Things you have always wondered

[mike-zim]

basically just put thing you have often wondered and see if someone has an answer.

1) this really doesn't have an answer but it is something i have always wondered. COLOUR. when we are kids we are told that is blue that is red that is green etc. What if what one person see's as Red another see's as Blue. we could all like exactly the same thing but not know it as blue to me might be a nice colour others see it as red (thinking it is blue) and do not like it.

see where i am going with this? confused?:shakehead

2) Why does easter egg chocolate taste different to normal chocolate?

thanks anyway.:D

[Nintendork]

Colour is based on the physical spectrums of visible light, it is a standard which cannot be chaged or deviated upon.. it's either a high frequency (blue end of the spectrum 900 wave lengths/nm) or lower frequencies (red end 500 wave lengths/nm)

Can't change that unfortumately it's physics.

Those frequencies correspond to retinal cells rods and cones which are 'bleeched' by the light which causes the nervous transmissions to be sent to the brain which interpret the colour.

It's totally scientific and the idea of a colour blind person simply the cone cells in the eye are not as responsive as you would expect from a healthy person. They may generalise frequencies of light or simply blank certain frequencies.. but I totally know what you mean man.

I once had a dream that I saw a colour which I've never seen before- totally blew my mind. And the thing is I can't describe it or compare it to anything i've ever seen before it was so fucked up. I was just bathed in this weird colour of light. Who said weed is bad for you? :)

[mike-zim]

Well there you go. philosiphy beaten by science. ok what about easter egg chocolate then? and is there anything you have ever wondered?

[Pestneb]

actually, the colour one isn't beaten by science.
Your question agreed - we all see say red as red, but do we percieve red as red?
I can't remember the actual wavelengths, so I'll have my own wave lengths which will be measured in units of pn's.

red is 1 pn, orange 2 pn, yellow 3pn, green 4pn..

how I percieve the wavelength 4 pn maybe the way someone else perceives 1 pn.

it may be completly common.
some people see aural things, hear visual things - their brains are wired up wrong. but perhaps we are all wired up differently. it may be that what your brain perceives when it sees wavelengths of 1 pn isn't anything I'd recognise as a colour.

but in the end its impossible to figure out, I tried to figure out a experiment to prove or disprove this theory - but so long as the person has been told "1 pv is called red" there's no way of comparing how they perceive that colour - you can only prove that they can perceive it.

not beign huge on brain chemistry, it may be possible in the future to track the flow of data through the brain, and get an idea of what is actually perceived, but for now its a useless idea, except that perhaps all of us have the same favourite colour...

[mike-zim]

thanks so back to the philosophy for me.

[Ollie]

basically just put thing you have often wondered and see if someone has an answer.

1) this really doesn't have an answer but it is something i have always wondered. COLOUR. when we are kids we are told that is blue that is red that is green etc. What if what one person see's as Red another see's as Blue. we could all like exactly the same thing but not know it as blue to me might be a nice colour others see it as red (thinking it is blue) and do not like it.

see where i am going with this? confused?:shakehead

2) Why does easter egg chocolate taste different to normal chocolate?

thanks anyway.:D

1 - OMG, I thought I was the only person that wondered that! It is impossible to prove, so I guess we'll just have to wonder forever!

2 - Good question. And would it be so nice if we had it all year round instead of just at easter?

[Babooo]

I've always wondered how aeroplanes can fly. I've heard all the explanations but I'm still not sure. I just don't get how a lump of aluminium with wings can fly all over the world.

I'm not dumb or anything, its just I can't get round the fact that aeroplanes can fly. I know its all about gravity and shit, but it just baffles me.

[Pestneb]

question 2, i thinks its because it is generally thin. I find the thinner a piece of food is the tastier it is, probably due to a greater surface area to volume ratio. chewing probably helps, but you end up diluting what you eat with your saliva more then.

I've always wondered how aeroplanes can fly. I've heard all the explanations but I'm still not sure. I just don't get how a lump of aluminium with wings can fly all over the world.

I'm not dumb or anything, its just I can't get round the fact that aeroplanes can fly. I know its all about gravity and shit, but it just baffles me.

its not a lump of aluminium.
would help if you let us know what specifically stumped you, but get 3 identical deflated balloons, fill one up with water, another with an equal volume of air, leave the last one empty. drop them all in a bath full of water, and then describe to us what you see. :)

[Stefkov]

ive wondered why phonetically isnt spelled phonetically itself. shouldnt it be an 'f'.
i got some more but im in spanish and need to do some work rather than be here all the time. :D

[Cube]

2) Why does easter egg chocolate taste different to normal chocolate?

probably because companys can get away with using cheap chocolate for them, so they do. (just a guess)

And about the colour thing (so glad to see it spelt like that on the internet), it's impossible to tell, and wouldn really matter anyway. We just reconise the frequency of it, and thats really all that matters to the brain.

[Mundi]

One thing i have alway´s wondered about. Time traveling how can we now that maybe in the distant future someone made a time machine and changed something here but we never knew about it.
And what are the consequences of time traveling alway´s when i think about it

1. When you try to change history something stops you and history can´t be changed (which would mean there is a higher power and whole concept of free will is bullshit)

2. A pararel universe is created when you change something that happens

3. You go back in time to stop something or kill someone or whatever you wan´t to do just so it involves something happening not happening or someone not being born or killed before his time the whole universe would start to repeat itself because when you stop/kill something/someone it would never have happened wich would mean you never wen´t back to stop it and because of that it does happen and you go back to stop it wich would mean it never happened and because it never happened you never know about it so it would and it would happen endlessly trapping the world in an endless repetive cycle (i know it sounds confusing but i can´t explain it easier )

[mike-zim]

Have you seen Time machine the new one? in there it explains the theory of not being able to change what happened.

basically if you built a time machine to stop something happening and then went back and changed it the need for the time machine is then void meaning the time machine would not be invented.

but i wonder if a time machine were invented independent of any personal reasons and you used it to go back then theoretically you could change the past.

[faz99]

But then you kinda wonder, why haven't we seen anyone from the future yet. Maybe there is something so awful going to happen we will see them then, and they will ignore all the bad stuff happening today because thats nothing compared?
But if a parallel universe is created when you go back, then we will never change...
Interesting one that.

[Supergrunch]

Why do triangle sandwiches taste better than square ones?

[Dan Dare]

here's a good one: what the hells bells do we do once we run out of oil to make plastic? Petrol and stuff is on its way out in a few years but plastic is EVERYWHERE!

My mate said they could synthesise it out of rubber or something, but I'm still not sure.

[BeerMonkey]

if the "BIG BANG" did in fact happen what is the purpose of the other planets?

[Jordan]

I've always wanted to know why men have nipples...

[AshMat]

Some men do breastfeed. I read a story on the web, i think there is a website dedicated to it but i forgot the name.
Another one i heard was that in the womb we start of as girls, but then become men (unless you become a girl)

[MunKy]

I've always wanted to know why men have nipples...

Men have nipples becuase all fetuses start female, the Y chromosone is added (or not) after. Something like that roughly.

[Sub-Parable]

if the "BIG BANG" did in fact happen what is the purpose of the other planets?

