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To be, or not to be? is the opening phrase of a soliloquy from Prince Hamlet of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and also one of the most famous passages in English literature. However, this is not the only question left unanswered both in Shakespeare’s play and in real life. In reality, there are more questions left unanswered than there are answers.

Although it may seem that the older we get, the more answers we gain, the truth is that we only grow to understand how much we still don't know and how many hard questions remain unanswered—and possibly never will be.

While many hard-to-answer questions can be scientifically explained and answered, there are many confusing and hypothetical questions that even science can't provide a solution to.

Despite humans being the only (yet discovered) most intelligent species, some facts are so challenging to uncover that they escape the grasp of human logic. Not everything can be explained at this stage in our lives, and the many unanswered questions stem from this.

For now, the only option is to refer to those questions with no answers as philosophical and hope that perhaps we will find the explanations to all seemingly unanswerable questions in the future.

Below, we’ve compiled some very impossibly hard questions to answer that go beyond the human brain’s abilities. So if you are looking for an easy way to make your brain hurt, the many questions below will do the trick. Do you know of any more confusing questions to ask? Let us know!

#1

Assassination’s Weird Flex

Confusing question about the difference between being assassinated and m******d on a red background design. How important do you have to be to be considered assassinated and not just murdered?

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CalicoKitty
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

IMO, it's not about how important you are overall. It's about how your death frees up the path for an overarching goal. Jimmy Who Hates Your Sort and Jane Who Runs A Competing Taco Truck murder you. Johnson Who Finds Your Taco Truck Obstructive To The Taco Mafia assassinates you, and then everyone calls it murder because nobody wants to legitimise the Taco Mafia.

timebleeder
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Assassination is defined more by the motivation behind why a person was killed than who was killed.

Colin Timp
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it comes down to whether the person was killed specifically to prevent a certain goal or event from taking place; in that case it's an assassination.

Harry Hwt
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hire an assassin so any contract kill is assassinated

TheAquarius1978
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the exact same question of, how rich do you have to be to be called " excentric " and not " crazy "

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Laura Ketteridge
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Merriam Webster sorts this out rather neatly. "murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons ". If I'd been asked to define, I'd have said that assassination is not as person, it's one stage removed. It would be carried out by an assassin or a hitman, not an enraged husband.

Vix Spiderthrust
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Interesting but assassinations can also be carried out by another class of person: nutters.

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CosmikPowa 313
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not about importance. An assassination is carried out by an assassin, which implies they were paid or hired to do so, while a murderer is just someone who commits murder for their own personal motives.

mansi
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

IMO, it's not about how important you are overall. It's about how your death frees up the path for an overarching goal. Jimmy Who Hates Your Sort and Jane Who Runs A Competing Taco Truck murder you. Johnson Who Finds Your Taco Truck Obstructive To The Taco Mafia assassinates you, and then everyone calls it murder because nobody wants to legitimise the Taco Mafia. sad dp

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    #2

    Wait, So Do We Even Agree on Colors?

    How do you know that you see colors the same way that another person sees them? For instance, what if what’s red to you is blue to them, but they still call it red?

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    Natalie H
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’ve had this this thought before. My conclusion was that it’s impossible to figure this out

    ormondotvos
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No prob. Colors are names assigned to frequencies of light. Some people see with four bands, though, mostly women.

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    Nikki Sevven
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Science. In general, we agree that 440Hz represents the musical note "A above middle C". This allows the members of an orchestra to ensure they're in tune with one another. We've also agreed that light with a wavelength of 650nm is "red." If you don't see 650nm as "red," then you're likely colorblind. If you don't hear 440Hz as "A above middle C," then you're likely tone deaf.

    Fyre Pyre
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have ALWAYS wondered this. ALWAYS!

    Gabriela
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same. I'm kind of obsessed, can't figure why

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You argue with them. It’s called “communication.”

    T. Unnamable
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honor said the ancient Greek sky was bronze.

    BoredPip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    colour theory makes it harder to be true, but I've always loved this thought

    Lesbee
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I THOUGHT I INVENTED THIS THOUGHT😭 but my father says it all depends on the cones and rods in the eyes, so technically everyone sees the same colors.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to think something like this I still do it’s “what if people use whole different words but they mean the same thing so we don’t realize” it’s hard to explain it’s like how do you know everyone else is hearing you the same way like it could be a whole different word to them but just mean the same thing

    Frank Miller
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have hundred this question myself. But the answer is simple biology. Human color receptors are all identical. Some malfunction and do not work at all, but they don't twist colors around. They can, however, be tricked when multiple colors exist close together. Remember the illusion about the dress being gray or blue or something like that?

    Liz Rogers
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was pondering this question when I was 10 years old. Still don't know the answer.

    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    give them something red and then have them give you something they consider to be red then you have the answer kinda simple if you think about it

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    #3

    This Is Literally Me Every Day

    If life is so short, why do we do things that we don’t like and like so many things that we don’t do?

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    Jon C
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    3 years ago

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    $cagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was even a song about it; 'I got bills, I got to pay, so I'm gonna work, work, work every day' - by Lunch Money Lewis. So true.

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    Pam Akers
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the New Testament of the Bible, Paul writes " I do the things I don't want to do and the things I want to do, I do not do."

    Laura Ketteridge
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An excellent question. We applied this to family celebrations a number of years ago. We talked about the best bits of Christmas, and what we loved doing. There were so many traditions we were keeping, but we were each doing it for others. Not doing those things, and concentrating on the things that actually brought us joy, made the holidays so very much better and more enjoyable.

    Herkfixer
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *reality check* Because most often it costs money and/or time (that we have to spend making money) tondo the things we like. It would be great if we all could be rich enough to just do what we like, when we like and not have to do things we don't like..

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    Enothor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because life is too long for our primitive directives and we have too much emptiness. We have found that if we fill most with negative or neutral tasks, the dopamine and serotonin stimulating ones have a greater effect. If it’s all good, nothing feels good. I feel we have created sluggish systems designed to make us wait because we have nothing else to do.

    Herkfixer
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *reality check* Because most often it costs money and/or time (that we have to spend making money) tondo the things we like. It would be great if we all could be rich enough to just do what we like, when we like and not have to do things we don't like..

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    #4

    The Most Patient Letter Ever

    Isn’t the word ‘queue’ just the letter Q followed by four silent letters?

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The word ‘queue’ is just the British showing off.

    BeardedVulture
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s not. It’s the letter “Q” with the other letters patiently waiting in line. It’s as British a word as you can get.

    Tequila Mockingbird
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Queue is the only word in the English language where you can remove the last letter of the word continuously one at a time and not change the pronunciation

    Herkfixer
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You don't play Scrabble very much. There are quite a few that you can do that with... though I've never heard any of them in conversation before.

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    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I prefer to pronounce it kway you.

    Duesvolent90
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Q wasn't good enough, Que means "what" in espanol. What the heck let's just add an extra "ue"

    Audrey Rasmussen
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the other four letters are in the queue for being pronounced

    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, it's french for 'tail' and in that language, pronounced differently than the letter Q, however, english-speaking accents translate it so that it's pronounced the same as the letter.

    David
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes it is never thought about that

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    #5

    Golf’s Sneaky Minimalism

    Confusing question about golf that challenges common logic and makes your brain hurt with puzzling thoughts. Why is the objective of golf to play the least amount of golf?

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    Weed in the Garden
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You need to hear Robin Williams explanation of golf to really understand the game. The Scots invented it - you knock a ball into a gopher hole....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9fXG2v0bS8

    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes thousands of dollars.

    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So the ball gets in the hole faster, which would give the player more points.

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    #6

    Curious Territory: Forehead or Beyond?

    How far up do bald people go when they wash their face?

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    Laura Ketteridge
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband says he washes up to where his hairline used to be.

    TheAquarius1978
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Duhh i wash my entire face i mean its obvious, from the chin to the back of my neck......

    Alias Delfs
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well the hair line of cour.. oh

    Groon TheWonderdog
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All the way. One of the benefits of having no hair to dry. When I had hair and would do something like it to stay cool or whatever, my hair would be a bear to dry so rarely did it. Now though, splash, pat pat dry and go.

    nathaniel sanchez
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If pinccio nose grows when he lies what if he says his nose is going to grow

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    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We don't wash our face so that people don't notice the baldness.

    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The hairline, since that is where the face ends.

    Harry Hwt
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm going bald my face and head are one thing in my eyes

    John Shea
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I should Will Smith you. Make fun of people's genetic s**t.

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    #7

    Undead Drama: Who Wins Here?

    If a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie become a vampire or does the vampire become a zombie?

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    Ash
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither. Technically, both are undead. The difference between a "vampire" and a "zombie" is the divine spark of consciousness; one eats the thing necessary for life, the other eats what remains after life is gone. Regardless of the source of lore, vampires feed on the *vital essence*, and zombies don't have any *vital essence* left, so there's no nourishment for a vamp. Zombies, typically, are created via a virus, and since vampires are already undead, they can't be infected by a virus.

    SerumSeven
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ^This. Once you're undead, you can't be affected by additional undeadness.

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    Alditekim
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doesn't matter either way. But we do know if vampire got bit by a bat, they become Batman. Ask Robert Pattinson.

    Rory August
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Blood is not circulating in either, they will both just end up frustrated.

    Omiyaru
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Vambie and Zompire

    Cat_Whisperer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The vampire gets indigestion and the zombie gets a toothache

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Zombies and vampires have many different interpretations, but assuming both creatures can only infect through biting, then the zombie would become a vampire.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They vanish and cease to exist.

    Ladi Fuller
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A vampire would not bite a zombie since they do not like dead meat.

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    #8

    Wait, am I the glitch or the game?

    Confusing question on a red background asking how to know if you’re not crazy or just hallucinating your life. How do you know you’re not crazy and just hallucinating your whole life?

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    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Think of that question the next time you're in severe pain.

    Phoebe Stein
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who knows? We could even be in a matrix situation, in which are lives are all just simulations.

    Colin Timp
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You don't. Jim Jefferies has a great bit about that.

    Phillip Davis
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    8 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jeeze! You sound like my psychiatrist.

    Zann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This could take a lot of thought but no solid answer coming..

    CactusFinch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I HAVE THIS THOUGHT EVERY DAY

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    #9

    Time traveler vibes, low-key genius

    How did the person who invented the calendar know what day it was?

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    Weed in the Garden
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As dad always said 'ya gotta start somewhere'.

    Omiyaru
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No single person invented the calendar, kinda evolved

    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Strategies for keeping track of time exist since the dawn of humanity. The Gregorian calendar most countries use nowadays was not the first. It was probably just a matter of translation.

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    #10

    Plot twist: Nose knows best

    Pink background with a confusing question about Pinocchio's nose designed to make your brain hurt. What would happen if Pinocchio said ‘My nose will grow now’?

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    Alias Delfs
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The world would blip out of existence from the resulting paradox thanks a lot Pinocchio

    Duesvolent90
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes a glorious implosion of the universe...

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    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pinocchio's nose is not some sort of magical lie detector, but an indication of intent. Does he intend to lie? If so, his nose grows. But if he says something he genuinely believes is true, his nose will not grow regardless if the information is false.

