What dont you know that youd like to know

khalessi · 11-08-2019 10:16PM #1

In the spirit of the thread things people know but dont want to admit to.

Is there something you would like to know but are embarrassed to ask

11-08-2019 10:20PM

What colour is blue?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 11-08-2019 10:21PM

Where did I leave my pruning saw?

whiskeyman · 11-08-2019 10:23PM

In before tracker mortgage...

poisonated · 11-08-2019 10:23PM

What happened after that 9th pint?

Leg End Reject · 11-08-2019 10:25PM

Who shot JFK and what happened Shergar?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 11-08-2019 10:28PM

Why are CP violations observed in certain weak force decays, but not elsewhere?

Wibbs · 11-08-2019 10:29PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What colour is blue?

One of the later colours to be made and named funny enough. It shows up rarely or not at all in ancient texts before 2000 years ago. The Egyptians had a name for it, but the Greeks didn't(though their colour naming and perception was a bit different ours). In the East it was another shade of green. Even today there are groups of hunter gatherers that when shown a load of images of green with a blue in the middle can't pick it out.

RMAOK · 11-08-2019 10:31PM

When will I be famous?

Enright · 11-08-2019 10:31PM

how do they get the figs in the fig rolls?

Ten of Swords · 11-08-2019 10:40PM

Wibbs wrote: »

One of the later colours to be made and named funny enough. It shows up rarely or not at all in ancient texts before 2000 years ago. The Egyptians had a name for it, but the Greeks didn't(though their colour naming and perception was a bit different ours). In the East it was another shade of green. Even today there are groups of hunter gatherers that when shown a load of images of green with a blue in the middle can't pick it out.

Russian has two words for blue (light and dark) and they are treated, and perceived by native speakers, as two distinct colours

4Ad · 11-08-2019 10:42PM

Will I get the jump this year ?

Capt'n Midnight · 11-08-2019 11:09PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What colour is blue?

Are Hooloovoo generally hyper-intelligent or only relative to other shades of blue ?

shar01 · 11-08-2019 11:13PM

RMAOK wrote: »

When will I be famous?

I can't answer. I can't answer that.

blackbox · 11-08-2019 11:13PM

How do automatic wipers know when to wipe?

poisonated · 11-08-2019 11:14PM

blackbox wrote: »

How do automatic wipers know when to wipe?

I would suspect they are touch sensitive. I could be wrong though.

One eyed Jack · 11-08-2019 11:15PM

Read my mind OP, taken from another thread -

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not familiar with how Twitter actually works, but that’s a thread for another day.

I’ve gone on it a couple of times usually when it’s linked here or in another online article, and it just looks messy. It’s more like it’s own programming language than english, and the formatting is terrible.

The content is another story altogether but the layout of it is just like it’s designed to confuse people and cause a cognitive overload. Twitter and Reddit, and Facebook, three sites I just can’t get into the format of them at all. I’m not the least bit a technophobe but they just leave me thinking -

11-08-2019 11:19PM

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Russian has two words for blue (light and dark) and they are treated, and perceived by native speakers, as two distinct colours

similar thing with Spanish.

Azul and Celeste.

Wibbs · 11-08-2019 11:46PM

mistersifter wrote: »

similar thing with Spanish.

Azul and Celeste.

Both of which take their origins from lapis lazuli. Asul or Azure comes from the Latin Azula/um(?) IIRC, though Celeste again IIRC was originally a light green and comes much later on to represent a blue.

Your Face · 11-08-2019 11:49PM

What is my dog thinking?

DrPhilG · 11-08-2019 11:50PM

How do blind people know when they've wiped their arse enough?

RMAOK · 11-08-2019 11:54PM

DrPhilG wrote: »

How do blind people know when they've wiped their arse enough?

Sniff sniff, perhaps?

Zirconia · 12-08-2019 12:03AM

I'd like to know the unknown unknowns so I'd know what I'd need to know. Even Donald Rumsfeld knew that!

One eyed Jack · 12-08-2019 12:24AM

DrPhilG wrote: »

How do blind people know when they've wiped their arse enough?

I’m wondering now as to the source of this question, do people really look at their arse while they’re wiping to see if it’s clean?

That kid in the Andrex advert may have been onto something (as opposed to being on something) after all -

“As clean as a washed potato”

Had me do a wtf? anyway.

Instinked btw, is your answer :pac:

khalessi · 12-08-2019 12:26AM

when the bidet is finshed

Junkyard Tom · 12-08-2019 12:30AM

I'd like to understand how Time Dilation works.

Dia_Anseo · 12-08-2019 12:31AM

Is homosexuality genetic or nurtured?

TheValeyard · 12-08-2019 12:31AM

What happened to MH370

One eyed Jack · 12-08-2019 12:39AM

Dia_Anseo wrote: »

Is homosexuality genetic or nurtured?

A combination of genetics, development in the womb and brain development. Nurturing is sociological factors such as culture. That’s a broader explanation of sexual orientation though as opposed to just homosexuality or heterosexuality.

TheValeyard · 12-08-2019 12:40AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I'd like to understand how Time Dilation works.

Its late, very, very loose explanation.

Faster you go in space, the more your biological clock/'you' slows down. But you dont feel the effects of it, everything is normal to you.

The difference is back on Earth. An hour may pass, but you will have only aged one minute. The faster you go, the greater the change.

cj maxx · 12-08-2019 12:40AM

How to spot a lying cnut?

What dont you know that youd like to know

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