They don't have any purpose, just like our own planet. The only true "purpose" of the planets, including ours, is to merely orbit a ball of mass constantly converting into energy, both heat and light . It's only by a freak accident that amino acids formed on Earth, constructing the premordial soup from which all life evolved.

[Sarka]

One thing i have alway´s wondered about. Time traveling how can we now that maybe in the distant future someone made a time machine and changed something here but we never knew about it.
And what are the consequences of time traveling alway´s when i think about it

1. When you try to change history something stops you and history can´t be changed (which would mean there is a higher power and whole concept of free will is bullshit)

2. A pararel universe is created when you change something that happens

3. You go back in time to stop something or kill someone or whatever you wan´t to do just so it involves something happening not happening or someone not being born or killed before his time the whole universe would start to repeat itself because when you stop/kill something/someone it would never have happened wich would mean you never wen´t back to stop it and because of that it does happen and you go back to stop it wich would mean it never happened and because it never happened you never know about it so it would and it would happen endlessly trapping the world in an endless repetive cycle (i know it sounds confusing but i can´t explain it easier )

I have always thought about that. It gets really confusing so I just figure that time travel is impossible so I don't worry about it.

I also wondered about the colour thing, and could people see everything completely inverted. Either colour wise, horizontally or verically?

Also, when you go to the toiltet at someone else's house do you pee into the water or, to avoid large noiuse, so you pee slightly off the water and on the toilet so barely any noise is heard and it's less embarrasing but less hygenic?!:shakehead

[BGS]

Why do triangle sandwiches taste better than square ones?
I've always wondered this too!
And the way grated cheese sandwiches taste infinitely better than sliced cheese sandwiches. Probably something to do with the inscreased surface area I guess.

[Eenuh]

Even though I've been in a film oriented course and learned about everything there is to know about cameras (even the stupid boring technical stuff), I never really figured out or got to understand how it is a camera (both photo and film) can copy the image in front of it on film. To me it just sorta seems like magic...

[Nintendork]

Men have nipples becuase all fetuses start female, the Y chromosone is added (or not) after. Something like that roughly.
Correct, we all start out as a blank canvas of the female form, as the embyo develops the gonads go to either male or female genetalia.

Even though I've been in a film oriented course and learned about everything there is to know about cameras (even the stupid boring technical stuff), I never really figured out or got to understand how it is a camera (both photo and film) can copy the image in front of it on film. To me it just sorta seems like magic...

In film cameras various frequencies of light (sometimes IR (infa red film) but usually ultra violet) cause AgNO3 + Cl2 to 'photodissociate' to form crystals.. this precipitate is called silver chloride which is a yellowish precipitate (sepia photographs)

Earlier techniques used silver bromide, silver chloride and silver iodide I think.. it's got a lot more high tech these days but that's the basic principle behind black and white/sepia photography.

[Bluejay]

Why do triangle sandwiches taste better than square ones?

Yeah, and why do crinkled crisps/ mini cheddars taste better than no-crinked ones.

[Jordan]

Yeah, and why do crinkled crisps/ mini cheddars taste better than no-crinked ones.

I think i know this one, basically during the 'making process' the flavouring doesn't get into the crinkles thus giving a mixture of none flavoured/flavoured areas.

Also, it has a larger surface area and a different over all texture, leaving a very nice taste ;)

[Stefkov]

ive wondered how can men actually become homosexual?
what is it inside them that says i want to give it him/take it from him/hump his ass, etc?

[AshMat]

I have a similar thing, sometimes i am just.. being casual and i get the urge to punch absolutely everyone. Why is this?

[demonmike04]

curiousity

but more to the point,

when i look at some people, or talk to them, at some point, i just have the urge to kill them for no reason, and i replay that in my mind and see what happens, and then the consequence of what happens makes me stop myself from killing them,

it worries me, am i a psychopath?
Nope..just different. I have the urge to kill certain people i know, but not as bad as your case.

But what i wonder is: If you were able to dig to the center of the earth, would you get crushed by gravity? Because gravity comes from the earths core, pulling every thing down from every direction, so would you be squashed?

[AshMat]

This thread reminds me of "The Last Word" Column from New Scientist.

If all the known plants (up to pluto) were to stay the same distance from the sun's surface as they are now, how big would the sun have to be so that all the planets would be sucked in by it's gravitational pull? (Not so that it engulfs them all with it's size, so they are pulled towards it's center)

[Supergrunch]

Yeah, and why do crinkled crisps/ mini cheddars taste better than no-crinked ones.

If we're to believe the crisp makers, it's because the grooves hold the flavour more...

But it's lies- all lies!

But what i wonder is: If you were able to dig to the center of the earth, would you get crushed by gravity? Because gravity comes from the earths core, pulling every thing down from every direction, so would you be squashed?

Yes.

[Arragaun]

But what i wonder is: If you were able to dig to the center of the earth, would you get crushed by gravity? Because gravity comes from the earths core, pulling every thing down from every direction, so would you be squashed?
I actually read that if you get to the centre of a planet, which is impossible on one such as ours (but would be possible if the planet were made entirely of liquid, and if you could stand that sort of pressure) you are pulled by gravity in every direction at once, resulting in weightlessnes...

[Meik]

what is it inside them that says i want to give it him/take it from him/hump his ass, etc?Very poetic.

[Hellfire]

I wonder why the hell is "space" black. I mean black things absorb all colors (radiations wtvr), but space is just... well... nothing. WTF.
Sometimes I also get the urge to beat some people but only if they gimme a reason. I'd say you're a psycho :P

[That Guy]

If the big bang happened, what caused it? And where did the thing that caused it come from?

How did everything esle come from that?

How do computers work? How can all of this appear on a screen just from bits of metal and electricity? How did someone invent this? How did they even begin to imagine the idea of it?

[Ginger_Chris]

ooh i can answer a few of these;

time travel is impossible, traveling backwards in time is not possible, so don't worry about any problems there. if you still messed up about time and such read a really basic book about special relativity, one with little maths, it'll help you understand alot of random time based concepts (as well as totally mess your head up)

black things are things that dont emit visible light, or very very low amplitude light. There are 2 causes, 1: the object absorbs all the light. 2: there is no light being emitted of the object. space is the latter, there is no visible light (or very very very low amplitude that we cannot detect), and there is nothing for the lgiht to reflect off, so no visible light can come from areas of empty space.

the big bang, more than likely happened, we know what was going on in alot of detail about a nanoseconds before (around that time, someone correct me if thats the wrong value) but we have very little clue the point of the big back. I'm pretty sure at this time its impossible for us to know what happened before the big bang and what caused it. Theres no way for us to get any information from before it happened. so for the time being "god" is just as good an answer as anything.

Computers are very complex and made from alot of different technologies. it was invented by lots of different people over long periods of time, and put together and refined. I do physics at uni, and we did a practical a few weeks back about hardwireing a computer, the logic is realy hard to get your head round, using different circuits in such a way to get different operators, like addition etc. The logic processes behind it were really hard.

I really like how alot of these questions are physics based, and glad i chose the subject to study at uni, gcse and a-level physics are basically a joke, but you get to learn alot more about the world and random questions like these (the reson why i carried on doing physics was to learn random crap like this). However you also figure out that we actually know nothing, and everything we do and know is just a simplified version of whats going on

[Jordan]

Ginger Chris, you raised a point. However you're slightly wrong about time travel.

