Anyone got really stupid questions that someone else on here might be able to answer?

[AlaskaElfForGin]

I only ask because I have a really stupid question but haven't asked in case you talk about me ...

So if someone else could ask something ridiculous first that would be great!

Who else is supposed to maintain them if the council don't  @BlaueLagune oh I'll just get out my tarmaccer and gritter and do a quick bit of DIY shall I?

I think the unadopted road thing is to do with the council not taking them on until there are guarantees that the sewers and services are fully functioning and won’t be destroyed by continued building or whatever.

My DC learnt to read and write at the same time.

Unadopted roads are the responsibility of the home owners on that road. Typically each house is expected to contribute to the repairs needed. In reality, some roads are great and others are dire.

Apparently conjoined twins will often die within a few hours/days of the other one dying, what an awful thing to have to cope with.

AnneLovesGilbert

Yes it’s absolutely true that a cat with buttered toast stuck to its back (butter uppermost) when leaping off something would spin mid-air for eternity.

If this all happened inside an oversized Schrödinger box, the cat would also be alive and dead at the same time! (It might be a bit dizzy or pissed off though.) Amazing.

Am I imagining it completely or did you use to have to buy the Radio Times AND the TV Times at Christmas because the BBC wouldn't include ITV ?

Yes and no.
Yes you used to have to get both TV and Radio Times as the Radio times was BBC and the TV times was ITV. However they didn’t not publish each other’s listings because they refused but because they weren’t allowed.
For reasons I don’t recall only the news papers could publish the complete listings.
At some point this changed which is when other listings magazines came about the the RT and TT started to publish all the listings.

Buzzshitbagbobbly and Blueskyatchristmas

Genuinely learnt something useful here - ta!

Unseparated conjoined twins would both die even if they shared no vital organs as they have a shared bloody supply and the decay of the deceased twin would give the live twin septicaemia

I have a 16 month old yet have no clue what a dream feed is - can anyone tell me?! Is it just the feed a baby has before bed?

@firstimemamma you put the baby to bed at say 7pm. Then when you are ready for bed, at day 10:30pm you take them out of the cot and give them a ‘dream feed’ while they are sleepy, thus hopefully lasting them through the night. I do this with my 8 month old and it works quite well. He sometimes wakes up again, but usually goes through until 7:15am

@BlueSkyAtChristmas thanks!

Omg @FlamingoAndJohn thanks for replying. I saw the TV Times in a shop today, suddenly remembered buying both and thought I'd made it up.

On the subject of co joined twins...
If they're joined at the head and one wants say, a short blonde Bob and the other wants long brunette hair, how do they agree? Or do they have a very odd half and half?
If they're joined at the hip and one wants to wear a dress but the other wants to wear shorts, then what?
Imagine if one got the runs 😱

A set of conjoined twins work as teachers in the US and share one salary between them.

There are conjoined twins called Lori and Dori in America who seem to w at to live quite separate lives despite being joined at the head. One of them has a normal sort of job and has always had short hair and the other one is a country and western singer.

Then one of them, I can’t remember which one, decided that she was a man,

@AlaskaElfForGin I missed that thread (surprising given the amount of time I'm on here)

Fellow Scot! Glad you agree - I take it the other thread was chaos?

Archaeology... When archaeologists discover what used to be a building, what is it are they actually finding? Is it the foundations of a building (which have therefore always been underground) or the actual floor? Sometimes walls are discovered. I guess my question is what makes some buildings 'disappear' underground, especially as other extremely old buildings/monuments still exist.

Bike gears - these are similar to car gears. Start in the lower gears (1,2,3,4 etc) and use for up hills. High gears (15-21) for down hill. However, my bike has 21 gears, 3 on the left handlebar, 7 on the right. These are the front gears and the back gears. Each number equates to a slightly smaller or larger cog on the wheel. So 7 is the biggest cog, 6 sits on top of 7 and is slightly smaller, 5 on top and again slightly smaller down to 1 with the least amount of teeth on the cog.

It has been explained to me that 1(LH) x 7(RH) basically means you multiply that number for the 'teeth' on the cogs. So that would be gear 7 (a third of the resistance of highest gear). However, setting the gears like that makes it very hard work for the chain as one cog is tiny and furthest from the wheel, the other cog is very big and close to the wheel. The chain that rotates round these cogs is then not running directly next to the bike and rather it is being pulled away from the frame at the front and close to the frame at the back. This can cause the gears to slip or the chain to come off. However, if you set the gears to 2(LH) x 3 or 4 (RH) the total number of teeth is similar at 6 (2 x 3) or 8 (2 x 4). The chain is much happier to rotate as it is running more even and the resistance is roughly the same. So,

Up hills (and poor fitness in my case) = 1-1, 1-2, 1-3
Middle of the road, flat, easy = 2-1 right through to 2-7
Downhill 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-7

The internet.
All websites and internet equipment have an IP address. The original IP addresses that were designed at the beginning run into around 6 billion I believe. We are running out of numbers. However they have now invented a new range which provides 'more numbers than there are grains of sand on the planet' so in theory we will never run out of IP addresses though hypothetically I guess we could. But like phone numbers and vehicle registrations they will just keep inventing new ones. The next problem is storage. I suspect we will continue developing better ways to store more in less space so I cannot see the internet ever running out.

pork catfood:
i think this is because sausage meat is made from all the little left over bits of pork, so a pig is 100% eaten by humans.

That isn't true of other animals so the left over bits are made into cat food.

It may also be because park can be eaten at any age, whereas some animals eg chicken is tough when older so less appetizing for humans

I'm guessinf fish cat food is ground up fish bones and skin left over from the fish fillet that is used in human food

We used to on an unadopted road. It was a pain. The road is essentially private, like an extensive of your garden or drive. We were in the country and the road was 1/4 mile long with 4 houses. It was in a terrible state, but it would have cost a fortune to retarmac, and no-one could afford it, so we just kept shovelling gravel into the pot holes!

I know some people think the earth is flat

But why does it matter. Why make a big thing of it.

SantaBeckett, I just got a new passport. I didn't have to do anything different, but my new one doesn't have 'EU' on it

BlueSkyAtChristmas, I think I read recently that the Queen can intervene if the government attempts to act unlawfully. Not sure though.

Mornington Crescent: there is no theory and there are no rules. That's the point; it's a piss-take of game shows with convoluted rules.

@DarlingNikita
thank you I need to get my new sorted out early next year .

@AmIthechristmasfairy
I would make a big thing of the earth been flat , I dont want to fall of the edge when I go on holiday next year

Why when the days start getting longer does dawn stay more or less the same for the next couple of weeks but it gets dark later in the evening?

I think the dawn varies too but people don't notice it as they are asleep. I've noticed the dawn chorus being marginally earlier the last few days.