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| Kerr Avon | Jan 29 2008, 10:00 AM Post #1 |
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Some more questions that occur to me (mainly when I can't sleep). 1. Do DVD discs have PAL/NTSC formats? If so, how come I could play DVD region 1 (USA, which is NTSC territory) on my old, non-60Hz television? 2. Are rabbits mammals or rodents? 3. Tales of the Unexpected is being repeated on ITV 3, and as I'm sure many people would agree (my mates do), it has an amazing theme tune, which seems to send feelings of unease through the listener. Can anyone who knows about music explain why that particular tune has this effect - I've never another piece of music so emotively unpleasant. If you've not heard it, then it's here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zzaobXhzX9E 4. Do gay people (men or women) find their own bodies, or at least their sexual organs arousing? I'm not trying to be either humourous or offensive, but I have wondered this before, but never liked to ask, but I think it's a genuine question. 5. Why do art teachers consider the primary colours to be Red, Blue, and Yellow, but the electrical engineers consider them to be Red, Blue, and Green? 6. Why are private schools (where you pay for the pupil to attend) in England called "Public" Schools? Surely they should be called "Private" Schools? 7. Can guns fire underwater? 8. What's the difference between an automatic, a semi-automatic, and any other type, of gun? No, I'm not a gun-nut (if I was then I'd probably know all this anyway, but I'm curious since the phrases are banded around in books and computer games). 9. In For Your Eyes Only (I think, it's definately a Roger Moore Bond film) in the pre-title sequence, if I remember rightly, when Bond is about to drop the wheelchair bound Blofeld from the helicopter, Blofeld says (as far as I could ever make out) "I'll buy you a delicatessen, in stainless steel"? Have I always misheard this line (I must have, a "delicatessen" is a shop that sells cooked meats and stuff, I always thought), and if so, what is the line? What does it mean? 10. Am I the only person who ever liked Vanilla Coke? I thought that it was gorgeous, tasting just like Coke mixed with Ice Cream (as it was intended to taste) - it even compensated for the fact (to me) that Coke isn't nearly so nice as Pepsi. And then they stop making it (please PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong here, but nowhere around here sells it any more). They still sell that revolting Lemon and Coke swamp water though, just to rub it in for me. 11. Is it true that all babies are born with blue eyes? And that all babies' first breath is exhalation (as opposed to breathing in)? 12. Why is English currency called the "Pound"? Is it because a Pound in currency once weighed a pound (in Imperial measure) of something? Surely not gold? 13. Is it true that the R/F lead that runs from a (terrestrial) arial to the R/F connector of a television (in England) only has mono-sound? 14. Can you overdoes on Anti-Depressant tablets? Logically I'd imagine so - I've heard that you can die from too much of anything, even oxygen, is this true? 15. Regarding the great program Q.I. (BBC 2 and UK Gold), are all of it's "facts" true? Yes, I know that it seems to be a respectable and honest program, but some of the stated facts are suspect. I mean, according to them: A) The Earth has three moons, two of which have only been discovered in the past few years, B) Women have three times more active skins sensors than men, so they feel more pain than we do, C) The only man-made thing visible from space is a land-fill in New York, which is taller than the Statue of Liberty, D) Every fifth living thing in the world is a beetle (I don't know if this includes plants and bacteria, or just animals), E) Over half of all human deaths in history have been due to mosquitoes, F) Water is blue, not colourless, G) You move and think faster upstairs as opposed to downstairs, since gravity is weaker so time is stronger the further away from the Earth you are. Now, yes, I know that that one is true (relativity and all that) but SURELY the difference between up and down stairs, or even between underground and the top of the highest mountain in the world is so negligable as to be unmessurable? I'd have thought so, anyway. ...and a load of other amazing facts that I can't remember, that might be true, but I'd be dubious without seeing proof myself. Great program, though. 16. How does broadband work? We were told that 56k was the maximum that British phone lines could handle, but then we were given broadband that was not only much faster than dial up (whilst still using the phone line) but allowed phones to be used as phones at the same time. Obviously the broadband data signal exists either side by side or interlaced with the audio (normal phone) signal, but what are the details? 