    Tequila Mockingbird
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, also Pinocchio is made-up, so there’s that 😛

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    Phoebe Stein
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Paradoxial questions make my brain numb!

    jmdirks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Star Trek: Mr. Spock to the Mrs. Mudd androids. "I am a liar."

    Enothor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing. The lie would make it grow, the truth would make it shrink, therefore it would have no noticeable effect

    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    actually his nose shrinks when telling the truth therefore his nose would shrink. But in a conception you're correct nothing would happen because he is predicting what was going to happen because he isn't lying so his nose wouldn't grow. He also isn't telling the truth because he is pretty much predicting the future or trying to at least. So that would mean his nose wouldn't shrink either. Allow me to explain, if he lies his nose grows if he tells the truth his nose shrinks but since he isn't lying his nose doesn't shrink. The reason he isn't telling the truth is because he's predicting what would happen. So for instance it's the same as getting in a time machine and going into the future and then saying what will happen before it can therefore creating a tear in the universe. Let me explain some more but simpler his nose isn't going to grow unless he tells a lie now if he said "My nose is going to grow when I lie" that's a different story. So nothing happens

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    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Geppetto would smack his wooden little a**. It would hurt him more than it hurt Pinocchio.

    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing. Predictions of the future do not count as lies.

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    #11

    Time well wasted, no regrets

    If you had fun while you were wasting time, can you still say that you wasted time?

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    Natalie H
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope. If you had fun, then that time is no longer considered wasted.

    Weed in the Garden
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had fun while wasted. I had fun while I wasted. I wasted while I had fun. Yes, I see the problem here.

    Herkfixer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It depends on what the time was intended to be used for...

    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. If you wasted my time while doing it.

    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, because having fun while wasting time does not mean you achieved the goals that you have in life.

    A Jones
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's called killing time.

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    #12

    Blind faith, or just winging it?

    Do caterpillars know that they’re going to be butterflies or do they build the cocoon not knowing what will happen?

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    Dayton Moore-Monge
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Why the F. U. C. K. do I have wings?!”

    Duesvolent90
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why the F.U.C.K am I extremely beautiful!?

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    BeardedVulture
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remember: if a caterpillar has to become literal goo in order to become a butterfly, that means it’s only natural for you to fall apart a bit before you can put yourself back together.

    Eliza Osenbaugh-Stewart
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I doubt they are capable of thought. They operate on instinct.

    Philler Space
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first caterpillar must have been VERY confused.

    Frank Miller
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't know, but what I do know is that they don't just get skinnier bodies, grow longer legs and wings, but they go through an entire metamorphosis, in which they changed into a sack of mucus. And when they come out of it they still have the memories they had from when they were caterpillars. At least that's what scientists claim. Not really sure how they prove that...

    Crybabyartist
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Monarch butterflies, migrate from north America, from a milkweed where they were born and a caterpillar..become a butterfly, fly to Mexico and then back to if not the very same plant where they were caterpillars to one within a few feet... they have been very precisely studies and tracked and marked. You can always do a search and actually spend some time learning on your own too..

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    Enothor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would be a weird experience. Imagine being a human your whole life and then waking up one day as something else and your brain just knew all the things to do. Caterpillars have to know or their brains would have to metamorphose too, right?

    Phoebe Stein
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think they know, it is just their instinct to build one.

    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mind of a caterpillars is very primitive. They probably cannot form an 'expectation' and be 'surprised' when what they 'expected' didn't happen.

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    #13

    The feline conspiracy deepens

    Confusing question on a pink background asking why mouse-flavored cat food does not exist, brain teaser concept. Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?

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    Red Hair Blue Soul
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why don't they just make it butt flavored? They are always licking theirs anyway?

    BoredPip
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also cat food is often made out of left over meat from human foot, and humans don't eat mice. Also mice farms for meat probably wouldn't be too efficient

    Maebe Maeve
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure that you meant "food" and not "foot", buddy.

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    xolitaire
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because rodents have a bad reputation and people wouldn't buy it.

    MoMcB
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People taste it. I can't see many volunteers.

    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same reason there isn't elk-flavored dog food.

    Jonathan Simon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because people want there cats to eat real mice, not the food.

    rw55066
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you know it isn't mouse flavored

    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    dumbass do you see any cat food named "mouse flavored"

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    ormondotvos
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can't fool a cat about flavor.

    Tacky
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    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because cats are the only things that catch mice

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    #14

    Lost and Found in Brain Fog

    Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

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    Lesbee
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    THIS COMMENT IS TOO HIGHLY UNDERAPPRECIATED

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    Megatron
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’ll think about it tomorrow 😩

    Valerie G.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    same place those missing socks from the dryer go.

    °CORLEONE°
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Double click the Recycle Bin 🤣

    Tamra
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damn, my dog's been doing a lot of forgetting lately.

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    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The memory never goes anywhere, it's just a matter of if your brain can find it.

    Jaykob lovelock
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ok this made my head hurt I sat there for an hour thinking bout this

    demetrius damascus bartholamew james the 3rd jr
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Has no one seen the Disney movie with the little red dude?? THE DUMP! NOTHING COMES OUT OF THE DUMP!

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    #15

    Questioning the \"New and Improved\" Paradox

    When they say that something is ‘new and improved’, how can it be improved if it’s new? What is it improving on?

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    Weed in the Garden
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Currently, it means the package is smaller with fewer contents while more expensive.

    Colin Timp
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The package or color is new and the improvement is in the company's bottom line.

    Frank Miller
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Back in the '80s, Coca-Cola produced something called New Coke. As they anticipated, many people did not like it and so they brought back the old recipe under The branding of Coke classic. Gotta love marketeers...

    Rocky
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "This washing powder makes your towels whiter than white"....like wtf? They said that 40 years ago as well. When is it actually going to be white?

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    #16

    Makes zero sense but here we are

    Confusing question about the phrase slept like a baby and why babies are known for not sleeping well. Why do people say that they ‘slept like a baby’ if they slept through the night when babies are known for not sleeping?

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    Adam Zad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I slept like a baby." Meaning I woke up every two hours screaming and crying.

    L
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you ever moved a sound asleep 16 month old from the car seat to the crib? Smoshed thier face against your arm? Ran your shoulder into the wall in a way that would give an adult minor whiplash? They sleep through it? That's what I think of when I hear "sleep like a baby"

    German sausage (she/them)
    Community Member
    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I slept like a baby"="I annoyed my mom so much she put me up for adoption.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Babies actually need a lot of sleep, 16 hours when they're just a newborn, in fact.

    David
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Babies are cute and their sleep is much better than elders. If they woke up 10 times in an hour, then they had taken 10 times sleep as compared to elders

    Heather Wolmarans
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In our family the saying was "I slept like a brick".

    #17

    Because calendar drama is real

    Why did we decide to give February just 28 days when lots of other months have 31 days? Couldn’t we have just taken some of the 31st days from other months and added them to February?

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    Laura Ketteridge
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    TED-Ed has a video all about this. :o) https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/MXwQDDs8

    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Something to do with Roman emperors’ massive egos and vast over importance being placed on months.

    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rather, February has 28 days because, to the Romans, the month was an afterthought. In the 8th century BCE, they used the Calendar of Romulus, a 10-month calendar that kicked the year off in March (with the spring equinox) and ended in December. Here's your answer

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So that people born in February would not be born in an ordinary month. (2/22)

    Amy Adams
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am 2/8 myself but was due on 2/29 of a leap year. Thank goodness I was a bit premature! If I was born on the 29th and was technically only able to celebrate every 4 years, I'd be 12.5 years old instead of 50. 😏

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    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because Earth's rotation around the sun is imperfect, two days need to be taken out of the equation, otherwise, the date would be innacurrate. February was chosen through coincidence.

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    #18

    The Ultimate Genre Debate

    Where do they put the bible in libraries – fiction or non-fiction section?

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    Chris Hooley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Somewhere between Fantasy and Propaganda.

    Frank Miller
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Libraries aren't binary, there are many sections.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are put in the section for religious texts.

    Ann Mohrmann
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All religion books (including Quran, Greek myths, etc.) are in the non-fiction section. Source: Am librarian, worked in libraries.

    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The bible is real. Fiction is the not real section. But, libraries are split into more than just fiction/Non-fiction: it'd be in the religion section.

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    #19

    When “Cold” Means Nothing Cold

    Why do they say that you have a cold when your temperature goes up?

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    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our brains make us feel cold to help implement several physiologic measures to produce a fever.

    Phoebe Stein
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because you feel cold idk. (just tryna answer as many of these as i know lol)

    Duesvolent90
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    sounds plausible so keep it up!

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    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because you got the sickness as a result of being cold.

    TeLeah Tv
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bc people be feeling under the weather

    #20

    Morals: Group Chat Edition

    Confusing question on a teal background asking who decided what is right and wrong, highlighting brain teaser content. Who decided what’s right and wrong?

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    Laura Ketteridge
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Groups of humans, societies. Over time, some of the 'rights' and 'wrongs' were codified and became laws. Some became the unwritten laws and customs of society.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not who, it's what. Approach/avoid motivation.

    ormondotvos
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Evolution. We just complicate the idea with gods.

    Lacey Graves
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right and wrong is an entirely human concept and is how we control society in a way to ensure survival and safety...however, the original right and wrong seems more like common sense. It's wrong to kill one in our own group because then we are lessening our chance of survival. It's wrong to steal because it can cause fighting which can lead to injury that would impact our survival. Those being the original right and wrong when it comes to thinking. In our personal idea of right and wrong, it comes from the narrative of society, plus the morals we've personally learned. People also fall back on being right in justification, even if it may seem wrong to another. So in the end, what's right or wrong in a society is determined by the majority (supposedly) but what is right or wrong to an individual can vary drastically. While in reality, those are all personal beliefs and there is no true right and wrong, there only is.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sibling of the person who decided right and left.

    Harry Hwt
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's basically set culturally over large times and as we go along because you don't know you like or dislike something until it happens to you or someone else example murder is wrong to such a large number of people that we outlaw it if no one cared then it would be legal

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    #21

    Same species, wildly different job titles

    Why is Goofy considered a person and Pluto considered a pet when they’re both dogs anyway?

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    Deez
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    goofy is actually a cow dont believe me, google it

    Amy Adams
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A truth that blew my mind when I first heard it.

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    Angelo Attoni
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because Goofy stands on his two feet and walks, he supposed to be a "goofy" hybrid of man-dog, while Pluto is just a dog.

    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is why the scientific method was developed. To separate imagination from reality.

    Ryan Hart
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Goofy is a Goof. Pluto is a dog. It's similar to Tigger being a tigger... Source: Encyclopedia of Disney Facts

    Jonathan Simon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a kids show. Don't expect them to be realistic. If it was, Goofy wouldn't be able to talk in the first place.

    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because one displays more sentience than the other.

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    #22

    Mind-Bending Dream Logic

    If you had a dream that none of your dreams would come true, and you woke up and had none of your real-life dreams come true, would that be a dream come true?

