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Tiassa
10-05-07, 03:44 PM
Post here the sort of random, otherwise-useless questions that you would otherwise never get around to asking, except that you noticed and now you wondered. For instance ....

• • •

It's something I noticed within a video game, but the thing is that I don't ride motorcycles. In fact, I only recently started experimenting within the video game, and I'm down to figuring out whether it's only certain motorcycles or if you're being chased by the police. I don't recall ever seeing this happen with bikes on the street, and have never heard motorcyclists talk about this happening, so I'm pretty sure I know at least part of the answer already:

• If you apply the brake on a motorcycle while in a turn and lock the wheels, why does this force the front wheel to straighten out, right the bike, and initiate a forward skid? Shouldn't the bike slide off the curve?

I suspect the answer is, "Huh? What do you mean? What the hell are you talking about?"

I had actually accepted the behavior within the game, and then yesterday, I kept a bike behaving more like I would expect (but can't know). So now I'm playing around with it, trying to figure out when and why the motorcycles in the game will behave like this.

shorty_37
10-05-07, 04:03 PM
Post here the sort of random, otherwise-useless questions that you would otherwise never get around to asking


Ummmmmmm WHY does this numerous times a day ;)

Varda
10-05-07, 04:18 PM
why does blood taste so good, while the sight of a blood puddle is so disturbing?

shichimenshyo
10-05-07, 04:21 PM
Post here the sort of random, otherwise-useless questions that you would otherwise never get around to asking


Ummmmmmm WHY does this numerous times a day ;)

hahaha yes!!!!

cosmictraveler
10-05-07, 04:22 PM
What is this thing growin on my ASS?

shichimenshyo
10-05-07, 05:04 PM
What is this thing growin on my ASS?

its an ass gnome!

shorty_37
10-05-07, 05:17 PM
why does blood taste so good, while the sight of a blood puddle is so disturbing?

:confused: are you a vampire?

Tiassa
10-05-07, 09:58 PM
why does blood taste so good, while the sight of a blood puddle is so disturbing?

I'm going to speculate. It tastes good because humans have a heritage that includes the consumption of animals. The sight disturbs us because of our sympathy as animals with like creatures. People are more willing to show compassion for animals that bleed red. It's an evolutionary conflict, of a sort. We evolved eating things that bleed red, and we evolved to see red blood as an alarm.

Something like that. I'll think about it and try again later.

draqon
10-05-07, 10:05 PM
Why do I get erections in the most embarrassing situations?

and

Is it moral to have sex with a girl who is not sex appealing and whom I do not love...but have no other choice and have a strong need in sex?

Varda
10-05-07, 10:06 PM
:confused: are you a vampire?

...no?

i won't pass the opportunity to have sip, though


i was mostly refering to a rare steak or something

Xerxes
10-05-07, 10:07 PM
Why do I get erections in the most embarrassing situations?

and

Is it moral to have sex with a girl who is not sex appealing and whom I do not love...but have no other choice and have a strong need in sex?

If you aren't dishonest, then of course not. But that's kind of sleazy.

draqon
10-05-07, 10:08 PM
:confused: are you a vampire?

she has porphyria.

draqon
10-05-07, 10:08 PM
If you aren't dishonest, then of course not. But that's kind of sleazy.

what do you mean dishonest?

Varda
10-05-07, 10:10 PM
Why do I get erections in the most embarrassing situations?

i'll humour :)
i think that both the erection and the embarassement are resulting of the same thing, which is being in the pressence of an attractive person... it's the worst scenario for getting an erection, as you'd like to leave a good impression, but also it is ivoluntary and can't be helped



Is it moral to have sex with a girl who is not sex appealing and whom I do not love...but have no other choice and have a strong need in sex?

it is as long as you are honest to her about your intentions and she is consenting

Varda
10-05-07, 10:11 PM
she has porphyria.

damn! another name for another weirdness!

have you found out what they call the fear that your thumbs might fall off yet?

Varda
10-05-07, 10:12 PM
hi xerxes, long time no see.. type... er

draqon
10-05-07, 10:12 PM
damn! another name for another weirdness!

have you found out what they call the fear that your thumbs might fall off yet?

yes, schizophrenia.

Xerxes
10-05-07, 10:17 PM
hey ;)

Varda
10-05-07, 10:33 PM
yes, schizophrenia.

it's fever (or alcohol) induced!

