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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: luckee on September 22, 2002, 03:56:26 PM
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This thread is for all of those silly questions you never knew the answers to. Whether it is how many licks to the center of a tootsie pop or what does ROFL mean.....
Guess I\'ll start...
What the f#ck is a Met? As in the NY Mets.
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dunno, how long is a piece of string and whats the meaning of life ( there you go Ryu, discuss a sensible topic :D )
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New York Metropolitans...
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could jack off?
whats the meaning of life - Heat
That\'s easy, the answer is 42. :p
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On the topic of sports team names, why the hell didn\'t the Jazz change their name when they moved to Utah.
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because mormons are well known for their great apretiation for quality Jazz.
Why do men have nipples? Are they like hood ornaments?
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Why is it that there is gravity (god, im retarded)
Why is it that people feel the need to get married?
How does the (This may seem odd) penis becomes erect after seeing a picture containing sexual images.
What does VHS stand for?
What is in spam, the food that is?
What is the point of homework, no one does it, and we learn enough in school.
What about socks? Why do we wear them, what are they there for. Why not just wear comfortable shoes.
I\'m stumped..... :p
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socks are there to stop you from stinking up your shoe...i think
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My feet only stink when I wear socks. Explain that oh wise one :D
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umm...maybe your feet are freaks? I just know that I had a pair of shoes that I never wore socks with, and the REAKED!!!
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Well maybe if you\'d change your socks every once in a while they wouldn\'t stink up yer shoes Spud. They\'re not like underwear where you wear them until they turn brown and get holes in em before changing em.
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Originally posted by Spudz
1.Why is it that there is gravity (god, im retarded)
2.Why is it that people feel the need to get married?
3.How does the (This may seem odd) penis becomes erect after seeing a picture containing sexual images.
4.What does VHS stand for?
5.What is in spam, the food that is?
6.What is the point of homework, no one does it, and we learn enough in school.
7.What about socks? Why do we wear them, what are they there for. Why not just wear comfortable shoes.
I\'m stumped..... :p
A few answers to your questions. My opinions of course ;)
1. So we don\'t fall off the earth while it\'s spining. :p
2. I dunno, Wed Lock maybe.
3.Visual stimulation, your brain reacts to the pictures. Causing you to get "excited" the brain does all the work :)
4. Video Home System
5. Dunno, I\'m sure it list the ingredients on the Spam container.
6.Homework prepares you for test.
7.Socks provide extra protection and keep you from getting blisters when your feet sweat.
Why hasn\'t Luckee gotten his router yet?
Why do mimes interest people?
Why have I gotten two defective PS2 consoles?
:p
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1: "fallout"..IE..someone from UPS stole my shiat!!
2: Its the 15th wonder of the world..the just do
3: Sony doesnt like you.
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I attribute all unexplainable questions to an evil wizard. For example, when you drop something, it\'s always somewhere where you would least expect it. Do you know why? That\'s right; evil wizard.
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And you know how when you\'re playing an action or adventure game and you kill some dude. You go back to that spot and his body is gone...that guy is the invisible janitor. He and the evil wizard are cousins. :p
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Wen my toast falls down it always falls the side with the jam.WHY?
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The meaning of life is to reproduce.
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have you seen that simpsons, where lisa becomes a vegetarian??? homer is asking about stuff, and saying, so you not gonna eat bacon, sausages, pork etc etc , and they all come from a pig, then when he thinks of a hot dog, it has stuff like pigs foot, biit of boot et ctec, that is what i think is in spam
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Why does time fly when your having fun?
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Originally posted by Unicron!
Wen my toast falls down it always falls the side with the jam.WHY?
The weight of jam on that side makes it fall that way..real scientific huh? :clown:
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Why has our society evolved in such a way that requires us to obtain an education and perform menial tasks?
In America, and most everywhere else, if you have no job, or no trust fund, you are the lowest of low. Just look at your local homeless shelter. Our lifespan is relatively short. By the time we reach the age of "retirement", we are way past our prime. It just seems to me, that unless you are an Ernest Hemingway-adventerous type, our lives are pretty much wasted.
I appreciate having my little toys - my car, my computer, my tv, blah blah blah. But these things only serve to entertain us when we\'re not wasting our lives in an office. Besides, I\'m a little ashamed to be part of a society that will be leaving behind artifacts such as nuclear waste and tons and tons of steel car bodies. Yep, those 30th-century archaeologists are going to be real excited to dig up our old refridgerators. There is a hole in our ozone layer the size of the United States!
Yeah we have medicine, we have next-day mail delivery, the concorde jets, blah blah blah again. The pain of losing a loved one is nearly unbearable, but these space-age medicines we have are halting, or at least slowing the process of evolution, in my opinion. Weak people die, strong people live and breed more strong people. I was hospitalized for viral pnemonia when I was a kid - 100 years ago I\'d have probably died. Not saying I wish I was dead, just saying I realize the ramifications of a world without our current medical technology.
In closing - my ignorace is asking if we are or aren\'t wasting our lives? Are we "building a better future" for future generations? I tend not to think so. I am not proposing a hedonist society, maybe just a society in which happiness can be achieved a little bit easier.