17. Do jetpacks actually exist? You never see real ones on the news or anywhere, yet surely there's been research in this area, both for military purposes, and also for private pleasure. 18. I miss cartridges on games consoles, as they offer so many advantages over DVDs; speed, durability (I've bought a lot of second hand N64 games, all of which worked, though a couple needed a minute of cleaning), but I've barely bought any used discs for the XBox/Gamecube or PS2 as DVD's can be damaged (and you don't find out until months later, when you finally get around to playing the game fully, and discover that the game crashes on level eighteen as the disc has an invisible scratch on it) and the ability to have extra chips on them (to save data or add extra graphical support or whatever). The only real disadvantage of cartridges is cost, but nowadays would the cost be so great? You can get a 2GB memory stick for a fiver (aria.co.uk), and that of course is re-writable memory and includes the (re)writer in the sealed unit. Surely a 2GB non-writable stick would be even cheaper, and could be used in a games console that had been designed to use that format instead of a disc? Yes, granted a 2GB stick (though of course more is possible, but more expensive) is much less than the 9GB offered by a DVD (or the 25GB (I think) offered by Blu-Ray), but they could compress or properly code the games, and get rid of the FMV (Full Motion Video) which no-one watches (in the mid nineties when it was new it was a selling point, now it's just boring) which eats up storage space, and the programmers could instead provide any vidoes via the ingame engine, which has the added advantage of not breaking up the atmosphere. And whilst you're at it, make any videos skippable, and get rid of the big name voice actors who charge a lot, and if you're including in-game advertising then pass the savings on to the people who buy the game, by reducing the cost. And get rid of all of the unlockables that no-one ever wants to see anyway, such as the interviews with the games' designers and programmers, and the pencil drawings of the initial designs of the games layouts. Well, I'd prefer cartridges, even if other people wouldn't - what do you think? And yes, this would limit the games available for download, but personally I'm never going to use Steam or anything similar when it becomes available on console (and why is it that Half-Life 2 (PC) cost the same when bought in a shop and on-line? From a shop you got a box, a disc etc, and the shop got 50% of the money, yet when bought on-line you got no physical items at all (so Valve saved money there) and Valve got 100% of your cash - why didn't Valve released Half-Life 2 on-line at 50% of it's retail price? It would have encouraged people to use Steam (not me, I don't want it on my PC, even if I wanted to play HL2 on my PC, which I don't as I don't like playing games on a PC)). 19. What's the difference between the (American organisations) CIA and the FBI? 20. What was the first First Person Shooter? I know that this depends on your defination of a FPS, but I'd say a game played in the first person view, where you have a weapon(s), control where you go (it's not an on-rails game, you choose when are where to move), and you shoot on-screen enemies. Castle Master on the ZX Spectrum fits this description, I can't remember if Driller does (does it have on screen enemies that you can shoot?). Could you shoot in Mercenary when you weren't in a vehicle? If so, then Mercenary (Atari eight-bit) is a contender (and it was released before Castle Master). I wouldn't class Vectron (Speccy again) as a FPS really, as it was a vehicle based FPS (you were in a vehicle) but maybe some people would disagree and say Vectron was the first. 21. Why does some hair on the human body only grow to a certain length, whereas hair on your head grows and grows? 22. Why does anyone still believe in astrology when it's so easy to disprove it? I mean, telling the future by tea leaves or animal entrails is no longer believed by most people, so why does astrology survive? And why do so called newspapers print astrology columns? They are neither news nor fact, just ancient, superstitious nonsense. 23. I know that the male and female body has the same number of bones (206), which makes sense, but is it true that both the male and female have the same number of muscles? That seems very unlikely, given the differences in muscle structure. 24. I need to pay the equivalent £10 (ten pounds Sterling) to a bloke in America, and I'm in England (we use pounds, of course, but he uses Dollars) - what's the best way to do it? Exchange the pounds somewhere here (a bank? A post office?) and send it in a letter (is that even legal?). Or what? That's the lot for the moment, I can't think of any more questions. So, any answers, comments etc? |
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| Deku Link | Jan 29 2008, 10:58 AM Post #2 |
