[Closed] things / observations / questions that have been bugging you...

when you can peel it off it leaves all the adhesive on the packet and not on the back of the tab!

I don't know how the glue on sellotape knows to stick to one side of the the tape but not the other

I also don't know how the pheasant outside our house knows the time - he turns up at 11am on the dot at the window and expects us to give him peanuts. When the clocks changed a few weeks back - he still turned up at 11am.

Does anyone actually get a shower with the 'jet wash' type spray pattern that just comes from the centre nozzles??

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innit?

Why did Bungle from Rainbow go naked during the day but put pyjamas on to go to bed?

don't know how the glue on sellotape knows to stick to one side of the the tape but not the other

Maybe the glue that doesn't learn gets used for double sided tape?

Women in supermarkets at the fruit isle need to pick up every bit of fruit , examine it, x ray it with their eyes then reject it.

women in shops who get out a pile of cards to pay a small bill,then hand each one over and most get refused all while chanting out the pin number.

Did anyone give a shit about cats before the internet?

Why did Bungle from Rainbow go naked during the day but put pyjamas on to go to bed?

Just one of a whole swathe of Bungle Mysteries. People keep pretty tight lipped about the pretty extensive plastic surgery between series 1 and 2

Series 1 Bungle

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Series 2 Bungle - and an explanation about [url= https://vimeo.com/68053386 ]why he doesn't wear clothes in the daytime maybe[/url]

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Bloody hell series 1 Bungle was SCARY!!!

Bloody hell series 1 Bungle was SCARY!!!

Not as scary as the ANIMAL KWACKERS 😯

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Series 1 Bungle looks like he was on meth!
Series 2 Bungle looks more relaxed and a bit chubbier. Obviously due to the spliff in his mouth

I had a packet of Maltesers the other day with a reseal tab on. Yeah right.

Estate agents having "open house" events, but stipulating that booking an appointment is essential. Winds me up no end.

Why don't all toilet doors open outwards, so that us who wash our hands can use our foot instead and avoid the dirty mingers..?

Did all of Scooby's gang sleep at night in the back of the mystery machine?

I had a packet of Maltesers the other day with a reseal tab on. Yeah right.

Yes, and Pringles actually tell you 'once you pop you can't stop'
So whats the bloody point in the plastic lid?

Why the UK persists in using seperate taps for hot and cold water when the rest if the world realised long ago that mixer taps are better?

I hate mixer taps!

Why the UK persists in using seperate taps for hot and cold water when the rest if the world realised long ago that mixer taps are better?

Tom Scott, as is often the case, has the answer:

UrbanHiker - Member
I hate mixer taps!

Try washing your nob after a dirty evening when her water comes out a 3 million degrees - you'll pray for a mixer tap.

The new forum isn't here yet
This laptop doesn't have the light up keyboard
How many people think the BBC is biased in opposite directions

Try washing your nob after a dirty evening when her water comes out a 3 million degrees - you'll pray for a mixer tap

Surely you have a penis beaker for that?

Why do I sometimes get two streams when there's only one outlet?

Why do I sometimes get two streams when there's only one outlet?

You're not using the beaker properly?

Why don't all toilet doors open outwards, so that us who wash our hands can use our foot instead and avoid the dirty mingers..?

If desperate its one less obstacle to the porcelain throne

Then fit those hoops to the bottom so you can open the door with your foot!
No good putting posters everywhere about germs and washing hands if 50% don't and then you place your hand on the handle in the same place.....

Why, in our liability driven and health and safety OTT country, do people install spiky fences to keep people out "for 'elf n safety"...?

Where does all my money go each month?

How/why are there hedgehogs in Lanzarote?

How/why are there hedgehogs in Lanzarote?

They save up coupons from the Sun and buy cheap package holidays

How/why are there hedgehogs in Lanzarote?

...because they heard the place was crawling with British pricks all year round?

matt_outandabout - Member

Where does all my money go each month?

There's an App for that - actually there's a few dozen.

Download one, Put all your expenditure in, however small for a month - and you might be surprised - I don't think anyone ever does it and says to themselves afterwards "love a duck, seems I've been paying £600 a month to British Gas for a flat I left 4 years ago, better fix that" it's usually 'death by a thousand cuts' I used to work in a city centre, I ate lunch out every day, nothing expensive, Boot mealdeal or a Roll and a bag of crisps from this Café, maybe £4 - cheap eating, oh and a Coffee on the way into the office - worked out, between than at the odd 'little thing' I bought whilst I was there it was costing me more than £200 a month.

