[snowdrops]

So how long is that piece of string?
If I go to the foot of our stairs, what exactly will happen?

[Growster...]

So how long is that piece of string?
If I go to the foot of our stairs, what exactly will happen?

Snows, I 'm not allowed to mention a response to 'stairs' here, so don't ask...

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I SAID DON'T ASK!

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[snowdrops]

So how long is that piece of string?
If I go to the foot of our stairs, what exactly will happen?

Snows, I 'm not allowed to mention a response to 'stairs' here, so don't ask...

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I SAID DON'T ASK!

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😂 😂

[Tenhens]

Quote from Jaydig

" b) I arrive at the bus stop almost five minutes early, only to see the very bus that I want sailing off into the sunset ".

Slightly pondered on this one , I notice from you post that you are from the Worcester area and assumed , by stretching the geography slightly, that the buss that you had just missed could , in fact , be on the river Severn , hence the the sailing , ( it momentarily crossed my mind that this may have related to the Isle of Wight Ferry , that would be silly , and therefore ridiculing the sensible nature of this thread )

 This could also further confirmed by the mention of " sailing off into the sunset"  as the general direction of the Mouth of the River Severn would be in the West , and therefor the Sun set.
   There are two possible flaws in this theory  , one , it could be a low tide ,and sailing not possible ,  and two the buss that you had missed was a morning service 

[al78]

So how long is that piece of string?

Twice the distance from its middle to one end.

[al78]

So just how big is the universe?
Often pondered this question

About 92 billion light years in diameter.

[Goosegirl]

… so that would make it 288.88 billion light years in circumference, so what lies outside that?
More questions:-
1) Why is it when you go into a supermarket when there's not a lot of people around, the very shelf you want always has several people intent on looking at everything in minute detail?
2) Why is there always a dandelion growing in the middle of a prized plant?
3) Why do climbing beans twine anti-clockwise on their supports?


 

[hamstergbert]

… so that would make it 288.88 billion light years in circumference, so what lies outside that?

....the Inland Revenue query-answering department....

More questions:-
1) Why is it when you go into a supermarket when there's not a lot of people around, the very shelf you want always has several people intent on looking at everything in minute detail?

....because after the first person starts looking, everyone else is fearful of missing something so start looking to see what is so interesting....

2) Why is there always a dandelion growing in the middle of a prized plant?

....because that is where the best soil is and the most likely to be watered regularly....

3) Why do climbing beans twine anti-clockwise on their supports?

Coriolis effect.    They twine clockwise in the southern hemisphere.  Allegedly.

[al78]

… so that would make it 288.88 billion light years in circumference, so what lies outside that?

The place where missing socks and jigsaw puzzle pieces end up.

More questions:-
1) Why is it when you go into a supermarket when there's not a lot of people around, the very shelf you want always has several people intent on looking at everything in minute detail?
2) Why is there always a dandelion growing in the middle of a prized plant?
3) Why do climbing beans twine anti-clockwise on their supports?

1. I've often wondered that myself. It is useful when the supermarket does its periodic shelf rearranging and I can't find the thing I'm looking for which was in a well known place last week. I just walk along the aisles and look for the biggest cluster of people staring at the shelf in a trance, the item I want will nearly always be there. Also, to optimise speed through the checkouts, join the queue with the lowest number of women in it.

2. Dandelion seeds are spawned in large numbers and spread everywhere. The law of averages states at least one of those seeds will land and germinate in the most awkward place possible for you.

3. I hadn't noticed. You've inspired me to check that out now.

[al78]

3) Why do climbing beans twine anti-clockwise on their supports?

Coriolis effect.    They twine clockwise in the southern hemisphere.  Allegedly.
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Definitely not true. The Coriolis effect only applies to motions over hundreds of km, since it is a very weak (apparent force), it takes time to make a significant deviation to atmospheric winds and ocean currents. Those demonstrations where someone a few meters from the equator pours water in a bucket and it spins one way, then they walk to the other hemisphere and repeat, and the water spins the other way. It is fake, you can make the water spin whichever way you like in either hemisphere just by artificially addind some vorticity to the water when you pour it into the bucket, the flow down the hole then stretches this vorticity which spins up the water (think ice skater analogy).

[Goosegirl]

Who is "Soft Mick" and why?
Why is Dickie's meadow different to anyone else's?

[Growster...]

Where was the man who jumped off Battersea Bridge into the River Thames?

[Goosegirl]

He was a Battersea Dogs Home employee on his stag night when his best man (who was a crane driver) tied him on top of a crane with a bungee rope. There was a slight vertical misalignment when he landed on one of the iron girders and got his boxers in a twist but, with a "hey-ho and a-down we go" forward thrust, he leaped off just enough to dip his toe in the river, then went whizzing back up accompanied by a round of applause.
Simples! 

[Tenhens]

Sure this 'interesting ' question has come up before , as Battersea is in London I'll go for that , the river is also in London , the air that he is travelling through is also in the capital .  Or , which is most likely , I am completely missing the point  

Could this be a Chicken and egg question??

[Growster...]

Sure this 'interesting ' question has come up before , as Battersea is in London I'll go for that , the river is also in London , the air that he is travelling through is also in the capital .  Or , which is most likely , I am completely missing the point  

Could this be a Chicken and egg question??

Yes!

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