Although you can technically look back on time and look into the future. You'de need a laser or some kind of light emmiting device that travelled faster than the Earth and back to you, thus you could look back to the past or look to the future.

[The Peeps]

I wonder why the hell is "space" black. I mean black things absorb all colors (radiations wtvr), but space is just... well... nothing. WTF.


Maybe space has a colour but we just can't see it so we see it as black :P
Some scientists said that space is actually beige (sp?) anyway, cos of all the dust and everything floating about, it appears beige.

[gorrit]

curiousity

Is that a serious answer? I hope not...

Edit: Sorry, that was trollish of me. But I just don't like homophiles (not accusing anyone, just saying that saying that everyone that is a homo/bi-sexual is just "curious" doesn't seem very nice to me)

[Ginger_Chris]

looking "back in time" is kind of easy, information only travels at the speed of light (although i once read about the "spooky effect" where gravitational fields travel faster than light, but im not sure if thats still around, anyoone know?). When you look at distant stars you technically looking "back in time" as the the light the gave off was several light years ago. ie we observe a supernova in the sky 200 thousand light years away, that actually happened 200 thousand years ago, its just we're only getting the information now.

Technically, if we discovered a giant mirror in space 100 light years away, and we looked at it from eath directly, (completely ignoring light bending, the earths movement in the solar system etc, its a thought experiment) we would see the earth 200 years ago. so yea its theorectically possible to look back in time, just not interect in it or actualy travel back in time.if we launched our own mirror to do this it would take to long to get far enoguht away, and if it was launched at the speed of light (which would require infinite energy, but still) we couldn't see before the time the mirror was launched.

seeing the future is impossible, the best we can get is a probablitly of whats going to happen. if we knew the position momentum, spin, etc of every partical in the galaxy, (which is not possible due to hisenberg, the operators for these don't commute), then we could still only get a probablity of what going to happen in the future. For large scale systems (people) the probabilities are quite high for a while, but still we cannot get information from the future, we can only predict it with a probablity.

At the present there are too many factors present in even the simplest system. We cannot even perfectly model a real world ball bouncing on the ground perfectly. And everyone knows how badly the weather is predicted, even though hugeamounts of computing time is used to do it.

[MunKy]

curiousity

but more to the point,

when i look at some people, or talk to them, at some point, i just have the urge to kill them for no reason, and i replay that in my mind and see what happens, and then the consequence of what happens makes me stop myself from killing them,

it worries me, am i a psychopath?

I get this thing where my arm feels weird and trys to punch the nearest person/object. Its really hard to stop it from actually doing it but I can control it. Also, when talking to someone you hate, is it wrong to imagine yourself grabbing them by the shirt and biting out their throat?

EDIT: Isnt homosexuality caused by something going wrong when the brains being wired up? Its a genetic defect, like needing to wear glasses. Thats what I was told anyway. Oh and 90% of left handed people are gay.

[Supergrunch]

time travel is impossible, traveling backwards in time is not possible, so don't worry about any problems there. if you still messed up about time and such read a really basic book about special relativity, one with little maths, it'll help you understand alot of random time based concepts (as well as totally mess your head up)

I disagree with you there, forwards time travel is very possible indeed and has been both mathematically proved and tested. (knowing special relativity you must know the twins paradox?)

Backwards time travel, however, is much more theoretical, and it seems that it is impossible to travel further back in time than the exact time that the time machine was invented. The basic theory is to use a wormhole (black hole joined to white hole, joins to unconnected parts of the universe through the forth dimension) and twins paradox one end of it so that end is in the future. Go back through the wormhole and you are going back in time.

Another proposed method, and a much more recent one, is to create a circle of light. As light is the same as time on a quantum level (I think) the loop is also a loop in time, which you can move around and thus move in time. This still has the same limitation as the other method, and you have to slow down the light (which can be done, with Einstein-Bose condensate). The advantage of this method is that there's no problem with negative energy.

[Arragaun]

Also, when talking to someone you hate, is it wrong to imagine yourself grabbing them by the shirt and biting out their throat?
Yes.

And...

Oh and 90% of left handed people are gay.
No shit? I find that really hard to believe. I've known about eight lefties and none of them were prone to budging the fudge.

[|Laguna|]

Hmmm, why are big dicks so important to women?

I say this as, (I using what I know here, excuse me if I am ignorant/wrong) their pleasure is derived from stimulation of the clitoris. So why does length matter?


Also, why do some men have hairy chests and others don't? Surely everyone should have them as it is the body's natural way of keeping warm... I get that people fomr hot climates wouldnt have them as they don't need them etc but fellows in Britain live under the same climate yet some have them and others don't...

And on that subject... what is the point of pubic hair? Im sure it's not there for warmth purposes is it? SO why is it there, along with like bum fluff stuff, i mean what is the biological purpose of it?!


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Would a Japanese WaveBird work on a PAL system?

[Haver]

Right. I mean, the past has gone, right, zooomsh? The future isn't knocking on our doors yet. And we're too slow mechanically to analyse the present. It's gone before we can conciously realise it. So we're fucked right?

I am swearing. And making spelling mistakes.

[Arragaun]

Also, why do some men have hairy chests and others don't? Surely everyone should have them as it is the body's natural way of keeping warm... I get that people fomr hot climates wouldnt have them as they don't need them etc but fellows in Britain live under the same climate yet some have them and others don't...
This island has been invaded by everyone from the far North to the Mediterranean. We got pretty mixed up blood.

[Ashley]

Hmm (I presume) we're all late teens at the youngest and yet people can't come up with more tactful ways of describing anal sex?

And the concept of what "makes" someone gay, I dunno. I'd say its down to the individual, you will never be able to get a 100% answer for everyone. Some men may just fall in love with men, and they don't see the gender as a factor, but rather they fancy them in the way a heterosexual would a woman. Others say that are born that way, and they couldn't imagine loving a woman.

And chest hair, suppose its evolution. Perhaps it comes from your origins and "developed" countries were more likely to find heating through other methods (eg animal carcasses) and thus slowly chest hair became less common but in other places it was still necessary. But can you honestly say in this day and age you need chest hair?

EDIT: Isnt homosexuality caused by something going wrong when the brains being wired up? Its a genetic defect, like needing to wear glasses. Thats what I was told anyway. Oh and 90% of left handed people are gay.

I believe they call that the narrowminded approach. Its basically saying gay people are broken. And what the frick would what handed you are affect your sexuality. Its like saying people with 70% of people with webbed feet are likely to grow up and teach primary school.

[Ashley]

big dicks arent important to women, well normal women that is, mostly its a fetish by the common sex crazed woman.

However, they do not care about a "a big full scrotum", well at least if TV taught me anything. (Sex and the City before people's minds get dirty).

Same reason guys (en masse) care for the big breasted slutty blondes.

[Supergrunch]

And on that subject... what is the point of pubic hair? Im sure it's not there for warmth purposes is it? SO why is it there, along with like bum fluff stuff, i mean what is the biological purpose of it?!


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Would a Japanese WaveBird work on a PAL system?

Pubic hair is used to produce pheromones; the sweat produced is more milky, and it gets trapped in the hair and rotted by bacteria, which (supposedly) attracts members of the opposite sex. The same is true for armpit hair.

And yes, Japanese wavebirds would work on a PAL system.

