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You should get out more often.

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Which everyone realises is a portmanteau word meaning 'inhaling nicotine while asleep'. Allegedly it helps protect against covid.

AJ

Maybe things will be getting better, the communities around me are going "Phase 2" which means I can eat in restaurants and maybe meet some friends. Its about time!

You realize that there is NO reason, whatsoever, why you can't have a few quiet dinner parties with others like you who haven't been galavanting all over, attending huge beat bongs while berating people about trying to protect themselves and those they love.

We've NEVER stopped those sorts of gatherings, though they're much less frequent than before. But, as long as everyone relatively 'hygienic', and everyone keeps their distance, you're essentially safe. Even better is having drinks (6 or 8 foot apart) with a few others after a hard day's non-work at home!

I see the word "incest" here on the site. After reading some of the stories I have a pretty good idea of what it means. Ok, based on In and Out Burgers and lots of other uses of Out as the opposite of In, is there a word Outcest? Why not? Having sex with people not related to you. Not sure if it would be important to have, but is there just plain "cest"?

Although it's neither wordplay nor punnishment, I love for yuckcest (rather than INcest), as that much better describes most people's response to it. But, if Incest is widely Unpopular, then wouldn't it actually be the TRUEST OUTcest, fulfilling the In & Out Burger name. But, in the end, the best possible alternative to INcest is simply NONcest, as anything describing something which happens SO rarely is simply better remaining unmentioned.

So, is that logic enough convoluted enough for you?

Some answers for you

1. If poison passes it's expiration date, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?

If the expiration date is really valid the poison is less effective due to an internal chemical breakdown.

3. Do twins ever realize that at least one of them is unplanned?

Yes, that's why so many do their double speak to try and prove which is the original.

4. Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called double V?

Because in the old handwritten script it was originally written as two connected 'U' letters.

5. Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and It just takes 75-100 years to fully work.

Wrong, it's really the nitrogen in the atmosphere doing it. Take out the nitrogen you can still live, take out the oxygen and you can't.

8. 100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.

This isn't true, as not everyone owned a horse 100 years ago, and for millennia before that only the rich or very well off had horses.

1. At a movie theater, which arm rest is yours?

As they aren't really arm rests, but dividers to show the seating positions.

2. If people evolve from monkeys, why are monkeys still around?

They're descended from the very old family members who were to lazy to stand up straight way back then.

3. Why is there a 'D' in fridge, but not in refrigerator?

Because people got lazy and dropped the 'd'.

4. Who knew what time it was when the first clock was made?

Originally everyone, because time had only five known settings - dawn, day, midday, sunset, night. Then someone invented controlled candles marked with lines to split the day and night into finer units.

Why isn't a Fireman called a Water-man?

Because he works on fires in the same manner that a horseman works on horses and boatman works on a boat.

How come Lipstick doesn't do what it says?

Because it's a stick of something for you to put on your lips.

How do you get off a non-stop Flight?

With a parachute and jumping.

Why are goods sent by ship called CARGO and those sent by truck SHIPMENT?

Because the cargo in a ship is usually a group of shipments consigned to different people while a truck shipment is usually a single shipment from the cargo.

Why do we put cups in the dishwasher and the dishes in the Cupboard?

because the original dishwasher was a human who washed the dishes clean while cups were only rinsed, and the dishes were stacked on a bench while the cups were put on pegs on a cup board on the wall to keep them out of the way.

Why is it called 'Rush Hour' when traffic moves at its slowest then?

Because everyone rushes out of work to try and beat the rest of traffic by being in the lead.

Why do they call it a TV 'set' when there is only one?

Because they used to be made of a set of valves in a specific layout to get the signal. The same is true for a radio or wireless set.

What are you vacating when you go on a vacation?

You're vacating your normal work position.

I hope that helps you.

5. Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and It just takes 75-100 years to fully work.

Wrong, it's really the nitrogen in the atmosphere doing it. Take out the nitrogen you can still live, take out the oxygen and you can't.

And yet people take antioxidant supplements to counteract the damaging effects of oxygen.

I vaguely remember a claim that if the percentage of oxygen in our atmosphere were higher, we'd suffer consequently more damage from it eg cancers. I have absolutely no idea whether that claim has any validity.

AJ

I believe it's the opposite from what I can find.

Antioxidants are supposed to prevent the cell mutations caused by free radicals that cause cells to be cancerous in the first place. One of the causes of free radicals is too much oxygen.

AJ

The words "supposed to" are doing far too much work in that sentence.

The science is far from certain. Some studies have found that an excess of antioxidants actually correlates with a higher incidence of cancer.

