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I'm confused as to why anyone would buy a Nissan Juke.
Why hasn't Brian Blessed been knighted and given full body armour
He's the replacement for Trident.
Why isn't Brian Blessed standing on the beach, holding a Trident and shouting at any dodgy looking warships that come into UK waters.
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Why hasn't a fight been setup for Blessed Vs Putin
men wearing scarves
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single occupancy in cars when people could have walked cycled or used public transport or shared a lift
Some of us might well be going somewhere a bit further than a couple of miles, have nobody else who is interested in the same destination, and there's no public transport, or at least nothing that goes to the fairly remote destination or if it does, only does so twice a day.
I went for a walk today, it was eight miles from where I live, I've nobody to go with, and there are no buses on a Sunday.
Some people should get out of the cities and spend some time living where public transport to anywhere other than other large towns doesn't exist.
Scarves. What's the problem with something that was designed and worn 3500 years ago? It's a handy thing to stop cold draughts from blowing down your neck.
Anyone who has issues with a practical item of everyday clothing needs to have a quiet word with themselves. 🙄
Water. Yes, it's made up from two colourless, odourless gasses; so exactly how the beejayzus can it be wet?
And what is 'wet'?
There are lots of things that annoy or just generally piss me off, and a huge number that I plain just don't understand, but there aren't [i]that[/i] many that make my brain itch, water is one, and I try not to think about it too much.
I think I need a drink now. 😕
The lack of a LIKE button on here.
It stresses me right out.
😕
Soldiers walking around Tesco's in uniform but not driving the tank there
Self-service checkouts..."Please take your receipt, please take your goods" I'm checking my receipt..."Please take your goods"...
Hydrogen bond innit. The configuration of the atoms means that the molecule has a positively charged end and a negatively charged end. So they tend to stick together. And they can pull other ionic compounds apart.
What I want to know is how come snowflakes are all different? Salt crystals aren't, they are all the same.
People who stand checking their receipt at self service tills, why not move away to check it?
That the government still allows alcohol and cigarettes to be legal, despite knowing of the massive health risks and danger they pose to the population.
In Sweden and Finland apartment doors open outwards, always freaks me out a bit.
Electricity.
There is no law that says your cat can do what it wants anywhere it wants
They're legally classed as free-roaming animals.
As is Brian Blessed
The fact that we can now use piss, shit, etc but **** is still frowned upon?
bikebouy - Member
The lack of a LIKE button on here.It stresses me right out.
This * googleplex
People who think googleplex & googolplex are the same thing
Tow along suitcases and small laptop type bags, on wheels.
Yarp, why do I want to kick them sideways to see the impending speed wobble on behalf of the tow'er... 😳
It's just cruel.. 😆
Scientists have calculated that the age of the earth is 4.543 billion years.
That fact alone is totally stunning, our life span is but the blink of an eye and anything that we choose to do in our life matters not one jot.
But if they have calculated the age of the earth that means that there was a point in time when the Earth just didn't exist?!
Water. Yes, it's made up from two colourless, odourless gasses; so exactly how the beejayzus can it be wet?
And water is pretty good at putting out fires, despite the fact that Hydrogen and Oxygen are pretty good at doing precisely the opposite.
People who start a thread asking for advice then argue against the advice that is offered before disappearing in a huff.
That the government still allows alcohol and cigarettes to be legal, despite knowing of the massive health risks and danger they pose to the population.
Why in Britain, alcohol is treated the way it is. It doesn't have to be one way or the other: either drinking everywhere (including on the Tube 😯 ), to a complete ban. It [i]is[/i] possible to drink in moderation like civilised human beings!
It is possible to drink in moderation like civilised human beings!
Although 60% of sales are to problem drinkers....
[quote=GrahamS ]And water is pretty good at putting out fires, despite the fact that Hydrogen and Oxygen are pretty good at doing precisely the opposite.
Strangely, most products of combustion contain things which are good at combusting, yet aren't good at combusting themselves 😉
Death, or more specifically, being dead........forever
^ that, but more than that, consciousness/sentience in general, how it happens, and how it can just 'stop' when you die, is it even a real thing? blah blah blah, ties my head in knots that does.
Confused?
You won't be after next week's episode of Soap...
