Questions you want answered.

Duoae wrote:

*Insert the sound of one hand clapping here*

;)

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NSMike wrote:

How long can a plant stay in the same pot of dirt before it consumes all of the nutrients and needs fresh dirt?

Different kinds of plants have significantly different nutrient needs, and these needs change during each plant's growth cycle. The challenge is to keep up with the plant's needs, and to avoid damaging it with either excesses or deficiencies of minerals. As a general rule, a plant consumes more nitrogen during the formative or vegetative stage, and more phosphorus, potassium and magnesium as it flowers. Throughout its growth cycle, the plant will also consume calcium, sulfur and micronutrients such as iron, manganese, boron, molybdenum and copper. Generally, nutrient strength should run between 800 to 1200 parts per million.

In other words, two weeks

Well, the plant is six years old, and on its 3rd pot... So it must not need much if it's still alive. I only ever repotted it because I didn't like the pot anymore, and I used fresh dirt every time.

wanderingtaoist wrote:

Rough, though, through. So similar, yet so different when pronounced. Why? There are foreign people whose brains have been melted by the difference, you now owe them an explanation.

Trough, drought, draught, fraught ...

The answer is history! Etymological history, to be precise.

LobsterMobster wrote:
FSeven wrote:

Doh! Just a TAD small oversight on my part. I suppose human males would be camel-like with large reservoirs of sperm if it were true.

For the record, some of us have genitalia that have been described as "camel-like." ;)

Floppy bumps, eh? You might want to get that checked out.

Switchbreak wrote:
Seth wrote:

How can light be both a particle and a wave?

You know what's crazy? So are all other particles.

Pass around that bong, man.

Can I get into the rotation?

Also: why do dudes have nipples? Did we suckle tiny hairy pseudo-babies once upon a time?

Wrong answer. Nevermind.

Clemenstation wrote:
Switchbreak wrote:
Seth wrote:

How can light be both a particle and a wave?

You know what's crazy? So are all other particles.

Pass around that bong, man.

Can I get into the rotation?

Also: why do dudes have nipples? Did we suckle tiny hairy pseudo-babies once upon a time?

Because nipples are awesome! Did you really need to be told that? This is the reason why the USA is hated around the world... FREE THE NIPPLES!

*Is dragged off while shaking his fists and having 'wardrobe malfunctions'*

Duoae wrote:
Clemenstation wrote:
Switchbreak wrote:
Seth wrote:

How can light be both a particle and a wave?

You know what's crazy? So are all other particles.

Pass around that bong, man.

Can I get into the rotation?

Also: why do dudes have nipples? Did we suckle tiny hairy pseudo-babies once upon a time?

Because nipples are awesome! Did you really need to be told that? This is the reason why the USA is hated around the world... FREE THE NIPPLES!

*Is dragged off while shaking his fists and having 'wardrobe malfunctions'*

Consistancy is awesome

Duoae wrote:

Frankly i'm sick of all this anti-nipple-establishmentarianism

If guys didn't have nipples we'd look funny in bathing suits.

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Question...
Why is it that every time
I'm walking down the street,
Somebody wants to stop me
Just to give me a flyer?

C'mon man...
FUNK DAT!
Get out of my way!

Question...
Why is it that every time
I'm walking to the bank,
The tellers look at me
Like I'm the one that robbed them last week?

C'mon man...
FUNK DAT!
What are you looking at?

Question...
Why is it that every time
I turn on the radio,
I hear the same five songs
fifteen times a day for three months?

Man...
FUNK DAT!
Get a new DJ!

Question...
Why is it that bums ask me for money,
When I ain't got none?
What is it an "in" thing or something,
"Let me remind this dude he ain't got no money. Huh?

Man...
FUNK DAT!
Get a job!

You know,
Every time I see my neighboor,
She tells me to stay out of trouble,
The other one looks at me like
I'm the one that got her daughter strung out.

C'mon man...
FUNK DAT!
What are you looking at?

Seems like every time it never fails,
It never fails...
I'm just chillin' in my crib,
Minding my own business,
And somebody calls me just to talk about nothing...

FUNK DAT!
Get a life!

Question...
Why is it that when I go out to a night club,
Only the ugly chicks wanna step to me,
I mean like I'm ugly or something, huh?
What do you mean, huh?

So... my choice of answers are:

a) Janet Jackson

b) Somebody's asked this question before

c) naked aesthetics

d) Puppy suckling 0% fail

Not a bad spread!

Speaking of weird appendages on people:

Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

What is non sequiter? Is it a noun, verb, adejctive, what?

Seth wrote:

Speaking of weird appendages on people:

Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

There are actually different theories. Some say they would have had them, so as to eliminate any proof of creation and make sure that faith would be the only means to believe in God (which doesn't particularly make sense to me, if the creation story is to be believed, God walked with them in the garden, so there was no need for faith). The other is that since they didn't need them, they wouldn't have them, plain and simple.

