Things I wish I knew

[Laxie]

14. Why do baseball players spit so much?

A lot of them like to use chewing tobacco instead of smoking and they chew it during the game.

It's disgusting and some poor sap has to clean it up after every game.

Agree completely.  None of my baseball playing friends chewed it, but we were from a town where that wouldn't have gone down well.  My cousin married a guy who does it.  He keeps a container of some sort nearby so he's not spitting it all over the place...puketastic.  I just steer clear of him if I know he's got a wad in his mouth.

[Acidmouse]

not sure how i missed this one but really only just found out about the dead sea scrolls...

pretty epic find and read....

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

[The Camel]

15. Why are otherwise intelligent people superstitious?

I owed someone $200. I counted out 4 x $50 notes. They refused to touch them. I thought they were joking, but no, seriously they would rather not accept the money and have me still owing them than handle $50 notes.

WTF?

[The Camel]

16. Why are all yoghurts simply given the name of the fruit used to flavour them EXCEPT peach which for some reason are called "Peach Melba"?

17. Why do Americans feel the need to speak to strangers when alone in lifts? I'm English, I don't want to talk to you unless I know you.

[Tal]

What's the difference between assume and presume, please?

I know people say assume when they start on a mathematical proof, but I am struggling after that.

[jgcblack]

What would've happened if Hitler didn't try and take out every one at once...?

[redarmi]

16. Why are all yoghurts simply given the name of the fruit used to flavour them EXCEPT peach which for some reason are called "Peach Melba"?

17. Why do Americans feel the need to speak to strangers when alone in lifts? I'm English, I don't want to talk to you unless I know you.

fyp

[Doobs]

16. Why are all yoghurts simply given the name of the fruit used to flavour them EXCEPT peach which for some reason are called "Peach Melba"?

17. Why do Americans feel the need to speak to strangers when alone in lifts? I'm a Londoner, I don't want to talk to you unless I know you.

fyp

Fhp

[DungBeetle]

16. Why are all yoghurts simply given the name of the fruit used to flavour them EXCEPT peach which for some reason are called "Peach Melba"?

17. Why do Americans feel the need to speak to strangers when alone in lifts? I'm English, I don't want to talk to you unless I know you.

I LOVE talking to people in lifts.  Especially when the door opens at a floor and nobody gets out and I can have a good ROFL with my new buddies.  Is this not cricket and they actually think I'm a weirdo?

[The Camel]

16. Why are all yoghurts simply given the name of the fruit used to flavour them EXCEPT peach which for some reason are called "Peach Melba"?

17. Why do Americans feel the need to speak to strangers when alone in lifts? I'm English, I don't want to talk to you unless I know you.

I LOVE talking to people in lifts.  Especially when the door opens at a floor and nobody gets out and I can have a good ROFL with my new buddies.  Is this not cricket and they actually think I'm a weirdo?

You're a Watford fan.

The fact you're a weirdo is therefore taken as read.

[Jon MW]

What's the difference between assume and presume, please?

I know people say assume when they start on a mathematical proof, but I am struggling after that.

synonyms, just slightly different roots

[Tal]

What's the difference between assume and presume, please?

I know people say assume when they start on a mathematical proof, but I am struggling after that.

synonyms, just slightly different roots

I don't think that's true.

I had an embarrassing moment in a Supervision at Uni once, where I said assume and was corrected mid-sentence by a Tutor bearing the wearied expression of a man sick of having to explain the difference to oiks.

[kinboshi]

How do they choose weather reporters on the telly?

[Woodsey]

How do they choose weather reporters on the telly?

No idea, but that young black lad on east mids news that always looks like he's about to break out in a dance somehow manages to wind me up. Emma Jesson ftw........ 

[Tal]

How do they choose weather reporters on the telly?

Was your application rejected, then?