Borsviek
10-05-07, 10:35 PM
i'll humour :)
i think that both the erection and the embarassement are resulting of the same thing, which is being in the pressence of an attractive person... it's the worst scenario for getting an erection, as you'd like to leave a good impression, but also it is ivoluntary and can't be helped




Are you making a joke out of this? Think about in a male's point of view, getting an erection in front of an attractive person, or even worse, in front of a group of attractive people is not a joke at all! It kills a part of you inside. :xctd: turns into this :bawl:

Varda
10-05-07, 10:37 PM
Are you making a joke out of this? Think about in a male's point of view, getting an erection in front of an attractive person, or even worse, in front of a group of attractive people is not a joke at all! It kills a part of you inside. :xctd: turns into this :bawl:

i think you should proudly sport your erection... maybe even point to it

draqon
10-05-07, 10:37 PM
Are you making a joke out of this? Think about in a male's point of view, getting an erection in front of an attractive person, or even worse, in front of a group of attractive people is not a joke at all! It kills a part of you inside. :xctd: turns into this :bawl:

true. and girls always laugh or like avoid eye glances...

Borsviek
10-05-07, 10:40 PM
i think you should proudly sport your erection... maybe even point to it

:xctd: Hey girls, check it out!

draqon
10-05-07, 10:41 PM
:xctd: Hey girls, check it out!

they all will call it sexual harassment. I heard of something like this before.

Borsviek
10-05-07, 10:58 PM
It does happen a lot these days. What if its the girl that points out the erection and teases you, is that sexual harassment?

Borsviek
10-05-07, 10:58 PM
they all will call it sexual harassment. I heard of something like this before.

Blame varda, she told me to do it.

draqon
10-05-07, 11:03 PM
It does happen a lot these days. What if its the girl that points out the erection and teases you, is that sexual harassment?

not in USA, the sexual harassment protects women...not men.

Borsviek
10-05-07, 11:05 PM
not in USA, the sexual harassment protects women...not men.

Because men are more quickly to jump at having sex than women or something like that.:bugeye:

Killjoy
10-05-07, 11:45 PM
Is it moral to have sex with a girl who is not sex appealing and whom I do not love...but have no other choice and have a strong need in sex?
Is the sky blue ?
:rolleyes:

draqon
10-05-07, 11:47 PM
Is the sky blue ?
:rolleyes:

no its dark...like abyss, when my eyes are closed.

And when they are not closed, than I see you above me blocking the sky.

I see your hair, your smile, and your cyan eyes.

Killjoy
10-05-07, 11:57 PM
You mean like this ?
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/5588/cutterpi2.jpg

draqon
10-05-07, 11:58 PM
You mean like this ?


I mean like this

http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/Eyes_in_the_sky.jpg

I see through haze within my mind.

Killjoy
10-06-07, 12:05 AM
`
Isn't that really a doctor peering at some manner of weird inflamed gut polyps ?

That apparent glow a laser scalpel as he prepares to perform a " radical gut-ectomy" ?

Killjoy
10-06-07, 12:06 AM
mmmm...

Gut-ectomy...

:bravo:

Reiku
10-06-07, 03:58 AM
I have a random question...
Say a baby was shared between seven families that spoke different languages...
Would tha confuse the babies development, or would he/she grow up knowing seven languages?

Reiku
10-06-07, 04:00 AM
not in USA, the sexual harassment protects women...not men.

Yeh... i also read about a situation where a woman tried to sue her boss after having an affair with her... instead, it wasn't the affair she sueing him for... it was his office desk... she said having sex on the table gave her back pains...

Looney...

Formula1000
10-07-07, 09:09 PM
Why do we need the letter "F", when "PH" makes the same sound?

Wouldn't it be easier if the alphabet had only 25 letters?

Deathfromabove
10-11-07, 08:31 AM
Ok i got a question, i need answering, How do you get out of the army???? Like say you signed up, did the training and went to war. But when you got to the front line (or the fighting part), you decided right there and then that this wasn't for you and wanted to quit, could you do so?????

Nikelodeon
10-11-07, 08:34 AM
Ok i got a question, i need answering, How do you get out of the army???? Like say you signed up, did the training and went to war. But when you got to the front line (or the fighting part), you decided right there and then that this wasn't for you and wanted to quit, could you do so?????
Section 8?

shorty_37
10-11-07, 08:35 AM
Why do they call it blue balls? do they really turn blue?

Deathfromabove
10-11-07, 08:37 AM
Section 8?

Can't you just summarise it for me????

draqon
10-11-07, 08:51 AM
Why do they call it blue balls? do they really turn blue?

a bit

mikenostic
10-11-07, 09:37 AM
Post here the sort of random, otherwise-useless questions that you would otherwise never get around to asking, except that you noticed and now you wondered. For instance ....