[Fierce_LiNk]

i remember watching some program called big giant dicks or something (dont ask me why)
but some one was has a husband who has one of those bulging kong type dicks, and after they had sex she went to the bathroom and said "OH MY GOD YOU RIPPED ME OPEN"

Haha! I've seen a similar sort of program where the woman says "YOU RIPPED MY STUFF!" It might've been the same program really.

[mike-zim]

it is not the size it is the way it is used.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Why does alcohol normally lead to me having an Epi fit. It boggles the mind.


Bastards.

[Dan Dare]

ive wondered how can men actually become homosexual?
what is it inside them that says i want to give it him/take it from him/hump his ass, etc?


all featus' start out as female- the process of becoming male is due to a series of hormones that direct fetal growth. in the case of homosexuality, the hormones are inbalanced and the procedure is incomplete.

I think. I read that somewhere so anyone willing to disprove me feel free.

[mike-zim]

men have nipples because we all started as female right?

so does that mean that men are upgrades? women are the basic model?

[Stocka]

Why do your ears 'pop' in an aeroplane?

[Ashley]

so does that mean that men are upgrades? women are the basic model?

Or women are the norm and men are freak mutations.

[The Peeps]

Technically, if we discovered a giant mirror in space 100 light years away, and we looked at it from eath directly, (completely ignoring light bending, the earths movement in the solar system etc, its a thought experiment) we would see the earth 200 years ago. so yea its theorectically possible to look back in time, just not interect in it or actualy travel back in time.if we launched our own mirror to do this it would take to long to get far enoguht away, and if it was launched at the speed of light (which would require infinite energy, but still) we couldn't see before the time the mirror was launched.

Well it takes 8 minutes for light to get to us from the Sun, so if we place a giant mirror in space the same distance away from us as the Sun, then we could see 16 minutes into our past (with the help of an observatory). They should set one up :P charge £10 to see yourself 16 minutes in the past, it'd be really freaky :D

edit: Mike, just because it's the same distance from the sun doesn't mean it has to be right next to it. You could put it on the opposite side so it orbits away from the sun otherwise it would just melt. It was just an idea for fun anyway :P

[KingJoe]

Well it takes 8 seconds for light to get to us from the Sun, so if we place a giant mirror in space the same distance away from us as the Sun, then we could see 8 seconds into our past (with the help of an observatory). They should set one up :P charge £10 to see yourself 8 seconds in the past, it'd be really freaky :D
A) it's 8 minutes
B) if something was setup 8 seconds/minutes away, then we would see ourselves 16 seconds/minutes in the past
C) I am a pedantic wanker

[mike-zim]

also how close to the sun do you want to get? you could sweat a little.

also the centre of the earth thing. if you got there and were weightless would that mean you would be stuck there forever? as you would not be able to go anywhere.

[DiemetriX]

Why do your ears 'pop' in an aeroplane?

It's because of the air pressure... I think...



This is more of a gramatic Question.
*I'm Norwegian and my English sux at times.

Girl Friend means ... your loved one / your girl etc.
But if you have friends which are girls... what are they called?

[mike-zim]

yo bitches.

[Yoshiking]

You'd probably say female friends.
I think.

[KingOfHyrule]

I've a question - if you were to commit a crime under the age of 18, but you were later found guilty over the age of 18, would you still get busted? Always wanted to know that one lol

[The Peeps]

Girl Friend means ... your loved one / your girl etc.
But if you have friends which are girls... what are they called?

Girlfriend is your loved one, all one word, like grandmother...

Girl friend would be a friend who is a girl :)

Why does Diet Coke taste better than Coke?

[DiemetriX]

tnx mullet :)

[mike-zim]

Girlfriend is your loved one, all one word, like grandmother...

Girl friend would be a friend who is a girl :)

Why does Diet Coke taste better than Coke?

it doesn't. simple eh?

[Yoshiking]

Tab tastes better than Coke. Diet Coke does not.

[The Peeps]

lol must just be me then :yay:

[DiemetriX]

Pepsi Max > Tab > Coke & diet Coke

[Yoshiking]

Pepsi Max > Tab > Coke & diet Coke
QFT. Although that Pepsi Max Cappuchino is shit.

Why does it cost just as much for a box of coke as a bottle of coke? And for those glass bottles which are also smaller.
Also, who actually buys boxes of coke?

[DiemetriX]

Some people belive that boxes of coke tastes better than bottles of coke. And therfor buy boxes instead of bottles.

Boxes are also more handy.

[mike-zim]

Why is it the Easter bunny? why not the easter chicken, cow or pig? what is so special about those bamn bunnie?

well just had to get that in.

[Yoshiking]

Actually, I think boxes of coke taste horrible. I do like coke in glass bottles though.
And boxes are like half the size, so it's stupid anyway. Why not make them like those boxes of beer that are twice as tall?

[KingJoe]

Wikipedia:
"The original Easter Bunny myth comes from a pagan holiday which was celebrated on the Vernal Equinox. According to Pagan legend, Ostara, the goddess of spring, turned a bird into a rabbit. The rabbit was supposedly able to fly as fast as the bird could fly, but it was still disappointed that it was a rabbit and not a bird. Ostara had pity on the creature, and one day out of every year, on the Vernal Equinox, she allowed the rabbit to lay eggs like a bird. Due to the proximity of Easter and the Vernal Equinox, converted pagans continued to associate the myth with their new holiday, and the idea has been passed down ever since."

[Supergrunch]

Girlfriend is your loved one, all one word, like grandmother...

Girl friend would be a friend who is a girl :)

Why does Diet Coke taste better than Coke?

I totally agree- it's not as sweet because they don't fill it full of sugar. (they fill it full of crap instead! :hehe: )

[Ashley]

We all know coke tastes best when in a glass bottle. Theres a newsagents near works that sells them, keep meaning to take a bottle opener to work so I can buy one.

[The Peeps]

I've never seen Coke in a box :S wouldn't the cardboard get all soggy? Or are they wooden boxes?

[Supergrunch]

We all know coke tastes best when in a glass bottle. Theres a newsagents near works that sells them, keep meaning to take a bottle opener to work so I can buy one.

The best is glass bottle, followed by plastic, followed by can, followed by stuff you get in resuarants (they mix the syrup concentrate with water themselves, and it often tastes horrible).

[Big Red]

i always wonderd would you realy be able to see your self entering a black hole as you go throgh it

will we ever be able to prove wether or not the string theory to be reality

[AshMat]

I've never seen Coke in a box :S wouldn't the cardboard get all soggy? Or are they wooden boxes?
Tetra packs are used for all kinds of drink already
Milk, Oranje juice, ribena etc.

[stev2604]

What happens at the end of space? or the bottom? How can it be infinite? Everything has to end!:wtf: :wtf: Thats always confused me

[Tellyn]

What came first, the chicken or the egg? ::)

Serious one, now though. Why are clouds black when it's about to rain? The water isn't black...

[The Peeps]

Some people believe in a doughnut shaped universe, that way space can have no end.

[stev2604]

Some people believe in a doughnut shaped universe, that way space can have no end.
But what if you go into the middle?

[EEVILMURRAY]

Why does stamp glue taste so magically delicious?

[Charlie]

Why don't they make Easter Eggs with the creme egg stuff all the way through?

