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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
What the **** is downcountry?
What's in the space between electrons and the nucleus? As it makes up something like 99% of the volume of an atom, what is it?
Exactly how big is a gnat's c#ck?
Why has the bloke round the corner who owns 3 Jaguars, a Bentley, an Escort Cosworth and an Alfa V6 just gone past in a Tuk Tuk?
Maybe he's making a tuk-tuk Tik-Tok?
Anh how do pubes/leg hair/ chest hair know to grow to a certain length then stop growing?
They don't stop growing. They either grow for a certain time then fall out and start again, they eventially break, or they get rubbed and abraded away. If you look at eyebrow hairs they are thinner at one end because of this.
Why are the digits on a calculator and the digits on a phone laid out differently?
...and if someone made a novelty phone in shape of a calculator which way round would the numbers go??
If the early bird gets the worm, why do good things come to those who wait?
..yes, and many hands make light work, but too many cooks spoil the broth.
As it makes up something like 99% of the volume of an atom, what is it?
Nothing. And it's 99.9999999999996% of the volume, meaning I guess that 0.0000000000004% is matter, for hydrogen atoms only, but then they are all the matter in the universe pretty much with just a few tiny smidges of other stuff. All the more reason to concur with Balfour that nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all.
If you look at eyebrow hairs they are thinner at one end because of this.
Speak for yourself, I use a random orbital sander and as a result mine are all uniform thickness.
As it makes up something like 99% of the volume of an atom, what is it?
Nothing
No such thing as nothing. Even nothing has structure and form. There is something there. Probably where the baby pigeons hide.
Who did put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
If i poo in someone's bin at night, does it make a noise?
Never mind, i know what noise it made.
Why has the bloke round the corner who owns 3 Jaguars, a Bentley, an Escort Cosworth and an Alfa V6 just gone past in a Tuk Tuk?
Maybe he’s making a tuk-tuk Tik-Tok?
If it got the most likes, would that make it a Tip-Top, Tuk-Tuk Tik-Tok?
As it makes up something like 99% of the volume of an atom, what is it?
Nothing. And it’s 99.9999999999996% of the volume, meaning I guess that 0.0000000000004% is matter, for hydrogen atoms only, but then they are all the matter in the universe pretty much with just a few tiny smidges of other stuff. All the more reason to concur with Balfour that nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all.
What really blows my mind is we think of things as solid, when they are actually mostly just empty space.
Take a brick wall for example, pretty solid right? Wrong.
If you lean against a brick wall, theres so little actual 'matter' in it that you should just fall straight through it.
The reason you don't is not because you are solid and the wall is solid.... it's because of electromagnetic repulsion and the Pauli exclusion principle.
If it got the most likes, would that make it a Tip-Top, Tuk-Tuk Tik-Tok?
Maybe he is producing a guide for getting the most likes, "Top Tips for Tip Top, Tuk-Tuk Tik-Tok"
Maybe he is producing a guide for getting the most likes, “Top Tips for Tip Top, Tuk-Tuk Tik-Tok”
I'm really sorry I started this now
Maybe he is producing a guide for getting the most likes, “Top Tips for Tip Top, Tuk-Tuk Tik-Tok”
I’m really sorry I started this now
Tut-Tut.
Why do people follow others on Strava that they barely know at all, pretty much never comment on any activity and if you upload multiple activities on a day, they only give kudos to a single activity which was clearly not your best effort of the day?
This convoluted rhetorical Strava question has raised its head many times for me over the pandemic and i've just had a moment of literal clarity, that felt strangely liberating.
Why have cars and lorries developed so much especially over the last 30 years yet tarmac has not, there must be a simple ingredient needed maybe lycra to make it stretch and last rather than pot hole
Why have cars and lorries developed so much especially over the last 30 years yet tarmac has not, there must be a simple ingredient needed maybe lycra to make it stretch and last rather than pot hole
It's probably more nuanced than that. I suspect often it's done cheap rather than properly so the battle is lost before it's started.
However things are often made to tolerances.. Temperature being a big one.
Take train rails for example.. We have quite a few bucked tracks when we get heat waves.
But how come rails on super hot countries survive, you may ask.
That's because they are made of slightly different metals/alloys taylored for different windows of 'normal' operating temperatures.
We all know that different metals and alloys expand and contract at different rates according to the temperature so the precice type of metal you'd use for rails above the Arctic circle would be different from what you'd choose for something in the tropics.
It's basically a balancing act according to the usual conditions the object will be subjected too. Go outside that envelope of ideal operation and things go wrong.
See also the F1 debacle when one of the American circuits got refurbished for better grip and most competitors didn't change their tyre compounds and thier tyres were basically getting torn to shreds and wearing out prematurely. The few teams that did change the type of tyre they used littrally ran rings round the others
WTF is with irrational numbers?
For any two rational numbers, you can find another number that is halfway between them. That number is also a rational number. The set of rational numbers is infinite, so you can keep chopping the numberline into smaller and smaller pieces. But irrational numbers are never halfway between any two rational numbers so it doesn't matter how fine you chop it up, you'll never hit an irrational number. It's like shooting at ghosts with a machine gun - doesn't matter how many rounds you crank out, you ain't ever going to hit a ghost.
