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Why do guys have to lift the toilet seat up to pee?
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Hmmmmm okay
Why are Angelina Jolee's & Estella Warren's lips considered pouty or sensuous but, others are considered big or out of shape?
Why is it when a woman gets married she IMMEDIATELY realizes everything she should have done wrong in her life and wants to correct it as opposed to days, weeks or even months before?
shes immature
cus we have bad aim?
Speak for yourself!
And for the record, I always put the seat back down when I'm done.
Why are NJ roads so confusing?
I don't find them confusing.
well, they don't have normal u-turns....why is that?
one's definition of normalcy is relative!..stop makin fun of NJ!...NJ could kick L.I.'s butt!..u better hope the states don't start waring
untrue. ny would definitely win. NY has NYC. The state is bigger. It's further east. It's been around longer. Etc.
yeah but we have...ummm...hmmm...our state bird, is the Pterodactyl!!(ssshhh!..maybe she'll believe me!)...& i dunno what NY's is, but, i'm sure ours would tear NY's up...yeah, that's right...TOOOOOshay
wow, i think you spelled that right...did you use dictionary.com or are you just amazingly good at spelling dinosaur names?
(little known fact: the Pterodactyl is actually not a dinosaur, it's just clumped with them because of the time period during which it lived.)
NYC is not complicated, it's all a big grid.
My brother in law and my nephews and my sister in law all get really confused when they come up here to visit. The U-turns drive them nuts. They are always complaining about having to go to the right to make a left and how it doesn't make any sense. How if you want to make a left at a light you should be able to make a left. It's actually kind of funny for me. I must agree though NJ roads can be very confusing if your not from the area.
i wonder if actually does prevent more accidents. I guess that must be their reasoning for it, but i was always under the conclusion that most people could handle making a left hand turn
nah we just do it to keep u LI people outta NJ! haha
haha, hey!! Well, it doesn't seem to be working very well, since i'm in nj at least once a month
bryan, tell them about your idea for the apartment
If you're familiar with Edison, try to imagine making a left on Route 1 to get to the Menlo Park Mall. You'll back up traffic for hours and never get through. Now go down the road to woodbridge and picture the same thing to get either to Woodbridge Mall or Toys-R-Us, you'll sit there for hours.
There's just way too much traffic in this area to allow for left hand turns. Maybe it's because I grew up in Jersey and I find it confusing because I've always driven these roads.
this coming from the person who lives on an island where the roads just go in circles.
if you can even move through all the traffic. all traffic all the time
I want to know why Cinderella's left behind glass slipper stayed glass and didn't change when everything else did. I mean, someone said it was cuz it wasn't touching her, but the pumpkin changed, and it wasn't touching her. Same with the field rats and the mice and... and... and... That's just something that's always bothered me.
It's because otherwise there would be no stoty. :P
well, i don't know what a "stoty" is, but for the whole Cinderella thing, you apply this thing i call "suspension of disbelief" - it works every time
doh. I hate when I do that.
thank you for your explanation... suspension of disbelief... meaning...?
It means he pretends there are no inconsistencies with the story lines. In other words he ,suspends, or pretends that the ,disbelief, or whatever makes no sense in the movie does make sense. I'm probably wrong but that's what I draw from that phrase.
I think that's what i thought, but couldn't get it into words... phew.
Yeah well after having read it to myself like 50 times and writing out what it meant about 20 I think I finally figured out what he meant. At least what I think he meant. I'm not even completely sure I understand what I wrote.
it was fun reading all that. but what i ACTUALLY meant was . . . i just pretend like anything can happen, foregoing logic or my knowledge of that which i know is true or "believable". I actually do it every day at work, becuase for some reason, they seem to think I can do the impossible there too. in all honesty, i just like how the phrase sounds. it sounds all complicated, but really, its not . . . or is it?
here's a link with an official definition:
you crack me up.
Um isn't that bsaicly what I said. Only a lot more complicated like, not as simple as you put it.
yes, you're right, it is . . . but, as a modest person, i like to take all the credit for myself, even when it rightly belongs to someone else . . . or is it a humble person that does that . . .
