Why is it.................?

[CoupeKing]

People collect spoons?

[Trendseeker]

It’s a good question. I looked up the answer. A thing is called a pair if it is always referred to in plural form only. So, trousers, glasses, pliers, tweezers, scissors are called pairs. A shirt is not plural so it isn’t referred to as a pair.

Why do people collect spoons? As a souvenir of where they’ve been. Ironically, most of their spoons would have been made in China. I was in a NPWS shop recently and bought a coaster with an aboriginal pattern on the top. It looks cool on my desk, but the sticker underneath says it was made in China.

[ford71V8]

Originally Posted by Trendseeker

It’s a good question. I looked up the answer. A thing is called a pair if it is always referred to in plural form only. So, trousers, glasses, pliers, tweezers, scissors are called pairs. A shirt is not plural so it isn’t referred to as a pair.

Sorry to keep going with this.
This explanation makes some sense but Im still left wondering why these items are referred to as plural....pants is a plural but its 1 item. Pliers are a tool, not tools (or should that be Pliers is a tool?!)

[Trendseeker]

Originally Posted by ford71V8

Sorry to keep going with this.
This explanation makes some sense but Im still left wondering why these items are referred to as plural....pants is a plural but its 1 item. Pliers are a tool, not tools (or should that be Pliers is a tool?!)

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000039.htm

“A few words, though singular in nature, are made of paired items and generally treated as plural: scissors, pants, trousers, glasses, pliers, tongs, tweezers, and the like. Many are often used with the word pair as in pair of pants or pair of scissors.

Example: These scissors are too dull to cut with.”

So you are correct: Pliers are a tool.

Why a pair of pants? Here is one explanation: https://www.britannica.com/story/why...-pair-of-pants

“According to some, the phrase “pair of pants” harkens back to the days when what constituted pants—or pantaloons, as they were originally known—consisted of two separate items, one for each leg. They were put on one at a time and then secured around the waist. Calling them a pair of pantaloons, or pants, as they were eventually known, made sense when there were two components. The phrasing was retained even after pants were made into one complete garment. However, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence in reference sources to support this theory.”

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Why is it that our pollies, both state and federal, see the only way of gaining votes is to find any little thing that their opposition did 'wrong'.

If you want my vote, tell me what you are going to do for me and the country, not just pointing out what your competitor did wrong.

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0

Why is it that our pollies, both state and federal, see the only way of gaining votes is to find any little thing that their opposition did 'wrong'.

If you want my vote, tell me what you are going to do for me and the country, not just pointing out what your competitor did wrong.

Yeah funny that.Our pollies somehow found about a $billion to fund projects that only a few weeks ago were beyond the state budget.And now apparently within a few months the whole health system will be all hunky dory rather than the shambles that it currently is.Maybe all states should have an election at least once a year to get all problems fixed.

[Syndrome]

Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0

Why is it that our pollies, both state and federal, see the only way of gaining votes is to find any little thing that their opposition did 'wrong'.

If you want my vote, tell me what you are going to do for me and the country, not just pointing out what your competitor did wrong.

Exactly! I found it utterly appalling when former PM Malcolm Turnbull was telling us not to vote for the minor parties as we were throwing away our votes. What an intercourse stick. The reason so many people are moving away from the two main parties is that they no longer represent the people like they used to. Tell me what I should vote for you, NOT who I should not vote for.

[wodahs]

dopers
i mean diapers honest

like dont you see any humour im my past few tongue in cheek comments

[Tonz]

Who turns on the indicator in a driver-less car?

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by Tonz

Who turns on the indicator in a driver-less car?

The back seat driver!

et…

…Why is it, that Australian grown root ginger is so flaming expensive right now?

[Tonz]

cannot get their huge price from overseas????

[jaydee]

and I just read Snickers are now made in China.
Checked a bar in the cupboard, sure enough, says made in China where they can now have 3 kids due to a declining population, WTF on both counts.

[.:4:.]

Why is it, for a number of weeks there has been an update for google chrome, yet it just does the round roundy and wont download? Everything else is up to date, so the operating system, all the other apps and crap. Its a modern samsung ****er phone, so one of the new ones that doesnt fit in your pocket, and its deffinately not due to permissions due to data allowance as i have turned all that off as i have a massive ****er data allowance. And all of the 5 g's. It just will not do the update for chrome.

