Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]

[SpeckledJim]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Do football fans actually enjoy watching important matches or they just addicted to the stress?

Surely this is true of every sport? The thrill of not knowing the outcome and watching it unfold?

Football is worse (better?) than most for this, because scoring is so low, winning margins so small, and because often it happens that the better team doesn't win.

Most sports are much more reliable at delivering 'justice' in a comfortable way. Most football matches can go completely upside down in one mad minute, in a way that most sports matches can't, and that potential for triumph or disaster keeps most football matches enthralling for longer in a way that most sports can't deliver.

[Timmy45]

Dr Jekyll said:

Do football fans actually enjoy watching important matches or they just addicted to the stress?

That's a bit like asking whether men enjoy being married. I suppose the answer is you get used to it.

[AppleJuice]

Timmy45 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Do football fans actually enjoy watching important matches or they just addicted to the stress?

That's a bit like asking whether men enjoy being married. I suppose the answer is you get used to it.

[V8mate]

AppleJuice said:

Timmy45 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Do football fans actually enjoy watching important matches or they just addicted to the stress?

That's a bit like asking whether men enjoy being married. I suppose the answer is you get used to it.

How many years decades does it take to get used it?

[mattyn1]

V8mate said:

AppleJuice said:

Timmy45 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Do football fans actually enjoy watching important matches or they just addicted to the stress?

That's a bit like asking whether men enjoy being married. I suppose the answer is you get used to it.

How many years decades wives does it take to get used it?

[Frimley111R]

WWE/WWF wrestling. Its obviously all a big show but if it is how do they decide who the champion is? Do management just decide and if its you all the wrestling is geared to you winning and everyone pretending to try to beat you?

[P-Jay]

Frimley111R said:

WWE/WWF wrestling. Its obviously all a big show but if it is how do they decide who the champion is? Do management just decide and if its you all the wrestling is geared to you winning and everyone pretending to try to beat you?

Yes. The results are predetermined.

It's much easier in an information age to judge which are the most popular characters, who fans love to hate etc and the create drama from that.

The oddest thing to me (my mate is STILL a huge wrestling fan at 41) is wrestling fans can generally suspend their disbelief more than film fans can, even though, deep down (really deep down) they know its all fake, he still gets really excited at the prospect of this guy or that winning.

[RizzoTheRat]

AppleJuice said:

Quite simply, firing order; they change even amongst the same manufacturer (New: Columbo / Old: anyone help?):

That and exhaust design.

Are they equal angles (ie something fires every 60 degrees) or does the spacing vary as well?

[SCEtoAUX]

Was Cheryl Baker wearing any knickers in this video?

https://youtu.be/j9TX9syyqnc

[Willy Nilly]

We have horses at work. One of the clients is about 24 and stunningly good looking but I wouldn't (doubt she would either) because she's almost certainly cripplingly expensive to run and every time I see her my wallet whimpers. Is this a sign of early onset homosexuality?

[anonymous-user]

SCEtoAUX said:

Was Cheryl Baker wearing any knickers in this video?

https://youtu.be/j9TX9syyqnc

I sincerely hope not.

[mattyn1]

OpulentBob said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Was Cheryl Baker wearing any knickers in this video?

https://youtu.be/j9TX9syyqnc

I sincerely hope not.

Saving on washing I suppose! I seem to remember hearing or reading that they didn’t wear any when they often performed the Eurovision song .... the one where the skirts are ripped off!!!!

[MissChief]

Willy Nilly said:

We have horses at work. One of the clients is about 24 and stunningly good looking but I wouldn't (doubt she would either) because she's almost certainly cripplingly expensive to run and every time I see her my wallet whimpers. Is this a sign of early onset homosexuality?

No. It's because she's probably a bit posh and if she's also hot then while it would no doubt be great fun for a while before you know it you're doing all the work in the stable and shovelling horse st twice a week. And she would have certain expectations. Avoid the horsey set for long term, short term fun only.

[AstonZagato]

Chestrockwell said:

Question 1 - Why don’t 12 cylinder cars sound that good, DB11 drove past the other day and it sounded like a V6 if I’m honest. Same with other Aston’s, the noise is just loud as if they’ve stuck an after market exhaust on a car that is meant to be quiet. V8 vantage’s sounds miles better.

Saw a video on an M760li and the same thing, sounded like an M140i where as an M5/6 would sound completely different.

SL65 sounds like a modified 3 liter diesel, you know when people decat old diesels.

Bentley W12’s sounds like my old 330i E46

Only nice sounding V12 I can think of is Lamborghinis and Ferrari’s!

I think you need to pop round and have a listen to a recent Aston Martin Vanquish. Normally aspirated (rather than turbo like the DB11). I had a Vantage S for a month. That sounded wrong to me - deep rumble but uncouth. But the Vanquish, particularly the S, sounds to my ears to be sublime. If you don't like loud, avoid the S though.

[Tony Angelino]

P-Jay said:

Frimley111R said:

WWE/WWF wrestling. Its obviously all a big show but if it is how do they decide who the champion is? Do management just decide and if its you all the wrestling is geared to you winning and everyone pretending to try to beat you?

Yes. The results are predetermined.

It's much easier in an information age to judge which are the most popular characters, who fans love to hate etc and the create drama from that.

The oddest thing to me (my mate is STILL a huge wrestling fan at 41) is wrestling fans can generally suspend their disbelief more than film fans can, even though, deep down (really deep down) they know its all fake, he still gets really excited at the prospect of this guy or that winning.

Watch wrestling with the shadows on either Netflix or youtube. It's the story of Brett Hart and the 'Montreal Screwjob', really really interesting if you grey up with wrestling in the early 90s.

Shows the serious side of the event and will give you an insight into how it all works.

[Jonboy_t]

If I’m doing 50mph going one way and someone else is doing 50mph the other, would our arms snap off if we high-5’d out the window?

[SpeckledJim]

Jonboy_t said:

If I’m doing 50mph going one way and someone else is doing 50mph the other, would our arms snap off if we high-5’d out the window?

if you hooked elbows I'd expect you could easily rip each other's arms off.

[captain_cynic]

Jonboy_t said:

If I’m doing 50mph going one way and someone else is doing 50mph the other, would our arms snap off if we high-5’d out the window?

More likely just broken arms (probably all bones)... but I'd be more concerned about the car crash.

[Timmy45]

If I was squished down so that all of the empty space between my electrons and protons was removed, how small would I be?

[Flibble]

Timmy45 said:

If I was squished down so that all of the empty space between my electrons and protons was removed, how small would I be?

This is very rough as sub atomic particles (and indeed atoms themselves) don't really have proper boundaries, so they don't have a definite size.

Using carbon is a basis atom: the nucleus is roughly 5 fm across (based on charge radius), a carbon atom is roughly 75 pm across (using covalent radius), which is 75,000 fm.

So you'd be 15,000 times smaller or about 0.12 mm tall.