The Random Question Thread

**Deathfromabove** · 10-11-07, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by Nickelodeon

Section 8?

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

**~~draqon~~** · 10-11-07, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by shorty_37

Why do they call it blue balls? do they really turn blue?

a bit

**mikenostic** · 10-11-07, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Tiassa

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 ....

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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

Originally Posted by Deathfromabove

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

Originally Posted by draqon

yeah today I had a quick question...what is the purpose of life?

Death.

**~~draqon~~** · 10-11-07, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by cosmictraveler

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

Originally Posted by shorty_37

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

Originally Posted by Spud Emperor

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

**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

Originally Posted by shorty_37

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

Originally Posted by mikenostic

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...