I re-learned an old lesson.
Where business is concerned,trust no-one.My faith in human nature has taken yet another hit >:(
don't give up on all of us.
No,I'll not do that.
This place & its inhabitants go a long way to restoring my faith in human nature.
That you have to be careful when you're reticulating your silver pendant in your jewellery class or you can melt a hole right through it and have to do some careful adapting of the design to disguise the fact you just melted a fuckoff big hole through the pendant you've spent weeks working on.
I've just heard the phrase déja-moo.
It is that inescapable feeling that you have heard this bull before..
..d
I've just heard the phrase déja-moo.
It is that inescapable feeling that you have heard this bull before..
..d
I've just heard the phrase déja-moo.
It is that inescapable feeling that you have heard this bull before..
..d
Hasn't someone had that as a sig' on here for months?
That Yorkshire people are not as tight as the legend has it. ;) Someone sent me some pedals, FOC. Thank you, you know who you are.
I have mainly been learning knitting and welding.
The two should not be confused.
I've learned the difference between "buck" and "boost" (in the context of LED driver circuits).
I've also learned that joining candlepowerforums is a bad idea if you're into shiny, flashy things...
I've learned that if I eat less for a week, I lose weight. I thought my gargantuan mass was all down to my "metabolism" until today. ::-)
Trust is everything in business! Tust me!
Yakult has more sugar by volume than Coca Cola.
Oi! I'm not dead!
Just because a job run over a VPN connection works when tested in the office does not guarantee that it will work on the same laptop when working from home the next day >:(
Oi! I'm not dead!
Are you sure?
That Beeswing in Dumfriesshire is named after a racehorse.
Devout Muslims must have their toilets facing away from Mecca.
When you're doing a bathroom adaptation which involves repositioning the toilet and access to the soil stack is limited, this requirement can make it quite complicated.
Devout Muslims must have their toilets facing away from Mecca.
(it was for other reasons also probably the worst flight of my life because there was no alcohol on the plane, even the wine we pinched from firsdt class was alcohol free :sick: )
The poppies sold in Scotland are different to the one sold in E&W. The Scottish poppies have 4 petals and no leaf.
That it is quite possible to loose over 1/4 stone in 24 hours through ones bottom alone and that it's possible to have evil shivers and sweats without apparently running an abnormal temperatureDid you eat at the same Indian as me ? One second frozen to the bone, couldn't get warm at all, fell asleep, woke up in a "swimming pool", it all stopped after a trip to the loo.
Yes, the plague is in town chez Quisling :sick:
Technically, not today. Since it was actually Friday evening that I learned that a tandem fits in my living room. Just.I have a 20 inch wheeled tandem that is petite and bijoux (or petit and bijou, I don't know :-[). I could bring it for a trial at some point. :) It isn't very good at optical illusions but there aren't any near the den, are there?
Dangerous knowledge that, potentially...
Chiral.
And having investigated its meaning, I'll be looking for the first opportunity to use it.
Chiral.
And having investigated its meaning, I'll be looking for the first opportunity to use it.
A level chemistrytomorrowThursday?
Technically, not today. Since it was actually Friday evening that I learned that a tandem fits in my living room. Just.I have a 20 inch wheeled tandem that is petite and bijoux (or petit and bijou, I don't know :-[). I could bring it for a trial at some point. :) It isn't very good at optical illusions but there aren't any near the den, are there?
Dangerous knowledge that, potentially...
(I think. A good tip I was given for trying to be confident in limited French was not to get hung up about the le and la stuff and just have a go...)And don't. try. to. pronounce. every. word. because. it. doesn't. sound. right. You have to cultivate the right sense of flow, rhythm and mumble when speaking and let the reader's ears fill in the missing bits.
(I think. A good tip I was given for trying to be confident in limited French was not to get hung up about the le and la stuff and just have a go...)And don't. try. to. pronounce. every. word. because. it. doesn't. sound. right. You have to cultivate the right sense of flow, rhythm and mumble when speaking and let the reader's ears fill in the missing bits.
how does a subterranean humanoid normally found in the pages of LotR come in to things
and what's AAISP when it's at home?
That Puffinus puffinus is not a Puffin. It is a Manx Sheerwater.
Mangerines
But the good news is that the local choir are looking for Trebles. ;)
I've learned that Britain is broken and we're witnessing the end of civilisation as we know it... according to the miserable, spittle-flecked git who was reading selected articles out of today's Telegraph to his silent wife. All whilst sitting in a posh Costa Cafe sipping skinny latte... in a lovely county town on a beautiful winter's day in one of the richest and healthiest countries on earth.
If he'd shouted "We're all doomed" at the end of one of his diatribes, I'd have laughed.
Poor man.
made me laugh ;DBut the good news is that the local choir are looking for Trebles. ;)
I've only got the two of them I'm afraid.
Does anyone actually know a Polish plumber?
Does anyone actually know a Polish plumber?
I know two Polish plumbers.Business & marriage partners.
I learned today that Kim has a homophobic phone! ::-)
Reaching to the downtube to change gear achieves very little on a bike with STI ::-)
Some 'non-drowsy' Allergy relief pills aren't as non-drowsy as they could be.
The term "Yellow Belly" is a local expression meaning someone form Lincolnshire.
It derives from the colour of the Lincolnshire regiment's uniform.
I've found out why none of the books in the Moomin series seems to be the first. It's not because the first one, The Moomins and the Great Flood, Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen, was only translated into English in 2005, but because the English translation is only available in, bizarrely, Finland.
Mobile phones work with technology originally developed for the pianola. Sort of.
Son informed me today the the word "Football" does not refer to the part of the anatomy that is used to control the ball.
He says that it means "Game of ball -played on foot" - as opposed to on horseback.
the fine-scale structure of branching river networks is an organized signature of erosional mechanics, not a consequence of random topology.
Before then, tins were opened using a hammer and chisel or other implement such as an axe!Been there. Done that.
While canning of food was happening by the 1770s and was fairly widespread by the 1820s, the tin opener wasn't invented until the 1850s. Before then, tins were opened using a hammer and chisel or other implement such as an axe!
That a distraught elephant can make a noise like a small-block Chevy on the overrun.
That no matter how hard you work, how dedicated you are to your job, your boss doesn't give two shits...
The only Elephants to be found at Windsor Safari Park now will be made of Lego!!That a distraught elephant can make a noise like a small-block Chevy on the overrun.
I thought you were still banned from Windsor Safari park (following your previous Elephant "incident")
According to that bastion of learning... the innocent drinks e-mail,
Spinster started off as a compliment, denoting competence at spinning, and therefore self sufficiency.
Well yes. I learned that Gay Pete isn't gay. I think that it's fair enough that I assumed he was
I also learned that anyone more than 15 years younger than me is determined to confuse the fuck out of me.
No, Gay Search is not gay. But nor, IIRC, is Gay Search the name she was born with. Naturally, I can't find anything to back this up in the internet, but that's because nothing happened before about 1992/
Too hard. Never got over Alison.No, Gay Search is not gay. But nor, IIRC, is Gay Search the name she was born with. Naturally, I can't find anything to back this up in the internet, but that's because nothing happened before about 1992/
For the pre-1992 internet you need to ask Veronica (who is also not gay) ;D
That Turkmenistan had hydroelectric power in 1910.
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
941 General history of Europe; British Islesbut no "General History of Europe; Scotland"
942 General history of Europe; England & Wales
That the Dewey Decimal System has:Quote941 General history of Europe; British Islesbut no "General History of Europe; Scotland"
942 General history of Europe; England & Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes#Class_900_.E2.80.93_History_.26_geography
That Turkmenistan had hydroelectric power in 1910.
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
Phwor, look at the commutators on that!
After a discussion last night revolving around live music, and reading the OPG for "Car SOS", in which one of the presenters is described as "Musician and classic car expert", I looked up his Wikipedia entry.
Turns out he was a) the drummer in PWEI and b) the technical editor of "Practical Classics", both jobs he is no longer doing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_Townshend
That in 1888, the county of Middlesex passed a byelaw that a cyclist approaching a horse-drawn vehicle should either dismount or "politely inquire of the driver if they might pass." London cyclists, beware!
That Turkmenistan had hydroelectric power in 1910.
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
Phwor, look at the commutators on that!
Somebody had better tell the Wombles.
...Apparently when the Manichaean sect of heretical Christians ....Manichaeanism isn't specifically, or originally, Christian.
Oh. Now that is a disappointment.For him as much as me, I thought.
One of my mum's friend's daughters is called Gay and I don't think it has an e on the end. She would have been born in about 1967 so will be in her late 40s now.
Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, shagged Wallace Simpson.
Took an unspecified length of 4.5m white PVC sheeting, six thousand tent pegs (a bargain job lot from ebay), and a spotter on the opposite hillside to guide the placement after the initial stakeout (as it were).
That one of my cow-orkers was involved in the construction of this last week (the bike, not the barn):
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZLRbOfq_Dq0/U7hdg6W_NQI/AAAAAAAAF7Q/JoyWSknRNzw/s800/P2500253.jpg) (https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/llNl-YhN00N5pWfN9yecy9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink)
Took an unspecified length of 4.5m white PVC sheeting, six thousand tent pegs (a bargain job lot from ebay), and a spotter on the opposite hillside to guide the placement after the initial stakeout (as it were).
How to do a wheelie. And an endo. I can only do tiny ones, though...
That I worked with the Chuckle Brothers' brothers, the Patton Brothers. I'd previously thought they were their uncles, but no - Jimmy & Brian Patton, sons of entertainer Gene Patton, are two of the three older brothers (the other is Colin) of Paul and Barry Elliot, sons of Jimmy Elliot, who was Gene Patton. Obvs.
assume 50:50 split male: femaleYebbut there are slightly more males than females worldwide.
then the average would be one, however with testicular cancer not all men have 2 so the average will be just under 1.
I knew before that I have over twice the average number of testicles of humankind, and slightly more than the the average number of legs, but I've just learned that I have 0.4 feet more than the average London pigeon.
If someone says their daughter's name is Petra, don't say "oh, like the Blue Peter dog?"You're on rocky ground with that.
I also learned once that comparing said daughter to a 'rose-red city, half as old as time' is unpopular.Did you get a stony stare?
Of the 270 Apollo 11 Moon Rocks and Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rocks that were given to the nations of the world by the Nixon Administration approximately 180 are currently unaccounted for.
Doing a Google image search for Pompino is not a good idea. I'd forgotten the Italian meaning. :facepalm:
That " Of course I don't want ice. Are you fucking mad?" is not seen as an acceptable response to a query re my request for a large lafroaig.
How to run my iPod from the Mudstang's steering wheel controls :thumbsup:
My employer takes you to the doctor when you get grey shiny and make whimpering noises at work.Oh dear, hope you're OK?
Why I've been finding so many dead wasps in my bedroom over the last few months.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was obsessed with wombats :o
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was obsessed with wombats :o
Isn't everyone?
Prince Peter Kropotkin; notable anarchist type, spent nearly 20 years living in Bromley. And I thought that Camille Pissarro painting in Sydenham was weird.
Is that learning to unicycle is a bastard on the shins :o
I am trying to perfect the mount. The method I am attemting involves standing behind my steed, saddle in close proximity to crutch, unicycle at a 45o angle anead, pedals parallel to the ground, put foot on rear pedal and push down- the unicycle moves backwards under you. I am not always sucessful in getting my other leg out of the way as the unicycle moves back, resulting in a sudden pedal/ shin interface.
No pain no gain apparently :'(
Is that learning to unicycle is a bastard on the shins :o
I am trying to perfect the mount. The method I am attemting involves standing behind my steed, saddle in close proximity to crutch, unicycle at a 45o angle anead, pedals parallel to the ground, put foot on rear pedal and push down- the unicycle moves backwards under you. I am not always sucessful in getting my other leg out of the way as the unicycle moves back, resulting in a sudden pedal/ shin interface.
No pain no gain apparently :'(
The way I learnt was to stand with arse on saddle and non-dominant foot on the pedal, full extension, with the unicycle at an angle in front of you. Then launch forward from your dominant leg, foot on the pedal, and start pedalling to keep the unicycle under you.
How to deep fry both cheese and chocolate. :D (Not at the same time, though that could be interesting too.)
That bioscope is the South African word for cinema.
Or you could eat or sleep more - maybe I've got the wrong house?
I have a new work laptop.
It is aIBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.
There is no buttons next to the trackpad.
The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
I have a new work laptop.
It is aIBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.
There is no buttons next to the trackpad.
The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
I have a new work laptop.
It is aIBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.
There is no buttons next to the trackpad.
The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
Our Thinkpad does that, but it also has buttons above the trackpad. I find myself switching between them without any apparent consitency.
I have a new work laptop.
It is aIBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.
There is no buttons next to the trackpad.
The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
Our Thinkpad does that, but it also has buttons above the trackpad. I find myself switching between them without any apparent consitency.
That our new neighbours constant rowing, shouting, screaming, threats of physical violence is only interrupted by sleep and meals. Am seriously contemplating arson . . .
. . . or moving.
There is such a thing as a Gin Pennant! :D
(http://www.flagz.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gin-Pennant-Flag.jpg)
The Tutti Pole is a real place
There is such a thing as a Gin Pennant! :D
(http://www.flagz.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gin-Pennant-Flag.jpg)
Well, duh ::-) ;D
And that pennant is way to fancy :P
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3713/12701332264_2ab4370712_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj)
gin_pennant (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
That our new neighbours constant rowing, shouting, screaming, threats of physical violence is only interrupted by sleep and meals. Am seriously contemplating arson . . .
. . . or moving.
That Torslanda lives next door to Sir Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent.
There is such a thing as a Gin Pennant! :D
(http://www.flagz.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gin-Pennant-Flag.jpg)
Well, duh ::-) ;D
And that pennant is way to fancy :P
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3713/12701332264_2ab4370712_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj)
gin_pennant (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
They're not uncommon - I have one of these.
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3869/14531404389_26808c9918_h.jpg)
I have learned that "numbawan pikinini blong Missis Kwin" is Tok Pisin for "Prince Charles".
I have learned that "numbawan pikinini blong Missis Kwin" is Tok Pisin for "Prince Charles".
I always thought that was Phil the Greek . . .
I have learned that "numbawan pikinini blong Missis Kwin" is Tok Pisin for "Prince Charles".
I always thought that was Phil the Greek . . .
Him "longpela blong Missis Kwin"
OK, who else just googled it?
OK, who else just googled it?
Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.
That this (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-DDeRzSSuTeg/VHjZIcOwegI/AAAAAAAAHLU/016-zohg5iI/s56/symbol_small.jpg) is the weather symbol for, "Well, it would be sunny if the sun actually rose above the horizon, but it doesn't at this time of year so it won't be".
Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.
A friend of mine feeds her dog and cat stuff that's just ground up muscle and organ meat. I can't remember the name of the place she gets it from. It's only slightly more expensive than pouches of cat food. If I had a bigger freezer, I'd get it for him.Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.
I spent yesterday morning researching which is the best quality food for the kittens and found some interesting articles about the pet food industry and the crap the put in it, and how the manufacturers are prone to exaggerating the food required so they sell more. Some of the stuff I've been reading suggests that the premium food contain more meat and less grain based carbs which might be either less calorie or better calories. This site is quite interesting http://www.justanswer.com/cat-health/2dmhh-female-cat-weighed-3-6-kilos-10-mths-old-spaying.html
I'm hoping that our 2 will self regulate on dry food eventually, but not yet apparently....
When I feed next door's cat he only gets 2 pouches a day but how much of that gets eaten by other cats I dunno.
...A friend of mine feeds her dog and cat stuff that's just ground up muscle and organ meat. I can't remember the name of the place she gets it from. It's only slightly more expensive than pouches of cat food. If I had a bigger freezer, I'd get it for him.
Mine eats poppadoms. I have no idea what she does with the rest of the takeaway.
apparently the Smithsonian agreed to never recognise any other potential first flight pioneer in exchange for the Wright's plane. Dundee claims an early flying pioneer, possibly the first in UK, maybe the world.Loadsa people flew before the Wrights 'first' flight, including both of the Wrights (gliding). Some of 'em even did so (briefly) in powered craft. The Wrights' claim depends on a few qualification to 'first flight', e.g. powered, controlled, took off under own power. It seems pretty certain that their 'first' flight was closer to achieving all of those at once than any previous flight, but it was just one step among many.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/history-2.1462/is-history-right-or-was-dundee-s-preston-watson-the-first-to-make-a-powered-flight-1.718839
Supposed to have been a bloke in west Wales (Saundersfoot) who flew years before anyone else.
Or a monk in Malmesbury.
Or a bloke from Brazil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-DumontI disagree on this one. Even in the article you link to, it says he didn't start on heavier than air flight until 1905. LTA flight goes back to Montgolfier, though dirigibles were refined by S-D.
Or a greek bloke by the name of Icarus.
Or a bloke from Brazil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-DumontHis integrity as a pioneer flyer is somewhat questionable.
apparently the Smithsonian agreed to never recognise any other potential first flight pioneer in exchange for the Wright's plane. Dundee claims an early flying pioneer, possibly the first in UK, maybe the world.Loadsa people flew before the Wrights 'first' flight, including both of the Wrights (gliding). Some of 'em even did so (briefly) in powered craft. The Wrights' claim depends on a few qualification to 'first flight', e.g. powered, controlled, took off under own power. It seems pretty certain that their 'first' flight was closer to achieving all of those at once than any previous flight, but it was just one step among many.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/history-2.1462/is-history-right-or-was-dundee-s-preston-watson-the-first-to-make-a-powered-flight-1.718839
To me, their achievements were significant, but I'm not sure that they made any net contribution to aviation. Their insane patent war* held back the progress of aviation in the USA**, & the world was filled with experimenters & theoreticians at the time. It was going to happen, & soon, whether the Wrights existed or not.
*They claimed that any kind of control mechanism which changed the shape of a wing, whether by warping, ailerons, or any other means, was covered by their patent. Patently ridiculous, since wing-warping & ailerons had been in the literature for decades, had been used on experimental gliders, & there was even a prior patent (British, expired) for ailerons.
Or a bloke from Brazil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-DumontHis integrity as a pioneer flyer is somewhat questionable.
There were two instances of his dirigible being found to be irrepairably damaged moments before he was due to give a demonstration flight in the States.
Sabotage was suspected, but not proven.
A similar incident occurred when he was was about to give a demonstration flight in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, Sydenham.
On being accused of causing the damage himself, he took himself off, back to France, in a huff - an early type of aircraft propelled by fuel made of horse manure and discarded tram tickets.
...chicken-shed cleaner, bodyguard, Dr Who scriptwriter...
apparently the Smithsonian agreed to never recognise any other potential first flight pioneer in exchange for the Wright's plane. Dundee claims an early flying pioneer, possibly the first in UK, maybe the world.Loadsa people flew before the Wrights 'first' flight, including both of the Wrights (gliding). Some of 'em even did so (briefly) in powered craft. The Wrights' claim depends on a few qualification to 'first flight', e.g. powered, controlled, took off under own power. It seems pretty certain that their 'first' flight was closer to achieving all of those at once than any previous flight, but it was just one step among many.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/history-2.1462/is-history-right-or-was-dundee-s-preston-watson-the-first-to-make-a-powered-flight-1.718839
Not today, but recently: The prototype Bristol Type 142 airliner, which was subsequently adapted to become the Blenheim bomber, was called 'Britain First'. :o
*Two more jobs and I’ll have that long list of varied jobs that lots of authors seem to have. I’ve driven a train, worked in a chocolate factory and been Maureen Lipmann’s paperboy amongst other things.For some reason, that gives me a vision of a Wascally Weasel leaping from the cab of a moving tube train, climbing up a ventilation shaft and delivering a box of Milk Tray to Maureen Lipmann.
That Lycra for camels exists
https://twitter.com/RDRonaldauthor/status/557146477517348864?s=09
I went to a pantomime at the Darlington Civic Theatre over Christmas, featuring the chuckle brothers.
I worked with a couple of Hungarians who had previously been working onRussianUSSR ICBM launchers. Their targeting computers were based on relays as they aren't effected by EMP.
I went to a pantomime at the Darlington Civic Theatre over Christmas, featuring the chuckle brothers.
Oxymoron, no?
On April, 1970, the Grumman Aerospace Corporation—manufacturers of the Lunar Module—sent a $312,421.24 bill to North American Rockwell—who made the service module that malfunctioned in the Apollo 13 mission—for towing services.
MiG-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Western_intelligence_and_the_MiG-25).
If you're lying on your back in bed, and there is a cat standing on your chest demanding attention, turf him off before you start to stroke him otherwise you'll get cat drool in your mouth.
Keep cats out of the bedroom?
Keep cats out of the bedroom?
I don't have carpet. But I do have a cat who can open all the doors in the flat, and if I lock the bedroom door he either hurls himself against the door, yowling furiously, or he sits at the door crying piteously. He's generally very little trouble in the bedroom at nightKeep cats out of the bedroom?
Not if you expect to have any carpet left outside the bedroom door by the morning ;D
If you're lying on your back in bed, and there is a cat standing on your chest demanding attention, turf him off before you start to stroke him otherwise you'll get cat drool in your mouth.
I had an unpleasant awakening this morning when my cat actually licked my tongue while I was asleep with my mouth slightly open :-[
I am not quite sure what I have learned from this.
The nut securing an oven fan is reversed thread. It would have been useful knowing that a little earlier.
The nut securing an oven fan is reversed thread. It would have been useful knowing that a little earlier.
Neff?
I discovered that once. Why don't they just make the fan spin the other way, if the problem is of an unscrewy nature?
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.
Honestly, I felt right at home ;-)
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.
Honestly, I felt right at home ;-)
Grand Central is far nicer, but probably doesn't have trains going where you want to go...
Nuking Mordor Central from orbit seems somewhat impractical and might create much collateral damage.
It might be the only way...
Alternatively, they could bury it inside an enormous reinforced concrete sarcophagus.Surely that's what they did when they built it?
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.
Honestly, I felt right at home ;-)
I started learning how to weld and didn't set myself on fire at any point. Yay.Cool (or not). Gas, arc, MIG, TIG?
That if a company that has supplied some equipment forgets to pack some fixings, then says on being notified "We'll overnight them to you so they will be with you tomorrow", don't plan your tomorrow around the missing bits actually arriving in time to be useful that day ::-)
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.
Honestly, I felt right at home ;-)
The benefit of Penn Station is that it's NYC outside. But yes, it's a station modelled on the British 1960s train station experience. Though with more net curtains for some reason. I regularly travel between Philadelphia and NYC on the train, so that's my NYC arrival experience (30th St Station in Philadelphia is far nicer, if a bit neglected over the years). It's quite odd taking the Amtrak down south, through the grand stations of Philadelphia and Union Station in Washington DC, and then suddenly to get off you pretty much have to jump into a ditch by the side of the train.
There is a very interesting private hostel near Basil's place in Wales.
There is a very interesting private hostel near Basil's place in Wales.
Is there?
Australian rules football is not a variety of rugby. I always thought it was.
Another thing Kim will have learned today: pile-on is not only northern. That was the term used in Gloucestershire.Australian rules football is not a variety of rugby. I always thought it was.
I always thought it derived from that other popular playground activity: The bundle[1]?
[1] Or in northern: "pile-on"
Another thing Kim will have learned today: pile-on is not only northern. That was the term used in Gloucestershire.
Why is the post code for Sheffield DL? I can't think of a place it might refer to.
Hmmm. Go say that in Cheltenham.We had one in my primary school (Princess Road Junior, M/cr) called "sciss-bag-brick" (aka, scissors-bag-brick).
It's surprising the variety in terms used for kids' games..
That the voice introducing the instruments on Tubular Bells (you know, that bit) is Vivian Stanshall's. One of those things that's obvious when you know it.Pretty sure he's credited on the album sleeve as "Master of Ceremonies".
After more than a decade of decline, worldwide CD income was finally surpassed by digital music revenues last year.http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/28/how-the-compact-disc-lost-its-shine
In the context, it's clear. CDs are tangible.
How on earth did the Entente Cordiale happen?It started with a lime, then some fizzy water and sugar. The entente was only added later.
How on earth did the Entente Cordiale happen?
You're not allowed to post a book to Ireland without a licence from the ROI Minister of Justice, and you're not allowed to post any printed matter to France and Japan, full stop. According to the Royal Fail. ...Well, you can post them, but the items aren't supposed to be accepted by the receiving countries' postal services.
...To list just a couple of examples of the many ordinary items in Prohibited lists.
http://www.royalmail.com/personal/international-delivery/country-guides
Making shure committee members get their fair share of perks eg limos, slap-up meals and vintage wine gums
I noticed in another thread the Knopfler brothers were at the same school as someone on this forum. I think it might have been fboab. Maybe.Their uncle lived in the house which had a garage opposite ours on the back lane.
How All 50 States Got Their Names (http://mentalfloss.com/article/31100/how-all-50-states-got-their-names)California is a mythical island. I think we'd all suspected this!
The difference between F/UTP and UTP Cat5e cables.
(Clue: Not just £2.79+VAT)
If I still had the l33t 5k1llz required to put connectors on the stuff...
Er, no.The difference between F/UTP and UTP Cat5e cables.
(Clue: Not just £2.79+VAT)
If it is any help I have c 300m of Cat 5e cable to give away.
That in 1896 the average wage of a Manchester bricklayer was 10d a day.
And the sentence for a Manchester thief convicted of pickpocketing £36 at a football match* was 7 years imprisonment.
*Gainsborough Trinity v Newton Heath.
...
I learned today that if you are expecting an email from a Russian source, you really need to check your spam box
That in 1896 the average wage of a Manchester bricklayer was 10d a day.
And the sentence for a Manchester thief convicted of pickpocketing £36 at a football match* was 7 years imprisonment.
*Gainsborough Trinity v Newton Heath.
http://www.measuringworth.com/
In 2011, the relative worth of £36 0s 0d from 1896 is:
£3,420.00 using the retail price index
£3,630.00 using the GDP deflator
£13,700.00 using the average earnings
£23,300.00 using the per capita GDP
£37,200.00 using the share of GDP
That all the bridges on the Lancaster canal are individually numbered, with lovely cast iron number plates affixed. All 200 or so of 'em. To a geek with OCD and a camera this represents a challenge, an opportunity, and an enormous time-sink.
*strongly approves of this learning*
Bill, have you spotted this guy's flickr feed?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/suspensionstayed/sets/
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe.
Cos the pikeys can't get a flatbed tranny down a towpath . . . ?
Cos the pikeys can't get a flatbed tranny down a towpath . . . ?
Pity. They could have nicked the anti-cycling barriers while they were at it.
Nautical terminology distinguishes between collisions (two moving objects into one another) and allisions (moving object into stationary object).
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe. Does this suggest that all the bridges on the whole national network are similarly numbered?
The bridge or lift has the same number with A after it . :)I've seen bridges with number then 'E' after them when there's been a lot of development since the canal was built. Motorway bridges over canals don't get 'canal bridge' numbers and nor (as far as I can remember) do railway ones. I presume it's to do with who is responsible for the maintenance and so on.
Have any more sensible criminals been successfully prosecuted for refusing to reveal an encryption key yet? That's where it really gets interesting.
Motorway and railway bridges will have their own numbering system, so I suppose that's to avoid confusion.The bridge or lift has the same number with A after it . :)I've seen bridges with number then 'E' after them when there's been a lot of development since the canal was built. Motorway bridges over canals don't get 'canal bridge' numbers and nor (as far as I can remember) do railway ones. I presume it's to do with who is responsible for the maintenance and so on.
Have any more sensible criminals been successfully prosecuted for refusing to reveal an encryption key yet? That's where it really gets interesting.It has certainly happened in the UK under RIPA for which section 49 covers court orders to decrypt. Look at the encryption section in the OSC annual reports: https://osc.independent.gov.uk/about-us/annual-reports-2/
The line in hairdye instructions about unused mixture exploding is not in fact just there to make you buy more instead of using up leftovers.What did you blow up? :D
The line in hairdye instructions about unused mixture exploding is not in fact just there to make you buy more instead of using up leftovers.What did you blow up? :D
That sufficiently long hair is a successful substitute for reading the instructions. :o
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe. Does this suggest that all the bridges on the whole national network are similarly numbered?
I think you may have a bit of a job on, matey. :)
So now buying more than one pack of hair colourant could be regarded as evidence of radicalisation.
A feminist is a woman with red hair.
Probably.Quote from: someone GermanA feminist is a woman with red hair.
Probably.Quote from: someone GermanA feminist is a woman with red hair.
And indeed, my exact problem. Hair too long for one box of dye, but not long enough to warrant using all of the second box…
And indeed, my exact problem. Hair too long for one box of dye, but not long enough to warrant using all of the second box…
The Die Hard 3 solution would surely be not to mix up all of the second box...
The weird thing about that, which I've heard from several Germans (male and female, albeit last century), is that it wasn't "feminists like to dye their hair red" or "having red hair is often a sign of being a feminist" it was given as an actual definition. Maybe just a language thing though.Probably.Quote from: someone GermanA feminist is a woman with red hair.
Guilty as charged.
And indeed, my exact problem. Hair too long for one box of dye, but not long enough to warrant using all of the second box…
That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
If it helps, I'll make a call to your local old bill saying there is a body buried 6ft down.
That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
A few more bags filled before the rain, most of the path is up now. Found a completely intact 3x2' paving slab under the path for no apparent reason. Wonder what's hiding underneath.
That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
A few more bags filled before the rain, most of the path is up now. Found a completely intact 3x2' paving slab under the path for no apparent reason. Wonder what's hiding underneath.
The bodies. And the guns.
A secret bunker, already filled with every bike you've ever dreamed of.That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
A few more bags filled before the rain, most of the path is up now. Found a completely intact 3x2' paving slab under the path for no apparent reason. Wonder what's hiding underneath.
Elephants. Elephants all the way down.That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
A few more bags filled before the rain, most of the path is up now. Found a completely intact 3x2' paving slab under the path for no apparent reason. Wonder what's hiding underneath.
Well, not learned, as I don't believe it to be true.
I've just read on twitter that adding "The" to the names of major roads is a Birmingham thing.
The Pershore Road and The Bristol Road are examples near me.
But surely other towns do this too don't they? Whoever speaks of "Edgware Road"?
Well, not learned, as I don't believe it to be true.
I've just read on twitter that adding "The" to the names of major roads is a Birmingham thing.
The Pershore Road and The Bristol Road are examples near me.
But surely other towns do this too don't they? Whoever speaks of "Edgware Road"?
I'd always heard it was a Londonton thing. Roads are "the", everything else is not, hence "the Mile End Road" or "the Leyton High Road" but "Oxford Street" and "Northumberland Avenue".
It's always been The Old Kent Road, and The Edgeware Road. Seems to apply to roads that go to places (like Old Kent, no one bothers with New Kent), though is random in application.
Through my annual visit to ITV4 thanks to the TdF, I learn that The Sweeney is really rather shite. A carnival of bad acting and cut price fisticuffs.Harumph! For (some of) us wrinklies an hour of The Sweeney followed by an hour of TdF is as close to televisual perfection as it is possible to get. I just wish the bloody continuity announcer wouldn't talk over the end credits drowning out the lovely melancholy arrangement of the theme tune.
And can the young inspector Morse do anything other than scowl?He can also do wry smiles / grimaces. :)
Check the jockey wheels too.I put the new cassette on and it still didn't work. :facepalm:
That King sized beds are not just 6" wider than doubles, but also 3" longer.
That King sized beds are not just 6" wider than doubles, but also 3" longer.
There used to be a rail bridge across the Severn Estuary which was destroyed when two fuel barges collided with it in 1960.You can still see the remains of it alongside the Sharpness Canal and at very low water levels even the tops of the piers in the river bed are just about visible. There is a theory that the piers were damaged from an earlier collision and that, rather than the fire, is what really brought it down.
That the song Turn turn turn was from the book of Ecclesiastes I didn't know that
What do you think of Bristol?
I have a love for the people of Bristol who I met through FLC and they have shown me real, ‘frontline’ Bristol and I see more and more similarities with New York there than any other UK city. It’s a port city, so is NYC; we see things for what they really are, and I love me some of that. Big yourself up, Bristol!
That Google maps streetview now marks places you can see inside with an amber blob. Some fun places, like the Hackney Empire (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.54557,-0.0557986,3a,75y,351.13h,100.55t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXDRGMiyJm9bl0el4SbjtLA!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656) and odd, like Attic Self Storage (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5344636,-0.0224501,3a,75y,316.35h,61.62t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s254oAQxr9a4AAAAGOptQkQ!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656). I have a new conference call time wasting tool.
Rudest plant name ever: https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=3813&fromplants=pl%5Fid%3D3811
Botanist John Gerard called it the "pricke mushroom" or "fungus virilis penis effigie" in his General Historie of Plants of 1597, and John Parkinson referred to it as "Hollanders workingtoole" or "phallus hollandicus" in his Theatrum botanicum of 1640.
Back in the SFW world, not me, but No1Daughter just found out that St Pancras is not, in fact, St Pancreas.
;D
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ySt9SeZl9s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ySt9SeZl9s)
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
So, not content with turning a Mustang into a Mudstang, you're doing a number on the interior . . . ?
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
TPIUWOV ;D
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
TPIUWOV ;D
I Googled that and Google thought I was looking of TPOWIS (The Power of Women in Spandex)... ;D
Still haven't worked it out - care to elaborate?
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
TPIUWOV ;D
I Googled that and Google thought I was looking of TPOWIS (The Power of Women in Spandex)... ;D
Still haven't worked it out - care to elaborate?
This Post Is Useless WithOut Video?
That headphones really can get down to 16Hz and below. Just treated myself to a pair of sennheiser hd380pro, and testing that fact out. Mrs W asked why that was so important, so I pointed out that a 32ft organ pipe is 16Hz, and I'm currently proving the point with Daniel Roth on the organ of St Sulpice. I think my head is about to dissolve. That is gooooood. They also seem to work well with Gilbert Rowland punishing a harpsichord with the creations of Antonio Soler. A good purchase, methinks.
Oh, yes, very definitely so. Sort of farting, pulsing, or in the case of St Sulpice, if you are there in person, a bit like thinking someone has rested the end of a pneumatic drill on your chest and pulled the trigger. 16Hz is a bit odd, but apparently an organ in Sydney has 64ft pipes. What the hell that sounds like I cannot grasp. 8Hz, obviously, but presumably like 16 but half the speed. i struggle to grasp how we can "hear" the individual pulses, but my knowledge of audio physics is lacking.
I was amused by ther specs of some of these heaphones, top end went up to 32KHz on some of them. A bit of an academic pint as I won't be lending them to a bat, they're too big, for a start.
It says they are rated for 108dB.... Hmm, not sure of the wisdom of that.
It also makes VMWare even more of a spoiler for Inception than ever.
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 :-\
The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...
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: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: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.)
QuoteThe 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:
QuoteThe 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:
I can vouch for that, except for the barge bridge barging bitThat 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 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)
(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.)
There is an ISO Standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103).
(Has a nice cup of tea and a sit down)
There is an ISO Standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103).
(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...)
The Ukrainian word for otter (Lutra lutra) is видра [vydra].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.
As otters rarely come up in conversation, no surprise it's taken so long to encounter the word.
People on forums don't like it (get annoyed, angry, sarcastic) when others disagree with them.
People on forums don't like it (get annoyed, angry, sarcastic) when others disagree with them.
This is because thinking about sex raises your testosterone levels, apparently.
Good things to learn, Dangerous Disastrous Cyclist! :thumbsup:
O.
Pictures?
I wouldn't have thought there was enough paper in a modern Yellow Pages to cause more pulp than the average train ticket...
I wouldn't have thought there was enough paper in a modern Yellow Pages to cause more pulp than the average train ticket...While not being as thick as the ones I remember as a child, the local one here in silicon valley is still nearly an inch thick. *Everything* was grey. I almost threw out a sock as it looked just like a lump of wet paper.
Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.
Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.
Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.
You lucky chap. Such lovely music to encounter for the first time. :thumbsup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe3mXlnfNc
If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
I also don't have to ride anywhere until tomorrow, when it might have stopped raining.If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain ::-)
I also don't have to ride anywhere until tomorrow, when it might have stopped raining.If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain ::-)
Really love my job.
I also don't have to ride anywhere until tomorrow, when it might have stopped raining.If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain ::-)
Really love my job.
You can go right off people.
;)
Does this mean you are an Official Pancake Tester? *rewrites CV: ...extensive pancake experience, MSc Pancakeology,... *
I'm fairly sure that's Victorian for 'pr0n'
That before ladybirds were called ladybirds, they were called ladycows. And that the 'lady' comes from a connection between the seven spots and the Seven Pains of Our Lady. In some languages they have names like 'Mary's beetle'.
I suppose this means that just as they are not birds or cows (nor true bugs, it turns out) the ones with different numbers of spots aren't really ladies!
