Normal everyday things that mess with your mind

Goes to show that coffee isn’t as good as beer 😉

Not that I’ve ever done either of those things after going to a pub to drink beer, but does anybody go to a coffee shop to spend several hours there and drink several coffees?

Funnily not many people are bothered about being overcharged or being sold overpriced items.

See … told you … where are all the poor socialists and communists? 😯

Locomotive Engines being transported by road on low loaders.

Driving down a motorway near an airport once, I saw an aircraft being transported across a bridge as I went under it. That broke my head.

Folk who wait on a lift to go up one floor.

Braille buttons on a multi-storey car park lift. What’s a blind person doing on their own in a multi-storey car park?

They also put braille signs on the wall in American Starbuckses that say ‘no smoking’.

does anybody go to a coffee shop to spend several hours there and drink several coffees?

Yes. Loads of people.

i had a plane on treadmill type conundrum the other day. I’ve now forgotten it.

Not sure which has done my head in more. Why do I forget so much stuff? Its those electrons again – where did they go?

Coffee shops that sell tea. Why aren’t they called ‘Tea & Coffee’ shops
Leaving the toilet seat up. Why! For what reason is there a need to ever do this.
Thongs. If you need to floss your bottom, you need to see a doctor.

There’s no need to leave it up – leaving it up isn’t an active thing you do. Putting it down is though, and there’s no need to do that. You can sodding well put it down if you want it down.

Leaving the toilet seat up. Why! For what reason is there a need to ever do this.

That’s an easy one, as a single male with his own house i guess i can answer this
I’m always trying to simplify my life and as i only need to sit down on the toilet once a day, approx 15 mins after having my morning double espresso i feel i am conserving energy for more productive tasks by leaving the toilet seat up for the following 23 hours 55 minutes, i may pee 10 times a day which compared to the one and only time i need to sit down means i must be correct.

Just caught up with this thread.

Folk standing around with no spatial awareness who use their trolly to block an Isle while they gave a chat.

It never ceases to amaze me how one person can block off an entire eight-foot wide aisle. Do they get special training?

And people who wear woolly hats whilst sweating in a hot gym. WHY???

Young women out and about wearing a boob tube, miniskirt, and fur-lined Ugg boots. What eventuality are we preparing for here?

When you think about blinking, like count how often you do it, become aware of it.

I do this with breathing sometimes, when I’m trying to sleep. It’s really, really annoying because then I’ve to engage my brain with something else or I can’t carry on breathing automatically.

Water. In all it’s forms from ice, steam or just in a glass

What breaks my head with water is, it gets bigger when it solidifies. I don’t know of any other substance that does this; how can it be more dense and less dense at the same time?

People who stand still on escalators.

People who think that busy doorways/entrances to things are a great place to stop for a chat.

Groups of people who prop the bar up preventing others from seeing what ales are on tap instead of buying a pint and finding a seat.

+1 all of these. Bastards.

All those screaming teenagers waiting for Binners to leave the hotel, so they can grab his hair.

That’s unlikely, he doesn’t have any. Hey, maybe that’s why?!

Milk

The cognitive dissonance I have with this is, people will happily chow down on milk made for calves like it’s the most natural thing on Earth. Yet, if we started selling human breast milk that is naturally intended for human consumption everyone would lose their shit.

Three remote control units (one for each) for 1 TV, 1 Sky Box, 1 Surround system…
Three sequences to turn on/off all of that crap.

HDMI CEC takes care of all this. I switch on a device, all the others wake up.

People who start a thread asking for advice then argue against the advice that is offered before disappearing in a huff.

Or go “thanks for the advice, I’ve now done something else entirely.”

Leaving the toilet seat up. Why! For what reason is there a need to ever do this.

Leaving the toilet seat down. Why! For what reason is there a need to ever do this?

“Seat up” is the configuration I’m most likely to need next time I visit. Though TBH I tend to close both seat and lid when I’m done, looks neater (and avoids arguments).

how can it be more dense and less dense at the same time?

It’s not. It’s less dense.

Then why isn’t it a gas?

Cos the molecules are not that far apart, just further than they are in water.

A solid can be organised in lots of different ways.

Two way light switches (y’know, like you get in the hall/stairs/landing), switch on downstairs, then switch off upstairs – it leaves both switches the wrong way, aaarrrgghh!!!

molgrips – Member

A solid can be organised in lots of different ways.

Though the standard organisational unit for solids remains the crew.

