The overheard thread - The Bear and Badger

Tempy

JonB wrote:

Tempy wrote:

Fridge's are complicated and stuff although I basically know how it works and it's quite fantasticaly cool.

Even I know that much. And I know apostrophes

Oh burn it all down.

Weirdly I wrote that comment when I was correcting some internal communications full of stuff like "bonus's"

acemuzzy

SpaceGazelle wrote:

I remember when I was discussing Pink Floyd with a friend who happens to be a physics teacher. He teaches up to A level. He was aware that the dark side of the moon isn't actually dark, but he did think it a remarkable coincidence that the Moon's rotational period was the same as the Earth's. Unfuckingbelievable.

Doesn't the same side of the moon always face towards Earth (albeit changing brightness dependent on orientation vs. the sun)? It doesn't seem obvious that that should be the case (or have I just embarrassed myself more/less than your friend)?

Aren't there then other moons who's rotational period about their axis is a (non-1) integer multiple of their rotational period about the planet they're orbiting. I don't think I ever properly understood why that was the case.

I can't help feeling there should be an online encyclopedia to help answer these questions.

Yossarian

The moon has greater mass on one half than the other, so gravity has acted on that side over however many millennia to cause it to always face earth.

Plus, I didn't know the seasons thing until I saw it on an Attenborough doco fairly recently. I don't know whether I wasn't told at school or just wasn't paying attention when I was told, but it surprised me at the time.

Kow

How many seasons are there on the moon?

acemuzzy

Somebody else's answer: http://www.moonconnection.com/moon-same-side.phtml

[Deleted User]

Tidal locking.

Skerret

Kow wrote:

How many seasons are there on the moon?

They're up to season 4 now, just before

Spoiler:

[Deleted User]

Some hippy idiot once told me science couldn't explain spring or neap tides. I told her it was indeed one of the great mysteries of nature.

handsofblue

A former manager tried to explain the existence of the soul (and thereby reincarnation and karma) through the second law of thermodynamics. I wasn't impressed.

Blue Swirl

SpaceGazelle wrote:

Some hippy idiot once told me science couldn't explain spring or neap tides. I told her it was indeed one of the great mysteries of nature and then rendered her unable to bear spawn.

FTFY.

handsofblue wrote:

A former manager tried to explain the existence of the soul (and thereby reincarnation and karma) through the second law of thermodynamics. I wasn't impressed.

OK, I'm curious. How?

adkm1979

First, Shirley?

Moot_Geeza

Just heard a pikey shout 'get my gun' to his woman whilst absolutely obliterating the biggest of four late teens who ran out of the Catford McDonald's to drag him out of a campervan. He didn't look like he needed it, to be fair, but the threat was enough to send them back for their McFluffies with tails between legs.

Blue Swirl

adkm1979 wrote:

First, Shirley?

That'd make a smidgen more sense.

MattyJ

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Just heard a pikey shout 'get my gun' to his woman whilst absolutely obliterating the biggest of four late teens who ran out of the Catford McDonald's to drag him out of a campervan. He didn't look like he needed it, to be fair, but the threat was enough to send them back for their McFluffies with tails between legs.

Never, ever, cross a pikey.

RamSteelwood

Fridges work by keeping the things inside it cool. are you lot stupid or something?

beano

"It's in the eyes, if you look crazy. The challenges of teaching. I bet the first iteration of the wheel wasn't round. ~~It's all bollocks (edit)~~ Bollocks to it!"

JonB

RamSteelwood wrote:

Fridges work by keeping the things inside it cool. are you lot stupid or something?

JonB wrote:

Fridge's are complicated and stuff although I basically know how it works and it's quite fantasticaly cool.

Even I know that much.

There you go.

Moot_Geeza

MattyJ wrote:

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Just heard a pikey shout 'get my gun' to his woman whilst absolutely obliterating the biggest of four late teens who ran out of the Catford McDonald's to drag him out of a campervan. He didn't look like he needed it, to be fair, but the threat was enough to send them back for their McFluffies with tails between legs.

Never, ever, cross a pikey.

He was only about 5ft 10", quite lean and muscular, but the guy he had up on a car bonnet was probably 6ft, slightly brick shithousey, and clearly worked on his glory muscles in the gym. Four against one, with the one being the second smallest of the lot, I thought he was done for. Campervanman didn't even take a punch as far as I could see, it was a masterclass in self defence (although probably caused by a masterclass in cuntery when he was in the McDonald's a minute or so earlier).

My Labrador decided to pretend to be fearsome from the safety of our car, I was very proud.

handsofblue

Blue Swirl wrote:

handsofblue wrote:

A former manager tried to explain the existence of the soul (and thereby reincarnation and karma) through the second law of thermodynamics. I wasn't impressed.

OK, I'm curious. How?

Energy cannot be created or removed, so what happens when the human body dies? All that energy has to go somewhere. Therefore there must be a soul!

GooberTheHat

The worms that come to eat thee up convert it into kinetic energy when they wiggle away, is that so hard to believe?

Kow

What do you get if you cross a pikey?

acemuzzy

Something fishy?

handsofblue

GooberTheHat wrote:

The worms that come to eat thee up convert it into kinetic energy when they wiggle away, is that so hard to believe?

I couldn't be arsed to explain. The concept had clearly gone straight over his head at some point in the past.

Moot_Geeza

From a pub quiz earlier in the week: (which is the best one I've ever been to because the quizmaster was so smashed for the second half he resembled Orson Welles peddling Paul Masson):

Quizmaster: "Which actress links the following three films...."

Woman from the team that eventually romped to victory: "Why do you have to use the word actress? The word acTOR is non gender specific".

Quizmaster: "Because I meant an actress. With a vagina".

Blue Swirl

handsofblue wrote:

Blue Swirl wrote:

handsofblue wrote:

A former manager tried to explain the existence of the soul (and thereby reincarnation and karma) through the second law of thermodynamics. I wasn't impressed.

OK, I'm curious. How?

Energy cannot be created or removed, so what happens when the human body dies? All that energy has to go somewhere. Therefore there must be a soul!

I think that'd be the first law they're thinking of. But still, epic muppetry. As good as the people who think that water is destroyed when it enters the body, hence there must be a god.

handsofblue

Woops. At least I knew it were one of the laws!

RamSteelwood

JonB wrote:

RamSteelwood wrote:

Fridges work by keeping the things inside it cool. are you lot stupid or something?

JonB wrote:

Fridge's are complicated and stuff although I basically know how it works and it's quite fantasticaly cool.

Even I know that much.

There you go.

oh. (now) i see what you did there. bravo.

Blue Swirl

handsofblue wrote:

Woops. At least I knew it were one of the laws!

To be honest, the geezer in question probably did say it was the second law, it's pretty clear he didn't understand them anyway!

beano

"Sweating like a blind lesbian in a fish market."

An old one that you only ever hear an old timer say. Great to overhear, especially when you look and realise it was said by someone pushing 80.

davyK

This was on TV a while ago but was a police reality show - set in Belfast so was quite novel - I was reminded of it by the McDonalds located tale earlier in the thread.

A set of winos in McD's had clearly pushed the patience of the manager who had asked the boys in green to clear them out after they produced several cans of Carlberg's finest. As they hit the pavement the lady shouted to the camera in defence of her fellow inebriate who was getting it a bit rough as he was putting up some resistance...

"See? Police brutality! Can't even have a quiet drink in a restaurant." Her sense of injustice was hilarious.

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