The silly question thread
 

1. How is it cats and dogs lick poo off their anus every day and not get sick?

2. Why do they sterilize the lethal injection needle in executions? Someone gave a good answer to this one time but I forget.

3. What happens if an inmate survives his execution? Surely this must have happened at some point.

4. This is more of a legitimate question, but just thought I'd throw it in here instead of making another thread. What are we going to do with prisoners with life sentences when we become quasi-immortal? Like when all diseases are cured and we can live 1000+ years theoretically. Once these "immortal" treatments become freely available, do we even give them to prisoners? How long does a life sentence become? And this scenario may not be far off, I could see this being a real concern within 50 years if things keep going the way they are in the medical industry.

So answer, or ask your own questions.

1) Actually, they can get sick but we hardly ever try to figure out why so don't attribute it to poop-eating. They do have enzymes in their stomach that kill most bacteria.
(google is my friend :D)
2) Don't really know, but probably has something to do with the "cruel and inhuman" line of thinking...
3) There was an inmate back in the 1800's who survived 3 tries at hanging. Third time, they said "fuck it" and his sentence was commuted to life.

4)I don't see humans living that long or any multiple diseases being eradicated entirely-others will come along. And a life sentence now doesn't mean true life most times, so why would that change?


My question:
Where does that other sock go?

Didn't you ever wonder how you always make a blunder
When you're countin' all your socks
into the washing machine?
And when the dryer finishes dryin'
And you're cryin' cause you got a bunch
of old maid socks--
It's a bad scene
Where does the wayward footwear go?
To the bottom of the ocean?
Or to China?
Or to Cuba?
Or Aruba?
And when the dryer finishes dryin'
And you're cryin' cause you got a bunch
of old maid socks--
It's a bad scene

- The Bobs

My question:
Why is the hot water faucet always on the left side, but the direction that you turn it in changes from sink to sink?

its a universal safety mechanism so that no one burns themselves. its so that anyone from anypart of the world knows that hot is on the left and cold is on the right without thinking about it


my questions - why do men have two testicles when you can work perfectly fine with just one?

Either because God decided you needed two, or because of evolution (in which case, you may eventually have 3 or 4) :D

my questions:
what color is a chameleon?

why does the register at work announce "scale failed" in a loud voice only after I have hit the button to reset the scale? By then I've not only pretty much figured out that the scale failed, but also solved the problem. I asked my boss this question, but he just smiled and walked away.

Why do we say "Go back and forth?":confused: It really should be to go forth and back. Because you really can't go back until you've gone forth.:shakehead:

Lindy

Back and forth: You can't go back until you've gone forth, it's true. However, if one's intention is to only go forth, when you have to back for some reason and then forth again, sometimes repeatedly, then it becomes back and forth. Otherwise it would simply be going and coming. It doesn't become back and forth until you've come back and gone forth again.

Sorry, no question at this time.

It has been designed with the sole purpose of humiliation.

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True, but what about the second half? When I need to turn the hot water down because someone flushed the toilet somewhere, I also need to know which direction means "less hot".

Because you should have figured out the direction on your initial turning of it on.

Riddle me this
Why do the crosswalks only flash the walk sign for like 2 seconds? I've literally jogged across the effing walk and only made it half way before it changes to the warning hand. If I walk it will actually get to the point of the 'no walk' sign. Then cars turning look at me all mad like I've done something wrong. I've nearly been killed several times trying to (properly) cross a street at a crosswalk, and during the proper time.

Persecution shall follow anyone who dares laugh ...

The phrase ... "shit bricks" / "Bricks will be shat" / "you shall shit bricks" / "dropped a brick"

What does it mean, why is it used?

Term used to describe a situation where someone became so overcome with a feeling that they not only lost control of their bowels, they did so on a magnificant scale and let a square unit drop down. - Urban Dictionary

Here's a silly answer to an unasked question, when your gum loses its flavor on the bedpost overnight, put it in water for about ten minutes, and the flavor will come back.

That would be John Lee, and he in fact was released at the age of 41 because they felt bad about the botched attempts.

