Things You'd Like to Know

Originally posted by FMF
A: Restful. I'd listen to some music and catch up on some reading.

Q: What proportion of usable e-mail addresses in the world do you think are effectively defunct and their owners have either forgotten all about them or would have no idea how to log in?

A. 80% based on a recent study of one. (me)

Q. Why do we have fashion (not just clothes but music, architecture and language) ???

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Q. Why do we have fashion (not just clothes but music, architecture and language) ???

A: It is a manifestation of that intriguing blend of independence, dependence and interdependence that creates the individualism-collectivism dichotomy in the human condition.

Q: Is there anyone else you can talk to, I hear you ask?

Originally posted by FMF
A: It is a manifestation of that intriguing blend of independence, dependence and interdependence that creates the individualism-collectivism dichotomy in the human condition.

Q: Is there anyone else you can talk to, I hear you ask?

A: On occasion.

Q: Is it just "rednecks" who support The Donald?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: On occasion.

Q: Is it just "rednecks" who support The Donald?

A. Trump's followers include dimwits and dunces of various stripes and other misfits. I think Robbie likes him.

Q. What's the quickest way to get to Canada?

Originally posted by HandyAndy
A. Trump's followers include dimwits and dunces of various stripes and other misfits. I think Robbie likes him.

Q. What's the quickest way to get to Canada?

A: Get directions from someone who actually knows the way not from some farmer who sends you on a wild goose chase up a hill in the rain or a white van man who sends you beetling down the wrong motorway. Not that I'm still miffed about those incidents. Far from it.

Q: Do you have any interesting anecdotes about the consequences of not drinking coffee in the morning?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Get directions from someone who actually knows the way not from some farmer who sends you on a wild goose chase up a hill in the rain or a white van man who sends you beetling down the wrong motorway. Not that I'm still miffed about those incidents. Far from it.

Q: Do you have any interesting anecdotes about the consequences of [b]not drinking coffee in the morning?[/b]

A: Yes. The today I missed out on my morning, and only, coffee of the day and I had the urge to take up smoking again after 30+ years of quitting. I replaced my smoking with just 1 coffee a day...oh and three donuts.

Q: Should I go back to my morning coffee?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Should I go back to my morning coffee?

A: Depends. What time of day is it now where you are?

Q: Why is a man's virginity on his wedding day not as venerated and as mandatory around the world - in so many cultures - as a bride's?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Depends. What time of day is it now where you are?

Q: Why is a man's virginity on his wedding day not as venerated and as mandatory around the world - in so many cultures - as a bride's?

A: Because they don't realize that we are now in the year 2015 not 1815.

Q: Why did I subscribe?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Why did I subscribe?

A: Good question, but a much better question is 'why do you think I subscribe?'

Q: If there had been no English Channel, after beating Belgium in 18 days, the Netherlands in 5 days, and France in 45 days in 1940, and with the British Army having left most of its equipment and vehicles behind in Dunkirk, how many days would it have taken the German Army to have crossed over to Britain and overrun it militarily?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Good question, but a much better question is 'why do you think I subscribe?'

Q: If there had been no English Channel, after beating Belgium in 18 days, the Netherlands in 5 days, and France in 45 days in 1940, and with the British Army having left most of its equipment and vehicles behind in Dunkirk, how many days would it have taken the German Army to have crossed over to Britain and overrun it militarily?

A: With the Canadian army (well a part of it) being there as of January 1, 1940...never.

Q: What is North Korea going to do now that is supposed to have a Hydrogen Bomb?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: What is North Korea going to do now that is supposed to have a Hydrogen Bomb?

A: Try to secure a regular supply of food for the people assigned to look after it.

Q: Will the production values of TV series adjust to the fact that people often now get access to a whole series all at once and watch 3-4 episodes at one binge sitting?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Try to secure a regular supply of food for the people assigned to look after it.

Q: Will the production values of TV series adjust to the fact that people often now get access to a whole series all at once and watch 3-4 episodes at one binge sitting?

A: One would hope so, enabling the likes of say, Moonshiners, to have simultaneous translation of what they are saying, y'all.

Q: Why soooo many "reality" shows on TV?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Why soooo many "reality" shows on TV?

A: Often bottom denominator ideas easily ~ and relatively cheaply ~ executed.

Q: Do you see 'fly on the wall' documentaries as being something distinct from 'reality TV'?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Often bottom denominator ideas easily ~ and relatively cheaply ~ executed.

Q: Do you see 'fly on the wall' documentaries as being something distinct from 'reality TV'?

A: No. Just trying to be a bit "high brow" versions of the same thing.

Q: Will ISIS (ISIL) ever sit down as a legitimate participant in negotiations?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Will ISIS (ISIL) ever sit down as a legitimate participant in negotiations?

A: Probably. And it will ~ in an admittedly slightly tortured analogy-sense ~ take place in the kitchen at Mr Jones' farm.

Q: Is catch-all scorn and cynicism about politicians rather overdone?