segunda-feira, março 20, 2006

Universal Truths

1) Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

2) At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.

3) One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

4) You've never quite sure whether it's ok to eat green crisps.

5) In every plate of chips there is a bad chip.

6) Reading when you're drunk is horrible.

7) Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you feel really manly.

8) You're never quite sure whether it's against the law or not to have a fire in your back garden.

10) Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

11) You never know where to look when eating a banana.

12) Its impossible to describe the smell of a wet cat.

13) Prodding a fire with a stick makes you feel manly.

14) Rummaging in an overgrown garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.

15) You always feel a bit scared when stroking horses.

16) Everyone always remembers the day a dog ran into your school.

17) The most embarrassing thing you can do as schoolchild is to call your teacher
mum or dad.

18) The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the
first given opportunity.

19) You've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with.

20) Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee flushed half way through and then raced against the flush.

21) Old women with mobile phones look wrong!

22) Its impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.

23) Driving through a tunnel makes you feel excited.

24) You never ever run out of salt.

25) Old ladies can eat more than you think.

26) You can't respect a man who carries a dog.

27) There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when you've got your hand or head stuck in something.

28) No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

29) Despite constant warning, you have never met anybody who has had their arm broken by a swan.

30) The most painful household incident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

31) People who don't drive slam car doors too hard.

16 comentários:

Anónimo disse...

Not all of those are universal truths, at least for me hehehe.

Calucifer disse...

Indeed.
What can I say. I was bored :)

Anónimo disse...

Boredom is no excuse to write lies ;)

Well the sharpening of pencils with a knife makes me feel awkward, I mean, shouldn't I have brought a pencil sharpener ;) ??

Calucifer disse...

The universe applies not to an individual such as yourself but to something bigger, global.
Even thou I can't remember when a dog ran into my school :P

It's all a matter of prespective.

Anónimo disse...

By that logic a universal truth shouldn't apply only to one little planet, but it should hold truth in all planets.

I can't really recall another planet with triangular sandwiches can you? lol

Universal things like the speed of light hold true everywhere so universal things are hardly a matter of perspective but more of a constant anywhere we are. :p

Calucifer disse...

As far I can remember black holes count as a part of the universe too. So is the speed of light still a constant in a black hole?

Got ya.

You see, since I live on earth and I can't go anywhere else, that's preatty much my universe. Apart from the twinkle star. Understand now the matter of perspective?

Não sejas macaco, you can't win me on this ^^

Anónimo disse...

Yes it is. The whole of modern physics is based on the fact that the speed of light is constant everywhere.

Light has the same speed inside and outside of a black hole, it just can't leave because a black hole with its huge mass creates a gravitational pull that bends light and thus keeps it inside.

I understand the matter of perspective but why does little twinkle star gets in and the rest blocked out?

Seems a bit unfair.

PS: What does "Não sejas macaco" means? (I assume its portuguese which I don't understand :( )

Calucifer disse...

Fact: A black hole is a concentration of mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything past its event horizon from escaping it except through quantum tunnelling behaviour (known as Hawking Radiation). The gravitational field is so strong that the escape velocity past its event horizon exceeds the speed of light. This implies that nothing, not even light, inside the event horizon can escape its gravity.

I thought since escape velocity increases, speed of light would increase too at some point.

Ok. All stars get it. I do love the way they shine.
Life's unfair anyway ;)

PS: Sorry, I assumed you were portuguese since almost all posts in this blog are in portuguese oO
Não sejas macaco = Don't be a monkey. Wich is something I use when I want to say "dont be silly".
Or something like that :)

Anónimo disse...

That just says that you need to go faster than light to escape a black hole and since you can't go faster than light you can't escape black holes.

"I thought since escape velocity increases, speed of light would increase too at some point."

Wrong if speed of light would increase it would escape a black hole and it doesnt ;), and escape velocity is just a "constant" that needs to be broken in order to something escape in a black hole.

And I believe that Hawking Radiation is the way they found out there were black holes around. Which is since a black hole is absorving stuff they circle it and smash against each other every smash creates energy and some form of radiation (UV, X-ray, light, etc) and thats how they found out the existance of black holes. =)


No, people make life unfair.


PS:hehe np I only found out because of the nick and well I was really bored :P.
There is another in english but it seemed too personal.

Calucifer disse...

Oh well, fair enough :)

But if ppl are a part of your life you can say that life's unfair.
Right?


PS: You like calucifer too eh? :P
I already knew how they found black holes, but tell me, how do you know so much about the subject? ( curious person? )

Anónimo disse...

Not just because they exist, only actions make it unfair, and our own actions are the easiest to spot.


I'm curious too especially about astrophysics/astronomy/quantum physics, science in general i guess, as well as other stuff :P.

PS: It was actually a mistype cause the name i wanted was Calcifer and before i could correct it the page loaded and boredom with free time leads to make comments :P

Calucifer disse...

Then life's unfair. :P

Curiousity killed the cat.
Ahah.
:)

PS: I checked on that one. Needs some updates :P

Anónimo disse...

No, then WE make life unfair ;)


Poor kitten, thank God I'm human :D
:p


PS: Yes it does :p but I dont know the owner just browsing, you find funny things with some nicks we are used to.

Calucifer disse...

Indeed :)

Snow disse...

31) People who don't drive slam car doors too hard.


zomg so true!! :X coitadinho do meu carrinho :\

Calucifer disse...

lololol por acaso como não conduzo tento sempre ter cuidado com isso :x