In 1997 an Iranian woman was buried waist deep and stoned nearly to death for having sex. She woke up at the morgue. Amnesty International stepped in and she was released that same year.

Back in the 40's when Lousiana had no problem executing minors (as long as they're minorities), 16 year old Willie Francis was sent to the electric chair for killing a store owner. When they tried to execute, he started screaming for them to turn it off because he wasn't dying. Turns out, a drunk guard had set up the chair improperly. They killed him a year and a half later.

Here's one that has perplexed me most of my adult life:

Why does our hair behave differently day to day even when we do exactly the same things to it each day and why does it always look its best 5 minutes before going to bed???? Yea, that drives me nuts...

This is just a tempt to state how absolutely hot you look.

The bacteria at the ass-end of the GI tract is mostly the same stuff as the beginning. Saliva and stomach acid also do a pretty good job of killing organisms.
The same reason we have two of any organ: way back in the evolutionary tree, before the comforts of modern society, it was a lot more common for organs to fail or be catastrophically damaged. The people with two got to pass their genes on and the ones with one didn't.
That way people don't start walking too late. If the walk signal is on, you have enough time to get across before the light changes. If the warning hand is flashing, you should still have enough time to finish crossing, but not enough if you start. If drivers don't like it, they can go fuck themselves.
First part: humidity and other atmospheric conditions. Second part: your skin's oil has wicked into your hair and formed a barrier against moisture and static electricity, and has given it a bit of weight so it stays in place better.

Why does putting ones hands into water inspire the urge to pee?

fucked if i know, but msd seems like he has all the answers. he'll probably be in a day or two

What are those noises that you hear at night when you're home alone? It sounds like cupboards opening and closing and dishes rattling around. It's not mice because I remember once I kept the cupboard open.. and the next morning it was closed. I doubt ghosts because why would they only bother with the cupboards at night when I'm the only one home? I doubt earthquakes because why doesn't the crap in my room shuffle around, too?? hmmmm I always lock the doors and windows closed before I go to bed, too. hmmmmmm

your imagination

are jews and muslims immune to the swine flu?

They're not immune, they can catch it through contact, not just consumption.

Why do my hands still smell like bleach no matter how much I wash them? You'd think if they still smell like bleach they'd be eating away at my skin, but my hands are fine, they just smell.

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I'm guessing when the temperature drops at night the wood constricts enough to slowly close until the spring of the hinges does the rest of the work.

It seems to affect older houses the most, my dad's house creeks a ton (especially the roof, used to scare me as a kid thinking it was about to collapse) when it cools during the night.

Why do tears BURN!!! Even when I yawn, they really sting!

Maybe you have too much salt in your diet? Mine don't burn.

Israel is referring to it as "Mexico Flu" because pork isn't kosher. So are they immune to "swine flu"; the answer is yes. Mexico flu not so much.

The current "swine" flu (H1N1) is not caught from pork. It's improperly named, so Israel is on the right track even if their reasoning is silly.

I was told that the preferred term is now "hamthrax".

Small Outbreak of a New Flu Virus Mutation: Should EU send in STARS?
 

source: BBC NEWS | Europe | EU quarantines London in swine flu panic

There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in London due to mutation of the H1N1 virus into new strain: H1Z1.

Similar to a scare originally found in Cambodia back in 2005, victims of a new strain of the swine flu virus H1N1 have been reported in London.

After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alert to phase six, its highest level, and advised governments to activate pandemic contingency plans.

In Mexico, the epicentre of the outbreak, President Felipe Calderon urged people to stay at home over the next five days.



CONFIRMED CASES

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Mexico: 168 suspected deaths - eight confirmed - 12 zombies

US: one death, at least 91 confirmed cases

New Zealand: 13 confirmed cases

Canada: 19 confirmed cases

UK: 5 confirmed cases

Spain: 10 confirmed cases

Germany: 3 confirmed cases

Israel, Costa Rica: 2 confirmed cases each

The Netherland, Switzerland, Austria, Peru: 1 confirmed case each

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Mapping the outbreak

Mexican economy squeezed by flu

Mexico: First swine flu cases

Africa awaits two swine flu tests

There are many cases elsewhere - including the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Israel, and New Zealand.

