thermometer

simple simple simple question...

It's not just statistics I find useless, just generally public information. Here in Melbourne we had a heatwave, (above 40c for 3 days or so), and the temperature(s) was/were taken in the shade by the weather bureau, so it was hotter in the sun. I don't know 'bout the rest of the world but here everytime someone tells you a temperature, the response is generally, "Bullshit mate, feels hotter than that!", well it probably is. The reason it's taken in the shade, I'm assuming here btw, is that while the mercury indicates the temperature, it's encased, or at least built including, glass and metal. Two things that absorb and radiate heat much hotter than air temperature. For proof touch a roller door in the sun!!!!

How can the temperature then ever really be accurate??

Bullbar question

I'm pretty sure we all know what a bull is. I'm also sure
you know what a bar is. However, the 2 together as one word form something that has to do with a bull. Although not that much to do with a bar. Well not the one pictured anyway. Dunno what they're called elsewhere, but I'm guessing here, it's a pretty safe bet that bullbars got their name from trucks putting some metal on the front to prevent or minimize damage if they hit a bull. Although, with the ratio of freeroaming cattle, they're more likely to hit a cow aren't they??

Then trains have had the same problem, and they have a similar mechanism. Except it's called a cowcatcher. At first you could assume, ok, Bull was put with Bar because of the B. Safe assumption? Also safe to assume cow was put with catcher for the same reason??

So we've almost made sense of it... except the cowcatcher pushes the cow to the side, so it's closer to throwing it really........

Anyway, the question....

Is this just a case of political correctness gone too far?? The cowcatcher is a feminine term, so a masculine one is created specifically to even shit out???

Why can't they both be called cattlechuckers or something???

Seriously though, Animal Deflection Unit is a fair crap name, but why is one masculine and one feminine, when they're both more likely to hit a native animal, or if it's livestock, almost definitely a cow?

quick $$$$ one

The Aussie $ was close to the same as the US $ about 6 months ago. Then this financial crisis hit. From reports, America is much worse off than us. Howcome our $ is worth a lot less??
Serious question.

Poopee

Question from Tabatha.


I dunno about your metabolism(s), but with mine, I drink I piss, I eat I shit. Same as the monkeys except I have opposable thumbs so I wipe my arse. I've also never thrown my poo like monkeys do, however tempted I may get.

Now, I'm hoping it's not actually possible, but I've never had poo come out of my peehole. This is good. Sometimes when you're sick, it feels like gushing pee coming out the other end, but that's ok, most semi-solids**can be turned into liquid quite easily.

Unprocessed consumed things turn into waste matter, then going to your bowel or your bladder. How does it do that though?? Is your kidney like some kind of spongey filter that lets liquid drown out the bottom then when it fills up with poo it tips over and drops it into your bowel or what? I really don't understand (see diagram).

Now, I actually did ask some people this, their answer was: kidney. Didn't really answer the question though, as I don't think their biological knowledge is adequate enough to tell me.

**Actually there's another question, is poo a solid or what? When you step on it it squishes, and I'm assuming for the sake of world sewage it turns to liquid in the drains?

See, to the best of my knowledge, (which is none, hence the question), it all comes in mixed, then the pee filters through into the bladder, then when there's enough poo it tilts that thing backwards to drop it into the bowel. So another question, there's pee in your poo isn't there??

Welcome to Spring.

Well, not really. Happy New Year though. Running out of questions. Rather quickly. Hopefully through boredom I'll get stumped with some other ones anyway. While watching TV, there was a bed advertisement. Best bed you can buy for your back apparently.

Do you know why?? The mattress. The inner sprung mattress mind you. I'm not going to look up definitions, however I think it's safe to assume that with springs being them things on the right, and inner meaning, not outer, which is inside, that the springs would be inside the mattress.

Making it inner sprung. So if it's just a mattress, not an inner sprung mattress, doesn't that just make it a pile of springs on a plant basically???

If a mattress isn't inner sprung,

Where the fuck do they put the springs??