Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]

[Fishtigua]

Ayahuasca said:

Who shot who in the Copa, Copacabana?

Ah, a real Who's Dunnit.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/barrymanilow/copaca...

[dave0010]

Is it possible to bump start a modern car that requires you to have the clutch pressed in to start?

[Willy Nilly]

dave0010 said:

Is it possible to bump start a modern car that requires you to have the clutch pressed in to start?

I think, but might be wrong, that if the engine won't start with the starter motor you won't have sufficient volts to operate the fuel pump. The safety switches on clutch pedals only used to stop the starter motor working.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Honey badger is the hardest animal, as certified by the Guinness Book of Records. Will attack lions, elephants and rhinos if they come near. Ultra aggressive. Always goes for the face or the scrotum. Not to be messed with.

Can rotate it's body inside it's loose skin, so you think you have it by the back of the neck, and the next thing you know it's biting your face off.

Coming back to this topic, tonight on BBC 2, a documentary on said honey badger.

[FiF]

On shows like NCIS when they rock up at the premises of a person of interest and see said person at quite some distance, do directors and writers actually think that it's the normal procedure to shout "Mr Garlick Stop Federal Agents" from a distance of about 100 yards thus giving them a good head start.

[Pesty]

", Wills and Kate visit Uluru as sun sets on one of most stunning sites on earth"

Right just what's so stunning about Ayers Rock. I sure it's just one of those cliches that everybody just repeats because they heard it was great once. A bit emperers new clothes scenario. Nobody dare say it's just a big fking mound.

I realise I'm borderline autistic with emotional handicaps but it's just not fking impressive at all.

So tell me why is it considered stunning. Ooooh the sun shines in it and it goes a bit red whoop de fking doo.

[Ayahuasca]

Pesty said:

", Wills and Kate visit Uluru as sun sets on one of most stunning sites on earth"

Right just what's so stunning about Ayers Rock. I sure it's just one of those cliches that everybody just repeats because they heard it was great once. A bit emperers new clothes scenario. Nobody dare say it's just a big fking mound.

I realise I'm borderline autistic with emotional handicaps but it's just not fking impressive at all.

So tell me why is it considered stunning. Ooooh the sun shines in it and it goes a bit red whoop de fking doo.

Never been, but I can imagine it is 'stunning' because it is the only slightly interesting feature in thousands of square miles of nothingness. Lets face it, the Aboriginals were not blessed with the worlds best landscapes were they?

[mattdaniels]

I've been. It's quite impressive. There are also other impressive bits of landscape not too far from it.

[lord trumpton]

The US national debt - If the US is the largest and most powefull economy in the world why does it borrow huge amount f money

And....who lends the US its money?]

[CraigyMc]

lord trumpton said:

And....who lends the US its money?

China.

[Ayahuasca]

lord trumpton said:

And....who lends the US its money?]

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

FiF said:

Engineer1 said:

steveo3002 said:

RenesisEvo said:

Easter eggs. The very day after easter, they all vanish from the supermarkets. What happens to them? They don't have shelf lives long enough for another year (one I looked at says it got about 3 months).

they will reduce em prob late on easter or by the day after , crazed gluttons will grab them all and race home to eat them while watching jeremey kile

Edited by steveo3002 on Saturday 12th April 20:39

They hang round maybe a week after Easter at reduced prices but I suspect the big supermarkets have got their orders fine tuned.

They are not really that clever at times . Why do you think Sainsburys are in a panic discount mode with less than a week to go when by rights discounts on Easter eggs should be disappearing. The other year they had so many there was literally no more space to store them. So they made a big display in the front windoww. Yep storing eggs behind a big south facing plate glass window. Good idea morons.

A friend of mine worked at Sainsbury's a while ago - admittedly in the 90's, so things might have changed since then.

He told me that their store managers were responsible for ordering stock for special occasions like Easter etc.

Back when we had the upcoming 'VE DAY' 50th anniversary in 1995, the managers were convinced that the local populace would be in to buy tonnes more food leading up to the day - especially barbecue type stuff - as they thought that everyone would be having some huge parties and celebrations, to mark the occasion. So they went bananas, and ordered in absolutely loads of stuff.

Imagine their surprise, when sales in the week and the weekend of the anniversary, didn't really change much from normal. My friend said that their stock room was so rammed with unsold food, that staff had to literally shuffle along tiny aisle gaps, between boxes and boxes of stuff up to the ceiling, in order to even get into the room.


Very quickly, some wag hung a sign on the stockroom door which read "Never before was so much ordered by so few, for such little point..."

Turns out that the management had a sense of humour and let the sign stay there...but there were a lot of red faces...

[steveo3002]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The financial services compensation scheme, where the government apparently guarantee the first £85K of your savings should your bank collapse....if Barclays or one of the other huge banks went to the wall, could they afford to pay it??

and if the bank failed , what sort of time scale until we get out £85k back?

[rohrl]

How do Bostik get the Blu-Tack out of the whales ears without harming them?

[Funkycoldribena]

rohrl said:

How do Bostik get the Blu-Tack out of the whales ears without harming them?

They block their blow holes.

[rohrl]

Funkycoldribena said:

rohrl said:

How do Bostik get the Blu-Tack out of the whales ears without harming them?

They block their blow holes.

Thanks, I knew there would be a simple explanation.

[paolow]

Does anywhere in this nation still operate working air raid sirens in case a foreign power decides a sneak attack?
You saw them working all the time in 60/70 and even eighties 'end of the world' film scenarios.....

Oh! and does anywhere make EMP proof geiger counters? Seems a pointless thing to have one that WOULDN'T withstand a nuclear strike....

Edited by paolow on Wednesday 23 April 19:08

[TheEnd]

There's a working siren near me somewhere, as I heard it being tested a couple of weeks ago, but sometimes factories use them as fire alarms etc.

[droopsnoot]

steveo3002 said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The financial services compensation scheme, where the government apparently guarantee the first £85K of your savings should your bank collapse....if Barclays or one of the other huge banks went to the wall, could they afford to pay it??

and if the bank failed , what sort of time scale until we get out £85k back?

"How long will it take?
The length of time a claim takes to process will depend upon a number of factors, like the type and complexity of a claim, and the level of information we need to gather from other sources. Some of these factors may be entirely outside our control, but we are still able to provide general guidelines for each claim type. "

From: http://www.fscs.org.uk/what-we-cover/questions-and...

[Ayahuasca]

Bicycle brakes. When the front brake is applied hard the bike wont be pushed forward but will quite happily slide backwards. Similarly when the rear brake is applied hard the bike won't move backwards but will quite happily slide forwards. What's going on there?