Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Alex321]

I count ten eights in the calculation.

The ones in the two showings of 1008 don't count, they are only showing the intermediate values in the workings.

 

[winjim]

Much neater than my cheater!
We have a winner ( subject to approval from @Ming the Merciless ).

Joint effort because I basically copied your method but got to the 2 a different way.

 

[Chris S]

I had a M&S ready meal for my lunch. It was over 2,300 calories which is my recommended daily intake. Why did I feel hungry 2 hours later?

 

[mistyoptic]

I had a M&S ready meal for my lunch. It was over 2,300 calories which is my recommended daily intake. Why did I feel hungry 2 hours later?

Was it a ready meal for 4? That’s a lot of calories

 

[Chris S]

I had a M&S ready meal for my lunch. It was over 2,300 calories which is my recommended daily intake. Why did I feel hungry 2 hours later?

Was it a ready meal for 4? That’s a lot of calories

It was a ready meal for two - two white mice.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I bough a turnip along with other items this evening in a supermarket. The lad on the checkout asked what it was. He said, sounding embarrassed, that he doesn't eat fresh veg' so he never sees such things, apart from when working on the checkouts. I told him it was a turnip. He looked it up on his screen then weighed the object. My question is with all this technology these days, why doesn't the computerised checkout thingy recognise unmarked items like loose/unpackaged fruit and veg to save the person working the checkout such embarrassment, if they don't recognise easy recognisable to most folk items like turnips ? 🤔

 

[classic33]

How do eight eights add up to one thousand?

Same question popped up earlier this month.

Spoiler: Thought someone else would have posted it

888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8

 

[KnittyNorah]

I bough a turnip along with other items this evening in a supermarket. The lad on the checkout asked what it was. He said, sounding embarrassed, that he doesn't eat fresh veg' so he never sees such things, apart from when working on the checkouts. I told him it was a turnip. He looked it up on his screen then weighed the object. My question is with all this technology these days, why doesn't the computerised checkout thingy recognise unmarked items like loose/unpackaged fruit and veg to save the person working the checkout such embarrassment, if they don't recognise easy recognisable to most folk items like turnips ? 🤔

But what if someone with an exceptionally-ugly baby came through the checkout, and the computerised checkout thingy told the till operator that the customer was holding a large kohl-rabi? So the till operator, without looking up, asked 'did you weigh it?', and the answer proudly given was eight pounds fourteen ounces ...

By 'eck, that's one for't Guinness Book of Records eh!

 

[Jameshow]

How do you move a airliner that careers off the runway? Is the grass a natural skid arrester?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-67174117

 

[classic33]

How do you move a airliner that careers off the runway? Is the grass a natural skid arrester?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-67174117

If they do it like the previous one, a mix of airbags, hydraulic lifts and a bit of pulling power.

 

[Gwylan]

How do you move a airliner that careers off the runway? Is the grass a natural skid arrester?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-67174117

Carefully.
That's going to be long, slow and expensive.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Been pondering this one for all of 20 seconds

If I think am I therefore?

 

[mistyoptic]

How long are the BBC. going to keep saying “X, formerly known as Twitter,”?

 

[Gwylan]

How long are the BBC. going to keep saying “X, formerly known as Twitter,”?

I think, as long as they are paid, one way or another.

Prince got away with it for years

 

[GuyBoden]

Why "Eight Twenty Road"?

@ColinJ