Fun Friday
Friday is here once again! Today we thought we’d list some of life’s unanswered questions, and maybe you’ll have some time this weekend to ponder them.
- Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
- Can you cry underwater?
- When the French swear, do they say pardon my English?
- Why when people ask you “what three things would you bring with you on a desert island?” no one replies, “A boat.”
- If the FBI breaks your door down do they have to pay for it?
- Why do penguins have knees?
- Why do blacklights look purple?
- After they make Styrofoam, what do they ship it in?
- If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured, would they remember that they forgot?
- You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes? Why can’t they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
- Why is it called a TV “set” when you only get one?
- Why do we put suits in a garment bag and garments in a suitcase?
- Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
- How did Walt Disney figure out how to make people pay to stand in lines all day?
- Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can’t go that fast on any road?
- Can blind people see their dreams?
- Why do hot dogs come in packs of 8 when hotdog rolls come in packs of 10?
- Why are boxing rings square?
- Why do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?
- Why is it called football when you hardly use your feet?
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I have an answer to the last one. In football you do use your feet, because you kick a ball around. The game that you Americans for some reason call football is nothing to do with football and is basically a wussy version of rugby where everyone wears body armour and drinks orange juice every 5 minutes.
Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
Exactly where DO those socks lost in the dryer end up?
Why do people say thank you to a cop who just gave them a ticket?
“Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?”
maybe because you might have a blind passenger who doesn’t want to give out their pin number
Football is more of a strategy game than contact, but that aside, you can’t really say that (American) football is a wussy version of rugby. Rugby players may not wear padding, but they aren’t put under the same conditions. They play for about 80 minutes in a game where they stop much less. They have to pace themselves and not go all-out because they don’t stop as much as in football. Football players are trained to go all-out every play for about three hours, and without the padding and helmets there would be a lot of serious injuries.
I’m going to answer these even though most of these are joke questions….
1. because there’s absolutely no use for putting glue on the inside of a bottle, so it really makes no difference
2. no
3. no
4. I’ve heard people say that before…plus teh question is usually narrowed down to “what 3 videogames would you bring” or “what 3 gadgets would you bring?”, etc…
5. nope
6. based on their evolution, their genetic structure made it end up that they have knees
7. no idea
8. they pack it in a box…
9. it’s not possible to be cured from permanent brain damage
10. just…no. because of the material used, you just can’t make a plane out of that material
11. does it matter?
12. who cares?
13. great question, really. ATM machine makers are idiots, I guess….
14. he’s a genius
15. so car makers can prove that thye can make cars that go that fast.
16. probably
17. well if you buy 10 packs of dogs and 8 packs of rolls then you have enough
18. cause boxing square sounds dumb
19. so theives can’t steal the drugs and make meth with them
20. there is most likely a legit explanation for this regarding the etymology of the word and the game…..
Do drug stores sell cigarettes in America!? They’re supposed to help you stay healthy for f***’s sake! These people should be ashamed of themselves! Jeez.
Those are pretty good!
I agree with that. Despite all of the padding there are still a good amount of injuries that the football players endure.
Apparently it was basically that people in America were playing rugby, under the name rugby football. As they changed the rules they dropped the name rugby, leaving just football. Hence why the game is still known as “football” despite it being nothing to do with feet or proper football.