The 20p Question Thread

[Edwardoka]

The question is, which infinity would you reach since there are more than one.

Pah! That's just Big Mathematics trying to get more research grants and needlessly complicate things.
Mathematics is meant to describe the universe. If you need to resort to making stuff up, you've failed.

Like that time Descartes tried to say "Actually, the square root of -1 is i," to which I replied "i isn't even a number," and shot him on the spot.
Death by pneumonia? No, I shot him. Any stories to the contrary are entirely imaginary.

Best wishes
Serene Doge Edgar I "The Patron of the Sciences (Serious Researchers Only, No Time Wasters Please)" Pugglesworth

 

[Eziemnaik]

When will you come to the city? - is it in akusativ or dativ in German?

 

[matticus]

to which I replied "i isn't even a number,"

Are you from the Caribbean?

 

[newfhouse]

Boring answer:
The kit-car industry has already addressed this. If you take a shi ... rubbish old car with an old, cute number plate, then rebuild with a kit;
- if you replace too many parts (because you chose a kit to make it look like an AC Cobra, say) you have to re-register it with DVLA (thus losing old plate)
- there is a "system" that says a gearbox counts for 10%, engine for 20, panels for ... you get the idea.

In the late eighties I built a Moss Malvern, based ostensibly on a Triumph Herald but with a Spitfire engine and overdrive gearbox. Believe me, there was very little left of the original apart from the wiring loom and some of the dashboard instruments. Somehow I managed to avoid a Q plate and keep it registered as a Herald convertible. Perhaps the DVLA were just kind to me.

Not mine, but you get the idea.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Pah! That's just Big Mathematics trying to get more research grants and needlessly complicate things.
Mathematics is meant to describe the universe. If you need to resort to making stuff up, you've failed.

Like that time Descartes tried to say "Actually, the square root of -1 is i," to which I replied "i isn't even a number," and shot him on the spot.
Death by pneumonia? No, I shot him. Any stories to the contrary are entirely imaginary.

Best wishes
Serene Doge Edgar I "The Patron of the Sciences (Serious Researchers Only, No Time Wasters Please)" Pugglesworth

What the hell is Big Mathematics other than a term you made up? 😂

 

[Edwardoka]

What the hell is Big Mathematics other than a term you made up? 😂

A joke reference to the "Big Pharma" conspiracy theory. Quite funny, I thought.

 

[roadrash]

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

I cant REMember

 

[roadrash]

Right ere we have the question that really does need answering...why.why, WHY...are hot dogs sold in tins of eight and finger rolls sold in packs of six, ?????????????

 

[PeteXXX]

Right ere we have the question that really does need answering...why.why, WHY...are hot dogs sold in tins of eight and finger rolls sold in packs of six, ?????????????

That'll be so that two people can be pigs and double up on the hot dogs without the hassle of eating too much roll..
🐽

 

[PeteXXX]

Right.. An important scientific question, now.
When my aquarium cleaning magnetic thingie is not in the aquarium, should I leave the two halves separate, or stuck together?

🤔

 

[roadrash]

Right.. An important scientific question, now.
When my aquarium cleaning magnetic thingie is not in the aquarium, should I leave the two halves separate, or stuck together?

🤔

apart obviously, ...why would you want to waste all that magnetims...maganati, oh b0!!0x , just leave em stuck together

 

[matticus]

Acksherly ... I'm pretty sure that magnets degrade over time, and it DOES make a difference having them stuck together! This is a childhood memory ... so let's try google:
This kinda answers the question: https://www.apexmagnets.com/news-how-tos/exploring-shelf-life-magnets-can-weaken-time/

 

[Rezillo]

Why are mushy peas sold in can sizes that are too big for one person but not enough for two?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Why are mushy peas sold in can sizes that are too big for one person but not enough for two?

No no. When it comes to mushy peas or anything else 1 cyclist portion is at least 2 ordinary people's portions.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Right ere we have the question that really does need answering...why.why, WHY...are hot dogs sold in tins of eight and finger rolls sold in packs of six, ?????????????

Because you always drop two hotdogs on the ground which a dog will run off with. So six are still left for the rolls.