All you sciency people! Confess your madness here!

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Coasting down hills really does save a considerable amount of fuel.

 

[kyser_soze]

If you check your account ballance on an ATM, it will disrupt the phase-space probability of the money, whereas if you don't, the account will have at least a 50% chance of being in credit. Or something. It's a Schroedingers cat thing.

Genius!!

Schordingers ATM...the act of observation makes it so...

Ummm...someone, somewhere knows the sacred rule that governs the passenger loads on the 2 and 432 in the morning, where at THE SAME TIME on two separate days 4 full buses can go past and on the next day they are all empty...I would imagine this applies to a large number of bus routes...

Ms Frog - good call on the Sparking Up rule there.

 

[Techno303]

Superstitions. I get agitated if I see a single magpie, will not put an umbrella up indoors to dry etc.

 

[parallelepipete]

That all the psychiatric medication that they tell you is perfectly safe actually has harmful side-effects.

That psychiatry isn't actually a real science.

That mental illness is "simply a chemical imbalance in the brain" and can be treated by correcting this imbalance using drugs.

Didn't you mean to say "That psychiatry is actually a real science"?

Otherwise you contradicting yourself in the point you seem to be making (that psychiatry's pharmacological basis is erroneous).

Not that I agree with this of course...

 

[parallelepipete]

j=(((w/(1.75xt))+s)+r)+l

my little spliff formula there

That adding three unnecessary sets of parentheses to an equation makes it look more scientific

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

This is actually true in my experience, but cannot be scientifically proven - if you love riding BMX at outdoor skateparks and you are me, then here is a formula type thing to find out the probability that it will rain and that the resultant lack of friction between feet and pedals and between tyres and ramps will make it impossible to ride without definite risk of serious injury:

Where O = outdoors, R = rain and B = bike, and L = me, p=probability

for (L+O+B), p(R) = 1

and therefore we can deduce that if I go outside with my bike with the intention of riding, it WILL rain

bastard mother nature

 

[parallelepipete]

and therefore we can deduce that if I go outside with my bike with the intention of riding, it WILL rain

bastard mother nature

This sounds familiar! 5T3R30TYP3, meet Mrs P; Mrs P, meet 5T3R30TYP3! (Actually I think my wife is in league with the rain god who obligingly tips buckets over our front step so she can claim the weather is awful and is therefore allowed to take the car instead of cycling. It's uncanny though)

My own absolutely scientific belief: Mrs P emits an electromagnetic aura which makes computers (even Macs) crash, hang or perform unrequested tasks spontaneously, as soon as she touches the keyboard, even when I've been working on the same computer for an hour with absolutely no problems.

No, it's really true!

 

[Mation]

My own absolutely scientific belief: Mrs P emits an electromagnetic aura which makes computers (even Macs) crash, hang or perform unrequested tasks spontaneously, as soon as she touches the keyboard, even when I've been working on the same computer for an hour with absolutely no problems.

No, it's really true!

I bet it doesn't happen when she's on her own.

It's a well established fact that computers 'show off' and behave eratically only when someone else is watching you use one, just for a laugh like.

 

[jacobs steel]

Time is meaningless

 

[puke]

If you get a smile from a barmaid you are going to be served next. If you get a smile from a barman it's time to leave.

No matter how many steep hills you walk up you don't feel any better the next time you walk up a steep hill.

 

[laptop]

But... but... these aren't mad!

If you get a smile from a barmaid you are going to be served next. If you get a smile from a barman it's time to leave.

May depend on you and the bar, though: do straight women in straight bars experience it the other way around, and so on?

No matter how many steep hills you walk up you don't feel any better the next time you walk up a steep hill.

* www.stannah.co.uk/stairlifts *

A mug of coffee makes up for an hour's sleep.

 

[kyser_soze]

I think ESP exists and those that have the talent/mutation keep VERY quiet about it.

 

[puke]

I dont think they would install a lift on the 3/4 mile long 11% hill i live on.

 

[888]

That I won't stop existing.

 

[Good Intentions]

It's impossible to trace cellphone calls because there isn't a physical connection from one end of the line to the other.

A solid object is actually solid

 

[Structaural]

74.713% of all statistics are made up on the spot

 

[puke]

That glass isn't actually a liquid, it's a rumour circulated by churches with cheap stained glass windows.

 

[Good Intentions]

Not my craziness, but a comment by someone else (it escapes me who) that seems appropriate:

Economists give their predictions for GDP to a tenth of a percentile to prove that they have a sense of humour.

 

[onemonkey]

i believe that the universe obeys the laws of mathematics at a very deep and fundamental level.

 

[Crispy]

That glass isn't actually a liquid, it's a rumour circulated by churches with cheap stained glass windows.

This one's actually true. Stained glass window panes are thicker at the bottom because they used to make flat glass by spinning a disc of molten glass. The bit at the center would be thicker, meaning every piece cut from the disc would be thicker on one side. This was the side placed down in the window frame, just because it's more stable.

Even the oldest float glass doesn't show any signs of this 'liquid' behaviour.

 

[stroober]

Nuclear fission/radioactivity is prone to giving you a bad (no)hair day