Started to bring my lunch in everyday and used the free office coffee machine and genuinely was a little bit wealthier every month.

When I asked for information about myself I am refused due to data protection ?

oreetmon - Member

When I asked for information about myself I am refused due to data protection ?

What information were you after?

Generally, "Data Protection" is thrown about as a catch-all reason in the same way "Health and Safety" is.

No organisation can hold information about you without letting you access it (police and intelligence services aside) - but that doesn't mean they can just spill the beans to whoever calls up claiming to be you.

Banks often cite "Data Protection" if you ask why they declined to offer someone a loan or such, it's a total lie - the truth is that underwriting criteria is a hugely secretive business and they don't want their competition to know their internal rules/systems - you can apply for them to show all the data they hold on you, but it's unlikely it will reveal anything earth shattering.

It was a dark and stormy night. I was sat at home watching the telly wondering:
a. do I still need to turn the TV off in case lightning hits the aerial?
b. did I ever have to turn the TV off in case lightning hit the aerial, or was that bullpoo just to get us to turn the TV off?

(But it didn't bug me for long as I just Googled it.)

that bloke in the video is just plain wrong about the taps in bathrooms. Most older houses did [i]not[/i] - I believe - originally have mains supply to the cold taps. He might have an argument for the kitchen where you would usually have have high pressure mains cold and gravity fed hot, but I think I've seen more mixers in kitchens with that situation - usually with the mixing occurring at nozzle end.

Think its just history and habit.

^ Had two lightening strikes nearby which blew various bits of 'puter equipment.

that bloke in the video is just plain wrong about the taps in bathrooms. Most older houses did not - I believe - originally have mains supply to the cold taps. He might have an argument for the kitchen where you would usually have have high pressure mains cold and gravity fed hot

Listen again. He agrees with you.

He says at 1:15 [i]"The cold meanwhile, at least certainly in the kitchen and [b]sometimes[/b] the bathroom too, the cold water comes straight from the mains."[/i]

Growing up we had a cold water storage tank in the attic and my parents always told me that I should never drink the water (hot or cold) from the bathroom taps, only ever from the cold kitchen tap.

I still don't like drinking from the bathroom taps, even though I know for a fact that the cold is mains fed in my house.

The tank eventually got removed and my dad turned into an interesting interpretation of a fish pond in the back garden. #ghettob4twascool 😀

My next door neighours chimney got hit by lightning a couple of years ago, destroyed every electrical item in their house that was plugged in at the time. The only damage to mine was the fuse in my coffee machine popped and the power supply to my router failed.

How come the Photos app on OS X won't let me copy'n'paste into a document, but will let me do it into an empty folder, then into a document?

I still don't like drinking from the bathroom taps, even though I know for a fact that the cold is mains fed in my house.

I thought it was only me! I even plumbed in the bathroom, but filling a glass there .. it just feels somehow [i]wrong[/i]....

Why did Kamikaze pilots wear helmets? 😕

Chest_Rockwell - Member

Why did Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

The speakers for their radios were in the leather caps they wore and they attached the mics to them, they didn't wear helmets.

Even now, the 'helmets' worn in modern fighters are mostly for attaching oxygen masks and other equipment, because they don't really go for 'crash landings' that's why they've got ejector seats and even if you're wearing a helmet and you eject into the canopy you'll die*

I should point two again that my knowledge of Jet Fighter is limited to watching Top Gun with elements of 'Iron Eagle' that gets mixed into my memory of Top Gun even though I don't remember ever watching Iron Eagle.

Doors on public toilets that are always push on the way in, and then pull on the way out.

I'd much rather not have to grab a manky door handle after just washing my hands.

Most terrifying children's television character has to go to Ragetty surely?

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Although he seems to have mellowed with age...

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Why does the UK have stupidly designed plugs? You know the type, the ones where all three pins can be pointing up just waiting for you to stand on them barefooted.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/07/this-is-why-british-plugs-are-the-best-in-the-world-until-you-stand-on-them/

Why does the UK have stupidly designed plugs? You know the type, the ones where all three pins can be pointing up just waiting for you to stand on them barefooted.