Oh ok my bad. Yeah I was say off.
Why is Ty a MORON and an IDIOT?
she bang she bang
"i haf nev-ah had a pro-feshion-al less-hon"
this might be the funniest show on tv
e, thats like the 3rd time ive heard you sing this song, i think you really like it... like... REAAAAAALLY.. when your by yourself, do you dress up like ricky and dance with a lot of pelivic movement?
Why can't it be summer all year round?
cause there's this thing called the earth that spins on this thing called an axis that every once&while(once a year)tilts away from the this thing called the sun just enough to create this season called winter....
haha
p.s.I'm only sarcastic w/people I like..so..take no offense lady
haha, okay, good...but, what about tropical islands? Isn't it summer like all year 'round there?
uh..that's somehow connected to something to do w/the equator...and the easter bunny
and the ramadan rooster?
well, yeah, but, indirectly of course....there's a few degrees of seperation
what about the ghost of kwanza past?
he's actually my cousin..well, not by blood
mine too....but by blood
crap! why do i have to be stuck being related to paris hilton? maaaaaan. it's so not fair.
dude...related, or not....all fair & love & war...she's hot enough to not care..wait, lol, she's too skinny....i'd have to take her to checkers first, fatten her up a bit..& THEN we'll see where we're at
hmm....iv'e seen her face too....& i'm sticking to my guns!!..i think she's cute..i mean, she's no COURTNEY...haha..& like i said..she needs a couple visits to a cholesterol hightening establishment before i'd like'r...but...hey, just leemee alone!
as in.... you like men?
haha, u wish.......
hahaha, hmmm sorry buddy... maybe hilldan, but not yours truly... only in your dreams. I mean i know you put yourself in MY group for the scavenger hunt... but cmon!
She's cute when she's wearing her sunglasses. Have you seen her backside? She's deformed and I only have 2 words for her "booty implants" lol
hmmm...no, never noticed her butt..i'm not really like infatuated w/specific female body parts - you know how like, some guys are "butt guys"..or "boob guys"...i'm just a "girl guy"...
or maybe cause you like to grind on dan... maybe that weirdness just trickles down.
that is very true!
this should have been modded informative
ey, i told you that w/confidence that you'd keep it on the dl
actually summer is the longest season. the earth is farthest away from the sun so we rotate slower and it lasts longer. hard to believe that winter is the fastest and when we're closest to the sun.
just saw this thread in a random comment...
seasons are regulated by the earth's tilt. when your hemisphere (either north or south) is tilted toward the sun, you get summer, because the sun's rays are more direct. the equator has summer basically all year round, because the tilt of the earth isn't as severe to them, and they get fairly direct rays. Since the tilt of the earth is like 20 degrees, if you live directly on the equator you get hit by the sun by rays (throughout the year) that range in the 0-20 degree range. Assume you live halfway between the equator and north pole, say North Carolina, it'd be more like 25 (summer) - 65 (winter). These are all noon-time values, with the extremes being on the solstices.
If you're at the arctic circle, then your sunlight comes at a value between 50 and 90 deg (where at noon you get the slightest peek at the sun, right on the horizon) anything higher than that and you get no sun at all on the solstice, higher and you get more days with no sun in winter.
Interestingly, I think if you live directly on the equator, then spring(around May) and fall(around October) are you're hottest seasons, and summer(June) and winter(Feb) are you're coolest.
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say 'Its all right'? It isn't all right, so why don't we say, 'That hurt, you stupid idiot'?
This applies to many things! I always say Its all right..but you are correct..it really never is.
as i've explained to my husband, what i'm really saying by "it's alright" is that i accept your apology and move on.
ooh, i just run them down later on when i see them down the isle and i can get a running start.
what about when you are snowboarding and kids fly into your head (when you're not wearing a helmet) at 45 mph. just cuz they don't know to fall over to stop.
"fly into your head" . . . not OVER, mind you . . . ugh, that sounds very . . . unpleasant . . .
hurt sooooo bad. cuz i had already fallen on in by myself. i'm a danger to myself and other people wanna add to it?? just wanna give up now but you gotta stick it to the man. heeheaaha
what do women want?
as one i would like to know what my purpose is.
