Why is it so?

[willedoo]

Life is full of never ending questions. Why is it that catwalk models walk pigeon-toed down the catwalk, crossing their feet in front of each other like they're purposely trying to trip themselves up. A mystery (to me it is anyway ). At least nowdays they have fuller figures and that heroin chic rubbish has gone out of fashion, so that's one consolation.

 

And why is it that when you throw something out that you haven't used or thought about for years, within days you really, really need it.

[Marty_d]

These are the mysteries of our times!

[pmccarthy]

Why do hoses and extension leads always tangle? Why does a dropped nut always bounce under the car or bench?

[nomadpete]

Why are hoses and extension leads all manufactured a poofteenth too short?

[nomadpete]

And a dropped nut will always gravitate to the most inaccessible location, where it will do the most harm if left there?

[Fliteright]

Why is it that the bloody phone always rings just when you sit down for a 'movement'?:-)

[Old Koreelah]

19 minutes ago, Fliteright said:

Why is it that the bloody phone always rings just when you sit down for a 'movement'?:-)

‘Cos they’re watching you…

[onetrack]

Why is it, a dropped nut or screw rolls or bounces at least a metre away from where you last spotted it hitting the ground?

Why is it, the dropped nut or screw ends up the exact same colour as the rocks, dirt or grass it lands in?

 

Why is it, the only nut, washer or screw of its type, that you're trying to clean up in the wire wheel on the grinder, is grabbed by the wire wheel, and thrown to the most distant part of your shed, never to be seen or found again?

[willedoo]

9 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

Why do hoses and extension leads always tangle?

I have a bad habit of walking around with a power tool with it's lead dragging unwound and dangling down. Quite often as I walk the lead will get between the legs, then the leg movement makes the lead swing from side to side out the rear end, like some sort of animal tail. It makes you feel really stupid until you come to a halt and remedy the situation. It only happens with power tools that have a long enough cord to do it.

[Fliteright]

Why is it that 5 pair of socks go into the washing machine & only 9 come out!:-)

Why is it that when she says I've got a headache its ok no fooling around but if the guy says it you must be cheating?:-)

Edited September 21, 2021 by Fliteright

[old man emu]

Why is is that last week you put something away, thinking that it could be useful someday, but when that day comes a week later, you can't remember where the Hell you put it?

[red750]

It's called "getting older".

[pmccarthy]

We finally gave up looking for our wok this week and my wife bought a new one. Within an hour I had found it in the camping gear while looking for a something else.

[facthunter]

You don't have two wok when you can fry do you? Nev

[old man emu]

18 minutes ago, facthunter said:

You don't have two wok when you can fry do you? Nev

Here we go again. Getting all steamed up.

[pmccarthy]

You blokes can sure dish it out.

[Old Koreelah]

3 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

We finally gave up looking for our wok this week and my wife bought a new one. Within an hour I had found it in the camping gear while looking for a something else.

How can you lose something so big? Ours sits on top of the Rayburn and is used regularly.

Woks are an amazing, efficent cooking device, with lots of other uses.

Mine has served me since 1975 on camping and bike trips, where it cooked our dinner, served as washup dish and was sometimes used to drain Corse + from my Ducati.

 

 

[Yenn]

I used mine to clean out the septic tank. No more stir fries.

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, Yenn said:

I used mine to clean out the septic tank. No more stir fries.

Gone over to shit sandwiches

[old man emu]

Why is is that if you lose the bolt holding the last thing you are trying to replace, so you spend time bodgying up something to make do, that as you are about to put your tools away, you find the damned bolt?

[facthunter]

  You usually find the missing bolt under your knee as you are getting out from under the car.  Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

Why is it that when re-assembling something after repairing it, there is always something left over (seals, bolts, etc), yet it appears to work fine - and continue to do so?

[Marty_d]

On 22/09/2021 at 9:39 AM, pmccarthy said:

We finally gave up looking for our wok this week and my wife bought a new one. Within an hour I had found it in the camping gear while looking for a something else.

I thought you might have thrown it at a wabbit.

[red750]

Why is it that you can manage your medications quite successfully at home for years, but when you go into hospital, they lock them up and dispence them like you were going to binge on them? Also checking your ID wristband a hundred times over?

[Jerry_Atrick]

Sadly, in litigious times we live in, people can't be victims of their own ineptitude and the blame has fallen on the hospitals for not taking due care and diligence looking after their patients. Better to have the money go into health care than ambulance chasing lawyers.