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We’ve had a Hurricane (aircraft) stooging about several times over the last month (we’re close to RAF Halton, and the passing out parades get a flypast), according to Flightradar24 it was built in Canada in 1942 and served its time there. Anyway, today we had the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Avro Lancaster do a couple of circuits at c800ft. Glorious noise.
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Cudzoziemiec

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4. Cut back on car washing
If you need to wash your car, do it the old-fashioned way with a bucket and soap rather than hosing it down. The water contained in a bucket (roughly 30 litres) is significantly less than the average that flows through a hose (around 15 litres per minute). Better yet, avoid washing your car entirely during a drought.
No mention of baby elephants...

https://theconversation.com/five-easy-ways-to-use-less-water-at-home-and-not-just-in-a-drought-187885
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Kim

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IME lobbing a bucket of water over the car is rarely a water-efficient way to rinse it off.  But then I only wash cars for MOT tests and when something (hopefully not a baby elephant) has shat on the windscreen.

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Washing the car is something the garage does when it’s service time.
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We’ve had a Hurricane (aircraft) stooging about several times over the last month (we’re close to RAF Halton, and the passing out parades get a flypast), according to Flightradar24 it was built in Canada in 1942 and served its time there. Anyway, today we had the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Avro Lancaster do a couple of circuits at c800ft. Glorious noise.
Two Spitfires flew over the Scout camp during the week., side by side. Flightradar24 showed them coming out of Biggin Hill, so I guess the two seater sort from the outfit that Jurek had a go with. One was in D Day stripes. The Scouts thought it was brilliant.
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We’ve had a Hurricane (aircraft) stooging about several times over the last month (we’re close to RAF Halton, and the passing out parades get a flypast), according to Flightradar24 it was built in Canada in 1942 and served its time there. Anyway, today we had the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Avro Lancaster do a couple of circuits at c800ft. Glorious noise.
Two Spitfires flew over the Scout camp during the week., side by side. Flightradar24 showed them coming out of Biggin Hill, so I guess the two seater sort from the outfit that Jurek had a go with. One was in D Day stripes. The Scouts thought it was brilliant.

It is. Maybe 15 years ago my wife and I were down at the dead end of the village, leaning on a gate, when the full flight of Lancaster flanked by Hurricane and Spitfire went over at <500ft. The only comparable noise was that of a Vulcan I saw once flying over Thornton Heath (some 60 years ago). Or the Vogon constructor fleet.
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

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Washing the car is something the garage does when it’s service time.

This - call from my local garage (5 mins walk) "you car's ready, passed, no advisories, just being washed now".
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In other news I have now bought* and downloaded a text on overcoming procrastination and we’ll get around to reading it as soon as I stop finding fewer less important things to do.

*lie. It was free as part of my Kindle membership.
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I've just ordered a Yamaha Venovo. It's a little plastic saxophone type thing. I plan to wile away the evenings attempting to learn it as the country plunges into recession. I don't even particularly like saxophones that much, it's just I've always wanted to play El Bimbo, the music from the police academy movies that struck up whenever they went near the blue Oyster bar

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I watch quite a lot of YT stuff about woodwork, engineering, DIY etc and never cease to be amazed at the way people pour liquids from a plastic 5 litre (or similar) container that has the cap offset to one side  and slosh the contents all over the place as they pour with the opening at the bottom ???
(like this )

The effect is that the air that has to be displaced causes a surge in the liquid flow - surely people have been taught to pour with the opening at the top so that the air is displaced smoothly?

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The effect is that the air that has to be displaced causes a surge in the liquid flow - surely people have been taught to pour with the opening at the top so that the air is displaced smoothly?

No, never been taught that, but it's something I've learned from experience.

University of life, mate, innit.
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robgul

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The effect is that the air that has to be displaced causes a surge in the liquid flow - surely people have been taught to pour with the opening at the top so that the air is displaced smoothly?

No, never been taught that, but it's something I've learned from experience.

University of life, mate, innit.

I was taught/told at age 12 by the woodwork master at school when pouring out some woodstain!   ..... but then do they still teach woodwork at schools nowadays?

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surely people have been taught to pour with the opening at the top so that the air is displaced smoothly?

Never been taught it, not done it often enough to work it out through experience, will make a note for the future.   :thumbsup:

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I was taught/told at age 12 by the woodwork master at school when pouring out some woodstain!   ..... but then do they still teach woodwork at schools nowadays?

I had one year of woodwork at school, then they stopped offering it and turned the workshop into a lab.  All I ever really learnt there was how to cut mortises & tenons.

Wish I had some of those old mortise chisels now...
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

citoyen

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I did woodwork at school, but for some reason pouring liquids out of large plastic containers wasn't part of the curriculum.

A few years ago, I did an NVQ carpentry course. That didn't cover pouring liquids out of large plastic containers either, just shit like how to build a door frame and fit a door in it.
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The effect is that the air that has to be displaced causes a surge in the liquid flow - surely people have been taught to pour with the opening at the top so that the air is displaced smoothly?

No, never been taught that, but it's something I've learned from experience.

University of life, mate, innit.

The handle is in the wrong place to pour it properly. There needs to be an additional handle on the side.
It is simpler than it looks.

The effect is that the air that has to be displaced causes a surge in the liquid flow - surely people have been taught to pour with the opening at the top so that the air is displaced smoothly?

No, never been taught that, but it's something I've learned from experience.

University of life, mate, innit.

The handle is in the wrong place to pour it properly. There needs to be an additional handle on the side.

Which is why I’ve always poured that type of container whilst holding it on its side with the spout (in my case) on the right.  Left hand on the handle at the top, right underneath at the back.
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

The effect is that the air that has to be displaced causes a surge in the liquid flow - surely people have been taught to pour with the opening at the top so that the air is displaced smoothly?

No, never been taught that, but it's something I've learned from experience.

University of life, mate, innit.

I was taught/told at age 12 by the woodwork master at school when pouring out some woodstain!   ..... but then do they still teach woodwork at schools nowadays?

Well that’s one thing I have learned today.  Never taught that at school, never really taught anything practical at school.  That’s the benefit of an expensive grammar school education!  It’s obvious now you say it, but it hadn’t occurred to me.

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I've known about that since I was a spotty and fundamentally useless youth employed as chief spanner holder and spare pair of hands (cars, repairing of, for the use of) by Pater so I'm surprised to find that it's unknown to others, but the *main* thought that crosses my mind is; "What comparable, elementary and obvious everyday things don't I know about?"
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Pour from the top, you'll ne'r spill a drop
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I learned about the 5L can thing from experience in a lab. Can't remember if I applied the same thing to juice & milk cartons or was shown...
Do not clench. It only makes it worse.

I'd pour from the top, but can't recall ever having been taught to do so - it just seems the most natural way to do it. How else do you regulate the flow?

robgul

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I'd pour from the top, but can't recall ever having been taught to do so - it just seems the most natural way to do it. How else do you regulate the flow?

Tell that to the YouTubers - especially one guy who splashes petrol or diesel all over his machinery!