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

[oldwheels]

Funerals can be quite expensive unless you watch carefully.
By the time I had got my wife's funeral all paid it came to around £7000. This also included a headstone. Grave digging and purchase of a lair is a fixed council fee and of course there is an undertaker as well as taxi charges. There was also what is called here a "funeral tea" at a local hotel
The organist and church minister did not charge but they did get a substantial donation. The minister put in a great deal of work and many people congratulated him on the way he handled the funeral service.
I did not pay mourners expenses but some came from Denmark, Germany and Shetland which would not have been cheap.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Can you be fit and unhealthy?

I can turn out a decent century or run a marathon without thinking to much about it.

But I also probably don't have the best diet ? Had fish and chips last Saturday and cheese on toast today, chocolate too, not a great drinker.....

But could actually be quite unhealthy and what would my cholesterol look like?

Just thinking aloud!

There are different types of fitness. I had excellent endurance as I ran 6 days a week for decades. I too could bang out a marathon in a half decent time on a weekly basis. I also liked to drink and eat cake and sweets. On the other hand I had no real upper body strenght and couldn't do more than half a dozen press ups or pull ups.

 

[mustang1]

Is it ok to write "f*ckin heck" (with an e) instead of "f*ckin heck" (with a u)?

Also, is it ok to write "sh*te" instead of "sh*t"?

Bonus question: does anyone REALLY not know what the asterisks represent?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Is it ok to write "f*ckin heck" (with an e) instead of "f*ckin heck" (with a u)?

Also, is it ok to write "sh*te" instead of "sh*t"?

Bonus question: does anyone REALLY not know what the asterisks represent?

... Me! 😆

 

[Red17]

Why are chupa chups so difficult to unwrap?

 

[mustang1]

When people say they don't like those German cars with all their tech, and then they buy non German cars 10 years later with the same tech, how comes they don't complain about the tech in 10 years time?

 

[richardfm]

Why are chupa chups so difficult to unwrap?

What are chupa chups?

 

[cougie uk]

What are chupa chups?

Spanish lollipops with artwork by Salvadoran Dali.

They've only been on the market for 65 years so maybe that's why you've not seen them yet.

 

[richardfm]

Spanish lollipops with artwork by Salvadoran Dali.

They've only been on the market for 65 years so maybe that's why you've not seen them yet.

Or maybe because I don't eat lollipops

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When people say they don't like those German cars with all their tech, and then they buy non German cars 10 years later with the same tech, how comes they don't complain about the tech in 10 years time?

Likely similar to mobile phones initially being for geeks and doctors and now everyone has one. Some people don’t like things till they are mass adopted, trailing edge tactics.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Spanish lollipops with artwork by Salvadoran Dali.

They've only been on the market for 65 years so maybe that's why you've not seen them yet.

The lesser known brother or son of Salvador ?

 

[stephec]

Spanish lollipops with artwork by Salvadoran Dali.

They've only been on the market for 65 years so maybe that's why you've not seen them yet.

This can be my contribution to the things you've only just found out thread.

I used to occasionally have them as a kid but didn't know the above.

 

[lazybloke]

Can you be fit and unhealthy?

You have to define fitness and healthiness first.

Not sure what the dictionary says, but i consider fitness to be how well i'm conditioned to exertion, and Healthiness to be how well my body is standing up to disease and the aging process.

There's some correlation and overlap between those two things, but they're not directly linked; think of those fighting-fit athletes who drop dead from congenital heart defects.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Can you be fit and unhealthy?

In this context people are generally referring to cardiovascular fitness. So yes, you can be fairly fit (e.g. able to do prolonged aerobic exercise and recover well) but if your diet is poor you can still be overweight and have increased risk of heart disease etc. Or you don't even have to be overweight to have fat around your organs leading to complications if left unchecked.

Strictly speaking, fitness means how good are you at doing the thing you're doing. So a morbidly obese sumo wrestler could be considered very fit (for sumo wrestling) but not healthy, as sone of them eat 10,000 cKals/day to maintain their huge mass

 

[Accy cyclist]

I looked at an email from Fleabay on my phone today, reminding me of an item I'd put in my online basket, Stupid me only went and pressed 'confirm payment', thinking it won't happen as although they have my bank account number etc they don't know my 3 digit security number. I pressed it to see what'd happen and low and behold it said payment accepted!! My question is do they know my 3 digit security number and if they do how do they know it.🤔 I suppose I could phone my bank asking them to stop the payment, but I was going to buy the item anyway.