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[timsussex]

A bit of blue touch paper that was lit to create the big bang. 

but who held the match and where did they retire to after lighting the blue touch paper ?

[RandomGuy99]

Why are there so many different varieties of essentially the same fruit ?

Mandarins
Clementines
Tangerines
Satsumas

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[superchamp]

Does diarrhea count as Random Shit?

[daviemac]

but who held the match and where did they retire to after lighting the blue touch paper ?

Ahh that's a separate question and I don't know the answer to that. 

[akauya]

Does anyone else think that coffins should be renamed as human bins?

[PilotMan]

A bit of blue touch paper that was lit to create the big bang. 

Who lit the touch paper?

[timsussex]

Who lit the touch paper?

asked and answered at top of page - DM refused to answer - possibly to avoid the ban on religion 

[paper7]

Why does my toast always land jam side down if I drop it 

I'm sure there is science behind it somewhere 

It's down to the weight, however slight, of the jam changing the centre of gravity of the slice of toast. It will always flip and land jam, or butter or whatever you've spread it with, side down. It's not edible when that happens either!
 

[Thephoenix]

A bit of blue touch paper that was lit to create the big bang. 

What was there before the big bang?

[mr.bluesky]

Why do we eat mince pies at Christmas time and not at any other time of the year 

[mr.bluesky]

What was there before the big bang?

A little bang 

[MissWolf]

asked and answered at top of page - DM refused to answer - possibly to avoid the ban on religion 

He'd have to ban himself 

[David1970]

Why are there so many different varieties of essentially the same fruit ?

Mandarins
Clementines
Tangerines
Satsumas

Because they are diffrent

[Stevelondon]

I do love a big bang. As opposed to a small bang.

A lot of folk prefer the Big Bang to be immediate. Not me. Give me a long gentle build up to the Big Bang and I’m more than happy.
Of course as we all know sometimes things don’t work out and what we end up with is the smaller bang we didn’t look for.

I never realised it until I’d done some research. There are a number of different bangs. There’s the slap bang for those kinksters among us for instance.

[MissWolf]

Why are there so many different varieties of essentially the same fruit ?

Mandarins
Clementines
Tangerines
Satsumas

Can you read this and what does it say 

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[Spunky34]

Another recurring (and obviously stupid/nonsensical) thought I have is that somehow time travel ought to be possible if you simply travelled fast enough continuously heading west, so that when you crossed the date line you’d always be going back a day - a bit like in the original Superman film.   

I always get a bit annoyed that it doesn’t work like that because I always feel as though it SHOULD work like that.  Stupid Big Bang’s fault. 

[David1970]

Question

If you are driving a car at 50mph and there is a fly in the car flying at 2mph in the same direction, is the fly doing 52mph or 2mph?

[MissWolf]

Question

If you are driving a car at 50mph and there is a fly in the car flying at 2mph in the same direction, is the fly doing 52mph or 2mph?

He's doing 2mph in a protected environment

Until you open all the windows and he either gets a bloody hurry on, is splat on the back window or dodging traffic in the fast lane 

[Spunky34]

Question

If you are driving a car at 50mph and there is a fly in the car flying at 2mph in the same direction, is the fly doing 52mph or 2mph?

That’s a great question.  Genuinely think you could make an argument to measure it in either way, but for me I would say 2mph.  When we think we’re standing still, we are moving at the same speed the earth turns, we don’t account for that when we talk about how fast we’re going. 

[akauya]

If a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie become a vampire or does the vampire become a zombie? 

[David1970]

If a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie become a vampire or does the vampire become a zombie? 

Since both are fictional, there is no way of telling.

[David1970]

That’s a great question.  Genuinely think you could make an argument to measure it in either way, but for me I would say 2mph.  When we think we’re standing still, we are moving at the same speed the earth turns, we don’t account for that when we talk about how fast we’re going.

But isn’t it doing 52mph ground speed?

[Munter84]

What was there before the big bang?

I think the current consensus is that potentially lots of things could have happened before the Big Bang. When physicists call the Big Bang the start of time, they mean measurable time, in the sense of cause and effect being possible. Some scientists believe the whole universe may be stuck in a perpetual cycle of bang, expansion, collapse, crunch, and repeat.

[Ghost89]

If an orange is just called that because of its colour why wasn’t a lemon called a yellow?

[Spunky34]

But isn’t it doing 52mph ground speed?

As I said, I think there are arguments to measure it either way.  Another argument you might use is that if it turned through 180 degrees you might well not argue the fly is suddenly only doing 48mph.  The fly itself would (I assume) still feel as though it was doing 2 mph. 

I think it’s a more interesting philosophical question than a physical one to be honest, makes you think about things like perspective and free will.

[akauya]

If an orange is just called that because of its colour why wasn’t a lemon called a yellow?

If I had been in charge of naming colour and fruits, I might have called a pumpkin an orange instead 

[David1970]

If an orange is just called that because of its colour why wasn’t a lemon called a yellow?