[Arragaun]

What came first, the chicken or the egg?
It would have to have been the egg.

The chicken's ancestors were not chickens, but one day, one of them gave birth to a mutant non-chicken. This mutated non-chicken was in fact, a chicken.

Thus, the egg came first. Evolution says so.

[Stefkov]

i know some people will know but ive always wondered how computers and games systems worked, i mean theres all those components inside. then you can see something son a screen, its been a mystery to me for ages even though most of you will actually know how.

Who made God?
if we have these cause and effect arguments liek that story about if you find a watch in a field then that watch should have had a creator, it didnt pop up out of knowhere. if this is true about the universe then who made God!?

following on that, if god made the bg bang happen, how did he know when to set it off, did he have a watch on or something?

[Atomic Boo]

Yeah, and why do crinkled crisps/ mini cheddars taste better than no-crinked ones.
Cause they're crinkly!
But the biggy here is: What is the meaning of life? I kind of believe (this is just my opinion) in the Matrix and the world is just a program.
Oh! has anyone watched Ricky Gervais- Animal stand up? @ stefkov. Theres a part where he reads the first section of the Bible, "God created the heavens and the Earth. Then he said 'let there be light'. This means God created the heavens and the Earth in darkness! What a genious"

[The Peeps]

Does anyone know what I was going to ask? ::shrug: :cry:

[Charlie]

But the biggy here is: What is the meaning of life?

Fourty-two.

[AshMat]

Fourty-two.
Damn beat me too it :p

@boo, i really don't get that ricky gervais thingy.. it's not even funny..
(i really don't like ricky gervais)

[Charlie]

Damn beat me too it :p


Only just, I remembered about '42' as soon as I had closed the tab with the post on it so I had to rush back and edit it :heh:

[Ashley]

Where do people get downloadable music videos from? I wanna make icons.

(Question disguised as query)

[DiemetriX]

Only just, I remembered about '42' as soon as I had closed the tab with the post on it so I had to rush back and edit it :heh:


emm.. 42 is not he meaning of life... it's just the answer to emm.. another question.. I never read the book.. But If i remember correctly the meaning of life was never answered beacause the real earth was destroyed... or somthing like it. Can any one back me upp on that?

[Arragaun]

Forty-two is the answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.

So in effect, it answers more than the question of the meaning of life.

[AshMat]

But deep thought never figured out the answer, and if i remember rightly, when ford and arthur are:
pulling the scrabble peices or whatever they are out of the bag, they get 7*9

[That Guy]

Damn beat me too it :p

@boo, i really don't get that ricky gervais thingy.. it's not even funny..
(i really don't like ricky gervais)

OK I got another 1. How can anyone not like Ricky Gervais?!:wtf:

[Charlie]

Jordan - Couldn't be bothered looking through to see if anyone had answered your questions already....

Men have nipples because the gender isn't decided until someway through the pregnancy so everything has almost everything... I think...

[Ashley]

OK I got another 1. How can anyone not like Ricky Gervais?!:wtf:

Hes annoying, loud-mouthed, full fo himself, arrogant (well appears to be, never met him face to face) and just not really funny.

[That Guy]

Hes annoying, loud-mouthed, full fo himself, arrogant (well appears to be, never met him face to face) and just not really funny.

Thats that one cleared up then... :grin:

[Ashley]

Thats that one cleared up then... :grin:

Yup. I am answerer of all questions.

[MoogleViper]

Yup. I am answerer of all questions.

Why have I not yet got laid?

also...

How can I get laid by a goergous women without getting a receipt afterwards?

[Jordan]

Don't ask for one when you hand the money over. ;)

[MoogleViper]

also...

Why does (almost) everyody wear it on the left?

[Ashley]

Why have I not yet got laid?

also...

How can I get laid by a goergous women without getting a receipt afterwards?

Cause you're too busy posting about it and not being pro-active :p

And I won't answer the left-handed question until I know exactly what you're talking about ;)

[That Guy]

How can I overcome my lack of confidence? (If you can get this one I'll buy you a beer)

[Jordan]

Well if you're a Sim you can just go and practise infront of a mirror.

Yes... i've been playing games too much again.

[Ashley]

How can I overcome my lack of confidence? (If you can get this one I'll buy you a beer)

Be more self-confident. Sounds stupid and obvious but if you start acting cocky, it will boost your self esteem. I used to be kinda meh about my looks, but then I decided to turn it around and whenever my full-of-himself friend said he looked great (which he often said) I told him that I look so much better than he does. After a while I started to believe it.

[AshMat]

Hes annoying, loud-mouthed, full fo himself, arrogant (well appears to be, never met him face to face) and just not really funny.
Quoted for complete and utter agreement.

[Ramar]

Be more self-confident. Sounds stupid and obvious but if you start acting cocky, it will boost your self esteem. I used to be kinda meh about my looks, but then I decided to turn it around and whenever my full-of-himself friend said he looked great (which he often said) I told him that I look so much better than he does. After a while I started to believe it.

Haha

Sounds similar to when I'm out. If a female friend mentions something like my shoddy dance moves or my choice of clothing I use the line "You know you love it". Self confidence booster. But then again I'd say I'm a confident person anyway.

[Atomic Boo]

What?! Ricky Gervais is great. Ah well. It's British humour, maybe most of you are used to American humour which is immediatly obvious. Most people i know really like the office as its so painful to watch, the annoying people you get in work places.
Btw i dont get the 42 thing
:o

[Ashley]

What?! Ricky Gervais is great. Ah well. It's British humour, maybe most of you are used to American humour which is immediatly obvious. Most people i know really like the office as its so painful to watch, the annoying people you get in work places.
Btw i dont get the 42 thing
:o

I dont like British humour en masse. Yeah American humour is 'obvious', but I prefer something sly, and "clever" (as so to speak), such as Arrested Development. A lot of jokes in that require you to know about the television industry, its a lot of sly winks and such. And I prefer The Comeback to The Office, similar kind of thing, but I'd say The Office is more obvious humour. Plus I find Lisa Kudrow/Valerie Cherish far more of an approachable person.

The 42 thing is in reference to Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[Ashley]

What is the purpose of security codes when u sign up to something, or download something?

For umm security ::shrugs:

Unless its those "Type what you see in the box" things, which is apparently due to automated spam sign-ups.

[Stefkov]

what do dogs actually eat in the wild, ive never thought of seeing a dog in a desolate place, or something. liek you see tigers or monkeys etc. you dont often think of dogs being in those places. so what would they have eaten before we, the humans, took them as our pets?

also why do people think that bulls get angry at red, bulls are colourblind, they cant see the red, they hate the shaking of it. you could wave a green cloth infront of it and it would charge at you. (also to make myself look less stupid, i dont know if this is true, however ive had it in my mind for a long time.)

also i dont get why people love it when dogs lick them. dogs sweat through their tongues! why is it so pleasurable to some people to have sweat covered on their face?

[Rick Dangerous]

Yeah, and why do crinkled crisps/ mini cheddars taste better than no-crinked ones.

Crinkles make the surface area larger, meaning more fat is absorbed when they are cooked making it tastier i guess.:grin:

[mario114]

what do dogs actually eat in the wild

Dunno, but I cuaght my dog try to eat a dead bird this morning, it was very discusting.