I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
People who don't pick up their stuff and get out of the way at airport security 😡 Although this is really for the "what grinds my gears thread"
Re. escalators; why people think it's a good idea to get off at the top/bottom and just STOP! Gggrrrr wut
Strangely, most products of combustion contain things which are good at combusting, yet aren't good at combusting themselves
Water being a product of fire doesn't mess with my head any less. 😀
Do you also appreciate CO2 fire extinguishers, or is it just water?
Actually that reminds me - dry ice is one which messes with me, being so used to water, the lack of a liquid phase (in normal conditions) is weird.
The height of the light switches at Centreparcs.
The popularity of Pepsi.
The fact that there is no football team in the top 4 English divisions with a J in the name.
Ant and Dec.
Chicken crisps.
That our consciousness is just a series of electrical impules running around some matter.
Think of an experience from your childhood, something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren't you? How else would you remember it?
But here is the bombshell: You weren't there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to become you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.
The height of the light switches at Centreparcs.
The position of pretty much all the light switches in my house. I've been living here 6 years and still have to feel around the walls for them every time I go into a room
The height of the light switches at Centreparcs.
Need lower light switches coz' there's a lot of "bending over" at CentreParcs.
Apparently.
perchypanther - Member
The height of the light switches at Centreparcs.
Need lower light switches coz' there's a lot of "bending over" at CentreParcs.Apparently.
Especially when you get the bill 😯
Do you also appreciate CO2 fire extinguishers, or is it just water?
No, CO2 somehow makes more sense to my brain* - like it stops the Oxygen bit being reactive by sticking in some "burnt" Carbon.
Water is just freaky because both parts are highly flammable. In the Macro world it seems like putting out a fire with a mixture of petrol and lighter fluid. 😀
(* I do realise "my brain" and the [i]actual[/i] chemistry involved are quite separate things!)
Need lower light switches coz' there's a lot of "bending over" at CentreParcs.
Or more boringly for wheelchair users (which Centerparcs actually cater for pretty well).
When roadies constantly use a mountain biking forum to ask and post about roadie stuff. You'd think they had a special roadie forum somewhere where they could ask such things....
The amount of times I open a thread only to discover that it's about waxing your hoods or taping your legs or some such other mystical roadie stuff not immediately obvious from the vague thread title....
I mean, I know it's all bikes at the end of the day innit but....
Still, at least it never happens on this particular MTB forum... not more than every half an hour anyway...
😉
...that there are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on all the beaches in the World. How do you count or even estimate those numbers?
When roadies constantly use a mountain biking forum
the need to pigeon-hole people into categories all the time 😉
Coffee shops in general and people being prepared to pay as much for a cup of mucky hot water as they would for a delicious foamy beer.
Football Supporters
Onesies
Not random dope testing MPs
Water is just freaky because both parts are highly flammable.
That's just a lack of understanding.
Burning is just oxidation. Oxygen is a reactive gas, right, so lots of things will react with it to produce oxides, and oxidation is often exothermic. If you get something hot enough it produces vapour, which being gaseous and on earth mixes with well with oxygen, and the heat generated by the rapid oxidation reaction can produce even more vapour which is heated by the previous reaction and it becomes self sustaining.
H2O and CO2 are both already oxides, in other words they are spent fuel. They can't oxidise any more, so they can't burn. They have low chemical potential because the reaction has already happened.
So then they wont' burn, so you have to consider the other effects they have on an already existing fire. CO2 just displaces the oxygen in the immediate environment (whilst not burning), which stops the fire. H2O, being the funny stuff it is, has a huge latent heat of evaporation. So when you put it on something hot and it evaporates, it removes a lot of heat from that thing. Put enough water on something hot enough to burn and its temperature will drop enough for the oxidation reaction to stop.
I am not a chemist mind, so I'd be happy for someone else to supply more accurate details.
Coffee shops in general and people being prepared to pay as much for a cup of mucky hot water as they would for a delicious foamy beer.
Pubs - how are people prepared to pay as much for mouldy wheat or grapes as for a lovingly roasted carefully sourced coffee.
The scale of a billion.... numbers get bandied about by businesses and politicians and the media as if they don't matter.
A billion is treated like a singular quantity, much like an apple.
So... a bit of perpective on how much a billion actually is.
Look at your watch or a clock and watch the seconds tick past. If you were to do this for a million seconds without a break it would take about twelve days. If you were to do this for a billion seconds it would be nearly 33 years. 😯
Good one PP 🙂
Also a trillion, another commonly mentioned number, would have you sitting there for 33,000 years. So most of human civilisation so far.