Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

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TwigtheWonderkid

43,386 posts

150 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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SamPet said:
My ex girlfriend once said, I'm going to get a nose job so our kids don't inherit my nose.
A very successful and apparently clever guy I know was genuinely shocked to learn that a mutual friend's unborn baby would have no chance of being born with only one leg even though our friend had lost a leg in a motorcycle accident.

He thought DNA was altered by an accident like that and took some convincing that a disability caused by an accident couldn't be inherited!

kowalski655

14,643 posts

143 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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Vipers said:
You can't, minimum is 0-4-0




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Thought as much,so does that scupper the "number of driven wheels " theory?
Maybe its the engine's numbers:Henry,Gordon,Percy,and...err...Duck! So maybe not

tribbles

3,974 posts

222 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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Vipers said:
You can't, minimum is 0-4-0




smile
I suppose you could have a 3-1-0. But then it would go around in circles.


Oh wait...


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J4CKO

41,567 posts

200 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
SamPet said:
My ex girlfriend once said, I'm going to get a nose job so our kids don't inherit my nose.
A very successful and apparently clever guy I know was genuinely shocked to learn that a mutual friend's unborn baby would have no chance of being born with only one leg even though our friend had lost a leg in a motorcycle accident.

He thought DNA was altered by an accident like that and took some convincing that a disability caused by an accident couldn't be inherited!
He cant be that clever !

Vipers

32,889 posts

228 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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Vipers said:
OH "Can you get windows you can look of but nobody can look in.

ME "Yes"

OH "So we could get windows I could look out and no one could look in then"

How do their little grey cells work.




smile
So we pass a new build today, lots of glass, and we can see right into the front room, she "Oh the furniture is nice, do they have those windows you cant see in", I despair.........................




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williredale

2,866 posts

152 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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8Ace said:
43034 said:
Vaud said:
That's for ineffiecient water boiling devices.

For the dirty diesels we have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo-Bo & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-Co_locomotives
One of the trains in Chuggington is called Coco.

I explained this to Lady Ace but she didn't care.
Erm... Koko isn't a Co-Co. She's a Bo-Bo...

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

123 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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Wow some of the nonsense I posted actually provoked a conversation

And I was about right I think.

I'm surrounded by damn steam trains too as I live near Haworth

Although the train buffs look like operation yew tree is about to knock

Getting drunk on their steam trains at the beer festival is good.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,386 posts

150 months

Wednesday 15th April 2015
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J4CKO said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
SamPet said:
My ex girlfriend once said, I'm going to get a nose job so our kids don't inherit my nose.
A very successful and apparently clever guy I know was genuinely shocked to learn that a mutual friend's unborn baby would have no chance of being born with only one leg even though our friend had lost a leg in a motorcycle accident.

He thought DNA was altered by an accident like that and took some convincing that a disability caused by an accident couldn't be inherited!
He cant be that clever !
He is pretty smart and quite successful, although he grasp of genetics clearly isn't up to much.

Hooli

32,278 posts

200 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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kowalski655 said:
Vipers said:
You can't, minimum is 0-4-0




smile
Thought as much,so does that scupper the "number of driven wheels " theory?
Maybe its the engine's numbers:Henry,Gordon,Percy,and...err...Duck! So maybe not
I thought it was to do with bogies etc?

Cliftonite

8,410 posts

138 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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Hooli said:
I thought it was to do with bogies etc?
It is. All the wheels feature!


8Ace

2,686 posts

198 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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williredale said:
8Ace said:
43034 said:
Vaud said:
That's for ineffiecient water boiling devices.

For the dirty diesels we have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo-Bo & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-Co_locomotives
One of the trains in Chuggington is called Coco.

I explained this to Lady Ace but she didn't care.
Erm... Koko isn't a Co-Co. She's a Bo-Bo...
Maybe that's the joke...scratchchin

bodhi808

211 posts

179 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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On holiday in Majorca, we had been out for the evening and jumped in a taxi back to our hotel.

While travelling down the main drag along the sea front, my wife was watching the hotels going by and pipes up.

OH: Isn't it weird how every hotel round here has green lights and green interiors.

Me: Not especially love, the taxi has green tinted windows.

