Why does toast always fall butter side down !!!

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  1. Gue

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    reyt get's me mad up !!!!
     
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  2. EastStander

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    What should get your back up

    is why you keep dropping it!
     
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  3. Gue

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    Butter fingers !!!! nt
     
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  4. pau

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    paul.d, Jan 11, 2008
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  5. Gue

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    More to the point, why do people ask this question. Toast doesn't fall butter side down every time and even if it did it really wouldn't be worth worrying about. So there.
     
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    I'll make the toast next time I'm round at yours.

    </p>

    Then I'll scrape the unused spread back in the tub with some crumbs. You like that don't you?</p>
     
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  7. Isl

    Isle of Wight Tyke Active Member

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    I think the obvious solution for the toast catastrophy is to maintain a thin and clean layer of butter on the floor. Obviously you'll need a harness and a rope and pulley system to move about the kitchen and a dust/dirt free environment, like a garage might have for spraying cars.

    Simple
     
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    Easier solution

    Stop buttering fingers just do the toast

    Why butter your fingers?
     
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  9. E.I. Addio

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    The chances of buttered toast falling butter side down are...

    ...directly proportional to the price of the carpet.
     
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  10. Gue

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    Alternatively, you could settle for a bowl of corn flakes instead of toast. Even simpler.
     
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  11. E.I. Addio

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    If 'n' components are required for a job, there will always be 'n-1' in stock. nt

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  12. Gue

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    No I don't..

    and i'll tell you someting else i don't like....

    people who use the same knife in the butter and then straight in the marmalade...

    Smegs of the highest order.
     
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  13. Dan

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    Toast falls butter side down because that side's heaviest, its as simple as that
     
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    Depends on the temperature of the toast when you buttered it.

    </p>

    If most of the butter has been absorbed then it's possible that the slice is weighted the other way round.</p>

    What the **** amI on about?</p>
     
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  15. The Mannster

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    And cats always land on their feet...

    What about if we buttered the cat's back? Hmm
     
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  16. Dan

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    the cat would land on its feet, it would just get very fat over the following days as it licked all the butter out of its fur
     
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    Someone actually reserched it

    read a paper on it once - cant be bothered to look for it again though formulas, experimental results and everything

    It really does land buttered side down much more often than half the time

    Its to do with the fact that you have it buttered side up when you drop it, as if falls it rotates the average rotational speed is such that if dropped from just above table height its likely to land buttered side down
     
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  18. EastStander

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    More of a mess to clean up when he drops it though!
     
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    Strap it to the back of a cat!

    They always land on their feet!
     
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    It to do with the amount of times it can turn over....

    from the height of a standard worktop. Apparently if it just gets knocked off it only has time to do one full 'flip' before it hits the ground.

    Sorry for the boring answer.
     
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