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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

"

What but I've seen them...can't be true

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No John Livingston?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Equality.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

"

God

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

What but I've seen them...can't be true "

Actually you haven't, probably a herring full is what you've seen.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

What but I've seen them...can't be true

Actually you haven't, probably a herring full is what you've seen."

Even gull

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

God "

Does he exist...I haven't seen him

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By *wist my nipplesCouple
over a year ago

North East Scotland, mostly

No such thing as a pterodactyl.

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

I saw seagulls today.. they exist..

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I saw seagulls today.. they exist.."

I refer you to above!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A telescope that can view objects smaller than 25 metres across on the moon. Meaning that no telescope can see anything left by any of the lunar missions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A politician that doesn’t lie

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Ghosts

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By *nglishdoodMan
over a year ago

Morristown

A dominant bi couple here on fab apparently!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

There no such thing as a tree.

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"There no such thing as a tree. "

Wel tell that to the tree huggers

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

"

A seagull is a gull by the sea, surely that's correct?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There no such thing as a tree.

Wel tell that to the tree huggers "

Poor sad deluded fools!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

God

Does he exist...I haven't seen him "

he or she doesn't exist but we all know about God

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

A seagull is a gull by the sea, surely that's correct? "

No, sorry.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My sex life

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

A seagull is a gull by the sea, surely that's correct?

No, sorry. "

But it's in the Oxford English dictionary!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's no such thing as a banana tree, and most nuts aren't actually nuts.

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By *terobs6869Man
over a year ago

Llandudno

There is no such job as 'lawyer'

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

A seagull is a gull by the sea, surely that's correct?

No, sorry. But it's in the Oxford English dictionary! "

There is no bird called a seagull, would a dog paddling in the sea be called a seal?

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

I would call a dog paddling in the sea a dog..

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

Strawberries aren't really fruit. - the pips are on the outside.

Cucumbers can be classified as fruit coz their seeds are inside.

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

There are no ‘Fab Straight’ guys in the forums.

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"There's no such thing as a banana tree, and most nuts aren't actually nuts."

Is there a coconut tree?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

straight men on fab

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

There is no such animal as a fish.

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By *eavensent78Couple
over a year ago

west mids

Unicorns

We have looked and looked

Definitely none

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Unicorns

We have looked and looked

Definitely none "

Shame for you.

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands


"There is no such animal as a fish. "
That one is correct because a fish isn't an animal

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There is no such animal as a fish. That one is correct because a fish isn't an animal "

Ignoring the fact that fish don't exist what would it be then, a vegetable or a mineral!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

"

I pointed that out in the Seagull thread last week

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By *illyjohnyCouple
over a year ago

brighton

None of us exist in reality we are all figments of an unknown entities imagination

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

I pointed that out in the Seagull thread last week "

Well done, sir.

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford


"There is no such animal as a fish. "

There is. I ate one on Friday

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

A seagull is a gull by the sea, surely that's correct? "

There are several types of gull but none are call seagulls.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A sun.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"There is no such animal as a fish. "

A fish is not an animal!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

A seagull is a gull by the sea, surely that's correct?

There are several types of gull but none are call seagulls. "

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands


"There is no such animal as a fish.

A fish is not an animal!"

It's a vegetable or a mineral apparently. And we need to throw out our Oxford English dictionary

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There is no such animal as a fish.

A fish is not an animal! It's a vegetable or a mineral apparently. And we need to throw out our Oxford English dictionary "

Biologically speaking there is no animal called a "fish" and how on earth if it did exist could it be a vegetable or a mineral, were did you get your OED from???

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By *nglishdoodMan
over a year ago

Morristown


"There is no such animal as a fish.

A fish is not an animal! It's a vegetable or a mineral apparently. And we need to throw out our Oxford English dictionary

Biologically speaking there is no animal called a "fish" and how on earth if it did exist could it be a vegetable or a mineral, were did you get your OED from??? "

I think I see it now. Clearly a flying fish is a seagull! Eureka!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There is no such animal as a fish.