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like these are all just the same question worded 153 different ways.

    Rita Rose
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No because these 'dreams' have different meanings - the first dream is actually sleeping and dreaming uncontrollably, the second kind of dream are your real life goals and ambitions, two completely different things

    Jaykob lovelock
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i........ ok my brain hurts you reached your goal

    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Dreams' as in ambitions and 'dreams' conjured up by the mind during sleep are different.

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    #23

    Wait, so being told to lead is just following?

    If you told someone to ‘be a leader and not a follower’, wouldn’t they become a follower by following your advice?

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    Joseph Grimmett
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can lead and follow. In fact that is how the military works.

    Lesbee
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hi, officer in the US air force here. I can back up his comment and confirm that in fact we do lead and follow at the same time

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    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Following someone's advice and following a leader's decision is not the same thing. They would become the follower of your advice, but they would not be the follower of a leader anymore.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good leaders know when to follow and when to lead.

    CalicoKitty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's the follow-to-lead ratio required to be a follower or leader? Hmmmmm

    #24

    Words that refuse to update

    Confusing question about the word buildings and language puzzles to make your brain hurt and think deeply Why are they called buildings if they’re already built?

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For some reason the word “erection” fell out of use in the construction industry.

    Duesvolent90
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "We shall call it...AN ERECTION!" No, no don't listen to him we'll call it a building

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    Wondering Alice
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How come you can dismantle things, but you never mantle them?

    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now, it is called a building because the ‘ing’ in the English language is added to certain verbs to make them nouns. The verb ‘built’ is suffixed with ‘ing’ to make the thing a noun- Building.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The 'ding' is not indicative of a verb, but of something that's already been done.

    Tacky
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    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because secretly they still build

    #25

    Wait, dogs are the taste testers now?

    How do we know that a new dogfood has an “improved taste”?

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    Phoebe Stein
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If your dog seems to like it more.

    Mike Beck
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one has a boring answer: there are human taste testers. Less boring: "improved taste" is marketing, not describing.

    MoMcB
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://amp.theguardian.com/money/2015/jan/05/from-dog-food-taster-to-eel-ecologist-six-jobs-that-are-surprisingly-enjoyable

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    Colin Timp
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've known people that'll eat wet canned dog food

    Alias Delfs
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Questions questions but no answers in sight

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Based on your dog's reaction to it.

    Did you hear that?
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've always wondered who decided the difference between ribeye and sirloin dog food.

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    #26

    Mind-Bending Strength Test

    If you punch yourself and it hurts, are you weak or are you strong?

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    An Ry
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would I be weak if it hurt?

    Liz Rogers
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because you got hurt. Only a weakling can be hurt?

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    xolitaire
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends. Face hurts? Weak. Fist hurts? Stronk.

    Audrey Rasmussen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    weak bc you will try to stop urself from getting hurt by being less painful and it still hurts ur weak, but also pretty dumb

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're strong. If you were weak, the punch would not hurt as a result of your arms being too weak.

    David
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Weak by what comparison? Strong by what comparison? You could say you are average, as you could punch almost anyone and it would hurt just as much (if not more), and others could cause the same reaction in you with their own fist.

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    #27

    Mind-Blowing Food Logic

    Confusing question about tomatoes being fruit and whether ketchup can be considered a smoothie on a green background. If tomatoes are a fruit, is ketchup considered a smoothie?

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    Omiyaru
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.

    Pam Akers
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    President Reagan actually declared "ketchup is considered a vegetable" in school lunches!

    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess, if you put vinegar in your smoothies.

    Rona is bad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time to chug a nice large smoothie

    German sausage (she/them)
    Community Member
    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    5 minutes ago I had a smoothie I'm on a very healthy diet

    Jonathan Simon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's assuming that any mashed fruit mixed with any few ingredients is a smoothie.

    #28

    Wait, Do Deaf People Even Hear Thoughts?

    Question about what people born deaf hear when they think, from confusing questions that make your brain hurt. What do people who are born deaf hear when they think?

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    BoredPip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people think in pictures, I remember the day I found out :))))

    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, I'm not deaf but I don't have an inner voice. If you leave me alone long enough without me speaking, I can't even do it on command because I forget what I sound like. And, well, it's not like I lose the ability to think. The words are still there - not in an audio form, or even a visual one. They just are, conceptually. So I guess the brain would just find a way, silently.

    IAmSoLost
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    3 years ago

    I was born deaf but as hearing now, I remember things the same way. There was never a voice.

    Logan Witt
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    does a blind person see black white or colors

    Jonathan Simon
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They think in sign language, if they know it.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing. Thought is abstract, it's just that we assign words to it.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t think hearing in your head isn’t the same as hearing something with your ears

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    #29

    Worms vs. Patience: The Real Playbook

    If the early bird gets the worm, why do good things come to those who wait?

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    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Shut up and stop complaining."

    Adam Zad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The early bird was early because it had waited all night

    Lesbee
    Community Member
    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "the early bird gets the worm, but the late worm stays alive"

    Jeremy Bode
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the second rat gets the cheese.

    Rona is bad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because everyone else is in between

    Tacky
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    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bluey-"Hurry up and wait"

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being early means you can pick a good spot to wait before every other animal snatches it from you.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because you have to wait in the queue for long time, wake up early in the morning to get served on the afternoon, like public services' rations...

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if many hands make light work, why do too many cooks spoil the broth?

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    #30

    Mind-Bending Brain Teaser

    Is the opposite of opposite the same or opposite?

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    Laura Ketteridge
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Left' is the opposite of 'right'. 'Right' is the opposite of 'wrong'. 'Left' and 'wrong' are not the same, but neither are they opposites. :o)

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Left can be wrong, So they are the same sometimes

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    CalicoKitty
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LEXICAL AMBIGUITY. INPUT SENTENCE AGAIN >:( /lh

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Opposites and sames don't actually exist.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same, two times an affirmative makes a negative and vice versa.

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    #31

    Objectivity? Lol, good luck with that

    Confusing question about experiencing reality objectively on a beige background with minimalistic design from BoredPanda. Is it really possible to experience anything objectively?

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    Weed in the Garden
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Disappointingly, the answer is no. People cannot experience anything objectively. Although we can do scientific tests and use our collective human minds to figure out how the universe works, we will always be experiencing reality from our own perspective. Therefore, very little in life is actually objective.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a self-conscious entity, we are always the observer.

    #32

    Identity Crisis, But Make It Deep

    What makes you, you?

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    Alias Delfs
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The levels of chemicals in your skull

    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not boiled down enough : the neurons in your synapses

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ken Campbell once said "you is just one of the things your brain does".

    Jon C
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A different version of you exists to everyone you know.

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    #33

    Instant Applause Energy Boost

    Why do we hit our hands together (clapping) when we like something?

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    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It makes a lot of noise, which contextually can be associated with celebration.

    Chris Cristo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mosquito: I was in some people's house yesterday. They must have liked me because everyone was clapping at me.

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's what we've been told to do all our lives and has been engrained in our psyche by society as a way of showing appreciation for a performance

    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Popularized social action, through classical conditioning and exposure to pleasing stimulus

    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To express ourselves with noise.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To increase air movement, which enhances perspiration evaporation caused from our increased excitement. Or, a symbolic attempt to "slap the stupid" out of someone sitting in front of us.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I asked my dad this a few weeks ago

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    #34

    Mind-Bending Success Paradox

    Confusing question on a beige background asking if succeeding in failing means failure or success to make your brain hurt. If you’re trying to fail and you succeed, did you fail or did you succeed?

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    ormondotvos
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "It was the easiest thing to do..." CSN

    Weed in the Garden
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have successfully failed many required family gatherings and will successfully continue to fail to improve my success.

    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Considering a common perfectionist hack is to intentionally bomb, I'd say it's a success >:3

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You objectively failed, while personally feeling like you succeeded.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Successive failures bring you closer to the opposite end, a success.

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You failed, therefore you succeed. But by this logic if you tried to fail and did fail that would be a success (and therefore a fail???)

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    #35

    Wait, the dictionary might be lying?

    If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, will we ever know it?

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    CalicoKitty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Switch the US and UK dictionaries and you can survey the academics to find out >:)

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always assumed that was the problem with much writing on the internet.

    German sausage (she/them)
    Community Member
    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No because that will become the new spelling of the word

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, because we'd know from other dictionnaries who don't have the mistake.

    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As my parents said, look it up. The word was "photon".

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course, did you born yesterday?!

    Valerie G.
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have seen dictionaries that have the most popular mistakes and spellings.

    #36

    Forever young, forever confused

    If the fountain of youth can make you live forever, can you drown in it and still die?

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    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It makes you young, so I expect it performs some wacky DNA-repair-telomere-extension alongside all that Magic Physical Morphing. Last I checked, this doesn't make you a fish, so I expect you'd still die. But at least you'd be a youthful corpse...?

    Sam Juan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fountain of youth can reverse aging. It won't stop occurrences of sudden death.

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stay in there too much and you will turn too young

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, because you would at the very least accidentally drink some of it before you manage to drown.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. It's likely to just be water.

    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I'm too old to die so young" You can quote me on that

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You'll just have a young looking corpse

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You will just breathe the water like the Highlander did when he got pushed out of that rowboat.

    #37

    Plot twist: shoes don’t play fair

    Confusing question about Cinderella’s shoe fit and why it fell off, designed to make your brain hurt and think deeply. If Cinderella’s shoe fit her perfectly, then why did it fall off?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kicked one of her step sisters.

    Lacey Graves
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My question is: How did the shoe stay when everything else went back to normal? Even if it was Cinderella herself needing to touch it, wouldn't that mean the shoe would revert the moment the prince tried to put it on her foot?

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How was it she was the only woman in the kingdom who's foot fit that shoe?

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The more import question is how the hèll did her feet not swell while dancing in them? If they had then the shoe would not have fallen off

    Herringbone
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And why didn't shoe revert to rags at midnight, along with all the other trappings?

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    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cause she didn't tie her shoes

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the movie, she actually repeatedly loses her shoe on the same foot. Like all the others, Cinderella's glass slippers are identical, and don't account for one foot being smaller.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I searched it up it said something like “she was runnng and it was glass she was also sweating” so yeah

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    #38

    Freezer’s Dark Secret Revealed

    Why is there a fridge light but no freezer light?

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    Nezuko_Chan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same but only one of my fridge freezers (I have two) (I have a big fan)

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You need to replace it when it burns out.

    Jan Dunn
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I got my new refrigerator that was the coolest thing about it it had a freezer light. Makes ice cream at midnight so much easier.

    IAmSoLost
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Top freezer fridges won't have them but side door do.. or is this not the case?

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So the products can be colder in the freezer than in the fridge.

    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My chest freezer has a light.

    Honey Bee
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Think it's time to upgrade those kitchen appliances, my friend.

    Nonna_SoF
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, no. In communism both sides have light, but have to share one bulb.

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    #39

    Blink or wink? The cyclops dilemma

    If a cyclops were to close its eye, is it winking or blinking?

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    CosmikPowa 313
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Winking implies that there's another eye that's open.

