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

[Roofless Toothless]

Why do mustachio'd TV presenters from Spanish speaking countries always talk with booming baritone voices?

[RizzoTheRat]

Roofless Toothless said:

These Hipsters, blokes with their beards and skinny trousers and all. We all know by now what they look like, but where are the hipster women? Google hipster and go to images and there is hardly a picture of a female, and those that are there don't show any sign of style similarity.

Many of them are female, but once they've grown the beard it's hard to tell them apart.

[Roofless Toothless]

RizzoTheRat said:

Roofless Toothless said:

These Hipsters, blokes with their beards and skinny trousers and all. We all know by now what they look like, but where are the hipster women? Google hipster and go to images and there is hardly a picture of a female, and those that are there don't show any sign of style similarity.

Many of them are female, but once they've grown the beard it's hard to tell them apart.

Ah, like Tolkien's Dwarves!

[Halmyre]

Roofless Toothless said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Roofless Toothless said:

These Hipsters, blokes with their beards and skinny trousers and all. We all know by now what they look like, but where are the hipster women? Google hipster and go to images and there is hardly a picture of a female, and those that are there don't show any sign of style similarity.

Many of them are female, but once they've grown the beard it's hard to tell them apart.

Ah, like Tolkien's Dwarves!

Erm, Pratchett's, surely?

[Roofless Toothless]

Nope. Tolkien.

http://tolkien.cro.net/dwarves/women.html

[Roofless Toothless]

Ok, here's another one.

When the 56 mph limit on trucks was introduced a few years back, if you got stuck behind one of them you knew how fast you were going without having to look down at the speedo. It was always exactly 56 mph.

But in the last few years I have noticed more and more trucks going considerably faster than this, well into the sixties, some taking a while to get past if you are trying to stay legal on the motorway.

Are they bypassing the restrictions in some way, or is it the police not wanting to get involved, foreign unregulated trucks, or What?

[Dr Jekyll]

Shakermaker said:

They will likely have..

Blue/green/purple hair - but not a full head, just underneath
Converse
Big "speccy" glasses worn mostly for style
tartan skirts perhaps
Retro style t-shirts which feature quotes/pictures from a lesser-known character in a well-known film/game/book/tv series from the 80s/90s

Basically - Taylor Swift.

I know a girl who makes a point of looking like Taylor Swift, wears big glasses and often tartan skirts. But her t-shirts have Ayn Rand quotes.

Some kind of free market Hipster?

[Willy Nilly]

Roofless Toothless said:

Ok, here's another one.

When the 56 mph limit on trucks was introduced a few years back, if you got stuck behind one of them you knew how fast you were going without having to look down at the speedo. It was always exactly 56 mph.

But in the last few years I have noticed more and more trucks going considerably faster than this, well into the sixties, some taking a while to get past if you are trying to stay legal on the motorway.

Are they bypassing the restrictions in some way, or is it the police not wanting to get involved, foreign unregulated trucks, or What?

Truck speedos are linked to the tacho and speed limiter and have to be calibrated periodically.

[Bandit110]

pits said:

It's New Years Eve 11:59 PM
You're in a plane at point A with enough fuel to travel the world around in one complete go to get back to point A.

At what speed would you have travel at when it hits New Year at midnight to stay at midnight for the whole trip? So you would have an effective 24 hours of New Year.

This has posed another question for me, if say it was around the world along the world equator line I'm guessing the land speed would be the same whether it was directed eastwards or westwards, but given that the earth spins eastwards would the airspeed needed to fly the equator line westwards be alot less than eastwards to get back to the same point?

[RATATTAK]

Bandit110 said:

This has posed another question for me, if say it was around the world along the world equator line I'm guessing the land speed would be the same whether it was directed eastwards or westwards, but given that the earth spins eastwards would the airspeed needed to fly the equator line westwards be alot less than eastwards to get back to the same point?

You'd be back where you started in 24 hours if you hovered above

[matchmaker]

P-Jay said:

227bhp said:

Why do a lot of gay people talk with high pitched voices? How did they end up like that?

I have to admit to wondered the same, it's not a hard and fast rule of course - there's a huge variety of gay people who are all different, but there does seem to be a link between sexuality and gender roles.

I know Gay Women who have more traditionally masculine traits than most straight women and Gay men who have more feminine traits than most straight men, I think most people do.

Is it a fashion thing? My Sisters in Law are gay, but they lead 'straight lives' before they met each other, didn't go to Gay clubs and weren’t really involved in the 'scene' - they wouldn't set off anyone’s Gaydar. They're married and have been together for 5-6 years and do mix in those circles now, but neither has really changed.

Is it biological? I did once ask a Gay lad I worked with who was camp as Christmas (his words, not mine) if he was camp before he found out he was Gay or did it come afterwards - he said he'd always been that way - when he reached puberty and the other lads voices got deeper and they started to 'go macho' he never did, but he wasn't childlike at all.

I have a close gay relative. He detests camp gay men. "fking poofs" is his description!

[227bhp]

matchmaker said:

P-Jay said:

227bhp said:

Why do a lot of gay people talk with high pitched voices? How did they end up like that?

I have to admit to wondered the same, it's not a hard and fast rule of course - there's a huge variety of gay people who are all different, but there does seem to be a link between sexuality and gender roles.

