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Littlee300

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Gxas said:
A man leaps off of the roof of an eleven story building. He takes a running start and when he leaves the roof, he is traveling at 3.2m/s.

How long does it take him to reach the ground?
He took a running start after he leaped off the the roof? Well, since he must be super man. He will hit the ground whenever he wants.
 

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Riddle me this: A man walks into a pub, walks upto the bar and asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender fetches him the glass of water and then throws it over the man. The man thanks the bartender and leaves.

Why did the bartender throw the glass of water over the man?

This is a proper answer to this, not because the bartender is an arsehole.
 

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Coldster said:
norwegian-guy said:
What happens when an unstopable force meets an immovable object?

OR:

It cannot be heared, it cannot be felt.
It cannot be seen, it cannot be smeled.
It lies behind the stars and under hills,
and empty holes it fills.
Comes first, follows after.
Ends life, kills laughter.
Of what do I speak?
Dark! The answer is Dark! LOL I remember that from that funny cartoon.

You sir just made my day.
YES! Someone else got the reference! :D
 

Aethren

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What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps?

Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, often bites but seldom bit, to use me well you must have wit.

You can spin, wheel and twist, but it can turn without moving. What is it?

Today he is there to trip you up and he will torture you tomorrow. Yet he is also there to ease the pain, when you are lost in grief and sorrow.

No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

If you break me I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?

Always old, sometimes new, never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full, never pushes, always pulls.
 

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c_westerman13 said:
depends on a lot of variables:
his weight and build
the height of each storey
weather conditions
etc

but mere seconds either way
Gxas said:
A man leaps off of the roof of an eleven story building. He takes a running start and when he leaves the roof, he is traveling at 3.2m/s.

How long does it take him to reach the ground?
Actually his weight and build dont matter. Give me the hieght of the building, ill give you a time. Gravity pulls him down at 9.8 ms per second. His speed outwards off the building doesnt matter. Its horizontal and we are working on the vertical. Lets assume its 44 m tall cus a story is roughly 4m high. So hes falling 44 m from an initial speed of 0, accelerating at 9.8 ms-2. It should take him... about 3 seconds, 2.99 seconds if youre gonna get pedantic at me. Easy lol.

I find it hard to believe your physics teacher struggled with that. Im like 17 and i can do it using what i learned in my math A level. Pfff. And yeah its the rest of his life. But shhh. I solved it proper ^.^
 

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Gxas said:
A man leaps off of the roof of an eleven story building. He takes a running start and when he leaves the roof, he is traveling at 3.2m/s.

How long does it take him to reach the ground?
Surely your answer (the rest of his life) fails the riddle test for satisfying all eventualities. If in leaping, he jumps onto another roof, and then takes the stairs down, he reaches the ground well before his life is up.
 

c_westerman13

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Jibblejab said:
Riddle me this: A man walks into a pub, walks upto the bar and asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender fetches him the glass of water and then throws it over the man. The man thanks the bartender and leaves.

Why did the bartender throw the glass of water over the man?

This is a proper answer to this, not because the bartender is an arsehole.
the man was on fire
 

c_westerman13

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Aethren said:
What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps?

Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, often bites but seldom bit, to use me well you must have wit.

You can spin, wheel and twist, but it can turn without moving. What is it?

Today he is there to trip you up and he will torture you tomorrow. Yet he is also there to ease the pain, when you are lost in grief and sorrow.

No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

If you break me I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?

Always old, sometimes new, never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full, never pushes, always pulls.
are they all supposed to be different riddles? i'm assuming so.

the first line is a river

the second is a tongue

the third could be tide

the fourth i don't know

the fifth is silence (and has already appeared in the thread)

the sixth and seventh i also don't know
 

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Rhaff said:
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God is omniscient, therefore he knows everything. God is omnipresent, therefore he is everywhere. God is omnipotent, therefore he can do anything. Can god create an object, the he cannot lift or move?
Of course he can...you said it yourself he can do anything - so if he wants to create an object he cannot shift then he can...but then he wouldnt be omnipotent so its a pretty dumbass thing to do as he would be that objects ***** =P
 

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c_westerman13 said:
Last one would be the moon, wouldn't it? I'm tempted to say that the sixth would be the heart, but I'm not sure about that one.

Anyway, probably been brought up, but:
I walk on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the eve. What am I?

/edit
Does this remind anyone else of playing at riddles with the alien in KotOR?
 

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there are three doors, behind one is a prize, you are asked to pick one, then they open one of the doors you DIDN'T pick, to reveal that the prize isn't behind it.

this leaves two doors, the one that you picked, and the one that you didn't. one has the prize the other does not.

you are given the opportunity to switch your selection to the other remaining door.


should you?
 

I am 2 cool 4 anime

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woots7 said:
Heres one, a ancient Indian tribe capture four people bury them all up to there necks in sand like this.

4th man. brick wall. 3rd man. 2nd man. 1st man.

then the Indians put 2 blue hats onto two men (4th and 2nd) and two red hats on the other two (3rd and first). The Indians then say "if two of you can call out the colour of your hat in ten minutes we will let you free."

they cannot twist there heads or body's at all and cannot look up to see there hats how do they get free.
They ask each other what are the colors,

OT:Its dark,the lights are off and the power isn't working a sleepy truck driver is driving in a dark ally,there is a little girl on the road,he doesn't hit the girl,how didn't he hit her?
CAPRTCHA:2OOL lol,best one!
 

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Person X and Person Y are going to have a 3km race to win a million dollars: Person X may choose any mode of transportation he wants to travel on the race (cars, etc) Person Y, however may only go on foot. Before the race, they must both drink a glass of water. Person Y wins the race. Why?
 

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brendonnelly said:
Person X and Person Y are going to have a 3km race to win a million dollars: Person X may choose any mode of transportation he wants to travel on the race (cars, etc) Person Y, however may only go on foot. Before the race, they must both drink a glass of water. Person Y wins the race. Why?
X has no fuel!
 

c_westerman13

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matt87_50 said:
there are three doors, behind one is a prize, you are asked to pick one, then they open one of the doors you DIDN'T pick, to reveal that the prize isn't behind it.

this leaves two doors, the one that you picked, and the one that you didn't. one has the prize the other does not.

you are given the opportunity to switch your selection to the other remaining door.


should you?
yes, your chance of winning the prize increases.
 

c_westerman13

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woots7 said:
Heres one, a ancient Indian tribe capture four people bury them all up to there necks in sand like this.

4th man. brick wall. 3rd man. 2nd man. 1st man.

then the Indians put 2 blue hats onto two men (4th and 2nd) and two red hats on the other two (3rd and first). The Indians then say "if two of you can call out the colour of your hat in ten minutes we will let you free."

they cannot twist there heads or body's at all and cannot look up to see there hats how do they get free.
assuming that the buried men know that there are 2 blue and 2 red hats, then person 2 will answer first. the fact that 3 has not specified his hat colour implies that 1 and 2 have hats of different colours, and so can state that his hat is of a different colour to that of 1. having heard this declaration, 1 also knows that his hat is of the opposite colour to that of 2, by the same logic, and so will declare the colour of his hat.