A fish is not an animal! It's a vegetable or a mineral apparently. And we need to throw out our Oxford English dictionary

Biologically speaking there is no animal called a "fish" and how on earth if it did exist could it be a vegetable or a mineral, were did you get your OED from???

I think I see it now. Clearly a flying fish is a seagull! Eureka! "

You crack it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Brexit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so"

Fantastic, love that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so

Fantastic, love that. "

I'm full of useless information like that lol

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By *obshortMan
over a year ago

Cork


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

A seagull is a gull by the sea, surely that's correct?

There are several types of gull but none are call seagulls.

A Gull by any other name is still a seagull. "

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By *MP3Man
over a year ago

Between Scylla and Charybdis

The Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu. I spent many fruitless years searching...

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

I’m confused

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

... A fish?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I seen my phone do stupid things

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My parents convinced me that there was such a thing as haggis, asin it was a tiny ball of fluff that was similar to a mole, infact they took me haggis hunting at night on campsites when I was young, they pointed to mole hills and told me they were haggis hills, they even told me they were very cute and shy but loved childrens toys and one day my dolly went missing and they told me the haggis had taken it to calm down their babies, it was returned several days later all covered in soil

They made such a convincing story to me as a young child that I never second guessed it as a young adult, until one of my teachers at high school laughed at me. True story.

Ive had several glasses of wine and cant remember if this relates tk the thread

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

men on here saying they're athletic

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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners

Artificial intelligence that is actually intelligent does not exist....

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so

Fantastic, love that.

I'm full of useless information like that lol"

Love a person like you.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales


"My parents convinced me that there was such a thing as haggis, asin it was a tiny ball of fluff that was similar to a mole, infact they took me haggis hunting at night on campsites when I was young, they pointed to mole hills and told me they were haggis hills, they even told me they were very cute and shy but loved childrens toys and one day my dolly went missing and they told me the haggis had taken it to calm down their babies, it was returned several days later all covered in soil

They made such a convincing story to me as a young child that I never second guessed it as a young adult, until one of my teachers at high school laughed at me. True story.

Ive had several glasses of wine and cant remember if this relates tk the thread "

I love that!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My parents convinced me that there was such a thing as haggis, asin it was a tiny ball of fluff that was similar to a mole, infact they took me haggis hunting at night on campsites when I was young, they pointed to mole hills and told me they were haggis hills, they even told me they were very cute and shy but loved childrens toys and one day my dolly went missing and they told me the haggis had taken it to calm down their babies, it was returned several days later all covered in soil

They made such a convincing story to me as a young child that I never second guessed it as a young adult, until one of my teachers at high school laughed at me. True story.

Ive had several glasses of wine and cant remember if this relates tk the thread

I love that!! "

Seriously I was totally convinced, it never crossed my mind that they were winding me up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Finland

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This could get very philosophical. Do things I can't see exist?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Artificial intelligence that is actually intelligent does not exist...."

Absolutely correct. It only mimics thinking patterns, some very close but not by human standards more like an Ant.

Starting with a knowledge base and building relationships between information using neural networks allows them to expand and grow, a basic form of learning by making connections between things. However this doesn't actually equal a computer that can truly "think" for itself and thus not technically intelligent anymore than Google is. Another example of this being applied is in an advanced piece of chess software, it can appear to be a real person thinking but it actually isn't.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so

Fantastic, love that.

I'm full of useless information like that lol"

Definitely my kind of person.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My parents convinced me that there was such a thing as haggis, asin it was a tiny ball of fluff that was similar to a mole, infact they took me haggis hunting at night on campsites when I was young, they pointed to mole hills and told me they were haggis hills, they even told me they were very cute and shy but loved childrens toys and one day my dolly went missing and they told me the haggis had taken it to calm down their babies, it was returned several days later all covered in soil

They made such a convincing story to me as a young child that I never second guessed it as a young adult, until one of my teachers at high school laughed at me. True story.

