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

[ATTAK Z]

wildone63 said:

What causes this in a loaf of sliced bread - one slice with a bulge in it and the next slice with a matching slit?

Pocket of air ?

[kowalski655]

FiF said:

Has anybody ever won Takeshi's castle?

Wiki says 9 did...and there were 100+ contestants per show,and 133 shows!!

[DervVW]

FiF said:

Has anybody ever won Takeshi's castle?

No - im sure ive watched them all, and no, not even close

[djc206]

DervVW said:

No - im sure ive watched them all, and no, not even close

I saw one I think but I'm not sure what they won, maybe the producers hadn't prepared for that scenario

[TheEnd]

ATTAK Z said:

wildone63 said:

What causes this in a loaf of sliced bread - one slice with a bulge in it and the next slice with a matching slit?

Pocket of air ?

The bit with the hole in is the crust or end. In some cases, it's not perfectly flat, and has a sort of dent in it. When it is being sliced, thr dented in crust bit gets caught on the wrong side of the cutting edge.

[StevieBee]

glazbagun said:

What are the tiny vanes for on the front wings of F1 cars these days? What are they trying to do to the airflow? I would have thought a nice clean front wing not covered in tat would be prefereable, but it's obvioulsy doing something.



from:
https://twitter.com/redbullf1spy/status/5357979171...

Edited by glazbagun on Friday 21st November 19:42

They direct part of the flow of air to another part of the car to maximise its effect there. This might be into the brake ducts to cool the brakes, into the side pods to cool the engine or onto another aero device to increase downforce.

[RenesisEvo]

StevieBee said:

glazbagun said:

What are the tiny vanes for on the front wings of F1 cars these days? What are they trying to do to the airflow? I would have thought a nice clean front wing not covered in tat would be prefereable, but it's obvioulsy doing something.



from:
https://twitter.com/redbullf1spy/status/5357979171...

Edited by glazbagun on Friday 21st November 19:42

They direct part of the flow of air to another part of the car to maximise its effect there. This might be into the brake ducts to cool the brakes, into the side pods to cool the engine or onto another aero device to increase downforce.

The upper vanes will shed vortices off their top edges, which are typically used to control the front wheel wake - the goal normally is to keep the wake 'outside' of the car as much as possible. This way the poor quality air from the spinning tyre doesn't end up being sucked back into the diffuser (above or below). If you get the poor quality air in the diffuser, it is more prone to separating/stalling, so you have a more sensitive car and/or less downforce. They also help send the flow outward in front of the tyre; which helps with the wake management but also locally managing the expansion of the air by the front wing - over expand it and you're in trouble. They can also have an impact on front balance in yaw, and steer sensitivity (whether you gain or lose downforce when steering). The additional wing elements in the front top corner typically trade off downforce between the front and rear.

[RobinBanks]

I've always wanted to know if a lit match would float.

[SpeckledJim]

RobinBanks said:

I've always wanted to know if a lit match would float.

A burning boat does.

Or is this a whoosh?

[RobinBanks]

SpeckledJim said:

RobinBanks said:

I've always wanted to know if a lit match would float.

A burning boat does.

Or is this a whoosh?

Not a whoosh, just a joke from Cheers (I was just watching a boxset I got recently).
Frasier goes to the toilet and they start putting things into his beer under the pretext of finding out if they float.

Woody says "I've always wanted to know if a lit match would float."
Norm replies "You've always wanted to know that?"

[V41LEY]

How do KFC get their beans so hot ?

[Pesty]

Do other languages lend themselves to puns, play on word etc etc.

Or is it something only English speaking countries do.

[RobinBanks]

Pesty said:

Do other languages lend themselves to puns, play on word etc etc.

Or is it something only English speaking countries do.

English certainly does more than other languages I know but German does to a degree too.

[Brother D]

krunchkin said:

gwm said:

Lane discipline in USA / Canada in general is shocking from my experience. You and my Canadian pals would get along well, they all say the Asians are the worst. Racist suggestions about narrow eyes and poor peripheral vision oft cited as to reasons why...

it's pretty hard to drive really badly in the USA and Canada because you usually have about 5 lanes to play with, including one that is solely dedicated to the next on or off slip, plus at least a miles warning that there might be some traffic lights coming up to stop at. Plus the local traffic gets its own separate roads down the side. You have to make some real effort to be st at negotiating that.

I'm guessing perhaps it's irony that I posted how bad driving is in the US, but a few days after posting, I was hit tonight crossing the road when a girl ran a red light... nothing major but enough to knock me off my feet. You couldn't write this st

[SpeckledJim]

RobinBanks said:

Pesty said:

Do other languages lend themselves to puns, play on word etc etc.

Or is it something only English speaking countries do.

English certainly does more than other languages I know but German does to a degree too.

I'd think they all do to a degree, but English is particularly good for it, as we re-use words and homonyms so often, and there are literally more words than other languages, so the chances of a match occur more often.

[anonymous-user]

How the fkity boo can a woman get through an entire toilet roll in a day? Is she eating it or something?!

[Finlandia]

SpeckledJim said:

RobinBanks said:

Pesty said:

Do other languages lend themselves to puns, play on word etc etc.

Or is it something only English speaking countries do.

English certainly does more than other languages I know but German does to a degree too.

I'd think they all do to a degree, but English is particularly good for it, as we re-use words and homonyms so often, and there are literally more words than other languages, so the chances of a match occur more often.

Finnish is as made for puns and playing on words and the general sense of humour is very much like that in the UK.

[spikeyhead]

OpulentBob said:

How the fkity boo can a woman get through an entire toilet roll in a day? Is she eating it or something?!

How can any man reach maturity without discovering this?

[Einion Yrth]

Finlandia said:

SpeckledJim said:

RobinBanks said:

Pesty said:

Do other languages lend themselves to puns, play on word etc etc.

Or is it something only English speaking countries do.

English certainly does more than other languages I know but German does to a degree too.

I'd think they all do to a degree, but English is particularly good for it, as we re-use words and homonyms so often, and there are literally more words than other languages, so the chances of a match occur more often.

Finnish is as made for puns and playing on words and the general sense of humour is very much like that in the UK.

A German one, cringeworthy but a genuine play on words;


Warum können kleine Kinder fliegen, nach sie viel gestohlen haben?
Sie sind Hübschräuber.

[WinstonWolf]

spikeyhead said:

OpulentBob said:

How the fkity boo can a woman get through an entire toilet roll in a day? Is she eating it or something?!

How can any man reach maturity without discovering this?

We know they do it, but how?