Edit: when I say trying I mean when I looked at the thing there was only half the body left, and no head, I think a cat may have got to it first though...

[Eenuh]

what do dogs actually eat in the wild, ive never thought of seeing a dog in a desolate place, or something. liek you see tigers or monkeys etc. you dont often think of dogs being in those places. so what would they have eaten before we, the humans, took them as our pets?

also why do people think that bulls get angry at red, bulls are colourblind, they cant see the red, they hate the shaking of it. you could wave a green cloth infront of it and it would charge at you. (also to make myself look less stupid, i dont know if this is true, however ive had it in my mind for a long time.)

also i dont get why people love it when dogs lick them. dogs sweat through their tongues! why is it so pleasurable to some people to have sweat covered on their face?

Okay erm, dogs don't have sweat on their tongue. While we sweat to get our body to cool down, dogs pant. Dogs don't sweat, not even through their tongue.
And since dogs kinda come from the wolves, you can assume they ate other animals.

[Mercyful Fate]

Haha! I've seen a similar sort of program where the woman says "YOU RIPPED MY STUFF!" It might've been the same program really.


Hah, I actually saw that program tonight! :D

[Fierce_LiNk]

Hah, I actually saw that program tonight! :D

Hahahaha. :D
Me and my mates take the mick out of that. We randomly say or text to each other "you ripped my stuff!" Good stuff, hehe.

[Jav_NE]

They dont need it, as dabooker said, its a favouring. Do you prefer to grope larger breasts? You dont need them, you just favour it.

Ive always wondered whether we have stunted evolution because of our way of life. If evolution is in fact how we came to be here, are we the fully evolved form? If we didnt live in houses and in towns and cities like we have for however long we have, if we were out in the wild, would the human race evolve more?

Why IS the sky blue? Really.. i dont buy this reflecting the sea business. If thats the case, why is the sea blue? Water is colourless. Besides, the sky can be many colours, orangey/red/purple, obviously its something to do with the suns light but reflecting the sea isnt the explanation.

Why are we so dependent on computers in our day and age? We did fine without the internet before. Sure, computers are a necessity for banks, but we dont actually need them in our home. Its strange, we all have them now, and we love them. But we arnt dependent on them, at least we dont have to be.

[Blackfox]

Why IS the sky blue? Really.. i dont buy this reflecting the sea business. If thats the case, why is the sea blue? Water is colourless. Besides, the sky can be many colours, orangey/red/purple, obviously its something to do with the suns light but reflecting the sea isnt the explanation.



During the day when light is the most intense, the blue spectra is the only one that can pass through at atmosphere. At sunset and sunrise, due to the sun not being directly overhead, different wavelengths can do so. Also, if the atmosphere contains a load of dust of pollutants then they mess with the light wavelengths too.

I think this might be a gross over-simplification when compared to how a physist might describe it but yeah..

[AshMat]

Why IS the sky blue? Really.. i dont buy this reflecting the sea business. If thats the case, why is the sea blue? Water is colourless. Besides, the sky can be many colours, orangey/red/purple, obviously its something to do with the suns light but reflecting the sea isnt the explanation.



Well the sea is colourless, just like regular tap water.
From what i learned in science it's this:
As white light shines trough our atmosphere it is split (like shining white light through a spectrum) and blue is the colour we see.

[Charlie]

The higher up (altitude) you got the lighter blue the sky is... Or is it darker? I was 'high' last week in France (Val Thorens, highest ski resort in Europe) and I really can't remember :heh:

[mike-zim]

But do we all see the same colour?

sorry it was just really conveinient to go back to the very first post.

Chicken and egg thing. i say it had to be the chicken to incubate the egg.

[Ginger_Chris]

hmmm, i still don't buy the forwards and backwards time traveling, the twins paradox isnt an example of backwards or forwards time traveling, its a case of time slowing down. it isnt really even a paradox. For anyone thats interested and doesnt know the twins paradox is this:

2 people (twins) are born at exactly the same time, sometime when theyy are older, one of them travels far away at a decent proportion of the speed of light. the other one stays at home. the one thats traveling then reverses direction and comes back to earth, again at a decent proportion of the speed of light. When they get back to earth, the one that took the journey will be younger. This isnt anything to do with time travel, its just the fact when the traveling guy was moving time slowed down for him, so he ages more slowely (coparitive to earth time). (technically to the traveling twin, his sibling is aging more slowely, but thats the relative motion bit, the difference in age comes because of the reversing direction part).

Theres no time travel involved. Technically,if you travelled at close to the speed of light, and back to earth again, you wont have aged much at all, and everyone on earth will have alot, which i suppose is technically time travel. Although its really just slowing time down for you. depends how you define time travel i suppose. either way, physicially traveling backwards in time is impossible, as time is the flow of information, and so information cannot be passed against the flow of time.


Oh and what dogsin the wild eat. Watch any documentary about African Wild dogs, dingo's, wolves, foxes, jackels or coyties. basically they hunt and kill things. African Wild dogs and wolves are very efficient pack hunters.

[The Peeps]

Why IS the sky blue? Really.. i dont buy this reflecting the sea business. If thats the case, why is the sea blue?

Actually that explanation is for why the sea is blue. It reflects the sky. Don't know why the sky is blue though :heh:

[mike-zim]

the who created god thing.

i was once told that god exists outside of time and space so therefor nothing can be before or after him.

i have always wondered. if you died at 90 and went to heaven what would you look like? would you look like you did when you died? or would you look like you did when you were most beautifull?

also how would people recognise you?

[Yoochem]

I've always wondered that too. Íf there is a heaven, ofcourse. I'm not saying that there isn't one, but we'll just have to find out :) But, assuming there is something like a heaven, I think we wouldn't have the shape of our physical forms on earth, but more like a spirit or something. You'd probably recognise others by their "energy", not by their appearance.

Another question: What the hell is time anyway? With that relativity and stuff, how can you determine "now", past and future? It's different for everyone, but why? I'm making this post now, but the moment someone else reads this, it's in the past that I made this post. So, from that person's perspective, I would be living in the past right now. But I'm not. And still, you are reading this now, aren't you? Time is a funny thing...

[mike-zim]

my head my poor little unintelligent head.

[The3rdChildren]

Here is a short list of things I've always wondered:

- Why are Sugar Puffs so fucking adhesive?

- Why does mankind exist and what is our ultimate purpose in the universe?

- Just how far does the universe go?

- Why do people eat eggs when eggs taste like farts?

- Why do people still believe that entries on Bash.org are real?

- Why is Flash such a unecessarily difficult program to use?

- How in one of the season 8 episodes of the X-Files did John Doggett cut a slug from the back of Dana Scully's neck, ripping the back of her neck open yet not losing the small metallic implant housed in the back of her neck that keeps her cancer in regression? DID THEY THINK WE WOULDN'T NOTICE?

- Why all primary school kids played the recorder?

- Just what the fuck that thing is in Spider-man's eye?

- What the hell is going on in Lost?

- What's my overall purpose in life?

- Why people KEEP creating fake 24 torrents to kill my spirit?

- Why the hell Stranger gave Advanced Warfighter 7.9/10 on HM-Fusion?

- Why is religion is so accepted despite strong scientific evidence it's all a lie?

- Why do people like the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory despite the fact it is complete wank?