I think the lorry thing is to do with tax. Something about the number of axles in use...
Although delayed gratificantion in children is often cited as a good indicator of future success in life eg career etc…
How does anyone know this?
If the early bird catches the worm then the early worm gets eaten
How does anyone know this?
From tormenting children on video, then paying people in India or the Philippeans to code the data. Just browse some child psychology journals - the basic research design is to ++++ with babies then report that they appear to be confused. Cheaper to outsource the data encoding now than to hire grad student to troll through hundreds of hours of banal shit.
What I want to know is why do you never see baby pigeons?
I generally see about 5 a year sitting waiting for a feline death on my front grass(calling it a lawn would be an exaggeration). Stupid things just seem to walk off a branch then sit dazed. Their equally stupid parents often build the scabbiest of nests that fall out the tree or sit and watch the magpies eating their eggs.
They may be stupid but they seem remarkably resilient and have some nice iridescent colouring to them.
Do Owls eat bats?
Oh, I know this one! Yes they do, the predation making up a not massive, but not insubstantial, proportion of estimated bat mortality. Other birds also prey on them, including kestrel and peregrines (although in that latter case you have to allow for the ease of assessing prey remains in peregrine nest boxes, so may over-report compared to other species and unsurprisingly the bats most preyed on are the earlier emerging species including noctule).
An interesting fact - great tits are recorded regularly preying on hibernating small bats (pips) in Hungarian caves at times of food scarcity, seeking them out and pecking their brains out. Fascinating.
How on earth do you quote? I’ve never managed to do it.
Why don’t we see any white dog poo anymore?
Why has Pornhub not apologised for the demise of hedge porn?
That’s because they are made of slightly different metals/alloys taylored for different windows of ‘normal’ operating temperatures.
We all know that different metals and alloys expand and contract at different rates according to the temperature so the precice type of metal you’d use for rails above the Arctic circle would be different from what you’d choose for something in the tropics.
Are you sure about that? Rail alloys are mostly optimized for wear. If they will see cold temperatures then brittle fracture resistance is also an important factor. I am not aware that any of the alloys (all steels) has a significantly different coefficient of expansion. The design approach (for continuous welded rail) is to pick the best 'neutral temperature' for laying, typically nearer the upper end of the temperature range than the lower, as it's easier to restrain contraction than expansion. The rails are clamped to the sleepers to provide lateral resistance to buckling and also to provide longitudinal resistance, so that the temperature stresses are uniform.
How on earth do you quote? I’ve never managed to do it.
My way, I:
1. Select and copy the text I want to quote.
2. Go to the comment text box, press "B-QUOTE" button.
3. Paste text.
4. Press "B-QUOTE" button for a second time.
5. Write some nonsense, start an argument over someone else's choice of car, that sort of thing. Bingo!
My way, I:
1. Select and copy the text I want to quote.
2. Go to the comment text box, press “B-QUOTE” button.
3. Paste text.
4. Press “B-QUOTE” button for a second time.
5. Write some nonsense, start an argument over someone else’s choice of car, that sort of thing. Bingo!
Yeah, that's how I do it too
If the early bird gets the worm, why do good things come to those who wait?
Cuz it's like those people who queued up to get into Primark at 3am when it first opened after lockdown.
Why don’t other grandpeople appear more sexually desirable/more attractive, so as to be in concordance with one’s own advancing sexy grandpersonhood as one ages?
My way, I:
1. Select and copy the text I want to quote.
2. Go to the comment text box, press “B-QUOTE” button.
3. Paste text.
4. Press “B-QUOTE” button for a second time.
5. Write some nonsense, start an argument over someone else’s choice of car, that sort of thing. Bingo!
Why is there different ways! I do it like this:
Copy text you want to quote, go to text box, press speech marks symbol, paste text and hit return twice. Then you can type your own text.
Standard or advanced reply box.
Never mind, i know what noise it made.
Why don’t we see any white dog poo anymore?
Because we don't give dogs bones any more.
Why don’t we see any white dog poo anymore?
Last week while walking my mum's dog:
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If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
They are an ikkle more difficult.
From tormenting children on video, then paying people in India or the Philippeans to code the data. Just browse some child psychology journals – the basic research design is to ++++ with babies then report that they appear to be confused. Cheaper to outsource the data encoding now than to hire grad student to troll through hundreds of hours of banal shit.
So basically ****ing with small children’s future prospects for pointless research then. Science!
This was with monkeys rather than children, but the "Pit of Despair" experiment shows how off the rails researchers can go when they aren't supervised properly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
Why do so many people talk in a slurred/high pitched voice when talking to baby humans and baby animals?
Jesus! That’s awful. The guy should’ve been sentenced to time in the pit of despair. Well that’s me spending Saturday morning going down a rabbit hole of horrendous science.
How do mathematicians who are grammar pedants cope when they write
i is the square root of minus one
We only see baby pigeons, it’s the 2m tall adults that live underground that we don’t see
This is excellent 🙂