[Citroënbender]

…The “Manscaped” ads on YouTube. Seriously, what?

[five 7]

My local dairy (deli) owner has decided "India" is a safer country than Nz and returned there with his family, after suffering yet another aggravated robbery. One involved being pistol whipped by a group of girls fourteen to seventeen years old. Your day was always brighter from visiting his shop and his hard working family was a asset to our country, the other peoples parasite kids not so much.

[slowsnake]

Why is it.....that they put a man on the moon in 1969 but every morning when I buy a copy of the West Australian newspaper, they can't fold the damn thing in the middle of the page??

I hate reading around corners!

Cheers Billy.

[danzvtil]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

Why is it.....that they put a man on the moon in 1969 but every morning when I buy a copy of the West Australian newspaper, they can't fold the damn thing in the middle of the page??

I hate reading around corners!

Cheers Billy.

What’s a “newspaper”?

[MITCHAY]

Why is it when I phoned a medical practice the other day and after asking me all the usual questions, they send me a link to fill in literally most of all the same details for some cloud product they use

[slowsnake]

Why is it?...that's my question, why not, Why isn't it??

Cheers Billy.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Why is it when I phoned a medical practice the other day and after asking me all the usual questions, they send me a link to fill in literally most of all the same details for some cloud product they use

Probably the same reason i got yelled at when i went to a neurologist for nerve conduction studies on my left arm that didnt work. Im left handed. I got handed the paperwork after handing over my refferal. Read it and handed the paperwork back blank. I read their paperwork, they didnt read mine. I couldn't handwrite.
And the last time i went to my GP, it wasnt because i was sick, i needed copies of medical records. Their policy (this was late last year) was do not attend if you are sick. That kind of defeats the purpose. How the crap is a GP supposed to diagnose anything properly over the phone? Even though i attended due to just wanting records released for reasons im not getting into, i still had to wait outside for a phonecall from my GP, of whom i trust, to confirm again through all the same questions that im not a desiesed rat, just to be able to enter the building.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Why is it we remove trees on the side of the road to make it safer for the occupants of vehicles, yet we install bollards along the side of the road when we want to separate vehicles from pedestrians?

[Syndrome]

Why is it I cannot find a pork kebab? The Koran forbids muslims from eating meat from this animal however it does not say anything about serving it as food for other people.

[Citroënbender]

From a kosher point of view - which will be similar - you can’t prepare treifah (non kosher items) using surfaces or utensils ritually codified for kosher use.

So it (your pork kebab) would likely require separate kitchens, utensils, all handling and cleaning up facilities. You can’t even wash mixed cutlery. Just not economical.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by Syndrome

Why is it I cannot find a pork kebab? The Koran forbids muslims from eating meat from this animal however it does not say anything about serving it as food for other people.

Maybe you have to find a blind chef with no sense of smell, lol.

And if he plays a mean game of pinball that would be a bonus!



Cheers Billy.

[Citroënbender]

…That earworms are often horrible tunes?

Currently battling to banish Jingle Bell Rock!

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

…That earworms are often horrible tunes?

Currently battling to banish Jingle Bell Rock!

Damn, the shops are introducing Christmas carols earlier and earlier, aren't they?!??!

[ford71V8]

…That earworms are often horrible tunes?

Currently battling to banish Jingle Bell Rock!

I've had 3 Roxette songs on earworm rotation for over a fortnight!
I can't stand these songs.


(did they have more than 3 songs? we can only hope not)

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by ford71V8

I've had 3 Roxette songs on earworm rotation for over a fortnight!

Also have an ongoing earworm of Get Back. I watched the Rooftop Concert last night in hope of sating the earworm beast. It’s been moderately successful.

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by Syndrome

Why is it I cannot find a pork kebab? The Koran forbids muslims from eating meat from this animal however it does not say anything about serving it as food for other people.

Where are you?

I can suggest a few places in Sydney that do something close to a Pork kebab.

Bloody delicious too.

[Citroënbender]

…A primary school can tout itself as this-and-that; technology, excellence, top results, yada yada - yet nobody is smart enough to program its “bells” to stop chiming on public holiday weekdays?