J4CKO

41,567 posts

200 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
J4CKO said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
SamPet said:
My ex girlfriend once said, I'm going to get a nose job so our kids don't inherit my nose.
A very successful and apparently clever guy I know was genuinely shocked to learn that a mutual friend's unborn baby would have no chance of being born with only one leg even though our friend had lost a leg in a motorcycle accident.

He thought DNA was altered by an accident like that and took some convincing that a disability caused by an accident couldn't be inherited!
He cant be that clever !
He is pretty smart and quite successful, although he grasp of genetics clearly isn't up to much.
it amazes me the thoughts and ideas that people have in their heads, the thought that a person regarded as intelligent thinks DNA works in that way is slightly alarming, I am not a human genome researcher or anything or even all that smart, but that is a good one.



wack

2,103 posts

206 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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Not one of mine but read on another forum

A guy was taking his wife to Venice for a romantic weekend

She asked him if they did those open top bus trips like they did in London

No, but if they do take the upper deck

Catweazle

1,161 posts

142 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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J4CKO said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
J4CKO said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
SamPet said:
My ex girlfriend once said, I'm going to get a nose job so our kids don't inherit my nose.
A very successful and apparently clever guy I know was genuinely shocked to learn that a mutual friend's unborn baby would have no chance of being born with only one leg even though our friend had lost a leg in a motorcycle accident.

He thought DNA was altered by an accident like that and took some convincing that a disability caused by an accident couldn't be inherited!
He cant be that clever !
He is pretty smart and quite successful, although he grasp of genetics clearly isn't up to much.
it amazes me the thoughts and ideas that people have in their heads, the thought that a person regarded as intelligent thinks DNA works in that way is slightly alarming, I am not a human genome researcher or anything or even all that smart, but that is a good one.
Lamarckism.

SebastienClement

1,950 posts

140 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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I am living in a house share and one lass is a fairly recently graduated doctor. Another house mate has a habit of not doing his washing up until it's furry and green. We were discussing this when she came out with:

"I wouldn't worry - mould is just penicillin anyway".

I'm not exactly super brainy, in fact I was pretty much bottom of the pile when the brains were handed out, but wow.

fezst

234 posts

124 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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SebastienClement said:
I am living in a house share and one lass is a fairly recently graduated doctor. Another house mate has a habit of not doing his washing up until it's furry and green. We were discussing this when she came out with:

"I wouldn't worry - mould is just penicillin anyway".

I'm not exactly super brainy, in fact I was pretty much bottom of the pile when the brains were handed out, but wow.
Being a doctor I'm sure she meant that a bit tongue in cheek.

SebastienClement

1,950 posts

140 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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fezst said:
Being a doctor I'm sure she meant that a bit tongue in cheek.
She didn't! Took two of us and a lot of googling to persuade her!

TwigtheWonderkid

43,386 posts

150 months

Thursday 16th April 2015
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J4CKO said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
J4CKO said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
SamPet said:
My ex girlfriend once said, I'm going to get a nose job so our kids don't inherit my nose.
A very successful and apparently clever guy I know was genuinely shocked to learn that a mutual friend's unborn baby would have no chance of being born with only one leg even though our friend had lost a leg in a motorcycle accident.

He thought DNA was altered by an accident like that and took some convincing that a disability caused by an accident couldn't be inherited!
He cant be that clever !
He is pretty smart and quite successful, although he grasp of genetics clearly isn't up to much.
it amazes me the thoughts and ideas that people have in their heads, the thought that a person regarded as intelligent thinks DNA works in that way is slightly alarming, I am not a human genome researcher or anything or even all that smart, but that is a good one.
The way we eventually won the argument was to point out that if his theory was right, there'd be thousands of kids born with tattoos, pierced ears and already circumcised or with their appendix removed.

That was when the penny dropped.

Zoobeef

6,004 posts

158 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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The Mrs got a new iPhone 6 on Monday, I've been away with work until Friday. Saturday morning we set off out in the car and she was on the phone to EE discussing something. I then hear her say "can you speak up please I'm struggling to hear you!"
She then hangs up and says to me "this new phones ace but the call volume is crap"
I glance over and "say, try pealing the plastic off which is covering the whole phone" (including speaker and microphone)

Funny old thing it's great now.