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| Thread ID: 99346 | 2009-04-28 22:57:00 | Quiz For Intelligent People ONLY! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 769299 | 2009-04-29 09:53:00 | I can see dwangs in the second and third pictures. You don't see them in Engand because they build in brick Well you do if you look :) wooden sheds, garages, and there used to be a fair number of wooden bungalows and houses around, in Essex, Kent, and around the New Forest area and Dorset where we lived....noggins in England, but yes brick predominates. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 769300 | 2009-04-29 10:26:00 | That was some good thought provoking stuff Joe :thumbs: | Greg (193) | ||
| 769301 | 2009-04-29 10:39:00 | House Building for People with Large Vocabularies. Rename thread to that. |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 769302 | 2009-04-29 13:34:00 | Not so, grasshopper! There are several ways to define intelligence; true enough I guess but still the definition I go by, and indeed all the quotes you supply would seem to agree, is that intelligence is about logic & problem solving not knowledge. If you never come across a particular piece of information and therefore never learn it, you are not less intelligent as a result. I knew almost none of the answers to the quiz, I don't consider myself stupid as a result. I learn the things that interst me but not so much of what doesn't. In most online IQ tests I score around 130 ish despite them often including questions which assume knowledge of american georaphy or history of which I know nothing. I don't put much stock in these tests though, the more you do them the better you score and I don't think it's from getting smarter for the most part. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 769303 | 2009-04-29 19:46:00 | Well you do if you look :) wooden sheds, garages, and there used to be a fair number of wooden bungalows and houses around, in Essex, Kent, and around the New Forest area and Dorset where we lived....noggins in England, but yes brick predominates. Interesting as I was born and raised in Kent and learnt my trade there of carpenter/ joiner and I very rarely came across framed houses definitely the minority, but as you rightly say plenty of sheds etc |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 769304 | 2009-04-29 21:25:00 | Interesting as I was born and raised in Kent and learnt my trade there of carpenter/ joiner and I very rarely came across framed houses definitely the minority, but as you rightly say plenty of sheds etc This was the sort of thing I was thinking of, and the same sort of buildings are seen all around the east coast, Essex, Suffolk, www.photographersdirect.com Between the wars wooden built bungalows/cottages were popular, and plans were available in the building books and magazines, my Dad had visions of building one in the late 40s, but it didn't eventuate. There were quite a few tucked away on the edge of the New Forest Dorset/Hampshire border, most likely from the 20s and 30s by the look of them. I think building regulations may have restricted wooden buildings in later years, but I see they are making a big come back now, with firms like Colts. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 769305 | 2009-04-30 00:44:00 | In answer to one, what about Synchronised Swimming? Or showjumping? |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 769306 | 2009-04-30 01:23:00 | Or showjumping? SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING? :illogical HORSE JUMPING? :confused: PAINT DRYING? :annoyed: FEMALE BIKINI-JELLO WRESTLING? :banana Next thing, youse guys are gonna call Cricket a sport. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 769307 | 2009-04-30 01:29:00 | Answers To Quiz: 1 . The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing . fencing 2 . North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute . ) . Statue Of Liberty 3 . Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb . Artichokes, Asparagus, Beans (perennials like scarlet runner), Broccoli (perennials like purple cape), Cannas (there are edible forms), Cardoon, Chard (perennial), Chicory, Chives, Chokos, Corn Salad, Dandelions, Fennel, French sorrel, Garlic Chives, Ginger, Good King Henry, Japanese hornwort, Jerusalem artichokes, Lemon Balm, Lovage, New Zealand spinach, okinawan spinach, Purslane, Rhubarb, Rocket, Sorrel, Sweet potato, sunchokes, Tamarillo, Walking Onions 4 . The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry . raspberry, cashew 6 . Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle . dwelling 8 . The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce . Asians cook it . 9 . Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts . snow board |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 769308 | 2009-04-30 01:31:00 | I never actually stopped to think about the seeds being on the outside of a Strawberry before. Ive always just seen a Strawberry and thought "MMmmmm .... now wheres the chocolate dip?" |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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