    A Jones
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    depends if they c**k their head slightly

    A Jones
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wow got word blocked. this thing needs to recognize homonyms and context. smh

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    Wondering Alice
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still wouldn't mess with one either way

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    #40

    English Is Confusing, But We Roll With It

    Why do we cook bacon and bake cookies?

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    kim morris
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I bake bacon. No messy stove top, no burning.

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same and for the same reasons. Plus, it's a lot easier to collect the bacon fat for later use.

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

    BwookieCookie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why do our feet smell and our noses run?

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's sacrilegious to question such things.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cause of the dictionary

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One is put on a pan and the other in an oven.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I asked my friends this they said wow that’s actually a pretty good question

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    #41

    Self-Hating Haters Club?

    Confusing questions about hating haters that challenge the brain and make you think deeply. If you hate haters, does that make you a hater and will you hate yourself?

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't hate haters, though. I don't tolerate their behavior, and I find it disturbing that someone taught them to hate, but I don't hate them. I pity them. They're unnecessarily impoverishing their lives by automatically excluding people based on things that don't matter, like skin color or gender.

    Lesbee
    Community Member
    9 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    as a lesbian person, i love you now.

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most haters hate themselves first.

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well I do anyway so why not just hate everyone to be fair

    Paul Jayne
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Consider Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance". If we are a tolerant society then we will tolerate intolerant people. Therefore unlimited tolerance of intolerance will lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Hating a hater doesn't mean you're not hating.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes indeed and may I add that you shouldn't? Cannot fight fire with fire, use some water instead.

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    #42

    Mystery of the Number 2 Pencil

    If the number 2 pencil is the most popular, why is it number 2?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most used by constipated mathematicians. You know, they work out the problem with a number two pencil.

    IAmSoLost
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    2 has to do with the lead (graphite) hardness.

    JMil
    Community Member
    Premium
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the number is a hardness scale. Turns out number 2 is a sweet spot that most people prefer (more precisely, there is an H, HB, and B scale, and a #2 is 2HB). #1's could be labeled #0 and it would resolve this.

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    #43

    Bold move for breakfast goals

    Confusing question about the first man to milk a cow, designed to make your brain hurt and think deeply. What was the first man to milk a cow trying to do?

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    Laura Ketteridge
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humans have been making milk for their babies since long before we had language. People would understand the similarities between mammals feeding their young. The first person to milk a cow would undoubtedly be trying to milk a cow!

    IAmSoLost
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if this statement was true, Florida Man would not be a thing.

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    IAmSoLost
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We can observe a baby animal suck a teet in the same way our babies drink milk and realize what is happening. Finding a safe mushroom to eat, on the other hand...

    Duesvolent90
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    Premium
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Hey! This white stuff that came out of that cow is good!" Why did you go near that area? "Well uh...Want to try it? 😅"

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who said it was a man, but knowing their fascination with nipples...

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well when a man loves a cow very much....

    IamMe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe they had a baby and their wife died. They had a cow for meat, that also had a baby. So, they milked it to feed the baby. Only much later did someone older taste it, and decided it was good. At least, that's my theory.

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    #44

    Plot twist: Revenge is dessert

    If revenge is a dish that’s best served cold, and revenge is sweet, then is revenge ice cream?

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    Phoebe Stein
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *sigh* NO IT'S A MILKSHAKE! (made with your enemy's blood of course!)

    8jfggmhgf8
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish i love icecream(revenge) tehehehehehehehehhehehehe

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not all cold and sweet dishes are ice cream.

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This makes me very very happy! I have been asking this for a while, and I love that someone else agrees!

    #45

    Ghosting forever, huh?

    How long will you be remembered after the day that you die?

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    Enothor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until the last persons who knew you dies. The rest is a name and idea, not a “you”

    Mike Beck
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until the people that remember you also die. Anyone else may have heard of you but they won't remember you, only some ideas.

    Dan Tom
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on who dies before and after me.

    Doctor Strange
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me? People barely remember me while I'm alive. I doubt anyone would even notice that I was dead.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until the mortician is paid. Pre-paid, pre-forgotten.

    IamMe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends, how famous are you?

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll answer when I become an omniscient ghost monitoring every person that my existence has ever influenced.

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    #46

    Mind-Bending Brain Teaser

    If you expect the unexpected, doesn’t that make the unexpected expected?

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can't expect the unexpected. Doing so changes the event from "unexpected" to "expected."

    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know an apple will fall from the tree, but i won't know which one.

    Frank Miller
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Expect the unexpected doesn't mean to expect something specific, it means expect the result to not be what is expected.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once again, see double negative meaning.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes indeed, there are occasions were we know about something is going to happen but not exactly when, while on other cases we know that on a specific time period something is going to occur but not about what exactly. Both of those situations are partial knowledge, in order to gain full knowledge you have to account for every possibility and prioritize those more probable, justified by empirical observations and common sense, you cannot account for events which have never happened but in theory could occur, it's simply not practical.

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    #47

    Forever stuck in your awkward phase?

    Confusing question on a red background asking if you look the same in heaven as you do at the age you die. When you get to heaven, do you look as you do at the age that you die?

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    Duesvolent90
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That'd be cool. "What age shall you present yourself henceforth?" uhhh let's do 18 NO 22!

    Henry Cheves
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always wondered how in Coco, Miguel's great great grandparents looked like they were in their 30's, but Coco looked like she did at he age of death.

    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. Everyone will be at the age of 33.

    Enothor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If there’s an afterlife and the universe ends and all atomic structures are gone, does heaven still exist? Would it be part of the universe?

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IDK. I think I'll be going elsewhere.

    2763MilesAway
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope not! If I go to heaven, I'm making myself a child so I can have that nice energy

    8jfggmhgf8
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you go to heaven😇😇😇😇😇

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You'd look as you did when you were happiest in life, but could change your appearance at any opportunity if you so please.

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    #48

    Plot twist: Nature’s sugar hack

    How do you grow a seedless fruit?

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    Alias Delfs
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most of the time the plant is the hybrid offspring of two fertile species

    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also: if you transplant bits of plant around, or work with a plant that grows anew when you yoink a bit off and stick it into the ground, you can keep the plant propagating without needing seeds. This has the side effect of making a lot of these fruits genetic clones of each other.

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    Benita Valdez
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Development: "Parthenocarpy is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilisation of ovules, which makes the fruit seedless." Propogation: "the plants are generally propagated vegetatively from cuttings, by grafting, or in the case of bananas, from "pups" (offsets). In such cases, the resulting plants are genetically identical clones."

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cloning via grafting. In fact, every banana you've ever eaten is most likely a genetic twin from the same original tree.

    Oerff On Tour
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    95%of all bananas are genetically identical. Variations in taste is caused by environmental effects (soil, sunlight, perspiration). The reason that (artificial) banana flavoring doesn't taste the same as real ones, is because in the early '80's almost all (consumption) bananas were wiped out by a disease. They rapidly developed a new variant that was immune and spread them all over the world. The artificial flavor is nearly the same as the previous, extinct variety. Ask old people!

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure, but sacrificing a chicken under the light of a full moon is probably required.

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eat the fruit to grow it in your stomach

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fruits are plants, therefore they must be at the very least born from a seed.

    Adam Leviness
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With cloning? This is general knowledge. Have you never met a pothead before they'll explain the whole damn process to you. Many plants can be grown by simply replanting part of the plant I stead of the seeds. Like the above mentioned plant, you cam take off the top of a Marijuana plant and plant thay and it will regrow a full plant. And then you can do it again and again. All you need is to breed that first seedless plant. This is why the Cavendish banana is the preferred banana now, we used to grow a different type of banana but because we cloned them, a mold wiped them all out. And now banana flavored candy doesn't taste like banana because it's modeled after an extinct species

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    #49

    Mind-Bender Alert: Halfway From Where?

    If you are halfway from your destination, is it from the beginning or the end?

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    xolitaire
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both? Thats the definition of half.

    Enothor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the question it would be the end as they asked “if you are halfway from your destination”

    Herkfixer
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never heard a single human being ever say (in English) that they are halfway "from" anything.. doesnt fit the context at all.

    T J
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since you worded it "halfway from your destination" then you are halfway from the end. You answered your own question

    Groon TheWonderdog
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on if your having any fun or not.

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aren't you halfway TO your destination?

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You haven't been to the end yet, so it'd be the beginning.

    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's "to" your destination; from your "start".

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    #50

    English is wild, but okay

    Confusing questions on a pink background asking why slim chance and fat chance have the same meaning. Why does “slim chance” and “fat chance” have the same meaning?

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They don't. "Slim chance" means there's a possibility, however minute. "Fat chance" means "no way in Hell, dude."

    8jfggmhgf8
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You ruin everything. i wanted to figure it out on my own. JERK.

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    Gates Ortt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, fat chance kinda means no chance doesn't it?

    BoredPip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    fat chance came from sarcasm I think xD

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do we say “Two people left, so now there are only three of us left.” (Full disclosure: original group was five people.)

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both slim and fat can be body descriptions. Same logic as the question.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They don't. Fat chance implies there's no chance, while slim chance implies the slightest of possibilities.

    Katie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    slim chance is straight forward while fat chance is sarcastic

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    #51

    Not quite a forever deal

    Do coffins have lifetime guarantees?

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    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do know they're a huge waste of money.

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would hope they'd be biodegradable

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn't deathtime guarantee be more appropriate? Or in certain cases, undeadtime guarantee?

    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's fûcking hilarious.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, after they're buried, no one has any need to check how they're faring unless there's some sort of transfer.

    #52

    When Cats Break the Dog Pile Rules

    Confusing question on a green background about cats piling up and if it is still called a dog pile, brain teaser concept. If a bunch of cats jump on top of each other, is it still called a dog pile?

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    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. The word doesn't change when humans pile up on each other, so there's no reason it should for cats.

    #53

    Plot Twist: Spoiler, No One Knows

    Is there life after death?

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    Weed in the Garden
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I could find the answer to this question on BP, I could finally justify the hours I spend here.

    BananaStrings
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    3 years ago

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    Enothor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems an odd way to phrase it. Like, how about is there life after life? Or is there life during death? Lol

    FabulousMari
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sure. People die all the time and I'm still here - alive - living my life.

    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, there is. A never ending one.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's been that way for millions of years. There could be no life without death.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll get back to you on that after having died.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Somethings I think that god reincarnates people who didn’t live long enough (like people who died at birth or in the womb)

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you kill someone (death) and get caught, you will probably go to jail (for life). So, yes.

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    #54

    The Paradox You Didn’t See Coming

    Confusing question about describing something as indescribable, designed to make your brain hurt and think deeply. If you describe something as indescribable, haven’t you already described it?

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    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You didn't describe it, you gave up.

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not at all, you've avoided describing it.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, because the person would not have an idea of what it's like.

    German sausage (she/them)
    Community Member
    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have nothing to say to this. I am truly baffled.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In a very vague way, yes, you did.

    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would be described as Ineffable.

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    #55

    Sheep Problems We Didn’t Know Existed

    Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another?

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    kim morris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, because their wool is coated with lanolin.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, and it's really baa-aa-aa-ad.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, wool is not the same material as human hair.