BBC health correspondent Mark McGrith says the raising of the WHO alert on Wednesday suggests a global epidemic, or pandemic, is imminent.

In the latest developments:
» The Netherlands confirms its first case of zombie swine flu, in a three-year-old boy recently returned from Mexico. After passing away early this morning, he rose from the dead and lunged at his mother.
» Ghana has become the latest country to ban pork imports as a precaution against swine flu, though no cases have been found in the West African country
» China’s health minister says that the country’s scientists have developed a "sensitive and fast" test for spotting swine flu in conjunction with US scientists and the WHO. The country has recorded no incidence of the flu yet. There methods, however, have been uneffective in spotting the H1Z1 strain.

At the meeting of health ministers in Luxembourg, a French proposal for a continent-wide travel advisory for Mexico will be discussed.



SYMPTOMS - WHAT TO DO

Swine flu symptoms are similar to those produced by ordinary seasonal flu - fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, chills and fatigue

If you have flu symptoms and recently visited affected areas of Mexico, you should seek medical advice

If you suspect you are infected, you should stay at home and take advice by telephone initially, in order to minimise the risk of infection

If you feel yourself passing away, then notice your strength and vigor returning at an alarming rate, please attempt to restrain yourself to prevent infection and harm to others.

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Q&A: What is swine flu?

Swine flu: How serious a threat?

Can masks help spread?

The quest for a swine flu vaccine

It is unclear whether the EU executive has the power to impose a travel ban.

Several countries have restricted travel to Mexico and many tour operators have cancelled holidays.

Other members are resisting calls to implement travel bans or close borders, on the grounds - backed by the WHO - that there is little evidence of their efficacy.

The EU ministers will also try to agree on how to refer to the new virus.

The European Commission has been calling it "novel flu", replacing the word "swine" to avoid prompting a fall in demand for pork and bacon.

On Wednesday, Egypt began a mass slaughter of its pigs - even though the WHO says the virus was now being transmitted from human to human.

All in my head.
 

Latelky I have just been so fuckin' fed up with work.

How do I stop the goddamn feeling of a stupid headache while at work, because once I get home, the headache goes away!!

I recommend a 9mm vitamin, administered directly to head, shoot one dose every 4-6 hours as needed.
Active ingredient: lead
WARNING: may cause instant death, swelling, bleeding, or bloating
Stop use and ask a doctor if: you're taking this seriously

I'm fucked ...

Isn't there something when the Judge sentences, he/she says, "you shall be imprisoned for the remainder of your natural life . . ."?

That is an interesting question though. With life expectancies rising, some things will have to be re-vamped. Where do you draw the line between basic medical care and life prolonging care?

Really though, a life sentence without possibly of parole is a death sentence. Just the sentence is given to nature to carry out, and not the State.

Interesting idea, but I don't agree. A death sentence means that the state will chose the time of your death. A life sentence does not. It seems to me that the variation makes all the difference.

If the post office is in so much trouble, why can't they increase the cost of bulk mailings instead of first class stamps? If nothing else, wouldn't that cut down on the amount of junk mail I get?

I'm guessing they must care much more about keeping the business of the bulk mailers than keeping yours or mine...

Q: Why have more birds designated my new car as a toilet within the first month than they EVER have with all of my previous cars combined?

Because the new wax on the car makes for much more interesting splatter patterns?

Why are religions still around ?

That's easy; cause people are still around :D

Why don't (most) chairs and desks sit at the proper height for typing? And what's with those crazy high booths/tables in restaraunts?! I'm 6'1 and I feel like a baby eating at the big boy table.

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated vs. murdered?

Why does round pizza come in a square box?