If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
First World Problem Thread isIf you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
Oh yum, that sounds almost as good as the chocolate and chestnut puree pancake I buy in Val d'Isere :P :P
Gotham, the village in Notts, is directly linked to Gotham City, of Batman fame. This is due to it's reputation, in the Middle Ages, of being a village of lunatics....but of course it's not pronounced the same (Goat'em)
Gotham, the village in Notts, is directly linked to Gotham City, of Batman fame. This is due to it's reputation, in the Middle Ages, of being a village of lunatics.
I was on a personal safety course yesterday, and the facilitator guy told us that the thing about knowledge is, if you're in the know, you've got the edge.Was he from Unthinkable Solutions? Or maybe he was played by Ricky Gervais. Either way, did you manage not to laugh?
I was on a personal safety course yesterday, and the facilitator guy told us that the thing about knowledge is, if you're in the know, you've got the edge.Was he from Unthinkable Solutions? Or maybe he was played by Ricky Gervais. Either way, did you manage not to laugh?
Dorothy Hodgkin, Chancellor of the University of Bristol (1971 to 1988), was the first British woman to win the Nobel Prize for science. She remains the only woman to have received this award.Oh, and that there is a "Nobel Prize for Science". ::-)
I was on a personal safety course yesterday, and the facilitator guy told us that the thing about knowledge is, if you're in the know, you've got the edge.Was he from Unthinkable Solutions? Or maybe he was played by Ricky Gervais. Either way, did you manage not to laugh?
Please tell me that someone managed to respond with a straight face and tell him they'd always thought that if they were in the know, they were on a ledge.
That if you divide a mass ofYep, 6V/xUrastuff into spheres of diameter 'x', or cubes of side 'x', the pile of stuff you have has the same total surface area.
That shaving with a straight razor is something that will require a lot of practice! Not as smooth a result as my usual DE razor and a few nicks :o
Keep watching the videos ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGMcZjTWOw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGMcZjTWOw)
Not sure if I've learned this or not, as Wikipedia has no mention of it.
Bloke in the pub tonight works on Estates at BU. He reckons that Old Joe used to double as a water tower. Many years ago, obv. But he told me that the old tank was only taken out a few years ago. It had to be cut up to get it out.
He’s not just a pretty face - Old Joe is also a water tower and services the University!
"Fiesta Island Fun" (http://www.ride-fit.com/Shopping/Ride-Fit-Fiesta-Island-Fun.html)is all about cycling, who would have guessed?
Oh that! Have you seen what it's based on (Bennett Airtruck)?
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
Next lesson: Tophats and Gobos.
London noses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Noses)!!! I've lived in this city 16 years and have only just learned about these.The tutor on my Art Foundation course used to make plaster of Paris noses. But his name was Ben.
I must now find them all.
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
Next lesson: Tophats and Gobos.
I done learned that the Nazis were extracting oil from shale in Estonia during WW2.Oil was being extracted from shale in the late 19th century, though maybe not in Estonia.
Wahoo! My preferred exercise logging software comes up with the announcement "your heart is about to explode" if my heart rate exceeds a certain level.
Ben Goldacre (the Bad Science bloke) is the daughter of seventies pop star Noosha Fox.It would be less surprising, but still interesting, to hear that Ben is Noosha's son.
Ah. Really bad science, obvs.Ben Goldacre (the Bad Science bloke) is the daughter of seventies pop star Noosha Fox.It would be less surprising, but still interesting, to hear that Ben is Noosha's son.
In the UK. Midlothian and West Lothian and possibly other parts into the early years of the C20. We used to have huuge pink shale bings*, which one was completely forbidden to play on *ahem*, but they've all gone in the last 20 or 30 years.I done learned that the Nazis were extracting oil from shale in Estonia during WW2.Oil was being extracted from shale in the late 19th century, though maybe not in Estonia.
In the UK. Midlothian and West Lothian and possibly other parts into the early years of the C20. We used to have huuge pink shale bings*, which one was completely forbidden to play on *ahem*, but they've all gone in the last 20 or 30 years.
Transplant corneas are very readily available in the USA but are in short supply in the UK. Why is that? I asked my opthalmologist. Without a second's hesitation, he replied, "Gunshot wounds".What, gunshot wounds are good for corneas?
Transplant corneas are very readily available in the USA but are in short supply in the UK. Why is that? I asked my opthalmologist. Without a second's hesitation, he replied, "Gunshot wounds".What, gunshot wounds are good for corneas?
Transplant corneas are very readily available in the USA but are in short supply in the UK. Why is that? I asked my opthalmologist. Without a second's hesitation, he replied, "Gunshot wounds".What, gunshot wounds are good for corneas?
They're good for killing healthy young people in a way that leaves most of the spare parts intact.
we've been fracking on and offshore UK for donkeys years. Most of the wandering public would be unaware of the oilfield onshore in the forest just outside Bournemouth/Swanage and on Furzey Island in Poole Harbour, which has the longest extended reach well in the UK.
Ditto. But I don't think anything will be suitable for donation because steroids.Transplant corneas are very readily available in the USA but are in short supply in the UK. Why is that? I asked my opthalmologist. Without a second's hesitation, he replied, "Gunshot wounds".What, gunshot wounds are good for corneas?
They're good for killing healthy young people in a way that leaves most of the spare parts intact.
Everything of mine is up for grabs when I no longer want it. Not sure the pancreas will have any takers though.
we've been fracking on and offshore UK for donkeys years. Most of the wandering public would be unaware of the oilfield onshore in the forest just outside Bournemouth/Swanage and on Furzey Island in Poole Harbour, which has the longest extended reach well in the UK.
The company I used to work for thirty years ago did a bunch of consultancy work on the Wych Farm oil wossname down that way.
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.
We once unscrewed the knobs off a ballaceous coat stand and another off the top of a kettle then played pétanque up & down the office corridor.
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.
We once unscrewed the knobs off a ballaceous coat stand and another off the top of a kettle then played pétanque up & down the office corridor.
My night shifts in the control room were often passed by joining two Silverstone size Scalextric sets together to mak a BFO track and racing the cars round. I nearly decapitated (or took the nose off) a card playing radio operator one night when taking the banked bend at the Aylesbury desk end of the room a tad too fast.
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.
We once unscrewed the knobs off a ballaceous coat stand and another off the top of a kettle then played pétanque up & down the office corridor.
My night shifts in the control room were often passed by joining two Silverstone size Scalextric sets together to mak a BFO track and racing the cars round. I nearly decapitated (or took the nose off) a card playing radio operator one night when taking the banked bend at the Aylesbury desk end of the room a tad too fast.
I've ordered pizzas to the gatehouse at midnight when comissioning before now.
You all need a shadow tool box and a Park magnetic parts bowl.
Today I have learned that "yclept" is a real word (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=95194.msg1972935#msg1972935), and not ROT13 for something, as I'd previously assumed.It is.
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.
'A' Barakta. Hmm. Do you have more than one? Are they available for hire?
I have a part-time fettling bod for the shop but he's at least as useless as me and has been known to lose entire bicycles!
Today I have learned that "yclept" is a real word (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=95194.msg1972935#msg1972935), and not ROT13 for something, as I'd previously assumed.Aaaaaaah, don't know exactly what ROT13 is but now I want a roti. And we do have some dal...
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.In conjunction with the adjective 'bijou', no doubt. This is a construction I use in all sorts of wildly inappropriate scenarios.
Yup. Simple Ceaser cypher. Used as a functional equivalent of the [spoiler] tag in text-only media, and to obfuscate names of people/organisations/things you want to post defamatory rants about, so they don't come up on search engines.Although I've never visited the Scary Devil Monastery and ain't been in ye shedde for ages, I translated hohagh in my head. Should I be proud or slightly worried?
Certain newsgroups use it excessively for comic effect, as a sort of swear filter for terms they find offensive. So as we might talk of the "p*nct*r* fairy", denizens of ye shedde might say "have to ohl an arj one", or monks of the scary devil monastery might talk about supporting Hohagh[1] Linux. The net effect of this is that you end up learning them as words in their own right, as it's less jbex than reaching for the ROT13 button to decode them...
[1] The official Linux Distribution of the Klingon Empire.
Today I discovered I have a propensity for threatening behavior when people keep touching me and we asked more than four times to stop touching me that I can make people afraid.
I'm not a nice person, because I can not deal with a situation without resorting to violence and showing a side of me that makes loved ones feel afraid of me.
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.
Oooo! In'n 'e BOLD!
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.In conjunction with the adjective 'bijou', no doubt. This is a construction I use in all sorts of wildly inappropriate scenarios.
That the bull emblem that the rest of Europe has come to see as representing Spain was originally an advertisement for Sherry. Worse than that, though is that it has now been appropriated by the Spanish far right.
That the walrus is Paul.
Well of course no zebras: that'd be like a random bar code in the middle of your passport!
It's been claimed that the mildly racy Java Head made history with the first inter-racial kiss ever shown on screen.Maybe!
Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
I hung up after 25 minutes, so I might have missed some.Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
no Arctic Monkeys? def lepard? and how did they forget cud?
I hung up after 25 minutes, so I might have missed some.Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
no Arctic Monkeys? def lepard? and how did they forget cud?
Now I'm wondering what AAISP's hold music is...
ETA: I've just asked on IRC and it appears their policy is to have someone answer the phone. Spoilsports.
I did that on Tuesday and they told me to phone customer services to pay for p&p for a new router...I hung up after 25 minutes, so I might have missed some.Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
no Arctic Monkeys? def lepard? and how did they forget cud?
Go for the talk on line to one of our agents option. It works much better (for me) than all that hold music. Of course your work arrangements might preclude this.
Today I learned that Mr Smith has never heard of the Lambton Worm.
That they renovated my old school. It's now a restaurant. They're doing afternoon teas.
I'll have to say that again, because I don't think I believe it. They're doing afternoon teas at my old school.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/acklam-hall-restoration-complete-take-10905068
Belmont (the bit south of Sutton) used to be called California (named after the pub, which I was assumed named after the state). I didn't learn that today though.
I've never heard of a Lambton Worm either. As I'm espousing my ignorance, I don't actually know what Mornington Crescent is either and I've deliberately avoided finding out. Something to do with the radiogram. Yes, yes, I know it's a Tube station.
Here you go, courtesy of the Book of Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambton_Worm
That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.Were they? I always thought the one in Gloucestershire – I didn't know there was one in Devon – was named after the Penn Family, one of who (William?) later went on to found the US state; ie the village and the state were named independently but after the same person or family. But it sounds like you actually know what you're talking about!
That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.There is one just outside Bath as well, on the road to the M4
I presume that's the S. Glos one that Vince is talking about.That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.There is one just outside Bath as well, on the road to the M4
How to reboot barakta's desk. :facepalm:
How to reboot barakta's desk. :facepalm:
What. You kicked it :o ☺
They are separate hamlets. Petty France is first as you head North on the A46, then Dunkirk is on the junction with A433 to Tetbury.I presume that's the S. Glos one that Vince is talking about.That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.There is one just outside Bath as well, on the road to the M4
Yes, the Penns were defo Quakers.
Mind you, talking about the A46 not that far from Bath, I always confuse Dunkirk and Petty France. Can never remember which is the place and which the hotel (there are – or used to be – two hotels there. I'm pretty sure the one on the right as you head north used to be the Petty France. Or was it the one on the other side? Or was Petty France strictly speaking a separate hamlet?)
When a stair lift was first installed for my mum, a norty boy (1), who should know better, downloaded onto his phone, and then played, the Thunderbirds theme as she made her inaugural descent.How to reboot barakta's desk. :facepalm:
What. You kicked it :o ☺
It goes up and down, so she can vary her posture. For barakta-friendliness, this is motorised, rather than the usual hand-cranked arrangement, and it's a legal requirement to hum the Thunderbirds theme when it's in action.
When a stair lift was first installed for my mum, a norty boy (1), who should know better, downloaded onto his phone, and then played, the Thunderbirds theme as she made her inaugural descent.How to reboot barakta's desk. :facepalm:
What. You kicked it :o ☺
It goes up and down, so she can vary her posture. For barakta-friendliness, this is motorised, rather than the usual hand-cranked arrangement, and it's a legal requirement to hum the Thunderbirds theme when it's in action.
(1) Me.
I presume that's the S. Glos one that Vince is talking about.That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.There is one just outside Bath as well, on the road to the M4
Yes, the Penns were defo Quakers.
Mind you, talking about the A46 not that far from Bath, I always confuse Dunkirk and Petty France. Can never remember which is the place and which the hotel (there are – or used to be – two hotels there. I'm pretty sure the one on the right as you head north used to be the Petty France. Or was it the one on the other side? Or was Petty France strictly speaking a separate hamlet?)
Alt Graphic.
On the UK international keyboard alt gr 4 is € for instance. alt gr 2 on a Swedish keyboard should be the @ symbol. Perhaps the keyboard is not Swedish?
Also a New York in Rotherham, and a Rhodesia and a Wales not far away
also a few Hollands or New Hollands around in the flatlands of East Anglia, Linclolnshire, East Yorks
I have learned that if you plug your keyboard into one of the USB ports on your monitor it stops working when the monitor goes to sleep so you can't prod the space bar to wake the minotaur up again :facepalm:
I learned that my Abus cable lock weighs exactly 500g according to the greengrocer's scales. (Now I have to decide whether that's really too heavy to lug up the Gospel Pass... I thought it was nearer a kilo.)
That <organisation> is not the same as <organization> and remarkably hard to spot when checking xml for syntax errors.
... that some disc platters have a very similar property to glass when you hit them with a hammer. Ain't nobody reading those ones again, that's for sure!
There's an accessible formats association which publishes standards for large print, braille, audio and other formats. http://www.ukaaf.org/
That self-amalgamating tape self-amalgamates immediately, on introduction to its other half.
That self-amalgamating tape self-amalgamates immediately, on introduction to its other half.
Unless there's water involved, of course.
There's always water involved IME :(That self-amalgamating tape self-amalgamates immediately, on introduction to its other half.
Unless there's water involved, of course.
That Archbishop Desmond Tutu is an oblate of the Order of Julian of Norwich.
Well I never did.
Angle grinder.
Outdoors.
Rain.
Don't.
Just don't.
Angle grinder.
Outdoors.
Rain.
Don't.
Just don't.
Oops. RCD?
RCD is why I am here today ;)
Way back perhaps xp days, when windows explorer stopped being just a sensible file manager and started groping inside files in order to make thumbnail previews, it was much worse.
If it found exif tags in images it didn't understand, it deleted them!
Microsoft's approach to respecting the data integrity of it's clients is questionable to say the least.
There were stotinki in 1983 ...
I have a 5000 lev note from the 1990s, before the 1000:1 upgrade which put the lev on par with the deutschmark - not long before it was abolished. None of this stotinki nonsense then!
Unfortunately that note wasn't worth 5000 new lev when I went there at the beginning of this millennium. :( But it was possible to use stotinki.
That PC Hipsta is now Gas Safe registered and has just serviced our boiler.I want to say "we need photos" but that's rather rude towards Gas Man Hipsta so we'll just take the info instead.
That the Brandenburg concertos were written as an audition piece. He didn't get the job. I don't know who did.
(Further to stotinki: it's hundredths. Sto = hundred.Da, stotinki is just cents in Slav.
Is there a measurable difference between the natural curiosity of organic spuds and the regular sort?
Why sometimes there are bins overturned in the street and the refuse appears to have been rummaged through.
It's what identity thieves do apparently.
Why sometimes there are bins overturned in the street and the refuse appears to have been rummaged through.Mrs B rips names & addresses off anything that goes into the bins. They go in the fireplace. ;D
It's what identity thieves do apparently.
Jane from Rod, Jane and Freddy used to be married to Rod but is now with Freddy.
Jane from Rod, Jane and Freddy used to be married to Rod but is now with Freddy.
Is that the recent celebrity threesome injunction ménage e tois?
What I have learned today: Don't eat anything fboab's chopped on a chopping board, but definitely get her to do any grating :facepalm:.
Roy Wood's given name is Ulysses Adrian Wood. Too cool.
My Granddad joined the Royal Field Artillery in Feb 1914 and was discharged in Sep 1920. I knew he was a "front-line gunner" but I didn't know the dates.
(no, I'm not busy this afternoon)
My Granddad joined the Royal Field Artillery in Feb 1914 and was discharged in Sep 1920. I knew he was a "front-line gunner" but I didn't know the dates.
(no, I'm not busy this afternoon)
Surely discharged must be the wrong word for a fusilier? A bit like 'fired'
My Granddad joined the Royal Field Artillery in Feb 1914 and was discharged in Sep 1920. I knew he was a "front-line gunner" but I didn't know the dates.
(no, I'm not busy this afternoon)
Surely discharged must be the wrong word for a fusilier? A bit like 'fired'
Did they have difficulty replacing him with someone of similar calibre?
My Granddad joined the Royal Field Artillery in Feb 1914 and was discharged in Sep 1920. I knew he was a "front-line gunner" but I didn't know the dates.
(no, I'm not busy this afternoon)
That eating an industrial-sized portion of chickpea and lentil curry on the eve of a long-haul flight is about as good an idea as it sounds.
That a honey bee, in its whole life's work, makes a third of a teaspoon of honey.
That there is a passenger ferry across the Manchester Ship Canal at Thelwall that takes bikes. Looks like fun.
That there is a passenger ferry across the Manchester Ship Canal at Thelwall that takes bikes. Looks like fun.
Last time I was there it was a gnarly old bloke with a rowing boat. Er, thanks but no thanks . . .
That there is a passenger ferry across the Manchester Ship Canal at Thelwall that takes bikes. Looks like fun.
Last time I was there it was a gnarly old bloke with a rowing boat. Er, thanks but no thanks . . .
"What's the French for have you ever lost one?" :)
You probably all know this already (and I think I may have previously known it but forgotten it) but Nottingham was originally known as 'Snottingham' -'the homestead of Snot's tribe'.
You probably all know this already (and I think I may have previously known it but forgotten it) but Nottingham was originally known as 'Snottingham' -'the homestead of Snot's tribe'.
That the "Meadows" referred to in L'Anse aux Meadows - the Viking settlement in Newfoundland - refers not to fields but to jellyfish, called by ye Frenchies "Méduses".I didn't know that! And I've wondered for many years how the place got a mixed French/English name.
Chris Boardman & Daniel Craig were in the same year at the same secondary school.
Via faceache. Today 31 years ago, 'Brothers in Arms' first entered the US album chart.
I. Feel. Old.
Via faceache. Today 31 years ago, 'Brothers in Arms' first entered the US album chart.
I. Feel. Old.
I feel older - I had to look it up.
That The Old Kent Road is the only monopoly board property, including the stations, that is sarf of the river.You should visit more often ;)
Probably well known by those in that London, but new to me.
that dropping a wheel on your head hurts.
Not sure if it was the skewer or cassette that caught me, but it's bloody sore.
YKINMKBYKIOK, as they say on the internet.
(The lid had fallen down the back of the bathroom shelves, for those wondering...)
YKINMKBYKIOK, as they say on the internet.
(The lid had fallen down the back of the bathroom shelves, for those wondering...)
I wasn't wondering where the lid was, just how your boob managed to get there. ;)
YKINMKBYKIOK, as they say on the internet.
(The lid had fallen down the back of the bathroom shelves, for those wondering...)
I wasn't wondering where the lid was, just how your boob managed to get there. ;)
Fortunately, it was barakta's. :D
Meanwhile in other news.
Dahon Jetstream P8 comes with a parallelogram linkage Kinetics front suspension fork. When the linkages wear there is a deal of slop in the front fork akin to a loose headset bearing.
No repair parts are available. You can replace THE FORK*. End of . . .
I've got one of those. the rubber boot on the fork disintegrated after about 2 years, so I asked them to supply a new boot, and some clues as to disassembly. Their answer was to supply a complete new fork, gratis. Sadly, yes, they did want the old one back.... and yes, the rubber boot on that one fell apart after a couple of years. I must work out how to sort it, as currently its just got plenty of grease on the shaft to protect from muck and rusting.
Come to think of it, you are probably referring to the later type, mine is more of a sort of leading link one, with effectively two forks, I always thought the later one seemed more sensible, although it drastically altered the whole geometry of the bike. Mine is late 2004 vintage.
Methinks an engineering solution involving machine tools and new bushes may be your only answer, but it'll cost as much as a new fork!
*Something close to £200. Can't see THE PUNTER going for it, somehow.
Noggin the Nog - obvs...
Today I have learnt that no, you should not directly substitute cayenne pepper for paprika on your melted cheese
I've got one of those. the rubber boot on the fork disintegrated after about 2 years, so I asked them to supply a new boot, and some clues as to disassembly. Their answer was to supply a complete new fork, gratis. Sadly, yes, they did want the old one back.... and yes, the rubber boot on that one fell apart after a couple of years. I must work out how to sort it, as currently its just got plenty of grease on the shaft to protect from muck and rusting.
Come to think of it, you are probably referring to the later type, mine is more of a sort of leading link one, with effectively two forks, I always thought the later one seemed more sensible, although it drastically altered the whole geometry of the bike. Mine is late 2004 vintage.
Methinks an engineering solution involving machine tools and new bushes may be your only answer, but it'll cost as much as a new fork!
One of Donald Trump's early inspirations was Roy Cohn.The others were Juan Peron, Toscanini and Dacron.
Comoros. Where, what, and what they produceJust another name for a shag, isn't it. Where and what are negotiable between participants, they produce shaglets.
Comoros. Where, what, and what they produce
it is not guaranteed, in fact is unlikely, that those best equipped to rule will get a chance to manage public affairs. Instead the loudest voices will dominate, irrational, ill-motivated decisions will be made and the complex arena of politics which is in need of careful ordering and management will turn into a crazy circus.
Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarrelling with one another about the steering - every one is of opinion that he has a right to steer, though he has never learned the art of navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned, and will further assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut in pieces any one who says the contrary.
They throng about the captain, begging and praying him to commit the helm to them; and if at any time they do not prevail, but others are preferred to them, they kill the others or throw them overboard, and having first chained up the noble captain's senses with drink or some narcotic drug, they mutiny and take possession of the ship and make free with the stores; thus, eating and drinking, they proceed on their voyage in such a manner as might be expected of them.
Irish flag colours = Indian flag colours.
Italian flag colours = Hungary, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Mexico - except I think some of greens are a bit darker.
Loving your under-avatar line, billplumtree. :thumbsup:
I don't think that any flags of proper countries (I don't count Monaco) are identical.Irish flag colours = Indian flag colours.
Italian flag colours = Hungary, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Mexico - except I think some of greens are a bit darker.
Most of them the stripes go different ways or are different widths or have some kind of emblem on them.
I only found out the Irish and Italian flags weren't identical when discussing the other nights football match with a colleague.
The origin of the phrase, Ship of Fools. I had a vague idea of its meaning, but was inspired to find out more when it sprang to mind as I listened to Cameron's resignation speech about needing a new captain to steer us in this new direction...
I'm entitled to Irish citizenship if I want it, and it's only a couple of hundred quid. I might take them up on it...
That the Italian Flag and ROI flags are different colours. Seems the red bit on the Irish flag is actually orange.
#colourblind
Interesting. I might be, if I could somehow acquire a whole load of paperwork I don't have access to. Hopefully it won't come to that.
Stands to reason. I'll bet she was the one who persuaded you into that arduous and deeply unrewarding of the extremely unpicturesque islands too...Loving your under-avatar line, billplumtree. :thumbsup:
I have Ruthie to thank for that one ::-)
Libya and Nepal I think.
But that's the old Libyan flag, post Gadaffi it's a bit different https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Libya
Occasionally, differing shades of yellow, instead of orange, are seen at civilian functions. However the Department of the Taoiseach state that this is a misrepresentation which "should be actively discouraged", and that worn-out flags should be replaced. In songs and poems, the colours are sometimes enumerated as "green, white and gold", using poetic licence. Variants of different guises are utilised to include -for example, various emblems of Ireland, such as the presidential harp, the four provinces or county arms.
...is now a chiropractor.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/b12f197b01c40dda801a5c0919ee26a8562b2c13.jpgPhoto, ride report, map, etc etc. And a five pound note! :D
It was a rather splendid bridge, used for the first steam railway. It's still rather splendid but hidden behind a lot of gas pipes and litter. I'll go down another time if you like and get a photo?
Alexander "Boris" Johnson's other middle name is de Pfeffel ;D
:DAlexander "Boris" Johnson's other middle name is de Pfeffel ;D
Is that pronounced 'piffle' perchance?
Alexander "Boris" Johnson's other middle name is de Pfeffel ;D
Is that pronounced 'piffle' perchance?
Nope, and neither is Herman Wouk.
I didn't know that either, one of my several endearing disappointments about my Brompton was that they couldn't – on a thousand quid bike – get three little wheels to work. Are those the crappy default wheels or the special ones? All the crappy ones do is snap at my heels when I pedal.I'm not sure that its supposed to roll with the default wheels.
I saw an epically shiny brand-new Brommie at the station the other day. One of the clear one (lacquered I guess). He looks at my dirt-smeared one and edges away like it might be contagious. I look up the cloudy sky threatening rain. It ain't going to stay like that, buddy. Anyway, they seem to have improved the little wheels somewhat.
I'm advised that if you reverse them, so that the conical bits point outwards, they're less likely to catch your heels.
If you want proper roll, a pair of eazy wheels is around £12.00 from £vans - given that their real cost is probably 25% of that, I don't know why they don't fit them as standard to, as you say, a thousand pound bike, and be done with it. Those default wheels do little other than let down an otherwise great (never thought I'd find myself saying that about a Brompton) bike.
Someone, on Planet Brompton, has woken up.I'm advised that if you reverse them, so that the conical bits point outwards, they're less likely to catch your heels.
If you want proper roll, a pair of eazy wheels is around £12.00 from £vans - given that their real cost is probably 25% of that, I don't know why they don't fit them as standard to, as you say, a thousand pound bike, and be done with it. Those default wheels do little other than let down an otherwise great (never thought I'd find myself saying that about a Brompton) bike.
They've done away with the crap default wheels on this year's models.
I'm advised that if you reverse them, so that the conical bits point outwards, they're less likely to catch your heels.
Is that on Sophie?I'm advised that if you reverse them, so that the conical bits point outwards, they're less likely to catch your heels.
:thumbsup: Thank you!
That TV's Mark Kermode plays double bass in a skiffle band.Didn't he do that years ago? They were the house band on a chat show hosted by loveable cockney, Danny Baker.
Use two-part hinges with pintels instead of butt hinges, then you can screw both halves on separately and then lift the door on. You get the barrel of the hinge sticking out a bit further than with butt hinges, but it's a hell of a lot easier and you can remove the door easily if you need to. Our front door is solid oak and uses them, as do most European wooden doors that I've seen.
Use two-part hinges with pintels instead of butt hinges, then you can screw both halves on separately and then lift the door on. You get the barrel of the hinge sticking out a bit further than with butt hinges, but it's a hell of a lot easier and you can remove the door easily if you need to. Our front door is solid oak and uses them, as do most European wooden doors that I've seen.
That is probably why the vote was for Out.
Lithic mulch (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00813138).They did that on Easter Island after they used up all the trees & a lot of the soil washed into the sea.
That the Tour de France is a bi-athlonI think and hope you mean duathlon.
I suspect that that little bit of knowledge took a frustrating amount of time to discover ...
That Shimano 10 speed rear mtb mechs do not work with road shifters. Pre 10 speed the rear mechs were compatible across road and mtb with only the front mechs being incompatible.
Parma violet cheese exists http://shop.lovehearts.com/parma-violet-cheese :sick:
That i know more about the UK offshore medical requirements for a T1D than the occupational physicians who are supposed to give me the tick in the box
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
Aren't there easier ways to startle someone?
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
Aren't there easier ways to startle someone?
;D
Andrij. I've just lost an entire swig of my ale. Git. ;D
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
There are minefields in Bolivia.And between Chile and Peru too, which got flooded which washed them out on the roads doing a storm in 2012.
That the lady opposite us is not Welsh (he is), she is from Birmingham. Perry Barr to be exact. 35 years ago, mind.35 years ago I was 16 and desperate to leave Perry Barr.
No. That's not true. I found that out last week, not today.
What I learned today was that the lady 4 doors down on our side also originates from Brum.
Guess which part.
Yes. Perry Barr.
That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war.I sometimes wonder how they decided where to put those pill boxes. They don't always seem to be in particularly strategic or defensible places. For instance, there's a line of them along the Fosse Way just north of Malmesbury, at which point it's just a gravel byway, and others on the Frome south of Bath, which is a small river with little villages. I guess there might have been important structures though and also it's a matter of chance which ones have survived.
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war.I sometimes wonder how they decided where to put those pill boxes. They don't always seem to be in particularly strategic or defensible places. For instance, there's a line of them along the Fosse Way just north of Malmesbury, at which point it's just a gravel byway, and others on the Frome south of Bath, which is a small river with little villages. I guess there might have been important structures though and also it's a matter of chance which ones have survived.
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
The Admiralty was in the Empire Hotel opposite Parade Gardens but I don't know about other depts. I'd presume they all had further fall back locations in the event of an invasion though there must have been a point beyond which the practical options were reduced to Dublin or New York!That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war.I sometimes wonder how they decided where to put those pill boxes. They don't always seem to be in particularly strategic or defensible places. For instance, there's a line of them along the Fosse Way just north of Malmesbury, at which point it's just a gravel byway, and others on the Frome south of Bath, which is a small river with little villages. I guess there might have been important structures though and also it's a matter of chance which ones have survived.
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
Bath was home to the Admiralty wasn't it? Other government depts removed from London?
Plenty round here along the line of the Cam and out on the road to Peterborough. Looking at them the only reason I can think of them still being here is because getting rid of that munch reinforced concrete would require an assault gun or a log of explosives.
I assume we were just a delaying line for an invasion from the east
That Witham is pronounced Wit-ham.
That Witham is pronounced Wit-ham.
They were planned & built in a great hurry when many other things also needed the attention of the people who knew most about defensive lines, & mistakes were made. I recall reading about complaints at the time that many pillboxes were badly built & worse sited.That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war.I sometimes wonder how they decided where to put those pill boxes. They don't always seem to be in particularly strategic or defensible places. For instance, there's a line of them along the Fosse Way just north of Malmesbury, at which point it's just a gravel byway, and others on the Frome south of Bath, which is a small river with little villages. I guess there might have been important structures though and also it's a matter of chance which ones have survived.
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
Actually a thing I learned last week, but it's an important thing that bears repeating:I didn't know that but it does seem to me that smoke alarms are less loud than burglar alarms (both seem equally liable to false triggerings). Why did they stop the test at 30 seconds in the Australian research? That's not how smoke alarms actually behave. And do they wake up adults? Because surely any parent's initial reaction to a fire in the night is going to be to get the kids out?*
Children don't wake up to the sound of smoke alarms.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311121842.htm
https://www.strath.ac.uk/press/newsreleases/2013/headline_728294_en.html
There's some evidence that a recording of a parent's voice is more effective (but far from reliable). No idea about low-frequency alarms, flashing lights or vibrators, which are the off-the-shelf (if expensive) alternatives.
That Millenarianism has absolutely nothing to do with hats. Made a podcast make a whole lot more sense once I found that out!
That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
It should serve you well.That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
I learned a new word.
It should serve you well.That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
I learned a new word.
Feel free to come back and ask for another :P
It should serve you well.That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
I learned a new word.
Feel free to come back and ask for another :P
I googled it too. Must confess, I was a bit disappointed. :-\
Arbuz, which is watermelon in Polish too, is originally from Persian via Turkish, I think.Paradicsom, which is Hungarian for tomato, and means fruit of paradise, is from a similar source, I think.
You can't get an erection in space.
You can't get an erection in space.
I'm not sure. I'm guessing the changed fluid dynamics make it impossible. When you're weightless there are significant fluid shifts and you carry more fluid in your upper body, and therefore possibly less in your lower body.Weightless globules drifting around. Eew.
My son asked Cdr Chris Hadfield about masturbating in zero-G, and he said it's almost impossible to get an erection. This should also be in the tenuous claims to fame thread, I reckon.
You can't get an erection in space.All you lose is gravity, and the loss of h-rho-g hydrostatic head.
But if you are on Earth, lying flat on a bed, the h term in the equation becomes zero, and so g becomes irrelevant.
The pump ( heart ) still provides sufficient head for the purpose.
You can't get an erection in space.
I expect that's not true.
If the normal blood flow and pressure through my body required to keep me alive still works, then I can't see why other functions of blood pressure would not also continue to work.
All you lose is gravity, and the loss of h-rho-g hydrostatic head.
But if you are on Earth, lying flat on a bed, the h term in the equation becomes zero, and so g becomes irrelevant.
The pump ( heart ) still provides sufficient head for the purpose.
Now, if you were thrown out indo deep space ( perhaps after listening to Vogon poetry ), the pressure differential may indeed enhance your erection as in the manner of the manhood-enhancing vacuum pumps offered on the Internet (or is that just my Internet? ).
Anyways, enough of this...
Gametes? Wot, like pheasants and partridges?
You can't get an erection in space.
I expect that's not true.
If the normal blood flow and pressure through my body required to keep me alive still works, then I can't see why other functions of blood pressure would not also continue to work.
All you lose is gravity, and the loss of h-rho-g hydrostatic head.
But if you are on Earth, lying flat on a bed, the h term in the equation becomes zero, and so g becomes irrelevant.
The pump ( heart ) still provides sufficient head for the purpose.
Now, if you were thrown out indo deep space ( perhaps after listening to Vogon poetry ), the pressure differential may indeed enhance your erection as in the manner of the manhood-enhancing vacuum pumps offered on the Internet (or is that just my Internet? ).
Anyways, enough of this...
Your blood pressure is much lower in zero-g. That's one factor. And the flow of blood and other fluids is significantly altered. Think about it: at 1G your heart needs to work against gravity to perfuse your brain. It doesn't need to work nearly so hard in zero G. During the first few days in space astronauts get facial and eye oedema, as the fluid pumping systems (you have more than one, and they interact) adapt to zero G. All sorts of other stuff happens too that I can't remember.
You can't get an erection in space.
I expect that's not true.
If the normal blood flow and pressure through my body required to keep me alive still works, then I can't see why other functions of blood pressure would not also continue to work.
All you lose is gravity, and the loss of h-rho-g hydrostatic head.
But if you are on Earth, lying flat on a bed, the h term in the equation becomes zero, and so g becomes irrelevant.
The pump ( heart ) still provides sufficient head for the purpose.
Now, if you were thrown out indo deep space ( perhaps after listening to Vogon poetry ), the pressure differential may indeed enhance your erection as in the manner of the manhood-enhancing vacuum pumps offered on the Internet (or is that just my Internet? ).
Anyways, enough of this...
Your blood pressure is much lower in zero-g. That's one factor. And the flow of blood and other fluids is significantly altered. Think about it: at 1G your heart needs to work against gravity to perfuse your brain. It doesn't need to work nearly so hard in zero G. During the first few days in space astronauts get facial and eye oedema, as the fluid pumping systems (you have more than one, and they interact) adapt to zero G. All sorts of other stuff happens too that I can't remember.
No, I don't agree.
( My background is in an industry where we design hydraulic systems to work on the surface and also and extreme depths of 20k psi, so there may indeed be differences I have not appreciated. )
At 1G whilst standing up, you have a closed circuit of fluid going up one way from the pump, down to the bottom, and then back up to the pump.
A loop of fluid in this system is entirely in equilibrium.
The hydrostatic head on the down leg exactly equals the hydrostatic head on the up leg.
So H-rho-g on one side of the system equals h-rho-g on the other,
The pump really does not have to work too hard: it does not need to work against gravity; because gravity both helps and hinders in equal measure. It helps by providing a down-force on one side of the pump, and hinders on the up-ward suction side of the pump.
So lying down on the job makes no difference.
And for the same reason, I think zero G is the same.
Someone should tweet that astronaut chap who was in the space thing and ask him.
OK, fine, I accept the evidence.
I can believe there are biological factors which make it different from a mechanical hydraulic system.
I never had to add blue pills to the mechanical hydraulic systems...
Would the reverse be true? i.e. if you went to a planet with high gravity, would it be the equivalent of having a f-off overdose of Viagra?
Stepson was considering getting artificial turf for the lawn outside his new house, because "its just the same as a real lawn" (yes, he's that sort of person). I suddenly wondered how you prevented wind-blown soil from building up and plants taking root in it.Reality overtakes the surreal in a new way each day.
Vacuuming, apparently. You go out each weekend and vacuum your lawn.
This exists (http://www.taylorsbutchers.com/pies.html)I think we have a new home page for YACF.
If I still had a waistline, it would now have disappeared.
This exists (http://www.taylorsbutchers.com/pies.html)I think we have a new home page for YACF.
If I still had a waistline, it would now have disappeared.
It's not just cities which can be twinned - toilets can be twinned as well (http://www.toilettwinning.org/). (SFW)
This exists (http://www.taylorsbutchers.com/pies.html)
If I still had a waistline, it would now have disappeared.
