Questions we all wonder....

[liam88]

Where is Shergar/why?
What happend on the eve/morning of the 1998 World Cup final?
What wouldn't Meatloaf do?
(heard a really funny suggestion for the last one)

any others?

[Plastic Paddy]

Only the real impponderables for me...

What is the meaning of life?
Why does the queue I join in the post office always move the slowest?
Why does my toast always fall butter side-down when I drop it? :confused: etc., etc.

(That last one's a lie since I don't eat wheat and therefore bread, but you get the picture...)

:ball: PP

[Troy.McClure]

Why do people onder what the meaning of life is instead of getting on with it?
What would I be like if I was born a girl & not a boy?

What would I be like if my parents didnt meet?

[Anto McC]

What would I be like if my parents didnt meet?

Do you really wonder that.

[Cosmo]

'What would I be like if my parents didnt meet?'

Thats a weird one alright - would that not mean you would never have existed and thus never knew about this world, and thus never would've had that question to ask :D

[Plastic Paddy]

Why do people onder what the meaning of life is instead of getting on with it?

The two don't have to be mutually exclusive, Troy. You should know that. :)

:ball: PP

[Troy.McClure]

Kind of: I look like my dad but am more like my mum personality wise.

It doesnt keep me up all night though :D

[Troy.McClure]

The two don't have to be mutually exclusive, Troy. You should know that. :)

:ball: PP

I know ;)

[sligoman]

What would I be like if I was born a girl & not a boy?

Well, lets just say you'd look a little different down below :p :D

[Poor Student]

Why is it at airport check in I always take 30 seconds to check in and everyone else in the queue ahead of me without fail takes 5 minutes at least no matter how small their luggage?

[paul_oshea]

poor student, quality, was just thinking the same on me way home 2 weeks ago. i just cant understand it. and i knew they would so i took a look around to let everyone know when i first checked in and got out of the queue.

my father has a funny one though, you know when people are holding up traffic for about 2 or 3 miles etc on a road going about 40 mile an hour and wont move into the hard shoulder to let others pass them out,because they are ignorant and sh1te drivvers. well when he passess them out he swerves in right in to the hard shoulder, slows down for a bit and stays there right in front, it is very funny, but funnier that he even thinks they take notice....

[brendy_éire]

Who discovered tobacco? And who thought of adding cannabis to it?

And what was your man doing when he first milked a cow?

And if we drive on the left because ye needed to keep your right hand free to attack others with your sword should you have meet a nasty character on the road, why do most countries drive on the right? (maybe this one is answerable?)

And why can't tractor companies give them a higher top speed?

[De Town]

Is heaven really just floating on fluffy clouds or is there more to it?

[Gareth]

What would I be like if my parents didnt meet?

A bit of a w*nker I'd imagine....:) hehe sorry I had to.

[Peadar]

Why does my toast always fall butter side-down when I drop it? :confused:

Toast typically flips once during the fall and therefore the buttered side will now be facing down. Simple logic really, PP. :)


What would I be like if I was born a girl & not a boy?

You wouldn't be a woman trapped in a mans body?? :D


What is infinity?
What's beyond outer space and within what is it all contained?
Sorry if any of you haven't previously thought of this and getting a bit freaked out now. :o

[tetsujin1979]

Why doesn't vegatarian pizza have vegetarians on it??

Why didn't Fred Flintstone jump through the window of the house like his sabre tooth tiger did at the end of every show??

[Gareth]

What is infinity?
Infinity is an unbounded quantity. It is a value or state that we as people can not measure as measuring it bounds it and by definition its unbounded so by ascribing it a value would be paradoxical in a way.

It actually leads perfectly to your second question of:
What's beyond outer space and within what is it all contained?

That would be dealing with potentially trying to wrap infinity in a finite amount which will always lead to the question of what is beyond that. I assume whatever lies beyond if beyond is even the way to describe it is currently unfathomable to us and therefore this question is currently unanswerable and is just a spectulative question to which so many enjoy pondering and arguing about. I think by investigating the small we will understand the infinite. Quantum Physics is intriguing!!!

[Peadar]

It actually leads perfectly to your second question...

Yeah, I intended for the questions to be linked.
Sometimes people think of infinity in numerical terms but never consider how it applies to us and our very existence.


I assume whatever lies beyond if beyond is even the way to describe it is currently unfathomable to us and therefore this question is currently unanswerable and is just a spectulative question to which so many enjoy pondering and arguing about.

I agree with that as I came to the same conclusion when I was thinking about death at around 11 or 12 years of age.
It freaks many people out and drives others totally crazy.

On a less profound note, whatever happened to Acid Rain?
It used to be the big scare of the late 80's early 90's.

[Macy]

And if we drive on the left because ye needed to keep your right hand free to attack others with your sword should you have meet a nasty character on the road, why do most countries drive on the right? (maybe this one is answerable?)
Napoleon was left handed. So that's why Europe changed from riding their horses on the left hand side of the road, and then the Canadians, and then the Yanks just to be anti British. FACT.

