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Random things you think are weird

Last time I checked, Harvey's (a Canadian fast-food chain) still sold hot dogs. I think Dairy Queen does too - now that's weird. DQ should sell nothing but ice cream, IMO. They're not called "Food Queen", after all. :lol:)
I think DQ is now teamed up with Orange Julius, a place that has great Hot Dogs, especially Chili Dogs. :bolian:

I read or watched somewhere that this is because Hot Dogs were considered "lower class" than hamburgers, and also seen as less wholesome, due to the myths of what goes into them. That said, I honestly don't think that what goes into Dogs is worse than what goes into a McDonald's Burger...
That's weird. There was nothing lower class than McDonald's when it first started-- some would say still. :rommie:
 
Did you know that 'weird' used to mean 'fate'? In Scots 'they maun dree their ain wyrd' still means they must suffer their own fate.

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I've always thought it was weird that the big fast-food chains don't sell Hot Dogs. They started out selling nothing but Hamburgers, Cheeseburgers, Fries and Coke-- but not Hot Dogs. Over the years, they've added salads and breakfast and Chicken Sandwiches and desserts and a bunch of other stuff. But never Hot Dogs. Hot Dogs go hand in hand with Hamburgers. I don't get it. :confused:

Last time I checked, Harvey's (a Canadian fast-food chain) still sold hot dogs. I think Dairy Queen does too - now that's weird. DQ should sell nothing but ice cream, IMO. They're not called "Food Queen", after all.

There's New York Fries, too. They actually tend to have pretty decent hot dogs.

Still, if I'm going to get a hot dog, it'll be from a hot dog cart. They're the best way to have 'em, IMO. Cheap, and grilled right in front of you with tons of toppings. :)
 
I've always thought it was weird that the big fast-food chains don't sell Hot Dogs. They started out selling nothing but Hamburgers, Cheeseburgers, Fries and Coke-- but not Hot Dogs. Over the years, they've added salads and breakfast and Chicken Sandwiches and desserts and a bunch of other stuff. But never Hot Dogs. Hot Dogs go hand in hand with Hamburgers. I don't get it. :confused:

Last time I checked, Harvey's (a Canadian fast-food chain) still sold hot dogs. I think Dairy Queen does too - now that's weird. DQ should sell nothing but ice cream, IMO. They're not called "Food Queen", after all.

There's New York Fries, too. They actually tend to have pretty decent hot dogs.

Still, if I'm going to get a hot dog, it'll be from a hot dog cart. They're the best way to have 'em, IMO. Cheap, and grilled right in front of you with tons of toppings. :)

Mustard, Ketchup, Onions, Pickle relish is my favorite, I also like to add lettuce, tomato and sauerkraut. That is one awesome hot dog right there, I promise you that.

J.
 
Doors. You can push a door by just putting your hand on it and moving your hand away from you, but you can't pull a door by putting your hand on it and moving your hand toward you. You have to have a handle or knob, which basically gives you a surface where you can put your hand on the far side and push it toward you.

And thinking about why that happens; it's because of the physics of matter. Your hand, and the door, are both made of atoms, which are nuclei with a cloud of electrons around them. The electrons in your hand and the electrons in the door come close and repel each other, and that repulsive force allows you to push the door. But there's no attractive force that would allow you to directly pull the door, since the positive nuclei are farther away. So you need the handle or knob to push on with the repulsive force.

So thinking about a simple everyday door leads to a microscopic realm of charged particles.
 
Last time I checked, Harvey's (a Canadian fast-food chain) still sold hot dogs. I think Dairy Queen does too - now that's weird. DQ should sell nothing but ice cream, IMO. They're not called "Food Queen", after all.

There's New York Fries, too. They actually tend to have pretty decent hot dogs.

Still, if I'm going to get a hot dog, it'll be from a hot dog cart. They're the best way to have 'em, IMO. Cheap, and grilled right in front of you with tons of toppings. :)

Mustard, Ketchup, Onions, Pickle relish is my favorite, I also like to add lettuce, tomato and sauerkraut. That is one awesome hot dog right there, I promise you that.

J.

Mustard, cheese, BBQ sauce, onions and hot peppers for me. It doesn't make sense, but it ends up tasting good somehow!
 
^ Most of the stands I've gone to are pretty reputable. There's one here in town I frequent a lot, and the guy who runs it is pretty nice. Always does a great job of cooking the meat, he's friendly, and the dogs\sausages are high quality.
 
I think it's weird that "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing, but "sanction" (to approve) and "sanction" (to punish, as in a trade embargo) are opposites.
 
And thinking about why that happens; it's because of the physics of matter. Your hand, and the door, are both made of atoms, which are nuclei with a cloud of electrons around them. The electrons in your hand and the electrons in the door come close and repel each other, and that repulsive force allows you to push the door. But there's no attractive force that would allow you to directly pull the door, since the positive nuclei are farther away. So you need the handle or knob to push on with the repulsive force.


That's not strictly... right.
 
Some Dairy Queens are seasonal and only sell Ice Cream

Some of us eat ice cream all year round. :D

Yeah, but smaller "burgerless" Dairy Queen outlets do most of their business during warmer months and thus are closed for 6 months. There's a locally owned DQ knock-off place that's the same way in a small town near me. They close in september. I was bummed out last year because I wanted a banana shake only to find they were done for the season.

When I lived in the south, there were no seasonal DQ's. They were all regular ones where you could get burgers, etc, too.
 
I think its weird that moths come out at night but then fly straight for the nearest point of light.

Also most people think owls are clever yet in reality they are think as shite
 
I wonder which doctor first thought "I should check this guy's pee. Maybe that will tell me something?"

You know, they used to taste it too...

Chemistry owes so much to the brave scientists of the era when your standard tests were 'what does it taste like', 'does the smell make you throw up', and 'what happens if I bathe in it.'

Those were the glory days. Now people just run tests in SPSS. :(

Did you know that 'weird' used to mean 'fate'? In Scots 'they maun dree their ain wyrd' still means they must suffer their own fate.

Blame Shakespeare and the play which must never be named. ;)

It's almost solely down to his calling the witches "The Weird Sisters" that weird became a word for strange rather than fate. I suspect he used Weird to mean Fate, to create a link with the Three Fates from Greek myth.
 
Moderators here sometimes talk about "handing out infractions".

To "hand out an infraction" suggests you're giving posters a punishable violation of the rules, which makes no sense.

It makes better sense to hand out "warnings for an infraction of the rules" or to say that someone's actions constitute an "infraction for [insert rule violation here]" which warrants a warning.

Just saying. :)
 
Did you know that 'weird' used to mean 'fate'? In Scots 'they maun dree their ain wyrd' still means they must suffer their own fate.

Blame Shakespeare and the play which must never be named. ;)

It's almost solely down to his calling the witches "The Weird Sisters" that weird became a word for strange rather than fate. I suspect he used Weird to mean Fate, to create a link with the Three Fates from Greek myth.

I believe that Wyrd was the Old Nordic word for chains of consequent events. The understanding being that threads of causality were entangled with other threads of causality, which makes the future too complex to predict through logical processes. They saw this as strangeness, or "wyrdness", that reasoning could not effectively penetrate the fog of time. They felt that intuition was more trusted, along with all the superstitions and mythologies, etc.

Our usage of the word now is a metaphor of that.
 
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