Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]

[Jonboy_t]

Who picks up guide dog poo? Or are they exempt?

[Nezquick]

What happens if you're mid poo at work and the fire alarm goes off? Do you crimp it off, semi wipe and rush out the door ASAP, or do you finish what you're doing and hope it's only a drill?

[marshalla]

Jonboy_t said:

Who picks up guide dog poo? Or are they exempt?

AFAIK they're trained not to "go" while they're working and also trained only to "go" when they are given permission. That means the owner has control over when (and where, to some extent) the act happens. They can judge where the poo is by where the dog is when it performs.

[FourRings]

Why are some new build estates (with only houses) leasehold?

Is is possible to buy the freehold? Would all the residents have to club together?

Surely, once a site is finished, the developer sells all the properties with their freeholds and, apart from snagging, considers the job done and moves on to the next development?

[opieoilman]

I had a bit of a discussion about that with our property management company (as they are a joke) and basically the estate my house is on is under some section of the law where it must remain as leasehold as otherwise the council would have to manage the areas outside the house. Not sure how much of that is correct as the management company are dishonest. Can't wait to get building on my own land

[Tango13]

It's probably been asked before but how does the bloke in the skittles advert get dressed if everything he touches turns to skittles?

[singlecoil]

Lottery rollovers. Is it not obvious how unfair they are? Someone who didn't buy a ticket for the first draw could enter the second, win the lot, yet not have contributed to the first draw at all.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

singlecoil said:

Lottery rollovers. Is it not obvious how unfair they are? Someone who didn't buy a ticket for the first draw could enter the second, win the lot, yet not have contributed to the first draw at all.

I won the jackpot on a fruit machine, on my first go, having never played on it before. Is this unfair? I thought the whole point of the game was to have a punt and hope for sheer good luck.

[Dr Jekyll]

singlecoil said:

Lottery rollovers. Is it not obvious how unfair they are? Someone who didn't buy a ticket for the first draw could enter the second, win the lot, yet not have contributed to the first draw at all.

All lotteries are unfair, that's rather the point.

[walm]

singlecoil said:

Lottery rollovers. Is it not obvious how unfair they are? Someone who didn't buy a ticket for the first draw could enter the second, win the lot, yet not have contributed to the first draw at all.

Would you rather the lottery just kept the money?

[RobinOakapple]

walm said:

singlecoil said:

Lottery rollovers. Is it not obvious how unfair they are? Someone who didn't buy a ticket for the first draw could enter the second, win the lot, yet not have contributed to the first draw at all.

Would you rather the lottery just kept the money?

What they should do is divide the prize money amongst the people who took part, if that means they have to go down a score level then what's the problem with that, it's what the football pools used to do.

[droopsnoot]

Tango13 said:

It's probably been asked before but how does the bloke in the skittles advert get dressed if everything he touches turns to skittles?

I've wondered the same. He's obviously got to work somehow, he must have opened the door, pulled his chair away from the desk and sat down before the annoying exploitative co-worker brings the new recruit across and treats him like an 18th century circus freak.

[singlecoil]

Dr Jekyll said:

singlecoil said:

Lottery rollovers. Is it not obvious how unfair they are? Someone who didn't buy a ticket for the first draw could enter the second, win the lot, yet not have contributed to the first draw at all.

All lotteries are unfair, that's rather the point.

No-one is expecting that a lottery would actually be fair, but players might reasonably expect that the prize fund will be reduced by the expenses and profit of the organisers and the charity contribution, but not paid to people who haven't bought a ticket!

[scarble]

droopsnoot said:

I've wondered the same. He's obviously got to work somehow, he must have opened the door, pulled his chair away from the desk and sat down before the annoying exploitative co-worker brings the new recruit across and treats him like an 18th century circus freak.

Well, you can open a door, even a pull door, with an elbow or even a wrist, he could push his chair out with a foot rather easily.
As for getting dressed, perhaps something of this nature:


But what is his job and how does he do it??
On a more serious note, what if he had no arms at all, whether through illness or injury?

[MissChief]

What would happen if he touched himself? (Oo-er!) implosion?

[Zelda Pinwheel]

For many years I wondered why my dad used to whistle the same few notes whenever his brain was not currently processing ever more complicated ways of explaining a simple mechanical process to a disinterested third party. I'm no nearer the solution, but find that I'm starting to do something similar.

My 'go-to' tune seems to be the first couple of bars (not the lyrics) of "I'll be there for you" by The Rembrandts, theme tune to Friends, which I've never really watched and certainly was never a big fan of.

And I regularly wake up in the morning with random songs or tunes in my head. Today, for reasons completely mystifying, it is the 1906 hymn "To Be a Pilgrim" by John Bunyan. I've been nowhere near a church in months and those words aren't exactly in everyday use.

Does this happen to anyone else, or am I turning into my dad?

My husband would be thrilled. Not least because he hates whistlers.

[singlecoil]

Chanson du jour.

Most of us suffer from it. Best cure (works for me anyway) is to listen to the real thing.

[john2443]

When YouTube opens with an advert that has the thing to click so you can close the advert in 5,4,3,2,1 seconds, why don't the advertisers out heir name in big letter in the first 5 seconds, loads of them I've left before knowing what they're advertising.

Is it clever psychology to make you keep watching just to find out who's advertising?

[Einion Yrth]

john2443 said:

When YouTube opens with an advert that has the thing to click so you can close the advert in 5,4,3,2,1 seconds, why don't the advertisers out heir name in big letter in the first 5 seconds, loads of them I've left before knowing what they're advertising.

Is it clever psychology to make you keep watching just to find out who's advertising?

Get an ad-blocker?

[The Don of Croy]

scarble said:

...On a more serious note, what if he had no arms at all, whether through illness or injury?

Went to secondary school with a chap with (virtually) no arms - learned to write and paint with his feet, simply hoiked off shoes and socks as he sat at a desk, rested his bonce on his desk / socks and wrote on the floor.

He was allowed some extra time in exams, I think he went to uni and read English, so lots of writing (we left school in 1981).

Never saw him convert any apparatus into chewable confectionery. That's not to say it didn't happen, mind.