, or are they that anglicised/americanised that they think 'Well, it's technically summer, but it's not really'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fila Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Do Australians/South Americans actually automatically think that Dec-Jan-Feb is summer, or are they that anglicised/americanised that they think 'Well, it's technically summer, but it's not really'? They think it's summer in Oz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 They think it's summer in Oz It is summer in Oz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Who decided on the names of colours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haken Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Who decided on the names of colours? And on that subject, is the orange fruit called an orange because it's orange, or is the colour orange called orange because it's the colour of an orange fruit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ortarkod Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 And on that subject, is the orange fruit called an orange because it's orange, or is the colour orange called orange because it's the colour of an orange fruit?Funnily enough, both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groot Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Sorry if I'm being a dipshit but I thought the compass on your phone works because of the GPS on your phone not because of 'little magnets' in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 And on that subject, is the orange fruit called an orange because it's orange, or is the colour orange called orange because it's the colour of an orange fruit? The old word for an orange was a norange (the spanish for orange is naranja). When and why a norange became an orange in english is unknown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 The old word for an orange was a norange (the spanish for orange is naranja). When and why a norange became an orange in english is unknown. the why is known. its a very common thing for the n to drop off the front of a word - a nickname used to be an ickname for example. the when is probably pretty easy to trace too. it'll have happened in different places at different times but once it became common it'll have spread and will be easily identifiable from written records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 the why is known. its a very common thing for the n to drop off the front of a word - a nickname used to be an ickname for example. the when is probably pretty easy to trace too. it'll have happened in different places at different times but once it became common it'll have spread and will be easily identifiable from written records. That's what I get for trusting what I read on the internet.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 That's what I get for trusting what I read on the internet.... yeah, I got it from stephen fry. in random facts top trumps, fry beats the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_hmfc Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Why did it take an apple falling on Newtons head before he started thinking about gravity? Had he never dropped something in the life before, seen someone else drop something or seen something fall? Was this this the first item he'd ever known to travel in a downwards direction before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C00l K1d Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 How does glow in the dark work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambo89 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 The apple didn't land on newtons head. The fable goes that he saw an apple fall from a tree and this sparked his idea for the 3 laws. It seems so obvious to us now but back then it wasn't. Imagine in 400 years someone on a galactic footbal message board asking 'how did such and such not realise why time travel was so easy. he must've seen differing speeds of light everyday'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Swanson Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Why do the numbers a calculator and phone keypads go in different directions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fila Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 It is summer in Oz. Correct, I was answering his ? , we think it's winter because it is winter. Thanks for clarifying tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Drago Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 How do animals know what is good and what isn't food? Why do people who are scared of flying go on holiday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Why did it take an apple falling on Newtons head before he started thinking about gravity? Had he never dropped something in the life before, seen someone else drop something or seen something fall? Was this this the first item he'd ever known to travel in a downwards direction before? Similarly, why did Archimedes not have his eureka moment sooner, or was that his first bath? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphonseCapone Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 How do animals know what is good and what isn't food? Why do people who are scared of flying go on holiday? Because holidays are good and I refuse to let an irrational fear stop me doing something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennywise Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I've just been told that the numbers on the side of a toaster are minutes, not levels of toastyness. Is this common knowledge? I told my wife. She's still laughing at me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoJack Horseman Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Sorry if I'm being a dipshit but I thought the compass on your phone works because of the GPS on your phone not because of 'little magnets' in there! Nope, it's magnets. Which tell the GPS which way you're facing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I've just been told that the numbers on the side of a toaster are minutes, not levels of toastyness. Is this common knowledge? I told my wife. She's still laughing at me. I didn't know this either. Doesn't change the fact that most toasters are a heap of shite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Le Clos Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 If space is expanding, what is it like on the other side of whatever it's expanding into? Thinking about space blows my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Caine Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Do birds ever fly just for pleasure? Do we ever walk for pleasure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooperstar Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 What is PHM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 What is PHM? Proper Hearts Man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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