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[sid84763]

What are the different shaped orange stickers (some like devils heads) on motorway junction and A road signs.

Was this video out before Robert Palmer Addicted to Love did not realise Alex had the all girl band.

 

[joemcdokes]

Why do airports still use dot matrix printers

The same reason shops use spools.

 

[Nukehasslefan]

Everything else turned into male for me except the clitoris turning into a penis.

 

[Karl]

I'm sure orange the colour was called orange after the fruit. The colour of an orange just used to be classed as a shade of red.

Hmm... I'm afraid that that happens to be quite wrong.

 

[JohnSmithUK]

Why do airports still use dot matrix printers

Reliability.

 

[muggboots]

Hmm... I'm afraid that that happens to be quite wrong.

Quite Interesting on Twitter

This is from after my post, so quite serendipitous really.

 

[taipeisafc]

Reliability.

I did a bit of googling and it seems to be a combination of reliability (they fail gradually and slowly), the ability to use carbon copy type papers and the fact that they can print from continuous spools of paper so they don't need to muck around stapling stuff. Makes sense to me.

 

[Deleted member 37772]

Here's a one which has cropped up due to a big project I'm involved with at work. How did they manage to build bridges in medieval times? Old Elvet bridge for instance has been there for nearly 1000 years (or parts of it). Genuinely blows my mind that.

Specifically talking about how they would get the founds in underwater.

 

[JohnSmithUK]

Here's a one which has cropped up due to a big project I'm involved with at work. How did they manage to build bridges in medieval times? Old Elvet bridge for instance has been there for nearly 1000 years (or parts of it). Genuinely blows my mind that.

Specifically talking about how they would get the founds in underwater.

Build the bridge before the river started. Easy.

 

[CatRyan]

why do blokes have nipples?

Because gender is formed after the nipples are already formed I think

How do you know when you're in the 'middle' of nowhere


How do they get the non stick to stick to non stick pans.

Because the non stick is the finish on one side and relates to food sticking to it not metal.

 

[ned_werby]

Why do cows and horses not fight when they're sharing a field?

 

[Pink Panther]

Why do cows and horses not fight when they're sharing a field?

Horses do.

 

[PinzaC55]

Could there be a food so perfect that it produced no waste so you'd never need to take a dump ?

 

[PTR]

if an orange is called an orange. and a lemon is called a lemon.why is a banana not called a yellow.

Off the top of my head, there was no word for Orange until the name of the fruit was adopted for it.

I think Blue was the last colour to be named.

What came first the chicken or the egg?

Egg. No question.

2 things that were very similar to what we call a chicken today mated, and had an egg that became the first chicken.

There maybe be something in the diet thing but they do still turn white when they get old. I'd imagine the reason that you don't see them anymore is because you don't play on the grass as much as you used to as a child and also because some people pick their dog shit up now, meaning there isn't as much of any colour about.

IIRC dog food uses to have ash in it!

Why do blokes have to leave the loo seat up? I let the carpet fitter use the loo the other day and he left the seat up - in my own house!

Why is it that women think men should move the seat twice, so that they don't have to move it once?

Could there be a food so perfect that it produced no waste so you'd never need to take a dump ?

Human flesh?

 

[Son of Stan]

Why is it that women think men should move the seat twice, so that they don't have to move it once?


Human flesh?

Ermm, basically because it was my house and the seat was down to start with. Manners and all that.

 

[ned_werby]

Horses do.

I meant each other......

 

[Aituk7]

Why do Morrisons (and other supermarkets) sell tin of hot dogs with eight in but packs of finger rolls with only six in? Even their packs of proper sausages have eight in, and surely neebody uses finger rolls for owt else.

So you buy more.

Is the Bowie in David Bowie pronounced Bowie or Bowie?

Bow-ee not boh-ee

If there are AA, AAA, C and D batteries, why are there no B batteries?

Used to be, just never really caught on for different products.

 

[Karl]

Quite Interesting on Twitter

This is from after my post, so quite serendipitous really.

I see. Sadly, they also happen to be rather incorrect on this particular matter.

 

[snelleton]

How does a blind person know when they've finished wiping?

 

[Some Random Guy]

How does a blind person know when they've finished wiping?

Taste