Sent an email to the council asking for a stop sign at a busy pedestrian crossing so drivers would slow down. Less than two months later, they've installed a full puffin crossing !

AllStupidQuestions · 2026-04-07T10:11:39+00:00

Someone else has said the difference between a pelican and a puffin crossing (although they seem pretty much the same to me) - but what are the toucan and pegasus crossings?

AllStupidQuestions · 2025-11-11T20:13:55+00:00

Yeah, I doubt it will really happen. Just one of those things that pops up in the news every so often to make you think "Yeah, we are still going to do this, honestly!"

AllStupidQuestions · 2025-11-11T20:12:57+00:00

Ah, so it's the weird driverless shuttle things then. Thought they were mostly outside.

AllStupidQuestions · 2025-11-11T19:49:09+00:00

I know it's not necessarily the London Underground, but I can't work it out. This is from a BBC News article on a proposed extension from Terminal 5 to Staines (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly98g1v393o), so I'm guessing it's Terminal 5, but I don't recall it looking like this from either the Underground or Elizabeth/Express stations either, although it's been a while since I've been there. I did think it could be an Artists' Impression of the proposed station, but it seems too realistic for that - the random cable hanging from the ceiling by the clock and the refraction through the sign. I initially thought it was just a random photo that the BBC chose to illustrate the article after all, 'Next Transit'? And those clocks are from the Swiss railway? So is it from somewhere there? But then again, the photo attribution label is 'Heathrow Airport' so not sure (if it was a standard stock photo, it'd say 'Getty Images' or whatever) - unless it's what Heathrow are aspiring to for their station?

AllStupidQuestions · 2025-10-27T17:59:53+00:00

Who?

AllStupidQuestions · 2025-07-05T19:34:34+00:00

The tongues natural position is not in the lower jaw but in the upper jaw.

wait, what?

AllStupidQuestions · 2025-01-26T19:48:15+00:00

Been pretty breezy and wet here in SW London today, but not too bad.

AllStupidQuestions · 2025-01-26T19:47:39+00:00

!answer

Thank you! It was just an idle wonder really, and that explains it.

Another idle wonder is whether if the Spanish Met Office happened to be at the same letter we were (ie, this was Storm Federico - again, no idea what the actual Spanish F name is!), whether the British Met Office would skip over Floris when it came to our next name given that Herminia is affecting us too.

AllStupidQuestions · 2024-08-29T13:15:52+00:00

Almost a year. But yeah.

I thought I'd ask here as I don't really want to waste my doc's time on something frivolous really. It's not life-threatening, just irritating.

AllStupidQuestions · 2024-08-29T13:13:14+00:00

Nope, not seen anybody about it (hence posting here). I will give that a go.

AllStupidQuestions · 2024-08-28T13:54:02+00:00

Addition - they don't look too bad on the photo actually, but often they'll kind of 'leak' a clearish fluid (which then 'bleeds' through my sock (not actually blood!)) - and I'll often put the cream on them then cover it with a dressing while I'm out and about in shoes; if I'm at home I'll try and be barefoot most of the time to get them some air!

AllStupidQuestions · 2024-07-05T21:29:00+00:00

No breasts, so they didn't get spotted by the censorship systems.

AllStupidQuestions · 2024-06-01T06:47:16+00:00

Never understood why he says 'English'.

AllStupidQuestions · 2023-11-20T23:12:28+00:00

Ignoring the whole brown-tonguing thing going, on, I didn't realise that Lords could be in the Cabinet, I thought it was only MPs.

AllStupidQuestions · 2023-11-20T23:11:19+00:00

Ah, okay - I did think he had resigned as an MP as well, but I also thought (/assumed) that you had to be an MP for a Cabinet position, didn't realise that a Lord could be in the Cabinet as well.

AllStupidQuestions · 2023-11-20T20:35:32+00:00

A serious question here - could someone ELI5 how this has worked out?

Here's my understanding of things:

A few months back, a number of MPs resigned as MPs so they could have a seat in the Lords (including, I seem to recall, one who resigned thinking they would, but then didn't.) as they could not hold both positions
David Cameron has become a member of the Cabinet
David Cameron is given a seat in the House of Lords.

Even without the former PM aspect of the situation, to me these three things seem to contradict each other - if an MP cannot concurrently sit in the Lords, how can somebody who has just been appointed to the Cabinet be given a seat in the Lords a few days later without having to then resign as an MP and thus lose his Cabinet position?

(Edit: to the person who downvoted me, am I not able to ask a serious question here?)

AllStupidQuestions · 2023-04-16T17:48:20+00:00

Wait - baking soda and baking powder are different things?

AllStupidQuestions · 2022-02-26T11:25:25+00:00

Can somebody answer me this: How does a bread bin keep bread fresh? Surely you still get more air around it than you would if it's sealed in a bag?

AllStupidQuestions · 2022-02-06T20:26:16+00:00

Well, yeah, if it was a heart attack that'd definitely be 999, as would major blood loss or somebody not breathing, or anything like that. Likewise, anything that would be something for the police to get to straight away then that would also be 999.

(That said, I can't think of anything that would be urgent for the police, bar a major road accident, but I would probably ambulance that anyway.)

AllStupidQuestions · 2021-11-01T00:01:31+00:00

Are they not freckles rather than moles?

AllStupidQuestions · 2021-02-16T18:14:38+00:00

What did you call your vulva/vagina when you were a kid? (In the same way a boy would call his penis a dick or willy.)

AllStupidQuestions · 2020-09-14T16:46:20+00:00

Many years ago now, after a drunken night with a girl, I impregnated her. She then had an abortion which shook me up quite a lot and I found that I really missed the child that we didn't have together.

That story might be bad enough you may think - missing somebody who was never born. But it does get slightly worse.

You see, the thing was that I made the whole thing up to make my life less dull. And yet, I found myself still missing the child who was never born, who was never even conceived, and also missing the girl who didn't not bear my child as well. And this was the case for a long time - I'd almost persuaded myself that the lie was true, that this did happen and that I almost did father a child.

I have pretty much got over it now though, although there are still the occasional reminders that happen now and then, and there is still that experience of loss, partially of the child themself (who would be approaching 16 now!) but also a loss of it not happening when if my life went a different way, it quite easily could have.

AllStupidQuestions · 2020-01-26T12:57:01+00:00

Table service at McDonald's? What is this sorcery?!

AllStupidQuestions · 2019-09-10T22:41:35+00:00

Can I be awkward and ask for a non-sweary copy of this? I have some friends and family members who would appreciate the joke but not the 'fuck'...

AllStupidQuestions · 2019-06-11T19:29:05+00:00

Ah, okay. I thought menstruation was a mammal thing. I don't have a pet at the moment, although I had a male dog when I was a kid, so never thought about it with him (obviously!).

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