There is such a thing as an 'isosceles trapezium'.
That Kirkenes, in northern Norway near the border with Russia, where I spent a day of my hols this year,is further east than Istanbul, and yet is in the same time zone as Galicia in western Spain.Spain is in the wrong time zone. It's arguable that so is France.
Well, I am surprised, since President of the Magic Circle and legendary illusions creator Ali Bongo died in 2009.
That the Hutus and Tutsis of Rwanda are not competing tribes but different castes of the one Banyarwanda people. Tutsis are the aristocratic cattle-owning caste, Hutus the farmers and there is also a very small labourer and servant caste, Twa.
Vacuuming, apparently. You go out each weekend and vacuum your lawn.
Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
That the Hutus and Tutsis of Rwanda are not competing tribes but different castes of the one Banyarwanda people. Tutsis are the aristocratic cattle-owning caste, Hutus the farmers and there is also a very small labourer and servant caste, Twa.Banyarwanda just means 'people of Rwanda'. It's a name derived from the state, not an ethnic label. Like Canadian or American. More or less the same language (called Kirundi instead of Kinyarwanda) & same three castes are found in Burundi, but the people there aren't Banyarwanda, because they don't live in Rwanda. Note that both states long predated European colonisation.
It began before the IMF existed. Dammit, why this knee-jerk rejection of analysis? Allocate blame to the usual suspects, then look for evidence. :facepalm:Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
It began before the IMF existed. Dammit, why this knee-jerk rejection of analysis? Allocate blame to the usual suspects, then look for evidence. :facepalm:Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
It began before the IMF existed. Dammit, why this knee-jerk rejection of analysis? Allocate blame to the usual suspects, then look for evidence. :facepalm:Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
No kneejerk. This is the result of a great deal of research. Yes, there were conflicts there, and a divide. But the difference between Rwanda & Burundi, which meant one descended into brutal civil war, and, despite violence, the other did not, was very much the use of Structural Adjustment Programmes as an act of war.
Fwiw, I am usually the one calling the cause earlier - for example, the cause of the First World War has nothing to do with defending British freedom, or student revolutionaries in Sarajevo. It most clearly dates back to the Scramble for Africa, and the Berlin Conference of 1884-5.
Burundi didn't descend into brutal civil war? In which universe? A few hundred thousand dead (again) is just 'violence'.It began before the IMF existed. Dammit, why this knee-jerk rejection of analysis? Allocate blame to the usual suspects, then look for evidence. :facepalm:Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
No kneejerk. This is the result of a great deal of research. Yes, there were conflicts there, and a divide. But the difference between Rwanda & Burundi, which meant one descended into brutal civil war, and, despite violence, the other did not, was very much the use of Structural Adjustment Programmes as an act of war.
That there is logic to my casual referring to our no2 cat as "coarsefur cat". I measured one of his hairs from the middle of his back, and it was 0.1mm diameter. I later grabbed one from Baggins' (AKA silkyfur cat) back and it was 0.06mm diameter. So it wasn't just my imagination, and the fact that Alfie is a scruffy git. In contrast one of Mrs W's hairs was 0.04mm.
Really changes my life, that ;D
From my doc, that the WHO have just revised their recommended upper figure for HbA1c from 6 to 7%. This after years of beating me morally about the head for not managing to get it under 6%.
This, too, after I read last week that there is a higher incidence of cardiovascular events* among diabetics who strive to get their HbA1c under 7% than among those who remain a bit over.
Personal observation: fasting blood glucose < 120** => I feel like shit. 130 < FBG < 140 => I feel fine.
*event: medical euphemism for one's personal WW2, Hiroshima, 1970 World Cup, etc.
** conversion factor is 18.
Wonder Woman is on the other bus (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37518991/comic-book-writer-says-wonder-woman-is-queer)
Wonder Woman is on the other bus (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37518991/comic-book-writer-says-wonder-woman-is-queer)
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language.
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language. A few years back I engendered on-line merriment by referring to our store-room as the office glory hole.
I like that photo, the perfect calm of the lake, uniformity of the torus and a hint of what lies beneath
We need a house poet for photos like that.
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language. A few years back I engendered on-line merriment by referring to our store-room as the office glory hole.
If you've got one of these
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8313/29573504415_9247220b26_o.jpg)
in yr office I'm glad I never worked there ;D
Then, just three years ago, German mathematician Dr Thila Gross, who teaches at the University of Bristol, noticed there were many similarities between Königsberg and Bristol. The cities are a similar size, the same distance from the sea and had the same number of islands. However, there was one catch, Bristol had 43 bridges instead of seven.So he went on to devise a solution.
“It's not easy - the fact that is is possible in Bristol is fairly unique,” said Gross. “Although in Bristol many things are possible which are not possible elsewhere.”Like bumping into the Teutonic Knights on Wine Street?
That Euler's Seven Bridges of Konigsberg (https://nrich.maths.org/2484) problem does have a solution; you just have to transfer it to the 43 bridges of Bristol! Apparently this is not cheating, becauseIt is not a direct transfer because there are an odd number of bridges which do not connect two nodes but effectively just connect their ends. Topologically many of the bridges are not crossing an otherwise uncrossable river.QuoteThen, just three years ago, German mathematician Dr Thila Gross, who teaches at the University of Bristol, noticed there were many similarities between Königsberg and Bristol. The cities are a similar size, the same distance from the sea and had the same number of islands. However, there was one catch, Bristol had 43 bridges instead of seven.So he went on to devise a solution.Quote“It's not easy - the fact that is is possible in Bristol is fairly unique,” said Gross. “Although in Bristol many things are possible which are not possible elsewhere.”Like bumping into the Teutonic Knights on Wine Street?
http://www.bristol247.com/channel/news-comment/features/investigations/the-bristol-bridges-walk-challenge
There's a top-level domain for "People named Kim"
Spiritual discovery or people's democracy? Cannons by old forts?There's a top-level domain for "People named Kim"
I heard that the displaced immigrants from Le Jungle are having a whip-round to buy that particular instance new baubles.
Caecilius est in domus. Domus electronic est.Ooooh, did you have those Latin books?
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/house-caecilius-iucundus-pompeii-04248.html
Oh yes. Latin was the one O'Level I failed due to thinking that memorising set texts was not proper learning so I treated them as unseen.Caecilius est in domus. Domus electronic est.Ooooh, did you have those Latin books?
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/house-caecilius-iucundus-pompeii-04248.html
The person who is the most cited author on Google Scholar with an H-Index of 333..
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=qGuYgMsAAAAJ&hl=en
I did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
I did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
I did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Caesar sic in omnibus.Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Caesar sic in omnibus.Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Brutus sic inatCaesar sic in omnibus.Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Cat litter contains elevated levels of thorium-232.
also..
Thorium-232 is now classified as carcinogenic.
Thanks to Svante Pääbo, I now know that very roughly half the Neanderthal genome has so far been found to be still floating around - in us. And the more people are tested, the more is found.
My mind is boggled.
Damn - missed it. I'm good friends with Janet Kelso, one of the bioinformatics group leaders in Pääbo's department. Have to get it on iPlayer.She's in it.
That it's 50 years since the Aberfan disaster.
That it's 50 years since the Aberfan disaster.
That it's 50 years since the Aberfan disaster.
I only caught the last 3 minutes of the programme last night (The Young Wives' Club) but I was in tears at the final scene. I found it on +1 and recorded it. I'll watch when I'm feeling strong.
Reviewing engineering failures is part of the first year of engineering courses in Oz. I hadn't come across Aberfan before now, not unexpectedly. Also not too surprising that it made a big impression in the UK.
A Welsh university lecturer with a bent for process safety. One of those sad case studies that every chemical engineer should learn about.
Along with
Bhopal
Alexander Keilland
Piper Alpha
Seveso
Texas City
Feyzin
Deepwater Horizon
... (unfortunately we keep repeating these)
Reviewing engineering failures is part of the first year of engineering courses in Oz. I hadn't come across Aberfan before now, not unexpectedly. Also not too surprising that it made a big impression in the UK.
That cardinals over 80 do not have the right to vote for the next pope. At present only 111 of the 211 cardinals are entitled to take part in a conclave, which means if Francis were to die right now, they'd have to do something special: they need a minimum of 121 voters to choose a pope.
Alexander Kielland was an interesting case. My father lost a number of friends that day. It certainly had an impact on testing and certification.
The not-yet-declared new king of Thailand used to have a poodle called Fufu (or Foo Foo - 1997-2015). It is said to have been made an Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force, at his instigation, & often attended official occasions where it was treated as a guest, e.g. seated at table alongside humans. It featured prominently in a low-resolution video (probably shot from a phone) of its 2007 birthday party, in which the then crown princess fed it birthday cake while wearing only a g-string (the princess, not the poodle).
Ah, the lives of royalty!
Won't you choke if you swallow a bird ;D
But I don't know why you'd swallow a fly . . .
That duct tape is otherwise known as 'Havana chrome'. ;D
Many others here may already know it, but I found out today that Schwalbe means swallow. The bird, that is...
That duct tape is otherwise known as 'Havana chrome'. ;D
Combined Heat and Power, so basically a boiler that is producing steam for electrisity and using the low grade heat from the back end to heat the school.
I wouldn't have thought the temp difference was more than 30 deg K or about 11% and I wouldn't have thought a 10psi increase would cause a rim failure.
That when repairing a puncture or replacing a tyre in the cold, inflating to max pressure should be avoided if the storage space for the bike at work is a warm room.
I have a brace of CHP engineers in my plant room who nearly had a heart attack :-[
More 'what I have relearned today' . . .
The reason I stopped using an electric razor <mumble> years ago. The skin around my collar line looks like someone took a belt sander to it.
More 'what I have relearned today' . . .
The reason I stopped using an electric razor <mumble> years ago. The skin around my collar line looks like someone took a belt sander to it.
You are not the only one to suffer with that, despite the time savings that can be had from using an electric, I haven't used one for *mumblemumble* years
When Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich, returned to Bavaria as an old man, having previously trotted off to USAnia as a young man, he was turfed out in short order, by royal decree, for not having done mandatory military service and dodging emigration paperwork. Oh and he (it is alleged) ran a brothel in one of the gold rush areas in USAnia.Friedrich Trump was 35 when he returned to Germany, supposedly because his wife (who he'd met & married the previous time he'd been back) was homesick. So, not quite an old man. His home town is in the Pfalz, which was part of of the Kingdom of Bavaria, but not in Bavaria proper, or the modern German state.
Aww spoilsport. None of that unimportant detail made it into the article I read. Anyway, what have facts and accuracy got to do with anything when it comes to Agent^wPresident-Elect Orange? :)When Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich, returned to Bavaria as an old man, having previously trotted off to USAnia as a young man, he was turfed out in short order, by royal decree, for not having done mandatory military service and dodging emigration paperwork. Oh and he (it is alleged) ran a brothel in one of the gold rush areas in USAnia.Friedrich Trump was 35 when he returned to Germany, supposedly because his wife (who he'd met & married the previous time he'd been back) was homesick. So, not quite an old man. His home town is in the Pfalz, which was part of of the Kingdom of Bavaria, but not in Bavaria proper, or the modern German state.
And it wasn't a royal decree as in an order made personally by the king or even that the king knew of, but an order issued by officials in the Ministry of the Interior, which like all such paperwork at the time was in the king's name.
And on a related note, tonight I discovered that my mother's first job was as an assistant in the MRC unit in Gower Street, transcribing data and plotting graphs for Sir Richard Doll in his ground breaking study on smoking. She worked there for two weeks and was paid £4 10' per week.
Not all AA batteries are the same size :demon:. We've got a baby monitor that recharges its batteries when sitting on its base, so I can quite understand if non-rechargeables were minutely bigger than rechargeables (THAT would be a clever bit of poka-yoke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke)) to safeguard against putting the wrong type in, but even the new rechargeable ones I've bought won't fit...I've noticed Vapex are a bit bigger than Duracell rechargeables.
That the tune originally written for 'While shepherds watched their flocks' was later taken up for a popular song regarding someone dying in Yorkshire and being eaten by waterfowl.
bar t'at
Inspired by driving back yesterday through c 900Km of freezing fog (a fun activity I can recommend to those of masochistic tendency) I now know what freezing fog is.One of my runs to the Alps (in December '88) was in a 6 pot Landy that had no heater matrix fitted. I had freezing fog from somewhere just a bit South of Calais for hours and the rime accumulation on the front of the vehicle was something to behold.
On the road, I was befuddled by the contradictory information lodged in my brain: Water freezes at 0o and fog is water vapour. How, I asked myself could water vapour stay watery at -6o?
It turns out that water needs something to freeze on, in the absence of which it remains liquid. Thus, providing a wondrous show of rime on the roadside vegetation, and depositing thick ice layer onto any car surface it could.
Women are not allowed within 500 metres of the shore, and even female animals are prohibited from walking on Mount Athos. This is because the Virgin Mary is said to have visited the peninsula and prayed to have it as her own.
Mount Athos is the spiritual capital of the Orthodox Christian worldQuoteWomen are not allowed within 500 metres of the shore, and even female animals are prohibited from walking on Mount Athos. This is because the Virgin Mary is said to have visited the peninsula and prayed to have it as her own.
So, Virgin Mary, a woman, prayed to have the peninsula as her own and now woman are not allowed within 500m of the place by the very church that venerates her?
Irony, much?
er, my disgust in their hypocrisy was recently tweaked.Mount Athos is the spiritual capital of the Orthodox Christian worldQuoteWomen are not allowed within 500 metres of the shore, and even female animals are prohibited from walking on Mount Athos. This is because the Virgin Mary is said to have visited the peninsula and prayed to have it as her own.
So, Virgin Mary, a woman, prayed to have the peninsula as her own and now woman are not allowed within 500m of the place by the very church that venerates her?
Irony, much?
If you haven't already read From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Holy_Mountain), I highly recommend it if your interest in the Orthodox church has been recently piqued.
:-)er, my disgust in their hypocrisy was recently tweaked.Mount Athos is the spiritual capital of the Orthodox Christian worldQuoteWomen are not allowed within 500 metres of the shore, and even female animals are prohibited from walking on Mount Athos. This is because the Virgin Mary is said to have visited the peninsula and prayed to have it as her own.
So, Virgin Mary, a woman, prayed to have the peninsula as her own and now woman are not allowed within 500m of the place by the very church that venerates her?
Irony, much?
If you haven't already read From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Holy_Mountain), I highly recommend it if your interest in the Orthodox church has been recently piqued.
Anyway, wot I lurnt today was that pre- and maybe post-WW2 French bistros had a supply of writing-paper for the use of their clients. Simone de Beauvoir used to repair to the local bistro every time she wanted to write a letter, and mentions a barman telling someone "no, I can't give you writing-paper unless you order something". People used to sit there writing all day, drinking coffee, eating lunch, dinner etc. Nice work if you can get it.
Inspired by driving back yesterday through c 900Km of freezing fog (a fun activity I can recommend to those of masochistic tendency) I now know what freezing fog is.
On the road, I was befuddled by the contradictory information lodged in my brain: Water freezes at 0o and fog is water vapour. How, I asked myself could water vapour stay watery at -6o?
It turns out that water needs something to freeze on, in the absence of which it remains liquid. Thus, providing a wondrous show of rime on the roadside vegetation, and depositing thick ice layer onto any car surface it could.
Plus ca change... But whereas wifi is arguably easier for writing, it's less versatile: you can't doodle on it, wrap sandwiches in it, smoke it or wipe your arse with it.Anyway, wot I lurnt today was that pre- and maybe post-WW2 French bistros had a supply of writing-paper for the use of their clients. Simone de Beauvoir used to repair to the local bistro every time she wanted to write a letter, and mentions a barman telling someone "no, I can't give you writing-paper unless you order something". People used to sit there writing all day, drinking coffee, eating lunch, dinner etc. Nice work if you can get it.
Thereby conclusively answering the question of what people used to do before they invented WiFi...
Not to buy cheap no-name 3.5mm jack plugs.
I was expecting dubious tolerances, an outer shell made of cheese, or a strain relief that didn't.
What actually happened was the tip of the plug broke off inside a socket. The socket in question being the one in barakta's phone, rather than anything that could be opened up to access the socket from the rear or easily replaced.
Miraculously, with a fair bit of fucking about with assorted sharp implements and harsh language, I was eventually able to retrieve the broken bit. Without damaging anything (apart from barakta's hand, which should grow back) *or* resorting to adhesives.
Mine broke off inside the car's CD player. Had to GAMI to sort it out and it was never the same again. So I sold the car.
Back in the days when I didn't shave my face I often got frosted foliage in winter.Inspired by driving back yesterday through c 900Km of freezing fog (a fun activity I can recommend to those of masochistic tendency) I now know what freezing fog is.
On the road, I was befuddled by the contradictory information lodged in my brain: Water freezes at 0o and fog is water vapour. How, I asked myself could water vapour stay watery at -6o?
It turns out that water needs something to freeze on, in the absence of which it remains liquid. Thus, providing a wondrous show of rime on the roadside vegetation, and depositing thick ice layer onto any car surface it could.
Bubbles are the same, they need soemthing to nucleate on, typically the microscopic imperfections and impurities on the surface of the glass.
Not sure where you are but a few years ago round here we had freezing fog for days in a row. Just going out to empty the bins you'd end up with frost on your jumper.
Starting reading my new book today - The Philosophy of Mathematics. Learned the proof of Pythagoras theorem, very simple and elegant but I'd never thought about it before.
I think the first couple of chapters would even be accessible by my daughter
Learned the proof of Pythagoras theorem, very simple and elegant but I'd never thought about it before.Which one? (http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/)
Learned the proof of Pythagoras theorem, very simple and elegant but I'd never thought about it before.Which one? (http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/)
It's nothing to do with native american babies on hides is it?
Sounds good. Which of the many books of that title is it?
Starting reading my new book today - The Philosophy of Mathematics.
Learned the proof of Pythagoras theorem, very simple and elegant but I'd never thought about it before.
I think the first couple of chapters would even be accessible by my daughter
Yeah? But what about us simpletons?
Learned the proof of Pythagoras theorem, very simple and elegant but I'd never thought about it before.Which one? (http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/)
I'd hazard the three squares one.
Shitting into a cardboard potty and then scooping it into a testtube isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds. Especially if you have a cat who wants to help.
Shitting into a cardboard potty and then scooping it into a testtube isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds. Especially if you have a cat who wants to help.
A Dr on TV advised putting some clingfilm over your toilet, and depositing onto that. Remember not have the cling film too taut.
That there actually is a (Dr) Ron Hill, purveyor of Ronhill Tracksters.And most excellent distance runner in the 60's :thumbsup:
I've also seen "scheduled buses" on signs, presumably to keep out tourist coaches and random minibuses but allow non-local buses which are timetabled.
Shitting into a cardboard potty and then scooping it into a testtube isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds. Especially if you have a cat who wants to help.
A Dr on TV advised putting some clingfilm over your toilet, and depositing onto that. Remember not have the cling film too taut.
I ws sent a sheet of paper to put in the toilet, that would float on top and remain intact long enough to collect the sample, then dissolve after flushing. At least that's what the instructions said, and my toilet works fine after I followed the instructions.
That audax and randonneur are different.
What I have leaned today is
Not much Welsh.
First two hour class for numpties tonight. Unfortunately I missed the first week of term as i had to be in Reading last week.
That a mass of starlings (as in those doing ariel ballet and turning the sky into an art gallery) is called a Murmaration. Lovely word.
There is another group of birds (I forget which, not the Spice Girls ;) ) that is called a sussurationsparrows.
That in Denmark they have special bins for recycling flamingos.???
That in Denmark they have special bins for recycling flamingos.I need to know about this. More precisely, Bairdy otp needs to know about this.
Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment
Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment
Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment
Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment
That in Denmark they have special bins for recycling flamingos.
Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment
That in Denmark they have special bins for recycling flamingos.
In Danish, flamingo can also mean polystyrene.
Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment
How much vinegar would you have to be getting through for it to make a dent in your profits? Isn't malt vinegar about a pound a litre?
(In the brewed-but-not-distilled column, aren't most alcopops brewed to strength rather than spirits+mixer? I was always surprised trading standards allowed Smirnoff Ice to get away with that.)
Is vinegar legitimate food for certain faiths if it is brewed?
There are more than a few bonkers christian fundies who insist that when the bibble refers to "wine" it really means "grape juice". How Lot's daughters got him rat-arsed enough to commit incest is, curiously, something about which they are uncharacteristically silent.
Chipshop vinegar isn't vinegar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condimentKim, you have had a sheltered life if you've just found that out.
That my Dad's Dad was a commandant in the Irish Army and was in the guard of honour at the funeral of Michael Collins.
That if you fail to put the cat out and it suffers a gastric emergency at 2am you're gonna need a new duvet - and sleep with the windows open* . . . :sick:
* No amount of febreze, V I Poo or anything else will mitigate the stink. Think the bin men got a surprise this morning but no reports of anyone in HazMat suits!
Just how much work can be involved in flattening the sole of a cheap plane. And just how soft (badly-tempered or just plain un-) the blades can be. Shall have a go at that with the blow-torch and a bowl of water.
Just how much work can be involved in flattening the sole of a cheap plane. And just how soft (badly-tempered or just plain un-) the blades can be. Shall have a go at that with the blow-torch and a bowl of water.
Get thee to a car boot sale and buy old planes form the 60s and before. Flat as a flat thing and super hard blades.
Just how much work can be involved in flattening the sole of a cheap plane. And just how soft (badly-tempered or just plain un-) the blades can be. Shall have a go at that with the blow-torch and a bowl of water.
Get thee to a car boot sale and buy old planes form the 60s and before. Flat as a flat thing and super hard blades.
Just how much work can be involved in flattening the sole of a cheap plane. And just how soft (badly-tempered or just plain un-) the blades can be. Shall have a go at that with the blow-torch and a bowl of water.
Get thee to a car boot sale and buy old planes form the 60s and before. Flat as a flat thing and super hard blades.
A Glocester Meteor or Vickers Viscount?
*Gloster
^ This is why leftpondian "PC LOAD LETTER" paper sizes are silly.
Vickers VC10? English Electric Lightning? SAAB Draken?Just how much work can be involved in flattening the sole of a cheap plane. And just how soft (badly-tempered or just plain un-) the blades can be. Shall have a go at that with the blow-torch and a bowl of water.
Get thee to a car boot sale and buy old planes form the 60s and before. Flat as a flat thing and super hard blades.
A Glocester Meteor or Vickers Viscount?
^ This is why leftpondian "PC LOAD LETTER" paper sizes are silly.
And (also in France) it used to be that a child's first name had to be that of a saint.That used to be the case with Polish names as well.
Nie sądzę... It still is common for parents to name children after the saint's day they happen to be born on, or one that's close in the calendar, but you don't have to. There is a law that names must fit the child's gender, not be liable to ridicule and be spelled according to Polish orthography (so Kevin is out, at least in theory).And (also in France) it used to be that a child's first name had to be that of a saint.That used to be the case with Polish names as well.
That robot jockeys are a thing, and it's just as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_jockey
That Project HARP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP) was an experiment using a big gun to launch projectiles into space. Their record stood at a 110 mile straight up shot of a 400lb projectile :oThat's where Gerald Bull worked, until the money went away. When it was dropped, he went into designing shells & guns for sale (to Israel, South Africa, China, Iraq - he wasn't fussy, as long as they paid), to finance his work on guns for launching things into space, & ended up designing the Iraqi super-guns, which is probably why he was murdered. His shell designs are used by all major armies & navies nowadays.
The RAF had a specialist ECM unitWho'd have thought that the RAF would be into Scandinavian jazz?
That EU passports are pink.
Also it seems EU passports don't have to be Burgundy anyway, the Croatians have blue ones.
Also it seems EU passports don't have to be Burgundy anyway, the Croatians have blue ones.
Wait... WHAT??!? Then the whole Brexit omnishambles was FOR NOTHING!!1!
Surely a proper Brit-port is the most royal blue imaginable. A pigment enriched by millennia of lordly tradition. And the size and weight of a paving slab. Like they used to be when we owned the world and everyone had their own gunboat.First issued in 1920, so not quite millennia
That one week of my summer holibob wil be spent landscaping an enclosure for a Spotted Genet (http://www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_small-spotted_genet.html) and keeping him entertained :thumbsup:Surely that link should be in NSFW...
That one week of my summer holibob wil be spent landscaping an enclosure for a Spotted Genet (http://www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_small-spotted_genet.html) and keeping him entertained :thumbsup:Surely that link should be in NSFW...
(you can see its genet tail 'ere)
Wait... WHAT??!? Then the whole Brexit omnishambles was FOR NOTHING!!1!
Also it seems EU passports don't have to be Burgundy anyway, the Croatians have blue ones
That James Randi, magician and most excellent sceptic and debunker of Uri Geller and US TV faith healers is gay.Was it this excellent Storyville? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ndsb3)
Apropos nothing other than it was a shame it took him so long to find happiness in his personal life. It was just a small part of a documentary on his life the other night. He's getting very frail now:(
That James Randi, magician and most excellent sceptic and debunker of Uri Geller and US TV faith healers is gay.Was it this excellent Storyville? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ndsb3)
Apropos nothing other than it was a shame it took him so long to find happiness in his personal life. It was just a small part of a documentary on his life the other night. He's getting very frail now:(
Have to say, he'd definitely be one of my Fantasy Dinner Party guests...
That there is such a thing as ytong......iddle I po,
that's YingtongThank $deity$ someone got the "joke". :)
That the sainted Terry Pratchett authored the book 'Where's My Cow?', which Vimes reads to Young Sam in 'Thud'.
Now I want a copy...
That the sainted Terry Pratchett authored the book 'Where's My Cow?', which Vimes reads to Young Sam in 'Thud'.
Now I want a copy...
I now HAZ a copy!
Well, I did for all of two minutes before the youngest nicked it, read it from cover to cover giggling like a loon. Something he does all too well for a 10 yr old . . .
That the sainted Terry Pratchett authored the book 'Where's My Cow?', which Vimes reads to Young Sam in 'Thud'.The first words of one of my cousins were "Where have my cows gone?"
Now I want a copy...
That the sainted Terry Pratchett authored the book 'Where's My Cow?', which Vimes reads to Young Sam in 'Thud'.
Now I want a copy...
At least he was spared the fate of Viscount Medardo of Terralba, split into two separate Viscounts by a Turkish cannonball somewhere in Bohemia.
You can buy tin pants. Only they're not.
https://youtu.be/Kr4SwxniDVE
You can buy tin pants. Only they're not.
https://youtu.be/Kr4SwxniDVE
Matches the metal bras of which Shakespeare wrote centuries before Madonna had the idea. "Now sir, young Four Tin Bras. Of unimproved mettle hot and full."
(http://legslarry.org.uk/BikeStull/coat_48.png)
I have learned that the Leftpondian city of Cleveland, in the state of Ohio, has a suburb called Shaker Heights, so named because there was formerly a Shaker community in the area, & that Shaker heights was developed as a planned community* by a rather odd pair of brothers named Mantis & Oris Van Sweringen, who had unsuccessfully run a cycle shop before becoming property developers.
A lot of things suddenly make sense. http://yehudamoon.com/comic/2016-10-25/ (http://yehudamoon.com/comic/2016-10-25/)
*Of the well-off. Restrictive covenants to control development.
Heal well Kim, sounds a bit sore!
Nil points to the Audi driver who should have noted what a state you were in and taken it on the chin.
If it is any consolation, it is pretty rare to ride a front rapid deflation to a stop from a high speed.
It might take a little while for you to properly enjoy a fast downhill again. Don't beat yourself up about that either.
Bollocks. That sounds like Type 2 fun. Or even type 3.
Ouch - heal well! Impressively low HR around the incident, mind.
If it is any consolation, it is pretty rare to ride a front rapid deflation to a stop from a high speed.
That the fairy has it in for me.
Front wheel blowout at about 40mph. More to come when I've been rescued.
That the bods who run West Wings (AKA Pro Scale) will be retiring in July and that if they can't find a buyer for the business that'll be one less supplier of aero-modelling stuff. :(
Tegaderm. Clean up, let it dry, apply Tegaderm, leave for a week or so.
How about a dressing with a hole in it for the necessary functions, backed up with another dressing slightly larger than the hole to cover it when functions aren't being performed?
Kinda like a long johns bomb hatch......
Sure. A nice long wait in vinyl seats is exactly what I need. :P
(I could probably get an appointment with a nurse at the GP across the road if necessary)
Barakta has returned from the pharmacy with an assortment of dressings and micropore, and I've had a proper steady-handed poke at the dodgier bit of my arm in search of hidden gravel. In the absence of infection, I think it's mostly a case of containing the ooze.
Bloody hell, Kim, that's really nasty. But, any impact at that speed could have been one hell of a lot worse. Hugs!
Barakta has returned from the pharmacy with an assortment of dressings and micropore, and I've had a proper steady-handed poke at the dodgier bit of my arm in search of hidden gravel. In the absence of infection, I think it's mostly a case of containing the ooze.When I presented my elbow at A&E after my off they washed out the hole and then simply dry dressed it, the logic being that they wanted it to heal from the bottom up, pushing out the rest of the road surface (plus horse muck etc. this being Shropshire) along with the ooze. My local GP practice then changed the dressings with manuka honey gauze every few days. Seemed to work but took a couple of weeks to dry up. You really, really don't want a joint infection so keep an eye on it. I ended up in hospital for 3 weeks on an antibiotic IV after shoulder joint keyhole surgery got infected - despite all the pre and post-op precautions. Not doing that again.......
Yes, heal well and remember that chicks dig scars.
Have you had time to think why this accident happened? I ask because I wonder if recumbents like yours shimmy as uprights do but perhaps at a higher speed.
I see. The mark on the road weaved, though. I suppose that could have happened for a number of reasons.
Because by that point the bike was sliding on its side - rear wheel first - with me clinging on trying to keep as little skin in contact with the ground as possible and hoping to surf it out of the path of the oncoming car.
My arm's in a state where operating a bicycle pump without pain is a possibility. I can now report that the cause of the offending deflation was a snakebite puncture (so with hindsight, I'm surprised it stayed upright for as long as it did). There's a corresponding inconsequential looking nick in the tread of the tyre. In the absence of potholes, and given the rear tyre was unaffected, I conclude that I must have hit a stone.
Blimey Kim. Just seen this. What have you been doing?
Did you get piccies of the damage to the fossilsaur?
I just googled the current cabinet, and the shadow cabinet, and it struck me how very white they both are. Sigh.
I just googled the current cabinet, and the shadow cabinet, and it struck me how very white they both are. Sigh.
It's the gender balance that's (completely non) shocking.
It's the gender balance that's (completely non) shocking.
It's the gender balance that's (completely non) shocking.
I just googled the current cabinet, and the shadow cabinet, and it struck me how very white they both are. Sigh.A few weeks back day, a picture popped up on my Linkedin feed, proudly announcing how some construction company or other had won a diversity award. I'm hoping it was a joke, as the people representing such a ground breaking company looked like they were all (a) male, (b) "white european" and (c) middle aged.
A few weeks back day, a picture popped up on my Linkedin feed, proudly announcing how some construction company or other had won a diversity award. I'm hoping it was a joke, as the people representing such a ground breaking company looked like they were all (a) male, (b) "white european" and (c) middle aged.
It's the gender balance that's (completely non) shocking.
Interviewer: | Why are half your cabinet women? |
J Trudeau: | Because it's 2015. |
That there is a product called Airwick Vipoo. That one sprays into the bowl before sitting to trap offensive odours. Really.There's at least one other such product, Poo-pourri. Both have been referred to on this forum. The advertisements for both are quite good.
I've just learned there is a type of fastening called a sex bolt. I am amused.
Severe Haircut Lady in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is based on Theresa May.Five minutes before you posted I decided that I need to re-read this.
I've just learned there is a type of fastening called a sex bolt. I am amused.Well, there is a Jesus bolt*, and I suppose everything has an opposite.
I've just learned there is a type of fastening called a sex bolt. I am amused.Well, there is a Jesus bolt*, and I suppose everything has an opposite.
*the main fastening bolt on a helicopter rotor, also applied to any bolt that Must Not Fail, such as the cable pinch bolt on your front brake
Jesus nut, indeed.I've just learned there is a type of fastening called a sex bolt. I am amused.Well, there is a Jesus bolt*, and I suppose everything has an opposite.
*the main fastening bolt on a helicopter rotor, also applied to any bolt that Must Not Fail, such as the cable pinch bolt on your front brake
'Tis a 'Jesus NUT' on a heliocopeter. So says the wisdome of Robert Mason, pilot and Chickenhawk author.
I'm with fboab; Tour de Yorkshire. My office-mates (all locals unlike me) were thoroughly amused by "coat d' garrowby 'ill" and the like.
I reckon the rule for that sort of thing is that it should only be allowed when done ironically. So Col de Priory Road for the annoying (but ultimately unspectacular) climb on Basil's commute[1] is fine, but referring to a proper BRITISH hill as such when included as part of a serious road race just makes you sound like a prat.
[1] Not to be confused with Basil's Commute, which is the technical term for the little geese-infested cut-through at the end of Raddlebarn Farm Drive that saves tens of metres on the ride between Bournville and a certain pub.
That peanut butter can remove chewing gum from shoes. Allegedly. https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/f09ajj00yxSupposed to be recommended for bubblegum and hair, too.
The smell of linseed oil is bloody disgusting.
Perhaps T42 doesn't want dog lovers filling his pool?
25 years too late, how to set up low-profile cantilever brakes.
Pads pushed inward on their studs, as far as possible while still allowing the eye bolt to get a good grip. Ensure they're hitting the rim squarely (overtighten the main cable, hold the pads against the rim while securing them, then slacken off for clearance).
Straddle cable half an inch off the tyre.
Perfect braking. Stops on a sixpence yet still feels firm.
My sisteris a witchhas perfect pitch.
The Reims Gospel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reims_Gospel) is written in Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.
VW Group cars are all in limp-home mode before their PDI at the dealer.I suspect that is called transport mode.
Wearing Polaroid sunglasses means that your camera viewing screen turns black if oriented one way.
Wearing Polaroid sunglasses means that your camera viewing screen turns black if oriented one way.
In my day we learned this by playing with calculators. (Hacking them open and flipping the polariser so the display was white-on-black was the height of cool in mysecond yearyear 8 maths class.)
what3words provides a precise and incredibly simple way to talk about location. We have divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address.
I was born at typical.vision.mats (or it could have been instance.mild.ditching or etching.poodle.lasted depending which bedroom I was born in)Presumably there's some sort of filter to prevent someone getting donkey.felch.cloaca?
https://what3words.com/about/ (https://what3words.com/about/)Quotewhat3words provides a precise and incredibly simple way to talk about location. We have divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address.
Presumably there's some sort of filter to prevent someone getting donkey.felch.cloaca?
I was born at typical.vision.mats (or it could have been instance.mild.ditching or etching.poodle.lasted depending which bedroom I was born in)Presumably there's some sort of filter to prevent someone getting donkey.felch.cloaca?
https://what3words.com/about/ (https://what3words.com/about/)Quotewhat3words provides a precise and incredibly simple way to talk about location. We have divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address.
Richard Littlejohn or Piers Morgan CBE?* Choices, choices.Presumably there's some sort of filter to prevent someone getting donkey.felch.cloaca?
Or at least make sure it goes to someone who really deserves it...
Heisenberg might be there. Again I'm not sure.
Schroedingers cat is there, but whether it is alive or dead we don't know.
That "N+1" applies to Ukuleles, as well as bikes 'n trikes 'n stuff.
That duck roasted two or three days after the eat-by date is much better than duck roasted a week before it.
There are twice as many legal pot shops in the Denver Metropolitan Area than there are branches of Starmucks.
There are twice as many legal pot shops in the Denver Metropolitan Area than there are branches of Starmucks.
And I bet the pot shops serve better coffee.
I think the old T34 was a bit more agricultural, apparently far more robust than the highly sophisticated, but prone to breaking down German offeringsI'm not sure about that. It may have been no more reliable (well, except for Tigers), but easier to fix with a sledgehammer.
From what I remember of a visit to the Imperial War Museum, the T34 was advanced for its time, including being one of the first tanks with a diesel engine. But Soviet stuff generally was designed to be reliable and easy to fix in the field, rather than accurate/fast/etc, so it would be unsurprising if the Red Army just banged them with a hammer every morning and kept going.
I've learnt a non-cycling thing from Cycle magazine. Wilko Johnson is a character occasionally mentioned here, usually I think by ESL. I'd kind of assumed he was some semi-legendary figure of British time trialling, but I learn he was a guitarist with Ian Dury & the Blockheads and later a band called Dr Feelgood. Maybe I'll investigate Dr Feelgood on youtube and find out about them too.
I've learnt a non-cycling thing from Cycle magazine. Wilko Johnson is a character occasionally mentioned here, usually I think by ESL. I'd kind of assumed he was some semi-legendary figure of British time trialling, but I learn he was a guitarist with Ian Dury & the Blockheads and later a band called Dr Feelgood. Maybe I'll investigate Dr Feelgood on youtube and find out about them too.
