Small questions you have but don't want to clutter up GQ with.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Have a question but are intimidated to go into GQ with it? Or think it’s too mundane or small?
I sure do.
First off, a drinking factoid I heard that I hear a LOT of people say, but doesn’t seem likey to be true.

I’ve heard people say if you drink any alky or beer through a straw, it gets you drunk faster cause it goes straight to your head. Is this true? :dubious: I don’t possibly see how it can be. What’s the difference between drinking it from the glass or drinking it with a straw? Seems to me the liquid passes through both at the same pace/rate. Please tell me this is just a myth.

Okay, onto other things.

You know how there are “Hot” colors and “cool” colors? Like, blue is a “cool” color and red is, well, a “hot” color? And how you don’t want to wear hot colors like black or red on hot, sunny days because they attract the sun more? It’s just common knowledge.

But what about dark skinned PEOPLE? Don’t THEY attract the sun more? I’d think a black or brown skinned person would be extremely hot during a very hot day. I mean, their skin is that color, so doesn’t it attract the sun also?

And here’s one more.

What’s to stop someone from checking out books at a library on their card and just keeping the books? Suppose a person checks out (the limit at my local library is 40 items) 40 books they really really really want. New ones even that, in any bookstore, would run for a whole lot of money. What happens to them? Is all that (can) happens is their card gets fines? What if they don’t care? It’s not like they’re returning the books and having to pay for them. Isn’t this a loophole of sorts for anyone who would want to legally “steal” books from the library?

Just wondering, cause a couple of years ago I checked out and presently lost three books…and all that happened was I kept getting letters for awhile, and then they (the letters) stopped.

Someone told me that overdue library books can effect your credit though…is that true? Well what if someone didn’t care about credit?

Can they get arrested for just keeping library books they check out? Does checking out and then keeping happen often?

Anyway, thus ends my small questions. I could have posted them in GQ, sure, but why knock down more, important questions with frivious mini ones that are probably really easy to answer? :stuck_out_tongue:
Feel free to ask any of your own that you deem too “small” to ask in GQ.

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About the drinking-through-a-straw thing, I think it’s because you drink faster, therefore drink more. I know I get a buzz faster the (few)times I drink alcoholic beverages through a straw.

As for the library book thing, it can definitely go on your credit report. I have read (I have no cites, so don’t beg.) about cases of people being arrested for not returning books/paying fines. At some point the fines equal/exceed the value of the book. If you own property in the town where you neglected to return the book(s) it could also potentially be a tax issue.

My personal belief is that people who steal (as opposed to lose, etc.) books or other materials from a library are worse than the scum of the earth.

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<nitpick>Certain colors don’t attract more sun. Some colors reflect more light than others.</nitpick>

I don’t think cool colors vs. warm colors refers to appropriateness or lack thereof in cold or heat. I think (and I could be wrong here) that it is a term used to simply classify or group colors that have an element in common. Sort of like sub-atomic particles have Truth. We don’t have a word for *how * blues and greens differ from reds, yellows, and browns, but they do and we call it cool vs. warm.

I don’t understand why dark skin is better in hot climates than light, for the same reason you don’t - it always seemed to me intuitively that it ought to absorb sun worse rather than better.

You should read *The Library Police * by Stephen King. You’ll never lose a library book again. (Someone correct me if I’m remembering the name wrong).

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The story is called “The Library Policeman” and can be found in the Four Past Midnight book. A very good read.

I once lost a library book and had to pay for the book outright rather than just let the fines accumulate. My concience would never allow me to do otherwise. Keeping a book with no intention to return it is theft and I’m sure there are consequences for it under the law.

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I am trying to save up money for college right now. Carpentry seems to pay the best for me, and you have to have your own transportation-

yesterday, i was sitting idle at a light and suddenly my jeep 95 wrangler 4cy 5 spd vehicle stalled- i tried to start again- the engine would turn over but wouldnt start…i sat for 10 minutes and then it started right up

What might have caused this? Should I be worried about it breaking down soon?

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I think when you drink through a straw you gulp less air, so you probably end up drinking more beer than you realize.

I have a question of my own, actually.

My dog ate a used lambskin condom (definitely MPSIMS material). Will she digest it?

I’m thinking yes, cause it’s been 3 days and it hasn’t come out in her poop, but she doesn’t appear to be blocked up or otherwise negatively affected.

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If you return a book to the library that’s actually your own book, can you get an extra day on a book you borrowed?

I don’t know why your cat does that, but why doesn’t my cat do it?

Can the government hold a crate of curry powder as an enemy condiment?

Do some birds sing, “Why must I be a tanager in love?”

Were the 5,6,7,8s a real group, or were they just prefabbed for “Kill Bill” and that buncha Woo Hoo Vonage commercials?

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I often wonder who would have had the firmer ass in their twenties…
Barbara Eden or Annette Funicello?

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I always was told (and it seemed to make sense to me) that the extra pigment in the skin absorbed rays from the sun to prevent sunburn and skin cancer (ie, cell damage of one form or another). Just an evolutionary thing based on where a certain persons lineage came from.

Oh wait - its not evolutionary. Some higher being thought that up. Thats right. My bad.

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Actually it’s commonly believed nowadays that the original and default homo sap skin color is brown. The pale shades common in northern Europe are the mutation. Since the sun is not as direct there, and people wore more clothing because of lower temperatures, they were able to do o.k. without as much melanin. It also had something of a benefit since you absorb more vitamin D with paler skin.

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I have a juvie criminal record for just this. How cool is it, when all your friends have “break and enter”, “shoplifting”, “possession of an implement” on their juvie rap sheets, to have “false pretences” on yours? makes you seem kinda classy by comparison. But yes, 30+ unreturned library books ( I have to admit I had to invent half a dozen 13 year old alter egos to do it) will get you in trouble with “the man”.

mm

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Can it be too cold for fire to burn?

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Barbara Eden – she was a jogger before it was popular. I recall her on Larry King a few years ago, this was right before her son died, and she was still going to the gym several times a week only it was spinning classes.

From the interviews I’ve seen of Annette Funicello she was never into exercise.

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I think that raises some questions of its own especially with the user name.

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Hmm… shag… nasty. I don’t know, seems like you’d be more into any kind of weird stuff. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Have there ever been Helicopter dogfights?

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Jeeps are rather famous (or infamous) for doing this.

My own 95 Jeep Cherokee with 4.0 6 cyl does it occasionally and has for years. Usually when the weather is cold. Always when I have turned it off and shortly tried to restart it.

Nothing works except letting it sit for 10 minutes. Starts fine.

I have heard that it is caused by a corroded and/or dirty neutral switch. (sits on side of tranny out in the weather). Can be replaced (very expensive) or cleaned and lubed (costs nothing but time) and that both fixes work well for about 30,000 miles.

Since waiting 10 minutes has always fixed mine----have not bothered to fix anything so far.

Have also heard that if the neutral switch craps out completely, it is possible to jumper it so you can drive back home. Some day will have to look at the wiring and see exactly what wires to jumper.

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Whoops—just noticed you said 5 speed. So I assume it is a stick. Forget the preceding.

But basically the same thing can happen to the safety switch on the clutch pedal. (have to push clutch in to start==safety feature)

Not sure how hard or expensive that is to repair.

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thanks ombre,
hopefully she’ll keep starting for me, gah cars

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I’d be more worried about her showing up pregnant (well, it was used).