Realising Obvious Things (that Blow Your Mind)

[mattyg]

There's several places...

1) The back of your right hand.
2) The back of your right wrist.
3) Your right forearm.
4) Your right elbow.

Backs of hands are still touching each other.

Initially, I thought that has to be somewhere on your right arm, between wrist and shoulder, but on thinking it through, that doesn’t work, well, maybe your right forearm, so put me out of my misery.
I’ll ask my wife in the morning, and she’ll think for 5 or 6 seconds and come up with an answer, she’s always said, “Jean, you’re undoubtedly intelligent, but you have zero common sense.”

On your elbow

Unless you have a joint in your forearm your not touching the other hand

 

[Mr Badger]

One thing I'd really like to know is why humans are hairless.

In the spirit of this thread, I think I've just realised how Potatolord got his name.

 

[Vanquish-Storm]

But does it? Nothing is infinite...

I might be wilding wrong here but are numbers/counting not infinite?

 

[Nitefly]

But does it? Nothing is infinite...

Eminem’s first album might have something to say about that.

 

[Kreeeee]

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[Nitefly]

Your eyes don’t only move up and down and side to side, they rotate about the axis of the pupil.

Look in a mirror and tilt your head side to side (move your ears towards your shoulders) and you can see your pupils rotate a couple of degrees.

I think he was joking

 

[Kreeeee]

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[bloodiedathame]

I might be wilding wrong here but are numbers/counting not infinite?

There's plenty that's infinite in mathematics. Positive numbers, negative numbers, fractions, time... Whether physically anything can be infinite, space being the obvious example... there's no reason it can't be.

 

[Nitefly]

He’s not, you can easily see your eyes move in both the way he stated, and the way I started.

Oh - I took it as a "you can see your head move so your eyes are also moving" sort of comment

 

[sanaxe1]

Not mega obvious. But when you see things like Ye Old Tavern for example it's pronounced The Old Tavern as that Y isn't actually a Y it's "Thorn" which started off looking like Þ but over the years started looking more and more like a Y so they changed it to the Latin Th.

 

[RxR]

Comfort - com + fort: to strengthen.

 

[RoboCod]

The calendar year used to start in March rather than January. This is why Septem which means 7, Octo which means 8, Novem means 9 and Decem which means 10 are 2 months out.

This is great.

 

[Bluecube]

The calendar year used to start in March rather than January. This is why Septem which means 7, Octo which means 8, Novem means 9 and Decem which means 10 are 2 months out.

Pretty sure that’s wrong. January is is named after Janus, a Roman god and has been around for a while. Not sure about February. The two “new” extra months are July and August after Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar.

 

[Hades]

Backs of hands are still touching each other.



On your elbow

Unless you have a joint in your forearm your not touching the other hand

So two places then:

1) Elbow
2) Back of the forearm.

 

[dowie]

All notes can have a sharp or flat, but not all sharps and flats will be black keys.

If you’re just talking about the note names on a piano tho...all the sharps or flats are black keys

using things like E# and B# for C# Major is another thing...

@Dirk Diggler is right here
https://www.key-notes.com/blog/piano-key-chart

Now, a sharp (which looks like a pound sign: #) means to play the next higher key. That next key can be either black or white. A flat (which looks like a lowercase ‘B’: b) means to play the next lower key.

Many beginners are confused by this point, as they think that a sharp or flat means a black key. Sharps and flats are not the black keys. All black keys are either a sharp or flat, but not all sharps and flats are black keys. Remember, an accidental (a sharp or flat) merely means to play the next higher or lower key on a piano, and that next key may be black or white.

 

[Thekwango]

Comfort - com + fort: to strengthen.

Blathering - blathe + ring: to waffle

 

[SexyGreyFox]

On a piano, a C sharp key is the same as a D flat. The same goes for all the black keys, they're sharp of the white key to the left and flat of the white key to the right. That was a real penny drop moment on Grade 1 music theory.

And a constant source of argument between band members.
If I asked a new member what the chord sequence of a song is and they say "D C G#" they would be shown the door.
I'm not having that in my life.

 

[builder22]

@Dirk Diggler is right here
https://www.key-notes.com/blog/piano-key-chart

Hmm...suppose so.....you'd never say 'that's an E#' if someone pointed to an F on a keyboard tho but you need to say sharp or flat something if you were asked to name any of the black keys

 

[Dirk Diggler]

And a constant source of argument between band members.
If I asked a new member what the chord sequence of a song is and they say "D C G#" they would be shown the door.
I'm not having that in my life.

Hmm...suppose so.....you'd never say 'that's an E#' if someone pointed to an F on a keyboard tho but you need to say sharp or flat something if you were asked to name any of the black keys

It's more relevant in notation i.e. No one would refer to an F key as E# but it could be written as E# in the context of a key change and then later referred to as natural if it reverts back. Essentially, # means raised by a semi-tone and b means lowered by a semi-tone. The actual note name is irrelevant within notation.

 

[builder22]

yupp...I'm not even sure what my point was now

lets put it down to my poor wording....'If you’re just talking about the note names on a piano tho...all the sharps or flats are black keys' was technically wrong

using enharmonics for any of the white keys on the piano would be unusual unless referring to a specific scale/key/piece might have been better!