I've got a album of his with Roger Daltrey. A comeback after major illness
Ian Dury was Essex but not Canvey. One of the ex-Blockheads, however, defined 'the Canvey sound'. Wilko Johnson was the driving guitar force behind '70s band Dr Feelgood."Ex-Blockhead" implied to me ex at the point he took up driving Feelgood. But, yeah, sources and all that.
cats get quantum mechanics. It's easy for them. Just that no one usually asks them.
I have now learned that Dr Feelgood should probably be listened to in the pub and only in the pub.
What I have learned today is that Denis Norden is still alive. I was sure he died years ago. He's 95, you know.Quite a few 'surprisingly alive' people on the Deathlist (https://deathlist.net/).
What I have learned today is that Denis Norden is still alive. I was sure he died years ago. He's 95, you know.Quite a few 'surprisingly alive' people on the Deathlist (https://deathlist.net/).
What I learned yesterday was that birch trees are not hermaphrodite but monoecious. They have male and female flowers on one tree, hermaphrodite in tree terms means male and female parts in the same flower.I think maize ("corn"* to leftpondians) is similar.
"corn" is a flexible word in British English used to describe any cereal crop, usually wheat. A cornfield is generally full of wheat or barley, and cornflowers grow in wheatfields.
I think cornflowers are similar to poppies in the places they like to grow, ie recently disturbed land.But dont mix up cornflower, cornflour, corn starch or cornmeal.
What I have learned today:"corn" is a flexible word in British English used to describe any cereal crop, usually wheat. A cornfield is generally full of wheat or barley, and cornflowers grow in wheatfields.
Maybe it's the pernicious US influence, or my lack of a rural upbringing, but I tend to think of 'corn' as meaning maize rather than barley or wheat.
(wheat fields were not part of the landscape where I grew up in East Kent, so I wouldn't have seen cornflowers very often - it was all hops, orchards or brassicas round my way; these days it's all oilseed rape or new housing estates)
I thought hops were making something of a comeback with the craft beer revolution
Personally, I still rate Goldings and Fuggles very highly but that's probably because I'm a Kentish Man (as opposed to a Man of Kent).
WD40 degreaser appears to attack hospital-variety rubber gloves. We had a box of 100 bought for the nurses who looked after the Inlaw Paw, and I'm using them up in the Workshop. After using a cloth soaked in it I could pull the fingertips off.
WD40 degreaser appears to attack hospital-variety rubber gloves. We had a box of 100 bought for the nurses who looked after the Inlaw Paw, and I'm using them up in the Workshop. After using a cloth soaked in it I could pull the fingertips off.
This is why you should never use oil-based lubes with condoms. I thought everyone knew that?
And don't mix any of them up with quorn.I think cornflowers are similar to poppies in the places they like to grow, ie recently disturbed land.But dont mix up cornflower, cornflour, corn starch or cornmeal.
That The Adventure Syndicate (http://theadventuresyndicate.com/) exists, I found out by reading http://theadventuresyndicate.com/blog/2017/8/7/adventures-in-kind-lee-craigie-on-the-tour-divide pointed to by a road.cc article and was hooked
Personally, I still rate Goldings and Fuggles very highly but that's probably because I'm a Kentish Man (as opposed to a Man of Kent).If you wuz brung up in East Kent then surely you be a Man of Kent (like me). Anyway, Goldings and Fuggle rool ok.
And I'm a woman of Kent. I think. East of the Medway isn't it? (I go by the Pub in Canterbury, which may not be correct).Personally, I still rate Goldings and Fuggles very highly but that's probably because I'm a Kentish Man (as opposed to a Man of Kent).If you wuz brung up in East Kent then surely you be a Man of Kent (like me). Anyway, Goldings and Fuggle rool ok.
East of the Medway isn't it?Yup.
That's positively awesome, I'd kill for a name like that.
I'll ask Jess if she knows her, though strictly speaking she's not a traditional vampire, and she's the only undead librarian that I know. There are live librarians though not nearly as much fun.
Mind you, there used to a BJ Queen aboard one of the overseas motherships. Called herself BJ too.
That's positively awesome, I'd kill for a name like that.
I'll ask Jess if she knows her, though strictly speaking she's not a traditional vampire, and she's the only undead librarian that I know. There are live librarians though not nearly as much fun.
Mind you, there used to a BJ Queen aboard one of the overseas motherships. Called herself BJ too.
There was a Randy Bumgardener at Mrs P's work.
That's positively awesome, I'd kill for a name like that.
I'll ask Jess if she knows her, though strictly speaking she's not a traditional vampire, and she's the only undead librarian that I know. There are live librarians though not nearly as much fun.
Mind you, there used to a BJ Queen aboard one of the overseas motherships. Called herself BJ too.
There was a Randy Bumgardener at Mrs P's work.
And a MA Glasscock. Who we used to call Ma Glasscock. (As in, I've broken ma glass cock!)
I used to work with Genna Taylor.we have a Jenny Taylor in HR at work
If you wuz brung up in East Kent then surely you be a Man of Kent (like me).
And I'm a woman of Kent.
:-[
And I'm a woman of Kent.
Maid of Kent
Titus Groan.
Using a steam mop to defrost the freezer isn't any better than my usual method.
Seriously, are you lot living in a steampunk dark age of fuming grey kitchen goods? I didn't think 'frost-free' was an option these days. I've not had to defrost a freezer since that student incident with the hammer. The only ice that comes out of mine is square and goes into G&Ts.My wife managed to buy a new non-frost free one recently due to not reading the small print. I don't think it'll last as we will get fed up with it and get a frost-free one instead, making the current one less of a bargain than it first appeared.
I find myself irresistibly drawn to removing 'frost' accumulation about once a week. It's such a cathartic job and keeping on top of it makes life easier methinks.
Yes, that's what I usually do, but I thought I'd give the steam mop a try. But, this is the magic bit - once you have removed all the old ice (and washed and dried the freezer if you are that way inclined) rub a thick layer of glycerine over all the surfaces on which ice accumulates. Next time you defrost, the ice will all just drop off in big sheets/chunks and you won't need to hack away with a bread knife.Using a steam mop to defrost the freezer isn't any better than my usual method.
Bowl of hot water in the bottom, wait 5 minutes, works remarkably well.
Using a steam mop to defrost the freezer isn't any better than my usual method.
Bowl of hot water in the bottom, wait 5 minutes, works remarkably well.
Bowl of hot water in the bottom
On Saturday I learnt that eBikes do actually have on/off switches for the lights. Some of them, anyway, but like BMW indicators they're rare in this neck of the woods.
Using a steam mop to defrost the freezer isn't any better than my usual method.A couple of plant sprays set to "jet" rather than "spray" full of hot water work well and as any fule kno you can pretend to zapping Treens with yore atomick death ray which makes the chore meer childs pla . Grate fun.
When we had the Liebherr freezer engineer round (our freezer was broke cos it was all frozen up, prolly cos the door had been left open) he was most explicit that it should be defrosted by leaving it open at room temp for 24 hours.That sounds right. When frost-free freezers do fill with ice, due to malfunction or misuse, the ice forms in hard-to-reach places, so they are worse to defrost than normal freezers. However, defrosting should be extremely rare.
This was in a frost free freezer but he said it was because it would be all frozen up in the polystyrene insulation inside the back and would take that long for all that to thaw out properly.
On Saturday I learnt that eBikes do actually have on/off switches for the lights. Some of them, anyway, but like BMW indicators they're rare in this neck of the woods.
Lots of ways that can work, depending on the system and lights involved, but why did you think they didn't?
is he German?I find myself irresistibly drawn to removing 'frost' accumulation about once a week. It's such a cathartic job and keeping on top of it makes life easier methinks.
I'm wondering how my computer illiterate father has managed to take control of your account PB. He insists on cleaning (using a squeegee to remove any water and then a soft cloth to polish) their shower after every use.
I know that he's been retired for many years and therefore has fuck all to do, but there are limits.
Tell him to get his own computer but not to call me for support.
I was wondering whether it was related to paranoia, and whether there is a definition for orthonoia. This shows a background in organic chemistry.
I was wondering whether it was related to paranoia, and whether there is a definition for orthonoia. This shows a background in organic chemistry.
There are probably descendants of Strelka the space dog somewhere in the USI'd not heard of Strelka but oddly I do recognize the graffiti.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171027-the-stray-dogs-that-paved-the-way-to-the-stars (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171027-the-stray-dogs-that-paved-the-way-to-the-stars)
Mr Wikipedia says 'boroughs' (but they don't cover all of the state).
My thing I have learned today is that of all the communities in Alaska, only Anchorage is bigger than Yeovil!
Yebbut Ely is only one family, really ;)
That's quite a trot - about 25 miles? - for an open carriage late at night.
Yesterday I learned that the version of "I dreamed a dream" from Les Miserables that Mr Fimm plays off Spotify now and then is not from the Original Cast Recording or somesuch as I had assumed, but is, in fact, Susan Boyle.As if the divorce courts aren't busy enough around Christmas.
That the Workmate was designed by the same person who designed the Lotus Elan, Ron Hickman (http://madeupinbritain.uk/Workmate)I read that and wondered why your Lotus Elan had feet in the first place, never mind why you replaced them.
I have just replaced the feet on mine. Why mention that? Well, it is an original workmate in perfect condition, scored off Freecycle from someone about 20 doors down my own road! Apparently it was "dad's" (he's in his 60s) and had been sitting open, unused for loadsayears. Some penetrating oil then light oil on the hinges and it's as good as new, now the perished feet have been replaced.
That the Workmate was designed by the same person who designed the Lotus Elan, Ron Hickman (http://madeupinbritain.uk/Workmate)
I have just replaced the feet on mine. Why mention that? Well, it is an original workmate in perfect condition, scored off Freecycle from someone about 20 doors down my own road! Apparently it was "dad's" (he's in his 60s) and had been sitting open, unused for loadsayears. Some penetrating oil then light oil on the hinges and it's as good as new, now the perished feet have been replaced.
That the Workmate was designed by the same person who designed the Lotus Elan, Ron Hickman (http://madeupinbritain.uk/Workmate)
I have just replaced the feet on mine. Why mention that? Well, it is an original workmate in perfect condition, scored off Freecycle from someone about 20 doors down my own road! Apparently it was "dad's" (he's in his 60s) and had been sitting open, unused for loadsayears. Some penetrating oil then light oil on the hinges and it's as good as new, now the perished feet have been replaced.
I have one and still use it. Apart from some minor damage to the solid beech bars it's in good condition. Hickman is pictured with the version B&D produced when they took over the Workmate company, rather than the real original model.
Funny... these days it's a lot heavier than it used to be. :(
What's that in Gas Marks?
That the Workmate was designed by the same person who designed the Lotus Elan, Ron Hickman (http://madeupinbritain.uk/Workmate)
I have just replaced the feet on mine. Why mention that? Well, it is an original workmate in perfect condition, scored off Freecycle from someone about 20 doors down my own road! Apparently it was "dad's" (he's in his 60s) and had been sitting open, unused for loadsayears. Some penetrating oil then light oil on the hinges and it's as good as new, now the perished feet have been replaced.
I have one and still use it. Apart from some minor damage to the solid beech bars it's in good condition. Hickman is pictured with the version B&D produced when they took over the Workmate company, rather than the real original model.
Funny... these days it's a lot heavier than it used to be. :(
Have you seen the prices as they are now collectable!
Whatever the market will bear. The Japanese also marketed the Toyota MR2 in France, where MR2 is pronounced shitty.
Whatever the market will bear.Bear perfume? Now that might be a more... select market.
Renault Clio?Whatever the market will bear. The Japanese also marketed the Toyota MR2 in France, where MR2 is pronounced shitty.
....but then Audi have long marketed a premium sportscar in the UK that advertises the owner as a titty.
(Although to be fair the French primarily in the shape of Citroen have previous with phonetic alphabetisation (?) of car names - ID, DS etc. For the benefit of non-francophones, "ID" is spoken as the word for "Idea" and "DS" as "Goddess" - there are more)
Renault Clio?Whatever the market will bear. The Japanese also marketed the Toyota MR2 in France, where MR2 is pronounced shitty.
....but then Audi have long marketed a premium sportscar in the UK that advertises the owner as a titty.
(Although to be fair the French primarily in the shape of Citroen have previous with phonetic alphabetisation (?) of car names - ID, DS etc. For the benefit of non-francophones, "ID" is spoken as the word for "Idea" and "DS" as "Goddess" - there are more)
Whatever the market will bear. The Japanese also marketed the Toyota MR2 in France, where MR2 is pronounced shitty.
....but then Audi have long marketed a premium sportscar in the UK that advertises the owner as a titty.
(Although to be fair the French primarily in the shape of Citroen have previous with phonetic alphabetisation (?) of car names - ID, DS etc. For the benefit of non-francophones, "ID" is spoken as the word for "Idea" and "DS" as "Goddess" - there are more)
Mazda perfume is a thing.
Is that the same stuff they sell for lubricating Rohloffs?Mazda perfume is a thing.
There's a perfume for men called Creed, and it costs £625.00 a bottle.
Mazda perfume is a thing.
There's a perfume for men called Creed, and it costs £625.00 a bottle.
^^^Nice bit in The Tin Drum about catching eels, though.
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Meanwhile, I have learnt that plastic guitar picks make quite interesting tiddlywinks.
On a similar theme, I learned from my sister's sat nav (I think it was actually on her phone) that Usanian directions use miles and feet. "In one thousand feet, turn left."
There’s some off us over 40 (by quite a bit in my case) who think in miles and meters. I suspect that there’s actually quite a lot of us. I started my school career in feet and inches but meters were well established by the time I finished. Strangely I was thinking about this today.
Fucksake, if they can do that then there's even less excuse for not having a "miles and metres" mode for Brits under the age of about 40.
Surely feet are easy, just yards X three?That's an extra layer of brain work. Not everyone's brain likes to do mental arithmetic, distinguish left from right and relate spoken instructions to the layout they see (or don't yet see but will in a thousand feet), all while watching the traffic etc.
Someone must have written a wossname to give Windows users a compose key by now? That's the great thing about Windows - someone somewhere has usually written a utility that can bodge around any particular shortcoming...
<compose><'><e> is dead easy to remember.
Someone must have written a wossname to give Windows users a compose key by now? That's the great thing about Windows - someone somewhere has usually written a utility that can bodge around any particular shortcoming...
<compose><'><e> is dead easy to remember.
I had fun with one of those 'your computer has got a virus' calls. I followed his instructions (at least I told him I did) until he told me to hit any key and I proudly proclaimed not to have an any key. I kept this up for 5 minutes or more asking him where it was on the keyboard as I couldn't find it. He got most abusive until he eventually gave up and cut the call ;D
If they did it'd probably involve using a key wot, in my case, you have not got :demon:
Someone must have written a wossname to give Windows users a compose key by now? That's the great thing about Windows - someone somewhere has usually written a utility that can bodge around any particular shortcoming...
<compose><'><e> is dead easy to remember.
If they did it'd probably involve using a key wot, in my case, you have not got :demon:
They call it springing the ease
They call it springing the easeTYPING LIKE YOU COULD MURDER A CURRY.
Someone must have written a wossname to give Windows users a compose key by now? That's the great thing about Windows - someone somewhere has usually written a utility that can bodge around any particular shortcoming...
<compose><'><e> is dead easy to remember.
There is an acute accent over the e, but I can't remember how to do that on a PC. Perhaps I should have posted this from my phone... :/AltGr + E gives you é (e with acute).
American light switches go the opposite way to ours. WTF?
American light switches go the opposite way to ours. WTF?
Not all of ours go the same way either.
You weren't alive in the 1970s.Not all of ours go the same way either.
Only when there are multiple switches on a circuit. I've never met a simple UK light switch that was permanently down for off.
You weren't alive in the 1970s.Not all of ours go the same way either.
Only when there are multiple switches on a circuit. I've never met a simple UK light switch that was permanently down for off.
Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea:
https://qz.com/1176962/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land-and-sea-to-conquer-the-world/
28% of Czechs "have never read a book" compared to 27% in France and 21% in Germany (and only 9% in Sweden),Never read a book? How does that work then. I'm having serious problems with this statement. Really.
28% of Czechs "have never read a book" compared to 27% in France and 21% in Germany (and only 9% in Sweden),Never read a book? How does that work then. I'm having serious problems with this statement. Really.
As an aside often when someone mentions a film they have watched I will ask if they've read the book and the answer is invariably no.
I find this really sad as the book will nearly always take the story to a whole new level that film can never achieve.
No matter how many times you help a person, one upset they will stab you in the back.
What is literacy? And why do we value it? Until two centuries ago, to be literate meant being rich enough to have leisure to learn to read and to acquire books. This traditional view of literacy has been changed not only by universal and compulsory school attendance – where reading and writing are still regarded as vital skills – but by the developments in micro technology which meant that children today are more familiar with the workings of the computer than the construction of the sentence.So perhaps that's something I could learn today if I could be bothered to read the book!
I assume that was either written in the 80s, or the author is a pillock. Possibly both.Copyright date is 1991. I've only read the back cover so can't comment... But I expect "the workings of the computer" is as likely to mean how to use one as how one works.
The average reading age in the UK is 9 years old and 10% of the adult population have a reading age below 10 years old.
Whilst the thread is currently debating literacy levels, this is not numerate!
Either statement could well be true but not both at the same time!
The average reading age in the UK is 9 years old and 10% of the adult population have a reading age below 10 years old.
Whilst the thread is currently debating literacy levels, this is not numerate!
Either statement could well be true but not both at the same time!
As for film adaptations of books, only two good ones spring to mind, Day of the Jackal, and The Hunt For Red October
Back on the book thing, apparently 20% of people cannot name a single author. It sounds like a made-up statistic, but it was covered on More Or Less last week and the survey was sound.
As for film adaptations of books, only two good ones spring to mind, Day of the Jackal, and The Hunt For Red October
Perhaps worthy of a thread of its own...
I’d suggest Catch 22 and The taking of Pelham 123. And maybe From here to Eternity.
Back on the book thing, apparently 20% of people cannot name a single author. It sounds like a made-up statistic, but it was covered on More Or Less last week and the survey was sound.
I bet the number who can't name a TV/film director is higher.
As for film adaptations of books, only two good ones spring to mind, Day of the Jackal, and The Hunt For Red October
Perhaps worthy of a thread of its own...
I’d suggest Catch 22 and The taking of Pelham 123. And maybe From here to Eternity.
The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, and A Time To Kill are all worthy adaptations.
Dune at least has its place alongside Labyrinth in the collection of silly films featuring 80s pop stars.
Hobbits are terrible, whatever the medium.
I'd like to nominate The Andromeda Strain as an excellent film adaptation. The source material naturally lends itself to 1970s pacing and cinematography (for which I have something of a soft spot).
Dune at least has its place alongside Labyrinth in the collection of silly films featuring 80s pop stars.
Hobbits are terrible, whatever the medium.
I'd like to nominate The Andromeda Strain as an excellent film adaptation. The source material naturally lends itself to 1970s pacing and cinematography (for which I have something of a soft spot).
I enjoyed the book too, but Michael Crichton did violence to biology when he had every single bacterium of a species mutate at once*.
Apparently there's an Andromeda Strain mini-series (2008) – that passed me by.
Further Googling also tells me that apparently that missile false alarm really put a damper on the masturbatory habits of my Hawaiians (leastways, using PornHub traffic as a proxy). You'll be pleased to know that things literally perked up immediately thereafter with a surge of, well, you know. Aloha, boys, aloha.
Dune at least has its place alongside Labyrinth in the collection of silly films featuring 80s pop stars.
Hobbits are terrible, whatever the medium.
I'd like to nominate The Andromeda Strain as an excellent film adaptation. The source material naturally lends itself to 1970s pacing and cinematography (for which I have something of a soft spot).
I enjoyed the book too, but Michael Crichton did violence to biology when he had every single bacterium of a species mutate at once*.
Andromeda isn't a bacterium though. That's made abundantly clear. It's a mysterious crystalline organism that feeds on electromagnetic energy, and lacks the structures of terrestrial organisms. Once you've suspended that much disbelief, the idea that colonies of Andromeda can somehow communicate at a distance to share effective mutation strategies isn't really a problem, and it's plausible that the rubber-eating mutation was arrived at independently in more than one place.
In the film version, at least[1], it's not clear whether previous strains are still present after a mutation (the rubber-eating version breached the seal in the lab, but possibly in a way that didn't interfere with the seal containing the previous, deadly, version). Handwaving the dodgy bits while otherwise sticking faithfully to the novel makes for a good adaptation in my book.
None of this is sufficiently problematic to ruin the story IMHO.
(I have more problems with the idea that someone whose entire job is to sit and wait for teleprinter messages would ignore one arriving simply because a bell didn't go ping.)
[1] I read the book many years ago, but consider it unremarkable. It's the aesthetic of the 1971 film that I really like.
Further Googling also tells me that apparently that missile false alarm really put a damper on the masturbatory habits of my Hawaiians (leastways, using PornHub traffic as a proxy). You'll be pleased to know that things literally perked up immediately thereafter with a surge of, well, you know. Aloha, boys, aloha.
Blue Hawaii?
What about books from films? Star Wars comes to mind (never read it but remember my geeky cousin reading it v soon after the film, I only recall the spellings "Artoo Detoo" and "See Threepiyo").
Further Googling also tells me that apparently that missile false alarm really put a damper on the masturbatory habits of my Hawaiians (leastways, using PornHub traffic as a proxy). You'll be pleased to know that things literally perked up immediately thereafter with a surge of, well, you know. Aloha, boys, aloha.
Blue Hawaii?
It certainly is (nothing to do with my wife, she came back from Honolulu weeks ago). But I found my perfect Tidy Haired™ Thought Leadership position, one I fear went unmentioned during my school careers day, but one I can't help but feel I'd be particularly suited to. PornHub Insights (https://www.pornhub.com/insights/) (it is, surprisingly, SFW). I kid you not, someone does exactly what I do, but instead of something boring about publishing, they get to mine porn site traffic. I hesitate to say visualize. I also have a feeling that in their world 'open access' means something entirely different to mine.
Mississippi, however, took their time in 2017 and spent 11 minutes and 33 seconds each time they visited the site. This must have rubbed off on their neighbors
In my (admittedly limited) experience, novelisations are very hard to do well. A film isn't long enough to make a good book without serious changes, and in more recent years, marketing deadlines mean that they tend to be rushed and/or based on an early version of the film that doesn't necessarily hold with the final product.
My brother had some of the TNG-era Star Trek ones, which I ended up reading on holiday at one point. They were dire.
See also: The Jurassic Park sequels. But the films were rubbish too, so low expectations. I suppose it's the nature of films that get novelised tending to be popular blockbusters, where good stories are optional, and authors are chosen according to their ability to work to deadlines.
Never cared enough about Star Wars to read them, but my understanding is that they primarily function as a stepping stone to the Expanded Universe. I believe there's something similar going on with Doctor Who. No doubt there are some cracking stories in among those universes of fanwank.
That the French tax garden sheds.....
http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/2206687-20180122-impots-taxe-cabanons-jardin-devrait-augmenter-2018 (http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/2206687-20180122-impots-taxe-cabanons-jardin-devrait-augmenter-2018)
Sorry, link is in French - basically it's been around since 2012, just going up 3% and nobody likes it. Apparently it is a one off development tax working out at the payment end after some fiendish incredibly French calculations to be €70-€80 per M2
About Bir Tawil, an area of the Nubian desert that both Egypt and Sudan claim belongs to the other country, due to an oddity of colonial border-drawing. The double border is quite obvious on maps but I'd always assumed that both areas of land were claimed by both countries.Ah, but you see, you either claim the 1899 border or the 1902 border. There's no legal basis that anyone can think of to claim a hybrid. Sudan claims the 1902 border, & Egypt claims the 1899 border. This means that both claim the 20,000 km2 around Hala'ib, complete with Red Sea coastline, several thousand people, & possibly oil, & neither claims the uninhabited & apparently worthless 200 km2 of Bir Tawil.
Link with Guardian politics (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the-land-that-no-country-wants-bir-tawil)
Sample nutter who claims it as his own kingdom[/ur]
(http://kingdomofbirtawil.blogspot.co.uk)
I remember when the US Embassy would only accept a bankers draft drawn from a particular branch of Barclays in Hannover Square (I sort of hope I'm making this up, but I suspect not). You did your interview, went to get the 'money' and came back to queue to hand it in with your passport. And about two weeks later you got the visa. Or, in my case, they lost it and claimed they hadn't (the clue was that they eventually found it, which they wouldn't have been able to do had they not lost it in the first place).It sounds remarkably similar to paying in a Soviet department store. Except that in GUM you could buy pretty posters of Uncle Vlad (the one with a beard, not the barechested judo star). Because free enterprise, for sure.
That if you want a Cuba Tourist Visa direct from the consulate in London, you have to pay £39 each and pay by(click to show/hide)
Alternatively, third party service agents will supply for £24.
Back on the books from films/ films from books line of thinking, what about books that SHOULD be made into films?
I have suggested before that Rendevous with Rama would make a chuffing ace film (providing the dorectoid had a suitably huge budget).
I nominate James Cameron in his "Fuck it, lets build a real one" SFX mode as per Kim's The Abyss.
Similarly, "Culture stories" makes me think "Club" (or petri dish but that's not very PBC). Hmm, how about "Books (and films) which should be bands"? Or vice versa.Foundation and Empire
I remember when the US Embassy would only accept a bankers draft drawn on a particular branch of Barclays in Hannover Square (I sort of hope I'm making this up, but I suspect not). You did your interview, went to get the 'money' and came back to queue to hand it in with your passport. And about two weeks later you got the visa. Or, in my case, they lost it and claimed they hadn't (the clue was that they eventually found it, which they wouldn't have been able to do had they not lost it in the first place).
I hate getting visas, it's all cryptic instructions and processes, generally written in a language that superficially looks English. We do have a visa service for work but generally it's easier to do it myself as I'm in London (unless it's China or Russia, ain't worth the headaches). Reminds me, I have to figure out how to get into Ethiopia. And possibly out again. I once had to bribe my way out of Kazakhstan by paying for an 'exit visa' which seemed to be the man at the airport pocketing the cash in exchange for returning my passport. Mind you, much the same thing happened in Vancouver. They had some stupid airport improvement tax (a whopping CAN$10) payable on departure. I asked what happened if I declined to pay it. We don't let you leave said the smiley Canada.
Russell's Teapot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot)
Now I'm an agnostic tending towards atheist, but I acknowledge people's right to believe what they will and think they should be allowed that freedom without the fundamentalists like Darkins haranguing them. Russell' teapot seems a reasonable approach, and in philosophical debate I'd have to agree. But I have oft thought that if you are going to be an arse about it, as Darkins so often is, then it's up to you to disprove it.
Russell's Teapot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot)
Now I'm an agnostic tending towards atheist, but I acknowledge people's right to believe what they will and think they should be allowed that freedom without the fundamentalists like Darkins haranguing them. Russell' teapot seems a reasonable approach, and in philosophical debate I'd have to agree. But I have oft thought that if you are going to be an arse about it, as Darkins so often is, then it's up to you to disprove it.
They should have put a teapot in that there Tesla
Along with the towel.I thought the towel was in the Glove
Along with the towel.I thought the towel was in the GloveCompartmentBox
Along with the towel.I thought the towel was in the GloveCompartmentBox
So did I. It appears that T42 is failing at being a hoopy frood.
One of the qualifications for frooddom is knowing that "hoopy" is a noun >:(
It's in the boot compartment box.No no no. Its in a box which is in a compartment of a trunk which is in the boot. ;D
Two things:
Scott Joplin wrote a *Fig* Leaf Rag.
Mr. Joplin's musical direction on all his "Rags" was, "Play slowly".
Courtesy of Petroc Trelawney & R3 this morning.
Crikey. Our first was a 332, all chunky with a cloth-covered lead. Apparently the 700 series was introduced in response to public demand, fuelled by American TV series.Knowing the ways of PO telephones, I suspect that public demand had little to do with the change, though it might have influenced the eventual design. When I joined, it was still PO telephones and known as 'the department' by a lot of the older boys. We had subscribers back then customers. However, you could as for a phone to be fitted and you would be charged the same installation fee regardless of whether installation required a single span of wire from and existing pole or 15 spans each requiring a new pole at each end. Yes, it could take a while for you to get a phone, but had we been left to our own devices you WOULD already have a fibre into your home and be connected to the fastest and most shiniest network in the world. Maggie decided that completion was more important though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPO_telephones
Crikey. Our first was a 332, all chunky with a cloth-covered lead. Apparently the 700 series was introduced in response to public demand, fuelled by American TV series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPO_telephones
That the Tele 746 is older than I though, which when I consider the design, actually does make sense.I'm gathering that this isn't a Fender product?
Walt Disney isn't a frozen head.???
Walt Disney isn't a frozen head.???
Yesterday I learnt that it is possible but not easy to remove knee-warmers worn inside bib tights.
Yesterday I learnt that it is possible but not easy to remove knee-warmers worn inside bib tights.
Why bothe4 removing them - for a bet?
that "Imbolc" is the name for the "cross-quarter day" which is halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal (spring) equinox.Is that still an excuse to jump naked over a bonfire, though?
It is reasonably easy to get to work by bus. First time I've tried in 23 years of living in Swindon. Day rider tickets and tweaked routes have helped, and I live reasonably near a stop these days.
That 80% of the world's garlic is produced in China.I wonder if you were just listening to the same Radio Four programme as I was a few minutes ago? :-)
That 80% of the world's garlic is produced in China.I wonder if you were just listening to the same Radio Four programme as I was a few minutes ago? :-)
The grip on my tyres isn't as good as I thought it should be and then was better than I was expecting. (lowsiding, catch it and highside)
Fortunately nothing serious - not a mark on the jacket but a small bruise on the upper arm/elbow.
Each testicle of a Right Whale can weigh up to 525kgI'd hate to see a money shot in whale pr0n.
I googled so you don't have to. Two gallons of seminal fluid. I'm not sure who got the enviable job of measuring that. I'd have guessed and gone for cocktailsA piña colada wouldn't seem all that appetising.
I googled so you don't have to. Two gallons of seminal fluid. I'm not sure who got the enviable job of measuring that. I'd have guessed and gone for cocktailsA piña colada wouldn't seem all that appetising.
A Google search for "Liam Fox porn" returns no results. There is a God.I can't believe you took the risk!!! :o
(Rule 35 states that this won't last long, so enjoy the last few days of civilisation while you can)
A Google search for "Liam Fox porn" returns no results. There is a God.
(Rule 35 states that this won't last long, so enjoy the last few days of civilisation while you can)
Why there are so many recipes that call for grilled or toasted sourdough. Because if it’s more than 4 hours old it’s inedible in any other way. But keeps for a full week, and does make the best toast.
A Google search for "Liam Fox porn" returns no results. There is a God.
(Rule 35 states that this won't last long, so enjoy the last few days of civilisation while you can)
A Google search for "Liam Fox porn" returns no results. There is a God.
(Rule 35 states that this won't last long, so enjoy the last few days of civilisation while you can)
A Google search for "Liam Fox porn" returns no results. There is a God.
(Rule 35 states that this won't last long, so enjoy the last few days of civilisation while you can)
I'm not at all sure how google works, but does the fact that you've typed those words together here mean that there would now be at least 1 result?
It came from a comment that a lady friend of a friend, one Ms Fox, was "more Liam than Megan".A Google search for "Liam Fox porn" returns no results. There is a God.
(Rule 35 states that this won't last long, so enjoy the last few days of civilisation while you can)
I'd ask why on earth you googled that but I'm not sure I'd want to hear the answer.
Yeah. I recognise, of course, that a Swann Morton No.10A is never going to be the most effective in a shanking, but the traditional choice of bovver boys was always a Stanley...
We've been doing SCIENCE, and have discovered that the standby mode on barakta's hearing aids drops the average current consumption from 1.33mA to 1.24mA. This is why the official switching-off procedure is to leave the battery compartment hanging open for ease of pingfuckiting and eventual ingestion of the cell by small children and other animals.Ah, but those little hearing aid batteries use air1 as an electrolyte and have a quite appalling self discharge rate once the holes have been opened by the removal of the sticky label. To a user such as myself who will only put my hearing aids in when I'm interacting with someone2, the fact that the batteries go flat just as quickly while not being used is most irksome3.
]Ah, but those little hearing aid batteries use air1 as an electrolyte and have a quite appalling self discharge rate once the holes have been opened by the removal of the sticky label. To a user such as myself who will only put my hearing aids in when I'm interacting with someone2, the fact that the batteries go flat just as quickly while not being used is most irksome3.Well, that's what I've learned today.
I did not know that. I think you're right, though: I just looked for "carbon steel kitchen knife" and drew a blank. Plenty of ceramic ones, which are presumably no good in a fight. And plenty on ebay France and Amazon UK.
We've been doing SCIENCE, and have discovered that the standby mode on barakta's hearing aids drops the average current consumption from 1.33mA to 1.24mA. This is why the official switching-off procedure is to leave the battery compartment hanging open for ease of pingfuckiting and eventual ingestion of the cell by small children and other animals.Ah, but those little hearing aid batteries use air1 as an electrolyte and have a quite appalling self discharge rate once the holes have been opened by the removal of the sticky label.
To a user such as myself who will only put my hearing aids in when I'm interacting with someone
The music in Jean de Florette is based on Verdi's La forza del destino, which I have never seen or listened to. But will.I thought it was based on a lager advert ;D
I've got no time for the "you should wear your hearing aids at all times except when you're in the shower" audiology propaganda. Sure, you've got to put the effort in to get used to hearing with them, and many people don't. But unless you're trying to drown out tinnitus there's no point in giving yourself fatigue just to hear traffic noise / other people's half phone calls / computer fans / bad acoustics / seagull fights / etc. if you don't need to. Especially if it involves earmoulds. There's simply no point in the system where audiologists nag their patients with unrealistic textbook goals and deaf people feel compelled to lie[2] about how much they're using them. >:(
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Have you ever tried the low-tech alternative (http://www.notechmagazine.com/2017/08/non-electric-hearing-aids-outperform-modern-devices.html#more-3731)?
That sheep are claustrophobic.
That there was a period of just 3 giddy weeks of English history between the last Viking invasion being successfully defeated and the first Norman invasion being successful.
Maybe everyone who did English history already knew this, but I'm just catching up on the Dark ages at the mo.
That there was a period of just 3 giddy weeks of English history between the last Viking invasion being successfully defeated and the first Norman invasion being successful.Harold's opponent at the Battle of Stamford was a remarkable character. Def worth a read of his wiki entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Hardrada).
Maybe everyone who did English history already knew this, but I'm just catching up on the Dark ages at the mo.
That would be a UK cultural reference? ::-)It was the theme of Stella Artois adverts for most of the 1990s and 2000s.
That would be a UK cultural reference? ::-)It was the theme of Stella Artois adverts for most of the 1990s and 2000s.
At Stamford Bridge, the stout yeomen of Yorkshire defeated a strong invader.
Then the softy Southerners let us down... ;)
D'Artagnan really existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Batz_de_Castelmore_d'Artagnan
But what about Dogtanian?
Clearly qualifying yourself for the You Know You're Middle Aged thread, Kim, heights in feet...
At Stamford Bridge, the stout yeomen of Yorkshire defeated a strong invader.Chelsea v. Sheffield Wednesday? Surely the Yorkshire folk would have been the away team?
Then the softy Southerners let us down... ;)
Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox have been married 25 years.Wikipedea says 35 years
He King Crimson guitarist; she early-80s squawker and voice of Teletubbies. You're not missing out on much.
"Decadent Days" is worth remembering, if not for the song itself then for the stomping at the teenage discos.
She's performing at The Eyes Have It, as part of this year's Duffield Carnival..."Decadent Days" is worth remembering, if not for the song itself then for the stomping at the teenage discos.
Wasn't that Hazel O'Conner?
Of course. My bad. That means I can't actually remember anything Toyah did, but I do remember her name."Decadent Days" is worth remembering, if not for the song itself then for the stomping at the teenage discos.
Wasn't that Hazel O'Conner?
The metre is defined in a similar manner, taking the distance from the North Pole to the Equator as baseline.It's certainly not the current definition, which is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/~300,000,000 of a second. (A nice, handy yardstick, eh?).
The metre is defined in a similar manner, taking the distance from the North Pole to the Equator as baseline.It's certainly not the current definition, which is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/~300,000,000 of a second. (A nice, handy yardstick, eh?).
