Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 857389 times)

T42 · « **Reply #4050 on:** 22 January, 2020, 02:43:22 pm »

What to corpse means. 19c, apparently.

andrewc · « **Reply #4051 on:** 22 January, 2020, 09:39:11 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 22 January, 2020, 02:43:22 pm

What to corpse means. 19c, apparently.

How appropriate

I've just learned what a Taphonomist is. https://twitter.com/Thomas_Clements/status/1219998244182339584?s=20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphonomy

T42 · « **Reply #4052 on:** 23 January, 2020, 09:20:51 am »

I bet they didn't laugh much.

T42 · « **Reply #4053 on:** 27 January, 2020, 08:39:32 am »

The French name for puffball mushrooms - vesses de loup - means wolves' silent deadly farts. I've known the name for >40 years but only now looked up the literal meaning.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4054 on:** 27 January, 2020, 10:01:16 am »

About Robertson screwdrivers.
https://youtu.be/R-mDqKtivuI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives

Guy · « **Reply #4055 on:** 28 January, 2020, 01:09:19 pm »

Antarctica isn't so much a gurt big island as the biggest island in an archipelago all joined up with ice.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51097309

Legs · « **Reply #4056 on:** 04 February, 2020, 10:22:10 am »

That Kansas City is not in Kansas. Or rather, that there are two Kansas Cities, the larger of which is not in Kansas.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4057 on:** 04 February, 2020, 10:23:47 am »

But which is the one that has the 'crazy little women'?
https://youtu.be/5yk2N9YELjs

T42 · « **Reply #4058 on:** 04 February, 2020, 10:25:42 am »

To roll up my sleeves before planing the edge of a door in situ.

JennyB · « **Reply #4059 on:** 04 February, 2020, 02:40:31 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 04 February, 2020, 10:25:42 am

To roll up my sleeves before planing the edge of a door in situ.

If you roll up your sleeves inwards they stay rolled up. Works for trouser legs too.

PeteB99 · « **Reply #4060 on:** 04 February, 2020, 02:47:59 pm »

That the Blue EU flag is actually the Council of Europe flag (Treaty of London 1949) of which the UK was a founding and continuing member. It was never formally adopted by the EU.

T42 · « **Reply #4061 on:** 04 February, 2020, 03:17:20 pm »

Ain't that a kick in the head? Better not tell Boris.

Canardly · « **Reply #4062 on:** 04 February, 2020, 04:39:11 pm »

Oh that's wonderful.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4063 on:** 04 February, 2020, 07:43:58 pm »

That average speed cameras in the Netherlands work the way people often think they do in the UK (rather than the way they actually do work here).

Quote

THE POLICE IN THE NETHERLANDS USE SOME DIFFERENT METHODS TO

CONTROL THE SPEED OF CARS

Speed cameras: driving too fast past a speed
camera will result in a photograph and a fine.
The cameras are smart, taking a photo of the
passing car at two points along the road,
sometimes also in between. The average
speed between the points determine
whether a fine is produced or not.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10iWb4SJPVt6irFsb-LcX1VocRBNnNRhI/view

rafletcher · « **Reply #4064 on:** 04 February, 2020, 08:03:10 pm »

So how does the U.K. system differ?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4065 on:** 04 February, 2020, 08:53:49 pm »

AFAIUI the UK system doesn't take your speed at two points, it times you between two points.

jsabine · « **Reply #4066 on:** 04 February, 2020, 11:01:56 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 04 February, 2020, 08:53:49 pm

AFAIUI the UK system doesn't take your speed at two points, it times you between two points.

But that operation is implicit in the assertion that "The average speed between the points determine whether a fine is produced or not."

Well, unless you've got a means of calculating the average speed that doesn't involve dividing the distance between the points by the time taken.

(I bet the cameras record the instant speed as well though, even if it's not usable for prosecution.)

FifeingEejit · « **Reply #4067 on:** 05 February, 2020, 12:14:07 am »

UK type approval for average speed cameras currently allows for
Between any 2 points where there is no change in speed limit

These rules make the set up of the A9 perth to Inverness cameras obvious.
Then only intermediate camera on a single carriageway section is at bruaf iirc. The rest are all at the nearest point to the stsrt of dual carriageway that a power supply could be made cheaply.
Also because there's no wiring linking them all together like on all the other schemes, the control computers have to go on site, and they only have a handful of pairs of them.

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Legs · « **Reply #4068 on:** 05 February, 2020, 08:34:26 am »

Quote from: jsabine on 04 February, 2020, 11:01:56 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 04 February, 2020, 08:53:49 pm
AFAIUI the UK system doesn't take your speed at two points, it times you between two points.

But that operation is implicit in the assertion that "The average speed between the points determine whether a fine is produced or not."

Well, unless you've got a means of calculating the average speed that doesn't involve dividing the distance between the points by the time taken.

(I bet the cameras record the instant speed as well though, even if it's not usable for prosecution.)

Agreed. I thought Cudzo was going to illuminate me about a common misconception, but it turns out that he has misread the Dutch pamphlet.

T42 · « **Reply #4069 on:** 05 February, 2020, 04:00:58 pm »

That the first and third letters of 4a in this morning's Guardian's Quick Crossword were not F and E.

https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/quick/15521

nicknack · « **Reply #4070 on:** 05 February, 2020, 05:31:03 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 05 February, 2020, 04:00:58 pm

That the first and third letters of 4a in this morning's Guardian's Quick Crossword were not F and E.

https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/quick/15521

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4071 on:** 06 February, 2020, 01:05:03 pm »

Quote from: Legs on 05 February, 2020, 08:34:26 am

Quote from: jsabine on 04 February, 2020, 11:01:56 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 04 February, 2020, 08:53:49 pm
AFAIUI the UK system doesn't take your speed at two points, it times you between two points.

But that operation is implicit in the assertion that "The average speed between the points determine whether a fine is produced or not."

Well, unless you've got a means of calculating the average speed that doesn't involve dividing the distance between the points by the time taken.

(I bet the cameras record the instant speed as well though, even if it's not usable for prosecution.)
Agreed. I thought Cudzo was going to illuminate me about a common misconception, but it turns out that he has misread the Dutch pamphlet.

I have. Sorry.

L CC · « **Reply #4072 on:** 07 February, 2020, 01:21:09 pm »

Paul Daniels famous husband of the lovely Debbie McGee, was born in Middlesbrough.

(office game - name 5 good things to come out of Middlesbrough. Google aid was required)

Efrogwr · « **Reply #4073 on:** 07 February, 2020, 07:59:37 pm »

Quote from: fboab on 07 February, 2020, 01:21:09 pm

Paul Daniels famous husband of the lovely Debbie McGee, was born in Middlesbrough.

(office game - name 5 good things to come out of Middlesbrough. Google aid was required)

I can name two... My niece, Smoggy Jane, and Bob Mortimer, who is the only amusing person ever y
To come from Mbro.

Bugger! I've remembered two more; Paul Rogers of Free Nd the late, great, Ron Aspery of Back Door.

I'll give up now, while I'm behind.

Chris S · « **Reply #4074 on:** 07 February, 2020, 11:24:09 pm »

Jiberjaber OTP.

For my part - what I've learned today - what Flotsam and Jetsam are. Human pollution and whale crap. Great. It all sounded so enticing and mysterious as I was growing up on various family beach holidays. Now it just sounds miserable and nasty.

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