Bleach breaks up oils and denatures certain proteins on your skin, leaving a porous, dry surface where bits of bleach stick around. Rinse them with white vinegar then rinse with water. The acetic acid reacts with the remaining hypochlorite ions, leaving a water soluble residue that rinses off. Any vinegar smell will wash off with soap.
Your eyes are probably irritated from rubbing them, and salt in irritation hurts. Even so, Ask next time you see an eye doctor or regular doctor just in case there's a bigger problem. You only have one set of eyes and you want to keep them in top shape.
You're stressed. Try this pressure point: find the triangle between your neck, trapezius muscle, and collarbone. Cross your arms, place your thumbs in that triangle, and pinch the trapezius as hard as you can tolerate. Hold for 30 seconds and release while exhaling. This pressure point will release a noticeable quantity of endorphines and relax you. It's even better if you can find someone else to do it, and have them massage your neck while your'e relaxed, which will stimulate blood flow to the brain.

Alternately, you're allergic to something at work and should take some Zyrtec.
Confirmation bias
In addition to conveying a sense of importance, the term assassination tends to indicate that a murder is ideologically motivated. If an individual has influence over any sort of political, social, or religious movement and is murdered in revenge, to silence them, or to reduce the morale of those who support their cause, it can be said that they were assassinated. This is a relative term, much like the terrorist/freedom fighter dichotomy.

This reminds me of a tangentially related quote by World's King when Dan Rather retired. It was something like "What the hell do they mean, Dan Rather 'stepped down' as an anchor? He retired. That's like saying the cast of Friends stepped down."
It would take much longer, require more cuts and folds, and require more resources to recycle the discarded pieces to make a relatively round box, especially when it comes to making a working lid.

Doesn't fecal matter often contain E. Coli? I believe it's that because these common pets (cats and dogs) are carnivorous and that their saliva and stomach fluids tend to be much more acidic than ours.

- parenthetical note, I never knew until I read it the other day that the skin of reptiles is often a breeding ground for salmonella

As for frivolous questions..... ...I've always wondered what the point of those skill testing questions on lottery/contests is. Do people actually get them wrong??? And if so, does that serve as a legitimate basis to deny these people their prize????????????

And finally (because I've always been too lazy to research this, and am now really tired) why is the sky blue????

MSD: I don't know...maybe for body parts? To convert him? For rubber band target practice?

Follow MSD's advice, if you can figure out what the heck he was talking about without pictures. If the Zyrtec doesn't work, try an antihistamine with a decongestant. Also a health teacher once told us if you get stressed/headache-y at school to munch on peanuts or cashews (don't remember which).

It's true. Especially their belly area. We have a gecko, and keep a large bottle of anti-bacterial stuff beside the tank.

I think you need to pass the skill test to be considered for the contest. A no-pass probably means you were not even a contestant.

A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.

Edit: My question: WHAT is Twitter?

Canada prohibits contest that award prizes strictly based on chance. The math quiz displays that some sort of skill is required, even if it's elementary math, and bypasses the law.

I think Twistedmosaic provided a good explanation of the service:

Now here's something that was never quite elaborated by my mentors, and it dawned on me a couple times to ask about it, not the least of which being today.

What's the basis for the law and coined adage of "possession is 9/10ths of the law", and how is it applied in daily life situations?


e.g.
What would happen if I found a crisp, cool, unopened and abandoned bottle of Pepsi One underneath a park bench on a hot summer's day, and claimed it as my own? To go further, say I dropped my wallet at the exact moment I picked up the bottle, the original purchaser of the soda remembers that he had misplaced his product earlier in the day, goes in search of it, happens upon my wallet and calls me? If he was a real dick in this unfathomable scenario, and had found witnesses that saw me swipe his refreshment only to gulp it down before their eyes, could he submit my name to the authorities for due compensation? Am I safe in claiming "9/10th possession", or is there even a remote possibility that I could be charged with theft?

There's something like a minimal damages, for instance to get the attention of the FBI you have to do something like at least 5 thousand dollars worth of damages. Police are more along the lines of common sense. Really though, if the police want to arrest you they can find a reason. That's for criminal, if you mean civil IIRC there's something similar. You can also counter sue them for wasting their time over a drink. So while it might be technically possible for you to get in trouble for that you're never going to in real life.

Did cavemen actually drag their women with the hair?

hahahaha just saw this now. I lost it.