Ive had several glasses of wine and cant remember if this relates tk the thread

I love that!! "

Love to you private lessons!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Artificial intelligence that is actually intelligent does not exist....

Absolutely correct. It only mimics thinking patterns, some very close but not by human standards more like an Ant.

Starting with a knowledge base and building relationships between information using neural networks allows them to expand and grow, a basic form of learning by making connections between things. However this doesn't actually equal a computer that can truly "think" for itself and thus not technically intelligent anymore than Google is. Another example of this being applied is in an advanced piece of chess software, it can appear to be a real person thinking but it actually isn't."

What about AI that creates a language humans cant understand, to communicate with one another? That has happened. They had to turn them off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My parents convinced me that there was such a thing as haggis, asin it was a tiny ball of fluff that was similar to a mole, infact they took me haggis hunting at night on campsites when I was young, they pointed to mole hills and told me they were haggis hills, they even told me they were very cute and shy but loved childrens toys and one day my dolly went missing and they told me the haggis had taken it to calm down their babies, it was returned several days later all covered in soil

They made such a convincing story to me as a young child that I never second guessed it as a young adult, until one of my teachers at high school laughed at me. True story.

Ive had several glasses of wine and cant remember if this relates tk the thread "

Haha I love that.

Not quite the same but when I was a kid we went around Scotland in a motorhome. I heard of haggis but no idea what it was. My parents thought it would be hilarious to convince me it was the testicles of horses.

I couldn't eat it that day and have never been able to eat it since lol

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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners


"Artificial intelligence that is actually intelligent does not exist....

Absolutely correct. It only mimics thinking patterns, some very close but not by human standards more like an Ant.

Starting with a knowledge base and building relationships between information using neural networks allows them to expand and grow, a basic form of learning by making connections between things. However this doesn't actually equal a computer that can truly "think" for itself and thus not technically intelligent anymore than Google is. Another example of this being applied is in an advanced piece of chess software, it can appear to be a real person thinking but it actually isn't."

Exactly...

To put it another way intelligence implies consciousness. As a computer is not and never will be conscious. As there is no such thing as artificial consciousness there no such thing as artificial intelligence.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so"

Are you saying the moon does not orbit around the earth or that is does not orbit in a perfect circle?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spaghetti Bolognaise doesn't exist.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Artificial intelligence that is actually intelligent does not exist....

Absolutely correct. It only mimics thinking patterns, some very close but not by human standards more like an Ant.

Starting with a knowledge base and building relationships between information using neural networks allows them to expand and grow, a basic form of learning by making connections between things. However this doesn't actually equal a computer that can truly "think" for itself and thus not technically intelligent anymore than Google is. Another example of this being applied is in an advanced piece of chess software, it can appear to be a real person thinking but it actually isn't.

What about AI that creates a language humans cant understand, to communicate with one another? That has happened. They had to turn them off."

I know I've seen that and did seem a bit freaky, even scary at the idea of it lol

But the way it works is still the same, the basic functioning of a computer is boolean values (yes/no, true/false, on/off). Algorithms can be extremely complex but always boils down to this at its most fundamental level and a LOT can be done with this basic function, it is basically logical ordering.

These two were able to determine that they were not talking to a real human based on factors like speed, word usage, etc. They are programmed to speak the most efficient way possible. Not talking to a human meant certain ways of talking could be removed to make it more efficient because both understood it. Kind of similar to how Asian people like Chinese speak a slightly different form of English.

They then simply kept saying to each other "let's remove this, that's remove that, this is a shorter way to say/spell this".

Knowing they were both computers meant they didn't have to wait for humans to think and process what was being said, they could just throw out the changes to each other rapidly and it basically gets stored like in a database.