There are loads of these, it's all very strange inside my head.

[Cube]

Chicken and egg thing. i say it had to be the chicken to incubate the egg.

Incorrect.

The Egg came first. The creature that was almost a chicken layed the egg which contained a mutated form of said creature. Mutated form is now called the chicken.

- Why does mankind exist and what is our ultimate purpose in the universe?

It exists because it does. There is no ultimate purpose


- Just how far does the universe go?


about 78 billion light years.


- Why do people eat eggs when eggs taste like farts?

Because they dont to most people


- Why do people still believe that entries on Bash.org are real?

Because some people are that stupid


- Why is Flash such a unecessarily difficult program to use?

It isnt if you learn how to use it

- How in one of the season 8 episodes of the X-Files did John Doggett cut a slug from the back of Dana Scully's neck, ripping the back of her neck open yet not losing the small metallic implant housed in the back of her neck that keeps her cancer in regression? DID THEY THINK WE WOULDN'T NOTICE?

The writers probably didnt notice

- Why all primary school kids played the recorder?

Because they are cheep to buy. shcools have budgets.

- Just what the fuck that thing is in Spider-man's eye?

His mask?


- What the hell is going on in Lost?

People are stuck on an island

- What's my overall purpose in life?

There isnt one

- Why people KEEP creating fake 24 torrents to kill my spirit?

Because they are illigal


- Why is religion is so accepted despite strong scientific evidence it's all a lie?

Because its the faith thats important to them, not the facts

[mike-zim]

our resident guru. all hail the answer king.

[AshMat]

Here is a short list of things I've always wondered:

- Why does mankind exist and what is our ultimate purpose in the universe?
To blow each other up.

- Just how far does the universe go?
Forever
- Why do people eat eggs when eggs taste like farts?
It's the other way round, farts taste like egg

- Why is Flash such a unecessarily difficult program to use?
Macromedia are fags

- Why all primary school kids played the recorder?
It's easy to teach and the school is lasy

- Just what the fuck that thing is in Spider-man's eye?
Waldo

- What the hell is going on in Lost?
Even the writers don't know

- Why people KEEP creating fake 24 torrents to kill my spirit?
Some people are just fags

- Why is religion is so accepted despite strong scientific evidence it's all a lie?
Some people refuse to believe the truth

There are loads of these, it's all very strange inside my head.
True

[Charlie]

Just how far does the universe go?

It has an end... but its ever expanding so you'll never be able to reach the end. Draw some dots on a balloon and blow it up, that's what the universe is like. The closer you get to the edge time slows down.

Why people KEEP creating fake 24 torrents to kill my spirit?
Get the [eztv] one!

[Rick Dangerous]

These two questions hurt my head if i think about them too much(especailly the last one :D):

What would a completely new colour look like?

Why do people continue to use Microsoft Windows?

[The Peeps]

What would there be if the Universe didn't exist?

[Cube]

What would a completely new colour look like?

It wouldn't. our eyes only recieve certain frequencies of light, corresponding to different colours. A "new" colour wold not be noticed by the eye, like infrared, ultraviolet, etc.

[Hellfire]

Time doesn't exist, it's a lie created by the governements in order to keep us in check! There is no past and no future there is only the now! Live for the moment! Viva La Revolution! Eat white meat!

[Librarian]

why I have to sit here and be bored stupid at work instead of sitting at home right now next to my Xbox, GameCube and Ps2..

and why I ALWAYS forget the hangover I had last weekend.. the hangover that was to cure me of drinking forever

[mike-zim]

because deep down you know drinking is good.

[Arragaun]

Why do people continue to use Microsoft Windows?
That's because some people can't afford the outrageous Apple pricing plan.

Oh and to those two other people who answered the 'which came first, chicken or egg?' question, I already answered it. With the correct answer. That being Cube's answer.

[mike-zim]

how do you know it is the right answer?

What if the ancestor of the chicken did not lay eggs. therefore the chicken would have to have been first.

[Cube]

That's because some people can't afford the outrageous Apple pricing plan.

Why do people use Windows XP on a Mac, then?

Probably because they are too scared of the new, and compatibility problems as a lot of games/programs dont work, even with the so-called "windows emulator" (its in quotation marks because it is not an emulator, just called one as to not confuse people)


edit: wait, did i just answer my own question?? The why on earth did i ask it? Probably because someone will ask it soon, with the dual-boot thing all over the technology news. Oh, and there i go again.

[Arragaun]

how do you know it is the right answer?

What if the ancestor of the chicken did not lay eggs. therefore the chicken would have to have been first.
Chickens right.. come out of eggs. Got that? So, if something were to give birth to something that you might deem a chicken, and was not hatched from an egg, it wasn't a chicken. Birds come out of eggs, that's how they're gestated, they are just not born like mammals.

Egg first.

Why do people use Windows XP on a Mac, then?

Probably because they are too scared of the new, and compatibility problems as a lot of games/programs dont work, even with the so-called "windows emulator" (its in quotation marks because it is not an emulator, just called one as to not confuse people)
I don't think people are necessarily scared of Apple Macs, just that they cannot be arsed switching all their shit over to a different computer.

Granted, if my Windows PC were to fuck up an awful lot, I'd endeavour to get a Mac. But it doesn't, so I don't.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Why does grated cheese taste better than its sliced cousin?

[That Guy]

I don't think people are necessarily scared of Apple Macs, just that they cannot be arsed switching all their shit over to a different computer.

Granted, if my Windows PC were to fuck up an awful lot, I'd endeavour to get a Mac. But it doesn't, so I don't.


Mine did and i eventually punched it until it broke. I'm now buying a mac. Trouble for me is, incompatability with word files and whatever, and i wont be able to chat on msn with friends.

[Haver]

Mine did and i eventually punched it until it broke. I'm now buying a mac. Trouble for me is, incompatability with word files and whatever, and i wont be able to chat on msn with friends.

Microsoft Office is available for Mac, and so's MSN Messenger in some capacity. Charlie is running on Apple hardware and he's on my list.

Also, you can run Windows XP on your intel Mac with Boot Camp.

[Cube]

Also, doesnt open office run on mac? that opens .doc

[Stocka]

Two noobish questions
1. How does dust form and why?
2. What does RRP stand for? [I know it means standard retail price or something...]

[Ashley]

Two noobish questions
2. What does RRP stand for? [I know it means standard retail price or something...]

Reccomended Retail Price, sometimes known as SRP too (Suggested Retail Price).

[Infinete]

Two noobish questions
1. How does dust form and why?
2. What does RRP stand for? [I know it means standard retail price or something...]

House dust
dust which collects in houses is composed of atmospheric dust combined with dust generated by the inhabitants, mostly from sloughed skin cells and fibers from clothing and coverings. House dust mites, often found in fibers like carpets and beds, feed on the organic components of house dust. Their feces, in turn, become part of house dust and can provoke allergic reactions in humans.

RRP
Recomended retail price, this is the price recomended to a shop to sell a good or service for, although it does not have to be followed, it is reccomended.

[Bren]

when you dream something, and it happens a few days/weeks/months later, makes me stop and take a step back. what the fuck is this? and why does it happen?

[W3st]

Wich one would win Steven Seagal or Jean Claude Van Damme ? Oh and what's the meaning of life ?

