Questions you want answers for (but were afraid to ask)

[Oldbloke]

Why does my Labrador plunge into the river on the coldest days but won't go out in the rain?

 

[tyred]

Because it's so simple and requires so little equipment. You need: one ball, two teams and one rule: no hands. Peep!

You forgot to mention the jumpers for the goalposts

 

[tyred]

How come cats like fish but don't like getting wet? How did they realise they like fish when they won't go anywhere near a river?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The creepiness behind the fixed smile?

Oh and talking of that 'clown' article, I do wish they would stop overusing the word 'Creepy', EVERYTHING is 'creepy' these days (either that or it is 'Unique' 'Iconic' 'innovative', or another of these nobberish words).

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Why does my Labrador plunge into the river on the coldest days but won't go out in the rain?

Apparently rain amplifies sound, so sometimes it can be stressful for dog's ears

 

[ColinJ]

People think too much about it if you ask me.

Actually, the thing about cutting jester's faces just made me feel sorry for them. I am not autistic or anything (far from it), but it seems facial expressions aren't my forte, hence why I asked in the first place.

I understand now...... But I still don't 'get' it.

My late best mate's new TV had the same effect on me as clowns do to some other people!

It took me quite a while to realise that there was something creepy about people's faces on his set, when mine does not suffer from the problem. I looked into it, and apparently it is due to heavy use of digital interpolation to magic up extra frames to reduce perceived flicker/judder. What it also does is make everything unnaturally 'smooth'. When people are moving about or they are smiling, talking (whatever), all the natural jerkiness had been filtered out. It looks both very real and very fake at the same time and I found it unsettling.

See THIS ARTICLE on the Wired website.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My late best mate's new TV had the same effect on me as clowns do to some other people!

It took me quite a while to realise that there was something creepy about people's faces on his set, when mine does not suffer from the problem. I looked into it, and apparently it is due to heavy use of digital interpolation to magic up extra frames to reduce perceived flicker/judder. What it also does is make everything unnaturally 'smooth'. When people are moving about or they are smiling, talking (whatever), all the natural jerkiness had been filtered out. It looks both very real and very fake at the same time and I found it unsettling.

See THIS ARTICLE on the Wired website.

Yeah I have seen those. Odd looking things, but that's just it.

I'll just keep living my life in relative (facial) bliss.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Because it's so simple and requires so little equipment. You need: one ball, two teams and one rule: no hands. Peep!

In that case then, why is running not HUGE?? Why do you not get 'Derby meets' between different athletic clubs televised across the land?? Why do people not get appoplectic when their favourite runner drops the baton or fades during te Marathon?? Etc etc.

All you need are shoes. Not even shoes in fact!
..... Or Swimming - All you need is water!!

 

[classic33]

Why do they lock the gates on graveyards at night?
Are they afraid someone will get out.

 

[machew]

Why do they lock the gates on graveyards at night?
Are they afraid someone will get out.

Tis Health and Safety gone mad, I tell you gone mad.
They are frit of someone coming in, tripping over a gravestone and sueing

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Why do they lock the gates on graveyards at night?
Are they afraid someone will get out.

Yes, YOU!!

 

[tyred]

Where are my car keys?

 

[Turbo Rider]

Which is better...99 problems or a b*tch?

 

[classic33]

Tis Health and Safety gone mad, I tell you gone mad.
They are frit of someone coming in, tripping over a gravestone and sueing

Why only at night then? Even during the period called Summer, when its ligher later, they still lock them.

 

[Turbo Rider]

Why only at night then? Even during the period called Summer, when its ligher later, they still lock them.

More drunks around? These people have long since stopped smelling of pee so it seems only right that people are stopped from peeing on them...or whatever else they want to do on them...unless they stated in their will that they'd love a golden shower every once in a while...even the dead have rights...