I know silk and synthetics have to be ironed at low temperatures, but why does every iron have a really low setting that warms it up but makes it utterly useless for ironing clothes? Is it to balance out the universe for that setting every toaster has that reduces perfectly good bread to a lump of charcoal? Are the toaster manufacturers in cahoots with the people who make smoke detectors?
"I was just holding it for a friend." You're still holding it and you're still in possession.
"I dropped that $50 bill and that guy picked it up." Your word against his and unless you've got some other evidence, he gets to keep it.
I doubt it. I don't think cave women had the same sex-negative social conditioning women today have. They probably enjoyed it.

Alright, you posted two sides of the coin's argument. Thank you.

One more scenario:

Say I am in possession of, let's say, a drum set. It's a sweet piece of goodness, to keep it short. Now, I've got a friend who buys the same drum set, though years later. He prizes it highly, puts it on a pedestal, everything, nearly, save claim an insurane policy for it. Later in this hypothetical, we'll suppose that his kit gets stolen, and he is distraught. I invite the friend over months later to try and get him out of his depression, and he notices my drum set for the first time. He, too, says "it's friggin' sweet" and adores how much it reminds him of what he recently lost. So much so, in fact, that he now notices its the exact model and color scheme of his separate but stolen drumkit.

Hysterics ensue, and he thows out the accusation that *I* stole his drum set, even though this is just a case of coincidence and mistaken identity. He calls the cops, and explains "his version" of the account (that I stole his drum set and became his friend just to do so) when, in actuality, my true account of the story is that I have had the drum set at least a decade before he bought his; BUT, the problem is I don't really recall where I got my drums, if and/or I paid for them, nor do I hold documentation/receipts/pictures 5 years me standing before the drums, smiling. However, the friend does hold a receipt for the same model of the drums, and presents it to the authorities or judge as evidence that I stole his equipment.

Say this scenario is played out before digital tagging and unique identification markers on each separate equipment (in the 1970s, I guess) and everything goes wrong in my case, not a word of my story is believed.


Would my inherent property be granted to some naysayer in a court of law, given the above circumstances, (i.e. he, having documentation and an accusation, and me, having no backstory nor any records of my possession of my own drums) and absolutely not a leg of credibility to stand on but my word against his, could this happen at all? Where does the "9/10th" clause protect and/or harm me in this case?




Granted, it is farfetched, but not out of the realm of imagination turned reality.

Abridged version: Can any ol' snob come into my residence, spin around in a circle, point to one of my possessions, ask if I hold a receipt to it (my reply: no), and subsequently complain to the police that I "stole his" property, and would he stand to gain my stuff in my own failure to produce any documentation, while he only has his accusation?


It honestly reminds me of that film with Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito [I don't know the name of it, (Oh, and that episode of "The Practice" where the sister got caught with crack in her hand, even though the brother was selling it)].

What theory does star-trek and star-wars legitimize "warp"? You know, travelling at almost the speed of light in some sort of ship/capsule whilst everything inside the capsule operating normally?

He would have to provide evidence that would allow a prosecutor to convince a jury beyond a shadow of a doubt that you did it.
"Inertial dampers" protect the ship and its contents. This is a fun read:

What does, "only a rebel from the waist down" or really, "from the waist down" mean? When I first heard this phrase I seized my first opportunity to use it and people laughed their asses off. It makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever!!

The iron has that as literally a warm up mode. turn it on and go do something else and itll be ready that much quicker than you actually need it. Safer than leaving it on the mode you actually want it to be since that might start a fire.

The toaster I am not positive on, as I haven't done testing. But I'm pretty sure the higher settings are for frozen stuff.

Ok, there's civil court that he could sue you, that depends completely on jurors. There is no "beyond a reasonable doubt" for civil court. It's whatever you can convince your peers. The other is criminal and it depends on the cop like I said. If the cop wants to he can. It's his word against yours and by a rule judges always go by the cop unless given a very specific and convinceable reason not to. And the cop could simply go by possession of stolen property...whether you meant to or not doesn't matter.