Chris Rock: woman want every dang thing!
Why do people tell me I look even younger, the older I get?
if you find out why...tell me cus i get the same thing
why do people tell you that you look younger, the older you get?..well, maybe it's because YOU LOOK YOUNGER, THE OLDER YOU GET!!..lol...now, WHY you look younger, that's the question you should be asking...
why do we have toe nails?..just about every other body part has a practical function..but..think about it..humans, don't need them...
to protect your toes!!
man...i didn't expect you to be the one to answer this...let alone, accurately..haha!..j/k..that makes sense..if it was just nothing but flesh, there'd be a lot more damage when you drop something on your feet or hit your toe up into something
to pick up stuff, like coins!
that's like askin why do guys have nipples or why do you eat apple jacks when they don't taste like apple?
we just do lol.
i use this explanation constantly.
OK, I have one:
Why do (some) girls scream at absolutely everything?
Example please.
*shriek*
like when a song comes on that we love... or when we see a spider within 50 feet of us... or when we see a friend that we haven't seen in a while.... or when some one hits us even if its softly... or when we get happy.. or when we get angry... haha need i go on?
all those emotions and others are wired to that infernal scream reflex. it's kinda grating, lol.
define grating....
Yeah. I mean, it's cute at first, but it gets old fairly quickly.
Oh..now I can answer this question of questions!
Because we just get so excited and we don't know how to express our emotions any other way. Smiling won't do and sometimes jumping up and down just doesn't cut it either.
jumping up and down is always welcome in my book . . .
For a second I was like "huh.." but hah yeah it would be!
i don't scream...i find it really annoying when girls do too. I'll only scream at two things, when i'm tickled, because i can't help it. Or when I am legitamately scared, like somebody jumping up behind me.
I agree, I think it's a bit much. There are few things more annoying than a bunch of shreiking girls at the mall...worst echo EVER.
GOOD REASONS TO SCREAM: if you are being tickled, if you are in need of help, if you are scared, if you lost a limb, if you have been suprised.
i cannot help but shriek when someone even points a finger like they are going to tickle me
These are pretty good, and so I have one
Why do they let people over the age of 60 renew there licence, when they clearly can't see over the stearing wheel, Inconceivable?
I don't know..but they should all have to paint their cars electric yellow so when you see them you can get out of their way.
Why does that elf lady have to give up her immortal life to be with Aragorn? I mean, what guy wouldn't love it if their wife never got old?
Um.....I'm gonna say it's because that's how the book was written....but I could be wrong. :)
Well..she actually could still live forever. She just couldn't sale to the undying lands where all the immortals live happily forever, she'd just live in Middle Earth with all the men. She could also lay herself down to die whenever she wanted to, she was allowed that choice. I think that's right.
yeah the guys would love it but what about her? she'd watch the guy she'd love get old and die and she'd still be there with other guys. and wouldn't that make you insecure. you're woman still looks hot and you're old and gray.
it would make me feel like a pimp! an old, nasty pimp!
it's weird, but I heard that a lot of the story of Lord of the Rings relates somewhat to the Bible. Supposedly Tolkien wanted to re-write the ideas of the Bible in a non-religious way.
Perhaps her giving up her eternal life was supposed to be similar to Jesus? That is, of course, except for the most important factors like the actual value of Jesus' life and reason/need for his sacrifice. False Religion is stupid. It always misses the point.
yeah....old age is gross....wasn't sickness & death enough?..why'd adam & eve have to throw flappy wrinkled flesh & dentures into the imperfection curse too...so incosiderate
HAHAHA!! yeah you totally wouldn't have to leave your wife for a younger chick then, it would be great...
Whats the big deal if you forget to do the dishes or take out the garbage...
dude, you're a slob. you'll never understand.
...or if you pretend to be sick and can't do them when really you've been laying around watching movies and talking on the computer all day
lets refer to katie for the answer to these questions
absolutely every time i'm there you get yelled at to take out the garbage. cracks me up. you only wait for guests to show off your garbage skills don't ya?