[Charlie]

Microsoft Office is available for Mac, and so's MSN Messenger in some capacity. Charlie is running on Apple hardware and he's on my list.

Also, you can run Windows XP on your intel Mac with Boot Camp.

I've got the latest version of MS Office for the Mac, it's great. The official MSN client sucks, it supports display pictures and that's about it. I'm using aMSN at the moment, it seems pretty good so far, has webcam support :)

[Jordan]

Theres a reason to own a mac now that you can run Windows on one ;).

Heres a question, how do telephone/internet service providers call 1mb or 2mb internet "Broadband" when other countries such as France are on 25mbit and in Japan people are on 100mbit now.

In Hong Kong you can get gigabit home lines for about £60 a month...

[AshMat]

Becaause the east is soooo ahead of us in the tech market

[Bren]

because the UK is a fuckin rip-off, and theyre milking each speed, and then eventually will get round to 1 gig, by this time japan will have 100gig.

lets go burn down BT

[EchoDesiato]

Wich one would win Steven Seagal or Jean Claude Van Damme ? Oh and what's the meaning of life ?
Jack Bauer and 42.

[AshMat]

Hell with that, by the time we get to 1gb the Japs will be on terabytes

[Charlie]

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why are there still monkeys and apes?

How do Keep Off The Grass signs get there?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

How young can you die of old age?

[mario114]

How young can you die of old age?

Theres that weird disease which causes people to ages really fast, so quite young, but normally I would have though the youngest would be about 55 in this country. If you live in some 3rd world country then 40 odd can be concederred old-but weather or not they die of old age or disase and stuff I don't know.

[KingJoe]

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why are there still monkeys and apes?

Because evolution is an ongoing, continuous process. Today's monkeys and apes evolved from monkey-like and ape-like creatures too.

[mike-zim]

the keep of the grass signs are lowered by helicopter, or there is no need to keep off the grass till the sign is put up at which point the person putting up the sign is air lifted out of there.

[mike-zim]

i dont think we are evolving really. there is no need we are the dominant species on the planet. technology has replaced the need to evolve. you will find species like urban fox's will be much the same.

[KingJoe]

i dont think we are evolving really. there is no need we are the dominant species on the planet. technology has replaced the need to evolve. you will find species like urban fox's will be much the same.

We have been 'dominant' (what does that actually mean in this context, there are more ants than people...) for the blink of an eye. Our environment is constantly changing and so are the conditions for breeding. There could always be a freak mutation that would be of an avantage in our environment, and the sheer number of migrating people means that genes that were forged in , for example, Sweden are now in Australia. There's a lot of potential adaption there!

[Ashley]

Not something I've always wondered, but is it possible to give birth in a coma?

[guarana]

Not something I've always wondered, but is it possible to give birth in a coma?

wow ..this HAS to be the quote of the YEAR...:bowdown: :bowdown: wow..

[Eenuh]

Not something I've always wondered, but is it possible to give birth in a coma?

As far as I know, I think it is. Recently heard of a paralyzed woman (couldn't do anything anymore) giving birth to a baby (she died after giving birth though). Think I also heard about people in coma giving birth (one way or the other).

[Ashley]

As far as I know, I think it is. Recently heard of a paralyzed woman (couldn't do anything anymore) giving birth to a baby (she died after giving birth though). Think I also heard about people in coma giving birth (one way or the other).

See I presumed if a nine-month pregnant woman went into a coma they would give her a c-section, but was curious if the body could naturally do it. Just kind of curious, and I don't know any nurses, doctors or biology teachers.

[Eenuh]

I think in some cases it can still happen the natural way, but a C-section seems to be safer in such cases probably.

[Jordan]

I thought it would require a certain amount of "force" from the woman? If she was in a coma, this wouldn't be possible. I just don't get that.

[Arragaun]

I think they have tubes that do the excretion work for you when you're comatose.

[Jordan]

....But if you don't eat or drink then why would you need to? :P

[Dyson]

Here's one.

What happens if you're having sex, and you need to urinate? What do you do then? You seem kinda fucked if you ask me [Pun unintentional].

[Letty]

....But if you don't eat or drink then why would you need to? :P

but you do eat and drink otherwise you'd die. dont you get tubes and stuff that put in suger/otherstuff?

[mario114]

Wouldn't the person in the coma smell really badly? I guess they wash them, but thats not the same as a shower/bath.

[Blackfox]

Bad baths perhaps? ...

And yeah, Jordan, of course they eat you fool. How do you think people spend 20 years in coma?

[Solo]

Here's one.

What happens if you're having sex, and you need to urinate? What do you do then? You seem kinda fucked if you ask me [Pun unintentional].

i don't feel the need to pee when i'm having sex (when i do need to pee, if you know what i mean). it's like the feeling is blocked off cos you've got a hard on, but the bladder does hurt abit when your thrusting.

[Jordan]

Thats true, Solo. When you have an "errection" it blocks the body from peeing.

Although some people have problems with it due to other reasons. Girls however can do both... but its pretty dodgy :P

[Zakatu]

When you have an erection the tube to the bladder (uretha?) gets closed by the expansion of blood. It pushes on it making peeing almost impossible.

I think if you were absolutely bursting for a piss but had a hard on, nature would find a way.

Also, if your in a coma for 20 years and don't excrete, then surely what was left of your last meal, would basically rot away? could be really disgusting.

[Atomic Boo]

What are you before you are born. Are you just staring at a blank screen, but then would you be able to see? and what would YOU be if you could see?

btw i believe in re-incarnation

[Charlie]

What are you before you are born. Are you just staring at a blank screen, but then would you be able to see? and what would YOU be if you could see?

btw i believe in re-incarnation

You eyes are closed before you're born, so..... the same thing you see when you're asleep. Or when your eyes are closed :heh:

[The Peeps]

I see some pretty saucy things when I close my eyes...

[Arragaun]

If that's true, you should visit this site. It's definitely not porn.

www.saucy.com/ (http://www.saucy.com/)

[The Peeps]

Is it insomnia if you don't go to sleep purely because you don't want to?

I could go to sleep right now, and definitely should but I just don't want to. It's like I can't make the conscious choice to go to sleep, I have to read for an hour or watch a dvd something to get me beyond tiredness before I can sleep :( annoying thing is I never want to wake up lol. Not enough hours in the day...

If I have the normal amount of sleep (8 hours?) right now, I'll wake up at 12pm and that's way too late, all the day has gone... And I like 12 hours sleep more lol - that's it, I don't mind actually being asleep but I just can't consciously decide to go to sleep from being awake :S

[...]

Same here, Ninja. :D When I'm up I don't want to go to sleep, but when I'm asleep I don't wanna get up. It's just weird...


About the purpose of life and stuff like that.

a) to the people who say there is a purpose, why should there be?

b) to the people who say there isn't a purpose, why shouldn't there be?

Basically what I'm saying is you don't know, so don't claim it as fact. When I see that question, "what's the purpose of all this?", my answer is always "why must there be one?". It's not a denial, but it's not an affirmation either, cause either one of those two could be wrong. If there isn't a purpose and you say there is, you're wrong. If there is a purpose and you say there isn't, you're wrong. So just be agnostic, it's the smartest thing to be.

[Stefkov]

i wonder if dolphins are actually trying to warn us of something?

(#thanks for all the fish#)