User:Dylan Lake/Unusual phrases


 * No humans are literally black in the colour sense of the word.
 * There is also an element of humiliation associated with being covered in an egg's contents, referenced by the phrase "egg on one's face."
 * Often, accidents are investigated so that we can learn how to avoid them in the future.
 * A car accident is an incident during which an automobile either departs from regular pathway into a ditch, or collides with anything that causes damage to the automobile, including other automobiles, telephone poles, buildings, and trees.
 * Left-handed people in the Arab world and Israel actually have it easier, because writing in their languages runs right to left, preventing left-handers from running their hand on the ink as happens with left to right languages.
 * In 1920, at the age of 29, Panzram took the final step in his life of crime by graduating to murder.

Physics
A thumbtack can be inserted by hand because of the large area of its head relative to the area of its point. When a relatively low pressure is applied across the large head of a thumbtack, a high pressure will be applied by the tip of the thumbtack. The low pressure on the head means the thumbtack will not pierce a person's finger. The high pressure at the tip allows it to pierce the surface to which the document is being fastened.

Facts
A thumbtack can be made to spin on its tip like a spinning top by holding the pin (with head facing up) between thumb and forefinger and rapidly spinning and releasing it in one fluid motion.

Thumbtacks are used as a weapon in professional wrestling. 

Criticisms
Some people do not bother with questioning or pondering that can lead to such a crisis, having repressed the knowledge of their upcoming death. Those who are not in a state of existential crisis can peacefully accept that either:
 * It was fun while it lasted
 * The essence of their existence has already been defined by some sort of higher power.
 * That which is important to them is all that needs to matter.
 * Their life in fact has no meaning.