Is it possible for an asian guy to marry a white girl without ever eating rice again?
ever have rice punch?
why is ian a rogue
he's a cowboy. and a webmaster.
Why do people put little fuzzy covers on their toilet seats.. i mean what if you get splashage or something and it's all up in the cotton softness...and what if someone has a dirty booty and they sit on it. kinda gross if you ask me.
Because they're nuts.
Why does I like birds love smurfs so much?
refer to my journal on why smurfette is the hottest cartoon ever. and you'll know..
Why don't hotdogs and buns come in packages of corresponding amounts?
Hey, is Lindsay supposed to be answering our questions? Where is she? I wanna know!!!
cuz the man is trying to put us down!!
yes, an excellent question . . . and i don't know that linz has all the answers - i think the idea was for us all to share knowledge, answer them together, like a big happy ezabel family
so you buy more hotdogs
Because I haven't been on all morning to answer these wonderful question, I'll start with yours first!!
They give you extra buns because sometimes the buns rip and you don't want to eat your hot dog in it...so they give you extra ones for when you mess up.
best explanation yet
i think steve martin answered that in father of the bride 2
why do you drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?
I think an old old relative of thai came up with that idea
If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to hear it, does it still make a noise?
oh boy bring on the jokes
this is the kind of question that should have a scientific answer . . . and i always hated science so i'm just gonna go with "YES"
Like..I understand this question is supposed to provoke deep thought, but of course it still makes a noise. Just because no one hears it doesn't mean it isn't there!
absolutely not. I'm an existentialist. its all about perception.
Wow, you've been dropping that word all over this site. I am impressed.
i'm not! existentialists are selfish!
they could be...but they could be equally selfless
wait, i just noticed this. EQUALLY selfless? so you're selfishless is equal to your selflessness. does that make it right? because something like this doesn't cancel out with an equal measure of it's opposite.
i love talking mumbo jumbo semanitcs especially when we discuss a subject that has no basis, object of reference or standard.
haha, i know...its all semantics and existential thoughts are based on absolutely nothing...its amazing people can discuss something that doesn't exist in such depth. Anyway, it's selfish from some people's perspective, but it could be selfless from other people's perspective as well. For example, I don't exist. That's fairly selfless right? Denying my own existance, because Ho Chin from china has never met me? Oh, see....existentialism is great fun!
I exist. I think. Where can I find this Ho Chi!?
turn left when you get to china, then make three more lefts
by pointing out that the word is here.. you get apoint ? is that what it is
yep, ty is on the board
annnnnd by popular request: THIS TAG - modded "redundant"
no. sound is produces by the shape of your ear canals so when a human's ear is not there to make this occurance happen, no one hears it.
sounds like existentialism to me
point for me?
yeah, that was an old post...but nobody else claimed it...so it's all yours
the chipmunks and deer prolly hear it fall tho
well, that's only half-right. it depends on your definition of "sound".
if you use this definition:
"Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing. or Transmitted vibrations of any frequency."
then, yes, of course a sound is made.
but if you use this definition: "The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium. "
then, no, there's no sound because no hearing organs are stimulated.
so, in the strictest technical sense, yes, there's still a sound. but the question is really just posed to make you think.
thanks for the swell breakdown. i was THINKING that, but didn't feel like articulating, lol.
haha, exactly..the answer that that "age old" question is like so freakin obviouse - I don't know why it's so age old...the study of acoustics should of once & for all put an end to anybody ever asking this question again
Why can't girls just pee standing up?
You have all tried, at some point or another. just do it. life goes on. (also, i heard gwen stefani can do it with no problems.)
uh, i can only speak for myself when i say that i have NEVER tried... haha it is impossible to do and gwen stefani can do many things thta normal girls just simply can't do...
yea that's a really really weird question
Yeah, we are supposed to sit, that's why it's a toilet seat. And I would like to take the time to clear up the misconception that "all have tried"-I sure as heck haven't.
hey. we stand. it's great.never have to deal with a cold seat. i love it. we can easily go outside when camping
because Jehovah didn't make us like that.
there is also the likelihood of spray. have you ever SEEN a public women's bathroom. there is also a very good chance of peeing on yourself or clothes. girls have even less control than guys
Maybe for the same reason that boy dogs lift their legs to pee, and girl dogs squat to pee.....Hmmmmmm.......
