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Help me with these vitally important philosophical questions

NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
edited December 2025 in General Chat
So, I'm making this thread, to try and poll your answers to some of the most bizarre questions that truly cause my two remaining braincells to battle for the position of third place. Feel free to answer what you think.
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  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    Question One - If you clean the vacuum cleaner, are you now a vacuum cleaner?
  • NemuritaiNemuritai Posts: 895 Part of The Mix Family
    Nathan wrote: »
    Question One - If you clean the vacuum cleaner, are you now a vacuum cleaner?

    Love the thread idea, this is a really fun idea.
    I've never thought about that before... I think not, unless you clean vacuum cleaners for a job or do it regularly - then you might be a vacuum cleaner in terms of like a profession, if that makes any sense. But I don't know if cleaning just a vacuum cleaner or two would make you one 🤔
    I'll definitely be pondering this for the rest of the evening..
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    Nathan wrote: »
    Question One - If you clean the vacuum cleaner, are you now a vacuum cleaner?

    If you clean a vacuum cleaner you become the vacuum cleaner's cleaner but not a vacuum cleaner.

    unrelated to the question:
    This isn't related but I have been wondering this for a while now, why is your pfp goddamn Kim Jong Un? Are we allowed to have dictators as our pfps?
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    This isn't related but I have been wondering this for a while now, why is your pfp goddamn Kim Jong Un? Are we allowed to have dictators as our pfps?

    @so_very_tired dictator is such a strong word. He won the North Korean elections with 99.91% of the vote you know *sarcasm*😂 - https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/29/kim-jong-uns-grip-power-peril-just-99-91-voted-19894332/

    But in all seriousness, i got to pick the quiz hosts pfp for winning the quiz, i gave multiple options one of which was kim jong un as a joke. He never got picked, but I liked the idea enough to make it my own profile picture. I've not seen anywhere in the community guidelines where it's not allowed, though i'm maybe missing something, but i'm more than happy to change it if it offends or is against the guidelines, to either Kim Jong Duex or something different 😂.
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    Thanks @Nathan now I'm going to change my pfp Hitler and see how long it takes for me to get into trouble with the staff.
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    Thanks @Nathan now I'm going to change my pfp Hitler and see how long it takes for me to get into trouble with the staff.

    @so_very_tired oh, definately don't do that. Absolutely not. Very bad idea
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    I think I ruined this thread. I'm sorry.
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    I think I ruined this thread. I'm sorry.

    @so_very_tired I promise you haven't mate. This thread is intended to be a place for the most bizarre and odd questions imaginable. You don't have to apologise for asking a question bro.
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    I wasn't being serious @Nathan. I apologised because this was a thread about weird and bizarre questions, but I'm talking about changing my pfp to an image of Hitler.
  • eylaheylah Community Connector Posts: 10,407 An Original Mixlorian
    Thanks @Nathan now I'm going to change my pfp Hitler and see how long it takes for me to get into trouble with the staff.

    i don’t think that’s a gd idea 🤣😅.
    ppl dont always need advice. sometimes all they rly need is a hand to hold. an ear to listen. and a heart to understand them. 🧸
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    Question 2 - If tomatoes are a fruit, doesn't that just make ketchup a smoothie?
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    I think I mentioned this on the general chat, smoothies don't have salt and vinegar in them.
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    I think I mentioned this on the general chat, smoothies don't have salt and vinegar in them.

    @so_very_tired I don't know, plenty of health smoothies add salt to be fair, and some detox smoothies even add apple cider vinegar. I think gonna have to lean on the side that they are smoothies.
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    Let me ask you this then @Nathan, if you wanted a smoothie would you get a bottle of ketchup and drink it straight out the bottle?
  • NemuritaiNemuritai Posts: 895 Part of The Mix Family
    edited December 2025
    Let me ask you this then @Nathan, if you wanted a smoothie would you get a bottle of ketchup and drink it straight out the bottle?

    That's what I was thinking. Even if it could technically be considered a smoothie, I think most people would naturally be opposed to drinking it.

    Off topic @Nathan but I miss the adorable duck, it always made me laugh seeing it stare at me whenever you commented 😂
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    Let me ask you this then @Nathan, if you wanted a smoothie would you get a bottle of ketchup and drink it straight out the bottle?

    @so_very_tired i would not, i think it's not whether we would eat or drink it, or would it make a nice smoothie, but rather does it fall into the definition of a smoothie, which as blended fruit i think does? My braincells are really struggling with this question 😂
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    I went onto Reddit and I found out Ketchup is COOKED!!!!!!!! And smoothies are NOT COOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO KETCHUP BY DEFINITION IS NOT A SMOOTHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    edited December 2025
    I went onto Reddit and I found out Ketchup is COOKED!!!!!!!! And smoothies are NOT COOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO KETCHUP BY DEFINITION IS NOT A SMOOTHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    @so_very_tired Strong argument, but the oxford dictionary definition of a smoothie makes no mention of whether the smoothie is or isn't cooked, and focus's on ingredients instead eg blended fruit.
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    Nemuritai wrote: »
    Off topic @Nathan but I miss the adorable duck, it always made me laugh seeing it stare at me whenever you commented 😂

    @Nemuritai aww thanks, i can confirm that the duck shall return soon 😂
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    I suppose you could cook a puree and say it's a smoothie.
  • NemuritaiNemuritai Posts: 895 Part of The Mix Family
    @Nathan apparently Heinz have created a so-called ketchup smoothie - though I'm not sure what's in it or whether it's simply ketchup flavoured.
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    @Nemuritai That sounds foul.
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    Nemuritai wrote: »
    @Nathan apparently Heinz have created a so-called ketchup smoothie - though I'm not sure what's in it or whether it's simply ketchup flavoured.

    @Nemuritai so there is technically a ketchup smoothie? Regardless of how foul it is 😂 I'm changing my stance now, from "yes it is", to "it depends on what specific ketchup" now
  • NemuritaiNemuritai Posts: 895 Part of The Mix Family
    @Nemuritai That sounds foul.

    Honestly, it does kind of doesn't it 🤣I think it's made with real ketchup mixed with berries and apple juice apparently.
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    I suppose you could cook a puree and say it's a smoothie.

    @so_very_tired perhaps, i guess it depends on what puree
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    Who in their in right mind buy that and then drink it?
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    Nemuritai wrote: »
    @Nemuritai That sounds foul.

    Honestly, it does kind of doesn't it 🤣I think it's made with real ketchup mixed with berries and apple juice apparently.

    @Nemuritai Heinz just casually creating the most diabolical invention of all time - that smoothie 😂
  • NemuritaiNemuritai Posts: 895 Part of The Mix Family
    Who in their in right mind buy that and then drink it?

    Gosh knows. I assume they maybe created it to prove a point, but whether it actually tastes good, I'm not too sure about. If I was choosing a smoothie I'd probably choose a flavour that tastes good 😌
  • so_very_tiredso_very_tired Posts: 634 Incredible Poster
    I just remembered there was also a ketchup ice cream.
  • NathanNathan Community Connector Posts: 2,850 Boards Guru
    @so_very_tired omg, is that Margret Thatcher? 😂
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