Random Q & A's

[Deleted member 65149]

If water is a liquid, and air is a gas.... What is a bubble? (I was asked his by my 6 year old nephew!)

Easier to answer than the question from my then 6 year old son after answering his question about why it got dark at night:"Why does planet Earth spin?"

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Easier to answer than the question from my then 6 year old son after answering his question about why it got dark at night:"Why does planet Earth spin?"

Kids are fantastic. Love the questions they ask.

Wrong thread I know but when our daughter was 4 years old, we (daughter, Mrs Ant & I) were half way through a 3 hour drive. Our daughter suddenly starts crying, Mrs Ant asks her what the matter is, her reply as she continues crying was; "I don't want Daddy to Die!"

Mrs Ant & I were like-

Goodness know what goes through their little heads eh?

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Easier to answer than the question from my then 6 year old son after answering his question about why it got dark at night:"Why does planet Earth spin?"

What answer did you give? So we cook evenly like a chicken roast!

 

[Giantvanman]

Kids are fantastic. Love the questions they ask.

I guy who I used to work with called Dave (honestly), was in the packed building society on a Saturday morning with his kids when the eldest asked, at the exact moment there was complete silence, why do you and mummy wrestle every Saturday morning?

Some shoulder twitching, a few guffaws and lots of knowing smiles from the rest of the queue that all turned around to look at him and his wife's ruddy complexion, apparently.

 

[Ricks Cafe]

Why, when I`ve parked in the most remote space in a car park, does someone park their car next to mine?

 

[Lennox]

Both!

Well I answered it this way....

A bubble is an economic cycle characterized by rapid escalation of asset prices followed by a contraction. It is created by a surge in asset prices unwarranted by the fundamentals of the asset and driven by exuberant market behavior.

 

[poormansporsche]

Why is a cling film serrated box edge completely useless at cutting cling film but slices through fingers as if butter ? (Speaking from recent personal experience !)

 

[ChrisEdu]

Why do TV presenters have to tell us their name? Do we really care who they are?

 

[PobodY]

Well I answered it this way....

A bubble is an economic cycle characterized by rapid escalation of asset prices followed by a contraction. It is created by a surge in asset prices unwarranted by the fundamentals of the asset and driven by exuberant market behavior.

I would have said that the bubble is still a gas, but it's trapped inside a liquid. - It's more like a colloidal suspension than a solution.

 

[markjay]

If water is a liquid, and air is a gas.... What is a bubble?

(I was asked his by my 6 year old nephew!)

He seems to have an inquisitive mind, he might enjoy this then:

https://archive.org/compress/NASA-U...ts=MPEG4&file=/NASA-Ultra-High-Definition.zip

(Warning: 2.2gb 4K Video Clip. Smaller versions also available.....)

 

[Tim203]

Why do TV presenters have to tell us their name? Do we really care who they are?

'Cos you might want to shout their name on the vinegar strokes ( if they're a bit tasty of course)

 

[Deleted member 65149]

What answer did you give? So we cook evenly like a chicken roast!

Would have been easier with that answer to the why does it get dark at night question. What I chose to do was demonstrate our place in the solar system using a selection of balls that I manually moved around an illuminated light bulb. I didn't think he'd really understood until a few days later when he asked the spinning earth question. Not knowing the answer I was tempted to just throw a ball and show that it would spin (with the appropriate finger assistance), but I foresaw his observation that the ball stopped and I didn't want to field a question on whether the earth will stop.so I admitted that I didn't know and he was happy with that. His probing questions on other matters continued, but at a slower rate. No point asking dad because he won't know! Nearly 40 years later he's still a bloody know-it-all, but a rich one.

 

[TheFoX]

Why do TV presenters have to tell us their name? Do we really care who they are?

On a similar note, why does Ben Sheppard, host of Tipping Point, repeat each question and answer, even though the contestant got the answer right.

And how comes Ben Sheppard knows the answer to every single question? Shouldn't he become a Chaser on The Chase?

 

[Peter103]

Why are we GB in the Olympics, and in World football/ rugby four seperate countries.

 

[PobodY]

Why are we GB in the Olympics, and in World football/ rugby four seperate countries.

Is it to do with votes on the rules committee?

Someone once told me that this is the case with football; England, Scotland and Wales means that Great Britain gets three seats in FIFA.

 

[scumbag]

Is it to do with votes on the rules committee?

actually it is to do with Great Britain. Which includes Crown Dependancies and most British Overseas aquisitions which are not Part of the United Kingdom (UK)

Northern Ireland persons can be GB or Ireland participants, as Ireland has its own Olympic committee which covers the whole of Ireland.

 

[Deleted member 65149]

Why do so many people lose the ability to move their legs as soon as they step on escalators and airport walkways?

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

How do they get screw lids onto drinks bottles with the 'break off' part still obviously connected to the lid?

 

[E55BOF]

Why are we waiting?

 

[E55BOF]

If the plural of 'phalanx' is phalanges

And the plural of sphinx is sphinges

The plural of minx is...

(Oh, all right, I'm going!)