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Posted 17 July 2015 - 10:18 PM
During the second round of the 1981 gameshow Bullseye, was the music playing in the background whilst they were throwing their darts played live in the studio or edited in after?
I always wondered because i don't think i would have been able to concentrate with it playing
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Posted 17 July 2015 - 10:56 PM
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Posted 18 July 2015 - 12:20 AM
If your 1997 Fiesta is powered by fairy dust, why are you panic buying 60 litres of Diesel?
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Posted 18 July 2015 - 08:49 AM
If your 1997 Fiesta is powered by fairy dust, why are you panic buying 60 litres of Diesel?
I once saw one of those stickers on the back of a Fiat Punto and then some had written in the dirt underneath it "driver powered by pie". What made it better was that when I returned back to the car park I saw a really fat chavy woman getting into it.
My thought at the time was that someone had obviously missed the s off the end of pie.
Another thought. Why isn't car park one word? I always write carpark and then have to correct it because I get the little red line underneath it.
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Posted 26 July 2015 - 07:02 PM
Why do hamsters always wait until you have put them in their ball thing to go to the loo?
My mate's girl friend is currently cleaning her hamster's ball out as it has just done exactly that and the ones that my sister and I had when we were younger always used to.
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Posted 02 August 2015 - 09:18 AM
Why do mannequins have nipples?
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Posted 02 August 2015 - 09:38 AM
Why do mannequins have nipples?
You don't get too many healthy women that are nippleless so why should a mannequin be nippleless?
I suppose it's the same reason they have finger nails, eye balls, lips etc to create a reasonably realistic figure to show off how the clothing fits.
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Posted 02 August 2015 - 09:38 AM
Why do mannequins have nipples?
You don't get too many healthy women that are nippleless so why should a mannequin be nippleless?
I suppose it's the same reason they have finger nails, eye balls, lips etc to create a reasonably realistic figure to show off how the clothing fits.
Or is it to give lonely men a twitch when the pass the shop window?
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Posted 02 August 2015 - 10:44 PM
Why in the world are centimetres ever taught in school? I find them to be the most pointless unit of measurement ever. They are either too big for one thing or too small for another.
Why can't people either use millimetres, meters or inches for god sake. I've been trying to send a parcel and the online form has asked me for the measurements in cm. I entered them in as 64.3cm, 45.5cm and 40cm as that was what they were. It then says that my parcel has a combined total girth of 222cm which is over their 220cm limit.
NO IT F***ING ISN'T!!! last time I checked. 64.3 x 2 + 45.5 x 2 = 219.6cm. I realise this is only just under the limit but it is under it. To get 222cm I assume they have rounded 64.3cm up to 65cm which is a. wrong and b. if you are rounding 45.5cm up to 46 then you should be letting me off for that 0.6cm.
My problem is that if I say its 64cm and someone checks and finds its over (they will if they use a tape measure in mm) and round it up like the website does then I am going to get hit with a £50 charge and I am not prepared to take the risk.
Millimetres are better than centimetres for a lot of other reasons as well. They give some quite nice conversions in engineering, 1 N/mm^2 is equivalent to 1 MPa which is used a lot for material properties so you don't have to keep using factors to correct equations and when working with them you end up with more accurate parts. I work in an industry that makes castings. Even we can make castings that are within +/- 2mm. The patterns we use are made to within +/-0.1mm so 1cm is frigging huge in comparison.
Rant over. Off to find a different courier.
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Posted 03 August 2015 - 08:15 AM
Why in the world are centimetres ever taught in school? I find them to be the most pointless unit of measurement ever. They are either too big for one thing or too small for another.
Why can't people either use millimetres, meters or inches for god sake. I've been trying to send a parcel and the online form has asked me for the measurements in cm. I entered them in as 64.3cm, 45.5cm and 40cm as that was what they were. It then says that my parcel has a combined total girth of 222cm which is over their 220cm limit.
NO IT F***ING ISN'T!!! last time I checked. 64.3 x 2 + 45.5 x 2 = 219.6cm. I realise this is only just under the limit but it is under it. To get 222cm I assume they have rounded 64.3cm up to 65cm which is a. wrong and b. if you are rounding 45.5cm up to 46 then you should be letting me off for that 0.6cm.
My problem is that if I say its 64cm and someone checks and finds its over (they will if they use a tape measure in mm) and round it up like the website does then I am going to get hit with a £50 charge and I am not prepared to take the risk.
Millimetres are better than centimetres for a lot of other reasons as well. They give some quite nice conversions in engineering, 1 N/mm^2 is equivalent to 1 MPa which is used a lot for material properties so you don't have to keep using factors to correct equations and when working with them you end up with more accurate parts. I work in an industry that makes castings. Even we can make castings that are within +/- 2mm. The patterns we use are made to within +/-0.1mm so 1cm is frigging huge in comparison.
Rant over. Off to find a different courier.
one centimetre isn't an really an engineering unit. We use millimetres, for exactly the reason you said, it works... well. I don't have any idea why the centimetre stuck as a unit of measurement.
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Posted 04 August 2015 - 05:31 PM
A question that I was asked today by our Industrial designer.
If you had a year to eat a wooden door how would you do it?
Apparently some people say that she is a little weird at times (I can't see why) but apparently her and her friends don't notice it. She fits in well with my department at work which probably says something about me as well.
After contemplating the 'eating a door conundrum' we moved onto thinking how, if I had to eat a tent would I do it.
Edited by M J W J, 04 August 2015 - 05:52 PM.
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Posted 04 August 2015 - 05:57 PM
My mum's response to the door question was she would eat it as chips.
I have also had the thought of, If an orange wasn't orange what colour would it be (and don't anyone say green as I know some are chlorinated to turn them orange).
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Posted 04 August 2015 - 06:00 PM
If you had a year to eat a wooden door how would you do it?
After contemplating the 'eating a door conundrum' we moved onto thinking how, if I had to eat a tent would I do it.
If you ground up a door would it not be like some kind of cereal made of wood shavings?
If you cut up a tent into small pieces and boiled it wouldn't it be like cabbage 
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Posted 04 August 2015 - 06:01 PM
If you ground up a door would it not be like some kind of cereal made of wood shavings?
yeah, shredded wheat 
I swear they are made of wood
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Posted 04 August 2015 - 06:07 PM
My neighbour has 'powered by ******* dust' on her Ka. What is ******* dust? Do you get it by filing down a female dog?If your 1997 Fiesta is powered by fairy dust, why are you panic buying 60 litres of Diesel?
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