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Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #700 on: 24 September, 2015, 12:31:31 am »
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The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...

I didn't think VW made washing machines**





**Mind you, that was before I looked at an Up!  :demon:
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #701 on: 01 October, 2015, 12:03:06 pm »
That Owayo shirts say wash at 30oC on the label. Washing my YACF jerseys at 40oC for the last few years doesn't seem to have damaged them :-\

They're pleasingly resilient, as long as you don't shoulder-barge too many canal bridges in them.   :thumbsup:

I can't help wondering what the accuracy of the average washing machine's temperature control is anyway.  But not to the point of getting covered in irritant bodging a DS18B20 past the seal.  The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...   ;)


(I generally work on the principle that if it can't go in the 40C synthetics wash with everything else, then it's far too much effort.)
The complete cynic in you would suspect they run cool when they detect a test cycle to reduce energy consumption, hot when they detect a test cycle for washing efficiency and about right in normal use.  :demon:
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #702 on: 01 October, 2015, 12:19:21 pm »
That Owayo shirts say wash at 30oC on the label. Washing my YACF jerseys at 40oC for the last few years doesn't seem to have damaged them :-\

They're pleasingly resilient, as long as you don't shoulder-barge too many canal bridges in them.   :thumbsup:

I can't help wondering what the accuracy of the average washing machine's temperature control is anyway.  But not to the point of getting covered in irritant bodging a DS18B20 past the seal.  The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...   ;)


(I generally work on the principle that if it can't go in the 40C synthetics wash with everything else, then it's far too much effort.)
The complete cynic in you would suspect they run cool when they detect a test cycle to reduce energy consumption, hot when they detect a test cycle for washing efficiency and about right in normal use.  :demon:

Not much scope for detecting the test conditions, though.

I could imagine running by the book for the first n washes, then upping the power or water consumption to do a better job...

Clare

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #703 on: 01 October, 2015, 10:12:00 pm »
That Harry Gration still talks to the nation.


Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #704 on: 01 October, 2015, 10:19:27 pm »
Tonight, I have learnt that 'Mosaic' from Nobby's Brewery of Northampton is a mighty fine real ale .........  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #705 on: 01 October, 2015, 11:09:44 pm »
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The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...

I didn't think VW made washing machines**

**Mind you, that was before I looked at an Up!  :demon:

 ;D ;D ;D

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #706 on: 02 October, 2015, 01:46:59 pm »
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The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...

I didn't think VW made washing machines**





**Mind you, that was before I looked at an Up!  :demon:

It's a little known fact that the beetle was initially designed as the peoples washing machine. It was only when they couldn't fix the vibration problems that made it wander round the floor that they thought about repurposing it.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #707 on: 02 October, 2015, 04:32:53 pm »
A joke only ruined by the fact that of its various faults, vibration is not one of them.  The engines will sit untethered on a pallet and run, and not wander off or shake anything to bits.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #708 on: 03 October, 2015, 07:45:14 pm »
That Owayo shirts say wash at 30oC on the label. Washing my YACF jerseys at 40oC for the last few years doesn't seem to have damaged them :-\

They're pleasingly resilient, as long as you don't shoulder-barge too many canal bridges in them.   :thumbsup:
I can vouch for that, except for the barge bridge barging bit
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I can't help wondering what the accuracy of the average washing machine's temperature control is anyway.  But not to the point of getting covered in irritant bodging a DS18B20 past the seal.  The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...   ;)
I would have thought a Kim solution would have been a waterproofed minion skeleton (kinder egg insert) containing battery, wireless module and temperature sensor) would have been more appropriate bodgery (corrected back from the autocorrupt's badger)
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(I generally work on the principle that if it can't go in the 40C synthetics wash with everything else, then it's far too much effort.)

That is my mother's rule. If it can't go in XXX wash then you are doing it yourself. I have followed that line too.
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tiermat

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #709 on: 06 October, 2015, 11:15:59 am »
I feel like Captain Kirk, on a brand new planet every day, a little like King Kong on top of the Empire State

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #710 on: 06 October, 2015, 12:33:04 pm »
I thought the only 'standard' applied to tea was 'NATO'.

Milk & 2 sugars . . .
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #711 on: 06 October, 2015, 04:14:23 pm »
There is an ISO Standard.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #712 on: 06 October, 2015, 04:19:32 pm »
1) That my Berghaus coat needs re-proofing.

2) That the weather gods truly believe that timing is the essence of comedy.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #713 on: 07 October, 2015, 03:37:50 pm »
There is an ISO Standard.

(Has a nice cup of tea and a sit down)

It's just the BS with a new cover page thobut.

(If anyone is really interested I have it as a PDF kicking around somewhere...)

David Martin

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #714 on: 07 October, 2015, 08:01:49 pm »
There is an ISO Standard.

(Has a nice cup of tea and a sit down)

It is a standard for brewing tea for tasting and blending. Not for making and serving.

It's just the BS with a new cover page thobut.

(If anyone is really interested I have it as a PDF kicking around somewhere...)
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Andrij

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #715 on: 10 October, 2015, 06:50:41 pm »
The Ukrainian word for otter (Lutra lutra) is видра [vydra].

As otters rarely come up in conversation, no surprise it's taken so long to encounter the word.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #716 on: 12 October, 2015, 08:19:10 pm »
When my mum's sisters Dorothy and Margaret were supposed to be babysitting their sister Freda, Dorothy didn't want to, so she tied Freda to a post on a building site and went for a swim.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #717 on: 13 October, 2015, 06:07:54 pm »
The Ukrainian word for otter (Lutra lutra) is видра [vydra].

As otters rarely come up in conversation, no surprise it's taken so long to encounter the word.
I would have known that.  :) I can't think when I might have had a conversation about wydra but I certainly have done at some time.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #718 on: 13 October, 2015, 07:04:46 pm »
The origin of the phrase or saying "to have no truck with".  Nothing to do with lorries.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #719 on: 14 October, 2015, 10:38:45 am »
That on top of Solsbury Hill (the one Peter Gabriel sang about) there is an arboretum planted by suffragettes in the 1920s.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #720 on: 16 October, 2015, 07:31:17 pm »
People on forums don't like it (get annoyed, angry, sarcastic) when others disagree with them.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #721 on: 17 October, 2015, 09:20:54 am »
Oh, you think so, do you?  Absolute rubbish, you nob-head.

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #722 on: 17 October, 2015, 09:57:15 am »
Just the sort of ill-informed bollocks we've come to expect from that Plumtree character ;)

It is, as any fule kno, knobhead.
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Ruthie

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #723 on: 17 October, 2015, 10:01:39 am »
People on forums don't like it (get annoyed, angry, sarcastic) when others disagree with them.

No they don't!   >:(
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Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #724 on: 18 October, 2015, 05:37:35 am »
Oh! Yes they do!
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.