I know Gay Women who have more traditionally masculine traits than most straight women and Gay men who have more feminine traits than most straight men, I think most people do.

Is it a fashion thing? My Sisters in Law are gay, but they lead 'straight lives' before they met each other, didn't go to Gay clubs and weren’t really involved in the 'scene' - they wouldn't set off anyone’s Gaydar. They're married and have been together for 5-6 years and do mix in those circles now, but neither has really changed.

Is it biological? I did once ask a Gay lad I worked with who was camp as Christmas (his words, not mine) if he was camp before he found out he was Gay or did it come afterwards - he said he'd always been that way - when he reached puberty and the other lads voices got deeper and they started to 'go macho' he never did, but he wasn't childlike at all.

I have a close gay relative. He detests camp gay men. "fking poofs" is his description!

Well you got me thinking....
Somewhere along the line somebody must have adopted that tone for some reason.
Right now we have the in your face 'look at me i'm gay and proud of it', the still in the closet types and every type in between. I would say the first type would adopt this camp tone purposely to ensure everyone knows and the latter the opposite.
The problem comes when you aren't, but still naturally talk like that!

[GroundEffect]

227bhp said:

matchmaker said:

P-Jay said:

227bhp said:

Why do a lot of gay people talk with high pitched voices? How did they end up like that?

I have to admit to wondered the same, it's not a hard and fast rule of course - there's a huge variety of gay people who are all different, but there does seem to be a link between sexuality and gender roles.

I know Gay Women who have more traditionally masculine traits than most straight women and Gay men who have more feminine traits than most straight men, I think most people do.

Is it a fashion thing? My Sisters in Law are gay, but they lead 'straight lives' before they met each other, didn't go to Gay clubs and weren’t really involved in the 'scene' - they wouldn't set off anyone’s Gaydar. They're married and have been together for 5-6 years and do mix in those circles now, but neither has really changed.

Is it biological? I did once ask a Gay lad I worked with who was camp as Christmas (his words, not mine) if he was camp before he found out he was Gay or did it come afterwards - he said he'd always been that way - when he reached puberty and the other lads voices got deeper and they started to 'go macho' he never did, but he wasn't childlike at all.

I have a close gay relative. He detests camp gay men. "fking poofs" is his description!

Well you got me thinking....
Somewhere along the line somebody must have adopted that tone for some reason.
Right now we have the in your face 'look at me i'm gay and proud of it', the still in the closet types and every type in between. I would say the first type would adopt this camp tone purposely to ensure everyone knows and the latter the opposite.
The problem comes when you aren't, but still naturally talk like that!

A lot of the research in to gay-ism is that they get feminised in the womb by the mother, so that would make some sense.

I do know for a fact that some do put it on for attention but many many are just naturally camp. One of my best mates is gay - you wouldn't know from how he dresses or his interests but he sounds pretty damn camp, which is hilarious. He doesn't do it on purpose, that's for sure.

[popeyewhite]

227bhp said:

Why do a lot of gay people talk with high pitched voices? How did they end up like that?

That's how the most well known (male) gay role models act.

[227bhp]

GroundEffect said:

A lot of the research in to gay-ism is that they get feminised in the womb by the mother,

That's interesting, I wonder how that works?

[popeyewhite]

227bhp said:

GroundEffect said:

A lot of the research in to gay-ism is that they get feminised in the womb by the mother,

That's interesting, I wonder how that works?

It doesn't. There are a number of factors that have been linked to sexual orientation, and no single physiological factor has been scientifically proven to be more relevant than any other. Also the "feminised in the womb" theory is particularly hard to test, for obvious reasons.

[john2443]

GroundEffect said:

A lot of the research in to gay-ism is that they get feminised in the womb by the mother, so that would make some sense.

Err, but do lesbians get masculinised in the womb! Doesn't sound likely!

And why do only some men get feminised in the womb?

[Dr Jekyll]

john2443 said:

Err, but do lesbians get masculinised in the womb! Doesn't sound likely!

And why do only some men get feminised in the womb?

All males get masculinised in the womb so I don't see why there couldn't be a bit of reversion either way.

[handpaper]

Willy Nilly said:

Is there anything legal on the dark web?

Most TOR hidden sites, which comprise what is usually referred to as "the dark web", aren't illegal in most of the world. Indeed, that is the whole point of TOR.
The Onion Router was built with the co-operation of a number of US Government agencies, notably the NSA and CIA. Its purpose is to provide a secure and anonymous channel of communication for people living under oppressive regimes that limit and monitor Internet access. Thus, using TOR to access a non-Chinese Google server would be illegal in China (and NK, etc.). Likewise, an anti-government blog might be hosted on a hidden server - illegal in China, perfectly OK in the rest of the world.
The (near-universally) illegal stuff - child abuse images/footage, drug and weapon sales, criminal solicitation etc. is dwarfed by what might be called mainly-legal traffic like that. And that in its turn is probably given a good run for its money by the tinfoil hat brigade, who use hidden services for the same reason that they have a cabin in the Ozarks with food and fuel for a decade...

[deeen]

Dr Jekyll said:

john2443 said:

Err, but do lesbians get masculinised in the womb! Doesn't sound likely!

And why do only some men get feminised in the womb?

All males get masculinised in the womb so I don't see why there couldn't be a bit of reversion either way.

Seems more likely (Occam) that some males get less masculinised than others, and some females get more masculinised than others, non?