AJ

I don't see a conflict.

Radiation can cause cancer but also slow/stop it from growing.

AJ

One of the causes of free radicals is too much oxygen.

I thought free radicals was caused by not fully brainwashing them with socialist doctrine!

Former UK socialist prime minister Tony Blair hasn't really been dodging household chores for 23 years, he just hasn't employed enough spin doctors to tell us what our opinions should be. :-)

AJ

Antioxidants are supposed to prevent the cell mutations caused by free radicals that cause cells to be cancerous in the first place. One of the causes of free radicals is too much oxygen.

Antioxidents actually have little affect. A much better (and currently HOT trend is with ionated water, which like Copper, lacks a single electron in each H2O molecule. Thus, whenever it contacts a cancer or virus cell, it steal a spare electron from it, which causes the outer cell membrane of simple-celled organisms (like viruses) to collapse, killing the entire cell. However, it's yet to be proven how long that one water molecule takes to gain that single electron back, so it's doubtful that ionized water is effective at ANY time (as exposure to oxygen (in the bottle?) causes it to become de-ionized)!

Copper has a multimellenium curative effect, because copper is a permanent, persistent ionized substance, meaning that, immediately AFTER stealing ions from other substances, it IMMEDIATELY loses it again, so even after centuries of grime, gook and corrosion, it remains as potent as every. Still, swallowing copper balls is NOT a good idea for one's health.

My ex and I fight about this ALL the time! ;)

Still, swallowing copper balls is NOT a good idea for one's health.

Yes, he's going to be very pissed off at losing his masculinity - arresting you would be the least of your worries.

AJ

I believe it's the opposite from what I can find. Example above.
I'm no doctor, but what I've read in the subject makes sense.

Cancers thrive on blood flow, and everyone mistakenly assumed that meant they thrived due to the extra oxygen, where it mostly caries a minimal amount of oxygen, but a host of various nutrients cells need for rapid growth. Thus, I guess we should rename them antibloodydents!

4. Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called double V?

Because in the old handwritten script it was originally written as two connected 'U' letters.

Actually, the letter 'V' is a VERY (uuary?) constenant, and many language don't even use the sound at all. So the UU was first developed to distinguish between the two contracting sounds (one made from holding your tongue near the top of your mouth, the other from the very front. Then some jackass, I suspect the ever unpopular Daniel Webster.

4. Who knew what time it was when the first clock was made?

Originally everyone, because time had only five known settings - dawn, day, midday, sunset, night.

Technically, everyone knew that for millennium BEFORE a 'clock' was first invented. In fact, the first 'clock' was a simple sundial, while has been around for a long, long time, and then it never give specific times, just 'degrees' or time between times.

Why do they call it a TV 'set' when there is only one?

Because they used to be made of a set of valves in a specific layout to get the signal. The same is true for a radio or wireless set.

The same is true for one's "mindset", only there they're made from a set of conflicting values in our own mind, which is NEVER consistent and every contradictory!

Did you know that if you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get the answer to each of them.

And if you replace each "W" or "T" with a "Q", you'll correspondingly get the answer to none!

And there's an in-between situation where medics use Botox to temporarily paralyse a malfunctioning part of the body to give it a chance to recover.

AJ

Upright. I found it difficult to get up and mentioned to myself that I was finally upright. And I got to thinking, why isn't there an upleft, or maybe an upwrong, depending on what the opposite should be of the right in upright. Maybe the conservatives are happy there is only upright and have worked to prohibit upleft. There is uplift, but where is there downlift? Just plain lift is another word for elevator. Somewhat British, I think. Words can be hard to figure out. Is anything soft to figure out?

Does 'updraft' count? But ... using 'up-' as a prefix is fairly well established, at least in English, when there isn't an existing Latin or Ancient Greek one. It's the non-intelligentsia attempted to fill an obvious word glut (the lack of a desired word, in an existing useful context).

You aren't taking a dump, you are giving a shit. :)

That would be 'supplying' a dump (as in 'delivering' an unwanted opinion). You aren't so much 'giving it' to anyone who asks, instead, you're inflicting it on those unreceptive and unwelcoming of it!

After all, who steps in a steaming pile of dog turds and thinks "Wow! This must be my lucky day!"

And shouldn't it be leaving a piss instead of taking a piss? Unless of course you are into that kink.

Actually, it's more often 'spraying' a piss (or, more frequently "cleaning up the mess"), as it's not usually neatly delivered as a single whole. Though 'cleaning a piss', is something many people, both men and women, are too familiar with. (As far as I can tell, gays bitch about it just as much as straight women do.)