    #56

    Good vs. Evil: Still No Receipt

    Is it possible to know what is truly good and what is evil?

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    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Philosophers have been talking about that, almost non-stop, for thousands of years. The answer that every single one of them has come up with is that it depends on far too many factors to ever be able to give a straight answer. And that is a very over simplification of what they would actually say to you if you ever ask one directly.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    First you have to understand approach/avoid motivation.

    A Jones
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    only if you work in retail

    #57

    Mind Games or Free Will?

    Do you ever really do anything out of your own conscious choice, or are we always controlled by some external stimulation or motive?

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    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hitchens: you have free will. God demands it.

    Rita Rose
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Be impulsive!! Think that's the closest we can get!

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every human has an ulterior motive when they speak or make a decision, otherwise they would not have a reason to speak or act at all.

    A Jones
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think my puppet-master is wasted.

    Alias Delfs
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Technically speaking if we had a data point of every molecule at the beginning of our universe and powerful enough computer we could predict everything including uncertainty principle, and paradox’s so maybe everything is predetermined technically speaking (and yes every you trying to be random to out smart this explanation still holds, everyone is just a very complex chemical reaction which also could be predicted)

    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On a tangent but related to Very Large Machines - Boltzmann Brains are a fun thing to think about, even if you yourself are sceptical of the idea.

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    #58

    The Ship That Wasn’t

    Philosophical confusing question about identity of a ship after all parts are replaced, brain teaser concept. If you took a ship and replaced all of its parts until none of the original parts are intact anymore, is it the same ship or a completely different ship?

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    Dooley
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have shed the cells from just about every part of your body over the span of your lifetime. Are you still the same person, or a completely different person?

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha ha, I asked this just today to two 12 year old boys - pointing out that few cells live more than 10 years. They responded by asking if they got on with the work assigned would I stop messing with Thier heads.

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same design, different atoms. Atoms, same design, different places.

    Alias Delfs
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Different ship, just a replication

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the ship retained its personality and all of its memories, I would say same ship.

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same but with update 1.2

    Audrey Rasmussen
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on what is meant by the same ship, but if just in general, the answer is yes

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be a copy, but not the original, therefore not the same.

    Rocky
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would you do that?

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    #59

    Debt: Global Oops, We Did It Again

    How is it possible that the world is in debt?

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    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thats how the centralized banking system works, if there were no debt there would be no value to money.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's true but it could has been otherwise...instead they want us to believe there is not any alternative in order to justify their incompetence.

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    Groon TheWonderdog
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We paid too much attention to the assistant and not the magicians.

    IAmSoLost
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And with whom is this debt, owed?

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The world isn't in debt, but the multiple societies that inhabit it are indebted to each other.

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    #60

    Alphabetical Anarchy, Honestly

    Why is the alphabetical order that way? Who said that that’s the order that it had to be?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ask the Romans and Greeks. Then ask the crazy people who invented English.

    T J
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    because there had to be an order. It's random

    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It makes it easier to remember, and back in the day when letters would be assigned numbers for compact numbers-keeping, it helped to know whether A was 1 or 100.

    Doozle bug
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because that’s how it fits with the tune 🎶

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In mythology, the alphabet was used by priestesses and the order 'magical'. It was only to be trusted to women because of its power. Orpheus was the first man taught how to use letters, but out of respect for the priestesses and fear of its misuse, he changed the order of letters. Legend has it he knew the real order, and used it to move mountains. I have read the Celts have a similar myth to the Greeks on this.

    #61

    Mind-Boggling Night Visions

    Confusing question on a green background asking if blind people dream, related to brain teaser questions. Can blind people dream?

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    Laura Ketteridge
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, blind people dream. Blind does not mean they are totally blind. Most blind people still have some sight. However, even totally blind people might be able to dream in pictures. If they have had sight, then the chances are high they will dream with pictures, but that can fade over the years. If a person has never seen, then their dream worlds are created from other sensory information (smell, touch, taste, vibrations, heat, etc).

    Dixie Lee
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many years ago I had a friend who was blind and was a great blues piano player. He did LSD. A lot. I could never understand how he experienced the trips as so much is visual. We never figured it out. Be interested if anyone has any ideas about this.

    Francine Govan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if they were once sighted, they see in their dreams!

    Alias Delfs
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They dream of sounds and sensations (look it up)

    kim morris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They dream in scent, or in sound.

    L
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The question is flawed. Like sighted people, each blind person has their own unique experience with things like dreaming

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They dream they can see

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. All humans are capable of dreaming.

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    #62

    Mind blown: silent letters exist?

    In the word ‘scent’, which letter is silent? S or C?

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    #63

    Wait, so it’s just infinite empty?

    What would a room made of mirrors look like if there was nothing inside that room to create a reflection?

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pitch black. If there was nothing inside the room to create a reflection, then there could not be a light source inside the room, as the source would reflect. Without light, there can be no reflection, therefore the room would be dark.

    Potato chips
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like nothing, pitch black

    Rod McCabe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mirrors would reflect each other. Its a kool thing to view one mirror with another; true infinity.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mirrors would show a reflection of the room with mirrors.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same thing which happens when you are connecting a camera with a television, enclosed loop extending to infinity.

    Dooley
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rBafWR3b50

    Rod McCabe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mirrors would reflect each other. Its a kool thing, looking at one mirror with another; true infinity.

    xXbluthsbannanastandXx
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    actually we have don this. mirrors make a greenish tint.

    #64

    Existence’s OG mystery

    Confusing question on whether nothing ever existed or if something has always been in existence to ponder. Was there ever a time when nothing existed or has something always been in existence?

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    Enothor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How anything can begin is an idea I can’t handle. Even people with god, how did god begin? How did the nothingness for something to exist inside become?

    Nathan Breslin
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah thats something us Christains don't even try to comprehend

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    Bored_Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know that I know nothing- that's how I feel now

    Seán Hannan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was never a time when nothing existed, because time is something.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Before the universe existed there was no time, so no.

    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Before the Creator created everything and after he destroys everything. He is the only one who remains.

    Nonna_SoF
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. At least not in our current instantiation of time, since that started at the big bang. There are a number of models about what could have come before the big bang, but none has become a theory yet. It doesn't help that causality and conservation of energy start to break down at the quantum level in our current universe or that the laws of physics don't necessarily apply outside the universe.

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suggest that it you try to imagine space time not existing, the concept of 'before' has to go too. I don't think this really answers the question, but it's a good answer when people ask this with that look that tells you they have no intention of listening anyway. If it gets you thinking though, Brian C*x does a great series and 'Before the Big Bang' tells you what science thinks and why it thinks that - I highly recommend.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    According to theoretical physicists yes and no to both questions. Which ones you believe is up to you.

    Rocky
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How did the big bang happen? Where did the stuff come from that made it bang?

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    #65

    The Great Armrest Debate

    Which arm rest is yours in the movie theater?

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    Dooley
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both of them. Fight me for it.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same as the one in the airplane, it comes down to who is going to sit down first.

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    #66

    Indecisive About Being Indecisive?

    If you decide to be indecisive, which are you?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Decisive, but unsure of the decision.

    Frank Miller
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"

    Frank Miller
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither, you haven't made the decision yet.

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    #67

    When you’re both in the struggle club

    Confusing question about whether endangered animals can eat endangered plants on a beige background with simple design. Is it okay for an endangered animal to eat an endangered plant?

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    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok, this is one of those questions that it like duh, you can't really stop it from happening

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but it's not okay that humans endangered the plant.

    #68

    Plot twist: yes, they actually do

    Do prison buses have emergency exits?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So do school buses, but the occupants will not be shot if used to escape.

    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Open from outside. Prison sucks. Stay away.

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once I was behind a van at traffic lights, it clearly had someone in desperate to escape. My passenger and I talked through what options we had (it was a busy city centre, and we thought it odd no one else seemed bothered by this apparent kidnapping). We decided I should follow, while passenger tried to phone police, I said there were always police around the next corner - by the prison. Ahhh look, it's turning in to the prison. Hmm some days I'm bad at thinking.

    #69

    Wait, Do Fortune Cookies Expire?

    Is there a time limit on fortune cookie predictions?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only if qualified in the message, or death will usually render it meaningless.

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until you buy another one (:

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only if it cites a specific time on the prediction that you've passed, or if you're dead.

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    #70

    Mind Games or Cosmic Script?

    Confusing question on a tan background asking about free will versus predestined fate, related to brain hurt questions Do we have free will or is everything predestined?

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    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Define "free will". Define "will", and "free" too, while you're at it. Wait - define "predestined" as well, and "random", and "imaginary", and "reality", and - oh no brain hurty :(

    Enothor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if the religious groups with an ideology involving predestination were always designed to end up in heaven or hell or whatever, it would seem forms of penitence would be pointless

    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We do have free will. But He's already known every choice we will make since before everything was created.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Assuming that you are true, what's the point of witnessing something you already know again and again?

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    Celia T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m sure Will would like to be paid, just like everyone else. (Or as we say in my family, “Go! Be free! Or a least reasonably priced.” Sorry, I digress.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad always told me I'd answer that question one day. I've decided I will not.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither. The universe is fundamentally deterministic, but it has emergent features.

    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No free will. No predestination.

    Gates Ortt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We do not have free will, even though some say we do. Sam Harris explains it well.

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    #71

    Colors throwing shade at fruits since forever

    Which orange came first – the fruit or the color?

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    Alias Delfs
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fruit, orange(the color was called red, bonus almost all of history blue was called black)

    Enothor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s so neat that we couldn’t see blue for so long

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    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fruit. Originally orange the color was considered a shade of red. This is why in ornithology you will find a lot of birds with 'red' in the name, such as the red tailed hawk, but the bird is actually orange.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The word "naranj", for the fruit, came to English from Arabic via Spanish. Over time "a naranj" became "an orange" (that transposition of the N from the noun to the article is quite common). The colour took its name from the fruit.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither, it was just the mixture of red and yellow.

    T J
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you coulda just googled this one

    Pam Akers
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I vote the fruit. Was the very original name for the citrus "orange" called "an orange"? If so then I vote color first. HahaHAH. See? No answer. I'll will ask Google...

    Caden Clark
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are oranges called orange because oranges are orange or is orange called orange because oranges are orange

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fruit. Pigments were gradually discovered all throughout human history.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oranges are not a natural fruit. They're a cross between a pomelo and a mandarin. So I'd guess the color?

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    #72

    Existence Called Out

    What is freedom and does it really exist?

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    IAmSoLost
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you need to think of freedom, are you free?

    Akushi Wolf
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, we are bound by our own self goals and motives making ourselves the ones holding us back from "freedom"

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It depends...there are varying degrees of freedom and like with almost everything else, what is sufficient for you may not be for me, therefore a rather subjective notion.

    A Jones
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wild animals. Wild animals have true freedom. Edit: Unless some hairless ape nabs em' for unethical reasons

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes freedom exists. It's my husband's name, and if he doesn't exist how come everything is magically out of place again?

