Things that amaze you when you stop and think about it..

Bristol Pete · 13-04-2006, 10:43 PM

Been thinking a bit over the last few days.

A couple of musing have been -

1. Why when as young men do we strive to grow beards, moustache and facial hair so badly and yet when we reach a certain age we have to fight random nostril hair, ear hair, body hair etc and loathe the stuff. I am convinced I am getting somewhat more hirsute as I ebb nearer to middle age.

2. Worked in the civil service for years. Everyone is treated like children. Move back into private sector expecting a nightmare and notice a culture shift where staff are treated as adults. Simple as that. Surey it should be the other way around?

What about you, any odd random thoughts over the last few days?

Pete.

Bristol Pete · 13-04-2006, 10:55 PM

Not talking beards - no worries with mine either though I did shave it off as got to much.

However, just the fact that hair seems to grow from every place going as you get older. 34 now and cant ever remember this as a kid and starting to look like my grandad

13-04-2006, 11:03 PM

Why Eastenders is still on TV.

sbowler · 13-04-2006, 11:22 PM

Why clumsy people fall over a tiny crack in the pavement, blame someone else and ask for 10K.

Why bus fares always seem to increase by 10p every six months. (I am tight alright.

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Why, when you put down a screwdriver your using, you can only find it when your looking for your shoes.

Why when its bucketing it down do you getwalking behind two of the slowest females on the planet talking about feet, on the narrowest pavement in the world and you cant get passed them.

13-04-2006, 11:27 PM

Why is it called a 'crush' when you have an infatuation? You're unlikely ever to touch the object of your desire, let alone crush them.

MonkeyKnuckle · 13-04-2006, 11:28 PM

Where words came from?

13-04-2006, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by MonkeyKnuckle86

Where words came from?

I invented them.

Mystery solved.

MonkeyKnuckle · 13-04-2006, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by shadowritten

I invented them.

Mystery solved.

how did you come up with the word 'who'?

Dom996 · 13-04-2006, 11:56 PM

I sport a small goaty which is rapidly showing additional grey hairs, where as the hair on my head has none. Time for a shave me thinks.

Also why do people who cut me up on the way to work act like it's my fault? Is it me, or have I just got a different copy of the Highway Code?

rob j · 14-04-2006, 1:42 AM

Technology in general!

I mean flat panal TV's, computers. How the hell did people manage to think of this stuff up! I start thinking about all the brainpower that went into the development of a personal computer to todays specs, and I JUST GIVE UP!

JohnG · 14-04-2006, 4:45 AM

The human body and how it develops into a complex machine in just 9 months of development, it really is incredible.

Sick Boy · 14-04-2006, 7:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Bristol Pete

2. Worked in the civil service for years. Everyone is treated like children. Move back into private sector expecting a nightmare and notice a culture shift where staff are treated as adults. Simple as that. Surey it should be the other way around?
Pete.

You got lucky. Been treated like kids for years in my office.

M-C-P-M · 14-04-2006, 8:01 AM

Why is it when you hit a bad shot during a golf game, that the ball could go anywhere in the world! and yet it goes down a rabbit hole behind a tree!! it could have gone anywhere in this whole planet but it went there

"I must let that game go"

M-C-P-M · 14-04-2006, 8:03 AM

Heres one thats relevant to you at the moment Why do they wake you up in hospitals to ask you if you want a sleeping pill?

badkarma · 14-04-2006, 8:15 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnG

The human body and how it develops into a complex machine in just 9 months of development, it really is incredible.

And how the human body changes to accomplish that. My wife is due in two weeks, quite a transformation indeed

booyaka · 14-04-2006, 8:20 AM

gravity - can't see it, can't feel it but it's there and without it we wouldn't be here!!!

Nick_UK · 14-04-2006, 9:26 AM

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Originally Posted by rob j

Technology in general!

I mean flat panal TV's, computers. How the hell did people manage to think of this stuff up! I start thinking about all the brainpower that went into the development of a personal computer to todays specs, and I JUST GIVE UP!

All technology is supplied to us by aliens. They do that to keep us quiet, while we're waiting to be abducted

**unique** · 14-04-2006, 9:35 AM

women

sdb123 · 14-04-2006, 10:47 AM

Unique you beat me to it

I'll go for number two on my list....

Why do most drivers where I live slow down for horses but not for children in the street

GBDG1 · 14-04-2006, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by sdb123

Unique you beat me to it

I'll go for number two on my list....

Why do most drivers where I live slow down for horses but not for children in the street

Did you never play carmageddon?

MonkeyKnuckle · 14-04-2006, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Lawrenzini

Did you never play carmageddon?

thats a great game i still have it somewhere

mcfarfs · 14-04-2006, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by sdb123

Why do most drivers where I live slow down for horses but not for children in the street

Because children arn't likely to be spooked and go mental if a car goes past too fast.

14-04-2006, 12:17 PM

1.How when we are told something is bad for us, we seem to crave it/do it all the more.

2. How 2/3 of our planet is water, yet we call it earth.

Mr Cat · 14-04-2006, 12:36 PM

fire

Daddy k · 14-04-2006, 2:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Lawrenzini

Did you never play carmageddon?

ohhh imagine a nice new 360 version on live

oh look at that lil granny!

was a great game!

Miyazaki · 14-04-2006, 3:08 PM

I am nearly 26 and still have the facial hair of a 15 year old. It takes me 2 weeks to grow any facial hair, and when it finally does.... it's ginger!

Razor · 14-04-2006, 3:58 PM

Why does ink cartridges cost so much?

Miyazaki · 14-04-2006, 4:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Razor

Why does ink cartridges cost so much?

and why do they only last 5 minutes?

11ml my black cartridge is.

I might fill a 2l bottle of 7up with ink and prit stick it to the end of the cartridge to get more than a fortnights use out of it!

mjn · 14-04-2006, 4:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Games Guru

and why do they only last 5 minutes?

11ml my black cartridge is.

I might fill a 2l bottle of 7up with ink and prit stick it to the end of the cartridge to get more than a fortnights use out of it!

Printer ink seven times more expensive than Dom Perignon

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07...en_times_more/

ufitsy · 14-04-2006, 4:35 PM

Why theres only one monopolies comission

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