I remember having to remember the SI unit definitions for A-Level Physics - the best, I think, was the amp, which is "that constant current which when maintained in two straight parallel perfect conductors of infinite length, positioned one metre apart in a vacuum, induces a force of 2×10−7 newtons per metre length of each on the other." (for which, also see the definition of 'metre', and of 'kilogram', 'metre' and 'second' to understand the derived unit 'newton'. It's useful, because everyone has ready access to caesium-133, infinitely long conductors in vacuums, and Parisian kilograms. ::-))
It's a Mystery, huh? :DOf course. My bad. That means I can't actually remember anything Toyah did, but I do remember her name."Decadent Days" is worth remembering, if not for the song itself then for the stomping at the teenage discos.
Wasn't that Hazel O'Conner?
They have sorted it out, a kilogram is now defined by electricery. One moment, let me go and find a citationThe metre is defined in a similar manner, taking the distance from the North Pole to the Equator as baseline.It's certainly not the current definition, which is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/~300,000,000 of a second. (A nice, handy yardstick, eh?).
I remember having to remember the SI unit definitions for A-Level Physics - the best, I think, was the amp, which is "that constant current which when maintained in two straight parallel perfect conductors of infinite length, positioned one metre apart in a vacuum, induces a force of 2×10−7 newtons per metre length of each on the other." (for which, also see the definition of 'metre', and of 'kilogram', 'metre' and 'second' to understand the derived unit 'newton'. It's useful, because everyone has ready access to caesium-133, infinitely long conductors in vacuums, and Parisian kilograms. ::-))
I think they're still working on the redefining that Parisian kilogram so weights are based on a physical constant rather than lump of steadily eroding metal. They might have sorted it out. I'm trusting you guys to tell me.
The metre is defined in a similar manner, taking the distance from the North Pole to the Equator as baseline.It's certainly not the current definition, which is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/~300,000,000 of a second. (A nice, handy yardstick, eh?).
I remember having to remember the SI unit definitions for A-Level Physics - the best, I think, was the amp, which is "that constant current which when maintained in two straight parallel perfect conductors of infinite length, positioned one metre apart in a vacuum, induces a force of 2×10−7 newtons per metre length of each on the other." (for which, also see the definition of 'metre', and of 'kilogram', 'metre' and 'second' to understand the derived unit 'newton'. It's useful, because everyone has ready access to caesium-133, infinitely long conductors in vacuums, and Parisian kilograms. ::-))
What kind of bastard creation is that? 'a scale of 3":90m'
It's like Concorde all over again . . .
It's probably as well that he's as thick as pig shit. If he knew about how GPS works he'd probably have turned selective availability switched on again!What kind of bastard creation is that? 'a scale of 3":90m'
It's like Concorde all over again . . .
It's not a scale: 3 seconds of arc is the angle subtended by a distance of 90 metres on the Earth's surface. NASA originally mapped as much of the world as they could to an accuracy of 1 second, but only released the bits outside the USA as 3-second squares, presumably to confuse the Russians.
Don't tell the Orange Twat or he'll have the lot taken down or scrambled.
... That was the original definition. The metre was one ten-millionth of the Pole-Equator distance.
It's half way between the hub and the rim isn't it?... That was the original definition. The metre was one ten-millionth of the Pole-Equator distance.
Except, as we all now know, the earth is flat, and the Equator has no relevance! :o
What kind of bastard creation is that? 'a scale of 3":90m'
It's like Concorde all over again . . .
It's not a scale: 3 seconds of arc is the angle subtended by a distance of 90 metres on the Earth's surface. NASA originally mapped as much of the world as they could to an accuracy of 1 second, but only released the bits outside the USA as 3-second squares, presumably to confuse the Russians.
Don't tell the Orange Twat or he'll have the lot taken down or scrambled.
It's half way between the hub and the rim isn't it?... That was the original definition. The metre was one ten-millionth of the Pole-Equator distance.
Except, as we all now know, the earth is flat, and the Equator has no relevance! :o
That a nautical mile is 1.15-something miles.
That the circumference of the earth is 24,901 miles around the equator.
360o is 21600 minutes. Which divided into 24,901 gives 1.15-something.
So a minute of latitude is one nautical mile at the equator.
Probably not a revelation to some people.
Do you have to have the gravity on all the time . . . ?
Oddly enough, despite my lack of miles over the past few months, few of the roadies who came past me today did so with a significant speed differential. I must be getting fitter.
But the roadie never caught me, so maybe he went to the pub instead.Nah, roadies go to cafes. It's only CTC types, tourers and audaxers who go to pubs.
Top tip: It's vitally important to make sure the gravity is properly aligned before turning it up to 11 at 40mph. (DAHIKT)Oddly enough, despite my lack of miles over the past few months, few of the roadies who came past me today did so with a significant speed differential. I must be getting fitter.
As someone who was out onna upwrong today, I suggest that there may be an alternative, meteorological, explanation for this effect...
Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS, FRSE, (2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a British chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904
that the pter in helicopter is the same derivative as the pter in pterodactyl so should have a silent p. helico-ter is a more faithful pronounciation, but only a few classicists will appreciate it. Lit. spiral wings
that the pter in helicopter is the same derivative as the pter in pterodactyl so should have a silent p. helico-ter is a more faithful pronounciation, but only a few classicists will appreciate it. Lit. spiral wingsStrangely, I was thinking precisely the same thing yesterday morning. See also: lepidoptera, hymenoptera, coleoptera, diptera...
that the pter in helicopter is the same derivative as the pter in pterodactyl so should have a silent p. helico-ter is a more faithful pronounciation, but only a few classicists will appreciate it. Lit. spiral wings
that the pter in helicopter is the same derivative as the pter in pterodactyl so should have a silent p. helico-ter is a more faithful pronounciation, but only a few classicists will appreciate it. Lit. spiral wings
that the pter in helicopter is the same derivative as the pter in pterodactyl so should have a silent p. helico-ter is a more faithful pronounciation, but only a few classicists will appreciate it. Lit. spiral wings
I've finally learned which one is Ant and which one is Dec.
I've finally learned which one is Ant and which one is Dec.When they're presenting on telly, they stand so that for the viewer they're in alphabetical order, left to right.
...which made me wonder how much paper has been saved by the demise of phone books. I tried searching for the answer but the best I found was from the bbc way back in 2011 "The new Yellow Pages - which is a mixture of paper either recycled or sourced from sustainably managed forests - will conserve about 5,000 tonnes of paper a year."
Skinny supermarkets catering to Hoxton Hipsters sipping skinny almond lattemochaccinos?...which made me wonder how much paper has been saved by the demise of phone books. I tried searching for the answer but the best I found was from the bbc way back in 2011 "The new Yellow Pages - which is a mixture of paper either recycled or sourced from sustainably managed forests - will conserve about 5,000 tonnes of paper a year."
I'm sure we received a chain-smoking-supermodel-thin phone book a while ago. I'm not sure why, I thought they'd demised upon the internet. Phonebooks, not skinny supermarkets, I'm sure they're alive – if not well – on the internet. Honestly, it would take months to beat a confession out of someone with a phone book that thin. Any thinner and it would have passed for a tissue.
Except in the US of course, where it's a low-fat lattemacchofrappamappagattacino or somesuch. You have no idea how many times I have spell out my name in American coffee shops. I was impressed once to see it rendered Yuan on the side of a cup. I really don't look very Chinese.You are Alistair Dabbs and ICMFP
What 'SJW' really stands for...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SJW
Mmmm, nice.
The post office in Hyder, Alaska, is about 50 metres closer to the South Pole than the south side of the Erskine Bridge over the Clyde west of Glasgow.
We are pretty far north, buggered when the Atlantic conveyor gives up
We are pretty far north, buggered when the Atlantic conveyor gives up
I thought that the Argentinians had already dealt with that.
The post office in Hyder, Alaska, is about 50 metres closer to the South Pole than the south side of the Erskine Bridge over the Clyde west of Glasgow.
I visited Hyder back in 2000. Weird place, a short drive from Canadian side, and pretty much a place that would seem to fit into a wild west type scenario. I have a piccy or two I took, which will be on CD near the PC. Might see if I can locate
Following up on an enquiry for a customer, SRAM eTap is wireless and needs to be synchronised - components paired - before it will work. The scope for fun in a peloton is greatly reduced.
Bloody spoilsports...
We are pretty far north, buggered when the Atlantic conveyor gives upIts amazing to realise that with the exception of Alaska the whole of USAinia isa fair bit south of the southern most latitiude of the UK.
That the word Kingdom is accepted as gender neutral. (YMMV)
Possibly to save having to change the name of an entire country.
We could have been living in the UQ.
You might be seen as a little biased! :PThat the word Kingdom is accepted as gender neutral. (YMMV)
Possibly to save having to change the name of an entire country.
We could have been living in the UQ.
United Queendom sounds a lot more fabulous.
That there used to be a golf course in Nant Ffrancon.
The Douglas Arms. It was still doing it last time I was there, although I think they've given up now.That there used to be a golf course in Nant Ffrancon.
Given that I could not fathom how you'd get a golf course in that valley - mainly since with my geologist's hat on I was thinking about the top end near Ogwen Cottage, I had to look it up.
http://golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php/wales-64/1066-nantffrancon-golf-club-llanberis-gwynedd
So, Efrogwr, you are absolutely right and the next time I'm passing through Bethesda, I'll be looking out for just where it might have been, whilst trying to recall which Bethesda pub it was in around 1973 (when I was an undergrad on field trips to the Snowdonia volcanics) that still gave you your change in £sd instead of that new-fangled decimal stuff.
The Douglas Arms. It was still doing it last time I was there, although I think they've given up now.That there used to be a golf course in Nant Ffrancon.
Given that I could not fathom how you'd get a golf course in that valley - mainly since with my geologist's hat on I was thinking about the top end near Ogwen Cottage, I had to look it up.
http://golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php/wales-64/1066-nantffrancon-golf-club-llanberis-gwynedd
So, Efrogwr, you are absolutely right and the next time I'm passing through Bethesda, I'll be looking out for just where it might have been, whilst trying to recall which Bethesda pub it was in around 1973 (when I was an undergrad on field trips to the Snowdonia volcanics) that still gave you your change in £sd instead of that new-fangled decimal stuff.
The Douglas Arms. It was still doing it last time I was there, although I think they've given up now.That there used to be a golf course in Nant Ffrancon.
Given that I could not fathom how you'd get a golf course in that valley - mainly since with my geologist's hat on I was thinking about the top end near Ogwen Cottage, I had to look it up.
http://golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php/wales-64/1066-nantffrancon-golf-club-llanberis-gwynedd
So, Efrogwr, you are absolutely right and the next time I'm passing through Bethesda, I'll be looking out for just where it might have been, whilst trying to recall which Bethesda pub it was in around 1973 (when I was an undergrad on field trips to the Snowdonia volcanics) that still gave you your change in £sd instead of that new-fangled decimal stuff.
Ah! Thank you Tim. I had a minor worry that with the passage of anno domini my memory is not what I thought it was and that I was simply remembering an urban myth - but you've restored my faith in my recollections. Somebody else knows about it!
I do recall that it was a bit of a shock, buying a pint with new money and getting the change in old. Dunno how he managed to keep stocks of the old coins though.
I feel a day trip to Snowdonia coming on.......
I was at Ogwen Cottage on Sunday; Arwel Johnston ( son of Frank of tea shack fame) thinks that the golf course was near the Bethesda end of the valley. The clubhouse was at Tai Newyddion.
That kaolin poutices now require a prescription. ::-)You need a prescription for 5% sodium chloride eye drops (hypertonic, used for Fuch's dystrophy).
But OTOH, a couple of days ago Mrs Cudzo sent Cudzo Jnr to get her some ibuprofen, she'd bruised a muscle or something. "They won't let me buy that," he says, "you have to be over 18." I had a feeling that might be correct, but also felt that it was no disaster if I had to go out and get it later and it was good to send him out anyway. But they did sell it him, so there aren't age limits on that.That kaolin poutices now require a prescription. ::-)You need a prescription for 5% sodium chloride eye drops (hypertonic, used for Fuch's dystrophy).
That kaolin poutices now require a prescription. ::-)You need a prescription for 5% sodium chloride eye drops (hypertonic, used for Fuch's dystrophy).
The blue coloured paint used by Record on their vices and planes is BS381C 110 Roundel Blue the same colour as the outer blue circle on WWII RAF roundels.
Kaolin is China clay paste AFAIK.
.Less so if your house is built on it >:(
Useful things, clays.
.Less so if your house is built on it >:(
Useful things, clays.
Kaolin is also used to trigger blood clotting through the 'contact pathway' or 'intrinsic pathway'. The original experiments on this were performed by the anatomist William Hewson in the 1770's where he ran freshly let blood into containers of china, or gutta percha and observed the different coagulation times. It wasn't till the 1880's that they discovered that bloodd clotting is usually triggered by constituents outside the blood (the extrinsic pathway) with the prime activator, tissue factor (as a preparation including lipids called thromboplastin) identified and described by Morawitz in 1905 in a somewhat extensive review (1)
(1) Yes I have seen a copy. It is in german as it was published in Angewandte Chemie. Of particular note are two things. a) all the references are listed at the start. 450 or so of them. and b) a particular figure (diagram) is not included. This is interesting as it is frequently seen in historical reviews attributed to this paper, clearly by folk who have not read it. There was an English translation in 1952 which I have not seen which may have this figure.
OK, I learned this when I wrote my PhD thesis 'My life in the laboratory with a bunch of clots' 24 years ago.
.Less so if your house is built on it >:(
Useful things, clays.
Kaolin is also used to trigger blood clotting through the 'contact pathway' or 'intrinsic pathway'. The original experiments on this were performed by the anatomist William Hewson in the 1770's where he ran freshly let blood into containers of china, or gutta percha and observed the different coagulation times. It wasn't till the 1880's that they discovered that bloodd clotting is usually triggered by constituents outside the blood (the extrinsic pathway) with the prime activator, tissue factor (as a preparation including lipids called thromboplastin) identified and described by Morawitz in 1905 in a somewhat extensive review (1)
(1) Yes I have seen a copy. It is in german as it was published in Angewandte Chemie. Of particular note are two things. a) all the references are listed at the start. 450 or so of them. and b) a particular figure (diagram) is not included. This is interesting as it is frequently seen in historical reviews attributed to this paper, clearly by folk who have not read it. There was an English translation in 1952 which I have not seen which may have this figure.
OK, I learned this when I wrote my PhD thesis 'My life in the laboratory with a bunch of clots' 24 years ago.
I came across it when I had a huge boil on my elbow some, ummm, 50 years ago. A hot poultice of kaolin (a paste in a tin, not sure how it was heated as it was pre microwave) was applied. It burst (the boil) and a fibrous core was extracted from it :sick: I still have the dimple in the elbow.
Today I learned that, until today, amateur boxers were not allowed to have beards. Still aren't at international level.That’s beardist that is.
Richard Attlee, close friend of Kenton Archer off of The Archers, is the grandson of Clement Attlee.That confused I, mixing real people and Archer's characters (who are real really) Having googled Richard Attlee I know understand what you mean by 'close friend'
Ob. Cycling: I think it is he who is narrating On Your Bike on Radio 4 Extra.
2) "Waterproof" bandages really mean "water that gets in won't get out" and your skin will turn white under them; and
To wear safety glasses when putting on a new G-string.
Bum note or bum floss?To wear safety glasses when putting on a new G-string.
:-X
Well, it's safely anchored now, although the nut slot is a little large and it's inclined to buzz when strummed forcefully. Time for a little superglue & baking-powder, then I'll have at it with my dozuki.
What is it, with Garmin and being picky about cables? My Garmin sourced car nav unit is particularly picky about having the exact Garmin cable, instead of any other of the dozens of decent quality micro USB cables that litter this house.Yes, we have that issue also.
Same for TomTom car twatnavs.What is it, with Garmin and being picky about cables? My Garmin sourced car nav unit is particularly picky about having the exact Garmin cable, instead of any other of the dozens of decent quality micro USB cables that litter this house.Yes, we have that issue also.
...Dont get me started on trigger packs, ie those bottles with the spray attachment. I completely agree with using one for WD40.
It is a CRYING SHAME that such finely engineered pieces of equipment, made using the worls oil supply, are used once then binned...
Might also be that UK schools tend to all have their holidays at the same time whereas some sur le continent countries stagger them.
Might also be that UK schools tend to all have their holidays at the same time whereas some sur le continent countries stagger them.
I have learnt today that I am old enough to receive a 'Senior Discount' if booking at Center Parcs sur le continent*
CBD OIL, In capsules, seems to lessen the 22 1/2 year HELL OF PAIN that is my head a bit. In with the Opioids I'm feeling some, slight, hope.
CBD OIL, In capsules, seems to lessen the 22 1/2 year HELL OF PAIN that is my head a bit. In with the Opioids I'm feeling some, slight, hope.
That's a bit of good news, can you vape it?
That one of the uses of CO2 is in the slaughter of chickens and pigs. And Waitrose are restricting online purchases of frozen goods as they use dry ice to keep the deliveries cold (as I assume will all the other home delivery operators)
That one of the uses of CO2 is in the slaughter of chickens and pigs. And Waitrose are restricting online purchases of frozen goods as they use dry ice to keep the deliveries cold (as I assume will all the other home delivery operators)
And it's a cruel and gruesome way to kill something. Sheesh.
That one of the uses of CO2 is in the slaughter of chickens and pigs. And Waitrose are restricting online purchases of frozen goods as they use dry ice to keep the deliveries cold (as I assume will all the other home delivery operators)
And it's a cruel and gruesome way to kill something. Sheesh.
I wondered that. Surely if you want to suffocate something with minimal distress, nitrogen would be better?
If it's the one I'm thinking of, the euphoria of nitrogen narcosis was mentioned; to which the Pro-Death fellow responded that he didn't want them to die in euphoria, he wanted them gasping and struggling in panic. He was probably Pro-Life as well and generally Pro-Misery. Probably Pro-Broccoli too.
(1) That the Google Nexus 5X boot loop of death can strike even a 2.5 year old phone (Mrs Ham's. And it had to happen when I scrolled a page on it....)
(2) That google support will tell you "Sorry your phone is out of warranty, go talk to the manufacturer"
(3) That when you tell them "Sorry, you're wrong, UK consumer rights extend past one year to at least five. Google it" they roll over without argument and provide a replacement phone.
According to an American study, people spend around 1.6 billion hours each year standing idly at the roadside, at the cost of US$2.6 billion to the American economy.https://theconversation.com/does-pushing-the-walk-button-help-you-cross-the-street-faster-a-transport-engineer-weighs-in-98886
That after slopping sun screen all over your arms and legs, you should wash your hands thoroughly before reaching for that full mug of coffee.
that also came up on the Antiques Roadshow this weekend just gone
That I'm no where near as good at dealing with potential change than I thought I was.The classic analogy for change is the grieving process and I think it is pretty close.
I always thought I was crap at dealing with potential change but it turns out that I am monumentally atrocious at dealing with potential change. I suppose the thing to do is make a decision and then I only have to live with the consequences.
Although Dr Beardy (Mrs) aka Dr Death, being a scholar of death and dying questions the validity of grieving process, and I believe would cite research that backs such opinions. Being naught but a middle manager of technological development I wouldn’t know such things, though I have recently seen the model which you speak in a presentation to us by management intended to help us through the trauma of change.That I'm no where near as good at dealing with potential change than I thought I was.The classic analogy for change is the grieving process and I think it is pretty close.
I always thought I was crap at dealing with potential change but it turns out that I am monumentally atrocious at dealing with potential change. I suppose the thing to do is make a decision and then I only have to live with the consequences.
That cats won’t drink from water bowls placed next to their food. Evolution, apparently.IME cats prefer anything except the water provided by their domestic staff...puddles, scummy ponds, dripping taps...
That Nidd is in Yorkshire, near Harrogate.FSVO near. Harrogate isn't really in Nidderdale, though I agree it's nearer the Nidd than the Wharfe. :)
That Nidd is in Yorkshire, near Harrogate.FSVO near. Harrogate isn't really in Nidderdale, though I agree it's nearer the Nidd than the Wharfe. :)
There you go, spoiling a nice bit of pedantry with a sensible argument. >:(That Nidd is in Yorkshire, near Harrogate.FSVO near. Harrogate isn't really in Nidderdale, though I agree it's nearer the Nidd than the Wharfe. :)
The main point is surely that it's isn't served by any TFL railway line.
Wouldn't it have been easier to perform surgery on (one of) the base units? 3mm is about the kerf of my circular saw blade ...
Are Mormons a race?
If Judaism is inherited from your mother, it's a race. Judaism does allow people to convert, though.
Insurers in France will only pay out on bike theft if the bike was secured with two locks.IME insurance in France is better to be considered as a tax than an insurance as they seem very good at not paying your losses.
That the coldest part of our new refrigerator is at the top. It says so in the instructions, that I uncharacteristically read (I was trying to see how long the manufacturer said to leave the appliance stood before turning on).
That Lerwick is on approximately the same latitude as Helsinki. As is Teslin YT, which is where I was when I learned this.
That the "Posh" bike shop, Pinarello is their main, or only, stock. Is a Super-Twat with too much money targeted affair. The staff are Rude, Ignorant and I will be Grinking their directors next week, letting them know that I will openly refer to their staff as Shit headed Twunts, should the place be mentioned. A, non-weight weeny, disabled customer was standing at the counter being ignored by all three of the staff, less than 6 feet away, for over five minutes before they deigned to ask, in irritated tones, "Do you need something?". I leaned in and told them that "She probably wants to ask if you know of a decent bike shop in the area?" I pointed her to the Evans store, a few hundred yards away.They're useless, just a Pinarello boutique. They wouldn't know how to repair anything. When the Swindon one was called Total Bike, I was told, "we don't sell spares". They used to have a series of mediocre mechanics, one of whom built the worst set of wheels it has ever been my misfortune to ride. They pinged like a zither the first time I tried them, then went right out of true. Full of twist.
I did not buy anything from them.
Edited toAdvertiseWarn people. https://www.thebikerooms.com/
Manchester?Yup.
Frustrated cats can attack you in your sleep. Said attack can lead to a bloody 20 minute drive to A&E for stitches. In the mean time said frustrated kitty may well make a dirty protest, make purring noises on your return, entice you to stroke you and then bite you again. Oh and don't assume that frustrated cats can be plicated with Ed Sheeran, just because they are both ginger!! Ed Sheeran may lead to kitty hissing.
Not today but on Saturday I learnt that Felpham, sometime destination of the FNRTTC, is pronounced Felfam, rather than Felpam.
Not today but on Saturday I learnt that Felpham, sometime destination of the FNRTTC, is pronounced Felfam, rather than Felpam.
Gosh.
Not today but on Saturday I learnt that Felpham, sometime destination of the FNRTTC, is pronounced Felfam, rather than Felpam.
Not today but on Saturday I learnt that Felpham, sometime destination of the FNRTTC, is pronounced Felfam, rather than Felpam.
R2D2 who does the announcements on Southeastern trains pronounces Meopham as Meffam but I've never ever ever heard a real live actual person say it that way.I don't think I'd realise where they're on about. It's always been Mep'm round here.
R2D2 who does the announcements on Southeastern trains pronounces Meopham as Meffam but I've never ever ever heard a real live actual person say it that way.
Nowt wrong wi' Ilson!
R2D2 who does the announcements on Southeastern trains pronounces Meopham as Meffam but I've never ever ever heard a real live actual person say it that way.I've done the rail journey between Bromley South and Whitstable more times than I've had hot dinners (albeit probably not as many as you, D)
Bat rustlers ???
There's a lot of strange stations thereabout. Farningham Road? Sole Street? I don't think anyone is under the illusion that they're actual places. Detrain at your peril. Reminds me of the bit between Dover and Canterbury. Shepherds Well is actually a portal to another dimension.
There's a lot of strange stations thereabout. Farningham Road? Sole Street? I don't think anyone is under the illusion that they're actual places. Detrain at your peril. Reminds me of the bit between Dover and Canterbury. Shepherds Well is actually a portal to another dimension.Sole Street is the nearest station to the escellent country pub the Cock Inn at Luddesdowne http://www.cockluddesdowne.com/
That BAT Man is a job,Working for British American Tobacco...
That BAT Man is a job,Working for British American Tobacco...
I have very large wasps nest in my attic. I thought we were getting a lot of wasps this year - but people have been saying that it's a wasp-y year so didn't think that we were having anything but a few more than usual.
There were a few wasps in the attic when I went up a few weeks ago-but I just put it down to the then hot weather. A couple of days ago the single halogen recessed downlighter above my shower seemed to get dim, and then this morning it didn't come on at all. Oh, well, needs a new bulb, thought I.
Pulled the fitting down out of the ceiling plasterboard and was showered with dead wasps. This is not normal, I thought. Then I noticed that the woven heat-resisting insulation on the wires to the bulb connector was partly missing.
Now this really set the bells ringing. Opened the attic trapdoor to go up and have a look at the wiring. A few wasps about, and then I spotted a white mass, about 15" across, attached to the rafters above the shower room.
Shut the trapdoor pronto and found a man who does infestations. He's coming round later. It's like I imagine having an alien in your house.
I have very large wasps nest in my attic. I thought we were getting a lot of wasps this year - but people have been saying that it's a wasp-y year so didn't think that we were having anything but a few more than usual.
There were a few wasps in the attic when I went up a few weeks ago-but I just put it down to the then hot weather. A couple of days ago the single halogen recessed downlighter above my shower seemed to get dim, and then this morning it didn't come on at all. Oh, well, needs a new bulb, thought I.
Pulled the fitting down out of the ceiling plasterboard and was showered with dead wasps. This is not normal, I thought. Then I noticed that the woven heat-resisting insulation on the wires to the bulb connector was partly missing.
Now this really set the bells ringing. Opened the attic trapdoor to go up and have a look at the wiring. A few wasps about, and then I spotted a white mass, about 15" across, attached to the rafters above the shower room.
Shut the trapdoor pronto and found a man who does infestations. He's coming round later. It's like I imagine having an alien in your house.
Just as an aside, a few years ago it looked like we might have wasps in our attic, there were quite a few flying in, but not THAT many. Called a wasp-a-rator he had a look and said, no you don't have a wasp nest, but hang on a moment.... walked outside and spied intense wasp action about 6 doors down (in a line of Victorian semis)
Turns out wasps aren't that bright and often end up trying to find their nest in the house nearby that looks the same. Bit like coming home late from the pub, really.
That the nose shape of the current generation Shinkansen is based very heavily on the shape of the kingfisher's bill.
Impossible Railways perchance? That's where I heard it today.That the nose shape of the current generation Shinkansen is based very heavily on the shape of the kingfisher's bill.
that came up on a documentary of some kind I saw the other day, buggered if I can remember which
Was that an aesthetic or engineering decision? At a guess there's some similarities between birds diving into water and trains heading into tunnels?It was an engineering decision as per your guess. The head bod. twigged that kingfishers go head first into water at high speed and create very little disturbance. FWIW If you can stand the truly dreadful narration the "Impossible" engineering series can be interesting to watch, at least when the Engineers are allowed to talk about what they've done.
Impossible Railways perchance? That's where I heard it today.That the nose shape of the current generation Shinkansen is based very heavily on the shape of the kingfisher's bill.
that came up on a documentary of some kind I saw the other day, buggered if I can remember which
Having read your post, I've just watched Impossible Railways.Was that an aesthetic or engineering decision? At a guess there's some similarities between birds diving into water and trains heading into tunnels?It was an engineering decision as per your guess. The head bod. twigged that kingfishers go head first into water at high speed and create very little disturbance. FWIW If you can stand the truly dreadful narration the "Impossible" engineering series can be interesting to watch, at least when the Engineers are allowed to talk about what they've done.
2) The top end people involved in these high speed projects, the Japanese, the Italians and the Americans, all appear to be fluent in English.
2) The top end people involved in these high speed projects, the Japanese, the Italians and the Americans, all appear to be fluent in English.
How many of them were educated in British and American universities? Too bad all that education isn't being used to build better railways in the UK and the US. the US could certainly use some improvements in its passenger rail system.
And yes, quite a few Americans speak reasonably good English.
2) The top end people involved...all appear to be fluent in English.Not just the "top" engineers. The conductor on the Italian "Red Arrow" service spoke fluent, idiomatic English. I was left wondering how many people in a similar position in a UK TOC could speak a second language so well. Not throwing stones, I'm in no position to as my foreign language skills are pitiful; fragments of French & German and functional/rudimentary Greek, but it did drive it home how atrocious our approach to teaching and learning foreign languages is.
Indeed.Quote from: Jurek2) The top end people involved...all appear to be fluent in English.Not just the "top" engineers. The conductor on the Italian "Red Arrow" service spoke fluent, idiomatic English. I was left wondering how many people in a similar position in a UK TOC could speak a second language so well. Not throwing stones, I'm in no position to as my foreign language skills are pitiful; fragments of French & German and functional/rudimentary Greek, but it did drive it home how atrocious our approach to teaching and learning foreign languages is.
BTW, as an aside, the UK seems to be almost against foreign students and foreign STEM personnel. Looking at items re. STEM research in the USA, there's a hell of a lot from Asian people - we're really missing out.It wouldn’t matter who did the STEM research in the U.K., we’d still need to give away any discoveries or inventions for them to be realised as a useful product or service.
Perhaps we should make fluency in English a requirement for University entrance here?
I think Chris may be referring to the UK undergraduates' command of their native tongue...
Which, in practice - based on some of the UG essays I've seen - appears to provide bugger-all evidence that they can actually string a sentence together, never mind craft an argument or structure a piece of writing.I think Chris may be referring to the UK undergraduates' command of their native tongue...
Where they usually require a C at GCSE[1].
Special arrangements for international students, where size of the cheque does appear to be a factor.I think this may depend on the institution; as an UG at an institution where overseas students paid extortionate fees I never encountered anyone who was struggling because of lack of English, but I've heard horror stories from elsewhere. Ironically PG courses may be more susceptible, though even they pretty much universally require IELTS or equivalent.
[1] Which in my day was all about counterpointing the vogonity of the underlying metaphor, but now appears to include actual English skills.And you learned a useful skill! Again, many UGs wouldn't know a metaphor if it bit them in the *redacted*.
That most bar showers have 150mm between pipe centres and the same fittings. Unfortunately how far the fitting needs to stick out from the tiles isnt standardised ....
Luckily an extra rubber washer in each fitting sorted it.
I think Chris may be referring to the UK undergraduates' command of their native tongue...
Where they usually require a C at GCSE[1].
Special arrangements for international students, where size of the cheque does appear to be a factor.
[1] Which in my day was all about counterpointing the vogonity of the underlying metaphor, but now appears to include actual English skills.
it's almost 30 years ago now that I was applying to universities, I can't remember is much attention was paid to GCSEs or that was just a given, considering you were already studying subjects relevant to desired degree at A level.
GCSE maths and Chemistry being clearly required at GCSE to do those at A-level and form the basis of university offers for example - English admittedly less directly linked, but nonetheless useful for report writing etc
R2D2 who does the announcements on Southeastern trains pronounces Meopham as Meffam but I've never ever ever heard a real live actual person say it that way.I've done the rail journey between Bromley South and Whitstable more times than I've had hot dinners (albeit probably not as many as you, D)
Travelling in either direction, the train always stops at Meopham.
I have never, ever seen anyone board or alight from the train at this station.
Does it stop there because it is the longest linear village in Kent / England / The World?
That really only PET and HDPE plastics (codes 1 and 2 - "soda" bottles and milk bottles) are recycled in the UK. :-\ This was prompted by looking at a small pot that had had rollmops in it. It carried the recycling triangle and the number 5. But the label stated that it wasn't currently recycled. Curious, I googled it. It's PP - and so are all those "fresh" soup pots that have taken over from cans because they're "better" ::-) and it's not currently collected for recycling, although it is recyclable.
How does that compare to recycling a metal or glass container, thobut? I'm guessing it's a no-brainer if it's aluminium, but the energy costs get pretty marginal for glass...As I recall, the economics of glass recycling are marginal. IIRC, some local authorities, remote from the glass factories, found that it cost them to get the cullet to the factory for recycling, Anglesey springs to kind. There's value in clear glass, but much less in green or brown because we don't make many wine bottles in the UK.
There have been research projects into alternative uses for bulk low-value glass, in concrete and non-skid road surfaces for example. You can get a low-volume glass bottle crusher which produces cullet with no sharps - I've specified that in some small recycling projects - in a small Caribbean island for example. They were to use the crushed glass as construction aggregate.
That really only PET and HDPE plastics (codes 1 and 2 - "soda" bottles and milk bottles) are recycled in the UK. :-\ This was prompted by looking at a small pot that had had rollmops in it. It carried the recycling triangle and the number 5. But the label stated that it wasn't currently recycled. Curious, I googled it. It's PP - and so are all those "fresh" soup pots that have taken over from cans because they're "better" ::-) and it's not currently collected for recycling, although it is recyclable.
I worked in municipal waste management for about 25 years, as an engineering geologist designing, building and rehabilitating landfills, and landfill gas collection and energy recovery systems. The national game plan changed with the EU Landfill Directive around 2000, with financial instruments steering the nation away from landfill, now very successfully. We now collect much more msw for recycling, but not all of it can be. Particularly some plastics. As you found, PET (polyester - think fleeces) and PE (polyethylene - milk bottles) are easily recycled, but most plastics are not. But they have huge energy value, which can be (and is) recovered in Energy from Waste plants. So, the plastic you put out for recycling may not be recycled (which is the best way) but can be recovered (which is maybe second best). Whatever, local authorities don't want to landfill it because they have to pay landfill tax on each tonne, it's better to sell it to an EfW plant.
When I was studying, word was that any aluminium product you had, was composed of ~17% 'new' aluminium - the rest having been recycled.How does that compare to recycling a metal or glass container, thobut? I'm guessing it's a no-brainer if it's aluminium, but the energy costs get pretty marginal for glass...As I recall, the economics of glass recycling are marginal. IIRC, some local authorities, remote from the glass factories, found that it cost them to get the cullet to the factory for recycling, Anglesey springs to kind. There's value in clear glass, but much less in green or brown because we don't make many wine bottles in the UK.
The opening of the new glass plant near Ellesmere Port may have changed the balance a bit - they make beer bottles AIUI.
There have been research projects into alternative uses for bulk low-value glass, in concrete and non-skid road surfaces for example. You can get a low-volume glass bottle crusher which produces cullet with no sharps - I've specified that in some small recycling projects - in a small Caribbean island for example. They were to use the crushed glass as construction aggregate.
And yes, there's a lot of value in an aluminium can, a bit less so in a steel can. But they are very recyclable.
I thought most wine, worldwide, was transported in huge cisterns and mise en bouteille au pays de marche. There is a "wine train" that collects them from Avonmouth docks.How does that compare to recycling a metal or glass container, thobut? I'm guessing it's a no-brainer if it's aluminium, but the energy costs get pretty marginal for glass...As I recall, the economics of glass recycling are marginal. IIRC, some local authorities, remote from the glass factories, found that it cost them to get the cullet to the factory for recycling, Anglesey springs to kind. There's value in clear glass, but much less in green or brown because we don't make many wine bottles in the UK.
The opening of the new glass plant near Ellesmere Port may have changed the balance a bit - they make beer bottles AIUI.
There have been research projects into alternative uses for bulk low-value glass, in concrete and non-skid road surfaces for example. You can get a low-volume glass bottle crusher which produces cullet with no sharps - I've specified that in some small recycling projects - in a small Caribbean island for example. They were to use the crushed glass as construction aggregate.
And yes, there's a lot of value in an aluminium can, a bit less so in a steel can. But they are very recyclable.
Related point: Who thought tetra-pak was a good idea? I suppose you can burn them...
I thought most wine, worldwide, was transported in huge cisterns and mise en bouteille au pays de marche. There is a "wine train" that collects them from Avonmouth docks.
Everyone used to think Tetra-Pak was a good idea. Well, everyone who could open them. It's only relatively recently that we've become concerned about recyclability and waste disposal. A good prompt to ask what aren't we concerned about now that we will realize in ten or thirty years time we should have been? Could be some surprising answers.Related point: Who thought tetra-pak was a good idea? I suppose you can burn them...
I imagine the beneficiaries the Tetra-Pak fortune. Well, the ones who aren't dead.
A good prompt to ask what aren't we concerned about not that we will realize in ten or thirty years time we should have been?
Today think I may have learned what happened to the old Birmingham library after they demolished it.
I've just seen the new Dundee V&A on the news.
:facepalm:
That main hall or whatever it is looks like a barn roof after a bad hailstorm. Waste of wood.
Yeah that's got all the usual fuckwitted contenders for pissing me off...
I want to flash strobes in the eyes of every fucker who signed off on those until they apologise (and then some more just so they know how painful it is), rip it down and build something which isn't sensorily hostile! I bet the acoustics are appalling!
I find people *don't* believe me when I say lighting flickers.
I learnt this one earlier in the week, but had to keep it under my hat until now, as I used it as a Thing of Interest on my Tandem Club ride today.
Jomo Kenyatta, Prime Minister and first President of Kenya lived in Storrington during World War 2 and was employed growing tomatoes at a market gardeners in nearby Thakeham.