    #73

    Existential Belly Button Debate

    Confusing question about Adam and Eve and whether they had belly buttons, sparking brain teaser thoughts. If God created Adam and Eve, did they have belly buttons?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was actually a hugely important theological question a couple of hundred years ago, known as the omphalos question (Greek for navel). The answer, as far as I can remember, was "errrrrrrm"

    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    God is effectively a human construct in which man projected their form onto, so God has whatever features that they are believed to have.

    A Jones
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How does one know where the navel is to be located if birthing had never taken place?

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    Joseph Grimmett
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, the real question is who created God? When everyone figures that out the world will stop fighting wars in the name of their Gods.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There had to be some place for the abs to stop.

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not unless they "created" them. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, because God has no biological gender, which is the prerequisite for reproductive sex. There would be no trace of a tube.

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    #74

    Weather’s indecisive mood swings

    When does it stop being partly sunny and start to become partly cloudy?

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    T J
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    According to the National Weather Service they mean the same thing but only partly cloudy can be used at night

    Kimberleia
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Day time is party sunny and night time is partly cloudy

    Phoebe Stein
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When there are more clouds than sun.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When one is more visible than the other.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The moment you notice the distinction, the difference is within the eye of the beholder.

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    #75

    Waiting so long you become the staff

    Isn’t it that when you wait for the waiter to come back with your order, you become the waiter in the process?

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    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, because the waiter has to wait for the food to be prepared before they can serve it to you.

    #76

    Mistakes: Why We’re Low-Key Scared of Growth

    Confusing question on a red background asking why we fear making mistakes if we learn and improve from them. If we learn and improve from our mistakes, why are we so afraid to make mistakes?

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    Ellie Vanille
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe because of how other people react when we make a mistake.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Approach/avoid motivation. (Will we ever understand that?)

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because of short-term unhappiness.

    #77

    Winning the Longevity Game, Slightly Slower

    Isn’t good health just a slower rate at which to die?

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    Mike Beck
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe it was Samuel Clemens I'm paraphrasing: All those health nuts are gonna feel awful silly dying of nothing!

    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Theoretically, it's also meant to be less painful, but yes, yes it is.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but it also impacts the painfulness of your death as well as the method.

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    #78

    Time just couldn’t wait, huh?

    If a baby’s bum pops out of its mother at 11:59 PM, and the head comes out at 12:01 AM, what day will the baby be declared to be born on?

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    Benita Valdez
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Birth- the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being. That being said, once the baby is fully out then time is declaired.

    Doozle bug
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Declaimed spelt with a rolling southern accent

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    Omiyaru
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In reality That would d be a very risky birth. Coming out the reverse direction.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    12:01 AM, when it finally saw the world for the first time, and thus became part of it.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    11:59 also that sounds like a very risky birth to have the bum come out first

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm I right to think if it came out head first, it would still be considered having been born at 12.01?

    Jan Dunn
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe that would depend on whether or not it was a breech birth.

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty sure babies are not born bu**tt first.

    Dixie Lee
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ummm, yeah some are. Look up BREECH BIRTH

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    #79

    Science’s sneaky little secret

    Confusing questions that will make your brain hurt, such as why glue doesn’t stick to the inside of the bottle. Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

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    Alias Delfs
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Contact with two bindable surfaces and air

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The glue is slightly separated from the wall in order to be spun freely by the wheel at the bottom without sticking.

    #80

    Plot twist: It’s always no, right?

    Is your answer to this question ‘no’?

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    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I cannot answer, because you didn't tell me the question.

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    #81

    Color? More Like a Mind Bender

    What is the color of a mirror?

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    Nikki Sevven
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All colors. Mirrors reflect light, and light is the combination of all colors in the spectrum.

    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WHITE light is all visible colors. UV and IR aren't colors since you can't "see" them with your eyes.

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    CalicoKitty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Perfect mirrors are white, but they don't exist. The glass causes a slight amount of extra green reflection. So they're green!

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whatever colors it's reflecting.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The colors you see in the reflection.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The color of whatever light is being reflected in it. All color is contained in the light source.

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    #82

    Guess the ocean’s reaction to us all diving in

    Confusing question about what would happen if every person on Earth jumped into the world's oceans simultaneously. What would happen to the world’s oceans if every person on Earth jumped into the water at the same time?

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    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The amount of belly flops per day would increase significantly

    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are we talking about people spread out, or a People Blob?

    A Jones
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The world's largest beach party will happen!

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The total rise in sea level would be about 0.00012 of an inch, or less than 1/1000th of an inch. If everyone completely submerged themselves, this would double the answer to 0.00024 inches, which is still only about the width of a human hair. Source: https://theconversation.com/amp/if-everyone-on-earth-sat-in-the-ocean-at-once-how-much-would-sea-level-rise-156626

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They would all become wet, or what they are wearing would become wet. (that's why they call them wetsuits.)

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We wouldblub blub blub

    Tyler Clark
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the water level would rise like FFFFFFFFF<UC<K

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There would be a collective cheer from all the other land animals who would United to stop us getting back out. Led by cats I think

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's an interesting book that asked what would happen if everybody was gathered in one place and jumped at the same time. Basically the earth would deflect about 1/4 inch and that's it. However having all the world's population in one place would doom everyone. It was pretty interesting.

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    #83

    Brain Freeze Meets Color Confusion

    Why is vanilla ice cream color white when vanilla itself is color brown?

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    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Real vanilla is expensive and vanilla extracts/essences are awful in significantly colouring qualities.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Vanilla ice cream generally isn't white. It's a light tan. The cream is white with a little brown vanilla.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because when mixed with milk it becomes white.

    Frank Miller
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True vanilla ice cream actually has specs in it. But otherwise the ice cream is white because the milk is white and only a tiny bit of vanilla is used.

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    #84

    Teacherception moment

    Who taught the first ever teacher?

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    #85

    Brain Teaser or Mind Twister?

    Confusing question on a pink background exploring the paradox of something being possible yet impossible, brain teaser concept. If nothing is impossible, then would it be possible for something to be impossible?

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    Francine Govan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stapling water to a tree seems pretty impossible ...

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By reversing the terms, everything (instead of "nothing") is (instead of "not") possible, we are arriving to the same conclusion.

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    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's relative to the subject. If we, humans, can't think of it, then we deem it impossible.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but not because nothing is impossible. There are many things that are impossible.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Nothingness is in and of itself a paradox, so there always has to be something that's impossible.

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    #86

    Brain’s way of trolling us again

    Why do noses run but feet smell?

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    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It used to be strange times back then

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The real question: do my freinds run because my feet smell?

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Noses' running refers to when mucus drips down, thus 'running across your face' while feet(s smell refer to the odor that they leave off, which is 'smelled' by whatever recipient is here.

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    #87

    Living in Perpetual Tomorrowland

    Will tomorrow ever come?

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    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but not to all of us.

    Rocky
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Although...you never know the world explodes.

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    Phoebe Stein
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes.. ..BUT THEN IT'S NOT TOMORROW!?

    Rona is bad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From yesterday's perspective, yes.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. Because the future doesn't exist.

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jam every other day! Yesterday and today! But it is best jam

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    #88

    Time’s awkward pause button question

    Confusing question about time continuing if everything in the world was frozen, sparking brain challenge. Would time continue if everything in the world was frozen?

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    Joseph Grimmett
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Times flow has nothing to do with our planet. Our planet could completely be destroyed, and eventually will be, and time would still keep going.

    ormondotvos
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Time is not movement, Per Isaac Newton

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Would time continue if there was no one to observe its passage?

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Otherwise we could never have evolved in the first place.

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    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, just as apples and rocks are different in important ways.

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until it reached absolute zero when everything just stops

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, because time is a construct of human perception.

    #89

    Mind-Bending Without the Sky

    What would the water look like if the sky didn’t exist?

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    Enothor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sky isn’t reflecting the water. The atmosphere is causing the scattering of certain light frequencies and it makes it look blue.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, the question is what would the water look like if it wasn't reflecting the sky

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    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Better question is what would the sky look like if water didn't exist.

    Duesvolent90
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It doesn't exist, it's a dome. 😉

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Black, as it would reflect the only thing that is above it; space.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's like you are asking: "if I was not in front of the mirror what it would reflect?", the answer is whatever there was in front of it.

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the sky did not exist, would there be natural light? If not would we have evolved the sense of sight?

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sky is the atmosphere which exists thanks to the Earth's electromagnetic field, if the planet had no atmosphere there would still exist natural light, that is to say, Sunlight assuming a star in proximity with the planet, or even without a star there would be gamma rays from exploded super novas (deadlier than nuclear radiation). For a creature which is deprived of light since birth there would be a gradual atrophy of eyes' bulbs until the eye sockets have been assimilated by the surrounding skin, assuming that the creature's predecessors used to use their eye-sight, otherwise they could born without any eyes. The bottom line is that whatever you are not using in any way is being vanished gradually, a knowledge, a relationship, even organs because evolution is adjustment to environmental variables.

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    #90

    Homework, but make it complicated

    Can a homeless kid ever be given homework?

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    Dennis Rowe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not all kids have a home, but most believe all should be educated.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, because a homeless kid probably wouldn't go to school.

    #91

    Plot twist: save the heart, short-circuit death?

    Confusing question about saving a man facing the electric chair who has a heart attack before e*******n. If a guy that was about to die in the electric chair had a heart attack should they save him?

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    Bored_Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, he was about to die so...

    Phoebe Stein
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. He was supposed to die anyways.

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on morality and principles. Some people are just dīcks

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is the intention of the execution. Asystole=heart attack.

    #92

    Plot twist: Clown meat’s a vibe

    Do cannibals think clowns taste funny?

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    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, clowns' flesh doesn't taste any different than any other humans, but a cannibal would probably be mean enough to make such a joke.

    #93

    Time’s got jokes, right?

    When did time begin?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You'll have to specify which one.

    IAmSoLost
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Objectively it's impossible but subjectively, when we became aware of it's existence?

    SerumSeven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If we're actually granted eternal life, in some form or another, until the end of time, what happens after time ends?

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The big bang was when the universe started to expand. But technically time has and will always exist, our observation of it is the only thing that can change.

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    CalicoKitty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At the moment of creation. Depending on who you believe, that might be 13.7 billion years ago, or approximately 6000.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When the first creature that could imagine it began to live in the universe.

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everything apart from the present is a human construct. And even the present has already ended by the moment that your senses have processed it. In order to delve deeper into it than that, you would need to find someone far smarter than me.

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From my perspective, time began with the first instant I was aware of myself, and it will end when I cease being aware of myself.

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    #94

    Math: Human Hack or Cosmic Truth?

    Question on a turquoise background asking if math was invented or discovered, related to confusing questions that challenge the brain. Did we invent math or did we discover it?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Math for 2+2=4, discovered. E=MC squared, invented.

    Dooley
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I ordered eggs and chicken from Amazon.com --- I'll let you know.

    Mike Beck
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We discovered that math can be used to describe relations between numbers so we invented it.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We invented it to put a word to things that would otherwise be undescribable.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think a bit of both would be ideal.

    Honey Bee
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Personally, I've always viewed math/physics etc, all of that, as our translation of God's language. Everything was already here, and we were able to figure out the pattern, the design.

