Inconsequential things you ponder on...

[mineofuselessinformation]

The local ice cream van plays the Match of the Day theme tune (has been doing it for years, so not to do with the Euros). I still can't work out the connection.

A neighbour over the road from me has a Ring doorbell. Since it plays the intro to the Go Compare jingle, is this some surreptitious form of marketing?

Yes, I probably do have too much time on my hands!

Am I alone in my weirdness? 😵

When you go through a drive through McDonald’s, and a couple of lanes filter into one. How do they know if they’re giving the food the right vehicle

@WildWestWanda

When you go through a drive through McDonald’s, and a couple of lanes filter into one. How do they know if they’re giving the food the right vehicle

Omg, i wonder this every single time I go! My family are fed up of me mentioning it

@wildwestwonda they take your picture!!

In the car the other day we passed a building site with two huge cranes. I found myself wondering how these cranes get built up without the use of a second crane.

mineofuselessinformation our local ice cream van plays the theme tune to the Benny Hill show no clue what the connection is there!

Calories in food are calculated by burning the food and seeing how much heat it produces.

One calorie = the amount of heat needed to heat 1 cc of water by 1 degree.

Therefore: if you burn your dinner, has it got less calories when you eat it?

Why is Greensleeves such a popular tune for ice cream vans? Why? I don’t get it. It is a perfectly nice tune but who decided that the best way to announce the arrival of the Mr Whippy supplier was a tune allegedly written by Henry VIII about one of his girlfriends?

When the ice cream van plays a well known tune and one note is out of tune, is that on purpose?

I'm thinking the replies here raise more questions than answers!

I often wondered how the first person discovered that food tasted better cooked. Was it an accident and they dropped some food on a fire, or did they experiment? Also, who first looked at a cow's udder and thought "ooh I'd like to taste the juice that comes out of there"?

@ImInACage I wonder this too!! Also, who first came up with glass? Like, melted sand and stuff WTAF?

@InTheCludgie, I'm a teacher, and when we're moving around between lessons and bubbles, I often hear that in my head! 

@RedLemon, I'm supposing that someone somewhere along the way had a very hot fire and made glass by accident?

I wonder if the glass and cooked food thing was maybe discovered after a forest fire?

they use a crane on the back of a lorry to hoist bits of crane up to make the big fixed ones. I have watched them doing it locally.

When you drive in the countryside (with no streams or big hills) why does the road weave all over the place instead of going in a straight line? Who decided that it made sense for the original cart track to meander?

@ImInACage I often think this when I'm eating any type of bread. How did each culture manage to find their own version of bread? It's quite a long process to get from crops to bread, so did they all over the many thousands of years just keep trying random things with wheat until they eventually found something that worked?

@Billandben444, I think I know the answer to that one!
I believe it originated in the farmers' fields being there first, so any tracks had to go round them.

@billandben444 I think it was because in days of yore, going straight up a hill was too much for the poor horse with a giant cart /coming down too steeply they'd go too fast and the cart would risk tipping. So they went a windy route instead.

At least that's what I told the kids!

Lifts (elevators). Apparently the limit of a lift height depended on the length of continuous metal that could be produced. That meant that you could only to go to (say) level 23, then get out, walk down the hall and get into another lift to level 40. So, what changed? How do lifts now work?

when does the food you eat become your weight,how long does it take to show up on the scales?

@Iamthewombat

Why is Greensleeves such a popular tune for ice cream vans? Why? I don’t get it. It is a perfectly nice tune but who decided that the best way to announce the arrival of the Mr Whippy supplier was a tune allegedly written by Henry VIII about one of his girlfriends?

It’s because Greensleeves is copyright free - so you don’t have to pay anyone or ask permission to use it

:)

I remember reading a story when I was at Primary school about a caveman accidentally dropping his meat in the fire and realising it tasted better.

Invention of alcohol - I always imagine an apple tree growing by a pond and the apples dropping in. Then people notice that if you drink the water from that pond you feel a bit funny . . .

Glass I always used to imagine a lightning strike on a beach. But come to think of it, don't people sometimes put sand on a fire to extinguish it? Maybe they noticed a change of state then.

If there is a god, who does god pray to.

@BalloonSlayer

Calories in food are calculated by burning the food and seeing how much heat it produces.

One calorie = the amount of heat needed to heat 1 cc of water by 1 degree.

Therefore: if you burn your dinner, has it got less calories when you eat it?

I burn everything I cook and I'm still fat!

To make glass from sand needs very high temperatures so lightening works but a bonfire wouldn't.