I hadn't seen that specific article Hulver, but I know Professor Arnold's work well and he wrote a longer one at the same place https://theconversation.com/the-scientific-reason-you-dont-like-led-bulbs-and-the-simple-way-to-fix-them-81639 which I do share often.From that web page,
I find people *don't* believe me when I say lighting flickers. I like the fidget spinner idea, see how well that correlates...
In contrast, some LEDs flash only 400 times per second. This flicker is still far too rapid to be seen directly, but some people can see multiple images of the lamps every time they make a saccade, which is unpleasantly distracting.
If the flickering comes from poor conversion of AC mains supply to the DC needed to power the diodes, presumably an LED powered from DC, eg a battery, does not flicker.
LED domestic lighting seems to be here to stay, so perhaps it's time to look at the domestic power supply. Could we have a separate DC supply specifically for lighting, either rectified on a per-building basis or once for each district? Apparently in the past some countries did have separate domestic lighting and power supplies as each was metered differently, though the supply was the same.
I'm not convinced domestic LEDs are overall an environmental benefit in any case. In addition to the flickering and health issues, the electronic thingers in them are a bit nastier than a strand of wire in a vacuum, and it all gets thrown away at the end.
So having a special 240V DC supply would be no good cos flicker would still be induced by converting it to the low voltages needed for LEDs?
What do they do for street lighting? People don't seem to complain about that; is that because the manufacturers are using better converters (cos obviously they're charging more) or cos people don't notice it so much cos it's outside (and there are competing multiple sources) or just cos I haven't heard them?
One of those linguistic/cultural differences that I'd completely missed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider_in_the_United_StatesI bet that leads to a lot of disappointed Brits in Usania and surprised Yanks in Britoland.
See also Wit-ham in Essex and With-am in Linc's.R2D2 who does the announcements on Southeastern trains pronounces Meopham as Meffam but I've never ever ever heard a real live actual person say it that way.I've done the rail journey between Bromley South and Whitstable more times than I've had hot dinners (albeit probably not as many as you, D)
Travelling in either direction, the train always stops at Meopham.
I have never, ever seen anyone board or alight from the train at this station.
Does it stop there because it is the longest linear village in Kent / England / The World?
I have got on and off trains at Meopham many times, but only ever before or after an audax ride - which to my mind is the only reason to visit the place (esteemed audax organiser Tom OTP lives there, so maybe he'll be along shortly to big up its charms, which I'm sure are many).
I didn't know that interesting fact about it being the longest linear village in England, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I remember at the end of one audax after climbing Wrotham hill (ugh!), passing the village sign and thinking, 'Oh good, nearly finished,' and it was most dispiriting to then find myself riding for several more miles before reaching the scout hut - although at least it's mostly downhill.
Anyway, back to the -ham place names, I just remembered that Faversham is Faver-sham rather than Favers-ham - it's rendered as Father's Ham in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker though, but that's an invention; the original etymology is related to an Old English word for metal workers.
I needed B in English language and a C in a foreign language for my chemical engineering course in 81.it's almost 30 years ago now that I was applying to universities, I can't remember is much attention was paid to GCSEs or that was just a given, considering you were already studying subjects relevant to desired degree at A level.
GCSE maths and Chemistry being clearly required at GCSE to do those at A-level and form the basis of university offers for example - English admittedly less directly linked, but nonetheless useful for report writing etc
In the early 80s you needed Maths and English O'level or GCSE equivalent for university or you weren't considered to have matriculated, didn't matter what the course was. This was certainly still the case in the late 80s as it caused my sister no end of trouble trying to get into uni as a mature student - she just doesn't get maths and had retry at night school several times. She has a masters now mind and they keep asking her to do a doctorate.
One of those linguistic/cultural differences that I'd completely missed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider_in_the_United_StatesI bet that leads to a lot of disappointed Brits in Usania and surprised Yanks in Britoland.
Once, as a wayward teen, half a litre of already-drunk Woodpecker cider boiled out of my nose. I've kind of struggled with any kind of cider since then.
*tries very hard not to laugh out loud in a room where I am supposed to be being quiet*
See also Southern Comfort.For an instant, I thought this was the baby names thread.
E in chemistry and E in maths was my offer from Bath. I think they basically recognised me as their kind of personI needed B in English language and a C in a foreign language for my chemical engineering course in 81.it's almost 30 years ago now that I was applying to universities, I can't remember is much attention was paid to GCSEs or that was just a given, considering you were already studying subjects relevant to desired degree at A level.
GCSE maths and Chemistry being clearly required at GCSE to do those at A-level and form the basis of university offers for example - English admittedly less directly linked, but nonetheless useful for report writing etc
In the early 80s you needed Maths and English O'level or GCSE equivalent for university or you weren't considered to have matriculated, didn't matter what the course was. This was certainly still the case in the late 80s as it caused my sister no end of trouble trying to get into uni as a mature student - she just doesn't get maths and had retry at night school several times. She has a masters now mind and they keep asking her to do a doctorate.
So basically they were saying that you were someone who needed a bath, then?
That at least some railway bridges still have their distance/position from $whereever measured in miles and chains and that even when brand new distance markers are affixed they still display the distance in miles and chains.All of them I believe*. They also have a three or four character Engineers Line Reference (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Line_Reference) to identify the line.
My sample size was small (3 bridges so far this week) and all in N/NE Kent so was quite expecting it to be a relic from whichever company originally built the line (VIR) rather than a system currently in use.That at least some railway bridges still have their distance/position from $whereever measured in miles and chains and that even when brand new distance markers are affixed they still display the distance in miles and chains.All of them I believe.
I have a feeling the Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth line is also measured in km, presumably because the Welsh are foreign. Or perhaps because the Walian railway was built by foreign Saxons.That at least some railway bridges still have their distance/position from $whereever measured in miles and chains and that even when brand new distance markers are affixed they still display the distance in miles and chains.All of them I believe*. They also have a three or four character Engineers Line Reference (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Line_Reference) to identify the line.
*HS1 is measured in km and m, as it's a FOREIGN thing from ABROAD.
...presumably because the Welsh are foreign...Indeed. The clue is in the name; wælisc*. :)
I have a feeling the Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth line is also measured in km, presumably because the Welsh are foreign. Or perhaps because the Walian railway was built by foreign Saxons.That at least some railway bridges still have their distance/position from $whereever measured in miles and chains and that even when brand new distance markers are affixed they still display the distance in miles and chains.All of them I believe*. They also have a three or four character Engineers Line Reference (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Line_Reference) to identify the line.
*HS1 is measured in km and m, as it's a FOREIGN thing from ABROAD.
Briefly also marked in km from Sutton Bridge Junction; ERTMS signalling system still uses km(It's line SBA). So that's my Thing I Have Learned Today covered already.
One of those linguistic/cultural differences that I'd completely missed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider_in_the_United_States
Seattle also has yellow and orange ones for rent, along with the bright green
there is a Deliveroo type thing in Norway (Stavanger at least) and its PINK
That there is s device on our power supply called a recloser.
the actual fault self-clears
If power lines have come down in a storm and appear dead, be cautious.
That Phil Lynott was Leslie Crowther's son-in-law.And that Phil Lynott's wife was a glamour model / soft porn star.
I had to google both Phil Lynott and Leslie Crowther. Neither was who I thought they were.Ha! Me too. Well, not Phil Lynott. I mean, he's a cricketer, everybody knows that. But I was (genuinely) confusing Leslie Crowther and Aleister Crowley.
That if you left Bristol's floating harbour in a narrow boat and headed upstream, after about two hours you would reach Hanham lock. Which would be handy for visiting the nearby Argos Cycles (and Kim's Cafe!). That's right, you're still firmly within Bristol and not even in the proper suburbs. I knew canal boats were slow, but didn't realize they were quite that slow.4mph. They will go a bit faster but it's discouraged as it washes away the banks. Locks are the real time hog, though; if all the locks are against you (empty when you're going down, or full when you're going up) it can take ages to get anywhere.
It's also impossible to operate a canal boat without booze in hand. Leastways, it is in Londonshire. Unless it's in Hackney, in which case a bottle of wine will also suffice.
Doesn't surprise me. I've seen drunks on canal boats here trying to spear swans.
That the M25 remains a dreadful road with no alternative routes.
Five hours it took us to get from Heathrow to the East of the Eastern Angles. FIVE HOURS. It’s only a 119 of the BRITONS miles and it’s dual carriageway for all but the last spit. Damned pantechnicon drivers* , driving when they should be asleep in bed and not at the wheel. And the polis’s insistence in doing s full collision investigation there and then even though it means closing the motorway for hours during the peak travelling time. Pah!
Doesn't surprise me. I've seen drunks on canal boats here trying to spear swans.
:o I hope they got a broken arm.
That the M25 remains a dreadful road with no alternative routes.
Five hours it took us to get from Heathrow to the East of the Eastern Angles. FIVE HOURS. It’s only a 119 of the BRITONS miles and it’s dual carriageway for all but the last spit. Damned pantechnicon drivers* , driving when they should be asleep in bed and not at the wheel. And the polis’s insistence in doing s full collision investigation there and then even though it means closing the motorway for hours during the peak travelling time. Pah!
There was an incident of a ball bearing fired at an HGV near Cambridge, head injuries for the driver.
There was me thinking we had a monopoly on dickheads in the North of England...
It's also impossible to operate a canal boat without booze in hand. Leastways, it is in Londonshire. Unless it's in Hackney, in which case a bottle of wine will also suffice.
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/16908532.revellers-sink-canal-boat/
It's also impossible to operate a canal boat without booze in hand. Leastways, it is in Londonshire. Unless it's in Hackney, in which case a bottle of wine will also suffice.
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/16908532.revellers-sink-canal-boat/
Pissed up Yahoos. 'Yesterdays Boatorised Morons' would be a somewhat eclectic thread...
A noisy and inconsiderate party of city-dwellers (dubbed the 'Hullabaloos' by the children) aboard the hired motor cruiser Margoletta threaten Number 7 nest by mooring in front of it. This nest is home of the coot with the white feather which is a mascot of the Coot Club and one of many of its monitored nests. Despite warnings "not to mix with foreigners", Tom stealthily loosens the Margoletta's moorings to save the nest and later hides behind the Teasel. Mrs. Barrable does not betray Tom to the Hullabaloos, instead asking him and the twins to sail the Teasel and teach the Callums to sail. Tom involves some of the other members of the Coot Club, the twin girls Port and Starboard Farland, and three younger boys — Joe, Bill and Pete (the Death and Glories).
It's also impossible to operate a canal boat without booze in hand. Leastways, it is in Londonshire. Unless it's in Hackney, in which case a bottle of wine will also suffice.
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/16908532.revellers-sink-canal-boat/
Pissed up Yahoos. 'Yesterdays Boatorised Morons' would be a somewhat eclectic thread...
[1] IANA boatist, but I assume that's their equivalent of recumbent gear ratios.Wouldn't that be something like drive-screw vane width? Probably in combination with rudder length and, I dunno, prow angle? But I'm sure bilge-pump o-ring sizes is a hot topic!
Googling "Ebay Enlarger" produces quite a range of results. I was interested in flogging Dad's old photographic kit. Rookie error to leave out the term "photographic", as I got lots of things to enlarge things other than photographs. Todgers, for example.
Googling "Ebay Enlarger" produces quite a range of results. I was interested in flogging Dad's old photographic kit. Rookie error to leave out the term "photographic", as I got lots of things to enlarge things other than photographs. Todgers, for example.
Aw, shucks. I had half a plan to go but the following day involved a lot of driving, so I gave it a miss. Net time.Googling "Ebay Enlarger" produces quite a range of results. I was interested in flogging Dad's old photographic kit. Rookie error to leave out the term "photographic", as I got lots of things to enlarge things other than photographs. Todgers, for example.
Remind me - how long you've been using the interwebs.....
ETA - Why weren't you at the Prince William Henry in Southwark last Thursday?
Your company was missed.
I thought that a punk band called Ted Turd and the Toolsheds was a joke, made up by one of my mates. I have learned that it was a genuine band.Indeed. From round here. Some old acquaintances of mine.
I thought that a punk band called Ted Turd and the Toolsheds was a joke, made up by one of my mates. I have learned that it was a genuine band.Indeed. From round here. Some old acquaintances of mine.
That Charles Richardson, engineer on the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway in 1863 and the Severn Tunnel in 1886, also invented the spliced cricket bat and bowling catapult.
Surely it should be Batta :)
Surely it should be Batta :)Some years ago on an FNRTTC, his Legship had us stop somewhere near Tilbury at the site of the Bata shoe factory and gave a marvellous lecture about modernist architecture and Company towns.
As the years roll by I wonder how many still know who that is.Surely it should be Batta :)Some years ago on an FNRTTC, his Legship had us stop somewhere near Tilbury at the site of the Bata shoe factory and gave a marvellous lecture about modernist architecture and Company towns.
Many.As the years roll by I wonder how many still know who that is.Surely it should be Batta :)Some years ago on an FNRTTC, his Legship had us stop somewhere near Tilbury at the site of the Bata shoe factory and gave a marvellous lecture about modernist architecture and Company towns.
I broke my phone screen* on Sunday and it's away for repair (actually on the way back already, they've done it). In the meantime I foolishly opened Facebook on a normal browser. It's like standing behind a bin lorry and asking the driver to engage the tipper function. The adblocker (AdBlock Ultimate in this case) was overloaded and Firefox locked up completely. Moral: if you must use Faecebook, only do it on a phone and with Ublock Origin or similar weapons-grade ad-blocking enabled.
*Galaxy S8, would be £240 but I have finally found a use for the mobile phone insurance that comes with my current account!
That the Balti Triangle no longer exists.
Chum of mine went to Birmingham last week to visit old mates and found no balti houses on either Ladypool Rd or Stoney Lane. He says they've all become steak houses and the like. Seems that's what the young trendy Asians are into now.
Hence the classic example of an oxymoron: "military intelligence"?
That the Balti Triangle no longer exists.Not the Hindus, presumably?
Chum of mine went to Birmingham last week to visit old mates and found no balti houses on either Ladypool Rd or Stoney Lane. He says they've all become steak houses and the like. Seems that's what the young trendy Asians are into now.
That the Balti Triangle no longer exists.My favourite, The Royal Naim, was opposite the Mermaid pub, but is now a sari shop. The last time I was on Stoney Lane, The Royal Al-Faisal had become very chintzy & blingy, but that was 10 years ago.
Chum of mine went to Birmingham last week to visit old mates and found no balti houses on either Ladypool Rd or Stoney Lane. He says they've all become steak houses and the like. Seems that's what the young trendy Asians are into now.
The RA-F was terribly basic in the 1980s. Ten quid for four, though!That the Balti Triangle no longer exists.My favourite, The Royal Naim, was opposite the Mermaid pub, but is now a sari shop. The last time I was on Stoney Lane, The Royal Al-Faisal had become very chintzy & blingy, but that was 10 years ago.
Chum of mine went to Birmingham last week to visit old mates and found no balti houses on either Ladypool Rd or Stoney Lane. He says they've all become steak houses and the like. Seems that's what the young trendy Asians are into now.
Some guys are refining the Birkeland-Eyde process* and reckon they can now match the Haber process for energy efficiency. Imagine being able to make fertilizer in the middle of the desert from PV electricity...and not using fossil fuel or producing greenhouse gases.
.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45938874?fbclid=IwAR2LDdSdDkB3b-1Nwb6mm2SApk5TybznKNT4DMs8xqygdz2VC07z3AlM_B4 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45938874?fbclid=IwAR2LDdSdDkB3b-1Nwb6mm2SApk5TybznKNT4DMs8xqygdz2VC07z3AlM_B4)
*you've seen The Heroes Of Telemark, right?
Some guys are refining the Birkeland-Eyde process* and reckon they can now match the Haber process for energy efficiency. Imagine being able to make fertilizer in the middle of the desert from PV electricity...and not using fossil fuel or producing greenhouse gases.
*you've seen The Heroes Of Telemark, right?
As for those saws, I'll have to ask my sisters other half...
That William Fotheringham has written a book about the film "A Sunday in Hell" and is now working on a book about Beryl Burton.
A loose clothing and rotating machinery kind of situation.A marginally less stylish Isadora Duncan moment.
Regarding numbers, in the Suisse Romande they speak a dialect of French which has features from a long time ago.
60 soixante
70 septant
80 huitante
90 nonante
Much, much easier adnt o me more logical than quatre-vingts etc.
Stream of digits. It's the only way to be sure. (At least until we get into the correct punctuation of phone numbers debate.)
Stream of digits. It's the only way to be sure. (At least until we get into the correct punctuation of phone numbers debate.)But we're already in that debate. The correct punctuation in German is in pairs. Except for the first three digits, it seems.
I doubt it... *googles*Stream of digits. It's the only way to be sure. (At least until we get into the correct punctuation of phone numbers debate.)But we're already in that debate. The correct punctuation in German is in pairs. Except for the first three digits, it seems.
Regarding numbers, in the Suisse Romande they speak a dialect of French which has features from a long time ago.
60 soixante
70 septant
80 huitante
90 nonante
Much, much easier adnt o me more logical than quatre-vingts etc.
What do you doubt, Kim?
That and pub quizzers.I doubt it... *googles*Stream of digits. It's the only way to be sure. (At least until we get into the correct punctuation of phone numbers debate.)But we're already in that debate. The correct punctuation in German is in pairs. Except for the first three digits, it seems.
Yep, variable length area codes, subscriber numbers that can go down to 2 digits, so their dialplan is even more of a mess than ours:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Germany
Of course in the real world cellular users and most people under the age of about 40 only ever dial the fully-qualified number, and the old people who still dial subscriber numbers manually will recognise their own area code. So it's only really telecoms engineers who have to care about dialplans who actually *need* to get the punctuation right.
German language parses phone numbers as multiple pairs.What do you doubt, Kim?
I doubt that the German phone system parses numbers as multiple pairs.
Reading out pairs of digits as discrete numbers is nothing to do with the phone system, it's just a cultural (in)convenience.This is the point.
That and pub quizzers.I doubt it... *googles*Stream of digits. It's the only way to be sure. (At least until we get into the correct punctuation of phone numbers debate.)But we're already in that debate. The correct punctuation in German is in pairs. Except for the first three digits, it seems.
Yep, variable length area codes, subscriber numbers that can go down to 2 digits, so their dialplan is even more of a mess than ours:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Germany
Of course in the real world cellular users and most people under the age of about 40 only ever dial the fully-qualified number, and the old people who still dial subscriber numbers manually will recognise their own area code. So it's only really telecoms engineers who have to care about dialplans who actually *need* to get the punctuation right.
I was at a school fund raising quiz night some years ago, post April 2000. The question was "what is the dialing code for inner London".
This caused a <twitch> from me.
The answer was given as 0207, eliciting a further <twitch>.
I went up to discuss it with the question setter, as did another bloke. The question setter was having none of it, but when the other bloke called him a wanker I made my excuses and left.
I don't think we won either.
Yes, and I specifically wanted to avoid talking about semantic punctuation, until you suggested we already were.Well not quite. You said "At least until we get into the correct punctuation of phone numbers debate." To which I responded that we already were, because what were we talking about other than how German phone numbers are spoken in pairs? You've now introduced "semantic punctuation" which is interesting because it suggests you had a completely different sense of punctuation in mind. To me, "semantic" is to do with meanings of words. The only words here are numbers, and they don't have any meaning in this context. But I see Google defines it as "relating to meaning in language or logic." So if you were thinking of the "logic" of a phone system, clearly numbers have meanings and their "punctuation" by the logic of the phone system alters their meaning. But that's got so little to do with phone numbers as we read them that it hadn't occurred to me.
A telephone number isn't really a number though, it's an address. This was probably more intuitive in the days of exchange names rather than STD codes, but we all know that they don't really count telephones, any more than house numbers count houses. Standard ways of formatting addresses are useful.
I'm reminded of barakta's prehistoric Mac, which is so old that you have to enter its IPv4 address as a single decimal (or hexadecimal) number, rather than the dotted-quad representation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-decimal_notation) we've become used to. Semantically, it's actually the binary representation that's important (for computers to make "this network"/"other network" distinctions, much like a telephone exchange has to), but humans are even worse at long binary numbers than they are at long decimals.
I suppose dotted-quad IPv4 addresses are a bit like the French approach of using 5 two-digit numbers for telephones - a standard format that makes the address clearer to humans for accurate transcription, but is only loosely related to the underlying system.
(CIDR/E164 analogy left as an exercise for the reader)
Yebbut, don't know about you, but I could read it all day.A telephone number isn't really a number though, it's an address. This was probably more intuitive in the days of exchange names rather than STD codes, but we all know that they don't really count telephones, any more than house numbers count houses. Standard ways of formatting addresses are useful.
I'm reminded of barakta's prehistoric Mac, which is so old that you have to enter its IPv4 address as a single decimal (or hexadecimal) number, rather than the dotted-quad representation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-decimal_notation) we've become used to. Semantically, it's actually the binary representation that's important (for computers to make "this network"/"other network" distinctions, much like a telephone exchange has to), but humans are even worse at long binary numbers than they are at long decimals.
I suppose dotted-quad IPv4 addresses are a bit like the French approach of using 5 two-digit numbers for telephones - a standard format that makes the address clearer to humans for accurate transcription, but is only loosely related to the underlying system.
(CIDR/E164 analogy left as an exercise for the reader)
I was with you up to the end of your first paragraph.....
A telephone number isn't really a number though, it's an address. This was probably more intuitive in the days of exchange names rather than STD codes, but we all know that they don't really count telephones, any more than house numbers count houses. Standard ways of formatting addresses are useful.
I'm reminded of barakta's prehistoric Mac, which is so old that you have to enter its IPv4 address as a single decimal (or hexadecimal) number, rather than the dotted-quad representation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-decimal_notation) we've become used to. Semantically, it's actually the binary representation that's important (for computers to make "this network"/"other network" distinctions, much like a telephone exchange has to), but humans are even worse at long binary numbers than they are at long decimals.
I suppose dotted-quad IPv4 addresses are a bit like the French approach of using 5 two-digit numbers for telephones - a standard format that makes the address clearer to humans for accurate transcription, but is only loosely related to the underlying system.
(CIDR/E164 analogy left as an exercise for the reader)
Does anyone want a history lesson about telephone numbers in the UK? If not, I’ll go back to my posting pause. :)
Does anyone want a history lesson about telephone numbers in the UK? If not, I’ll go back to my posting pause. :)I do !!
I work with a company in Didcot. Yes, Didcot. And all their phone numbers are 020 7.
Which is cheating because Didcot numbers should be 0666 as everyone knows.
There's an old-school type TV/appliance repair place near me that still has the sign up outside with the phone number dialing code as the 4 digit (without added 1) type. I mean, that was in 1995 (so Google tells me)! How long after that do you have to get around to thinking "Hmm, perhaps we should get the number on the sign changed"?
Two further questions;
Some business phone numbers used to have ts suffix (n lines). How did that work?
And what about the MOD's apparently separate and parallel phone system?British Rail also had their own phone network, larger than the MOD's! ;) :D
I can’t say I’ve ever seen a cream trimphone.
Point is, the phone number 3463 is said in English as separate digits "three four six three" whereas in German it's said as two pairs "thirty-four sixty-three".
Is that an English or German number? Presumably English as you remember it, but it would seem to be an exception to both.Point is, the phone number 3463 is said in English as separate digits "three four six three" whereas in German it's said as two pairs "thirty-four sixty-three".
With a notable exception: Four Eighty-Four Fifty-Two Five Five
What I have learned today: I still remember that jingle after 40 years or so.
I can’t say I’ve ever seen a cream trimphone.
It was the number for Capital Radio, voiced on thousands of jingles by Kenny Everett. Presumably they omitted the leading 01 as they were targetting a London audience.Is that an English or German number? Presumably English as you remember it, but it would seem to be an exception to both.Point is, the phone number 3463 is said in English as separate digits "three four six three" whereas in German it's said as two pairs "thirty-four sixty-three".
With a notable exception: Four Eighty-Four Fifty-Two Five Five
What I have learned today: I still remember that jingle after 40 years or so.
Yesterday I learnt the term Aframax. This sounds to me like it should be a style of music, a genre of maxxed out Afrobeat, probably with reggae crossover. Actually it's "Average Freight Rate Assessment Maximum" crude oil carrier. Larger than Panamax* but not as large as Suezmax.** Chartering an Aframax seems to cost around $19,000 a day – I reckon that should get you Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, perhaps Elvis Presley too!
*Ultra-wide screen cinema?
**Large-bore water mains?
Which by rights should have been carrying German smartphones! Malaccamax is my favourite though, there's a nice resonance to it.Yesterday I learnt the term Aframax. This sounds to me like it should be a style of music, a genre of maxxed out Afrobeat, probably with reggae crossover. Actually it's "Average Freight Rate Assessment Maximum" crude oil carrier. Larger than Panamax* but not as large as Suezmax.** Chartering an Aframax seems to cost around $19,000 a day – I reckon that should get you Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, perhaps Elvis Presley too!
*Ultra-wide screen cinema?
**Large-bore water mains?
I did an audit earlier this year on a Handymax size tanker, the British Cumulus.
Wombats have square poo
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces)
Wombats have square pooWhich reminds me:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces)
Wombats have square poo
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces)
Wombats have square poo
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces)
Wombats have square pooWhich reminds me:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/18/scientists-unravel-secret-of-cube-shaped-wombat-faeces)
Person walks past a pet shop and spies an advert in the window. "Parrot for sale, £2000"
Hmm she thinks, that's a lot for a parrot. Intrigued she ventures into the shop
"£2000 for a parrot" she says to the shop keeper "it must be very special"
"Why yes, yes it is" says the shopkeeper "for it lays cube shaped eggs"
"Ooh, that is special. Can it talk as well?" she asks.
"Yes, but it can only say one word"
"Pray tell, what is the one word it speaks?"
"Kerrrrrist"
That there was a Don't Copy That Floppy 2. With Klingons!ISTR that copying software wasn't illegal until the late 1980s as the existing law didn't anticipate such things, a bit like lesbianism never being illegal because Queen Victoria didn't believe women would really do that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk
https://youtu.be/hUCyvw4w_yk
A cow-orker is seven months pregnant. She found this out LAST WEEK.
When I was at Univac in 1975 a colleague was done for pirating music cassettes.So who else spent a second wondering whether Univac referred to a specific university or was an abbreviation for university vacations?
I'll have you know our savings accounts still sit on a Unisys 2200 platform, which isn't a million miles removed from a Univac. Apparently Lloyds run their current accounts from one.When I was at Univac in 1975 a colleague was done for pirating music cassettes.So who else spent a second wondering whether Univac referred to a specific university or was an abbreviation for university vacations?
I'm also thinking "Do the shake and vac and put the freshness back". :hand:I'll have you know our savings accounts still sit on a Unisys 2200 platform, which isn't a million miles removed from a Univac. Apparently Lloyds run their current accounts from one.When I was at Univac in 1975 a colleague was done for pirating music cassettes.So who else spent a second wondering whether Univac referred to a specific university or was an abbreviation for university vacations?
I'll have you know our savings accounts still sit on a Unisys 2200 platform, which isn't a million miles removed from a Univac. Apparently Lloyds run their current accounts from one.When I was at Univac in 1975 a colleague was done for pirating music cassettes.So who else spent a second wondering whether Univac referred to a specific university or was an abbreviation for university vacations?
That leaving the EU will damage the UK economy. Well I never .........
A cow-orker is seven months pregnant. She found this out LAST WEEK.
That leaving the EU will damage the UK economy. Well I never .........
When I was at Univac in 1975 a colleague was done for pirating music cassettes.
Apparently it’s Project Fear and the figures are unreliable. No matter that these are the government’s own figures, you know the governement whose policy is Brexit.That leaving the EU will damage the UK economy. Well I never .........
What do experts know.
And lets not forget the 350 million we will be getting.
Apparently it’s Project Fear and the figures are unreliable. No matter that these are the government’s own figures, you know the governement whose policy is Brexit.That leaving the EU will damage the UK economy. Well I never .........
What do experts know.
And lets not forget the 350 million we will be getting.
Satirists are going to have to work very hard when all this is over, if they are ever going to revive satire.
Sadly, satire died on the table some time back. They tried hard to revive it, but in the end, the doctors had to declare.
Apparently it’s Project Fear and the figures are unreliable. No matter that these are the government’s own figures, you know the governement whose policy is Brexit.That leaving the EU will damage the UK economy. Well I never .........
What do experts know.
And lets not forget the 350 million we will be getting.
Satirists are going to have to work very hard when all this is over, if they are ever going to revive satire.
And the day after I lead the Panzers down Whitehall, Gammons who think they're being frightfully witty in replying "Fake news!!1!" to articles they've either not read or not understood will be in the reëducation camps reading the Daily Mail all day every day until their heads melt.
Sadly, I've never listened to Radio 4 in my life, but it seems we're on the same wavelength.
Yesterday rather than today, but still...Thank you for that - I have a new cutting mat, yet to be used. It would have been a shame to destroy it early in life. I increasingly use acetone as a solvent - how do mats get on with that? And SWMBO now raids my 1 litre bottle - something to do with her war paint I'm advised.
Cellulose thinners and Jakar cutting mats do not play nicely together. Oh well never mind; cutting mats aren't terribly expensive.
Taht the passport 'service' (HA!) is staffed by utter spanners.
Apparently it’s Project Fear and the figures are unreliable. No matter that these are the government’s own figures, you know the governement whose policy is Brexit.That leaving the EU will damage the UK economy. Well I never .........
What do experts know.
And lets not forget the 350 million we will be getting.
Satirists are going to have to work very hard when all this is over, if they are ever going to revive satire.
And the day after I lead the Panzers down Whitehall, Gammons who think they're being frightfully witty in replying "Fake news!!1!" to articles they've either not read or not understood will be in the reëducation camps reading the Daily Mail all day every day until their heads melt.
When writing the word "ditto" in lower-case, cursive, script, it is wise to close the loop on the "d"!
That Lerwick is on approximately the same latitude as Helsinki. As is Teslin YT, which is where I was when I learned this.
I'm surprised it wasn't in the fens, with that 'lazy' wind that's travelled uninterrupted, straight from Siberia...
I found out today that one of my great-great-great grandfathers (or someone with the same name, same residence and same profession as one of my GGG GFs) received a "sabre cut on the right shoulder" at Peterloo.
That two great-uncles were in the first boat to go ashore at Gallipoli.
My brother (who's the one who's done all the digging) and I had half a plan to go out for the 100th anniversary, but, events. (Instead I cycled up for the dawn commemoration at Wellington Arch on ANZAC day.) He got hold of a copy of the AIF 9th Battalion's First War history, written in the Thirties, and I'm ploughing my way through that now, and it's in this that the names of those in the first boat are listed.That two great-uncles were in the first boat to go ashore at Gallipoli.
Having spent 3 years working in Canakkale, just across the Dardanelles, I regularly used to bike around the war graves, of both sides in the conflict, and the peninsula on a Sunday. It's still a sombre place, even in summer, and particularly so in winter. Utter and total madness, a throwback to the stupidity of some of our forebears. The recent Armistice commemorations were very moving in our small village, but having been around the Gallipoli peninsula, I still have a tear in my eye. Desperately sad. Did they survive?
My brother and I (who's the one who's done all the digging) had half a plan to go out for the 100th anniversary, but, events. (Instead I cycled for up the dawn commemoration at Wellington Arch on ANZAC day.) He got hold of a copy of the AIF 9th Battalion's First War history, written in the Thirties, and I'm ploughing my way through that now, and it's in this that the names of those in the first boat are listed.That two great-uncles were in the first boat to go ashore at Gallipoli.
Having spent 3 years working in Canakkale, just across the Dardanelles, I regularly used to bike around the war graves, of both sides in the conflict, and the peninsula on a Sunday. It's still a sombre place, even in summer, and particularly so in winter. Utter and total madness, a throwback to the stupidity of some of our forebears. The recent Armistice commemorations were very moving in our small village, but having been around the Gallipoli peninsula, I still have a tear in my eye. Desperately sad. Did they survive?
Both survived the entire Gallipoli campaign and were then transferred to the Western Front. The younger of the two was killed at the Battle of the Somme and the elder at Passchendale (the Battle of the Menin Road). The elder had been injured, returned to the UK, recovered, and then sent back out. I have his metal trunk in my garage.
We visited the area last year and were at Robert's grave on the 100th anniversary of his death.
You have to see the (numerous) graveyards to get a hint of the scale of the loss.
Yesterday I happened by chance to see a rowing race and noticed that rowers' shoes are attached to the boat on a permanent basis and furthermore they do up in a manner sufficiently odd to make SPDs seem normal.
These didn't come out. The rowers removed their landside footwear and wriggled their feet into black things looking a bit like Crocs with a sort of buckle to adjust for size. They were all fixed in the boat permanently, part of the boat not footwear per se.
In 2006, Muslim groups complained about the release of a blow up doll named Mustafa Shag, claiming that the doll was offensive to Muslims
Humbrol enamel thinners will remove dried on splashes of EzeDope from spectacle lenses, don't ask, without removing the lens coating.
I have the remastered original on CD. My dad still has the vinyls with the big booklet - wonder if that's worth anything now?
Yes. :)Humbrol enamel thinners will remove dried on splashes of EzeDope from spectacle lenses, don't ask, without removing the lens coating.
That was either a leap of faith, or an act of desperation.
That the first escalator in a London tube station was a helical one in Holloway road station that was never used by the public, probably due to safety concerns, and was lost for many years. It was designed by Jesse Reno, the creator of normal escalators and predated a standard escalator in a tube station by 5 years or so - 1906 and 1911 respectively. The remains that were discovered in 1988 (1993 according to a different article) are now at the London Transport Museum Acton Depot, which has 3 open weekends a year.
As far as I can tell, it is the only spiral/helical escalator ever to have been built in the UK. There are recent ones elsewhere, notably Las Vegas.
And the first escalator in the UK was opened 16th November 1898 in Harrods, where staff would wait at the top to revive nervous customers with smelling salts and cognac.
As a prelude to buying a pair of shoes (a hateful task), I checked my existing collection for a size reminder. I run from 7 to 10. Helpful it is not. It's a conspiracy to save the high street I tell you.
Have been perusing some Londoncentric motorcycle vlogs - Royal Jordanian & Baron von Grumble if it matters - and it would seem that any black Ford Galaxy within the M25 belongs to Addison Lee . . .
Humbrol enamel thinners will remove dried on splashes of EzeDope from spectacle lenses, don't ask, without removing the lens coating.
Having just fitted a new stair carpet, I measured the effective depth of tread (front of carpet on the riser to the 'hard' nose of the tread). This was 25cm - my size 13 walking shoes are 34cm! No wonder I wear out the carpet on the nose of the tread.As a prelude to buying a pair of shoes (a hateful task), I checked my existing collection for a size reminder. I run from 7 to 10. Helpful it is not. It's a conspiracy to save the high street I tell you.
Shame we aren't all on Paris Points (Size = [last length in cm] x 1.5)
Suspect your feet are about 28.5cm long, which is about a 9/(43) and American sizes are n+1 (unless they are for women, when they are n+1.5)
I wish there were real sizes that related to real measurements!
I bet they tore those eye-ties off a strip.Please stick to the bare facts.
As a prelude to buying a pair of shoes (a hateful task), I checked my existing collection for a size reminder. I run from 7 to 10. Helpful it is not. It's a conspiracy to save the high street I tell you.
Shame we aren't all on Paris Points (Size = [last length in cm] x 1.5)
Suspect your feet are about 28.5cm long, which is about a 9/(43) and American sizes are n+1 (unless they are for women, when they are n+1.5)
I wish there were real sizes that related to real measurements!
You used to be able to get a pump action hacksaw. It looked like the steel outline of a pistol with a hacksaw blade mounted in the barrel. I want one.Wow! Me too.
That the Brazilian Air Force flew combat operations in Italy in WW2.Didn't they make a Hollywood film about that?
Also some measure the whole last and some measure the inside of the shoe.As a prelude to buying a pair of shoes (a hateful task), I checked my existing collection for a size reminder. I run from 7 to 10. Helpful it is not. It's a conspiracy to save the high street I tell you.
Shame we aren't all on Paris Points (Size = [last length in cm] x 1.5)
Suspect your feet are about 28.5cm long, which is about a 9/(43) and American sizes are n+1 (unless they are for women, when they are n+1.5)
I wish there were real sizes that related to real measurements!
They do. Just counting down instead of up and the manufacturers sometimes aren't as accurate as they should be. Also, the width of your feet makes a difference what size you can manage with.
You used to be able to get a pump action hacksaw. It looked like the steel outline of a pistol with a hacksaw blade mounted in the barrel. I want one.
That there's a GP in the neighbouring town called Gerraint Thomas.
I do hope he cycles to work.
You used to be able to get a pump action hacksaw. It looked like the steel outline of a pistol with a hacksaw blade mounted in the barrel. I want one.