English is one of the most complex languages in the world, most languages are actually a lot more basic. These computers very rapidly break down the English further and further, far too fast for humans to follow in the same way a computer can do calculations faster than a human but doesn't make them intelligent. As they are being broken down they also substitute parts of the language for simpler forms. A bit like people using text speech? And that's just one step, imagine hundreds of steps made rapidly... Thus it appears to be a whole new language

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so

Are you saying the moon does not orbit around the earth or that is does not orbit in a perfect circle?"

No the moon does not actually orbit around the Earth, to do so the moon would need to come to a complete stop and reverse direction, which is physically impossible.

It is all relative. It looks like the moon orbits the Earth to someone on the Earth looking up at the moon, in a similar way that it looks like the sun orbits the Earth when you look up in the sky. If you looked at the Earth, moon and sun from outside our solar system this isn't what actually happens

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip


"Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so

Are you saying the moon does not orbit around the earth or that is does not orbit in a perfect circle?

No the moon does not actually orbit around the Earth, to do so the moon would need to come to a complete stop and reverse direction, which is physically impossible.

It is all relative. It looks like the moon orbits the Earth to someone on the Earth looking up at the moon, in a similar way that it looks like the sun orbits the Earth when you look up in the sky. If you looked at the Earth, moon and sun from outside our solar system this isn't what actually happens

"

I'm really confused. If the moon isn't going round the earth, what is really happening that makes it look that way?

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By *ackandJill1Couple
over a year ago

Leeds


"My parents convinced me that there was such a thing as haggis, asin it was a tiny ball of fluff that was similar to a mole, infact they took me haggis hunting at night on campsites when I was young, they pointed to mole hills and told me they were haggis hills, they even told me they were very cute and shy but loved childrens toys and one day my dolly went missing and they told me the haggis had taken it to calm down their babies, it was returned several days later all covered in soil

They made such a convincing story to me as a young child that I never second guessed it as a young adult, until one of my teachers at high school laughed at me. True story.

Ive had several glasses of wine and cant remember if this relates tk the thread "

OMG we must be related somehow!?!? My dad told me almost exactly this except haggis lived on hill and only had 3 legs, 2 longer ones on one side and shorter one on the other which meant if they ran round hill the wrong way they'd roll down to the bottom! I kid you not, ah childhood memories

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By *xMFM3sumsxxWoman
over a year ago

SouthWest Lancashire


"There is no such animal as a fish.

A fish is not an animal! It's a vegetable or a mineral apparently. And we need to throw out our Oxford English dictionary

Biologically speaking there is no animal called a "fish" and how on earth if it did exist could it be a vegetable or a mineral, were did you get your OED from??? "

Fish are a classification of animals though, so you can call fish fish and it makes sense.

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By *agenta400Woman
over a year ago

All over the shop


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

"

Indeed!! They’re only different types of gull. I’ve had that drummed into my head since I was a kid.

Birders ahoy!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I saw seagulls today.. they exist..

I refer you to above! "

seagulls in all their forms exist it's a collective name for different breeds eg terns, auks,skimmers

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By *agenta400Woman
over a year ago

All over the shop

“If I can’t see it, does it exist?”

‘Solipsism (/'s?l?ps?z?m/ (About this soundlisten); from Latin solus, meaning 'alone', and ipse, meaning 'self')[1] is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist. This extreme position is claimed to be irrefutable, as the solipsist believes themselves to be the only true authority, all others being creations of their own mind.’

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Life on other planets we know it must be but we can't see it yet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so

Are you saying the moon does not orbit around the earth or that is does not orbit in a perfect circle?

No the moon does not actually orbit around the Earth, to do so the moon would need to come to a complete stop and reverse direction, which is physically impossible.

It is all relative. It looks like the moon orbits the Earth to someone on the Earth looking up at the moon, in a similar way that it looks like the sun orbits the Earth when you look up in the sky. If you looked at the Earth, moon and sun from outside our solar system this isn't what actually happens

I'm really confused. If the moon isn't going round the earth, what is really happening that makes it look that way?"

It's hard to explain, which is why texts for schools etc are left to just say the moon orbits the earth and both orbit the sun because it's almost correct and much easier to visualise.

