No, not why do they come in 8s when hot dogs come in 10s.
Why are there top split hot dog buns? They’re just little structural failures waiting to happen. They’re too wide or too tall, depending on how you hold them, and they always always ALWAYS fall apart while being eaten.
Why, when I’m using cruise control on a long interstate trip, will I always catch up to a slower vehicle at exactly the same time a faster vehicle is passing me, even if we’re the only 3 cars visible for miles around?
So I can either speed up to pass before the faster vehicle gets to me, or slow down and let them pass first. Either way I have to break cruising speed.
(ETA: The third option is to be a dick, and move into the path of th faster vehicle while maintaining my speed, thus forcing them to slow down. I don’t care for that option either.)
Is that what those are? I always wondered why there were those great big boxes in the middle of nowhere. I have bussed and driven there many a time.
That’s how it is here in the bay area- don’t enter the intersection unless you can clear it before the red, but no one ever enforces it.
I never completed algebra. I have used the methodology in life, but here’s my input:
I went to community college for a year, and even though I placed well in the entrance exams, I decided to take a remedial algebra, as I didn’t feel comfortable. I did my homework every day, and each quiz and test I would score wonderfully- every time I would get a 100% or a 98 or 99% for a minor error.
At the end of the semester, I asked if I could take all of the quizzes where I had missed one thing, and keep the higher score. My teacher was fine with that.
I took them all in a row on the last day of class, and I didn’t score higher than 35% on any one of them. Some of them I scored less than 10%.
I had zero retention in math my entire school career. Each year I would start over from first principles (not counting the memorized ±/*), so I couldn’t ever do well in higher maths.
When I taught college…any required math course (for the college as a whole…usually College Algebra) I gave out many D- (yup, we had +/- 
). I didn’t see the need to flunk someone when a D- meant they didn’t have to take the class again and anyone reading their transcript and seeing the D- will understand they learned nothing. While I did give some F’s…you REALLY had to try hard to get that F.
However, you show up in a non-required course then the F’s came out aplenty. I figured if you went into music, communications etc then you didn’t need math. However, you show up in a Business Calc course because you are a Biz major and a Biz major requires you to be there then you’d better learn some math or choose a different major.
I had a friend who taught English and did a similar thing.
Why do people assume that just because they’re in a car, they’re in a magical bubble of invisibility? Particularly, why do they assume that no one can see them picking their noses, looking at it and flicking the booger elsewhere? Or picking their teeth then drawing their lips back over their gums like horses to make sure they didn’t miss a spot?
Also, in situations where I’m behind a car going very slow, waiting patiently for an opportunity to pass, why does the guy behind me assume that tailgating me will somehow get both of us out of his way? Driving up my car’s backside will not make the person in front of me go faster. It won’t make me go any faster. I will, however, move over at the earliest opportunity to allow the car behind me to pass, if only because I don’t feel comfortable seeing the grille of a pickup so close in my rearview.
And why is the baby dropping in the weeks before birth called “lightening,” when it really means that the baby has dropped from a higher point in your uterus to bouncing around directly on your cervix and bladder? Waddling around feeling like a baby is going to drop out of me at any moment is actually quite uncomfortable and distinctly opposite from light.
When you’re looking at things far away why aren’t they just fainter instead if smaller?
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Why does New Jersey do this on suburban roads? If we miss a turn, do they think we really deserve to spend 10 minutes turning right in order to turn left in order to turn right in order to turn left to get back to where we need to be? Who the fuck designed these roads?
It may not be a ‘‘little mystery,’’ but one thing I can’t wrap my head around is how cells are alive, and we are made of billions of living cells, but we are only considered one organism. It seems insulting to the cells. Are the cells in our bodies dependent on one another for life, or can they theoretically exist on their own? If the latter, that’s even weirder.
Was this road built in an era of slower cars? In the short run-up to the highway proper it’s reminiscent of the Pasadena Freeway, which was the first freeway in L.A. and has similarly short access ramps. Of course the traffic on it is rarely is moving as fast as 70mph.
Yes, this is extremely annoying. Unless there’s a compelling reason (like a mile-long line of cars behind me), I just stay stopped where I am. If Cars #1, #2, #3 and #4 want to snug up one more foot or so, fine. I’m not wearing out my clutch for such a miniscule gain.
If you never want to sleep again for pondering this issue, read “I Am A Strange Loop” by Douglas Hofstadter. Or, hell, just read anything by him.
Why do people turn on their angry mode once they walk into a gas station
and therefore take it out on the cashier who, seriously, is only there to ring in the junk food you`re gonna stuff your face with after not take it up the ass because the customers always right.
Does it have something to do with the cashiers income Is it the fact that she says hello when you walk in I dont get it. I`ve watched countless assholes walk in and treat some of these people like garbage just because they can.
The road itself is old (although upgraded to dual carriageway), but the junction dates from the 1980s. I think it’s more just a case of lack of land (presumably the farmer wouldn’t sell his fields) so they had to cram the junction in.
Why some women seem to feel that it’s 100% the man’s job to oversee what happens with the toilet seat.
If I need to pee, I may need to put the toilet seat up. I accept that responsibility. Why is it so hard for some women, in full knowledge that they share facilities with men, not to accept the responsibility of making sure the seat is down before they sit?
Because we don’t want to touch the seat. I don’t even like to touch the toilet seat at home, and I live alone and most of the time am the only one who uses it.
I will never understand why smokers consider the world their own personal ashtray. I see people all the time throwing butts out their car windows. Here at our office there are those cigarette butt trash cans right by the door, yet there are butts all over the parking lot. It’s baffling.
I can tell you from my experience working as a Nightfill Stock Ninja, the lips are there to enable the staff to “face up” the stock (pull it forward), so the shelves look nice and full. The lip makes that job a lot easier and means that the staff don’t accidentally pull the stock too far forward and have it falling into the floor, likely breaking or rendering it unsaleable in the process.
Assuming that people poop as often as they pee, and that men and woman pooping and peeing rates are equal, then we find:
woman pees: seat down
woman poops: seat down
man poops: seat down
man pees: seat up
It seems pretty clear to me that, given the toilet seat needs to be down 3/4 of the time, the default position should be down.
Dio’s thread about his porn-banning daughter raises a mystery for me. Why is porn legal but prostitution illegal here in the U.S.? It’s not okay to pay someone for sex, but it’s totally fine to pay someone to have sex with someone else? 
I still can’t wrap my head around how it is that Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same peace preaching God yet, in 2000 yrs, can’t live in peace with each other?
How is that possible?
It’s like the only question I want asked whenever they stick a microphone in the face of a Priest, Rabbi or Imam, “Why is it you can’t live in peace, as your God prescribes?”
Depends if the toilet has a cover.
When you flush it causes an invisble aerosol spray around the
room,so if you have a lid it should always be down when you flush.
If it just has a toilet seat then when you’ve done your business it should always be left up as things settle on the flat surface of the seat that someone is going to have their bare backside on later.
Also it gives a chance for any unspotted accidental splashes or escaped pubic hairs to slide of into the bowl.
I’ll give you the scientific reasons why its ok for a bloke to fall asleep after sex,be confined to bed with a slight cold and roll home drunk as a lord on another occassion.