UK plugs are wonderfully safe compared to many others. The design is far from stupid.

But you do need to learn not to stand on them with bare feet.

waiting for you to stand on them barefooted

could be worse....

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[sarcasm] Of course you cant possibly wire the plug back to front..
And you really really do need the earth in there
and the rccd in the fuse box doesnt actually do anything [/sarcasm]

The earth pin does sod all on pretty much every modern appliance.
Unless you've still got an old fuse box with wire fuses then thats about the only reason to have them.
Ever bought a tv and it comes with two leads?
Or a euro lead and you stick an adaptor on the end? Which way round did you do it? Hint - it makes no difference.
Even on a Schuko socket which has an earth - it makes no difference which way round you put it in.
The only reason we still have them is because we've always had them - no one will shoulder the cost of the entire UK having to change every faceplate in every house.
They aren't better - they're just more cost effective right now.
Simplez

UK plugs are wonderfully safe compared to many others. The design is far from stupid.

Why people go to the shops.

I see people in queues to get into a local retail park on a weekend, surely there is more to a weekend than walking around a packed retail park trying to buy something that is more expensive than if you click a few buttons on your computer and let somebody do all the work until your doorbell goes?

But it would be just little bit better if it didn't land with the pins pointing up. Can't be that difficult to design.

Not at all difficult to design - you just have to buy them if you want them
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And why did UK plugs used to have a hole next to the earth pin? Or was that my imagination

my dad turned into an interesting interpretation of a fish pond

And why did UK plugs used to have a hole next to the earth pin? Or was that my imagination

Some have a little hole in the base of the plug so that you can see what rating of fuse is inside without having to open it - some have a little hole in the seam between the two pieces of the plug - this is so that you can see that the earth wire is connected to the pin without opening it up

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I think thats a bit of a throw back to the earlier 15amp round pin plugs (which are still used in theatre electrics) - that hole is compulsory on the round pin plugs and its part of the BS standard for them (but not part of the standard for 13amp).

Why does the UK have stupidly designed plugs?

Tom Scott again:

In other countries you can pull a lead and you'll pull the plug out the socket. Or worse, pull it partially out and cause some sparking. Bit of a design flaw that.

Yank hard enough on a lead with a UK plug and you're more likely to rip the entire socket out of your plasterboard. Much safer 😀

Call that crap GrahamS - rather the lead come clean out rather than leaving a plug in the wall with potentially loose wires arcing.
Unlike this country - other countries have been using trips for years and years while we were still using fuse wire in our main boards.
RCCD's were a rarity let alone a full board of electronic fuses and only fitted on the odd rewire if a shower was there - otherwise they weren't.
The insistence that brown MUST be live and the blue MUST be neutral is another load of crap too. Doesn't matter which way round they go. Go check all your figure 8 leads on the tv, radio, xbox, sky box, etc - just which one os the live again?....
I was abroad for a long, long time working in Spain, Germany, Belgium and others and wired hundreds of boards (inc theme park mains), houses, apartments over the years.
Only the UK uses an odd standard due to the antiquated BS standard and the fact no one will pay to go euro.
Its a billion pound industry - no way is anyone going to let it get changed

Why is the bottom of the yellow flashing lights on Zebra crossings not white , so as to illuminate anyone standing waiting to cross?

Why are all bedroom tables made with 90' corners and not radius ones, so as you roll over to smash the alarm clock into peices there is a chance of blindness?

Why cant car fog lights engage a 40mph speed restricter ? If its foogy enough for fog lights 40mph is plenty.

this is so that you can see that the earth wire is connected to the pin without opening it up

Doors on public toilets that are always push on the way in, and then pull on the way out.

I'd much rather not have to grab a manky door handle after just washing my hands.

I avoid door handles and treat them as if they are contaminated by the plague/cat aids, antibacterial hand spray or alcohol wipes for me and if i absolutely have to grab a handle i remove the offending digit with a scalpel and use a red hot iron to seal the incision and kill any bacteria.

Why do the sleeves and bottom of my t-shirts keep folding up at the hems, not just once, but sometimes twice? Is my partner doing it to wind me up? Puts them out to dry without unfolding them. So annoying.

