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Questions that occupy your mind that no-one else seems to ask

  • 13-04-2014 9:55pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭


    What questions trouble your mind that don't seem to weigh on the minds of others?

    I sometimes wonder if parents of twins (who are too young to know their own names) get them mixed up and can't figure out which is which permanently.
    Imagine they're giving them their first bath in the sink or whatever. They take off their clothes, wash them, then suddenly realise that they're left with two identical, naked babies. How would they know which one was little Johnny and which was little Timmy?
    But most importantly, would it matter? The babies wouldn't know their names yet, so it wouldn't really affect them. Moreover, could you then basically just raise identical twins for about a year or so and not give a damn about which is which, as it doesn't really matter?

    Why does everyone say "liquorish?"

    What do wild animals do with their time? I know they hunt and graze and such, but there's still a lot of time left in the day. Do they just stand or sit around all day? That'd be terrible, even if they're not aware of how bored they should be.
    I mean, what does a frog do all day? Does it just sit around in the mud staring in front of it, or does it sometimes decide to go for a hop?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Chazz Michael Michaels


    Am I being selfish?


    I'm convinced only a narrow minority ever consider this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    I always question how they get the fig into the fig roll.

    Does that count?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Why do threads like this pop up on AH?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭FairytaleGirl


    How do they get cars into shopping centres?

    Wtf would you do if you got abducted by aliens?Imagine it actually happened- no one would believe you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert



    What do wild animals do with their time? I know they hunt and graze and such, but there's still a lot of time left in the day. Do they just stand or sit around all day? That'd be terrible, even if they're not aware of how bored they should be.
    When someone tells me they spend their evenings watching soaps I look at them in much the same way.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Am I being selfish?

    Yes you are.
    obezyana wrote: »
    I always question how they get the fig into the fig roll.

    Does that count?

    I'm not sure you're the only to ask that, I'll have to check.
    Why do threads like this pop up on AH?

    Because it's a wretched domain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    If you can't change destiny could I kill someone who is destined to live a long life?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    Why are the ads on tv so much louder than the tv show I'm watching?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Are those my feet:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Why does everyone say "liquorish?"

    'Cos that's how it's pronunced :)
    Something to do with the original French word...I'm too tired to bother looking it up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Do my neighbours hear the porn or do i have it at the right level thats its enjoyed and not that its heard outside of these 4 walls and im judged


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Sometimes I wonder about that girl and if things were different what could have been. I should have asked her stay. But she's gone away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Why are the ads on tv so much louder than the tv show I'm watching?

    Compression I think they call it,fit as much in as quickly as possible so music,voices etc will all be happening at once.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    kneemos wrote: »
    Compression I think they call it,fit as much in as quickly as possible so music,voices etc will all be happening at once.

    I thought it was just to make sure you heard them and therefore bought the products. It's a pity no-one's ever told BARRY SCOTT!! that ads are louder than programmes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Why are the ads on tv so much louder than the tv show I'm watching?
    to grab your attention


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    I was in the cinema today and as I was watching all the late-comers shuffle in 10minutes into the film, I was thinking............... why am I always late for everything but I'm never late for the cinema. I just couldn't be late for the cinema, it doesn't happen. And how can I not figure out how to harness this selective punctuality and apply it to other areas in my life :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    I was in Aldi recently. They were selling trolley tokens for 89 cent. They were the size of a 1 euro coin. Aldi trolleys take a 2 euro coin.

    Do Aldi want me to shop somewhere else?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    I was in Aldi recently. They were selling trolley tokens for 89 cent. They were the size of a 1 euro coin. Aldi trolleys take a 2 euro coin.

    Do Aldi want me to shop somewhere else?

    There was a whole thread dedicated to this recently!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    If I leave food on the ceiling will it attract flying ants?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Why are the ads on tv so much louder than the tv show I'm watching?

    So you can hear the tv when you go to the kitchen to make a cup of tea


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    to grab your attention

    The question I should have asked is why are tv ads allowed to be so much louder than the tv shows.

    Just bugs me, girlfriend always complains and I have to keep turning the volume down and then back up.

    I try to watch BBC as much as possible as a result. Or just download stuff with the ads removed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    mauzo! wrote: »
    There was a whole thread dedicated to this recently!

    LInk please if you have it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭Pawn


    I wonder if people who used to live let's say 300 years ago thought of people like us living 300 years from their "now". How they used to portrait us...