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Too many questions to answer man.... 1. I don't know I've never used PAL 2. There Lagomorphs 3. Can't Listen to it now. 4.?????? 5. Because they can make all other colors. 6. I don't know 7. Yes but the bullets break up quickly though. 8. I know almost nothing about guns... 9. Your guess is as good as mine. 10. No I loved it too Kerr AI don’t believe they sell it anymore either... 11. Never herd of it 12. Not British couldn’t tell ya. 13. No idea 14. Yes you can 15. ???? 16. No idea 17. Maybe they do.... 18. Carts rock 19. I don't know I think the FBI is more active 20. No idea man 21. Wish I knew 22. ????? 23. I think females have more. 24. A bank? |
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| StYoung | Jan 29 2008, 02:16 PM Post #3 |
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10. Am I the only person who ever liked Vanilla Coke? I thought that it was gorgeous, tasting just like Coke mixed with Ice Cream (as it was intended to taste) - it even compensated for the fact (to me) that Coke isn't nearly so nice as Pepsi. And then they stop making it (please PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong here, but nowhere around here sells it any more). They still sell that revolting Lemon and Coke swamp water though, just to rub it in for me. I also loved Vanilla Coke, though preferred Pepsi Vanilla. And I bought a 12 pack of it a few weeks back. The casing was different and I think the name may have been changed to Coke Vanilla. It also tasted kind of different... |
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| dagoss | Jan 29 2008, 03:51 PM Post #4 |
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Yet another one of these topics.... 1. They do have regional differentiation -- Alxbly probably knows a way around it. 2. Rodents are mammals! 3. Associations with certain types of sounds are culturally formulated emotions. You'd have to contemplate what you associate with certain tones to understand why -- further, not every human being on the planet is going to have the same reaction. 4. No. Neither do transsexuals. Sexual attraction is partly hormonal partly companionate. Even in psychoanalytic terms, subjects seek out another body to replace the lack of the perverbial mother function. The point in sexual attraction that it is to another object. There is autosexuality, but it is so small a portion of the population and exclusively limited to people with deeper psychological issues. 5. Because wires and the visible light spectrum are not the same thing. 6. Oh well. 7. Only the pistol in Half-life. 8. If you hold down the trigger of an automatic gun, it fires... automatically. Semi-automatics hold multiple rounds as well, but do not fire automatically -- hence semi-auto. 9. Use Google to find the script. 10. I loved Vanilla Coke. 11. No idea on either, but exhalation makes sense. 12. I assume it was valued at a pound of gold. Until this century, you could actually go to a US bank and exchange money for gold. Now our money is useless. 13. ... YES! 14. Yes. Large quantities of anything can damage the body's symbiotic relationship with itself. The body is like its own ecosystem. 15. If you already doubt their facts, why are you asking if they are true? 16. Google will answer questions like this. 17. No. There are prototypes that can hover (with very little control) for about a minute. There is no such thing as a rocket belt like the one in Pilotwings. 18. I didn't bother to read your question; too many words. Anyway, flash technology is keeping cartridges alive on handheld, so don't worry. Discs are still cheaper to produce and still hold more data. 19. FBI handles crime within the united states. If there is word of a terrorist plot, the FBI is out of the field. They are like a national level police agency. The CIA is an intelligence gathering organization, working within foreign countries and spying and such. The CIA is extremely secretive about many things that they do. 20. Read Wikipedia. They forget to mention Wizardry, which was an influential 1st person RPG released in 1981. 21. Evolution. 22. Why do people go to church? Human beings like metaphysics. We can't help it. 23. For the most part. Some muscles around the pelvic region are in different places. I mean, not many men have a vaginal canal (though the muscle has an analogous male muscle). Go buy a biology book if you're curious. 24. Use Paypal. You can send money and it will convert it for you. Easier, safer, and cheaper than using the postal service. |
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| Kerr Avon | Jan 29 2008, 04:27 PM Post #5 |
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Paypal would be great, but the bloke doesn't have an account... |
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| Deleted User | Jan 29 2008, 05:33 PM Post #6 |
