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The idiot is back.

Can someone answer a question for me please. Why do the Sun and Moon appear larger just when they are rising or setting than at any other time?
See I told you the idiot is back, I know very well this is a stupid question but I would still like to know the answer.

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By: Wyvernfan - 7th February 2011 at 21:06

And why is it always bl**dy Cambridge and Oxford in the final of the boatrace? :confused::D

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By: Flygirl - 7th February 2011 at 20:46

I have another “idiotic” question, and not sure even Flygirl can answer this one. Why, if you see even just a couple of seagulls at the coast, they’ll often be screeching and squawking, but even when there are a large group of them inland they seldom make a sound?

:D:D:D Let me have a think!:diablo:

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By: Arabella-Cox - 7th February 2011 at 20:43

Why are humans such solemn gits in their home towns, but they let their hair down when they flock to the beach?

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By: Mr Creosote - 6th February 2011 at 21:01

I have another “idiotic” question, and not sure even Flygirl can answer this one. Why, if you see even just a couple of seagulls at the coast, they’ll often be screeching and squawking, but even when there are a large group of them inland they seldom make a sound?

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By: Flygirl - 4th February 2011 at 18:40

Auf wiedersehen 🙂

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By: mike currill - 4th February 2011 at 18:31

What, X-rays or the formulae? I’ll get my coat.

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By: Flygirl - 4th February 2011 at 18:25

Thanks for posting that Flygirl. The formulae are beyond my poor grey matter but the text is relatively easy to follow so I now have abetter understanding of X-rays.

LOL !! They have certainly got better over the years. 😉

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By: mike currill - 4th February 2011 at 18:21

Thanks for posting that Flygirl. The formulae are beyond my poor grey matter but the text is relatively easy to follow so I now have abetter understanding of X-rays.

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By: Flygirl - 4th February 2011 at 09:30

http://www.celnav.de/hv/xrays.pdf 😀

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By: Sky High - 4th February 2011 at 09:25

Another 21st century “buzz-phrase” meaning precisely nothing. I am not a physicist but how anyone not in the field of the rays can be affected I do not know.

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By: mike currill - 4th February 2011 at 08:40

What about the hospital’s “duty of care” to patients?

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By: Sky High - 4th February 2011 at 07:47

Almost certainly something to do with ‘elf’n’safety and hospital visitors not being insured or some such twaddle……:)

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By: BumbleBee - 3rd February 2011 at 22:43

If there’s room for something that’s puzzled me,can anyone explain this ?

When my Dad was in hospital last year,he was in a ward with seven other old boys.

They all had broken bones,and sometimes a portable X-ray machine was brought into the ward to use on one of them.

Every time it was,all visitors were immediately ushered out of the ward, ” because it’s dangerous to be near the machine when it’s on “.
But all the old boys stayed put,exactly where they were.

Can anyone make any sense of this ?

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By: Flygirl - 3rd February 2011 at 17:58

🙂 Cool.

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By: mike currill - 3rd February 2011 at 11:06

Got your answer then. LMAO :D:D

That’s my good deed for the day then if I’ve made someone laugh. I’ve enjoyed the replies very much, especially the humerous ones. Always good to have something to brighten the day, thanks very much everyone.

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By: Whiskey Magna - 29th January 2011 at 12:21

Since the Queen Mother was born in 1900, she was born in the 19th century. The first year of the 20th century was 1901, just as the first year of the 21st century was 2001. There never was a year zero.

Rod.

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By: Flygirl - 29th January 2011 at 11:02

http://listverse.com/2010/02/07/top-10-oldest-people-ever/

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By: Mr Creosote - 29th January 2011 at 10:28

Another statistical one? What are the odds of anyone being alive in 3 different centuries? That is, being born very late in one century, living to more than 100, and making it into a third century? Incidentally,I thought the late Queen Mother achieved this, but on checking I see she was born in 1900. I guess it must have happened to someone, though?

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By: Flygirl - 29th January 2011 at 10:11

😀 It’s good to exercise the brain.

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By: Mr Creosote - 29th January 2011 at 10:08

Mi brane herts…

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