• • •

It's something I noticed within a video game, but the thing is that I don't ride motorcycles. In fact, I only recently started experimenting within the video game, and I'm down to figuring out whether it's only certain motorcycles or if you're being chased by the police. I don't recall ever seeing this happen with bikes on the street, and have never heard motorcyclists talk about this happening, so I'm pretty sure I know at least part of the answer already:

• If you apply the brake on a motorcycle while in a turn and lock the wheels, why does this force the front wheel to straighten out, right the bike, and initiate a forward skid? Shouldn't the bike slide off the curve?

I suspect the answer is, "Huh? What do you mean? What the hell are you talking about?"

I had actually accepted the behavior within the game, and then yesterday, I kept a bike behaving more like I would expect (but can't know). So now I'm playing around with it, trying to figure out when and why the motorcycles in the game will behave like this.

I'd like to take a shot at that question, but first I have a few questions and comments of my own:
'If you apply the brake'
First, a motorcycle has two brakes, that are operated independently.
The front brake is usually the lever on the right hand side of the handlebars, and the rear brake is the foot pedal on the right side of the bike.
So, you'll have to be more specific when you say apply the brake and lock the wheels up. Do you mean applying BOTH brakes and locking BOTH wheels up?
It's been years since I've been on a m/c so I'll make the best educated guess.
If you lock the front wheel up during a curve, I'd imagine it could do anything from throwing the ass end up off the ground a bit and rotate it around in the direction your are turning, to actually coming up off the ground enough to throw you over the bars.
Or if the back end is heavy enough, locking up the front wheel will just cause you to straighten up according to where you were in the turn, and continue to go straight until you stop, fall over, or collide with something.
If you locked up just the rear wheel, I'd imagine the ass end would continue sliding/rotating around (kinda like 180s in a car with the parking brake)until the bike slid out from under you or you maintained control of it and stopped. Speed would also play a factor in the bike's behavior.
If both brakes locked up, I'd imagine that the bike could behave in all or any combination of the aforementioned behavior.


Ok i got a question, i need answering, How do you get out of the army???? Like say you signed up, did the training and went to war. But when you got to the front line (or the fighting part), you decided right there and then that this wasn't for you and wanted to quit, could you do so?????
Which army? The United States? If so, the quickest way out w/o taking a major hit on your record is to claim that you are gay (and prove it). My (straight) friend did that. He showed the admin phone numbers of supposed guys he dated and some other non-verifyable proof and they gave him an administrative discharge.
Another way is to fail a drug test with something worse than marijuana. However, this will get you an 'other than honorable', perhaps even a bad conduct discharge.

orcot
10-11-07, 01:53 PM
I ones googelearthed some girls house to see in what sort of neigberhood she lived...
Is that creapy or real creapy (I got the adres from some women that I hardly know coming up to me asking if that was the correct adres)

Killjoy
10-11-07, 08:49 PM
Ok i got a question, i need answering, How do you get out of the army???? Like say you signed up, did the training and went to war. But when you got to the front line (or the fighting part), you decided right there and then that this wasn't for you and wanted to quit, could you do so?????

Sure... been done for thousands of years... You just sort of walk away.

In recent times, it's usually called desertion.

;)

draqon
10-11-07, 08:50 PM
yeah today I had a quick question...what is the purpose of life?

cosmictraveler
10-11-07, 08:53 PM
yeah today I had a quick question...what is the purpose of life?

Death.

draqon
10-11-07, 08:55 PM
Death.

yeah and another quick question...what is a purpose of death?

cosmictraveler
10-11-07, 08:59 PM
So that funeral businesses can make profits.

Learned Hand
10-11-07, 09:22 PM
I've always wondered:

Why do we think about and spend billlions on living and working proficiently on the moon (or huge space station for that matter) when we can't even really do that in the middle of Antartica?

Zardozi
10-12-07, 12:39 AM
Enter:What be a bell that does not ring, yet its knell makes the Angels sing?

Deathfromabove
10-12-07, 09:23 AM
Why do they call it blue balls? do they really turn blue?

What about if your brown skinned, What colour do they change?????

Spud Emperor
10-12-07, 09:26 AM
Kind of blackey bluey! but with Rythm!!!!!!
Shit yeah! Those Blue-Black Balls be swingin' like the cradle of the Mother Lan'!

Spud Emperor
10-12-07, 09:28 AM
Oh Yeah! an' the Black angels were swingin' to the rythm too.
Ringin' any bells?

"well hell yeah! more than 3,000 sad arsed Trekkie tragics will ever know!"

Deathfromabove
10-16-07, 03:15 PM
Kind of blackey bluey! but with Rythm!!!!!!
Shit yeah! Those Blue-Black Balls be swingin' like the cradle of the Mother Lan'!