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Aw, why did I even look at this topic. Now I feel like I should at least try to answer some questions. Damn it. 1. Your multiregion DVD player adapts the signal, so (for example) a NTSC DVD will end up having borders (as it's resolution is less) and the color saturation may look a bit off. Of course this all depends on the DVD player. But the answer to your question is yes, DVD's do have PAL/NTSC formats. 2. They're both I think. 3. I quite liked the Tales of the Unexpected theme and the series. For those of you who don't know, this was a British TV series of short murder/suspense stories written by Roald Dahl... who's much more famous for his childrens novels; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches and counless others. And all of them worth reading! 4. Depends on the vanity of the individual? 5. Yellow light is difficult to reproduce... or something. 6. Crazy English. 7. Harpoon guns can. 8. Auto will fire continuously until it's magazine has emptied, semi-auto will only fire in limited bursts. 9. Pass. 10. Meh. Vanilla coke is as bad as Lemon coke and Orange coke. The only nice variation is Cherry Coke.  11. I belive the eye's pigmentation changes with exposure to light. Like a leave on a tree. Maybe. 12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_pound Equal to a pound of silver. 13. Yeah but the signal can be split to two channels to sound like stereo. 14. That's two questions, so I refuse to answer. 15. It's a great program. Dunno how factually accurate it is. 16. Why do you ask questions that Wikipedia will answer? Or maybe answer. Or perhaps mislead you with a poorly thought out answer based on internet speculation. 17. I made a jetpack from a firework and some electrical tape. It didn't work and my friend didn't think it was funny when it woke him up. 18. DVD's cost a tiny fraction of the cost of flash memory. For example; 2gb flash probably costs about £1.50 to make (and retails for about £5-£15). A DVD costs only a few pence. 19. They have different letters in their names. 20. That tank game. You know. The one with the wireframe tanks in green. I forget it's name. 21. Mine doesn't.  22. It's easy enough to disprove anything. But people will always seek answers to their questions, regardless of how accurate the answers may be. 23. Ladies have nicer legs and other bits. 24. Send it to me. I'll pass it on. 
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| Rapueda (retired) | Jan 29 2008, 05:47 PM Post #7 |
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I love Vanilla Coke, although it hasn't be readily available in my area in the last few years. Maybe that's changed now. I tried adding vanilla extract to regular coke, but it wasn't quite the same taste. The official stuff has such a smooth taste. The first time I ever heard of it was before Coke officially manufactured it for widespread distribution, in the movie Pulp Fiction. In the scene when John Travolta and Uma Thurman go to some 50's or 60's-ish restaurant, Uma orders a "Vanilla Coke" to drink. However, it's got nothing on Crystal Pepsi.
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| Ragedy | Jan 29 2008, 05:50 PM Post #8 |
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Vanilla Coke is alright, it's readily available where I live. But only in bottles now. Normal Coke is still the greatest thing in the history of nourishment. Pepsi in any form tastes HORRIBLE |
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| stinger9142 | Jan 29 2008, 08:03 PM Post #9 |
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i am a gun nut by my own admition. i have 4 of my own, and my wife has one as well. so i can atleast answer that much. can guns fire underwater? to put it simply, yes most can to a certain degree. some can function completely submerged (glock for one). others would atleast fire once (assuming it was loaded and cocked first) before malfunctioning during the cycling process of chambering the next round due to complications caused by the water. the bullet speed would be greatly hampered, and a hollwpoint round would mushroom prematurely. as for actions, single action - the gun must be cocked (chamebered) manualy before each shot is fired. pump shotguns are a good exable of this. or cowboy guns. semi auto - the first round must be manually chambered, then the blowback of the bullet will automatically load the next round into the chamber, and also restores the hammer or stiker to the cocked position. the trigger must still be pulled each time by the user to release the hammer. most pistols are either semi auto or double action. (glock's, berretas, and 1911's are examples) double action - this is what most revolvers are (other than cowboy style single actions) the trigger pull draws the hammer back and releases it with each pull. full auto - this sums up your machine guns. simply put, you simply hold the trigger down and the gun keeps firing. you manually chamber the first round, then the blowback of each succesive round rechambers the next and re-cocks the gun for the next shot. it will continue to to fire automatically untill you let go of the trigger. this makes for a very high rate of fire. this sums up the basic actions sorry if i sounded confusing, i was on the phone while writing this 