Warp? What do you mean? The theory goes that it gets around the speed of light by warping/bending the space around the ship. It elongates it behind, and shortens it in front. So the ship itself isn't moving by normal standards, only the space is warping in a bubble around the ship, hence why things are normal on board.

rebel from the waist down is refering to your genitals. It's just a colorful saying that you listen to the brain in your gonads and not your head.

Yes, this later evolved to mating dances which evolved to the night clubs of today. Hence, the phrase, "Going Clubbing".

^^ ROFL

I was introduced to deadpool after I saw the fourth (first) X-men recently released. (I still bang my head at paying for that travesty) but I still don't know for the life of me what his ability was.

I know he could regenerate after the encounter with the weapons X program but before he was given that ability to regenerate, what could he do? Was he like the chick from Heroes? Erm, Micah's Cousin, wait, got it, she had Adoptive Muscle Memory.

Off the top of your head, could someone (or a few people, even) tell me the definition of 'predicate'?

(I might already know the meaning of the word, and I can enter a search query just as well as you can, so what I wish to know is the type of person who can recall such archaic knowledge that was beat into them at a young age; also, if you want to look up the true definition of the word after you submit your answer in order to see if you were at least contextually relevant, that's all right, too)

Very simpkle examples provided by google, the simplest I can get actually.

# make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
# affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
# connote: involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"

But did you know of the definition, before consulting google?

Yeah I had a long definition lined up to do with it kinda being like an adjective in which it defines nouns but this time not only nouns but entire functions of a sentence, then google explained it best.

The iron takes 30 seconds to warm up to max anyway and the toaster has a separate frozen setting. Warp drive creates a "warp bubble" that prevents time dilation and allows faster-than-light travel, the ship certainly moves through space.

That explains Star Trek, but Star Wars uses Hyperspace rather than Warp drive to explain it's faster than light travel. In the Star Wars canon it's more a case of navigating a number of known safe paths through an alternate dimension or something similar. Apparently that's how they can justify the 'doing the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs' line when a parsec is a measurement of distance, not time - the Millenium Falcon can use routes that other ships can't, and as such could navigate the Kessel run (which might be half a galaxy in real terms) in less than 12 parsecs of Hyperspace. I'm not convinced it wasn't a genuine goof, but hell it works, even if they did add that retrospectively.

That's a pretty common way of achieving faster than light speed in Science Fiction - very similar to the Immaterium (or Warp, not to be confused with Star Trek's Warp speed) in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

What food is naturally colored blue?

What products from the living body has DNA in it that can tell someone this ___ sample is from Molly, not Mavin?

More to the point, which traces of the body (leg hair, fingernails, earwax, saliva, snot, chapped lip peelings, dislocated eyeballs, etc.) can be used by forensic analysts to identify who is whom?

Why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?

Why are they called buildings when they are already built?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

If an orange was another color would you still call it an orange?

If a cat always lands on it's feet and buttered bread always lands butter side down, what would happen if you strapped a piece of buttered bread to the back of a cat?

You've been reading my secret plans for an antigravity device haven't you? This is the basic design of it's drive core. I knew I should've gotten in that patent application sooner.

Silly question: What exactly DOES "red" flavored soda taste like? I still can't identify it.

blueberries

Anything that has cell nuclei on mitochondria in it. Since you're constantly shedding dead skin cells, that's pretty much everything.
If you crush them, they're purple.

^^ Anything else other than blue berries?

In the classical Greek alphabet, would Theta most likely be comparable to the Roman/English alphabet letter of "I"?

If you could drive a car at the speed of light and then turn on the headlights, what would happen?

We'd see the lights first before having the car hit us ... of course, or why else would we be standing in front of a car going at the speed of light?

As an object with mass would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate to c, the car would have to be moving through a medium in which the speed of light is slower than the speed of light in a vacuum. Friction between this medium and the car caused by the relative velocity difference would heat it and destroy the car from the front forward and outside in. The car would therefore have to be accelerated to this arbitrarily high sub-c velocity in a vacuum prior to exceeding the speed of light..

