I live in the city, so I don’t see many stars, but street lights look like septagons to me: a roughly oval constellation of 7 bright points.
I know, right? Sometimes I stop and feel like the whole damn thing is pants-on-head retarded especially when we are better than ever at solving the basic needs of a happy life. Why the heck do imaginary 1’s and 0’s get in the way of that? … sadface.
Why do dogs beg you to throw the ball, but then fight you every step of the way in getting the icky thing out of their stupid mouth (or is that the real game)?
My own theory: Poor people often do work that involves moving around a lot, and a monocle would fall out. Rich people just sit still and look pretty, so their monocle would stay in. So people with 20/20 vision could sport one, just to look rich.
I have blister pack of gum. Usually you have to push the gum through foil…this packaging is plastic.
Is there a foil shortage? Is it more enviornmentally friendly? Cheaper?
I do wonder what cats think of our appearance. Humans don’t really look anything like baby cats. I can’t imagine they find us cute. Are they thinking, “Yeah, those humans sure are big, ugly, naked monkeys, but we’ll tolerate their hideousness as long as they bring food”?
My guess is that the association of rich people and monocles came about when lenses were really rare and expensive, and only the rich would have a monocle, while everyone else just squinted and held books farther out.
Nowadays, it seems weird with every Wal-Mart and Costco giving $50 eye exams and selling cheap glasses, but I bet it had a historical basis like the one I suggested.
Why do shower farts seem much much more potent than ones expelled elsewhere? Some weird by-product of Bernoulli’s principle shoving the scent up your nose? Or does the mix of steam and soap/shampoo fragrances make the nose more sensitive? Or something else?
The latter, I think. Dogs love tug-of-war. Fetching a ball or other toy, and then wrestling for it, is a double treat for them.
Wow! I’ve never noticed that one. My experience is that horizontal farts (when I’m lying in bed) are worse than vertical ones (when I’m standing.) More research is called for! Beans for dinner, and then hit the showers!
Shooting stars were named before we knew what they were. Stars were assumed to be falling because they were high in the sky and moving, and everything falls, right?
Down in space is in the direction of the local gravity gradient. If you can’t detect that gradient, there is no significant down.
Because you’re in an enclosed space with low airflow and good acoustics?
It’s worth noting that real meat is not called beef meat or pork meat, but meat.
It’s steam concentrated.
For more flavor!
Humidity improves your sense of smell. That’s why rain has a smell.
The binding of molecules to smell receptors has to happen in an aqueous solution. More humidity in the air = more scent molecules dissolved in water = more of them able to bind to your receptor proteins.
The smell of rain, or petrichor, is a combination of plant sweat and bacteria poop getting stirred up and thrown into the air when rain starts hitting dry earth.
Now you know.
And speaking of Donald Duck, why is he unable to fly, yet Daffy Duck can?
Daffy Duck can fly? Why doesn’t he drop an anvil on that pesky rabbit? Or Elmer Fudd when he’s out with his shotgun? If he can’t carry an anvil, he could just drop an ashtray or something from way high up. Or a hand grenade.
That would be dithspicable!