Fact Of The Day.

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by stu-pendus, Jul 24, 2014.

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  1. I'm starting this thread because of a recent question about why black boxes are called "Black boxes" despite the fact that they are orange in colour.The answer is because it was designed by a Dr Black.
    Dont cheat and google the answers as you are only cheating youself.
    Most blokes like to have a few facts behind them.
    Let me start this off.
    SO,why is a tank (armoured vehicle) called a tank??
     
    #1 stu-pendus, Jul 24, 2014
  2. It was the code name in WW1, used to disguise the true nature of the beast in messages.
     
    #2 pingping010101, Jul 24, 2014
  3. Oh yes,the Germans took a picture and we,(the british) said that it wasnt an armoured vehicle but a water carrier, a water tank hence tank. Well done.

    So why is a Sniper called a "Sniper" ??
     
    #3 stu-pendus, Jul 24, 2014
  4. Cause he talks about people!
     
    #4 keith916, Jul 24, 2014
  5. Because they always seem to pinpoint the price and outbid you at the last second?
     
    #5 bradders, Jul 24, 2014
  6. Little bird that the yankie rebels shot!
    God Save the King!
     
    #6 Nelson, Jul 24, 2014
  7. What's got one ball and fucks prostitutes?
     
    #7 Exige, Jul 24, 2014
  8. Because it came from sports shooters who shot the Snipe birds which were notoriously hard to hit due to their low and fast flight pattern.
     
    #8 Cazza1729, Jul 24, 2014
  9. Go on then
     
    #9 Evoarrow, Jul 24, 2014
  10. peter sutcliff?
     
    #10 finm, Jul 24, 2014
  11. Peter Sutcliffes Hammer :D
     
    #11 Exige, Jul 24, 2014
  12. Close but no Cigar :Cigar:
     
    #12 Exige, Jul 24, 2014
  13. Yes,your absolutely correct.:upyeah:

    Sooo,why was the computer in 2001 space odisey called HAL ??
     
    #13 stu-pendus, Jul 25, 2014
  14. I read somewhere that they took the company IBM and just moved the letters back one, creating HAL, but thats probably just coincidence
     
    #14 mattmccabebrown, Jul 25, 2014
  15. Why do we use the phrase bankrupt?
     
    #15 Count, Jul 25, 2014
  16. why does it properly rain for the the first time in months when you book a run for the weekend?
     
    #16 finm, Jul 25, 2014
  17. Carlsberg is probably not the best beer in the world
     
    #17 Evoarrow, Jul 25, 2014
  18. probably the worst hangover in the world.
     
    #18 finm, Jul 25, 2014
  19. No, that would be the realm of Belgian beers. Tastes gorgeous, but beware its freaking strong and always catches me out.
     
    #19 bootsam, Jul 25, 2014
  20. I've always been incensed by that slogan.
    Firstly, it would appear to be quite apparent that Carlsberg is not the best beer in the world. It's not the most sold, the most popular. And you'd have to find a very strange panel of experts to conclude that it was the best.
    And then "best" under what criteria?
    So what is the basis of probability that allows Carlsberg to claim that it is "probably the best"? Really? Prove it.
    I have never understood why the Advertising Standards Authority have allowed this.

    So can I say that I am probably the most intelligent, handsome and desirable guy in the world?
    Why not?

    Now, if Carlsberg had said "Possibly the best beer in the world", I wouldn't have an issue. That is true - it's within the bounds of possibility. Plus, it would have been a funnier, more ironic and self-deprecating slogan which might have sold more beer.
     
    #20 gliddofglood, Jul 25, 2014
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