Things You'd Like to Know

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Why has no one else taken my lead and posted a few incidental, personal facts about themselves?

A: They could see it brought you no tangible benefits.

Q: Why isn't a government policy involving the ongoing building of cheap and modest housing that poor people can afford to rent - and perhaps later buy - supported by a right wing-left wing political consensus?

Originally posted by FMF
A: They could see it brought you no tangible benefits.

Q: Why isn't a government policy involving the ongoing building of cheap and modest housing that poor people can afford to rent - and perhaps later buy - supported by a right wing-left wing political consensus?

A: Because that would mean a coming together of two parties whose agendas are at opposite poles.
Q:Are the majority of "humankind" really as stupid as they appear to be?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q:Are the majority of "humankind" really as stupid as they appear to be?

A: "Humankind", to my way of thinking, are all crammed into a glass that's half full ~ and not half empty, sir ~ although I realize the metaphor may have an obvious weak spot.

Q: If you have three children, what do you think would be the ideal gaps in age between them?

Originally posted by FMF
A: "Humankind", to my way of thinking, are all crammed into a glass that's half full ~ and not half empty, sir ~ although I realize the metaphor may have an obvious weak spot.

Q: If you have three children, what do you think would be the ideal gaps in age between them?

A: Two years.

Q: Why does the NRA seem to wield so much sway in The US?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: Why does the NRA seem to wield so much sway in The US?

A: Firstly, because they tap into the fact that a disturbing number of Americans have a romantic (to use the word very loosely) belief that the Second Amendment reserves them the "right" to gun down government officials, employees, military and law enforcement personnel and elected representatives at a moment of their choosing ~ with the arms they are entitled to bear for this explicitly-talked-about purpose ~ should they perceive, deem and declare themselves to be victims of a degree of "tyranny" on the part of the state that they are no longer willing to tolerate. Secondly, because the NRA represents the interests of manufacturers which have shed loads of money to spend on political lobbying.

Q: Do you think there's truth in the contention in some quarters that the belief that there is an audible qualitative difference between a music mp3 @ 256 kbps and the same music @ 320 kbps is mistaken or even slightly deluded?

Originally posted by FMF
A: Firstly, because they tap into the fact that a disturbing number of Americans have a romantic (to use the word very loosely) belief that the Second Amendment reserves them the "right" to gun down government officials, employees, military and law enforcement personnel and elected representatives at a moment of their choosing ~ with the arms they are entitled t ...[text shortened]... ween a music mp3 @ 256 kbps and the same music @ 320 kbps is mistaken or even slightly deluded?

A: I guess, to a person with superior hearing abilities, it is possible.

Q: What? Eh? Que?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Q: What? Eh? Que?

A: Sometimes people choose to hear only what they want to hear.

Q: What was the first piece of stereo music you ever heard on headphones? For me it was the single "Heroes" by David Bowie in 1977 in a listening booth in Our Price Records on my way home from school.

Originally posted by FMF
A: Sometimes people choose to hear only what they want to hear.

Q: What was the first piece of stereo music you ever heard on headphones? For me it was the single "Heroes" by David Bowie in 1977 in a listening booth in Our Price Records on my way home from school.

A: The same piece of music I first heard in stereo on my portable Seabreeze stereo system with removable speakers that I got one Xmas (1959 I think). The 33 1/3 album came as a gift with the purchase and was an opaque purple. It was Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

Q: Anyone out there affected by the big snow storm that hit the mid eastern shore states?

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
A: The same piece of music I first heard in stereo on my portable Seabreeze stereo system with removable speakers that I got one Xmas (1959 I think). The 33 1/3 album came as a gift with the purchase and was an opaque purple. It was Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

Q: Anyone out there affected by the big snow storm that hit the mid eastern shore states?

A. Yes, many in the Boston area.

Q. Are there one or more characteristics which successful, long running threads on this forum have in common?.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Q. Are there one or more characteristics which successful, long running threads on this forum have in common?.

A: The threads in question seem to require hardly anything in the way of original thoughts or interesting creativity aside from the ones I personally like and choose to contribute to.

Q: If you are a tea drinker, are you aware of whether your favourite type of tea is grown in the cooler misty highlands or down in the hot and humid valleys in the tropical areas the leaves originate from?

Originally posted by FMF
A: The threads in question seem to require hardly anything in the way of original thoughts or interesting creativity aside from the ones I personally like and choose to contribute to.

Q: If you are a tea drinker, are you aware of whether your favourite type of tea is grown in the cooler misty highlands or down in the hot and humid valleys in the tropical areas the leaves originate from?

A: I have no idea about my favourite green tea, but my second choice - Darjeeling - comes from the highlands of Sri Lanka, I believe.

Q: Now that Australia has renewed its discussion about becoming a republic, should we continue with a flag which shows our British colonial origins, or take the Canadian approach?

Originally posted by Kewpie
A: I have no idea about my favourite green tea, but my second choice - Darjeeling - comes from the highlands of Sri Lanka, I believe.

A: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0329kqj

Q: Do you think the surviving musicians who were in The Eagles will ever try to play a concert or concerts under the name The Eagles despite the fact that Glen Frey has passed away?

Originally posted by Kewpie
Q: Now that Australia has renewed its discussion about becoming a republic, should we continue with a flag which shows our British colonial origins, or take the Canadian approach?

A: I'd favour some kind of competition and voting on the design ~ which is, I think, what happened in New Zealand - or did they have a panel that came up with a selection? I'd be inclined towards a flag that was green and yellow in some shape or form.

Q: Do you think red might be the most common favourite colour in the world?

Originally posted by FMF
A: I'd favour some kind of competition and voting on the design ~ which is, I think, what happened in New Zealand - or did they have a panel that came up with a selection? I'd be inclined towards a flag that was green and yellow in some shape or form.

Q: Do you think red might be the most common favourite colour in the world?

A. No. Apparently it is blue. Though my own experience tells me purple.
(btw: NZ haven't finished choosing their flag yet.)

Q. What is worse than a paper-cut? (My wife says nothing)

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Q. What is worse than a paper-cut? (My wife says nothing)

A: Lemon juice in a paper cut.

Q: How long has your wife said nothing?