It's a strange, weird, mysterious world out there...

[oumahexi]

This fascinating world if full of wonders and things I just can’t explain, like:

Why do salt sachets hold more salt than the pepper sachets hold pepper?

Why do we need a crisp packet that is four times bigger than the amount of crisps it contains?

 

[scott-atkinson]

Why when your looking for somthing, it always turns up in the first place you looked?

 

[oumahexi]

Why does it always rain at the weekend??

 

[oumahexi]

If you drop buttered bread why does it always land butter side down?

 

[Atomic Shrimp]

Why does it always rain at the weekend??

There might be a scientific explanation for that one - I read something somewhere suggesting some sort of loose coupling between weekly patterns of traffic pollution and precipitation.

 

[scott-atkinson]

Somebody always has to offer a scientific explanation for something that sounds so much better as a mystery.

 

[oumahexi]

Somebody always has to offer a scientific explanation for something that sounds so much better as a mystery.

You're right, bet some idiot has a scientific explanation for why the tyres on your car always go flat on the bottom first

 

[oumahexi]

Why do restaurants offer bottomless cups of coffee but not tea?

 

[Minkey]

If you drop buttered bread why does it always land butter side down?

Sorry I like science and trivia so:

Period of rotation - the majority of dropped bread or toast happens from a table or work surface which usually is the correct height for 180 degree rotation. The weight of the butter may also be a minor factor. If you try it with small biscuit it will probably do a full 360 degree rotation.

Why not drop the bread then butter it ?

 

[oumahexi]

Sorry I like science and trivia so:

Period of rotation - the majority of dropped bread or toast happens from a table or work surface which usually is the correct height for 180 degree rotation. The weight of the butter may also be a minor factor. If you try it with small biscuit it will probably do a full 360 degree rotation.

Why not drop the bread then butter it ?

Admit it, you watch Myth Busters don't yo

Actually, there's a good reason not to butter the bread after it's fallen, it's already strapped to the cat. Buttered bread on the back of a cat (cat always falls on its feet) you get a hovering effect, best way I know of to get the broomstick to take off

 

[oumahexi]

Why are paving stones separated at the exact width of a stilleto heel?

 

[Access Hero]

Actually, there's a good reason not to butter the bread after it's fallen, it's already strapped to the cat. Buttered bread on the back of a cat (cat always falls on its feet) you get a hovering effect, best way I know of to get the broomstick to take off

Is that why witches have familiars?

 

[MSAccessRookie]

I have always been curious as to why we DRIVE on a Parkway, while we PARK in a Driveway.

 

[oumahexi]

Is that why witches have familiars?

And they are usually black because they don't show up the dirt

 

[statsman]

Sorry I like science and trivia so:

Period of rotation - the majority of dropped bread or toast happens from a table or work surface which usually is the correct height for 180 degree rotation. The weight of the butter may also be a minor factor. If you try it with small biscuit it will probably do a full 360 degree rotation.

Why not drop the bread then butter it ?

I was always taught that the chances of it landing buttered side down is directly related to the cost of the carpet.

 

[statsman]

And they are usually black because they don't show up the dirt

That's why I have a dog. You don't need a Hoover.

 

[oumahexi]

Why do we still call a vacuum a Hoover? Even people who won't pass Dyson refer to it as a Hoover...

 

[oumahexi]

Why do fingers have three philanges and thumbs only two, the intermediate one being missing.

 

[John Big Booty]

If you drop buttered bread why does it always land butter side down?

Given that a cat always lands on it's feet when dropped. What would happen if you strapped a slice of buttered toast to a cat's back and dropped the combo

 

[oumahexi]

Given that a cat always lands on it's feet when dropped. What would happen if you strapped a slice of buttered toast to a cat's back and dropped the combo

Oh, there's an excellent idea John I could stick my broomstick between the two and it would flyyyyyy