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

[FlyingMeeces]

FredClogs said:

There's really no polite way of putting this but do ugly people just settle for ugly partners or do they actually find them attractive?

This is a horrible half-arsed response but it stands that people are attracted to different features, and therefore find different things total turn-offs, too. Maybe 'ugly' doesn't register for some, or doesn't register as an issue.

It doesn't matter what the 'issue' is, if someone settles for a partner who isn't actually what they want, it's not gonna go well no matter what.

People thinking they're too good for, or not good enough for, any given subgroup of people is never gonna help matters.

When I was really young I desperately wanted to be friends with the 'mainstream' kids. Not the queer, disabled, anxious, awkward ones just like me. Took me until I was about 16 to clock that they weren't the only ones worth talking to. Have now - at 31 - got an amazing bunch of mates and indeed got laid once or twice and all, but it took me stopping thinking the only people worth the time of day were… well, frankly, not like me.

Pretty much none of my mates - and certainly nobody I've had a relationship and/or a roll in the hay with - are 'normal'. And that's fine, because they're a bloody fantastic group of people, better mates you couldn't wish for, a god(less)mother for my daughter, safety net and support scaffold and everything good about my little corner of the world… basically, adolescent Meece was a snobby, self-hating little stbag. I'm glad I grew out of at least some of that.

It goes a lot further than romantic relationships, really.

[Funkycoldribena]

FredClogs said:

There's really no polite way of putting this but do ugly people just settle for ugly partners or do they actually find them attractive?

Surely you can find the answer easily enough?

[Johnspex]

Is it possible to speak badly in most or any foreign languages/
For instance- is "we was" instead of "we were" or "ain't" or the equivalent possible in French or German or do all foreigners use the correct word and grammar?

[Hugo a Gogo]

Johnspex said:

Is it possible to speak badly in most or any foreign languages/
For instance- is "we was" instead of "we were" or "ain't" or the equivalent possible in French or German or do all foreigners use the correct word and grammar?

jo dat kann ick n Duits

[marshalla]

Johnspex said:

Is it possible to speak badly in most or any foreign languages/
For instance- is "we was" instead of "we were" or "ain't" or the equivalent possible in French or German or do all foreigners use the correct word and grammar?

Romanes eunt domus.

[All that jazz]

I haz question!

I'm lead to believe that letters with a typed postcode are scanned by Royal Mail machinery as they flew past on a conveyor and automatically sent in the right direction in the sorting centre before being loaded on a truck that's going in that direction. How are hand written addresses handled? The machine won't be able to read the postcode so is there a bunch of people sat there that have to manually sort them or what? Also what about parcels which are often all kinds of shapes and sizes that won't go through a machine scanner?

[Johnspex]

Thanks. Can I have that in English as that and profane are the only languages I understand.

[FlyingMeeces]

Johnspex said:

Is it possible to speak badly in most or any foreign languages/
For instance- is "we was" instead of "we were" or "ain't" or the equivalent possible in French or German or do all foreigners use the correct word and grammar?

Yep in absolutely everything, sign languages included.

[walm]

All that jazz said:

How are hand written addresses handled? The machine won't be able to read the postcode...

I think you underestimate the scanners.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/...

[Bluedot]

marshalla said:

Johnspex said:

Is it possible to speak badly in most or any foreign languages/
For instance- is "we was" instead of "we were" or "ain't" or the equivalent possible in French or German or do all foreigners use the correct word and grammar?

Romanes eunt domus.

[Ayahuasca]

Willy Nilly said:

Ayahuasca said:

See that little black hook thing at the top edge of the rear door?

Wossat for then?

My Defender has one too and I have no idea what it does.

Rear window washer jet, or at least it was on the 200TDi. Quite handy for squirting people as they get out the back door.

Cheers. Mystery solved!

[All that jazz]

walm said:

All that jazz said:

How are hand written addresses handled? The machine won't be able to read the postcode...

I think you underestimate the scanners.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/...

Interesting! I always print the postcode in nice big clear letters towards the bottom right corner if I'm hand writing the address.

[anonymous-user]

How does autism affect people in normal situations?

[FlyingMeeces]

Tailgater said:

How does autism affect people in normal situations?

How long is a length of string?

There's as much variety in those with autism as without - wide range of level of impairment, interest, skills, coping strategies - so it's honest to gods impossible to answer that. Only thing we've got in common is that triad of impairments.

[anonymous-user]

FlyingMeeces said:

Tailgater said:

How does autism affect people in normal situations?

How long is a length of string?

There's as much variety in those with autism as without - wide range of level of impairment, interest, skills, coping strategies - so it's honest to gods impossible to answer that. Only thing we've got in common is that triad of impairments.

Thank you for clarifying that for me.

How does "4D" films work? Or even "3D"?

[FlyingMeeces]

Tailgater said:

FlyingMeeces said:

Tailgater said:

How does autism affect people in normal situations?

How long is a length of string?

There's as much variety in those with autism as without - wide range of level of impairment, interest, skills, coping strategies - so it's honest to gods impossible to answer that. Only thing we've got in common is that triad of impairments.

Thank you for clarifying that for me.

How does "4D" films work? Or even "3D"?

I don't know how other people experience them, it's kinda hard to quantify, but I'm fairly sure I see 3D films just the same as everyone else does… I'm at the 'can get away without people knowing if I try' end of the scale though, might be different for others. Visually the only thing that gives me major trouble is stuff like trying to get my eyes to pick out the product I'm looking for off a long, packed full supermarket shelf and the like…

[Silent1]

Tailgater said:

How does autism affect people in normal situations?

I'm unable to interpret minor facial expressions and the like so for instance I don't know when to stop talking or when someone is fed up with me, i also can't empathise, the list is endless.

[ashleyman]

Vipers said:

Visiting our son in Raynes Park, London, and we saw this road sign.

What on earth does "BTW" mean?

Between?

[Vipers]

Another to tax the little grey cells. Along one short strip of the pavement on Coombe Lane, Raynes Park, are these metal studs embedded in the ground. Almost in a straight line. What on earth are they?

[mickk]

I think they mark the boundary for the shop, for tables and chairs and stuff. Could be wrong though.