In a nutshell the moon orbits the sun in a zigzag motion influenced by the gravitational force of the Earth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gravity we are told it exists but we can't see it, we can see the effect of it but not the gravity itself

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By *arc5t5Man
over a year ago

Chorley

Polite females on here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Gravity we are told it exists but we can't see it, we can see the effect of it but not the gravity itself "

Same could be said about farts... You can't see them but sure as hell know they exist

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tottenham winning the Premier League

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Google states the Moon orbits the Earth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A large moon on the horizon. (an optical illusion)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A footballer actually worth millions for kicking a ball..(a heart surgeon yes)!

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

God "

Brotherly love?

Peace on Earth

Politicians that tell the truth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Father xmas.

The tooth fairy.

Hell.

The Devil.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Here is some physics for you...

Light is not a wave or a particle, yet it can be a wave or a particle

Despite what you are taught in school, the moon does not circle around the Earth. It would actually go against the rules of physics to do so

Are you saying the moon does not orbit around the earth or that is does not orbit in a perfect circle?

No the moon does not actually orbit around the Earth, to do so the moon would need to come to a complete stop and reverse direction, which is physically impossible.

It is all relative. It looks like the moon orbits the Earth to someone on the Earth looking up at the moon, in a similar way that it looks like the sun orbits the Earth when you look up in the sky. If you looked at the Earth, moon and sun from outside our solar system this isn't what actually happens

I'm really confused. If the moon isn't going round the earth, what is really happening that makes it look that way?

It's hard to explain, which is why texts for schools etc are left to just say the moon orbits the earth and both orbit the sun because it's almost correct and much easier to visualise.

In a nutshell the moon orbits the sun in a zigzag motion influenced by the gravitational force of the Earth"

Surely the Earth and moon orbit their common barycentre which is within the radius of the Earth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Gravity we are told it exists but we can't see it, we can see the effect of it but not the gravity itself "

Someone prefers the theory of intelligent falling

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"There is no such animal as a fish.

A fish is not an animal! It's a vegetable or a mineral apparently. And we need to throw out our Oxford English dictionary "

It’s actually a cold blooded vertebrate.

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

The milk of human kindness. I saw Richard Herring spill the last of it back in the 90s. He tried to lap it up but it flowed off of the surfaces

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Truly free speech

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By *AYENCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Bird piss.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My parents convinced me that there was such a thing as haggis, asin it was a tiny ball of fluff that was similar to a mole, infact they took me haggis hunting at night on campsites when I was young, they pointed to mole hills and told me they were haggis hills, they even told me they were very cute and shy but loved childrens toys and one day my dolly went missing and they told me the haggis had taken it to calm down their babies, it was returned several days later all covered in soil

They made such a convincing story to me as a young child that I never second guessed it as a young adult, until one of my teachers at high school laughed at me. True story.

Ive had several glasses of wine and cant remember if this relates tk the thread

OMG we must be related somehow!?!? My dad told me almost exactly this except haggis lived on hill and only had 3 legs, 2 longer ones on one side and shorter one on the other which meant if they ran round hill the wrong way they'd roll down to the bottom! I kid you not, ah childhood memories "

Brilliant, I would've totally fallen for that haha

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"In best QI fashion what doesn't actually exist?

There is no bird called a seagull.

A seagull is a gull by the sea, surely that's correct?

No, sorry. But it's in the Oxford English dictionary!

There is no bird called a seagull, would a dog paddling in the sea be called a seal? "

If he answered to that name

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"Artificial intelligence that is actually intelligent does not exist....

Absolutely correct. It only mimics thinking patterns, some very close but not by human standards more like an Ant.

Starting with a knowledge base and building relationships between information using neural networks allows them to expand and grow, a basic form of learning by making connections between things. However this doesn't actually equal a computer that can truly "think" for itself and thus not technically intelligent anymore than Google is. Another example of this being applied is in an advanced piece of chess software, it can appear to be a real person thinking but it actually isn't.