[Peadar]

just to be anti British. FACT.

I can't believe there are countries more anti British than us! :mad:
I demand we drive on the right, immediately! :D

[Macy]

I can't believe there are countries more anti British than us! :mad:
I demand we drive on the right, immediately! :D
Well the yanks got over their anti-brit obsession soon after independance.... :D

[Macy]

My question is, why does smoking have to be bad for you?

Off them nearly 5 weeks now, but why can't they just be like drink - okay in moderation? Or even better like red wine, where a couple of smokes in the evening actually do you good? :( Proof there is no God...

[Peadar]

Well the yanks got over their anti-brit obsession soon after independance.... :D

Well if Tony Blair pandered to Bertie, I'm sure we'd get over it too. ;)


where a couple of smokes in the evening actually do you good? :(


Wasn't there some suggestion that it helped reduce the risk of Alzheimer's?

[Gareth]

Yeah, I intended for the questions to be linked.
Sometimes people think of infinity in numerical terms but never consider how it applies to us and our very existence.

Numerical terms of infinity can cause confusion as you can always add one to a number to make it bigger and at what point in the number chain is infinity reached is the question usually asked, but it doesn't work that way. Take Positive Integers, this set is infinite as they are unbounded. Its not at any point it becomes infinite. It is infinite. In relation to our existance, I consider humans to be no more to the earth as ants would be to a forest. It could be considered incredibly arrogent of us to consider ourselves as anything more than a bi-product of a plantary system. The concept of God and religion somewhat smells of arrogence on our part that we alone in an eco-system of billions of creatures are the only bunch that get to continue after life. God in my opinion is the gap between our current knowledge and the unknown. It always has been considering the re-definition of God over the course of our history.

[Gareth]

Wasn't there some suggestion that it(smoking) helped reduce the risk of Alzheimer's?

Thats great. It helps reduce the risk of Alzheimers by killing you with lung or throat cancer before you get to an age Alzheimers kicks in. Justifying smoking is not really worth doing. If you smoke, you are damaging your body. If you wish to ignore this, that is all fine and funky. But suggesting its in someways good for you is a bit niave. I am sure getting caught in a nuclear fallout might stop some disease but its not really the point.......

[tiktok]

How do Jacobs get the figs into the fig rolls? :confused: No Really! :)

[Peadar]

The concept of God and religion somewhat smells of arrogence on our part that we alone in an eco-system of billions of creatures are the only bunch that get to continue after life. God in my opinion is the gap between our current knowledge and the unknown. It always has been considering the re-definition of God over the course of our history.


I really hoped that this can of worms wouldn't get opened.
We're going to have a religious debate now and someone is going to get banned. :(
I don't have any religious beliefs, thank God. ;)

[Gareth]

Didn't know debate on this subject was venturing into bannable material. I wasn't debating the nature of religions. I don't really mind what people get up to as long as they don't make me do it :). It's in Off Topic. I assumed this was some level of discussion on topics off football? If you mention infinity, god is unavoidable seeing as the concept is religions way of defining infinity and most of the world is of some religion.

[Macy]

Thats great. It helps reduce the risk of Alzheimers by killing you with lung or throat cancer before you get to an age Alzheimers kicks in. Justifying smoking is not really worth doing. If you smoke, you are damaging your body.
Hence there is no God. My question that I wanted answered was why it was bad for you, not some numpty stating the bleeding obvious. :rolleyes: :D

[Gareth]

Hence there is no God. My question that I wanted answered was why it was bad for you, not some numpty stating the bleeding obvious. :rolleyes: :D

Ok then, the Nicotine infilatrates every part of the body. Carbon Monoxide binds with Hemoglobin to effect oxegen flow round the body. Carcinogens can effect growth, cause abnormal reproduction and can lead to cancer. It can effect the immune system. The body produces antioxidants to help repair damaged cells. Smokers have lower levels of antioxidants in their blood than do nonsmokers.

And it smells so your out of pocket on laundry bills and your breathes tend to reek :)

[tiktok]

God schmod!!! :mad:
Fig rolls lads, focus :D :D :D

[Gareth]

God schmod!!! :mad:
Fig rolls lads, focus :D :D :D

Large sheet of fig roll pastry....slice it into small rectangles, twice the width of a fig roll. squirt fig goo on half, machine folds excess pastry over. Fig roll created. Now back to Godly stuff...:)

[Eire06]

Large sheet of fig roll pastry....slice it into small rectangles, twice the width of a fig roll. squirt fig goo on half, machine folds excess pastry over. Fig roll created. Now back to Godly stuff...:)
I think the aliens come down and do it.. :rolleyes:

Why are boys so much hard work?

[Peadar]

Now back to Godly stuff...:)

John O'Flynn is God!
Turners Cross is my church. :D

[Gareth]

Why are boys so much hard work?

Because girls aren't that bright? :D (I'm dead now ain't I?)

