The Questions Thread

[exe ex machina]

If rabbits feet are supposed to be lucky , wtf happened to the rabbit ?

It's lucky for you BECAUSE it was unlucky for someone or something else.

That's how "luck" works.

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Why do checkout operators allow people through with a trolley load of goods when it is a 10 or less checkout?

 

[zimma]

Why do checkout operators allow people through with a trolley load of goods when it is a 10 or less checkout?

Because we simply don't give a shit and our mind is on clock off time, that or the person with the trolley is more likely to assault you with their oversized handbag

 

[quickstraw]

what is enlightenment?

The relief felt after offloading a massive shit.

 

[The Passenger]

If you drive around a roundabout and exit the same entrance you entered through, have you just done a 180 or a 360?

The direction you are travelling is 180 degrees from the direction you were previously travelling, but you have gone through the full 360 degrees of the roundabout?

 

[little graham]

If you drive around a roundabout and exit the same entrance you entered through, have you just done a 180 or a 360?

Your on the wrong side of the road, that's what you fraking are and you've done about 340

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Because we simply don't give a shit and our mind is on clock off time, that or the person with the trolley is more likely to assault you with their oversized handbag

Also why don't they zip up the blue cool bags anymore ?

 

[the fly]

I saw John Bracewell chase a ball down to the long straight boundary (RIP) at the AO and he kicked it into the fence when he saw the batsmen turning for their fifth.

I remember Craig McDermott snicking a ball through slips at the Adelaide Oval and running 5.

In the very early days of test cricket, hitting the ball over the fence was only worth 5 runs (it was only 6 if the ball was hit out of the ground completely).

 

[Stratton_Gun]

I'm probably going to word this terribly but here goes.....

OK playing pool and all you have left is the black ball while the guy you're playing has quite a few colored ones left. The black one is in the area where there white ball starts when breaking. It's you oppositions turn. They deliberately sink the white one. However with the position the black ball is, it makes it almost impossible to hit the black ball as you can't hit it directly and have to rebound it. Thus because you can't hit it, they get two turns.

Is this allowed or is there a rule against it?

 

[TheFreshBanana]

I'm probably going to word this terribly but here goes.....

OK playing pool and all you have left is the black ball while the guy you're playing has quite a few colored ones left. The black one is in the area where there white ball starts when breaking. It's you oppositions turn. They deliberately sink the white one. However with the position the black ball is, it makes it almost impossible to hit the black ball as you can't hit it directly and have to rebound it. Thus because you can't hit it, they get two turns.

Is this allowed or is there a rule against it?

Don't you get 2 turns when they sink the white one?

And I would assume you'd just have to be good enough to rebound it off the table to hit the black one.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Only the 1 shot when you're on the black, is the way we play. Not sure of the 'official' rules.

 

[Deliverance]

Why do people say 24th of December two thousand and fourteen (2014)? Would you say 24th of December one thousand nine hundred ninety nine (1999)? It should be twenty fourteen yeah?

And while wer'e on numbers, why don't we have oneteen, twoteen and threeteen?

 

[TassieEagle]

I play rules where intentional fouls result in ball in hand. Not sure if that is the official rule though.

 

[stmookeyj]

Why do checkout operators allow people through with a trolley load of goods when it is a 10 or less checkout?

Probably the first customer they've served all day, everyone else used the self checkout.

 

[stmookeyj]

As for MY question....how come flights are so much cheaper on Christmas Day going TO Melbourne as opposed to the Sunday/Monday going FROM Melbourne? (I know it wasn't such a problem for me, I had plenty of points but still)

 

[The Passenger]

And while wer'e on numbers, why don't we have oneteen, twoteen and threeteen?

Why is a computer not called a combobulator?

 

[The Passenger]

As for MY question....how come flights are so much cheaper on Christmas Day going TO Melbourne as opposed to the Sunday/Monday going FROM Melbourne? (I know it wasn't such a problem for me, I had plenty of points but still)

flights are usually pretty cheap-ish on christmas day. when i was living in melbourne i would come up to sydney to see the folks and fly back on christmas day/night to work the boxing day test.

sunday/monday is generally the most expensive day to fly.

 

[lincsPJ]

I'm probably going to word this terribly but here goes.....

OK playing pool and all you have left is the black ball while the guy you're playing has quite a few colored ones left. The black one is in the area where there white ball starts when breaking. It's you oppositions turn. They deliberately sink the white one. However with the position the black ball is, it makes it almost impossible to hit the black ball as you can't hit it directly and have to rebound it. Thus because you can't hit it, they get two turns.

Is this allowed or is there a rule against it?

that's a foul snooker. you can nominate any ball to it as your own on your first shot. but if you miss your nominated ball, then he gets 2 shots.

 

[Tulip]

A 5 in cricket is scored when the keeper's unworn helmet (which he keeps a short distance behind him) stops the ball in the field of play. Very rare, but has happened.

 

[kfc1]

is double parking illegal?

Yes

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_reg/rsrr2009208/s189.html

ROAD SAFETY ROAD RULES 2009 - REG 189

Double parking
Rule 189(1) substituted by S.R. No. 47/2012 rule 12(1).

(1) A driver must not stop on a road if to do so would put any part of the vehicle that he or she is driving between a vehicle that is parked on the road and the centre of the road.

Penalty: 3 penalty units.

 

[kfc1]

I remember Craig McDermott snicking a ball through slips at the Adelaide Oval and running 5.

In the very early days of test cricket, hitting the ball over the fence was only worth 5 runs (it was only 6 if the ball was hit out of the ground completely).

Also, if the ball hits a helmet or other obstacle on the ground it is awarded as 5 runs

edit: beaten to it by HFF

 

[PP34]

How do I buy Kindle books from the US store when it's making me buy them from the limited Australian one?

 

[the fly]

Also, if the ball hits a helmet or other obstacle on the ground it is awarded as 5 runs

edit: beaten to it by HFF

Indeed. I was only thinking of runs credited to the batsman (runs "scored" when the ball hits a helmet on the ground are listed as penalty runs, or at least they were a few years ago). I believe that the most common way for a 5 to be scored would be courtesy of 4 overthrows occuring after the batsmen have ran a single.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Yes

Student, graduate or wannabe KF?

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

kfc1 why are the chips never hot