Upon transition to a non-vacuum in which an object with mass could exceed the speed of light, you would switch the lights on and nothing would happen because your nervous system is incapable of acting quickly enough for the switch to be fully actuated before the headlights were destroyed by friction between the car and the atmosphere. The process would probably emit quite a bit of light, though.

Lemon juice also works, I've never had it fail in getting the smell of anything off my hands

crabs, flowers, snakes, birds, eyes, etc. There's quite a bit.

MG depends on how you want to define blue food, by common agreement blueberries are certainly blue. But if I squish a turkey its a bloody red but its feathers are brown and its meat is white ish. So what color is food that is a turkey?

Zeraph, I mean like vegetables or fruits. Besides dewbwerry and blueberry. Redmeat is originally colored silver, white meatis originally colored white, regardless of what color the animal it came from.

Let's say you have that machine that can see into the future like in that movie Ben Afleck was in. Now, I have no preference whatsoever when it comes to M&M's. So, you use the machine to check what color M&M I will choose 30 minutes from now. Isn't it possible that I can, simply by will, make sure that if you use the machine every 5 minutes for the next 25 minutes, influence the color of M&M I choose and give you 5 different outcomes?

I have no idea what you're asking Xer...

Why is the word 'tits' considered a bad word when its always used in a complimentary (if crude) way?

Tits, sounds like tittys and by extension any word that sounds naughty is frowned upon by society. Like niggardly.

What I am asking is ... geez, I think it was quite simply explained. I'll try again though.

I have an x number of choices. - In this case all the colors M&M's have to offer.
You have a machine that will predict which color M&M I will pick in the next half hour.
You use said machine 5 times for the next 30 minutes but inform me before you do so.

Can I make sure you get 5 different outcomes? I mean, I really don't care about the color of M&M I choose because they all taste the same to me so it will be up to me to make up my mind what color I choose.

Xerxys, I think I understand your question, even though I don't remember the movie youre talking about. It seems reasonable that you could affect the outcome by will, because the future is malleable.

My question is, why is cunt so much more offensive than any other word to so many females?

What's the longest someone held their tongue to a 9 volt battery?

I heard today that New Yorkers do not put mustard on their hamburgers??!!?? What the fuck????? I wouldn't eat a burger without mustard. It's the American way people. And if you don't put mustard on burgers, then why the hell is it sitting on your pantry shelf??

That's what I don't get...machines like that don't exist so how can anyone answer that? It's just a complicated way to ask about free will...try the philosophy forum if you'd like.

Until it got hot and I thought I was at risk of burning myself. I could kind of taste for the next week or so.
I could take it or leave it. It's there for hot dogs and any sandwich made of cold cuts except roast beef. That gets either mayo or horseradish. Turkey can also get mayo.

I saw an overhead(aerial) photo of a rescue helicopter in action over the sea. The picture was such high density that the helicopter literally looked frozen in mid air with no blurrs from it's rotors. So my question is, how fast do helicopter rotors spin and what are the chances of shooting a bullet through one of them?

This is a very ancient saying, likely referring to the fact that the person who had physical control of something has a tremendous advantage in any dispute over its ownership, in that he can utilise, move, or even destroy the item to prevent losing control (ownership).

How does a thermos bottle know whether to keep something hot or keep it cold?

^^ Well, it simply is that a thermos bottle has no air in between the contents inside it and the casing. There is a vacuum in the bottles walls. This way, without any air, no heat can be conducted. In general, items that are cold "draw" heat (usurp) away from surfaces warmer than themselves.

Warm items loose this heat to the atmosphere. With no conductive material in between them, this reaction/action is slowed.

GreyWolf, could you kindly expand further on the adage explained above because I view destruction of an item would render it's possession useless?

Xerys, ownership conveys certain rights to the owner. Among them is control of the item. Destruction is conceivably the ultimate proof of ownership in that you have absolute control over its existence (or life, in the case of livestock, which was often the subject of the "nine/tenths" saying - a live sheep is worth much more than a dead one).

As to the thermos bottle, you do know the joke about the dumb guy, who upon learning a thermos would keep hot things hot and cold things cold, bought one to use for his lunch & put some soup and popsicle in it?