Because it’s not yellow coloured, it’s lemon coloured.

[akauya]

I think it’s a more interesting philosophical question than a physical one to be honest, makes you think about things like perspective and free will.

I see the Schrodinger's cat in the same way too. I know it's a quantum mechanics thing but I see it more as a philosophical question which can be argued for ages with no definitive answer.

[advent2016]

I'm hoping every "Glad you enjoyed yourself" type messages will appear here rather than clag up the forum.

Here's my contribution

I'm really enjoying this thread

[Steely Dan]

If an orange is just called that because of its colour why wasn’t a lemon called a yellow?

The colour was named after the fruit.  Before that, orange was just a shade of red.

Anyway, some very old languages have no word for blue, since the only thing they ever saw that was blue was the sky.  And that was just sky coloured (we'd say azure, but they didn't bother with a word). Why have a word for a colour that you don't see in your life?

Yeah, I know, rainbows.   

But one more thing, rainbows have only 6 colours.  Religious numpty's made it 7 since that was more holy for some reason.  There are only 2 strips of blue family.  Indigo is made up trash.  And kids keep learning Roy G Biv. Sad.

[mr.bluesky]

Can you read this and what does it say 

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It says Hi,  ( I think I'd prefer the quality streets though ) 

[MissWolf]

It says Hi,  ( I think I'd prefer the quality streets though ) 

No it says Hello in mandarin 

I ate the quality street 

[mr.bluesky]

But isn’t it doing 52mph ground speed?

It must be doing 52 mph, just as the astronauts aboard the international space station are floating about very slowly because the earth below them is rotating they are actually doing 17,500 mph as it circles the Earth every 90 minutes 😳 you travel as fast as the mode of transport you occupy

[mr.bluesky]

No it says Hello in mandarin 

I ate the quality street 

  very clever 

[timsussex]

Question

If you are driving a car at 50mph and there is a fly in the car flying at 2mph in the same direction, is the fly doing 52mph or 2mph?

all motion is relative
to an observer in the car it is doing 2mph, to an observer standing on the ground it is doing 53mph to an observer on the sun  it is doing 67052 mph

[Thephoenix]

Since both are fictional, there is no way of telling.

What???????
Spoiler alert.

[Thephoenix]

Some scientists believe the whole universe may be stuck in a perpetual cycle of bang, expansion, collapse, crunch, and repeat.

Since when?

[Thephoenix]

Question

If you are driving a car at 50mph and there is a fly in the car flying at 2mph in the same direction, is the fly doing 52mph or 2mph?

The fastest speed I've reached was when walking to the forward toilets on a 747.
Well over 700mph or Mach 0.9. 

[Thephoenix]

Step inside to go back in time.

What year would you like to travel to and why?



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[mr.bluesky]

Step inside to go back in time.

What year would you like to travel to and why?



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1987 the year my team ( coventry city) won the FA cup, we've not had a lot to cheer about since then or 1966 when England won the World Cup 

[mikecee]

1987 the year my team ( coventry city) won the FA cup, we've not had a lot to cheer about since then or 1966 when England won the World Cup 

Do you mind if I join you?  That was the last time Everton won the league. 

[mr.bluesky]

Do you mind if I join you?  That was the last time Everton won the league. 

  jump aboard  plenty of room in the Tardis 

[David1970]

Why is someone descried as being “ as cool as a cucumber” when they do something under pressure?

[timsussex]

When Burger King decided to open in Australia in 1971 they had a problem The name Burger King was already in use in Adelaide

So thats why the Burger King stores in Australia are branded Hungry Jacks

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[Podger]

However you hold toast it will nearly always start to rotate as you lose your grip because it is not an immediate release.  It carries on rotating as it falls and the height it is dropped from is just enough for it to make a half turn in mid air before splatting on the floor.  To stop dropping the toast in the first place you need to develop a firm but gentle grip (you can practise on me if you like) or perhaps when you eat toast you should wear pornstar, killer high heels so you drop it from a greater height allowing it to make a full rotation in mid air. 

I'm enjoying this thread already.

Top tip. When eating toast and jam, stand on a convenient chair or probably safer to get the step ladder out then if you do drop it you are at the perfect altitude for the toast to perform a complete rotation before hitting the floor jam side up.

[mr.bluesky]

Top tip. When eating toast and jam, stand on a convenient chair or probably safer to get the step ladder out then if you do drop it you are at the perfect altitude for the toast to perform a complete rotation before hitting the floor jam side up.

Even better is to sharpen your reflexes and catch it before it lands on the floor

[timsussex]

various academics  have managed to study (and presumably get paid)
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and of course there is the 5 second rule
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but its no use for me as I have a 2 second dog !

[standardpostage]

Why is men's clothing always on the first floor, rather than the ground floor of shops   

The ground floor always appear to be the women's section !

[MissWolf]

various academics  have managed to study (and presumably get paid)
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and of course there is the 5 second rule
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but its no use for me as I have a 2 second dog !

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[standardpostage]

What can I buy my 65 year old wife for Christmas