I may still have one of those in the bottom of my toolbox. Useful for cutting sheet material.
Rather limited depth of cut, though. OK for bolts & such, I suppose.
what's the difference between that and a padsaw? is it just having a guard which it can pull against? (which you could obv fettle without any aggro)
Rather limited depth of cut, though. OK for bolts & such, I suppose.
Nope. The blade is fixed, but the tubular section above is telescopic and sprung loaded, so travels back into the barrel exposing a length of blade. This allows cutting through sheet without being limited by the "hoop" of a conventional hacksaw - the nose of the telescopic part rests on the upper surface of the material being cut.
Chimney sweeps used to get a unique form of scrotal cancer :hand:Not my chimney sweep.
Chimney sweeps used to get a unique form of scrotal cancer :hand:Not my chimney sweep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweeps%27_carcinomaChimney sweeps used to get a unique form of scrotal cancer :hand:Not my chimney sweep.
Nor my cousin, or should I say cousine?
Jeremy John Durham... Paddy was a nickname from school because of his Norn Irish 'brogue' which he then lost at the school, but he preferred Paddy to Jeremy so it stuck. I don't think his given name was a secret, but no one ever referred to him as anything but Paddy Ashdown.It can be odd when people you know change their name. There's a woman I've known since I was about 5, she was one of my mum's best friends so we saw her a lot when I was a child but not much since. And then I spent a bit more than a decade living in various foreign parts and when I came back, I found she, now in her 70s, had changed her name from Celia to Alice. I still find it a bit odd to call her Alice. Perhaps it being an anagram makes it weirder (apparently this was not deliberate on her part!). Though she doesn't really mind if you call her Celia.
I am however struck at how easy people find it to call someone a name-of-choice like Paddy, or Tanni for Tanni Grey-Thompson yet seem to find it impossible to correctly name a trans person who has changed their name or revealed their deadname...
Chimney sweeps used to get a unique form of scrotal cancer :hand:
♭ is called b rotundum.
i alwaysthought it looked sharper, which is a bit of a conundrum really.♭ is called b rotundum.
But it looks 'flatter' than a 'normal' b....
That two of Miss von Brandenburg's grandparents was due to be evacuated from Gdynia on board the MV Wilhem Gustloff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff) but decided to walk instead.A lucky decision. But... that's Prussia not Brandenburg! (and barely Prussia come to that)
My B-i-L has reached the age of 63 without ever having seen "Monty Python And The Holy Grail".
I'm not nearly that old though I've not seen an entire Monty Python anything (I've seen individual sketches, though I've never felt the urge to watch an entire movie).
I've also never listened to a Led Zepellin album (I can't manage a song).
That two of Miss von Brandenburg's grandparents was due to be evacuated from Gdynia on board the MV Wilhem Gustloff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff) but decided to walk instead.A lucky decision. But... that's Prussia not Brandenburg! (and barely Prussia come to that)
I'm not nearly that old though I've not seen an entire Monty Python anything (I've seen individual sketches, though I've never felt the urge to watch an entire movie).
I've also never listened to a Led Zepellin album (I can't manage a song).
I'm not nearly that old though I've not seen an entire Monty Python anything (I've seen individual sketches, though I've never felt the urge to watch an entire movie).
I've also never listened to a Led Zepellin album (I can't manage a song).
So you'd not fancy the 2CD live album currently in my car, with one song that's about 25 mins long, and an extended Stairway to Heaven?
Long and dull dad-rock. I'm not having any of it. I'll stick to sneaking Disco Tits on in the Heathrow Dixons and then turning up the volume and running off.Today I have learned about Ms Lo's oeuvre...
I'm not nearly that old though I've not seen an entire Monty Python anything (I've seen individual sketches, though I've never felt the urge to watch an entire movie).
I've also never listened to a Led Zepellin album (I can't manage a song).
So you'd not fancy the 2CD live album currently in my car, with one song that's about 25 mins long, and an extended Stairway to Heaven?
Honestly, I'd take the escalator and get it over with. Heaven, I figure, is pretty much like a department store bureau de change.
Long and dull dad-rock. I'm not having any of it. I'll stick to sneaking Disco Tits on in the Heathrow Dixons and then turning up the volume and running off.
A new unit for me - atomic bomb per second :thumbsup:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/07/global-warming-of-oceans-equivalent-to-an-atomic-bomb-per-second
A new unit for me - atomic bomb per second :thumbsup:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/07/global-warming-of-oceans-equivalent-to-an-atomic-bomb-per-second
What's that in 1-bar electric fires?
Courtesy of some browsing prompted by reading Karla's blog (recommended reading, BTW), that Google streetview put cameras on boats over in that there Japan (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3033684,141.3283125,3a,75y,117.74h,105.63t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1s_3IUC2A_ZN81bSRZvMxuFA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D_3IUC2A_ZN81bSRZvMxuFA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D312.8516%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i43)
Courtesy of some browsing prompted by reading Karla's blog (recommended reading, BTW), that Google streetview put cameras on boats over in that there Japan (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3033684,141.3283125,3a,75y,117.74h,105.63t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1s_3IUC2A_ZN81bSRZvMxuFA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D_3IUC2A_ZN81bSRZvMxuFA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D312.8516%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i43)
London too: https://goo.gl/maps/hwm3EwJ9QdH2 (https://goo.gl/maps/hwm3EwJ9QdH2)
Is that a 240V electric fire or a 110V electric fire?A new unit for me - atomic bomb per second :thumbsup:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/07/global-warming-of-oceans-equivalent-to-an-atomic-bomb-per-second
What's that in 1-bar electric fires?
“Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 sets out the offence of assault and refers to the application of force. Noise is expressly included as being one of the types of force to which section 2 of the Act applies.”https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/anti-teenager-alarms-a-form-of-assault-says-minister-1.3484649
Concerns
The Minister said Garda management has instructed members about the illegality of the devices and directed that any complaints should be “fully investigated with a view to seeking the directions of the Director of Public Prosecutions”.
That mosquitoes are considered GBH in Ireland.Quote“Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 sets out the offence of assault and refers to the application of force. Noise is expressly included as being one of the types of force to which section 2 of the Act applies.”https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/anti-teenager-alarms-a-form-of-assault-says-minister-1.3484649
Concerns
The Minister said Garda management has instructed members about the illegality of the devices and directed that any complaints should be “fully investigated with a view to seeking the directions of the Director of Public Prosecutions”.
2.—(1) A person shall be guilty of the offence of assault who, without lawful excuse, intentionally or recklessly—
(a) directly or indirectly applies force to or causes an impact on the body of another, or
(b) causes another to believe on reasonable grounds that he or she is likely immediately to be subjected to any such force or impact,
without the consent of the other.
(2) In subsection (1) (a), “force” includes—
(a) application of heat, light, electric current, noise or any other form of energy, and
(b) application of matter in solid liquid or gaseous form.
(3) No such offence is committed if the force or impact, not being intended or likely to cause injury, is in the circumstances such as is generally acceptable in the ordinary conduct of daily life and the defendant does not know or believe that it is in fact unacceptable to the other person.
(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
So it covers Mosquitos, but not, eg. CRT displays with noisy flyback transformers or shitty LED lighting that strobes at 100Hz, because they're not intended to cause injury and the defendant is likely oblivious to their impact.That sounds pretty reasonable as a definition of assault, as opposed to eg health and safety legislation.
Baroness Chakrabarti, who directed Liberty for many years, said: “What type of society uses a low-level sonic weapon on its children?”
So it covers Mosquitos, but not, eg. CRT displays with noisy flyback transformers or shitty LED lighting that strobes at 100Hz, because they're not intended to cause injury and the defendant is likely oblivious to their impact.That sounds pretty reasonable as a definition of assault, as opposed to eg health and safety legislation.
Only then will you be ready to contemplate SUMPRODUCT arrays.
Two things I have learnt today:
1. The effect on productivity of days taken off work sick is measured using the Bradford Factor, which applies the principle that taking one day off many times is more detrimental than a single extended absence. I currently have a Bradford Factor of 0.0.
Only then will you be ready to contemplate SUMPRODUCT arrays.
Ooh, I'm going giddy at the mere thought of it.
Calculating (4 threads): 41...42...43%
There’s a long standing adage in statistical circles, you get what you measure. Basically, the very act of measuring a particular aspect will influence those impacted by the measurement to do what they can to reduce that measurement irrspective of the bigger impact or unintended consequences.Two things I have learnt today:
1. The effect on productivity of days taken off work sick is measured using the Bradford Factor, which applies the principle that taking one day off many times is more detrimental than a single extended absence. I currently have a Bradford Factor of 0.0.
Standard HR-centric nonsense that works on the principle that it's better to have a colleague suddenly off work for weeks with, say, stress or a broken pelvis, rather than something really nasty like multi-stage dental treatment. And that's before you consider the impact on disabled people, which barakta can rant about far more eloquently than I ever could. (She nearly lost her job over a former boss's fanatical devotion to the Bradford Index, in spite of being one of the most productive members of the team.)
I think HR like it because it measures how much paperwork they have to do...
That sounds like Quantum HR.There’s a long standing adage in statistical circles, you get what you measure. Basically, the very act of measuring a particular aspect will influence those impacted by the measurement to do what they can to reduce that measurement irrspective of the bigger impact or unintended consequences.Two things I have learnt today:
1. The effect on productivity of days taken off work sick is measured using the Bradford Factor, which applies the principle that taking one day off many times is more detrimental than a single extended absence. I currently have a Bradford Factor of 0.0.
Standard HR-centric nonsense that works on the principle that it's better to have a colleague suddenly off work for weeks with, say, stress or a broken pelvis, rather than something really nasty like multi-stage dental treatment. And that's before you consider the impact on disabled people, which barakta can rant about far more eloquently than I ever could. (She nearly lost her job over a former boss's fanatical devotion to the Bradford Index, in spite of being one of the most productive members of the team.)
I think HR like it because it measures how much paperwork they have to do...
Only then will you be ready to contemplate SUMPRODUCT arrays.
Ooh, I'm going giddy at the mere thought of it.
I searched and couldn't find it - neither could the Canvas people. It looks like there was some sort of technical issues with the platform at the point that I was working that interrupted access and recording. I know have to run the session again for the students.
Oh yes, now your'e manglement and leading a team you can do your old job, plus the new one, with no training and any hours extra that you need to put in, we'll be very grateful of course.You have to smarter, not harder. That was always the mantra of our seniors. Although it never seemed to be enough for,them as most of them did 12 hour days as a norm.
This recently came up as a discussion in my MothershipTM, and I made the point that if our base model assumes that consultants need to work more than their contracted hours to make the business work, surely we've not quite got things right?
I'm not fired yet :thumbsup:
That it's not "you have another thing coming", but it's "you have another think coming". It's a phrase that I've somehow been mishearing for decades.
Oh yes, now your'e manglement and leading a team you can do your old job, plus the new one, with no training and any hours extra that you need to put in, we'll be very grateful of course.
This recently came up as a discussion in my MothershipTM, and I made the point that if our base model assumes that consultants need to work more than their contracted hours to make the business work, surely we've not quite got things right?
I'm not fired yet :thumbsup:
You have to smarter, not harder. That was always the mantra of our seniors. Although it never seemed to be enough for,them as most of them did 12 hour days as a norm.
That only one country in the world trades on WTO terms only.Disclaimer: This post may be tinged with a slight amount of POBI.(click to show/hide)
If her impairment can reasonably be expected to last less than 12 months, then she isn't disabled for the purposes of the Equality Act.
Quote from: KimIf her impairment can reasonably be expected to last less than 12 months, then she isn't disabled for the purposes of the Equality Act.
Reasonably expected? Seems a bit unfair.
I have learned that I am a complete idiot. Rather than saying that if I don't have the equipment to do 'x' as part of my job, I can't do it; I bought the equipment out of my own pocket!!!! :facepalm: I know, I am a total barn pot!
On the plus side, I have a nice new camera en route.
That I'm allergic to Fairy Non-Bio washing gel.
I've always been sensitive to some detergents, but recently I've been able to move out from my trusted Persil to Supermarket non-bio without any problems. Apparently Fairy must be different.
I'm now in the process of re-washing all the stuff I washed in Fairy, and I've dug out the antihistamines to try and stop the itching/rash :( - Anyone want an almost full bottle of Fairy Non-Bio? ::-)
It's weird isn't it. Morrisons stuff is fine for me (or was last time I tried), Tesco is fine too. We don't get any Sainsburys or Waitrose out here so no idea on them. I'm also fine with Ariel biological stuff, which is Fairy's sister product.That I'm allergic to Fairy Non-Bio washing gel.
I've always been sensitive to some detergents, but recently I've been able to move out from my trusted Persil to Supermarket non-bio without any problems. Apparently Fairy must be different.
I'm now in the process of re-washing all the stuff I washed in Fairy, and I've dug out the antihistamines to try and stop the itching/rash :( - Anyone want an almost full bottle of Fairy Non-Bio? ::-)
Oh that's annoying. That's one that Nye seems to be ok with so far (although they may have changed since last time we had it). He's alright with sainsburys and Coop non bio, but morrisons and waitrose make him itch. All the fancier pod type do as well.
The joy of the Excel INDEX and MATCH functions - someone (Ian?) mentioned them a few days ago and it's changed my life bye-bye VLOOKUP :)
One of the fairy washing powders used to give me this evil creeping rash all over in the 1990s as soon as I wore anything washing in it, haven't touched any of their brands since as it was so unpleasant and anti histamines didn't touch it. Fortunately we worked out the cause after the 2nd instance.Radion Micro should have been renamed Agent Orange in that respect.
The joy of the Excel INDEX and MATCH functions - someone (Ian?) mentioned them a few days ago and it's changed my life bye-bye VLOOKUP :)
It probably was, I preach the gospel of INDEX and MATCH often. It's more flexible, less hassle, easier (you don't have to play guess-the-column-number for a start) and seems a lot faster across big worksheets.
We've been using Bio-D for the last couple of months (the liquid, I think they do a powder as well). It doesn't have any "perfume" and it seems to do a decent job of getting things clean. And it's made in Hull, which seems good! But we're all okay with all the non-bios so can't comment on that score.
I was another convert to INDEX(MATCH although I don’t hunk it was your good self that exposed me to it. Another twist lately added my M$ That I started using just before I finished was IFS() A bit like a poor mans Case in a proper language, but a bit limited and not without its quirks.The joy of the Excel INDEX and MATCH functions - someone (Ian?) mentioned them a few days ago and it's changed my life bye-bye VLOOKUP :)
It probably was, I preach the gospel of INDEX and MATCH often. It's more flexible, less hassle, easier (you don't have to play guess-the-column-number for a start) and seems a lot faster across big worksheets.
I do like IFS and SUMIFS etcINDEX(MATCH is really very powerful and if you are in the habit of using named tables and columns, the resultant formulae are very easy to decode.
Will take a look at MATCH etc, don't think I've tried those yet.
I don't think I'm any wiser. It's probably better to need neither.soliciters deal with people who have legal problems, require contracts or need to break the. (Divorce). They send nasty letters to other soliciters clients and write up legal documents. If they can’t resolve the problems between themselves and need to go to court then the solicitor engages the services of a barrister who represents the client in court attempting to present best case using the law and legal president to convince the judge and jury that their client is guilty or innocent. It’s basically an antiquated gravy train for public school boys
I don't think I'm any wiser. It's probably better to need neither.Rumpole is a barrister. Bonny Bernard is a solicitor.
...
It’s basically an antiquated gravy train for public school boys
It's easier in the US. They're all sharks.Which reminds me ...
It's easier in the US. They're all sharks.In the term "criminal lawyer" the adjective is redundant.
It's easier in the US. They're all sharks.Which reminds me ...
Why don't lawyers ever sue sharks ?
Professional ethics dear boy.
last time I was in the pub with my barrister mate he got the first round in, because he'd finally had some 18-month-overdue invoices paid...It's easier in the US. They're all sharks.
Most barristers are not QCs tho... And most don't get paid anything like that, it's usually a few hundred quid here and there. Many also seem to do a lot of probono work, or hours of work which just aren't billable for various reasons.
That Rule 34 applies to dungarees.
That Rule 34 applies to dungarees.
What Rule 34 is
...Though this might be a thing of the past, I will have developers and data scientists in a couple of weeks. If only I knew what I was doing. It's all sprints and scrums and frankly, I don't know what. I have a project manager, fortunately. Product development sounds very masculine and steroidal, like a sweaty rugger changing room. Somewhere in the mix there ought to be room for a contemplative snooze. If there isn't, I'm using my boss powers to create one.
...Though this might be a thing of the past, I will have developers and data scientists in a couple of weeks. If only I knew what I was doing. It's all sprints and scrums and frankly, I don't know what. I have a project manager, fortunately. Product development sounds very masculine and steroidal, like a sweaty rugger changing room. Somewhere in the mix there ought to be room for a contemplative snooze. If there isn't, I'm using my boss powers to create one.
Sounds disturbingly agile.
That Hong King imports potatoes from France, to make crisps.
That Hong King imports potatoes from France, to make crisps.
With the odd grenade...
The bombe de terre was safely detonated on site by bomb disposal officers.
That a Mazda 6 washer bottle, once fully frozen, will not defrost even on a 40 mile drive. I'll have to carry a small squeezy bottle in the car from now on.Buy some screenwash concentrate from Halfords - about £6 a gallon. A bottle lasts me all winter, and I live in the sticks/cow country where the farmers are on and off the land all winter and the roads are filthy for months. It won't freeze then. Get the green one, not the purple one, unless you want to have the smell of blackberries every time you wash the screen. I'm not making that mistake again…...
Same here, and I use it 50:50.I just glug some into the washer tank when I fill it up - but I suspect It'll be about a 30% mix. I tend to go on the colour. Over this last cold spell (down to -5C here) the washers stayed operational.
When blasting the dust out of a PC with compressed air:
with the power disconnected the whole OS will be shut down so there’s no need to close the windows. HTHWhen blasting the dust out of a PC with compressed air:
Take it outside. Close the windows, apart from the minimum gap you can get away with for the power lead to the compressor. Wear a dust mask and eye protection, and try not to inhale. Open it up, blast the crud out of it, and wait a minute for the flying fluff to disperse before going back inside.
When blasting the dust out of a PC with compressed air:
Take it outside. Close the windows, apart from the minimum gap you can get away with for the power lead to the compressor. Wear a dust mask and eye protection, and try not to inhale. Open it up, blast the crud out of it, and wait a minute for the flying fluff to disperse before going back inside.
After eleven years doing this job, a day trip to Aberdeen holds nothing more than fatigue. Still, it was nice to catch up with a few folk.My sister has just returned to Aberdeen after a 17 year stretch in the Middle East. I bet you can’t guess what industry her husband is in. :)
That Exeter is well known enough to be used in a Polish headline with no explanation (none in the text either).I bet those bloody Carlsberg car stickers have made it to Warsaw.
That "Alexa" will respond to the name "Alexei" when it is used on the TV.
Farndale was nearly a massive reservoir: https://northyorkmoorsnationalpark.wordpress.com/2018/09/11/what-might-have-been/
"Cloud cuckoo land" comes from The Birds by Aristophanes. :o
Farndale was nearly a massive reservoir: https://northyorkmoorsnationalpark.wordpress.com/2018/09/11/what-might-have-been/
I already knew this. Has Mr Smith never discussed it with you, over Beer? He loves this stuff.
I just learned, right now, while reading this thread, that I canscrollzoom on the mousepad if I use two fingers at the same time!
No relation of nurdling, then.
That the name of the big furry thing you see on a microphone to cut down the wind noise is a dead cat, the same smaller version for a DSLR equivalent is a dead kitten.
They're in the southern hemisphere so they're laevorotatory. Natural, innit?Are boxing kangaroos Southpaws?
El Salvador has the world's highest per capita consumption of Worcestershire Sauce.
52 years old, how did you miss out on that?
El Salvador has the world's highest per capita consumption of Worcestershire Sauce.
Some years ago, I asked for a Tomato juice on an internal USA flight. I asked if they had any Worcestershire sauce (pronounced the correct, British way). The stewardess, noting the clearly Brit passenger said that she thought she had some in her bag, and went off to get it. Came back, added the magic ingredient to my TJ, then asked me to repeat my (correct) pronounciation. Just for fun as it were, and I obliged. Big grin on her face.
On disembarking, she stopped me at the door and said "Just one more time......?
It must be terrible for the USAnians, can't pronounce Worcestershire, aluminium, nuclear.... I could go on.....
Which reminds me..... Boarding the shuttle from Heathrow to Edinburgh many years ago, walking down the aisle behind an obviously American gentleman, in his hat and checked trousers, behind his equally striking wife. She turned to him and in that loud, booming vocal style that they can have said " Gee, Elmer, honeybun, are you sure this is the 'plane to Ee-din-berg? Smirks all around from those in earshot (so most of the 'plane then).
That there's such a thing as a Fab lolly, and it is indeed Thunderbirds-based.
(It's a feminine version of a Zoom, apparently. ::-))
Kim doesn't know something :P
That tractor developer Harry Ferguson was also an aviation pioneer, the first person in Britain and Ireland to build and fly his own plane (1909).
Samuel Cody = american?Samuel Cody was American - A showman - Pioneer in man-lifting kites.
Avro founded 1910 as a company, but that does not preclude earlier flights of course
52 years old, how did you miss out on that?
I reckon it's a glitch in the matrix. Like that point in 1999 or so when suddenly Harry Potter was a thing that existed and everyone had read it.
Suspect the stripy ice lollies are 52, not Kim...Yes, that's what I meant :)
You're showing a typical word-medallist's disdain for other events. ;)Kim doesn't know something :P
Kim doesn't know loads of things. I'm especially rubbish at music, sport and ex-prime-ministers...
The German online tax submission system is called ELSTER.The name comes from ‘elektronische Steuererklärung’ but of course the Germans love the words to have another meaning too.
Elster is the German word for magpie.
Thanks AH!
The German online tax submission system is called ELSTER.The name comes from ‘elektronische Steuererklärung’ but of course the Germans love the words to have another meaning too.
Elster is the German word for magpie.
Thanks AH!
That carpophagous means to feed on fruit.
That there's enough daylight out there to get sunburnt.
It's possible to break a CPR dummy.I saw a whole box of broken ones at work.
It's possible to break a CPR dummy.
That there's enough daylight out there to get sunburnt.
I've always thought the Mississippi Delta referred to the delta of the Mississippi River. It doesn't.
I've always thought the Mississippi Delta referred to the delta of the Mississippi River. It doesn't.
I've always thought the Mississippi Delta referred to the delta of the Mississippi River. It doesn't.
That makes two of us.
I've always thought the Mississippi Delta referred to the delta of the Mississippi River. It doesn't.
I also though this until quite recently and wondered what the hell all those bluesmen were doing up in Clarksdale if they were originally from south of New Orleans.
I've always thought the Mississippi Delta referred to the delta of the Mississippi River. It doesn't.
That makes two of us.
Three. Or maybe four.
No, it's definitely three. Or maybe four.I've always thought the Mississippi Delta referred to the delta of the Mississippi River. It doesn't.
That makes two of us.
Three. Or maybe four.
Or five.
No, it's definitely three. Or maybe four.I've always thought the Mississippi Delta referred to the delta of the Mississippi River. It doesn't.
That makes two of us.
Three. Or maybe four.
Or five.
Unless you're adding yourself, in which case it's four.
Or maybe five.
I've always thought the Mississippi Delta referred to the delta of the Mississippi River. It doesn't.
I also though this until quite recently and wondered what the hell all those bluesmen were doing up in Clarksdale if they were originally from south of New Orleans.
To be fair, there's not a lot south of New Orleans unless you like salty water, mud, and pollutants.
That tensions between India and Pakistan recently took a very surreal turn.Apparently “The nuclear rivals have been conflicting about Kashmir since 1947”
https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/16/india-and-pakistan-have-been-ringing-each-others-doorbells-and-running-away-7391879/
Like the Ministry of Silly Walks-off they have every evening at the Wagah-Attari border ceremony (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagah-Attari_border_ceremony), I suppose it beats lobbing ordnance at each other.
...Whilst this was news to me, it was not terribly surprising.Not being terribly well up on middle European history is it reasonable to infer that this is from the time of the Austro-Hungarian empire and that high ranking members of the Austrian part of the "alliance"* were not viewed with much esteem by the Hungarian part of the "alliance"?
There's a massive overflow pipe between Kielder and the Tees
It's only been used twice.
http://www.visitkielder.com/about-us/how-it-all-works
I'm researching sesame.Yes. 50 or 100? Or another number? Pounds or kilograms? Or the equivalent of 50 or 100 pounds expressed in kilograms? Or the equivalent of 50 or 100 kilograms expressed in pounds? Etc
Quintal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintal) would appear to be the most useless and inconsistent measure EVAH.
That, according to a R4 program I'm listening to, if you translate " She is a president, he is a nurse" into Turkish (Which does not have gendered pronouns), and then back into English, you get "He is a president, she is a nurse".
I assume they are talking about Google Translate.
Caveat. I haven't tried this myself.
Translations are gender-specific. LEARN MORE
She is a president, she is a nurse(feminine)
He is a president, he is a nurse(masculine)
That, according to a R4 program I'm listening to, if you translate " She is a president, he is a nurse" into Turkish (Which does not have gendered pronouns), and then back into English, you get "He is a president, she is a nurse".
I assume they are talking about Google Translate.
Caveat. I haven't tried this myself.
For the non-polyglottal amongst you :) "She is a president, he is a nurse" translates to to "O bir başkan, o bir hemşire".
Putting it back into English Google Transalate gives:QuoteTranslations are gender-specific. LEARN MORE
She is a president, she is a nurse(feminine)
He is a president, he is a nurse(masculine)
I know that word! I've just forgotten what it means, though.
I was always tickled by the way French soldiers changed sex when they went on sentry-duty.Explique, s’il vous plait.
I was always tickled by the way French soldiers changed sex when they went on sentry-duty.Changed sex or changed gender?
Ah, but gender was promoted in the 19th century to avoid having to say sex.Interesting. Is a woman soldier ‘le’ or ‘la’?
Anyway, soldier is le soldat, sentry is la sentinelle. In one of the first novels I read in French a bloke went on sentry-duty and was then referred to as elle: I searched the paragraph for five minutes to find where the woman came into it, then noticed the la in front of sentinelle. :facepalm:
le tour - la tour. Gender gone mad!
Ah, but gender was promoted in the 19th century to avoid having to say sex.Interesting. Is a woman soldier ‘le’ or ‘la’?
Anyway, soldier is le soldat, sentry is la sentinelle. In one of the first novels I read in French a bloke went on sentry-duty and was then referred to as elle: I searched the paragraph for five minutes to find where the woman came into it, then noticed the la in front of sentinelle. :facepalm:
Janus words, from the two-headed Roman god. There's a whole list of them, some of which I might remember too late to post here.le tour - la tour. Gender gone mad!
Nope: un tour is a circuit and une tour is a tower. Different roots. English has its own six-legged camels: to cleave can mean either to split apart or to stick together. Again, different roots.
le tour - la tour. Gender gone mad!
From Latin liber and libra. Damned foreigners, confusing the issue.
I learned quite a few things over the last three weeks. In no particular order:If you haven't already (and based on the above I'm guessing you haven't) you should read 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond.
- What earth tremors feel like (ans:weird but scary)
- That scorpions can go to sleep in your clothes (plain scary)
- (today, on researching) That while most scorpions, which are arachnids, aren't too poisonous the light coloured ones with thin pincers are. I know what those look like (see above)
- That, at least in the southern part of Mexico nobody talks with a comic book Mexican accent, who knew?
- That Mexico Mayan/Aztecs got seriously screwed over by the Spanish colonialists, as they did not use steel, or the wheel.
Realised as much as learnt ... that the Strava heatmap gives a pretty good indication of whether a route is bike friendly, for planning.Yes, the Strava route planner is really handy for this reason. Obviously you've got to apply a who-logs-rides-on-Strava filter when using it for urban commuter routes, as it'll bias towards the fast people on road bikes preferences. But that's in itself useful compared to the likes of Cyclestreets which tend to give very traffic-averse Sustransy routing.
I was, in particular, looking at a track in Scotland - I'm used to tracks on the OS map often meaning "private farm road", and while I'm aware that rights of way are different there it is reassuring to check that it's been used a bit on a bike.
fast people on road bikes
Lorry wheel nuts are left hand thread on the left side, for the same reasons as bike pedals.
How I have reached my old age without knowing this is hard to understand, except that I have never driven heavy vehicles.
But as ever, cars are aberrant.
Lorry wheel nuts are left hand thread on the left side, for the same reasons as bike pedals.
How I have reached my old age without knowing this is hard to understand, except that I have never driven heavy vehicles.
But as ever, cars are aberrant.
Lorry wheel nuts are left hand thread on the left side, for the same reasons as bike pedals.
How I have reached my old age without knowing this is hard to understand, except that I have never driven heavy vehicles.
But as ever, cars are aberrant.
Chrysler built their cars that way through the late '60s. Of course, the cars in question were about the size of a truck/lorry.
That Germans - or at least one of them! - can find great ways of describing their leg length for a Velomobile boom. “Dackelbeinig” = Dachshund-legged...
Lorry wheel nuts are left hand thread on the left side, for the same reasons as bike pedals.
How I have reached my old age without knowing this is hard to understand, except that I have never driven heavy vehicles.
But as ever, cars are aberrant.
Chrysler built their cars that way through the late '60s. Of course, the cars in question were about the size of a truck/lorry.
So did Rolls-Royce.
Wire wheels for cars were also secured by handed threads.
Lorry wheel nuts are left hand thread on the left side, for the same reasons as bike pedals.
How I have reached my old age without knowing this is hard to understand, except that I have never driven heavy vehicles.
But as ever, cars are aberrant.
... Carcass, the metal edition of of Black's Medical Dictionary.
I found out today that one of my great-great-great grandfathers (or someone with the same name, same residence and same profession as one of my GGG GFs) received a "sabre cut on the right shoulder" at Peterloo.
Today I learned that there were 2 weavers called James Entwistle living in Manchester at the time of Peterloo and that the one who suffered the sabre cut was the one who wasn't my great-great-great grandfather.
Probably.
Not so much learnt as realized, that since the small ring of a 2x11 does the work of the two inner rings of a triple it'll wear out twice as fast. The ring I just changed on my 2x11 had 20,000k on it, but the inner rings on my 3x10 have around 36,000k and are just about still OK.Wear on a bearing/road is proportional to 4th. power of loading; the bigger the ring and sprockets the lower the force. As an example, a lorry that should be 10 te./axle will do double the damage to the road if laden to 12 te./axle.
Not to be confused with shipshape objects, presumably.Hopefully the ship-shaped object is shipshape thobut.
At getting on for a billion, you'd like to think so.Not to be confused with shipshape objects, presumably.Hopefully the ship-shaped object is shipshape thobut.
Not to be confused with shipshape objects, presumably.Hopefully the ship-shaped object is shipshape thobut.
Ship-shaped, not shit-shaped.Not to be confused with shipshape objects, presumably.Hopefully the ship-shaped object is shipshape thobut.
But is it Bristol-fashion? And if it is, what number on the Bristol Scale?
That just as there are bike-shaped objects, there are ship-shaped objects. "A ship-shaped, turret-moored FPSO." Looks like a ship to me, but no, FPSO = floating production, storage and offloading unit.
$1.5 billion I think this one was.
Audax UK rider.
That (strong) leather can be made from fish skin.I think that historically most Inuit clothing was made from fish skin. At any rate there used to be a display of Eskimo clothes and tools in the museum here, which was mostly made from fish skin.
That (strong) leather can be made from fish skin.
That there is pink asparagus.
Laptop battery lost capacity? Getting warnings from the BIOS that it needs replacing? Put the battery in the freezer for a day or so, thaw it out in the fridge and you should find it's more or less back to normal. Freezing breaks up the large crystals that form over time.Not for lithium batteries apparently. NiMH or NiCd only.
Mine's Li-ion and it worked. Went from not charging at all to over 2 hours' real-world capacity.Laptop battery lost capacity? Getting warnings from the BIOS that it needs replacing? Put the battery in the freezer for a day or so, thaw it out in the fridge and you should find it's more or less back to normal. Freezing breaks up the large crystals that form over time.Not for lithium batteries apparently. NiMH or NiCd only.
Mine's Li-ion and it worked. Went from not charging at all to over 2 hours' real-world capacity.Laptop battery lost capacity? Getting warnings from the BIOS that it needs replacing? Put the battery in the freezer for a day or so, thaw it out in the fridge and you should find it's more or less back to normal. Freezing breaks up the large crystals that form over time.Not for lithium batteries apparently. NiMH or NiCd only.
That the S1 trainline out of Hamburg splits in two before it reaches the airport, and that if you haven’t checked the information on the front of the train you can end up feeling slightly foolish. I had to double back 2 stops & get the correct train. Luckily I believe in having good safety margins so I’d plenty of time.
That (strong) leather can be made from fish skin.
I read that report, and immediately went off to see if any of my preferred suppliers sell it. Sadly, they don't. The quoted prices compare well with similar weight cow and goat leathers.
That Saab built a small number (n<50) of 99s fitted with the 3.0L Triumph V8.Yes, the Saab B and H engines were developments of the Ricardo engine that was financed by both Saab and BL.
Interesting. So - in theory - a Rover V8 4.6 litre 99 is a possibility.No the Rover V8 is a different engine from the Ricardo developed Triumph one, iirc its a development of an American V8 related to but not the legendary Hemi.
fx:maniacal laughter from a suburban shed
wasn't it a case of the Stag V8 being two dollie engines welded together?Sounds like BL people thinking the opposite way round from Saab people.
the rover V8 as used in the P4, P5, P6 B was derived from a Buick engine, hence the designatorNavigated in a V8 series 1 military Landy on a couple of occasions... One of the few to get back in after the first, I'd forgotten how terrifying it was the second time I said I'd do it.
not sure if that was also used in the land rover. a client of mine a few weeks back had a LR deafener V8 that was 4.6 vs the usual 3.5l V8. I didn't get to hear it, just drooled in my own mind
Interesting. So - in theory - a Rover V8 4.6 litre 99 is a possibility.No the Rover V8 is a different engine from the Ricardo developed Triumph one, iirc its a development of an American V8 related to but not the legendary Hemi.
fx:maniacal laughter from a suburban shed
Stags and dollies? Sounds like a rather rude night out.In about 1974?
Real world would be a 240 Turbo, which we never got in the UK.
Ultimate performance would be Volvette (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBu6STlhh8Q)
Don't say the T5 touring car estates, please! P1800ES - looks ok, performance middling
I do like the 262C as well, but I'm much more a fan of the classics than the modern.
Someone over on LFGSS has a 940 or 960 estate with a silly turbo fitted and other mods; looks stock (if pristine) from the outside, but apparently it will burn off 911s etc. quite happily on the autobahn, and you can get it to wheelspin at motorway speeds if you downshift and let the turbo kick in...Neil. He lives just up the road from me. He also has either a Carrera or 911 - I forget which.
Someone over on LFGSS has a 940 or 960 estate with a silly turbo fitted and other mods; looks stock (if pristine) from the outside, but apparently it will burn off 911s etc. quite happily on the autobahn, and you can get it to wheelspin at motorway speeds if you downshift and let the turbo kick in...Neil. He lives just up the road from me. He also has either a Carrera or 911 - I forget which.
That streaming a full length movie uses as much electricity as boiling 10 kettles (almost all in the datacentre rather than your home comp).
That kestrels and probably some other raptors can see infrared.
Two things I learned yesterday:
That kestrels and probably some other raptors can see infrared.
AIUI that calculation had previously concentrated on the energy used at the viewer's end for streaming and is now reckoned to have vastly underestimated the energy used at the datacentre. Though presumably at least some of that is used anyway just keeping the place going. I don't know where the balance is, but all copies of Frozen should be destroyed.That streaming a full length movie uses as much electricity as boiling 10 kettles (almost all in the datacentre rather than your home comp).
BRITISH kettles or inferior leftpondian kettles? ;D
AIUI that energy to stream a movie figure still wins over watching it on DVD[1], because of the physical transportation, and the embedded costs of making a dedicated video-playing device that sits around doing nothing when you aren't watching movies.
Presumably there's a break-even point for physical media that's easily achieved when your smalls watch Frozen[2] for the eleventy-zillionth time.
[1] Other disc-shaped optical media are available.
[2] Other annoying Disney films are available.
???That kestrels and probably some other raptors can see infrared.
And some women have not just red, blue & green cones in their retinae but another set that can see further into the red end of the spectrum and possibly into the near-IR range.
In raptors it's a means of finding prey... ;D
AIUI that calculation had previously concentrated on the energy used at the viewer's end for streaming and is now reckoned to have vastly underestimated the energy used at the datacentre. Though presumably at least some of that is used anyway just keeping the place going.
