Random thoughts

[Legendary Sidekick]

Betta fish.

We've had her for about a year now. We were told she'd live anywhere from 2 months to 2 years. No one said she'd die from a crazy stunt, though. Well… and she didn't. Maybe what didn't kill her made her stronger? It made her smarter anyway. The poor thing was scared, and stayed in the lower part of her tank for a while.

For my six-year-old, it's a great story for her friends. She's learning to look back and laugh since in the end, there was no tragedy.

 

[DaFlaminUnicorn]

that's a nice anecdote.
Ooh more riddles:
1. I'm tall when I'm young but short when I'm old. What am I?
2. What travels the world but stays in one spot?
3. What is the longest word in the dictionary? (joke-ish riddle)
4. What has 4 eyes but can't see?
5. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
6. If I have it, I don't share it. If I share it, I don't have it.
7. What has hands but cannot clap?

 

[Noma Galway]

1. A candle
2. an atlas?
3. smiles
4. no clue
5. short
6. no clue
7. clock

 

[SeverinR]

And now it's time for another one of Legendary Sidekick's
Stupid Pet Tricks!​

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Today, Ginger the Fish jumped out of her tank when I tried to feed her. She tried to bite me or her food or the air or something, then landed on the piano and flopped onto the floor. My wife saved her by picking her up with her hands, thankfully, as the best I could do was cup mine around her to keep her from flopping under the piano.

She's alive.

♪ Ta-daaaaaaaaaaa! ♪

Did it play music or was the lid closed on the piano? Maybe it was trying to play chopsticks?

 

[Ireth]

that's a nice anecdote.
Ooh more riddles:
1. I'm tall when I'm young but short when I'm old. What am I?
2. What travels the world but stays in one spot?
3. What is the longest word in the dictionary? (joke-ish riddle)
4. What has 4 eyes but can't see?
5. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
6. If I have it, I don't share it. If I share it, I don't have it.
7. What has hands but cannot clap?

4. The Mississippi
6. A secret?

 

[Reaver]

Another riddle: What gets wetter the longer it dries?

 

[Noma Galway]

A towel

 

[SeverinR]

Usually if it happens here, there is a reason. But in other forums there are those that call on the dark magics and call up from the bowels of the world wide web to summon up a long dead thread.
Guard against the Necroposter.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thread_Necromancy_3038.jpg

 

[Jabrosky]

I am sick of my dad's attempts to force his political beliefs onto me. It's gotten to the point where I can't even click "Like" under an article on Facebook without pissing him off and triggering him to harass me about his opinions. I love my old man dearly and don't have the heart to block him on Facebook, but I'd rather he not pay attention to my Likes on that website. Especially since we've both pretty much made up our minds about what we believe.

 

[DaFlaminUnicorn]

you guys got them all right except for 2

Spoiler: which was

A Stamp

 

[FatCat]

A woman attends a family funeral, sadly her Uncle passed away from lung cancer. While at the funeral, she meets a man, let's call him Andy. Andy and her hit it off, they share many things in common and laugh at the same jokes. However, upon leaving the funeral, she realizes that she never acquired Andy's phone number.

Two weeks later, the woman drowns her six month old child. Why?

 

[SeverinR]

The grammar allergy | uppercaise

Don't kill the poor guy, with bad grammar or axe him with your words.

 

[DaFlaminUnicorn]

Two weeks later, the woman drowns her six month old child. Why?

I'm going to give two guesses which I assume are wrong but I'm just going to put them out there.
1. Andy is a ghost who possesses the woman, causing her to drown her child.
2. The woman is criminally insane and Andy is one of her multiple personalities who caused her to kill her child.
I know these are creepy but that's what happens to your brain when you join the Supernatural fandom. :/

 

[FatCat]

I'm going to give two guesses which I assume are wrong but I'm just going to put them out there.
1. Andy is a ghost who possesses the woman, causing her to drown her child.
2. The woman is criminally insane and Andy is one of her multiple personalities who caused her to kill her child.
I know these are creepy but that's what happens to your brain when you join the Supernatural fandom. :/

Good guesses, but no. And you should feel good that you didn't get the answer right! This was a question developed by psychologists after interviewing psychopaths (or sociopaths, I get them mixed up) to determine whether someone had that mentality.

The answer is so she can see Andy again, because she first met him at a family funeral, and by killing a member of her family Andy may show up. Most people don't make that connection, and for good reason haha.

 

[Jabrosky]

Good guesses, but no. And you should feel good that you didn't get the answer right! This was a question developed by psychologists after interviewing psychopaths (or sociopaths, I get them mixed up) to determine whether someone had that mentality.

The answer is so she can see Andy again, because she first met him at a family funeral, and by killing a member of her family Andy may show up. Most people don't make that connection, and for good reason haha.

That sounds more like a riddle than a useful diagnosis for psychopathy or sociopathy. But a good riddle it is, as it sure had me stumped!

 

[DaFlaminUnicorn]

More riddles YAY!!!!
1. A man is found dead in a phone booth in a pool of blood. The glass on either end of the phone booth is broken and the phone is hanging. Just outside of the phone booth is a bucket and a stick.

What happened?

2. A smooth dance, a ball sport, a place to stay, an Asian country, and a girl's name.

What's her name?

3. A man wants to have a party in thirty-one days where he will be serving his 1000 barrels of wine. The only problem is that one of his enemies poisoned one of the barrels. The poison kills any man who drinks any of the wine in about 30 days, give or take a few hours. The man has 10 plants that are also killed by the poison in 30 days and can be used to test the wine. How can he identify the single poisoned barrel of wine?

4. In an apartment complex in New York there are one hundred married couples. When one of the husbands cheats on his wife with one of the other wives, his wife has no idea. With the large amount of gossip in the complex, all of the other wives know he is cheating. If a wife finds out that her husband is cheating on her, she kills him the following morning. Someone anonymously sends an email to all of the wives in the building saying that at least 1 man is cheating on his wife in the building.

How many husbands will be killed and how long will it take?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________


And GO!!

 

[FatCat]

That sounds more like a riddle than a useful diagnosis for psychopathy or sociopathy. But a good riddle it is, as it sure had me stumped!

It's a riddle in only that the question demands (for most) an answer that is unavailable. The point is the riddle turns into a mere question of observation of facts. The only two things connecting the conclusion is family ties, yet the question 'why' is not important, it's how. And by that deduction of complete emotional disconnect can be provided by a mere riddle.

 

[Jabrosky]

Fun fact: there is a city in Ethiopia called Gondar, and it is known for old castles like this:

Anyone else in this community think the place name "Gondar" sounds awfully familiar? Here's a hint: it's only one vowel different from one of the kingdoms in one classic fantasy trilogy.

 

[Ankari]

Good guesses, but no. And you should feel good that you didn't get the answer right! This was a question developed by psychologists after interviewing psychopaths (or sociopaths, I get them mixed up) to determine whether someone had that mentality.

The answer is so she can see Andy again, because she first met him at a family funeral, and by killing a member of her family Andy may show up. Most people don't make that connection, and for good reason haha.

Crap. I made the connection.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Two 20th-century villains have turned out to be good guys in their old age.



In the 80s, Actor #1 worked for Dick Jones–Dick Joooooooooones! But now he's a kindly old man whose child is back from the dead.

Actor #2 was a shape-shifting killer robot in the 90s, but now he leads a team of nerds to save lives.



Name the actors, as well as the 20th-century movies and current TV shows in which they played the roles described above.