Whether Adam and Eve had them is entirely unknowable. But if you subscribe to the idea that dinosaurs, and everything else that appears older than the creation story is to have taken place, is put here as a test to our faith, then you probably believe Adam & Eve had belly buttons. The rest of us, simply, don't care.

Seth wrote:

Speaking of weird appendages on people:

Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

Yes, as did their parents.

Where's Chiggie been? Haven't heard from him in a while.

Clemenstation wrote:
Switchbreak wrote:
Seth wrote:

How can light be both a particle and a wave?

You know what's crazy? So are all other particles.

Pass around that bong, man.

Can I get into the rotation?

Also: why do dudes have nipples? Did we suckle tiny hairy pseudo-babies once upon a time?

Here's an attempt at a serious answer: The Straight Dope. It's actually a pretty interesting read.

Grenn wrote:

What is non sequiter? Is it a noun, verb, adejctive, what?

Non sequitur is Latin for "it does not follow." The term itself is a noun.

In formal logic, it means a conclusion that does not follow from an argument's premises. Informally, it is a comment or image that doesn't have an obvious connection to that which preceded it, usually with the intention of being humorous or confusing. The Simpsons is particularly fond of informal non sequitur.

How did it take humanity millions of years to invent Breathe Right nasal Strips when they work so well?

Seth wrote:

How did it take humanity millions of years to invent Breathe Right nasal Strips when they work so well?

I think you might want to revise that length of time.... Homosapiens haven't been around anywhere near that long (according to current fossil records).

Plus, narrower nasal passages are a more recent evolution - like ginger hair. I guess it's only even more recently that men have become the whipping boys to women and thus have to try and stop snoring..... whereas before they would have just slept while giving birth and lactating for the babies when the men were out hunting. Unless you were talking about the strips for sports use, in which case you're a pathetic excuse for a human being! Real men/women breathe through their mouths when doing sport.

One of those sentences is serious, the others are not. Which one is it?

Duoae wrote:

Real men/women breathe through their mouths when doing sport.

Usually right before they get knocked out.

What's the best way for me to play System Shock (1) without pirating it?

adam.greenbrier wrote:

What's the best way for me to play System Shock (1) without pirating it?

Have you tried our noble sponsor?

NSMike wrote:
adam.greenbrier wrote:

What's the best way for me to play System Shock (1) without pirating it?

Have you tried our noble sponsor?

Good Old Games? They don't have it.

adam.greenbrier wrote:

What's the best way for me to play System Shock (1) without pirating it?

Buy it used on Amazon or eBay.

What are the post counts for the different tags (office linebacker, jr exec, exec, consultant...) on the way to getting 1000 and a custom one?

ukickmydog wrote:

What are the post counts for the different tags (office linebacker, jr exec, exec, consultant...) on the way to getting 1000 and a custom one?

Oh snap, I've been wondering this myself!

Of course, I don't know how to see how many posts I've made, so it's not like knowing the limits would really matter anyway.

I like how it's a bit veiled... the Escapist forums give out badges for forum post amounts and starting hot threads or whatever, and consequentially the forums are full of dummies rehashing tired old topics for personal gain.

Switchbreak wrote:
Seth wrote:

Speaking of weird appendages on people:

Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

Yes, as did their parents.

Seriously? I don't personally see why a test tube would need a belly button...

Clemenstation wrote:
ukickmydog wrote:

What are the post counts for the different tags (office linebacker, jr exec, exec, consultant...) on the way to getting 1000 and a custom one?

Oh snap, I've been wondering this myself!

Of course, I don't know how to see how many posts I've made, so it's not like knowing the limits would really matter anyway.

I like how it's a bit veiled... the Escapist forums give out badges for forum post amounts and starting hot threads or whatever, and consequentially the forums are full of dummies rehashing tired old topics for personal gain.

Why does no one read the Goodjer Commandments page?

Come one people the guys did such good work to make the User Guide, you should check it out. Not only is the Greatest Threads a great way to involuntarily spit your beverage on your keyboard & screen, but a ton of "How does x work here?" questions are already answered.

RedJen wrote:
Clemenstation wrote:
ukickmydog wrote:

What are the post counts for the different tags (office linebacker, jr exec, exec, consultant...) on the way to getting 1000 and a custom one?

Oh snap, I've been wondering this myself!

Of course, I don't know how to see how many posts I've made, so it's not like knowing the limits would really matter anyway.

I like how it's a bit veiled... the Escapist forums give out badges for forum post amounts and starting hot threads or whatever, and consequentially the forums are full of dummies rehashing tired old topics for personal gain.

Why does no one read the Goodjer Commandments page?

Come one people the guys did such good work to make the User Guide, you should check it out. Not only is the Greatest Threads a great way to involuntarily spit your beverage on your keyboard & screen, but a ton of "How does x work here?" questions are already answered.

Yes the Commandments are spiffy, but nowhere on there (that I can find) or the User Guide does it answer my question... It just says 1000 is a custom one, which I already knew.