Stupid questions thread

**Thumper** · 02-Feb-08, 23:34

Ok guys this is THE thread for asking stupid questions that you have always wanted to know the answer to ,but haven't asked OR haven't been given the answer to.......ok so i will start it of,how come you never see birds fall out of the sky dead?(apart from when they have been shot) do they never fly across the sky to be-suddenly -struck down by a heart attack or something? In all my years I have never ever seen a bird drop down dead out of the sky.....why?

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**j4bberw0ck** · 02-Feb-08, 23:41

Good question!

I'd like to know where can I get a t-shirt showing the face of the man who shot Che Guevara?

**Thumper** · 02-Feb-08, 23:42

welllllll......if you answer mine I will answer yours

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**EDDIE** · 02-Feb-08, 23:45

Here is a silly question i also wonder about who has the right idea us having to work for a living to pay bills all our life or the people that live in tribes in the forests and so on who just worry about there next meal and they dont have to worry about getting on the housing ladder just build a house with the wood lying about.
i also wonder what it would be like to be back in the days when there was cowboys and indians must be great just having a horse with a blanket and coffee pot in the saddle and wonder from town to to town and if anybody annoys u you just shoot him and thats the end of it.
Well thats my stupid question for now.

**Mr_Me19** · 02-Feb-08, 23:46

Why does stale bread make better toast?

**Thumper** · 02-Feb-08, 23:49

Originally Posted by Mr_Me19

Why does stale bread make better toast?

err maybe cos thats all you have

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**j4bberw0ck** · 02-Feb-08, 23:54

Originally Posted by Mr_Me19

Why does stale bread make better toast?

Oh please miss? Miss?? <bounces up and down> I know the answer to that one Miss! Oh pleeeease miss......

karia · 02-Feb-08, 23:59

Originally Posted by Mr_Me19

Why does stale bread make better toast?

Because it makes rubbish sandwiches!

I am sure there's an answer containing starches and molecular change as well..J4berwock will supply those.

**Thumper** · 03-Feb-08, 00:00

j4bberwOck you cant say that and then disappear.............put the boy out of his misery!

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**pat** · 03-Feb-08, 00:04

On aluminium foil which side do you put out/in - is there a right side and a wrong side??
I was asked this many years ago and it appears is one of those questions there is no correct answer or do you know differently?

**the charlatans** · 03-Feb-08, 00:05

I have one.

why does the checkout operator in Thurso co-op never say please or thankyou???

**Thumper** · 03-Feb-08, 00:08

Originally Posted by pat

On aluminium foil which side do you put out/in - is there a right side and a wrong side??
I was asked this many years ago and it appears is one of those questions there is no correct answer or do you know differently?

seemingly its shiny side out...although I would have thought that that would deflect heat

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**j4bberw0ck** · 03-Feb-08, 00:14

Originally Posted by Thumper

j4bberwOck you cant say that and then disappear.............put the boy out of his misery! x

I think it's the water content. Most people seem to like toast sort of crunchy or "biscuity" - cooked right through. Stale toast toasts faster because you don't need to cook the water out of it first. So it's "biscuity" / crisper right through without having to be so brown on the outside.

Hopefully, anyway.

Me, I like hot melty. Still soft in the middle, well browned on the outside, and slathered with butter (while still scorching hot) and Marmite. Marmite is still one of the greatest gifts of the UK to the world. <sigh>

**j4bberw0ck** · 03-Feb-08, 00:16

Originally Posted by Thumper

that would deflect heat

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Radiant heat, perhaps a little more would be deflected by the shiny side. Conducted heat (hot air in oven to foil to meat), no difference I can think of.

**Thumper** · 03-Feb-08, 00:17

yuck...marmite

I suppose each to their own...me I like it cold,burnt and crunchy

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**Torvaig** · 03-Feb-08, 00:27

[quote=j4bberw0ck;
Me, I like hot melty. Still soft in the middle, well browned on the outside, and slathered with butter (while still scorching hot) and Marmite. Marmite is still one of the greatest gifts of the UK to the world. <sigh>[/quote]

Best way to get that effect is to use frozen bread!