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| StYoung | Jan 30 2008, 07:57 PM Post #10 |
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Your so lame. Pepsi is obviously 100000 times better than Coke. And Coke is not the greatest thing. Beer is easily the greatest thing in the history of |
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| Ragedy | Jan 30 2008, 08:09 PM Post #11 |
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But beer still tastes horrible, you have to work up a resistance to it. It's (some of) the after effects that are good. Euggghhhh Pepsi |
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| Deleted User | Jan 30 2008, 08:36 PM Post #12 |
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*high five*
*slap* Beer is your friend. Saying beer tastes horrible is like punching your friend in the face, stealing his wallet and his house keys, then getting his girlfriend to pleasure you in his bedroom. And leaving a turd in his toilet before you leave. And killing his pet dog on the way out. With his car. Which you then reverse into the house and set on fire. All whilst laughing. Shame on you. |
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| StYoung | Jan 30 2008, 09:50 PM Post #13 |
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Go beer! |
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| Deku Link | Jan 31 2008, 07:35 AM Post #14 |
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Oh my..... |
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| dagoss | Jan 31 2008, 08:14 AM Post #15 |
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Sorry about that, mate. Ironically, I did it because I drank a lot of beer. |
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| Mop it up | Jan 31 2008, 12:51 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY **** on a **** cracker! There's actually someone in this world who dislikes beer? I have seven things to shout at you: 1. I don't like getting drunk, and even I love beer! What's wrong with you? 2. What else don't you like? Cheese? Soda? AIR? 3. Work up a tolerance? For beer? It's bread in a bottle! Anyone can drink it! Don't tell me you don't like bread... 4. BLASPHEMY! 5. What kind of weak-ass stomach you got? It's not like it's Limburger or caviar or something. 6. I can't even finish, I'm too disheartened. I never imagined there'd be anyone, anywhere, who didn't like beer. My day was going perfectly fine until I heard this depressing news, but now, I've lost all faith in humanity. There's no reason to live. I'm going to get into this kayak, would someone push me down a mountain? |
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| Ragedy | Jan 31 2008, 02:51 PM Post #17 |
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 Honestly, it tastes like hooker ass. The cheap stuff anyway. Plus the sensation got pretty tiresome, throwing up everywhere and approaching a large man who proceeds to beat the **** out of you isn't my ideal night out. |
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| Deku Link | Jan 31 2008, 03:19 PM Post #18 |
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I like Dr.Pepper
but I can't stand beer( I’m under drinking age don’t yell at me!!)
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| StYoung | Jan 31 2008, 07:18 PM Post #19 |
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P-P-P-P-PUSSSSSSSSY |
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| Deku Link | Feb 1 2008, 12:52 PM Post #20 |
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 Haha that made me laugh.....
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| dataDyne | Feb 2 2008, 02:29 AM Post #21 |
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Perfectly sums up how I feel about beer. I don't understand why so many people drink it, whether it's cheap or ridiculously expensive, it's still repulsive. I'll take a glass of vodka or red wine over a beer any day. |
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Give this man a fish, and he can throw it up eleven times -alxbly PSN: LifeIsPreachy Mario Kart Wii: 0088 - 2869 - 9843 | |
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| dagoss | Feb 2 2008, 08:26 AM Post #22 |
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Hard liquor is where it's at. How am I supposed to forget my problems with beer!? And why does Kerr Avon post all these ridiculous questions, then neglect to return to read and respond verbosely to all our prolific answers? |
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| Mop it up | Feb 2 2008, 05:38 PM Post #23 |
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Ragedy, I'm surprised your beer-hating, stoat-killing, Patriots-bashing butt hasn't been banished from Earth. Hard liquor is for chumps. Anyone can down a few shots of whiskey, but it takes a real man to chug ten beers with no bathroom breaks. |
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