Water reaches a maximum density at ~4degC

The expansion upon freezing comes from the fact that water crystallizes into an open hexagonal form. This hexagonal lattice contains more space than the liquid state

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/chemical/waterdens.html

Driving down a motorway near an airport once, I saw an aircraft being transported across a bridge as I went under it. That broke my head.

It weird enough driving under the runway at Manchester…

Driving around shetland a few years back – just following my nose and allowing myself to get lost… arrive at a set of traffic lights / level crossing type barriers. Wait there for a while, then think… surely theres not any railway lines on Shetland. Just at that moment a plane shoots by and touches down – the lights change and the barrier go up and I drive across the runway of Sumburgh Airport.

Pockets in pyjamas.

Ties.

Donald Trump

I read the other day that Trump has flip-flopped so often, he could legitimately campaign against himself.

I watched a big chunk of a trump speech last night; it was the “they’re not sending their best” one but usually, you only see about 10 seconds at a time. If you listen to, say, a minute there’s no missing the fact that he’s just gibbering. Constant nonsequitors, losing track of what he’s saying and just ending sentences halfway through with “yeah, right?” or similiar, endlessly repeating himself, laughing halfway through the joke then not really getting to the punchline. In some bits, he seems to be in dialogue with the voices in his head. Total verbal diarrhea, of the drunk-shouting-at-the-bins school. He genuinely says “I will tell you this”, like Rab C Nesbitt.

That’s not the bit that messes with my mind though. It’s the 10000 people cheering as if he’s bloomin Cicero, after a line like “When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.”- where he managed to contradict himself in the space of 9 words.

Or, “it was just announced our gross domestic product— a sign of strength, right? But not for us. It was below zero. Whoever heard of this? It’s never below zero.”. And he’s half right, because it wasn’t below zero, it was about 18 trillion dollars. God knows what the stat he was trying to invoke was.

Or where he rants about how china took urrr jurbs then says “China comes over and they dump all their stuff, and I buy it.”, and they cheer at him saying he’s the reason they turk urrr jurrrrrbs.

And they cheer like Jesus Christ just hit a home run. Trump’s easily explainable, he’s a lucky sperm who pays lots of people to tell him how great he is. But Trump fans? That messes with my mind.

Why is the last pistachio nut from the packet always unsplit?

Like.

The utterly ridiculous arrangement of light switches downstairs in my flat. There’s three lights, there’s three switches. Each light is near a switch, yet each switch controls a different light.

The fact that in the Netherlands its normal to rent a flat….and not have it come with a floor, or light fittings…. Because they’re something you take with you when you move (how the actual faaark am I supposed to move in when it’s sodding dark??!)

Moomins. Just… What?

I’m afraid the answer to the pistachio question is: the density of the object. When open, with the shell apart and away from the flesh the nut will have a higher volume and the same weight, and will therefore allow unopened nuts to sink in the packet as they have a higher density and then are subject to vibration during transport. Also, if open, they are likely to dry out more, exacerbating the issue.

(I was going to answer the electricity “easiest path” one, but I think you can Google that more easily 😉 )

Last one:

Movie posters and billing>sense!

I thought it may have something to do with the density of the nut, increased moisture content in the unopened shell- i usually grab the bags at the top corner and give them a shake as that gets all the nut detritus to fall in the bottom corner, along with our heavier, uncracked pistachio. That explains it then – well done stw. The increased moisture content will also explain the rather foul taste of the nuts , that’s if you actually manage to open them without the aid of a Leatherman to hand – it’s pointless to eat them as they more often than not taste bitter and spoil the happy thoughts of the previous 30min scoffing session

Driving past Cromarty Firth a couple days ago has added a new one. Oil/Gas platforms stored ‘in land’

The fact that in the Netherlands its normal to rent a flat….and not have it come with a floor, or light fittings…. Because they’re something you take with you when you move (how the actual faaark am I supposed to move in when it’s sodding dark??!)

Well you can look forward to the fact that when you move out you will have to pay to restore the place to the same state it was in when you moved in i.e. fresh paint etc., despite the fact that you’ve lived there for years and paid a sh1t load of rent.

Gravity waves, space time and all that. So much left to discover.

online forms that use a different format to the reference number on the paper form that you are entering the details from – you’ve printed it with spaces so I stupidly assume that is the format and I’ll know it’ll become obvious quickly when I run out of space or slowly and painfully when I hit send and am told there is an error on the page and half the other st!te needs to be reentered while I’m still guessing how to format your sOdding reference