Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 862037 times)

Ham · « **Reply #5100 on:** 18 March, 2021, 09:11:25 pm »

I learned today that when sitting with a train besotted two year old, when searching for videos on Youtube, without any content filters, it pays to ensure you type the "I" in the search term for trains.

Giraffe · « **Reply #5101 on:** 19 March, 2021, 08:40:19 am »

Did you get crossings?

Tim Hall · « **Reply #5102 on:** 19 March, 2021, 11:41:30 am »

In civil engineering there's a thing called a king post wall. Typically vertical steel channels with horizontal mnembers such as concrete planks or sleepers between them. I knew that.

What I learnt is that in French it's called a Paroi Berlinoise or Berlin Wall.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5103 on:** 20 March, 2021, 01:18:42 pm »

In 2018 the publishers of The Beano sent a Cease and Desist letter to haunted Victorian pencil Jacob Grease-Smugg requiring him to stop impersonating Walter the Softy. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/jacob-reesmogg-accused-of-being-a-big-softy-a3805351.html refers.

andyoxon · « **Reply #5104 on:** 20 March, 2021, 01:35:53 pm »

That I should check the top of the ~~Sriracha~~ ANY sauce is firmly on before shaking the bottle. All over the floor, unit doors, worksurface...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5105 on:** 20 March, 2021, 03:10:42 pm »

Quentin Crisp was originally named Denis Pratt.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #5106 on:** 20 March, 2021, 03:43:11 pm »

Linda McCartney Foods are based in Fakenham

Salvatore · « **Reply #5107 on:** 21 March, 2021, 11:38:24 am »

That the Finnish for grammar nazi is pilkunnussija, literally comma fucker.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5108 on:** 21 March, 2021, 12:25:03 pm »

Remind me to share that gem with Miss von Brandenburg. Mr von Brandenburg is half-Finnish

Jakob W · « **Reply #5109 on:** 21 March, 2021, 04:18:33 pm »

The Dutch for a pedant or nit-picker is miereneuker; lit. 'ant-fucker'.

Poacher · « **Reply #5110 on:** 21 March, 2021, 08:22:03 pm »

SPD cleat bolts (or more correctly machine screws) are almost exactly the right size for attaching guide bushes to a Trend T5 router. I haz several spares!

Jayjay · « **Reply #5111 on:** 22 March, 2021, 09:08:25 pm »

The farm where my Mum began married life had drinking water delivered to a barrel by the "bin men".

T42 · « **Reply #5112 on:** 23 March, 2021, 08:41:11 am »

Quote from: Jakob W on 21 March, 2021, 04:18:33 pm

The Dutch for a pedant or nit-picker is miereneuker; lit. 'ant-fucker'.

In French it's enculeur de mouches, "fly-buggerer".

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5113 on:** 30 March, 2021, 12:16:22 pm »

That .fun is a permitted internet domain ending. Specifically http://inside-out.fun.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5114 on:** 30 March, 2021, 12:39:47 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 30 March, 2021, 12:16:22 pm

That .fun is a permitted internet domain ending. Specifically http://inside-out.fun.

So is .fail, though ICBA to try to find anywhere using it.

Sadly trashbat.co.ck appears no longer tonwork.

Kim · « **Reply #5115 on:** 30 March, 2021, 12:46:17 pm »

They created a shedload of new top-level domains a couple of years ago, on the completely logical basis that it means they can sell people more domains.

This is irksome, and one of the many reasons that modern life is rubbish.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5116 on:** 30 March, 2021, 12:54:31 pm »

I for one have no wish to be .compost. Even though my own personal domain wot is ~~owned~~ rented by me is mostly used as a repository for tat that falls outwith the T&Cs of Flickr. A sort of online Walsall.

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #5117 on:** 01 April, 2021, 08:23:40 am »

If you don’t have a bin collection there is always Facebook.

T42 · « **Reply #5118 on:** 02 April, 2021, 08:37:09 am »

Milwaukee is the 6th most dangerous city in the United States.

I only wanted to look at impact drivers.

robgul · « **Reply #5119 on:** 02 April, 2021, 10:41:20 am »

40mm waste pipe for push-fit and solvent weld are not the same size - I have a solvent welded kitchen waste into an external train and wanted to add a push-fit fitting to extend it slightly. So, off to Screwfix - again.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5120 on:** 02 April, 2021, 06:25:38 pm »

That from 1930 to 1933 the unemployment rate in Poland rose from 10.5% to 43.5%

PeteB99 · « **Reply #5121 on:** 09 April, 2021, 01:48:42 pm »

What the Fujiwhara effect is

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/09/rare-clash-of-cyclones-off-western-australia-excites-weather-enthusiasts-across-the-globe

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5122 on:** 09 April, 2021, 02:21:28 pm »

Quote from: robgul on 02 April, 2021, 10:41:20 am

40mm waste pipe for push-fit and solvent weld are not the same size - I have a solvent welded kitchen waste into an external train and wanted to add a push-fit fitting to extend it slightly. So, off to Screwfix - again.

Doesn't that tend to try and rip the sink out through the wall ?

robgul · « **Reply #5123 on:** 09 April, 2021, 03:55:01 pm »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 09 April, 2021, 02:21:28 pm

Quote from: robgul on 02 April, 2021, 10:41:20 am
40mm waste pipe for push-fit and solvent weld are not the same size - I have a solvent welded kitchen waste into an external train and wanted to add a push-fit fitting to extend it slightly. So, off to Screwfix - again.

Doesn't that tend to try and rip the sink out through the wall ?

Verry good, I must lurn to tipe proper . . . .

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5124 on:** 09 April, 2021, 05:32:53 pm »

Quote from: robgul on 09 April, 2021, 03:55:01 pm

Quote from: pcolbeck on 09 April, 2021, 02:21:28 pm
Quote from: robgul on 02 April, 2021, 10:41:20 am
40mm waste pipe for push-fit and solvent weld are not the same size - I have a solvent welded kitchen waste into an external train and wanted to add a push-fit fitting to extend it slightly. So, off to Screwfix - again.

Doesn't that tend to try and rip the sink out through the wall ?

Verry good, I must lurn to tipe proper . . . .

Makes a change for it not to be me.