    Or - if I'm around an old place, like a castle etc. - I wonder who the people who built it were, what were their names, what worries they had, were they happy in relationships, what was their favourite food, how they died...?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    Sometimes wonder is my reality the same as everyone else's. Like is my blue someone elses red. Is the language I use and hear the same as what everyone else hears. Do my eyes see the same things everyone else's see

    Do our brains just translate everything into a form only we individually can rationalise. Also why can I never explain this theory better....prob cause its a load of horse****


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    --LOS-- wrote: »
    I was in the cinema today and as I was watching all the late-comers shuffle in 10minutes into the film, I was thinking............... why am I always late for everything but I'm never late for the cinema. I just couldn't be late for the cinema, it doesn't happen. And how can I not figure out how to harness this selective punctuality and apply it to other areas in my life :confused:

    Why do people arrive late for the cinema at all? They obviously want to see the film as they've paid quite a bit to do so. Why miss the start?
    I can't get my head round regular cinemagoers who only arrive at the cinema at the time the film's due to start on a busy weekend night, then buy their tickets and food. It's like every time they go is their first time and they haven't figured out how it works yet.
    They're the worst people ever, especially if you're waiting for them to show up to watch a film with them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    Why am i sitting with my togs at my ankles whilst worse looking men are having intercourse?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 55 ✭✭Turquoise Lagoon


    How does a shepherd count his sheep without falling asleep?
    Why is the name of the phobia for the fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    What happens to the fart when I hold it in and it disappears, does it get absorbed into the intestine walls or just come out later?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    Why do Gardai pronounce the word "vehicle" as VE-HIC-UL? Are they trained to do so in Templemore?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭FreshKnickers


    Why does everyone say "liquorish?"

    Ah, a lot of us wouldn't want a whole liquorice, just a liqourish will do lad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Zed Bank


    Why do Gardai pronounce the word "vehicle" as VE-HIC-UL? Are they trained to do so in Templemore?

    "He had drink taaaaaaken"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    orangesoda wrote: »
    Why am i sitting with my togs at my ankles whilst worse looking men are having intercourse?

    Maybe you just have an awful personality.
    Sometimes wonder is my reality the same as everyone else's. Like is my blue someone elses red. Is the language I use and hear the same as what everyone else hears. Do my eyes see the same things everyone else's see

    Do our brains just translate everything into a form only we individually can rationalise. Also why can I never explain this theory better....prob cause its a load of horse****

    Flarben.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭Eoin247


    Would i taste nice?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    What happens to the fart when I hold it in and it disappears, does it get absorbed into the intestine walls or just come out later?

    You burp it out!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    What happens to the fart when I hold it in and it disappears, does it get absorbed into the intestine walls or just come out later?

    That's where belches come from.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    I sometimes wonder what would happen/who would stop me, if I acted on the little psychopathic thoughts that pop into my head from time to time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    What if there's life on another planet with humans (or their version of humans) and they consider us as "aliens" and our planes as "UFO's"?

    What if they fly around Earth in their spaceships to see if there's life on this big blue planet?

    What if they come to Earth to check us out but are prepared to protect themselves against us "aliens" and we humans are doing the very same thing to them?

    Who's going to win that one? Them or us?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    How can there be nothing? Nothing is something since it is defined as existing therefore there is no such thing as nothing, only something called nothing which isn't nothing at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    Maybe you just have an awful personality.

    No sure I won the primary school comedy award 2001, have a wee plaque and all


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭Eoin247


    mauzo! wrote: »
    You burp it out!
    kneemos wrote: »
    That's where belches come from.

    ewwwwwwww


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    How can there be nothing? Nothing is something since it is defined as existing therefore there is no such thing as nothing, only something called nothing which isn't nothing at all.

    If you put two mirrors facing each other, what do they reflect?
    orangesoda wrote: »
    No sure I won the primary school comedy award 2001, have a wee plaque and all

    It'll be the bad breath so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    fussyonion wrote: »
    What if there's life on another planet with humans (or their version of humans) and they consider us as "aliens" and our planes as "UFO's"?

    What if they fly around Earth in their spaceships to see if there's life on this big blue planet?

    What if they come to Earth to check us out but are prepared to protect themselves against us "aliens" and we humans are doing the very same thing to them?

    Who's going to win that one? Them or us?
    Us...we have Tom Cruise and that lad from the corrs...they defo don't have that level of weapon in their arsenal


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Do I do what feels right to me or do I do, what I know is right?

    Should I use logic in this situation as opposed to reason?

    Do I care about this person, or do I care about their feelings?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    If you put two mirrors facing each other, what do they reflect?



    It'll be the bad breath so.

    no i get that removed every 6 months by my very attractive blonde dentist


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    How to blind people know when to stop wiping their ass?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    If a women is in a forest where no one can hear her, is she still complaining?

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    If you put two mirrors facing each other, what do they reflect?

    Each other.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    --LOS-- wrote: »
    I was in the cinema today and as I was watching all the late-comers shuffle in 10minutes into the film, I was thinking............... why am I always late for everything but I'm never late for the cinema. I just couldn't be late for the cinema, it doesn't happen. And how can I not figure out how to harness this selective punctuality and apply it to other areas in my life :confused:

    That actually is a mad one. The exact same for me:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Why don't film trailers have...

    *record scratch*

    ... voiceovers anymore?


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