[Macy]

Ok then, the Nicotine infilatrates every part of the body. Carbon Monoxide binds with Hemoglobin to effect oxegen flow round the body. Carcinogens can effect growth, cause abnormal reproduction and can lead to cancer. It can effect the immune system. The body produces antioxidants to help repair damaged cells. Smokers have lower levels of antioxidants in their blood than do nonsmokers.

And it smells so your out of pocket on laundry bills and your breathes tend to reek :)
You're not helping this ex-smoker.... I meant why does it have to be bad, rather than the thoery of what it does. Why can't it be as good as it is cool to smoke?

[Jim Smith]

Why can't it be as good as it is cool to smoke?
Because, when you get down to it, life is sh*te and if you can manage 5 minutes of happiness a week you are doing well...

[Gareth]

"You're not helping this ex-smoker.... I meant why does it have to be bad, rather than the thoery of what it does. Why can't it be as good as it is cool to smoke?"

Its not really a theory more than a fact but thats not the question asked. Why can't it be good. It can be fantastic. The only price is the potential of a very uncomfortable end with the coughing and phelgm and stuff. But hey you might never smoke and end up that way. So you choose. Enjoy your vices and be damned the consequences or live all proper and hope that you live to 140 and die whilst playing a 5 a side game of astroturf soccer after scoring the winning goal :)

[paul_oshea]

Wasn't there some suggestion that it helped reduce the risk of Alzheimer's?

because you are dead ( from the smokes ) before it has a chance to kick in???

[superfrank]

What created the universe? And if we are to believe scientists and the whole Big Bang theory, how did the Big Bang happen from nothing?

[blobbyblob]

where are all the flies hiding this summer. i think theyre just having a laugh ready to ambush me en mass

[Schumi]

where are all the flies hiding this summer. i think theyre just having a laugh ready to ambush me en mass
They were all in Longford the last time I was down. :eek:

[paul_oshea]

blobbyblob you have to be one of the funniest posters on foot.ie. you always give me a laugh anyhow.

no the midgets are about give them a little more time, the feckers. what is the actual proper term for a midget?? i assume they are called midgets because they are very small flies?? and are they a cousin of the mosquito??? now they are questions i wonder and are worth answering.

also what is a heifer and i dont mean the galway female kind either. its not a cow that hasnt calfed, but it is a cow. what makes it different from any other?

[Macy]

no the midgets are about give them a little more time, the feckers. what is the actual proper term for a midget?? i assume they are called midgets because they are very small flies?? and are they a cousin of the mosquito??? now they are questions i wonder and are worth answering.
midgies is the term you're looking for... :D I think Gnats is the correct name, but wouldn't be sure. Annoying fookers would be my name for them....


also what is a heifer and i dont mean the galway female kind either.
Well I was going to say a 10to2er in Coppers, but you've already covered that... :D

[paul_oshea]

midgies is the term you're looking for... I think Gnats is the correct name, but wouldn't be sure. Annoying fookers would be my name for them....

Gray you only answered part of my question, and we at home and most in the whhhhesshhhht pronouce them as "midgets", is it midgies??? what is midgies then? i am going to google gnat. are they a cousin of the mosquito they must be???? annoying fookers is the apt name for them alright.

also do you know why i am calling you gray?

[Macy]

also do you know why i am calling you gray?
Haven't the foggiest...

[paul_oshea]

cant tell ye then, but im sure more of the enlightened ones here will divulge that info.

anyhow looks like you are right, but it says they dont bite, however the ones at home do as they bite and make you itch, trying to get blood:

http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef632.htm

more importantly it doesnt say what purpose they serve?? i mean if they just reproduce and die, and only live in pools where no fishies can feed on them what purpose at all at all do they serve?

blobbyblobbblobb its because of the dry weather you havent seen them around.


A midge is a tiny dipteran (two-winged) fly, a relative of the mosquito. There are thousands of midge species, however those of most interest to us are members of the Ceratopogonidae family - the "Biting Midges". This family belongs to the genus Culicoides, which consists of over 800 species in total. These biting midges are equipped with very specialised mouths that enable them to pierce skin.

Many people believe that all midges bite, this is a common misconception. Most species of midgies are actually harmless. These "friendly" midgies belong to the Chironomidae family, and have no piercing mouthparts. Unfortunately for us, there are plenty of biting midgies about, ready to cause mayhem! Lots of harmless midges, such as the "dancing midge", are mistaken for biting midgies and are often killed by wary people.


ok i feel enlightened i have learnt something that i always wondered but never thought of finding out. thank you macy g.

[brendy_éire]

Who came up with the concept of 'women and children first'? Bet there wasn't a man around when they came up with that one.

[Gareth]

Who came up with the concept of 'women and children first'? Bet there wasn't a man around when they came up with that one.
That would be to do with that fact children are the future of the race, and women can have babies. So the more women the more chance of a small group surviving. and its chivalerous...hehe : )

[Lionel Ritchie]

to quote the late great Lonnie Donegan

If a tin whistle's made of tin -what's a fog horn made of?