    Dav Carro-Ripalda
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We invented the way to understand a discovery.

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am not usually pedantic - but I dislike the wording of 'which came first, the chicken or the egg?' Unless you specify the chicken or the chicken egg, the answer is definitely egg. Eggs have been around way way longer than chickens.

    Evol
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neil Degrasse Tyson has a wonderful explanation. The egg came first. Laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

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    #95

    Existential Crisis? Same Here

    What is the goal of humanity?

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    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...and procrastination, would you bother to cut and polish your nails in the knowledge that sooner or later will return to their previous state?

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    Alditekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The answer to this question will reveal itself, after you answer two other questions. 1. Where were you, before you were born? 2. Where will you be after you die?

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's to sow division, consume everything and kill our planet then we're bang on target. Otherwise not so much.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Preservation of self and species via approach/avoid motivation.

    #96

    Deep Thoughts, No Cap

    What is ‘god’?

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    BoredPip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1. (in Christianity and other monotheistic religions) the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being. 2. (in certain other religions) a superhuman being or spirit worshipped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity. can't give anything more than that I'm afraid XD

    Gates Ortt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A figure made up to explain things. Gods are as old as people. They have changed along the way. The current God of Christianity was made up by the emperor Constantine to control his people and unfortunately, even with science explaining things, the fear of hell still has people believing in this God.

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When using a lower case g, it usually is referring to mythological dieties for ancient times. When using a capitol G it is usually referring to modern day dieties.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beings created by humans in their own image.

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be foolish for any mortal to believe they understand God.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was always angry at myself for thinking this but I have thought this before we only call god Bc god means like something we worship I don’t think anyone actually knows what god is called or if it’s even real I think gods real tho

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    #97

    Kinda feels both, right?

    Confusing question on a green background asking if life events are willed or destined, related to brain hurting questions. Did you arrive at this point in your life because you willed it or because you were destined to be here?

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    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Little column A, little column B and poor decisions

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know. But I find the idea of being destined to be here more romantic.

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    #98

    Wait, my eyes have a shape now?

    What shape is your field of vision?

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    Phoebe Stein
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sideways oval I believe; because you don't have a sqaure shaped set of eyes, and your eyes themselves are such shape.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on whether your eyelids are open or shut. Sighted or blind.

    Rona is bad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Personally, mine is the shape of a donut

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Almond, egg or slit shape, it depends who are you asking.

    #99

    Mood Forever Unclear

    Are we living or slowly dying?

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    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends! Are you younger or older than 26?

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both could be true, do you think a glass is half-full or half-empty??

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So long as we are not dead, we are alive.

    #100

    Mind over matter, literally?

    Confusing question about body transplant versus brain transplant on a beige background with white text and border Is a body transplant just the same as a brain transplant?

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    Adam Zad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I went to the doctor because I wanted a brain transplant. Fortunately, she was able to change my mind.

    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A head transplant has occurred, a brain transplant has not

    CosmikPowa 313
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A body cannot exist if it isn't perceived.

    #101

    Mind-Bending Geography Moment

    How far east do you have to go before you start going west?

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    T J
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You would always be going east. You would have to turn around to be going west.

    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd argue that east and west are more rotational than directional. East is anti/counterclockwise relative to the north pole, and west is clockwise.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The rotational direction is as subjective as the East and West are, the CW and CCW are becoming the opposite of what you said when you are facing North from the South hemisphere (and vice versa).

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You cannot head west if you continue heading east, but you can pass all the same points by continually heading either way.

    Jan Dunn
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For me it's the California Arizona border.

    Frank Miller
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You will never start going west, those are directions not destinations.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    East and West are subjective terms, the only 4 objective directions are North, South, Up (height) and Down (depth).

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    #102

    Plot twist: They’re the only allowed fans

    Are children who act in R-rated movies allowed to watch the film when it’s done?

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    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With parent/guardian permission

    BoredPip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was always thinking about the 5 year olds acting in age restricted movies

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    Phoebe Stein
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on the age, and their parents' decision.

    Honey Bee
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do know that the kid who played young Michael in RZ's Halloween, his mom wouldn't let him come back for the second one.

    #103

    Wait, Are Brows Hair or What?

    Question about eyebrows as facial hair, part of confusing questions to challenge your brain and spark curiosity. Do you consider eyebrows facial hair?

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    #104

    Brace Yourself for the Afterlife

    Do they bury people with their braces still on or do they remove them?

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    Amy Adams
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the family requests them to be removed for whatever reason, it will be honored by the mortician. However, in most cases, the removal of braces would be completely unnecessary as they sew the jaw and mouth shut. They also will cover the teeth with cotton before sewing shut to give the mouth a "fuller" appearance.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IDK, but it's not their decision to make.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dunno about braces, but they usually remove gold teeth, silver fillings and any jewelry to deter thieves.

    #105

    When everyone agrees, is that the real tea?

    If everyone says that life is unfair, doesn’t that mean that life is fair?

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    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fairness doesn't necessarily equate to equal treatment. A systematically unfair system isn't fairer, it just sucks universally.

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    #106

    Mind-Blown Soap Dilemma

    Confusing question about whether dropping soap cleans the floor or makes the soap dirty on a beige background. If you drop your soap on the floor, does the floor become clean or does the soap become dirty?

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    Ellie Vanille
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The soap becomes dirty... and the floor becomes slippery. (If all it took for the floor to be clean was a soap to land on it, I would be throwing soaps around my flat for quick and fun cleaning.)

    #107

    Caregiver vs. Caretaker, Who Knows?

    Why are caregivers and caretakers the same thing?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They can be, but not always are.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on whether or not you're paid?

    Honey Bee
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not necessarily. It might be a regional thing, not sure, but they're two different things around here.

    #108

    Wait, Earth’s Got Feelings Now?

    Is the Earth alive?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but probably not the way you think.

    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, I haven't seen it reproducing recently, so from a biological perspective, no. Philosophical and spiritual perspectives, on the other hand, are always up for debate.

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No the planet itself is not alive, it supports life. Much like a petri dish.

    #109

    Not the mood, literally every time

    Confusing question on a red background asking why people have to die, part of brain hurting questions series. Why do people have to die?

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    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I look pretty rough at 45, but imagine how we would all look if we lived to be 145. There ain't no amount of contouring gonna cover that up.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If we could retained our youthfulness by genetic engineering then we would have to deal with the overpopulation, even now is a serious issue where "eternal youth" is an utopia for the time being.

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    #110

    So... killing bad guys is okay?

    If killing people is wrong, then why do we kill people that kill people?

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    BoredPip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    because it used to be a good way of getting rid of people who were a danger to society, (sometimes a danger to people in power later on), and well we haven't fully moved on

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why don't we k**l people that k**l people that k**l people

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By becoming a murderer in the place of the murderer doesn't make me any better, by claiming that if I wouldn't have killed someone else would has done it, doesn't excuse and justify the foul practices which I'm exercising...good and bad are within all of us but our consciousness and judgement make the whole difference for what will eventually prevail.

    Lacey Graves
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suppose you could "justify" the death penalty by the amount of space in prisons, plus the killing is controlled. Otherwise the original killer may have the opportunity to kill many more people, than to just have their singular life taken.

    Veronica Rabbit
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because we're terrible. That is why. The solution is wrong, too.

    IAmSoLost
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why is it no longer murder when that person is wearing a uniform?

    Pam Akers
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suppose murder makes the difference. In war, etc., men, women, children are killed.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As Steve Aylett said: murder is the killing of one person by another, in war it's the other way round.

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    #111

    Time’s just a weird human flex

    Why do we base our age off of the number of times we went around a burning ball of gas?

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because it's human nature to impose order on perceived chaos. We like things tidy.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why did we decide a day should be 24 hours? Or 60 minutes in an hour? If the Earth was a few million miles closer or farther away from the sun, a year is a totally different amount of time.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since we are not vampires in life expectancy terms it makes sense to count in years instead of centuries, millennia...etc.

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because people wanted to keep track of when days would get longer (Summer) and shorter (Winter) for the sake of survival. Also ancient people originally tracked their age by counting the phases of the moon.

    Mike Beck
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because that's what we settled on; likely because the star patterns indicated a cycle. You want to track your age in days? Go ahead but I'm not buying that many gifts!

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We like to be regular in most things. The older you get, the more that is understood.

    #112

    Falling, floating, or physics trolling you?

    Confusing question on a red background asking about falling or floating upwards through the center of the Earth. If you were to dig a hole that went through the center of the Earth and you jumped through, would you be falling or floating upwards?

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    Rona is bad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ignoring the temperature, the pressure would probably fill the whole in and you would be suffocated

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You would slowly start going sideways and come out standing upright

    T J
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You would be falling until you ultimately stopped in the center of the earth where gravity is zero

    Ellie Vanille
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If we don't take into consideration temperature, pressure, etc. but only gravity, I would say you're falling until you reach the center and then you start floating upwards from there.

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    #113

    Philosophy’s Ultimate Mic Drop

    What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force?

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    Jan Dunn
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The end of existence as we know it.

    Frank Miller
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The unstoppable force is redirected, just not stopped..

    Tiny3000
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They would pass through each other

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can say with confidence that it would be absolute carnage. Our new pupper thinks she rules the house and is up against my lovely wife who currently holds the title. It's as immovable and unstoppable as it gets right here, right now.

    Phoebe Stein
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The immovable object would explode.

    Ed Nygma
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah the immovable object is not necessarily unbreakable

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    #114

    License to Dye

    What hair color do they put in bald people’s driver’s licenses?

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    Rod McCabe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My license uses my original wonderful hair color (brown) (which is now gray).

    Lacey Graves
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know if they put hair color in licenses anymore, I know my permit doesn't have one. Considering how people dye their hair so frequently now, they might think it no longer practical.

    Audrey Rasmussen
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they put no (idk im not bald, or a male, or a driver)

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anyone with alopecia what can advise?

    #115

    Not as easy as it sounds

    Confusing question on a red background asking if you can stand backwards on a flight of stairs. Can you stand backwards on a flight of stairs?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. You just face away from direction of travel.

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Depends on your attitude and destination., but be careful.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on which way you're traveling next.

    #116

    Wait, who put that there?

    Why did they put the word ‘dictionary’ in the dictionary?

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    #117

    Grounded comedian energy

    What do you call a fly without its wings?

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    #118

    Bless you, deity?

    Confusing question on a pink background asking what you would say if God sneezed, puzzling brain teaser concept. If God sneezed, what would you say?

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    #119

    Talk Less, Do More—Seriously

    When all is said and done, would you have said more than you have done?

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    #120

    Time Travel: Group Chat Pending

    Will you exist in the future if you can’t ever go there?

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You ARE going there. Constantly. At the rate of one second per second.

    Rod McCabe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even more there is no "present" but past & future; into which I've been hurled writing this.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a matter of fact there is only present, a constant, momentarily, now forever. Past used to exist but not any longer, future is always ahead of us, therefore the only time in which life is actually taking place is the here and now. Some have been stuck in the past, some live for the future, I prefer to live like there is no tomorrow!

