Author Topic: what I have learned today. (Read 862304 times)

Canardly · « **Reply #3950 on:** 23 December, 2019, 12:09:33 pm »

Descaling probably. Not a fun job.

T42 · « **Reply #3951 on:** 24 December, 2019, 04:54:26 pm »

Blue masking tape doesn't stick very well to Christmas wrapping-paper.

ian · « **Reply #3952 on:** 24 December, 2019, 05:18:46 pm »

Quote from: Canardly on 23 December, 2019, 12:09:33 pm

Descaling probably. Not a fun job.

Flooded the 'Faith Room.'

Someone evidently hasn't been praying hard enough. It's smiting next.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #3953 on:** 27 December, 2019, 10:38:27 am »

I've been shopping for mudguards today. On the CRC site about SKS Bluemels:

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Highly resistant to corrosion and infused with violet radiation

Kim · « **Reply #3954 on:** 27 December, 2019, 01:14:36 pm »

That's just phatasmagoriana-oriented marketing.

Yesterday I learned that cooking with paracetamol is a thing amongst the unscrupulous (or perhaps ignorant) street vendors of Ghana and Nigeria. Apparently it tenderises the meat more cheaply than the fuel required for longer cooking times, and poisons the livers of repeat customers...

I'm drawn between "OMG fuck no!" and "I must try this, for SCIENCE"

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #3955 on:** 27 December, 2019, 01:45:23 pm »

Seems like another reason to eat vegetarian in these places. The 1st being you dunno what the meat is...

Perhaps you could science it without having to eat the results...

rafletcher · « **Reply #3956 on:** 27 December, 2019, 03:16:46 pm »

That our American boss was somewhat perplexed when he heard we were having a Christmas jumper day, and that even the men were joining in. This led me to learn that in the US a jumper is a pinafore dress, not a sweater. IYSWIM.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3957 on:** 27 December, 2019, 04:13:33 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2019, 10:38:27 am

I've been shopping for mudguards today. On the CRC site about SKS Bluemels:

Quote
Highly resistant to corrosion and infused with violet radiation

Wow! Do they glow in the dark? When I had some of those, they were just black. Perhaps they were infused with black radiation? That might explain why they had their own gravity field.

ian · « **Reply #3958 on:** 27 December, 2019, 07:56:32 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 27 December, 2019, 03:16:46 pm

That our American boss was somewhat perplexed when he heard we were having a Christmas jumper day, and that even the men were joining in. This led me to learn that in the US a jumper is a pinafore dress, not a sweater. IYSWIM.

This is one of the things I do on purpose. It's so cold, I'm wearing a jumper I'll declare at the start of a webex and leave them to digest it. They're less troubled than they ought to be when I tell them I'm wearing stocking and suspenders, of course.

ian · « **Reply #3959 on:** 27 December, 2019, 08:03:58 pm »

In other news, I belated learned the big (no longer) mysterious concrete platforms at the top of the hill weren't put there to provide a handy landing pad for passing UFOs but were in fact built to host a BFO gun and its targeting predictor mechanism during WWII.

sg37409 · « **Reply #3960 on:** 27 December, 2019, 09:50:54 pm »

Saw a car advert tonight that said it was also available as a "mild hybrid". Looked it up and learned there is also such a thing as a strong hybrid.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3961 on:** 28 December, 2019, 11:34:24 am »

I await with eager antici

pation the advent of up, down, charmed and strange hybrids, and may advise Professor Larrington to hold off buying a new car until they appear.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3962 on:** 28 December, 2019, 01:30:21 pm »

Many drivers of hybrids believe they are charmed. And lots of them are strange.

PeteB99 · « **Reply #3963 on:** 29 December, 2019, 11:51:26 am »

Thanks to the wonders of Amazon parcel tracking and Google maps I now know what Crest Hill Illinois looks like

TheLurker · « **Reply #3964 on:** 29 December, 2019, 01:36:12 pm »

How a cuckoo clock goes cuckoo.

hubner · « **Reply #3965 on:** 29 December, 2019, 06:30:30 pm »

The phrase "you've got another thing coming" was originally "you've got another think coming".

T42 · « **Reply #3966 on:** 30 December, 2019, 10:04:48 am »

Quote from: hubner on 29 December, 2019, 06:30:30 pm

The phrase "you've got another thing coming" was originally "you've got another think coming".

I've never come across the thing version - the full version was always "if you think that you've got another think coming".

God, the language is falling apart faster than the environment. Or me. Maybe we'll all go together.

hatler · « **Reply #3967 on:** 30 December, 2019, 11:21:36 am »

"... when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow ..."

Canardly · « **Reply #3968 on:** 30 December, 2019, 12:06:20 pm »

That German airlines have a staff union called UFO.

FifeingEejit · « **Reply #3969 on:** 30 December, 2019, 12:10:19 pm »

That while hurtling up Geln Carron at increasingly great velocity the thought "how in feck am I going to get back down" should be rattling in the mind not "just the climb to kinloch ewe and a blat down to torridon".

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Ham · « **Reply #3970 on:** 30 December, 2019, 03:18:11 pm »

Microphones can listen to light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIKwGt38LQ

and

https://lightcommands.com/

Jurek · « **Reply #3971 on:** 30 December, 2019, 03:49:55 pm »

Quote from: Ham on 30 December, 2019, 03:18:11 pm

Microphones can listen to light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIKwGt38LQ

and

https://lightcommands.com/

Interesting.
Some significant flaws highlighted there.

fuzzy · « **Reply #3972 on:** 31 December, 2019, 11:36:34 pm »

Quote from: ian on 23 December, 2019, 11:40:11 am

That I shouldn't go to the mothership as the humans have flooded the lower deck with poo swill.

(Apparently, the landlords were 'deep cleaning the toilet stack' at the weekend, whatever that entailed, I guess that worked out well.)

I am guessing the toilet stack is the big downtube to which all the toilets are connected and carries poo etc. down to the sewer. Cleaning the toilet stack I think means getting rid of any lingering solids. If the solids are sufficiently lingering twixt floors, when you clean the lingering solids, everything they are holding back escapes. Much jollity ensues (for witnesses, not practitioners).

Kim · « **Reply #3973 on:** 31 December, 2019, 11:42:40 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 31 December, 2019, 11:36:34 pm

I am guessing the toilet stack is the big downtube to which all the toilets are connected and carries poo etc. down to the sewer. Cleaning the toilet stack I think means getting rid of any lingering solids. If the solids are sufficiently lingering twixt floors, when you clean the lingering solids, everything they are holding back escapes...

...from the loose pipe fitting into the void that some poor sod will have to pull a bundle of Ethernet cables through some time later. (DAHIKT)

T42 · « **Reply #3974 on:** 02 January, 2020, 04:32:18 pm »

Christopher Lee once met the assassins of Rasputin.