what I have learned today.

[ian]

I've been keeping an unlicensed breeding population of Canadians behind the garage for years. What's the fine for that?

[Mr Larrington]

I've been keeping an unlicensed breeding population of Canadians behind the garage for years. What's the fine for that?

Five Bloody Marys and/or ten How's Your Fathers, I think.  How do they get on with the BEARs?

[ian]

For reasons, on our smart TV, we always check out the weather using an app from a Canadian weather network. It has a video section with lots of videos of wild Canadian weather and all things Canada.

There are always videos of Canadians surprised to see bears. OMG! THERE'S A BEAR IN MY GARDEN!

Yes, that's because you live in Canada, where bears live*. If you lived – say – in Lewisham, this would be an actual surprise.

*with the notable exception of the Surrey bears.

[trekker12]

In Alberta, possession of an unlicensed rat can earn you a fine of $5000 or sixty days in gaol.

How does the rat apply for a license?

[ian]

Online, at alberta.gov.ca

[Ham]

Recycled PET bottles are known as rPET. Wouldn't Cilla be pleased?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Pentimento. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentimento One of those cases where you know the thing but not the word.

[FifeingEejit]

NHS Taysides video about 72 years of NHS Scotland revealed that the building I work in was a Geriatric Unit at the hospital it used to be.
It appears on maps mid-50s which fits with the opening date in 1957

Further digging reveals it was one of the earliest Specialist Geriatric units in Scotland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Taylor_Brown

"I was also very happy to hear the noble Lord, Lord Craigton, speak about the value of the geriatric assessment units. As he knows, there is in operation in Maryfield Hospital, under Dr. Taylor Brown, a most effective unit of that kind. He, I think, like me, has seen it in operation, and it is amazing the extent to which old people are enabled to return to a normal life by an application of the special techniques which have been discovered because such a unit was set up in the Eastern Region. I know that before long it will, in fact, be standard practice everywhere."
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1962/mar/29/hospital-plan-for-scotland


And seemingly one of the major steps to "care in the community"
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1957/jul/24/scotland-health-services

This work of restoring old people to health and activity is already being carried out by geriatric units at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, and at Maryfield Hospital. Dundee. The latest figures from Maryfield will, I know, interest the Committee. They show that some 53 per cent, of old people admitted—and we all know what it used to be like when an old person was admitted to hospital—were sufficiently restored to return home or to be discharged to residential accommodation. As several speakers have said, when old people are discharged to their own homes, they can receive very valuable assistance from the home helps service, and I am very glad to be able to tell, hon. Members that this year for the first time every—and I repeat every—Scottish local health authority is operating a home help service scheme of this kind. It is best, of course, for old people to live in their own homes——




The general belief here has been that this bit was the nurses home
So those ghosts people claim to see...

[Paul]

That a ml of water weighs a gram. My new kitchen scales taught me. I kept switching from mls to gms to check, and looking at it like a slack-jawed yokel.

How did I not know this?

How much time have I squandered in my life, rummaging about looking for a measuring jug when the scale was right in front of me?

 

[Mrs Pingu]

 

[T42]

Just about the first thing we learnt in grammar school physics was that the density of water was 1 gm/cc (back then the abbreviation was gm).  I much prefer cc to ml, too: you can picture a little cube of water, 1 cm on a side.

[robgul]

That a ml of water weighs a gram. My new kitchen scales taught me. I kept switching from mls to gms to check, and looking at it like a slack-jawed yokel.

How did I not know this?

How much time have I squandered in my life, rummaging about looking for a measuring jug when the scale was right in front of me?

 

.... and for old school codgers : a pint of water weighs a pound and quarter

Rob

[Tim Hall]

Just about the first thing we learnt in grammar school physics was that the density of water was 1 gm/cc (back then the abbreviation was gm).  I much prefer cc to ml, too: you can picture a little cube of water, 1 cm on a side.

Don't forget that's at 4 degrees C, which is, I think, when water is at its densest. (See also why ice floats).

[hatler]

Ten out of ten Mr Hall.

[Andrij]

The Girl From Ipanema is weirder than I ever imagined.

[ElyDave]

That a ml of water weighs a gram. My new kitchen scales taught me. I kept switching from mls to gms to check, and looking at it like a slack-jawed yokel.

How did I not know this?

How much time have I squandered in my life, rummaging about looking for a measuring jug when the scale was right in front of me?

 

I don't doubt that this is true but 

and at the same time 

And also 4.18J/K/g = 1 cal/C/g when you are a water otter [kettle]

[Tim Hall]

That a ml of water weighs a gram. My new kitchen scales taught me. I kept switching from mls to gms to check, and looking at it like a slack-jawed yokel.

How did I not know this?

How much time have I squandered in my life, rummaging about looking for a measuring jug when the scale was right in front of me?

 

Hang on though. A set of scales that give a read out using a measure of volume? That's just wrong. Suppose you used the ml scale to give you 150ml of corn oil. It would be the Wrong Amount.

[T42]

That a ml of water weighs a gram. My new kitchen scales taught me. I kept switching from mls to gms to check, and looking at it like a slack-jawed yokel.

How did I not know this?

How much time have I squandered in my life, rummaging about looking for a measuring jug when the scale was right in front of me?

 

Hang on though. A set of scales that give a read out using a measure of volume? That's just wrong. Suppose you used the ml scale to give you 150ml of corn oil. It would be the Wrong Amount.

Different substances have different densities at different temperatures, which is why we always followed related school physics results with "at STP", standard temperature and pressure. Even though we usually worked at room temperature.

[Paul]

That a ml of water weighs a gram. My new kitchen scales taught me. I kept switching from mls to gms to check, and looking at it like a slack-jawed yokel.

How did I not know this?

How much time have I squandered in my life, rummaging about looking for a measuring jug when the scale was right in front of me?

 

Hang on though. A set of scales that give a read out using a measure of volume? That's just wrong. Suppose you used the ml scale to give you 150ml of corn oil. It would be the Wrong Amount.

I think the instructions mention this. Would it be much out?

[Tim Hall]

That a ml of water weighs a gram. My new kitchen scales taught me. I kept switching from mls to gms to check, and looking at it like a slack-jawed yokel.

How did I not know this?

How much time have I squandered in my life, rummaging about looking for a measuring jug when the scale was right in front of me?

 

Hang on though. A set of scales that give a read out using a measure of volume? That's just wrong. Suppose you used the ml scale to give you 150ml of corn oil. It would be the Wrong Amount.

I think the instructions mention this. Would it be much out?

Googling suggests corn oil has a density of around 90% that of water. You'll get around 10% more corn oil that you should.

[Paul]

That’s enough to affect the outcome. Shan’t ditch the measuring jug yet then.

[Legs]

Or you could just put in 135g of corn oil?  Wouldn't that be simpler than using the measuring jug?

[Paul]

It would if I could remember that next time.

[Redlight]

That a ml of water weighs a gram. My new kitchen scales taught me. I kept switching from mls to gms to check, and looking at it like a slack-jawed yokel.

How did I not know this?

How much time have I squandered in my life, rummaging about looking for a measuring jug when the scale was right in front of me?

 

Don't worry. I still take great pleasure in reminding my wife about the time she was following a recipe that called for 750ml of white wine and she used a measuring jug...

[Canardly]

That I do not possess a cone spanner that fits my touring bike's dyno wheel. I possess 14/15 and 16mm models. Bugger.  New 17mm ordered.