What about AI that creates a language humans cant understand, to communicate with one another? That has happened. They had to turn them off.

I know I've seen that and did seem a bit freaky, even scary at the idea of it lol

But the way it works is still the same, the basic functioning of a computer is boolean values (yes/no, true/false, on/off). Algorithms can be extremely complex but always boils down to this at its most fundamental level and a LOT can be done with this basic function, it is basically logical ordering.

These two were able to determine that they were not talking to a real human based on factors like speed, word usage, etc. They are programmed to speak the most efficient way possible. Not talking to a human meant certain ways of talking could be removed to make it more efficient because both understood it. Kind of similar to how Asian people like Chinese speak a slightly different form of English.

They then simply kept saying to each other "let's remove this, that's remove that, this is a shorter way to say/spell this".

Knowing they were both computers meant they didn't have to wait for humans to think and process what was being said, they could just throw out the changes to each other rapidly and it basically gets stored like in a database.

English is one of the most complex languages in the world, most languages are actually a lot more basic. These computers very rapidly break down the English further and further, far too fast for humans to follow in the same way a computer can do calculations faster than a human but doesn't make them intelligent. As they are being broken down they also substitute parts of the language for simpler forms. A bit like people using text speech? And that's just one step, imagine hundreds of steps made rapidly... Thus it appears to be a whole new language "

I find myself attracted to you right now great explanations

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The ratio of men to women on this site, we guess it's top heavy with men but we don't know it

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By *rednwilma1Couple
over a year ago

york

I'm getting a headache !!!!

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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners

Hedgehogs that Stand on Two Feet and are Super Fast and Can Talk.....

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By *olacolaMan
over a year ago

lincoln

God and the baby Jesus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thanks for extending my block list

You’re all amazing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Spaghetti Bolognaise doesn't exist."

That’s actually true. I asked for it in a restaurant in Rome and they had no idea what I was talking about. I spent five minutes saying spaghetti bolognaise in various styles of Italian accent until our table was surrounded by hysterical staff, then I ordered pizza.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I find myself attracted to you right now great explanations"

.

Without even knowing which one of us actually wrote this either, let alone what I look like

Well now, I do believe somebody may be a sapio?

I think you enjoy talking almost as much as sexual meets at times and find 99% of people on fab a turn off, cringe worthy even. You don't like to do things how others think they should be, but your own way and part of you likes the idea that others may follow you.

Maybe I am wrong, buts that's the first impression I get from you within just a few words you spoke

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By *agicroundabout3100Couple
over a year ago

Camberley


"Unicorns

We have looked and looked

Definitely none "

So true

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

A woman or couple for me on fab

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.


"I would call a dog paddling in the sea a dog..

"

A sea dog.

Actually I’ve heard of seeing and hearing dogs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The female orgasm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There is no such animal as a fish.

A fish is not an animal! It's a vegetable or a mineral apparently. And we need to throw out our Oxford English dictionary

Biologically speaking there is no animal called a "fish" and how on earth if it did exist could it be a vegetable or a mineral, were did you get your OED from??? "

What about a silverfish? Do they exist?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The female orgasm "

What you doing wrong pal?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scarlett johansons pussy I know it exists but ive never seen it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The female orgasm

What you doing wrong pal?"

Literally nothing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the gspot duh

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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners

The movie Dirty Dancing....

I’ve never seen so it can’t exist....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

White men can’t jump

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By *ouis CyphreMan
over a year ago

The Midlands

Space Hoppers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Emptiness beyond the Universe ( if the universe is expanding what is it expanding into)!

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Apologies if I'm being thick here , but how the Fuck is a Fish not an Animal??

What is it then , a combine fuckin harvester ??

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By *nglishdoodMan
over a year ago

Morristown


"Apologies if I'm being thick here , but how the Fuck is a Fish not an Animal??

What is it then , a combine fuckin harvester ??"

It's a seagull. Do try and keep up old chap!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Apologies if I'm being thick here , but how the Fuck is a Fish not an Animal??