Girls. You must read this to liberate yourselves. PG-13
LOL! That's funny. But, I figure the original way has been working for over 23 years, why change now?
ok that was just disturbing...
ick, totally disgusting...thats not normal!
ian, how on EARTH did you find that
I have learned WAAAY too much about everyone from this thread
haha i dunno.. i just remembered the site from like 1996 or something. i think i saw it from some other website back in the day
oh. my. goodness.
Is that site meant as a joke?
Well that's the most interesting thing I've ever read and I have no desire to EVER try that.
all you girls are wusses! if someone shared with me, an alternative peeing method, i'd try it.
Brother Zabel, I think we need to talk...
haha dude, so wrong
this has GOT to be the funniest thing i have EVER seen, aww man...
WHAT THE He...ok, i'm not at all bothered by any of this, in fact i think it's pretty darn funny..but i'm kinda surprised that this was elaborated on so, fully..lol....one has to wonder if there's any ezabel chicks that are actually attempting this now out of curiosity
haha, this is still incredibly disgusting
hahahaha..."you have all tried it"...lol..is where d'you get this "fact"?...
i got one: what is the REAL reason women can't go to the bathroom alone?
men have concocted many theories, but it would be nice to hear the truth from a girl for a change
well, you see, girls go to the bathroom together so that they can talk about boys without any boys hearing. Also, when another girl says "i have to go to the bathroom" this some times makes another girl go "o yea me 2" and therefore, it is just easier to walk together...
and thank you for the ellipsis at the end . . . thatdarngirl would be proud
... i try :)
I AM proud young padawan.
I think it's usually to talk about whoever they're with. But if you really think about it, it's not a cool idea at all..I don't want to hear other people go to the bathroom while I'm talking to them.
i think its just cuz when someone mentions that they have to go, you realize that you do too.
ummm, we surely don't HAVE to lift it to pee, but aiming is not always easy . . . so if we DON'T lift it, the next person in (heaven forbid it might be a girl) might be unpleasantly surprised by what they find on the seat. It's more of a courtesy than anything else.
yeah, come on... duh!
i know, i thought it was pretty obvious myself
Well..why can't they have better aim? You guys have been doing it all your lives..you'd think you'd have it down by now!
it's not always about aim... sometime.. it decides to squirt crazy go nuts ... sometimes there's splashage... i mean come on .. it's not easy.
well...sometimes we're just not paying attention...like..when we pee while on the phone...sometimes multitasking's just too difficult, something has to give
Okay..so you're not allowed to call me anymore!
we never do it while on the phone w/GIRLS!....at least, the gentlemen don't....haha
yeah, seriously. there's always some sort of unintended spray/missing. it's like a firehose people, you just don't know where it's gonna start heading until you start going.
for instance, the forked spray! initially uncontrollable!
you will have your own bathroom
Wow. Eww. haha that's just.. eww
ugh...thats so gross
It's also incredibly annoying when it happens.
i know. it's quite annoying.
ugh, stop, stop...i think people should be banned from discussing this EVER again
Good... I concur here I am reading this and squirming all over the place, very INTERESTING.
i have one for the guys:
why do brother never button the third button on their meeting jackets?
always buttoning the first two when they get up to do a part but never the last one. why?
That's the way suits are supposed to be worn. If you button the bottom button it bunches up when you sit down. It's mainly for that reason that we don't button the bottom. When brothers get on the platform some I know do button them up then unbutton them when they get off.
You have your jacket buttoned when you sit???
To answer your question, I don't know, I just did it cause that's how every other guy I saw wore their jackets. I only button the top button while I'm walking around, unbutton it when I sit. I didn't have a father to tell me the right way or not.
YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO. In fashion men are only supposed to have the middle button of their jacket buttoned. But since many people don't like the way it looks they don't, they button the top two..