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Wotsits are bloody amazing!
I recently discovered they do a Prawn Cocktail flavour, absolutely devoured that pack! The same for Quavers.
All creatures have senses and emotions, no matter how primitive. We and they all feel fear, love, jealousy, pain, humility, gratitude etc….
Bollocks.
If we're talking mammals, yes those two/too. Their senses aren't the same as ours of course (a typical mammal might have worse eyesight, much better smell); and what we'd call emotions - the 'gut feeling' stuff, reflexes when you see your new baby - may not be identical to ours. And they're unlikely to intellectualise, or reflect on the experience of having emotions. But this stuff happens in the hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, limbic cortex, bits of their brains that are broadly the same as humans.
Whatever, it's a bit arrogantly speciesist (also plain wrong) to think humans are the only creatures to have emotions, we're not that different to other mammals.
While I’m quite content with the idea that the earth is round I was quite surprised that the solar system is flat.
Course it is*. If you have a bunch of stuff in space, stationary, it will all be attracted to the other stuff and collapse into a clump. But if anyone of it is moving, it'll be attracted towards the other stuff but becasue of its motion it'll swing past and keep going but still be attracted, so it'll keep going round and round. Whichever direction has the most stuff in it (it's not evenly distributed) will eventualy become the dominant direction so it'll all start spinning around in a ball. But once you have a direction of spin you must have an axis, so as it spins aroudn this axis it'll form into a disc called an accretion disk. Local points in that disc become more dense and smaller clumps form in the disc which are our planets, all already in circular orbits around the central point in the same plane.
* Pluto is not actually in the same plane (called the ecliptic) as the others. Suggestion is that it's because it's been knocked out of orbit or perturbed by something else at some point.
@slowoldman you swap the dots for the numbers, in that example it becomes 14over7
I was also well into my 30’s before I realised that the person dressed up as Santa at my primary school each Christmas was my Granddad. (obviously I knew he wasn’t actual Santa)
On the Christmas theme, as I'm sure you all know the famous Slade Christmas song contains the lyric:
"What will your daddy do when he sees your mother kissing Santa Claus"
I was probably in my early 40s before I realised that Santa is in fact the dad - I really thought she was having an affair and I never thought that was particularly festive.
That the NHS aren’t getting the £250 million a week everyone voted for…
That the NHS aren’t getting the £250 million a week everyone voted for…
You're a mere £100million out 🙂
Although not getting £350mil works out much the same as not getting £250mil 🙂
Military planes with their below and above camouflage. Surprised because I just realised last week, I'm 54
i’m always surprised by how bloody handsome i am when i catch my reflection in public. which i do at every opportunity.
then again I like sliced cheddar but don’t like the same stuff grated
Yes, that must annoy you
are our planets, all already in circular orbits around the central point in the same plane.
Except they’re not circular… hence the fact that Mercury is on average the closest planet to Earth.
Yeah more or less circular but not exactly.
However the fact that Mercury is on average closest isn't because they're not circular. It's because for half the time other planets are way on the other side of the Sun much further away than Mercury ever is.
That the Microsoft Windows logo is a window.... i win (dow)
Also that my other half really hates my guts. To quote Chissie Hynde its a thin line between love and hate....
However the fact that Mercury is on average closest isn’t because they’re not circular. It’s because for half the time other planets are way on the other side of the Sun much further away than Mercury ever is.
Well it surprises me that I’d fully misunderstood that…
… Everybody always sends emails for urgent tasks when I’m on holiday and am definitely not working.
“What will your daddy do when he sees your mother kissing Santa Claus”
How can your daddy see your mother kissing Santa Claus if they are one and the same? It’s an affair surely?
This is fair enough:
Whatever, it’s a bit arrogantly speciesist (also plain wrong) to think humans are the only creatures to have emotions, we’re not that different to other mammals.
But its a big leap from that to this:
All creatures have senses and emotions, no matter how primitive. We and they all feel fear, love, jealousy, pain, humility, gratitude etc….
And I think its quite unhelpful to give them human emotion labels when we have absolutely no idea what they are like.
That any thread on here that is intended to be whimsical and jolly will always end up being overtaken by pedantry or/and politics.
How can your daddy see your mother kissing Santa Claus if they are one and the same? It’s an affair surely?
Cos its written from the point of that the voyeur doesnt know its his dad
It was only when I watched the film of the same name that it clicked that the us state i believed to be called AR-KANSAS, and some other place in the US called AR-KAN-SAW aee in fact one and the same
That the Yamaha logo is three tuning forks.
Or that Kona's headbadge used to be a stylised anus.
(thanks STW_mag for that gem...)
That the nights are drawing in this time of year. Gets me every time
Cos its written from the point of that the voyeur doesnt know its his dad
Ah yeah. Gotcha 👍 Early morning brain fog!
then again I like sliced cheddar but don’t like the same stuff grated
That's possibly because the grated stuff is coated with anti-caking agents to stop it sticking together. Try actually grating cheddar and see if you still don't like it
That the Bosch logo is a rivet and the BMW logo is a propeller.
That a Roadrunner is an actual animal and not a fictional cartoon character.
That a Roadrunner is an actual animal and not a fictional cartoon character.
And that Wily. E Coyote isn't more famous for his artistic flair and speed of landscape painting
Trees don't actually move to tackle you when you pass them biking, orienteering or most often, skiing.
That people I work with, y'know actual grown adults were born after Y2K.
How can your daddy see your mother kissing Santa Claus if they are one and the same? It’s an affair surely?
Yeah, it's like he's expecting his Dad to come in at any moment.
It's more than likely a reference to 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus'; Noddy is addressing a child (or himself, past tense), and trying not to break the illusion that Father Christmas isn't real. It's pretty deep on that level. The fact that it's referencing an old rock'n'roll era track brings it back to the bit about granny dancing away as well.
That people I work with, y’know actual grown adults were born after Y2K
Yep, every day. Yesterday's revelation for them was that Netflix was an actual DVD rental business.
That 25 years ago does not mean the 80s!
Like Peppers – Green and Black Olives are the same thing just different levels of ripeness :o)
Black olives are just dyed green olives, well more reacted with some sort of iron solution. Not more or less ripe olives
That my ear and nose hair waited for decades to even appear and now grows significantly faster* than my head hair. I swear one of the ones poking out of my ear is long enough to be used to run down my sleeve and attach to a mitten.
Also why are nose hairs clearly connected directly to the brain stem?
*not a high bar.
How dark it is at 6am now, walking the dog with with a headtorch (me not the dog!).