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    #121

    Wait, Did the Rock Just Blink?

    Confusing question about movement with objects appearing the same whether moving or unmoving, brain teaser concept. If, in an instant, a moving object looks the same as an unmoving object, is movement possible?

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    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Motion describes the property of appearing in different points in space over time, relative to a given point. It's not an innate property, but rather a concept used to stop the physicists going insane and turning the LHC into a death ray ;)

    Frank Miller
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Movement doesn't exist in an instant movement is always relative to two points in time.

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If your perception of reality was speeded up to the point that blah blah blah, maybe.

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    #122

    Brain Movies or Secret Messages?

    What are dreams?

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    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your brain activity while you sleep

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dreams are merely a conscious portal to the unconscious mind where children sing in stereo and unicorns poop rainbows. - Winston Churchill

    Tacky
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Things at night that don't come true

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Subconscious frequency of your mind, fine tune it in order to be able to receive meaningful intel, like in TV, if you don't like what you see then just change the channel.

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I enjoy a podcast - the infinite monkey cadge, in case anyone wants to try- where leading scientists get together to debate things like this, with a lot of homour thrown in. One episode was called what are dreams, from the top experts in the field, it seems you can give a lot of simple answers but in the end they don't really know.

    #123

    Deep Thoughts, Shallow Deadlines

    What is the purpose of setting goals if we all die anyway?

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    Dav Carro-Ripalda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Goals are set to be achieved before you die. It is way to keep you moving while you are alive instead of waiting for your death on your sofa.

    Donna Leslie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Happiness and quality of living, enjoying the journey before death.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is something I think about all the time

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That question has beautifully summed up the last few years for me. Am I empty inside if I am full of existential musings?

    #124

    When Does Old Age Officially Start?

    Confusing question on a pink background asking what age is considered old enough to die of old age brain teaser. What age should a person be considered old enough to die of old age?

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    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When people no longer say "they were too young to die".

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    69, "Instead of adding more years to your life add more life to your years." Blaise Pascal

    BoredPip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess 60, but I'd consider at least 70 to be more normal

    Pam Akers
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When the heart stops -- at any age.

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    #125

    Plot twist or totally unscripted?

    To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken?

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    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on the person, place of residence, Social status, wealth and a number of other factors that are in flux not one persons actions.

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    #126

    Deep Thoughts at 2 AM

    Why are you here at this very moment in your life?

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    Bored_Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *starts having an existential crisis*

    Dennis Rowe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not there, unless you're talking about entanglement.

    BoredPip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    because my damn steam account was made when I was like 8 and I don't have access to my old email any more and I'm waiting for some fixing thing to send

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cuz I feel like relaxing on the couch while checking out BP

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What BP stands for, Beneficial Procrastination??

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To bedazzle bored pandas with wit and, oh never mind.

    #127

    Rules with a side of “except when”

    Confusing question about why we follow rules but still make exceptions, challenging the brain to think deeply. If we need to follow rules at all costs, then why do we make exceptions to these rules?

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because every ethical situation includes nuance. Is it wrong to kill someone? Yes. What if that someone attacked you with the intent to kill you, and you killed him in self-defense? Still wrong? Not so much.

    Lacey Graves
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nuance is important, a lot of people seem to forget that or argue against it.

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    #128

    And here we are, still wondering

    Why does anything exist?

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    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's more interesting and less boring that way

    Joseph Grimmett
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the existential crisis has begun

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you know for sure that anything does?

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    #129

    Time’s just messing with us, right?

    What is the purpose and meaning of time?

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    Francine Govan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It keeps everything from happening at once, obviously! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Pam Akers
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We're in the third dimension.

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At first I thought this said, What is the purpose and meaning of urine? 🙃

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    #130

    Just a blip in cosmic history?

    Confusing question about human accomplishments and their universal significance when the world ends on green background. Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved?

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    Rod McCabe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It may be disquieting to some but the Earth is so damn tiny & insignificant that losing it (or the entire galaxy) won't even be a blip on the cosmic radar.

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing any human being ever does, no matter how significant, will make the slightest difference in the grand scheme of the universe.

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well if the world ends noones really going to care unless the end of the world causes affects to the universe that can be felt by lifeforms elsewhere

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on how much space garbage we can get out there.

    #131

    Evolution’s awkward family reunion

    If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

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    Gates Ortt
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We didn't evolved from monkeys. Humans and apes had a common ancestor from which we both evolved. Dogs came from wolves and we still have wolves

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We didn't evolve from monkeys. We evolved from APES. The apes of today also evolved from those apes. We aren't descended from today's gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans etc. Just like you aren't descended from your 16th cousin, you and your 16th cousin have the same great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents. And there's a pretty good chance that was Ghengis Khan.

    Wondering Alice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So we still say we evolved from apes when we are apes? Sorry to ask as this seems more semantics than evolution - but I just just can't decide. Like I see it's true in the same way homosapiens evolved from other homo species, but I would not say we evolved from homosapiens and are still homosapiens.. hmmm thoughts???

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    BoredPip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    even if we evolved from modern monekys, the fact that dwarf rabbits evolved (/were bred) from normal rabbits doesn't stop them from existing, does it?

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We evolved from chimps/apes and not all of them evolved some might have evolved in some way but not fully into human

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I personally don't believe the mainstream BS which only purpose is for some to claim fame and fortune by making up a ridiculous theory such as "evolution theory". However, if you, the intellectual beings that you are prefer to believe that you have some long lost ape ancestor then be my guest, after all what difference does it make anyway?! evolution-...5e414a.jpg evolution-12414263-6325af75e414a.jpg

    Weed in the Garden
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's just my brother from another mother.

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    #132

    Circle wins again

    Why is a “manhole” round?

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    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So the cover can't fall into the hole. Duh.

    Ann Mohrmann
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To easily fit no matter how you place it.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be a better fit for the phallus.

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it was square it wouldn't fit.

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    #133

    Wait, You Can Yawn in Your Sleep?

    Confusing question about yawning while asleep on a simple green background with white text and boredpanda.com branding. Can you yawn when you are asleep?

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    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Though why we yawn is still up for debate, Dr. Matthew Ebben has reported in the New York times that it can happen but is very rare (google)

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the general consensus is that we yawn when our brain needs an oxygen boost. Why they seem to be contagious however is a mystery.

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    #134

    Travel or just skywalking?

    If we could fly, would we still say we are traveling somewhere?

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    Phoebe Stein
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, because walking and running are still considered traveling.

    Xerastraza Lecrutia
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    when you drive would you say your traveling there?

    #135

    Plot twist: Fish have feelings too

    Can a fish get seasick?

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    Rod McCabe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like when they're doing sea-weed? Pods of dolphins are known to pass around pufferfish. To get a buzz?

    #136

    The Classic Brain Teaser, Still Unsolved

    Confusing questions about which came first the chicken or the egg on a plain beige background with white text. Which came first – the chicken or the egg?

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    Doctor Strange
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The egg. Eggs existed long before chickens. If you are specifically referencing the chicken egg, it is still the egg, laid by whatever species would ultimately evolve into the chicken.

    Dooley
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Order chicken and eggs from Amazon.com and then let us know.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The egg chickens evolved form dinosaurs

    Evol
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neil Degrasse Tyson says the egg. Laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

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    #137

    Love’s greatest myth busted

    Are soul mates a real thing?

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    Audrey Rasmussen
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Its just that some won't find them, or think that their soul mate must be someone they are romantically involved with

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    #138

    Local slang hits different

    What do they call french kissing in France?

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    Ellie Vanille
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Un baiser amoureux (a love kiss). But I don't know anyone who uses that expression. Usually we use slang : "Se rouler une pelle".

    Restless panda 🇫🇮
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So "snus" in Swedish? Like the tobacco bad you put under your lip? French kissing in Finnish translates to tongue kiss. Nomnom.

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    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What do they call a Dutch Oven in the Netherlands?

    #139

    Dentists: DIY or Doctor’s Visit?

    Confusing question about whether dentists visit other dentists or treat their own dental care problems. Do dentists go to other dentists or do they treat their own dental care problems?

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    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently they cannot do everything on their own, just try to imagine if you were trying to look into your mouth...by holding a small mirror in one hand and another tool on the other it wouldn't be the most convenient way to do your teeth, to put it mildly.

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on how good their insurance is

    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And how well they can control their hands

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    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s just like how doctors go to other doctors

    #140

    Height Doesn’t Equal Shade

    If you were shorter than someone, would it be possible to talk down to them?

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    CalicoKitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Step one: acquire ten-inch heels.

    Ashley Conover
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Napoleon was actually of average male height of the time.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Greatness is not in the physical height but in the actions one might do or not.

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    #141

    Meta mystery: origin edition

    When you buy something that’s made in China while you’re in China, does it still have the made in China tag?

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    Rod McCabe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well. We have made in America tags on things (good or bad). So I imagine many Chinese folks are proud of what they produce. So, yes, they're labeled as being from China.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It could has been imported, thus yes, in order to clarify the product's origin.

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    #142

    Philosophy or just forest noise?

    Confusing question about a tree falling in a forest and whether it makes a sound without anyone to hear it. If a tree fell in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

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    O D
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course it makes a noise, it's a FRIGGIN TREE!

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Such questions reveal the egocentric arrogance of some people, like they were the center of the universe everything should revolve around them, otherwise it doesn't exist!

    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *should be "nothing" is there to hear it.

    Rod McCabe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nonhuman animals in the forest can certainly hear it or the scattering is caused by a meteorite.

    Wesley Ferguson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Scientifically the answer is no. Sound is just vibration until it's perceived as sound. So if nothing is there to translate the vibration into "sound", there isn't sound.

    Angelo Attoni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With the same logic, every place, entity, person, animal, plant...which you are not aware of it doesn't exist and continues not to exist until you discover it! Just because you cannot listen, see, know, feel something does not cancel automatically the rest of the world because it doesn't revolve around you! How r****d some persons may be!

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    #143

    Debate That’s Older Than Dirt

    Which came first: the Sun or the Earth?

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    Colin Timp
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, all of the matter that makes up both is the same age; but the sun was shining before the earth was fully formed.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun accreted first out of the disc of matter that coalesced to form our solar system. This is known science.

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    #144

    Nighttime mind wanderings?

    Can you have a daydream at night-time?

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    Logan Witt
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well will it just be a nightdream instead of daydream

    #145

    When your arm’s the only VIP at the wake

    Confusing question about displaying a recovered arm in a casket, prompting brain to think deeply and question logic. If a person dies at sea and only their arm is recovered, how would he be displayed in a casket? Does it need to be a full sized casket?

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    Dav Carro-Ripalda
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you know who does it belong to? Who would pay for the casket? Would all the families in the world who lost somebody at sea and not recovered the body, attend the funeral?

    rw55066
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want the full size coffin. Open casket funeral with the arm rigged to pop up and wave halfway through the funeral

    Omiyaru
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They probably wouldn't display the arm

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on preference. Some people would choose a full size coffin, some a small more child size coffin. Others could cremate and then place the urn in a burial coffin that is made for urns.

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