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Originally posted by luckee
The weight of jam on that side makes it fall that way..real scientific huh? :clown:
And I thought it was the Evil Wizard.....
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I figured this thread would have been at least 4 pages by now considering all of the ignorance floating around here. :D
Seriously ppl, dont be embaressed..Im sure what you mght find embaressing and stupid..at least 3 other ppl are wondering the same thing.
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How does a CD work? I mean from a little piece of plastic(is that what it is made out of ? ) to music blasting through your headphones... I\'ve always wondered that...
Also- how do they make ink? from pens that is....
What is a person that cannot smell? If someone that cannot see=blind, someone that cannot feel=paralyzed, someone that cannot hear=deaf.....
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What is the point in our existence? Granted, we can try to enjoy the short period we have, but eventually - sooner than one may think - we will be old, wrinkled and surrounded by the unavoidable eternity; death. If there is no after-life, why are some suffering from poverty while others bathe in cash? Why do some reach their fantasies while others lack the basic comforts ( home, food et cetera )?
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actually luckee. It\'s not the fact that the jam weighs down one half of the bread. It\'s simply the fact that from the position (jam side up) the odds are that it will land on that side. If for some reason you had the Jam side down, it would (most likely) land Jam side up.
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The further it falls the lower the odds of it landing jam side down.
(Someone throw one off a cliff or out of a window to test it).
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Threw it off a cliff.Its too high to see my toast landed.
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a cd is burnt , it has all lines in it, that make 1 and o, and this is how it tells what music to play.... i know that vague, but with out pics its hard to explain, i saw it on tv, explained it much better
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why is there anything if one day it will all be nothing?
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to enjoy ourselves and those "things" in the meantime.
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if toast lands jelly side down, and a cat always lands on it\'s feet..what happens if you put jelly on a cats back?
as for the jelly toast question;
There\'s a widespread suspicion among the public that toast sliding off a plate or table has a natural tendency to land butter side down, thus providing prima facie evidence for Murphy\'s Law: "If something can go wrong, it will". Most scientists, in contrast, dismiss such belief as ludicrous. Indeed, an investigation by the BBC-TV science programme Q.E.D. in 1993 claimed to have proved definitively that the whole notion was nothing but an urban myth. However, as I show in the paper, the experiments carried out by the programme were dynamically inappropriate (in that they consisted of people simply tossing buttered bread into the air - hardly common practice around the breakfast table). When the problem of toast sliding off a plate or table is examined more carefully - with the toast modelled as a thin, rigid, rough lamina - it turns out that the public perception is quite correct. Toast does indeed have a natural tendency to land butter side down, essentially because the gravitation torque induced as the toast topples over the edge of the plate/table is insufficient to bring the toast butter-side up again by the time it hits the floor. Note that this has nothing to do with some aerodynamic effect caused by one side being buttered - it is just gravity, plus a bit of friction.However, I go on to show that the tumbling toast phenomenon has far deeper roots than one might expect. If tables were a lot higher - around 3 metres high - the problem of toast landing butter-side down would go away, as the toast would have enough time to complete a full rotation. So why are tables the height they are ? Simple: to be convenient for humans. So why are humans the height they are ? Using a simple chemical bonding model of the human frame, I show that there is a limit to the safe height for bipedal, essentially cylindrical creatures like humans. The limit is around 3 metres - above that height, a simple fall results in gravity accelerating the skull to such a high kinetic energy that the chemical bonds in the skull are ruptured, causing severe fracturing. This limit, in turn, sets a maximum height on tables suitable for creatures with human articulation of about 1.5 metres - which is still not high enough to prevent toast landing butter-side down. It thus seems that human-like organisms are doomed to experience this manifestation of Murphy\'s Law.
But then comes the real cosmic twist in the tale. The formula giving the maximum height of humans turns out to contain three so-called "fundamental constants of the universe". The first - the electromagnetic fine-structure constant - determines the strength of the chemical bonds in the skull, while the second - the gravitational fine-structure constant - determines the strength of gravity. Finally, the so-called Bohr radius dictates the size of atoms making up the body. The precise values of these three fundamental constants were built into the very design of the universe just moments after the Big Bang. In other words, toast falling off the breakfast table lands butter-side down because the universe is made that way.
Having made this depressing discovery about the nature of our universe, I felt duty-bound to come up with some ways around it. After all, we should not be fatalistic about such things. There are any number of daft ways (eating from 3 metre high tables, eating tiny squares of toast, putting the butter on the underside, tying the toast to a cat, which of course knows how to get right-side up during a fall, etc. etc). The physicist\'s approach is to minimise the amount of time the toast is exposed to the turning effect of gravity. This means doing the opposite of what you might expect. If your toast is sliding off the table, you should give it a swipe with your hand, to increase its horizontal speed off the table. If you\'re lucky, it may stay butter side up. If toast is sliding off a plate, you should move the plate rapidly downward and backward, breaking contact with the toast, which then descends butter-side up
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Why not just eat from the floor? :D
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Why do cats have nine lives?
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What does "pwn3d!" mean, and who the heck made it up?
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pwn3d = owned