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How come you can have coloured toilet bleach?

Why doesn't the bleach,well, bleach the colour away?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 3:32 am
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How do you think bleach works? It's more complicated than simply magicking away any and all colours.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 4:26 am
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If sunshine is the best disinfectant, why does food go bad if you leave it out in the sun?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 5:26 am
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How do you think bleach works?

By removing colours from the world until its tummy is full and then it explodes, making rainbows 🌈


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 7:40 am
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are all sitcom characters just dreadful people ?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 8:05 am
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...what an occasional table does for the rest of the time


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 8:31 am
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Why are sausages sold by weight, not by number of sausages?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 8:33 am
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How tall is the world's tallest dwarf?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 8:49 am
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If people redouble their effort does that mean they are working 4 times harder than they were originally?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 8:55 am
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If you tie a bit of buttered toast to a cats back and drop it, which way up does it land?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:01 am
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How tall is the world’s tallest dwarf?

Adam Rainer Was 7’ 2”


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:01 am
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Why isn't inflammable the opposite of flammable? And how many accidental fires has that caused?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:03 am
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If you tie a bit of buttered toast to a cats back and drop it, which way up does it land?

it never lands - its just hovers in mid air spinning


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:04 am
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Mainly my dreams. Last night I dreamt I was a heroin addict, then I dreamt I was Van Morrison trying to seduce Janet Planet at Stanford University. Weird.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:05 am
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Observational....

But why, when you’ve just bought a new car, do you see thousands on the road but before you bought it you didn’t see any..


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:10 am
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If you're in the Millennium Falcon traveling at the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the lights?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:15 am
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Why are people at the tip so grumpy?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:15 am
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Why aren't moustaches called lip brows?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:16 am
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If you’re in the Millennium Falcon traveling at the speed of light

She’ll make 0.5 past light speed....


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:17 am
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Why am I wasting my life?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:18 am
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Am I not merciful?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:21 am
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If you’re in the Millennium Falcon traveling at the speed of light,

You can’t, for you, time has stopped.

Please don’t hate me if this is wrong, I watched a YouTube last week.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:23 am
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Whither atrophy?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:34 am
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But why, when you’ve just bought a new car, do you see thousands on the road but before you bought it you didn’t see any

Confirmation bias innit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:39 am
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What's the minimum size of a 'Big Light' as in "Put the big light on" .


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:54 am
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How can we have no border between N and S Ireland, and no border between N Ireland and Britain, with the UK not in the EU?

Sorry. Sorry. I'm so sorry...


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 9:59 am
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How did the Ls become Is in Italian words?

Piazza = Plaza
Pianta = Plant
Fiore = Flower


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 10:03 am
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Why is orange jam called marmalade


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 10:22 am
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Because it's a jelly with citrus fruit peel in. Jam is made from pulpd fruit and sugar.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 10:31 am
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Where does you lap go when you stand up.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 10:39 am
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Why can't you just erase tattoos using flesh coloured tattoos?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 10:42 am
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If you tie a bit of buttered toast to a cats back and drop it, which way up does it land?

If nobody's watching, it lands both sides up. Try it with a video camera.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 10:53 am
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If nobody’s watching, it lands both sides up

Or neither side up.

It's indeterminate until it's observed due to quantum superpositioning

Schrödinger's toast, innit.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 10:57 am
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If the tops of mountains are so much closer to the sun why are they so chuffing cold?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 11:04 am
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Why, why, why... Delilah?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 11:48 am
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Sounds like you might have Tom Jones disease, its not unusual you know.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 11:50 am
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Was Ernie really the fastest milkman in the West?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 11:53 am
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Given that trains are always so crowded, why do they have tables between the seats? Rows of seats, airline style, would be so much more efficient.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 11:58 am
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How can we have no border between N and S Ireland, and no border between N Ireland and Britain, with the UK not in the EU?

Sorry. Sorry. I’m so sorry…

Because people are small minded arseholes, but in this case, sometimes useful small minded arseholes.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 12:04 pm
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What do swans do?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 12:04 pm
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Why do I suffer from insomnia when anxious about getting too little sleep?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 12:06 pm
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swan fun

How long can a swan hold it's breath.


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 12:06 pm
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How tall is the world’s tallest dwarf?

..and how small is the world's smallest giant?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 12:27 pm
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Why can't dogs look up?


 
Posted : 03/07/2019 12:28 pm
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Why? Oh, why? Oh, Why? Oh, Why? Oh, Why?.......


 
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