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Strange questions that sometimes need answering (or not asking in the first place really).

So, when I found that website about execution, that included the official UK government table of rope-drop length vs weight and hight, and I happened to note the required rope length for a clean neck-snap for myself.....


......You're saying that was a hint?
 
OK, hear me out here... Has anyone else ever experienced this?
A certain piece of music plays. Every hair on your body stands on end instantly. (It was a very special euphoric trace number that always brings back memories of a simpler time)

Is this an "ASMR" thing? Because I need to know I should kill myself. I'm no prevert.

Dreadzones Little Britain...and pretty much the whole Second Light album.

ASMR...also ASDR


Edit, just checked, thirty years ago...jeez
 
So, when I found that website about execution, that included the official UK government table of rope-drop length vs weight and hight, and I happened to note the required rope length for a clean neck-snap for myself.....


......You're saying that was a hint?
Well… hold the rope, I think having a positive response to music is a pretty normal thing to have. The weird ASMR things you find on YouTube where they eat or tap cans I don’t get - chewing and tapping do my head in, so I don’t really know what’s up with that but… you are allowed to like music.

I’m pretty sure it’s just an endorphin release or whatever the correct term is. Just nice chemicals going around your bloodstream, which happens all the time.
 
Why is is that you can never work out which speaker the 1KHz tone is blasting out of? It seems like the first ten minutes of every workday of my life for the last quarter century have been spent frantically pressing mute buttons.
 
After a conversation with my parents over a drink last night (I can’t even remember what brought us onto this particular subject), I’ve been wondering; for something nobody has any influence over, why are many people so weird about height?

For context, my dad is 6’6” and his younger brother is slightly taller again at 6’7”. My dad was telling us about how people (particularly men) have often treated him differently as a result of it; he said that there was a man in his job who was once very weird about his height and made repeated quips about it to him even when it wasn’t relevant to the context, and he said that others have been odd to him about it. During my childhood, I myself saw my dad earn nicknames such as “Big Fella” and repeatedly get asked questions like “What’s the weather like up there?” and “Do you play basketball?” and “What on Earth did your parents feed you as a child?”. He says it gets very, very old!

On the other side of the coin, however, my late grandmother was always incredibly proud of the fact that both of her sons had grown so tall. She acted as if she herself had personally done something brilliant, she always took great pride in my dad and his brother being tall, and she acted as though me not being tall would have been some sort of affront to our family (I distinctly remember her saying “We don’t produce short men in this family!”). Given that all that happened was that her genes and my grandad’s genes happened to produce two tall sons, I was always confused at why she took such great pride in it…

So given that none of us have any influence over our height whatsoever, why are so many people so weird about it?
 
OK, so I know big engineering projects are all the rage...HS2 and Universal come to mind, but holy **** Batman...
When did they move Southend to London???
Where in London have they moved it to?
I suppose they could have squeezed it in on Wimbledon Common, just.
What they can do with modern technology.
I need to go back to the big newspapers, I missed this one completely.
 
According to CAA rules, you are allowed to name your airport after any major city within 3AU of it's actual location.
 
In the PotC films, how the hell do they sail between the Caribbean and China?
No Panama canal back then, (not that pirates would be welcome to use it anyway). And I doubt even the Black Pearl would survive the trip round Cape Horn. Did they go the long way round the planet, via the Cape of Good Hope? That must have taken the best part of a year‽
I demand realism in my undead pirate fantasy ghost story!
 
In the PotC films, how the hell do they sail between the Caribbean and China?
No Panama canal back then, (not that pirates would be welcome to use it anyway). And I doubt even the Black Pearl would survive the trip round Cape Horn. Did they go the long way round the planet, via the Cape of Good Hope? That must have taken the best part of a year‽
I demand realism in my undead pirate fantasy ghost story!


This bloke
 

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In the PotC films, how the hell do they sail between the Caribbean and China?
No Panama canal back then, (not that pirates would be welcome to use it anyway). And I doubt even the Black Pearl would survive the trip round Cape Horn. Did they go the long way round the planet, via the Cape of Good Hope? That must have taken the best part of a year‽
I demand realism in my undead pirate fantasy ghost story!
See, the continents North and South America hadn’t been invented yet, so they just sailed left and pac-man-d to China.

Hey, I don’t make the rules. Just how it works mate.
 
With me having secured a temporary job offer today, I have one mildly employment-related question that I’ve been wondering for a while: what exactly is a final salary pension?

I don’t have any hope that I’ll ever obtain one, but I was only curious because my dad has one and whenever he tells people, they act flabbergasted and say things like “You’re talking rubbish! I thought they didn’t exist anymore?”.

I ascertain they’re a bit of a holy grail as pensions go, but I don’t actually know what it means and why it’s so good compared to a regular pension… can anyone enlighten me?
 
I means you must always remember to leave the final piece of celery untouched on your plate at lunch in the work canteen. The lunch lady takes it back, and puts it aside for you.
When you retire, you get a party, a clock, and a big Tupperware box full of frozen celery sticks to take home.
 
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