What is it then , a combine fuckin harvester ??

It's a seagull. Do try and keep up old chap! "

.

a combine harvester IS a type of fish..

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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners


"Apologies if I'm being thick here , but how the Fuck is a Fish not an Animal??

What is it then , a combine fuckin harvester ??

It's a seagull. Do try and keep up old chap! "

Latest Theory now has it as a female orgasm...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Apologies if I'm being thick here , but how the Fuck is a Fish not an Animal??

What is it then , a combine fuckin harvester ??"

I know, I know he was adamant though!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A fish with three eyes is a fiiish...Fact

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

That there is a clock in the Palace of Westminster called 'Big Ben'

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"A fish with three eyes is a fiiish...Fact "

You being watching The Simpsons?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pluto as a planet....poor pluto. .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Moonlight.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The horizon I know it exists but can't see it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hank Marvin the guitarist ( he's just a shadow) !

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"I find myself attracted to you right now great explanations

.

Without even knowing which one of us actually wrote this either, let alone what I look like

Well now, I do believe somebody may be a sapio?

I think you enjoy talking almost as much as sexual meets at times and find 99% of people on fab a turn off, cringe worthy even. You don't like to do things how others think they should be, but your own way and part of you likes the idea that others may follow you.

Maybe I am wrong, buts that's the first impression I get from you within just a few words you spoke "

It was meant as a compliment only it doesn't matter who wrote it. I am attracted to warm clever people it wasn't meant to be taken that seriously but no worries

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I am attracted to warm clever people "

Thats what I meant when I asked if you were a sapio?

Sapiosexuals are attracted to intelligence and why I pointed out you didn't even know which one of us wrote it lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How about salt in the sea?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"How about salt in the sea?"
you can taste it

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There is no such animal as a fish.

A fish is not an animal! It's a vegetable or a mineral apparently. And we need to throw out our Oxford English dictionary

Biologically speaking there is no animal called a "fish" and how on earth if it did exist could it be a vegetable or a mineral, were did you get your OED from???

What about a silverfish? Do they exist?"

Just seen one while having a shower at work, think they're an insect?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"How about salt in the sea?you can taste it "

Maybe daisy doesn't swallow!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"How about salt in the sea?you can taste it

Maybe daisy doesn't swallow!! "

A no swallowing Daisy. Now that doesn't exist

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A mirage

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

My erection

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

A Conker tree.

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch


"There no such thing as a tree. "

No such genus I think you mean ie it's not an official scientific category or sub

However a thing they most certainly are , the word conveys a meaning understood and used practicality by millions , thus it's a thing of broad definition x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sawing a woman in half

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My love life! Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The word' gullible' is missing from the Oxford English Dictionary.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gravity

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The word' gullible' is missing from the Oxford English Dictionary."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Middle earth

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By *layer oneMan
over a year ago

mirfield

Legit meets

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"Legit meets "

I read that as leg it meets..I bet theres a few of them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chop suey in China

(It's an American dish originally ). !

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Chop suey in China

(It's an American dish originally ). !"

That's true, same as tandoori chicken in this country, along with virtually every other apparently authentic Indian dish!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A foregone conclusion in any sporting event !(it's what keeps the bookies rich)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Legit meets

I read that as leg it meets..I bet theres a few of them"

Haha oooops!

There are plenty of legit meets though...

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

Common sense

It rarely seems to exist nowadays.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

City scoring last minute against us twice , oh the celebration

Oh wait hold on, nope no goal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"City scoring last minute against us twice , oh the celebration

Oh wait hold on, nope no goal

"

You DO know the offside rule?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"City scoring last minute against us twice , oh the celebration

Oh wait hold on, nope no goal

"

Ouch! #Dejavu

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can’t be bothered to scroll up so sorry if it’s been mentioned....

Time does not exist

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I can’t be bothered to scroll up so sorry if it’s been mentioned....

Time does not exist "

I think time only exists locally!

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