It flows, you know...


no it fecking doesn't

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(parm, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:12, archived)

Woo!
Now all we need are some paint-by numbers er... numbers
( dotmund shut up dotmund, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:14, archived)

404
and yes it does, just exceptionally slowly
( JustHere, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:15, archived)

Really
Don't get me started. It really doesn't. That website worked earlier, too, but it's a link to a bunch of papers to that effect.

(the conclusion is that yes, if you had a piece of glass a mile long, and could stand it up on end without it collapsing under its own weight, after a million years, you might be able to detect some flow in it using a laser measuring thingy; the lead surrounds in stained glass windows should flow more quickly)

Urban Legends has a whole stack of pages on it.
(parm, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:18, archived)

that's funny
cause in our summerhouse, we have really old windows. the house was built in ~1925 and the glass has quite obviously been flowing down as the glass no longer is clear but has vertical lines all over.
( edovan http://www.edovan.net, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:27, archived)

Just read the page I linked to
Please.
(parm, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:36, archived)

It does!!
If you measure centuries-old glass, it's thicker at the bottom than at the top. Glass is just a super-cooled liquid. In thousands of years, all the glass will be pouring down the drains, trust me!
( Detrius521, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:15, archived)

I was told
It was actually made from the scrotums of virgin badgers. But if you say so.
(mcalidnb, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:18, archived)

It was manufactured like that
They put it in thick side down to increase structural strength.

Your high school science teacher lied to you. Sorry.
(parm, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:18, archived)

i heard it was because
they made it and it took ages to set, so they stacked it up and while it cooled it did flow a little bit

or mabye its all LIES and part of a vast conspiracy to stop us breeding fish that swim in GLASS
( VampireMonkeyOnSpeed sensible shirt, tie, neatly combed hair etc, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:21, archived)

TJ
geocities.com/bluewaterrocket/health/cnn
(Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez is seriously considering a shorter username, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:15, archived)

hahaha
that's almost better than "wanking stops cancer", except of course the fact percentage ;)
( JustHere, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:17, archived)

Does it
really?
( Jacksonville believes God created evolution in 7 days, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:24, archived)

yep
scientifically proven, prostate cancer is less likely if you crack one off regularly - or get a loved one to do it for you, of course
( JustHere, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:28, archived)

b3tans
cracking one off

hmmmm

likes that's gonna happen, oh wait....

..silly me
( Wildheart Baby Jesus is not a plumber, he's a free gas engineer, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:30, archived)

Anyone funding
cervical cancer research?
( Jacksonville believes God created evolution in 7 days, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:33, archived)

ah, wanking
is there anything it doesn't do?
( dotmund shut up dotmund, Tue 28 Oct 2003, 21:45, archived)