Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Accy cyclist]

Why are many calling folk they have taken a dislike to 'you sausage' these days? I keep hearing 'you sausage' in a derogatory form. If someone called me a sausage I'd wonder what is/was the intended insult.🤔

 

[Dave7]

Why are many calling folk they have taken a dislike to 'you sausage' these days? I keep hearing 'you sausage' in a derogatory form. If someone called me a sausage I'd wonder what is/was the intended insult.🤔

I have always thought it was a term of endearment as in "you are a silly sausage".
Mind you I don't know what your locally made sausages are like.
NB. I get mine from a local artisan surveyor of all things meat...... its called Aldi

 

[mustang1]

From Mirriam-Webster:
Clean and cleanse both mean "to free something of dirt or impurities." Clean is used more generally to address everything from washing to tidying up. Cleanse is used more specifically to address removing dirt or germs, especially via washing, and is also used figuratively as seen in "cleanse the body/mind."

I will clean the Boeing 747, but I will cleanse the engine (coz that's specific).

Or I will clean the fleet of 747s but will cleanse one of the 747s (because now that's specific).

(Shrugs).

Still sounds odd to me but I'm being difficult, I know what you (and the dictionary mean). I get hung up over the use of language every so often and then have a little rant about it.

 

[matticus]

I have always thought it was a term of endearment as in "you are a silly sausage".

Yes, I think this is how it started. An affectionate mild insult.

Lately when people use just "sausage" the context suggests that it isn't particularly affectionate, but it's still a very mild insult; akin to "dafty", "muppet", or "plank", that sort of thing.

 

[Hover Fly]

Do they decorate the Large Hadron Collider for Xmas?

 

[Chris S]

Why is a scent added to WD40? What purpose could it serve?

 

[Webbo2]

Why is a scent added to WD40? What purpose could it serve?

Its so those folk using it as an anti inflammatory topical medication smell sweeter.

 

[Jameshow]

Can a tunnel span a road?

A bridge yes but a tunnel???

https://www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/25722987.story-charmouth-road-tunnel-old-a35/

 

[Gillstay]

Why is a scent added to WD40? What purpose could it serve?

To take a greater market share from 3 in 1 oil.

 

[DRM]

Why is every You Tube video these days prefaced with an ad showing an AI teenage girl, telling an AI Man that basically my dad is a lazy overweight slob, how can he get an AI body of a 25 year old ripped athlete, with his elderly head stuck on it, just like yours, the answer being to do Tai Chi, I'm struggling to see the actual scam, which it undoubtedly is, I presume it's mega bucks for a PDF sheet of Tai Chi moves?

 

[Alex321]

Why is every You Tube video these days prefaced with an ad showing an AI teenage girl, telling an AI Man that basically my dad is a lazy overweight slob, how can he get an AI body of a 25 year old ripped athlete, with his elderly head stuck on it, just like yours, the answer being to do Tai Chi, I'm struggling to see the actual scam, which it undoubtedly is, I presume it's mega bucks for a PDF sheet of Tai Chi moves?

Because you haven't managed to work ut how to block Youtube ads yet.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Do they decorate the Large Hadron Collider for Xmas?

Yes, but you should see the electricity bill.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Why is every You Tube video these days prefaced with an ad showing an AI teenage girl, telling an AI Man that basically my dad is a lazy overweight slob, how can he get an AI body of a 25 year old ripped athlete, with his elderly head stuck on it, just like yours, the answer being to do Tai Chi, I'm struggling to see the actual scam, which it undoubtedly is, I presume it's mega bucks for a PDF sheet of Tai Chi moves?

Problem with ads is that they put up irrelevant, annoying and sometimes inappropriate ads
and sometimes the ads slow the website down to an extent that make using the website difficult
then wonder why people install add blockers!

 

[Hover Fly]

Why is a scent added to WD40? What purpose could it serve?

To stop people working out the ingredients from the smells.

 

[Chris S]

To stop people working out the ingredients from the smells.

The ingredients are listed on the can. That's how I know it contains perfume.