So, What kind of movement does white-blue balls make ???? A jig :D

mikenostic
10-16-07, 03:24 PM
Here's where blue balls come from. LOL

http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

http://blueballs2.ytmnd.com/

shorty_37
10-16-07, 03:34 PM
shit that hurts my brain!! lol

mikenostic
10-16-07, 03:35 PM
shit that hurts my brain!! lol

LOL, focus on one ball and follow it and see how long you can keep up with it.
Try watching it 'shrooming or tripping; I could be entertained on that site for hours. LOL

draqon
10-16-07, 03:37 PM
Is there life on Mars?
Are we alone in this universe?
Are there aliens amongst us?
Will there be WWIII?
Who am I?
Who are you?
Why am I not you?
Why are you not me?
Why do I ask myself the same questions all over and over again when I know that the answers to all of these question lay deep within me, yet I am still unable to comprehend this simple fact because I am unable to understand the specifics of the questions I seek to find answers on?

draqon
10-16-07, 03:37 PM
LOL, focus on one ball and follow it and see how long you can keep up with it.
Try watching it 'shrooming or tripping; I could be entertained on that site for hours. LOL

copying Nick's links arent ya...

mikenostic
10-16-07, 03:41 PM
copying Nick's links arent ya...
:confused:
I've known about the blue ball machines for years.
I don't see Nick's name on them.
I don't see any previous reference to them in this thread.

draqon
10-16-07, 03:43 PM
:confused:
I've known about the blue ball machines for years.
I don't see Nick's name on them.
I don't see any previous reference to them in this thread.

sorry than. my bad.

shorty_37
10-16-07, 03:55 PM
[QUOTE=draqon;1579586
Who are you?
Why am I not you?
Why are you not me?
[/QUOTE]


I am ME!

You are not me because you are a VIRGIN!

I am not you because I don't eat BABY FORMULA

draqon
10-16-07, 03:56 PM
I am ME!



well...I am ME as well

and if we are both ME's...than you must eat baby formula :p

Strap_ON
10-26-07, 05:00 AM
How come when you sneeze people say "bless you"?

Nikelodeon
10-26-07, 05:03 AM
Something to do with your soul or spirit trying to escape. Saying bless you crams it up back into your head. Apparently.

lucifers angel
10-26-07, 05:22 AM
i have a random question!

when harry potter finally gets his letter to go to hogwarts, and in it, it says "you may bring eith you, if you wish, an owl, cat, or toad" why is it, Ron Weasly takes a Rat?

draqon
10-26-07, 03:24 PM
How come when you sneeze people say "bless you"?

so that if they do get to loose the bacteria through mucus they sneezed than they will get it back anew from the bacteria in saliva of a person who has "blessed you"

Deathfromabove
11-04-07, 06:59 PM
How come when you sneeze people say "bless you"?

Well it orginates from the black plague epidemic. Back then sneezing was the first sign that someone had become infected and bless you was kinda way of saying ... (well you know what i mean)

draqon
11-04-07, 07:01 PM
"bless you child!"

and the child has been blessed

her name was death and she has lived long in the collapsed body of old lady

and now the child is blessed

his small young body trembles in agony and pain

his mind is collapsing and with every thought, death overtakes his body

For he has been blessed

http://www.inamaterialworld.com/death6.jpg

draqon
11-04-07, 07:06 PM
I have a question, what if I was a morning dove and flew above Earth and saw every acre of it and saw every drop of its tear, would I turn into night angel thereafter?

Deathfromabove
11-04-07, 07:09 PM
I got kinda of an 'adult' question, but does anyone else feel a little tingy especially down below after drinking alcohopops??? Is there any reason for this sensation or am i just weird??

draqon
11-04-07, 07:09 PM
and...

another question,

What is in my mirror when I am asleep?

draqon
11-04-07, 07:09 PM
I got kinda of an 'adult' question, but does anyone else feel a little tingy especially down below after drinking alcohopops??? Is there any reason for this sensation or am i just weird??

alcohopops? in the world is that?

Deathfromabove
11-04-07, 07:13 PM
alcohopops? in the world is that?

Like Barcardi Breezer or WKD??[


http://www.hipernet24.pl/sklep/img_items/b/085/8596.jpg


http://www.paulburnham.com/wkd%20full.jpg

draqon
11-04-07, 07:13 PM
Like Barcardi Breezer or WKD??[


http://www.hipernet24.pl/sklep/img_items/b/085/8596.jpg


drinking alcohol is bad for your body. it makes your body age faster and gives you wrinkles faster. And the tingling feeling...must be psychological.

Deathfromabove
11-05-07, 07:59 PM
And the tingling feeling...must be psychological.

Please could you elaborate on that???