Silly question:
Why does a mirror reflect up and down properly, but reverse left and right?

Helicopter blades can go at up to 500 rotations per minute which is 8.3 per second. which compared to camera shutter speed is nothing. Fastest shutter speed on my cheap SLR is 1/ 4000th of a second and i'm sure you can get lens with faster shutter speeds then that. I also know that to get an image of a moving bullet frozen in space you have to use flash rather then shutter speed because shutter speeds just arnt fast enough. you can get flashes that give you an epic burst of light for a tiny tiny fraction of a second. While that doesnt answer the questions someone good at maths can probably make some deductions.

^^ Thanks Yellowbird.

What is the law on finding valuable stuff? What If I picked up a dollar? Something worth a dollar? What if I picked up $20,000 on the sidewalk or something worth 20k? Like say casiono chips or something unlike a car that someone can easily claim ownership of.

Also, what is the law on lost things?

Why do I get a headache everyday?

And..

If you take X amount of painkillers in one sitting, it fucks up your liver, but what about if you slowly build up a tollerance to that instead of taking 2, you have to take 4, or 6 to get the same relief as you used to with 2, does that still fuck you up?

could be b/c migraine, eye strain, sinuses, neck, stress, or very unlikely tumor or partial seizures

depends on the meds you mean, but generally building up a tolerance means it doesn't work as well because your body has learned to compensate or expects a certain amount of it in your system; not because it "toughens" up. So yeah, its still bad after tolerance, otherwise meth addicts and the like wouldn't have nearly the same problem with ODs than they do.

Thank you everyone (including but not limited to MSD, Zeraph, Xeryxs, and most recently, GreyWolf, et al., too).

I had a few inane questions in mind over the time this thread laid dormant, but I forgot most of them.

As I heard, from another ancient saying, it's universally known as "finders, keepers".

Is this Ashley Greene?

http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw5...p4cco1_500.jpg

Has anyone seen the Google homepage graphic of Martin Luther King with Coretta Scott King on one arm and a shorter white guy with black rimmed glasses on his other arm?
My silly question is this: Who is that guy?

Researching the history, I'd be apt to tell you it is Bayard Rustin, but you are definitely right: that small cartoon graphic wants you to know that is a white man. So the chances that it is, indeed, Rustin, diminishes almost entirely.

Jetee- That is my future wife :D

Well, alright. Do you happen to know her name, by chance? I'll wish you two a happy engagement via postcard.

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I see. Nevermind. I tineye'd the pic (I could've sworn that'd been my first action, but I guess not) and came across this resolving result: Catrinel Menghia Maxim Fhm SI | Top Fashion Swimsuit Bikini Fitness Models | Female Models HQ

1: What medical conditions do you have and what medicines and supplements do you take daily?

2: Acetaminophen is the NSAID that has a tendency to cause liver damage. you cannot build a tolerance to it because its mode of toxicity is due to overloading of the glucuronide metabolic pathway by NAPQI, an extremely hepatoxic byproduct of acetaminophen metabolism. Any NAPQI in excess of what can be metabolized through the normal pathway is conjugated with glutathione. The body can produce a slight to moderate excess of both glutathione and the proteins needed for glucuronide metbolism, but not enough to produce a significant change in the liver's ability to inactivate NAPQI.

Alcohol and acetaminophen are also a deadly combination because alcohol and acetaldehyde dehydrogenation compete for the glucoronide pathway and deplete hepatic levels of glutathione, leading to a buildup of NAPQI that destroys liver tissue through oxidation.

(yes, I had to look up a few details on this one)

Why doesn't Audi just give in and name a car Innie?







C'mon. You'd want one and you know it. ;)

If they could make a buck off of it, they would.

Not familiar with Volkswagen Automotive Group's Tibetan and Mongolian division, are you? That's why you haven't driven an Innê I4

My question is... If the meat around a pig's ass is pork, is the meat around a cat's ass pussy?

^^ It's not around a cats ass man, otherwise you couldn't eat it.

How long does it take glass to break down? Like, if I left a 16 ounce clear glass cup outside, how long would it take to break down to non-glass form?