Only the UK uses an odd standard

and Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bhutan, Channel Islands, China, Cyprus, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macau, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe 🙂

Most terrifying children's television character has to go to Ragetty surely?

I'll raise that to Noseybonk

Anyway, back on topic...

Scissors that come in packets that you need scissors to open. Surely you are buying scissors because you don't have any

Why do people(mainly women and old folks)stop at the top of escalators then look outraged when you have to excuse yourself to get past.

Same happens in the aisle behind supermarket checkouts ,strange world.

Why take a pair of leather boots and line them with nylon and foam?
If I wanted hot ,sweaty feet I'd wear wellies.
Leave them be, surely it's cheaper and better for everyone involved.

[quote=Stoatsbrother ]Most older houses did not - I believe - originally have mains supply to the cold taps.

I always thought that was the case in the house I grew up in - until I wanted to drain the tank in the loft and found the tap in the bathroom didn't do anything (literally, had already turned off the mains supply) - the only thing I could find it supplied was the toilet, so had to drain it through that.

People who stand next to zebra crossings waiting for a car to come along and stop before crossing. If there is no traffic, JUST CROSS YOU FOOL. We have a lollipop man near us, he does exactly this.

I'd forgotten all about "Animal Kwackers" until this thread. Terrifying.

15 amp plugs have no hole at the earth. Have used 1960's ones and modern ones for over 30 years now. never seen a hole.

People who stand next to zebra crossings waiting for a car to come along and stop before crossing. If there is no traffic, JUST CROSS YOU FOOL. We have a lollipop man near us, he does exactly this.

I can understand that actually - it's much safer. If a driver comes bombing along the road whilst reading facebook and they eating their breakfast cereal then having a stationary car between them and a group of schoolchildren makes a lot of sense.

Arse hair. What possible selective advantage is given by a hairy crack? It's like our primate cousins in reverse, basically chimps got arse design more right than us. Is it a vengeful gaia?

15 amp plugs have no hole at the earth. Have used 1960's ones and modern ones for over 30 years now. never seen a hole.

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GrahamS, Yes, but if the car approaching is not bombing along and is 200m away, then just cross the road.
I do agree, when kids are involved, better safe than sorry.

Hole in plug is to let water out.

Why do so many people with such a distorted/blinkered/ignorant view of the world seem to be the most prolific on any political threads on here?

Why do magazines chose to score things out of 5 but then give half points? Why not just score out of 10?

Arse hair. What possible selective advantage is given by a hairy crack?

The best answer for this, and pubes, seems to be "lubricant" imagine if you will a sweaty arse without hair, rubbing together....

imagined? No need to thank me.

Sausage sarnies don't last long enough, whats that all about.

hooli - Member

Why people go to the shops.

I see people in queues to get into a local retail park on a weekend, surely there is more to a weekend than walking around a packed retail park trying to buy something that is more expensive than if you click a few buttons on your computer and let somebody do all the work until your doorbell goes?

I do buy a lot of things online, in fact it's part of my job usually we have 4-5 couriers a day coming to the office with stuff for the Tech Guys to install and I buy a lot of my personal shopping online.

Some stuff it's just easier to get yourself though, if it has to come to home rather than the office I don't have the time or inclination to spend a whole or even half a day waiting for courier not to come. I tried home food shopping a few times, oh I hate that shit.

As for others, some people don't trust it, some people just don't have the internet at home (crazy I know) and some people like to prod and touch stuff before they make their choice

Worst of all though, some people actually consider 'shopping' as a activity to be enjoyed and not a chore to be endured. They're mental of course.

I see people in queues to get into a local retail park on a weekend, surely there is more to a weekend than walking around a packed retail park trying to buy something that is more expensive than if you click a few buttons on your computer and let somebody do all the work until your doorbell goes?

If there is no one home during the day to receive a parcel then on-line shopping is not always that practical. On-line shopping only really works for me if I can 'click and collect' or if the retailer uses Collect+ (or similar) or Parcelforce (where I can go and pick it up at the local sorting office).

I see people in queues to get into a local retail park on a weekend, surely there is more to a weekend than walking around a packed retail park trying to buy something that is more expensive than if you click a few buttons on your computer and let somebody do all the work until your doorbell goes?