I wonder how it compares to going to watching at the cinema. Or television. Presumably a lot of variables: cinema – film stock or digital projection? TV – screen size, LED/plasma/CRT? I dare say all the cinema, TV, DVD and streaming watching globally uses less energy than the production of those movies and shows.
That kestrels and probably some other raptors can see infrared.
And some women have not just red, blue & green cones in their retinae but another set that can see further into the red end of the spectrum and possibly into the near-IR range.
In raptors it's a means of finding prey... ;D
.... but all copies of Frozen should be destroyed.
That kestrels and probably some other raptors can see infrared.
And some women have not just red, blue & green cones in their retinae but another set that can see further into the red end of the spectrum and possibly into the near-IR range.
In raptors it's a means of finding prey... ;D
Ah, does this mean Rudyard Kipling was onto something?
That kestrels and probably some other raptors can see infrared.
And some women have not just red, blue & green cones in their retinae but another set that can see further into the red end of the spectrum and possibly into the near-IR range.
In raptors it's a means of finding prey... ;D
Our oven doesn't recommend pre-heating, weirdly, not that I care when it's just baked taters. We don't have a microwave or a slow cooker. It's a function I've only used 2 or 3 times in 4 years.
Our oven doesn't recommend pre-heating, weirdly, not that I care when it's just baked taters. We don't have a microwave or a slow cooker. It's a function I've only used 2 or 3 times in 4 years.
I only preheat my oven when baking CAEK as I don't think I'm very safe with hot ovens.
I don't think our food has suffered.
That kestrels and probably some other raptors can see infrared.
And some women have not just red, blue & green cones in their retinae but another set that can see further into the red end of the spectrum and possibly into the near-IR range.
In raptors it's a means of finding prey... ;D
Boring technical note: The cones aren't for red, blue and green, but for Long, Medium and Short wavelengths. There are significant overlaps such that colour matching cameras to human sensitivities cannot be done by simple additive RGB colour mixing, but has to include mathematical matrix functions to create negative values of light. Complicated stuff, this vision malarkey. :)
I'd beg to differ when it comes to rare roasts, but each to their own. There are a few foods that need pre-heating: pastry, souffle, cake for eg, some that benefit from pre-heating, eg roasts other than chicken where the heat seals it. But the weird thing on my oven is that it has a fast heat up option. "Well, I can get hot quickly but only if you tickle my ear and ask me nicely" Under what circumstances would you not want an oven to get to temperature as quickly as possible?
That kestrels and probably some other raptors can see infrared.
And some women have not just red, blue & green cones in their retinae but another set that can see further into the red end of the spectrum and possibly into the near-IR range.
In raptors it's a means of finding prey... ;D
Boring technical note: The cones aren't for red, blue and green, but for Long, Medium and Short wavelengths. There are significant overlaps such that colour matching cameras to human sensitivities cannot be done by simple additive RGB colour mixing, but has to include mathematical matrix functions to create negative values of light. Complicated stuff, this vision malarkey. :)
So what we call, e.g., red is not just the output of the longwave cone but the result of an arcane form of proportional representation. Figures. Also explains the colours of that dress.
because most of it's made up by your braIn, which lies to you all the time.It's the same with hearing - but try telling a musician (or hi-fi buff) that. Most of them seem to think that what they're hearing is objective truth. Old, sorry, 'vintage' instruments always sound better, for instance.
because most of it's made up by your braIn, which lies to you all the time.It's the same with hearing - but try telling a musician (or hi-fi buff) that. Most of them seem to think that what they're hearing is objective truth. Old, sorry, 'vintage' instruments always sound better, for instance.
because most of it's made up by your braIn, which lies to you all the time.It's the same with hearing - but try telling a musician (or hi-fi buff) that. Most of them seem to think that what they're hearing is objective truth. Old, sorry, 'vintage' instruments always sound better, for instance.
Aye. Sax players who want to sound like Charlie Parker (why?) obsess about his gear, forgetting that he often played on whatever he could scrounge, having hocked his last sax for drugs. He always sounded like himself.because most of it's made up by your braIn, which lies to you all the time.It's the same with hearing - but try telling a musician (or hi-fi buff) that. Most of them seem to think that what they're hearing is objective truth. Old, sorry, 'vintage' instruments always sound better, for instance.
I believe a Mr K Richards of Dartford noted that if you give him a guitar he'll have it sounding just like all his other guitars inside half an hour.
because most of it's made up by your braIn, which lies to you all the time.It's the same with hearing - but try telling a musician (or hi-fi buff) that. Most of them seem to think that what they're hearing is objective truth. Old, sorry, 'vintage' instruments always sound better, for instance.
Oh yes, and those who insist that a "high quality" mains plug makes all the difference.
http://www.evoaudio.uk/index.htm#MSHDPUK13ARh
That kestrels and probably some other raptors can see infrared.
And some women have not just red, blue & green cones in their retinae but another set that can see further into the red end of the spectrum and possibly into the near-IR range.
In raptors it's a means of finding prey... ;D
Boring technical note: The cones aren't for red, blue and green, but for Long, Medium and Short wavelengths. There are significant overlaps such that colour matching cameras to human sensitivities cannot be done by simple additive RGB colour mixing, but has to include mathematical matrix functions to create negative values of light. Complicated stuff, this vision malarkey. :)
So what we call, e.g., red is not just the output of the longwave cone but the result of an arcane form of proportional representation. Figures. Also explains the colours of that dress.
It's worse than you think though, because most of it's made up by your braIn, which lies to you all the time. The CIE have some nice charts to codify it all, but TV camera colorimetry is adjusted all the time by the vision supervisor, (or colour graded after editing) otherwise we lose the illusion of it being 'real.'
I believe a Mr K Richards of Dartford noted that if you give him a guitar he'll have it sounding just like all his other guitars inside half an hour.
You tune your bicycles so they all sound the same?? 😁I believe a Mr K Richards of Dartford noted that if you give him a guitar he'll have it sounding just like all his other guitars inside half an hour.
I seem to go through a broadly similar process with bicycles.
You tune your bicycles so they all sound the same?? 😁I believe a Mr K Richards of Dartford noted that if you give him a guitar he'll have it sounding just like all his other guitars inside half an hour.
I seem to go through a broadly similar process with bicycles.
You tune your bicycles so they all sound the same?? 😁I believe a Mr K Richards of Dartford noted that if you give him a guitar he'll have it sounding just like all his other guitars inside half an hour.
I seem to go through a broadly similar process with bicycles.
I don't know where the balance is, but all copies of Frozen should be destroyed.
Presumably there's a break-even point for physical media that's easily achieved when your smalls watch Frozen[2] for the eleventy-zillionth time.
[2] Other annoying Disney films are available.
I have learned that there is a song from Frozen called Let it Go. ;D
Bzzt (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=11510.msg2394008#msg2394008)I don't know where the balance is, but all copies of Frozen should be destroyed.
Presumably there's a break-even point for physical media that's easily achieved when your smalls watch Frozen[2] for the eleventy-zillionth time.
[2] Other annoying Disney films are available.
Writing as parent of smalls...
Let it go.
What? ? ? You think it is only sung once ?? ?? ??Bzzt (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=11510.msg2394008#msg2394008)I don't know where the balance is, but all copies of Frozen should be destroyed.
Presumably there's a break-even point for physical media that's easily achieved when your smalls watch Frozen[2] for the eleventy-zillionth time.
[2] Other annoying Disney films are available.
Writing as parent of smalls...
Let it go.
the BBC can't count. On the 7 question quiz of the week I got 5 right and ended up with a score of 4/6
6174 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6174_(number)) :oAha! I knew that one cos there's a band with the same name.
Ha, that came from a comedy panel show t’other day - I saw that :thumbsup:
A microwave oven is called popedi ping (sic) 8) [size=78%] [/size]
Ha, that came from a comedy panel show t’other day - I saw that :thumbsup:
A microwave oven is called popedi ping (sic) 8) [size=78%] [/size]
I've just learnt that they are just "slang" terms and that
A Jellyfish is a pysgod mor.
and a Microwave is a meicrodon
Ha, that came from a comedy panel show t’other day - I saw that :thumbsup:
A microwave oven is called popedi ping (sic) 8) [size=78%] [/size]
I've just learnt that they are just "slang" terms and that
A Jellyfish is a pysgod mor.
and a Microwave is a meicrodon
not sure if they still are, but inhalers were one of the few things to escape the CFC elimination
That inhalers can be recycled:
https://www.dontwasteabreath.com/view/recycling_your_inhaler
That inhalers can be recycled:
https://www.dontwasteabreath.com/view/recycling_your_inhaler
I always put mine in the household recycling, but it's no harm to take them to the local pharmacy - I have to go there anyway to collect the replacements.
There was an updated version released in the 1990s that added her more personal notations, I presume there's other bits, there's always been a quandary since they come from her private diary that was intended to be just that and her father, as I understand, tried to preserve that.
Anyway, despite the grim situation, it mostly seems like she was most teenagers in trying to figuring out what her life would be like. Which makes it all the more extraordinarily sad when you know that none of it will happen.
The next line is I've got trumps in my dummy.
Not to be confused with Yummy Yummy Yummy.
That to qualify as an island in the Thousand Islands of the St Lawrence River, a piece of land must have an area of at least 1 square foot and support at leat two living trees. Visions of running amok with a chainsaw ensued.
That the German phrase 'jemandem unter die Arme greifen' (literally to grasp someone under the arms) means 'to help'.
What I have learned today is that the Louisiana Purchase was made possible – necessary, from France's point of view – by the success of the Haitian Rebellion.
What I have learned today is that the Louisiana Purchase was made possible – necessary, from France's point of view – by the success of the Haitian Rebellion.
France needed the money to supress the rebellion?
That the German phrase 'jemandem unter die Arme greifen' (literally to grasp someone under the arms) means 'to help'.
There's a lovely Scots word for the literal meaning, or rather, to carry or drag somebody in that fashion - to oxtercog
That the German phrase 'jemandem unter die Arme greifen' (literally to grasp someone under the arms) means 'to help'.
There's a lovely Scots word for the literal meaning, or rather, to carry or drag somebody in that fashion - to oxtercog
I learned today that I've forgotten something which I learned over ten years ago.
That the German phrase 'jemandem unter die Arme greifen' (literally to grasp someone under the arms) means 'to help'.
There's a lovely Scots word for the literal meaning, or rather, to carry or drag somebody in that fashion - to oxtercog
I learned today that I've forgotten something which I learned over ten years ago.
Having a Killinchy oxter in Ireland means your arm's round a girl.
I wonder if that's a pun on it sounding a bit like clinch?That the German phrase 'jemandem unter die Arme greifen' (literally to grasp someone under the arms) means 'to help'.
There's a lovely Scots word for the literal meaning, or rather, to carry or drag somebody in that fashion - to oxtercog
I learned today that I've forgotten something which I learned over ten years ago.
Having a Killinchy oxter in Ireland means your arm's round a girl.
I wonder if that's a pun on it sounding a bit like clinch?That the German phrase 'jemandem unter die Arme greifen' (literally to grasp someone under the arms) means 'to help'.
There's a lovely Scots word for the literal meaning, or rather, to carry or drag somebody in that fashion - to oxtercog
I learned today that I've forgotten something which I learned over ten years ago.
Having a Killinchy oxter in Ireland means your arm's round a girl.
That the German phrase 'jemandem unter die Arme greifen' (literally to grasp someone under the arms) means 'to help'.
There's a lovely Scots word for the literal meaning, or rather, to carry or drag somebody in that fashion - to oxtercog
I learned today that I've forgotten something which I learned over ten years ago.
Having a Killinchy oxter in Ireland means your arm's round a girl.
Oxter is the term for armpit I'd expect all kinds of derivatives.
Is there one such for 'crutch palsy' the wrist drop caused by pressure in the oxter?
Oddly when I search Oxter is given as scots/northern English and Uxter as Irish.That the German phrase 'jemandem unter die Arme greifen' (literally to grasp someone under the arms) means 'to help'.
There's a lovely Scots word for the literal meaning, or rather, to carry or drag somebody in that fashion - to oxtercog
I learned today that I've forgotten something which I learned over ten years ago.
Having a Killinchy oxter in Ireland means your arm's round a girl.
Oxter is the term for armpit I'd expect all kinds of derivatives.
Is there one such for 'crutch palsy' the wrist drop caused by pressure in the oxter?
I ve never heard of one, but I know (now) that a crutch is sometimes called an oxterstick, and crutch palsy is also known as homeymoon palsy or Saturday night palsy.
There more deriviations of oxter on this blog (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/up-to-your-oxters-in-gaelic-expressions/&ved=2ahUKEwjvoeTH4fLiAhXGVRUIHWrPC6MQFjAPegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw2zyjgeetiWwzg5UT_--CK-), which reminded me of the Seamus Heaney verse:
In the deep pool at Portstewart, I waded in
Up to the chest, then stood there half-suspended
Like Vitruvian man, both legs wide apart,
Both arms out buoyant to the fingertips,
Oxter-cogged on water.
I'd never heard of 'champ' until I looked at the menu for the restaurant in the hotel I've booked for David in Armagh.
It's creamy potato mash and spring onions.
Yesterday I learned that it's no longer possible to top up a phone from an ATM. Which is a nuisance.
Yesterday I learned that it's no longer possible to top up a phone from an ATM. Which is a nuisance.
Really? I thought it was some sort of temporary problem with my provider or bank.
Assumed all would be well if I just waited a few days.
Bugger.
So I suppose I'll have to do it online with yet more bleeding passwords. >:(
I meant standard credit/debit card.Really? That's incredible! It means the only convenience over a voucher is if you're somewhere without shops (but with a signal) and it's daytime. I'm pretty sure you can use a voucher at night.
Dial 150 and take it from there.
Lines are closed overnight.
That my Echo Dot pulses yellow to advise it has "notifications" for me, such as my package being delivered today.
That my Echo Dot pulses yellow to advise it has "notifications" for me, such as my package being delivered today.
I didn't know that, but ours hides behind a plant in the bedroom.
My addiction to Sonos gadgets means for laughs if I stand at the top of stairs and shout Alexa, I get loads of bongs as they wake up.
Yes, I'm having a dull day in the remote command centre.
That there are things called Key Locked Thread Inserts. They do the same job as Helicoil inserts (repair banjaxed threads) but are installed using regular drills and taps.Yup, and I've got 2 or 3 1/4 UNF threads to do this winter on a 1973 Triumph Tiger 750 cylinder head. Contemplating whether or not I have a go, or give it to a professional. Abom makes it look so easy, but then he's got all the toys to get himself out of trouble if anything goes wrong. I mean, what could possibly go wrong on a semi-irreplaceable aluminium casting?
Abom79, one of thecake decoratingmachinist YouTube channels I watch shows the installation.
That there are things called Key Locked Thread Inserts. They do the same job as Helicoil inserts (repair banjaxed threads) but are installed using regular drills and taps.Yup, and I've got 2 or 3 1/4 UNF threads to do this winter on a 1973 Triumph Tiger 750 cylinder head. Contemplating whether or not I have a go, or give it to a professional. Abom makes it look so easy, but then he's got all the toys to get himself out of trouble if anything goes wrong. I mean, what could possibly go wrong on a semi-irreplaceable aluminium casting?
Abom79, one of thecake decoratingmachinist YouTube channels I watch shows the installation.
;D ;D ;DThat there are things called Key Locked Thread Inserts. They do the same job as Helicoil inserts (repair banjaxed threads) but are installed using regular drills and taps.Yup, and I've got 2 or 3 1/4 UNF threads to do this winter on a 1973 Triumph Tiger 750 cylinder head. Contemplating whether or not I have a go, or give it to a professional. Abom makes it look so easy, but then he's got all the toys to get himself out of trouble if anything goes wrong. I mean, what could possibly go wrong on a semi-irreplaceable aluminium casting?
Abom79, one of thecake decoratingmachinist YouTube channels I watch shows the installation.
"Hi Guys, welcome back to the shop. Here we've got a little project all the way from England where a guy attempted to install a Key Locked Thread insert, after I made it look so easy."
That the wave in the famous Hokusai print is actually a "plunging breaker" not a tsunami.
Finally (after about 50 years of Very Careful Measuring) I worked out how to easily hang something with concealed double keyhole slots on the back. Cardboard is your friend.
Ooops :-[ Yes, of course! (My wife still asks if I mean "real right" when giving directions....)
Yesterday I learned a new word: otiose (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/otiose).I learned that word yesterday as well. I suspect we learned it from the same tweetee.
Hmm, I used that word in an email on Monday.You are our original sauce AICMFP 😛
I do wonder if I imagined the entire internet.
Yesterday I learned a new word: otiose (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/otiose).I didn't know it had meanings 2 and 3. Not sure I've ever used it.
Yesterday I learned a new word: otiose (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/otiose).I didn't know it had meanings 2 and 3. Not sure I've ever used it.
That there are things called Key Locked Thread Inserts. They do the same job as Helicoil inserts (repair banjaxed threads) but are installed using regular drills and taps.Big Brother is watching us! This very video has just popped up in my feed, and it is a contributor I have not watched before, although I have watched the output of other
Abom79, one of thecake decoratingmachinist YouTube channels I watch shows the installation.
That there are things called Key Locked Thread Inserts. They do the same job as Helicoil inserts (repair banjaxed threads) but are installed using regular drills and taps.I am liking these very much.
Abom79, one of thecake decoratingmachinist YouTube channels I watch shows the installation.
That there are things called Key Locked Thread Inserts. They do the same job as Helicoil inserts (repair banjaxed threads) but are installed using regular drills and taps.Big Brother is watching us! This very video has just popped up in my feed, and it is a contributor I have not watched before, although I have watched the output of other
Abom79, one of thecake decoratingmachinist YouTube channels I watch shows the installation.cake decoratorsmachinists.
I discovered that some people with spinal injuries are unable to sweat and to properly maintain body temperature in cold weather.
I discovered that some people with spinal injuries are unable to sweat and to properly maintain body temperature in cold weather.
I damaged some nerves on my scalp so when I so much as sniff vinegar, water pours off my scalp in a Niagaran cascade. It's my party trick (admittedly my bookings as a children's entertainer are down). On the downside, I can only eat buffalo wings alone and with the towel. Which, now I've written it, sounds very wrong. But I love buffalo wings, so.
Sure, but then you have to pronounce virtuoso as VIRT-OO-OH-SO, it being just as furrin as ukulele.
You'd get funny lyooks if you did.
Not necessarily the red ones, but many public phones are being installed new, as a loophole in the law means that they can be used as advertising space without planning (allegedly)
I cycled along Tottenham Court Road recently, and was intrigued to discover that a) prostitutes are still advertising in phone boxes and b) there are still phone boxes. Presumably the boxes, and quite possibly the adverts within, have some sort of protected heritage status.Yes, I do know that's not what you meant!
I learned today that skiving home at midday, on a day such as today, means that your cycling clothes have not had time to dry.Not really an issue Ona day like today because 26½ seconds into your ride they’ll be saturated in any case.
[ed: ewwwww]
What is this 'ironing' of which you post?Dr Beardy (Mrs) likes her frocks and blouses crease free for work. Normally this is a task that she undertakes herself, but she’s been very busy at work recently and the ironing has built up. As the kept man, I’ve had to step up to the plate as it were.
Don’t leave tools at your semi senile parents house, unless you want to turn the place upside down trying to find where they’ve been tidied away.
That Scotland still has £1 notes
That Scotland still has £1 notes
It's been a looooooooong time since I've seen one.
That Scotland still has £1 notes
I cycled along Tottenham Court Road recently, and was intrigued to discover that a) prostitutes are still advertising in phone boxes and b) there are still phone boxes. Presumably the boxes, and quite possibly the adverts within, have some sort of protected heritage status.
I cycled along Tottenham Court Road recently, and was intrigued to discover that a) prostitutes are still advertising in phone boxes and b) there are still phone boxes. Presumably the boxes, and quite possibly the adverts within, have some sort of protected heritage status.
Tart cards, part of the history. With 01 or 07 numbers.
I cycled along Tottenham Court Road recently, and was intrigued to discover that a) prostitutes are still advertising in phone boxes and b) there are still phone boxes. Presumably the boxes, and quite possibly the adverts within, have some sort of protected heritage status.
Tart cards, part of the history. With 01 or 07 numbers.
I used to know someone who could tell fortunes from Tarot ca... oh. ::-)
Reading my travel insurance I learnt that Ostrich riding and racing are a thing.
Surely Calvinball's good enough forFTFY :Danyeveryone?
Surely Calvinball's good enough for anyone?Except on reverse day
Yes, unless i pay them more than i already have.Reading my travel insurance I learnt that Ostrich riding and racing are a thing.
As in, if you bork yourself doing it, the in-sewer ants won't pay out?
My first example is sports related. (Sorry)Another thing about 12s. The chance of 12 girls being born in a row is exactly the same as the chance of having 6 boys followed by 6 girls. Well of course, seems obvious when you put it like that. Apparently this is part of the "blade of grass paradox".
I read today that JPR Williams never, ever lost to England. He won 12 times!
JPR Williams 12 – England 0
Gosh. I remember from my youth that he was great, but I never knew he was that great.
What did you learn today?
This is all part of what eminent mathematician (and magician) Persi Diaconis calls “the blade of grass paradox”. Suppose you walk into a field and pluck one blade of grass out of the ground. There were millions of blades which you could have picked, and no matter which one you picked the odds of you getting that particular one were one in several million. Every possible outcome is extremely unlikely, but one of them has to happen.
If we go back to the Polish babies, the exact sequence GGBBGBGBBGBB (G for girl and B for boy) also has a 1/4096 chance of happening. That’s because it is achieved by 12 consecutive random events, each with a probability of ½, just the same as the sequence GGGGGGGGGGGG. But if this had happened over the past decade in Miejsce Odrzanskie, then nobody would have paid the slightest bit of attention because it seems more “normal”.https://theconversation.com/polish-village-hasnt-seen-a-boy-born-in-nearly-10-years-heres-how-that-computes-122176
It's a good bodge if your snapped cable hasn't gone at the nipple end, tho.Now that is neat.
It's a good bodge if your snapped cable hasn't gone at the nipple end, tho.Now that is neat.
Though I've never had a gear cable snap anywhere else other than at the nipple end.
That there's enough Al RF shielding inside a dead laptop power brick to make a good number of trim tabs and other v. thin sheet parts for model aeroplanes.Hmmmm.........<goes off to find and break open some old electronics.....>
That “Wagamama” means something like “wilful and self centred” and that the restaurant chain of the same name prefer “naughty child” as a translation.So now I'm wondering if "waga" is a proper Japanese word or if it's a borrowed word like "mama". And also wondering how widely recognised the word would be in Japan. And as for learning things, I've learned (presumably from the same source) that it's a British chain: I tend to assume (overly cynically? or insufficiently cynically?) that all these chains are USA in origin.
If it's power bricks you'll need a hacksaw blade to crack the casing and don't cut too deep or you'll ruin that lovely thin* sheet. :)That there's enough Al RF shielding inside a dead laptop power brick to make a good number of trim tabs and other v. thin sheet parts for model aeroplanes.Hmmmm.........<goes off to find and break open some old electronics.....>
If it's power bricks you'll need a hacksaw blade to crack the casing and don't cut too deep or you'll ruin that lovely thin* sheet. :)
1. There is such a thing as a spudger.
2. The reason our front garden wall appears to be subsiding. Who the hell puts a DPC in a garden wall? It has been slowly sliding off its footings since it was built.
That the term “Jizz” means “the overall impression or appearance of a bird garnered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements....”. Furthermore “experienced birders can often make reliable identifications.... by using jizz”.
There is also such a thing as a Podger.And a damn fine fiddle player she is too.
The pointy end is used to align bolt holes, by inserting and levering.Indeed.
1. There is such a thing as a spudger.
Noted.1. There is such a thing as a spudger.
Yeah, anyone who's had the misfortune to attempt to repair modern consumer electronics (and particularly the products of the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia) knows all about them. Best operated in combination with misplaced optimism and harsh language.
If you're in the market of a spudger, the iSesamo ones are good.
That the term “Jizz” means “the overall impression or appearance of a bird garnered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements....”. Furthermore “experienced birders can often make reliable identifications.... by using jizz”.Guardian weekend quiz?
1. There is such a thing as a spudger.
Yeah, anyone who's had the misfortune to attempt to repair modern consumer electronics (and particularly the products of the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia) knows all about them. Best operated in combination with misplaced optimism and harsh language.
If you're in the market of a spudger, the iSesamo ones are good.
Berlin is further north than London.Sounds reasonable. That Berlin is further north than London, I mean, not learning facts from Sporcle. Students in Poland often asked why Britain didn't have much snow when "you're so far north," to which I pointed out a) maritime effect b) southern England is same latitude as southern Poland and Warsaw is north of London. But mostly a, of course.
(useful facts learned from random Sporcle quizzes)
1. There is such a thing as a spudger.
2. The reason our front garden wall appears to be subsiding. Who the hell puts a DPC in a garden wall? It has been slowly sliding off its footings since it was built.
There is also such a thing as a podger.
I have a 17mm, two-way ratcheting one.
It used to be very useful for undoing the nut on the eccentric rear axle on my Honda 650.
Mostly, scaffolders/riggers use podgers.
That the term “Jizz” means “the overall impression or appearance of a bird garnered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements....”. Furthermore “experienced birders can often make reliable identifications.... by using jizz”.That the term Jizz can mean something completely different to what I know it to mean.
Peel-dirty barcode labels can be removed with a hair dryer or heat gun on a low setting.
IPA?Peel-dirty barcode labels can be removed with a hair dryer or heat gun on a low setting.
That once you've done this you still have to get the glue out of the wood. It's oak, too - €€€ :(
India Pale Ale?
India Pale Ale?
Isopropyl alcohol, aka rubbing alcohol/surgical spirit.
The purple stuff is only bitter to prevent one from ingesting it.India Pale Ale?
Isopropyl alcohol, aka rubbing alcohol/surgical spirit.
AIUI surgical spirit's only IPA for leftpondians. BRITISH surgical spirit is the standard meths mixture of ethanol and methanol, with methyl salicylate for grazed knee flashbacks instead of the bitter purple stuff.
What a light pink/blue and white flag means :thumbsup:
I think the point is, you're now supposed to tell us as well
I'm going to guess it's a bisexuality indicator/pride flag.What a light pink/blue and white flag means :thumbsup:
Tonight's homework: Magenta/purple/blue flag.
This seems apt for it:I think the point is, you're now supposed to tell us as well
Sorry, didn't think to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_flags
Talking of Pride, I was in Gloucester yesterday and saw the revellers of Gloucester Pride. It made me wonder, again, why different places hold <Place> Pride on different dates
A remarkably sensible reason.Talking of Pride, I was in Gloucester yesterday and saw the revellers of Gloucester Pride. It made me wonder, again, why different places hold <Place> Pride on different dates
So the dedicated QUILTBAGs, particularly those of regional or national organisations, can go to more than one of them.
A remarkably sensible reason.Talking of Pride, I was in Gloucester yesterday and saw the revellers of Gloucester Pride. It made me wonder, again, why different places hold <Place> Pride on different dates
So the dedicated QUILTBAGs, particularly those of regional or national organisations, can go to more than one of them.
The singer's dress/cloak was also in bi flag colours.
It's a shame it was during one of the ongoing bastions of colonialism which caused a lot of anti-same-sex laws in various parts of the world... So both 'yay' and what they call pinkwashing....
The interview while they were rearranging the orchestra just before her performance also made that clear. Cracking voice!The singer's dress/cloak was also in bi flag colours.
It's a shame it was during one of the ongoing bastions of colonialism which caused a lot of anti-same-sex laws in various parts of the world... So both 'yay' and what they call pinkwashing....
The singer is Jamie Barton. Reading her bio on the interwebs, I don't think she had the rainbow flag and bi flag colours especially for the Last Night of the proms.
I've learned more today, including how scary it can get in traffic when all your reflexes are geared around brakes. I've not learned how the dutch do the stopping thing despite watching, coz mostly they don't. I've learned that if you do wear lycra and a helmet over here you have to make like it's a TT. I'm trying to learn how to get used to bikes having priority over cars, eg on exit from local roundabouts. It's almost worth riding around and around for the experience.
The bit I find difficult about cycling in NL/BE is that quite a lot of motorists will give way to you at the junctions or bike crossings where they don't have to, but you can't rely on everyone doing that.
The chevrons on OS maps point *down* the hills and not up as I'd assumed... :facepalm:
And I've just learnt there's a nonbinary pride flag, seen in the photo at the top of this article: https://www.bristol247.com/opinion/your-say/bristol-is-a-loving-city-for-non-binary-people-and-those-in-the-wider-lgbtq-community/This seems apt for it:I think the point is, you're now supposed to tell us as well
Sorry, didn't think to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_flags
"It was flown from the large public flagpole in San Francisco's Castro District ..." - although 'Castra' would be better.
MK has a fixed-site Pride Festival this weekend - I thought about going there and then realised that MK could be a bit crowded for some other reason.
Here, have the Wikipedia spotters' guide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_flag#Gallery
That Essex have won the County Cricket Championship 7 times, and that could well be 8 in a week's time.
That means that only Lancashire, Middlesex, Surrey and Yorkshire have won the title more times than Essex, which is pretty remarkable given that Essex's first championship win was in 1979. The only county to have won their first championship more recently than Essex is Durham and they have only taken part in the even since 1992. I'm quite surprised that Essex has won the title more often than Kent. That actually makes Essex the most successful county at real cricket over the past 40 years.
Three counties have never won the title: Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire and Somerset. If Essex don't win their 8th title next week, Somerset will have won their 1st.
Here, have the Wikipedia spotters' guide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_flag#GallerySeems to be an amount of splittism (such as agender, genderfluid, gender queer, non-binary – but nothing for demigender). You'd think that someone would tire of horizontal stripes eventually. Also, interesting lesbian-fascist overlap.
Here, have the Wikipedia spotters' guide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_flag#GallerySeems to be an amount of splittism (such as agender, genderfluid, gender queer, non-binary – but nothing for demigender).
HOW many nations would have flags included in a 'red, white and blue Brexit'?Do you mean how many nations have red, white and blue flags? Or are you pointing out that while the Union flag is red, white and blue, the flags of each of it four constituents include at least two of those colours but never all three together?
I think back then they were probably also applying the heraldic design rules of not having colour on colour or metal (argent/or, silver/gold, white/yellow) on metal. I've never seen a St David's cross, I wonder how widely recognised it is even in Wales?
The Scottish public will vote on the issue of independence on 18 September 2014, however the College of Arms, which oversees matters relating to flags and heraldry and acts under Crown Authority, told British broadcaster ITV that there are no plans to change the Union Flag if Scotland becomes an independent state.
HOW many nations would have flags included in a 'red, white and blue Brexit'?
I learnt this one earlier in the week.
The building I've been calling The Trellick Tower, yacf's favourite bit of brutalist architecture, is in fact Balfron Tower.
Trellick Tower is in Kensal Green. The one on the A12 is Balfron Tower.
(Fascinating facts,we gottem)
I learnt this one earlier in the week.
The building I've been calling The Trellick Tower, yacf's favourite bit of brutalist architecture, is in fact Balfron Tower.
Trellick Tower is in Kensal Green. The one on the A12 is Balfron Tower.
(Fascinating facts,we gottem)
There's a similar edifice in the area yclept Docklands.
Commercial radio stations are now taking the N-word out of "Oliver's Army". They must have struggled with the context for four decades.I've been wondering about that one ever since it became unacceptable for white people to sing N in songs originally by black people, where the original was "-a" not "-er". But what if the original was by a white person and the meaning was neither of those? What about the Commitments? What about Hanif Kureishi being told by his Pakistani cousins, "You might be a famous writer but we are Pakistanis whereas you will only ever be a Paki" (ie both in UK and Pakistan)? Etc. And we haven't even got around to, say, "traila".
I learnt this one earlier in the week.
The building I've been calling The Trellick Tower, yacf's favourite bit of brutalist architecture, is in fact Balfron Tower.
Trellick Tower is in Kensal Green. The one on the A12 is Balfron Tower.
(Fascinating facts,we gottem)
This is a public service announcement. With guitars.I learnt this one earlier in the week.
The building I've been calling The Trellick Tower, yacf's favourite bit of brutalist architecture, is in fact Balfron Tower.
Trellick Tower is in Kensal Green. The one on the A12 is Balfron Tower.
(Fascinating facts,we gottem)
Any fule kno Trellick Tower is in W London coz Mick Jones' gran lived in it. The one out of The Clash, obv, not him from FOREIGNer.
Figs have wasps in them (https://gardencollage.com/inspire/wild-earth/true-dead-wasps-inside-figs/) :sick:
I learnt this one earlier in the week.
The building I've been calling The Trellick Tower, yacf's favourite bit of brutalist architecture, is in fact Balfron Tower.
Trellick Tower is in Kensal Green. The one on the A12 is Balfron Tower.
(Fascinating facts,we gottem)
Any fule kno Trellick Tower is in W London coz Mick Jones' gran lived in it. The one out of The Clash, obv, not him from FOREIGNer.
That there is an (archaic) expression in English "Short commons" meaning a shortage of food.Me too, in yesterday’s Guardian quick crossword. It was a bit of a stinker.
That there is an (archaic) expression in English "Short commons" meaning a shortage of food.I didn't think it was that archaic, or perhaps I just read the "wrong" sort of novels?
New washing machines run much better once you've removed the Transit Bolts. Apologies to anyone in Co Durham who owns a seismograph, for any false positives you may have just received. :facepalm:
Jeffing is a thing that can be discussed in mixed company. Apparently it’s a name used for interval training, eg run for 5 minutes, walk for 3 minutes, repeat. It is named for Jeff Galloway who apparently founded* the technique.
* I would have said formalised the technique. I used to tall it lamp posting, in that I’d run to the next lamppost then walk to the next one, but this was when I was a yoof.
Jeffing is a thing that can be discussed in mixed company. Apparently it’s a name used for interval training, eg run for 5 minutes, walk for 3 minutes, repeat. It is named for Jeff Galloway who apparently founded* the technique.
* I would have said formalised the technique. I used to tall it lamp posting, in that I’d run to the next lamppost then walk to the next one, but this was when I was a yoof.
fartlek is more than that. It is mixed pace, so jog, sprint, walk, jog for medium distance, run hard medium distance, sprint, jog, walk. Generally over mixed terrain.Jeffing is a thing that can be discussed in mixed company. Apparently it’s a name used for interval training, eg run for 5 minutes, walk for 3 minutes, repeat. It is named for Jeff Galloway who apparently founded* the technique.
* I would have said formalised the technique. I used to tall it lamp posting, in that I’d run to the next lamppost then walk to the next one, but this was when I was a yoof.
look up fartlek training
That the US embassy has racked up over 89 000 unpaid congested charges, totally over £10 000 000 in fines.
fartlek is more than that. It is mixed pace, so jog, sprint, walk, jog for medium distance, run hard medium distance, sprint, jog, walk. Generally over mixed terrain.Jeffing is a thing that can be discussed in mixed company. Apparently it’s a name used for interval training, eg run for 5 minutes, walk for 3 minutes, repeat. It is named for Jeff Galloway who apparently founded* the technique.
* I would have said formalised the technique. I used to tall it lamp posting, in that I’d run to the next lamppost then walk to the next one, but this was when I was a yoof.
look up fartlek training
Does for runners what riding yorkshire hills does for cyclists, alternately forcing you into anaerobic intensity, then recovering while in aerobic zone.
They claim, somewhat disingenuously, that it's a tax and thus under the various treaties that cover diplomatic presence on foreign soil they don't have to pay it.
The diplomat's wife killing someone, invoking diplomatic immunity and hopping on the next jet to the US is horrible and I don't really know how someone can really live with themselves, but it's not like the US don't have form for that kind of behaviour.
The Romans had a goddess of hinges.Wobbly John needs to know this.
The internet said this, so it might not be true, however...I had a this year's model golf. To change the 12v accessory socket from ignition switched to always live I moved the yellow fuse from position A to position B. It stayed yellow.
...car fuses that are red are always live, and those that are yellow are ignition switched. Allegedly.
I shall have to check.
That's a colour code in some manufacturer's *wiring*, thobut.
ETA: Colour-coding in automotive wiring is, frequently, a trap.
That's a colour code in some manufacturer's *wiring*, thobut.
ETA: Colour-coding in automotive wiring is, frequently, a trap.
Unless the car is Italian, when it's inevitably a trap.
And it’s something I’m very interested in having read about it. Once I get my fitness to a reasonable level again, I’m going to head off the paved roads and into the ‘wilderness’. This sort of mixed intensity running will be a natural fit for trail and wild running me thinks.fartlek is more than that. It is mixed pace, so jog, sprint, walk, jog for medium distance, run hard medium distance, sprint, jog, walk. Generally over mixed terrain.Jeffing is a thing that can be discussed in mixed company. Apparently it’s a name used for interval training, eg run for 5 minutes, walk for 3 minutes, repeat. It is named for Jeff Galloway who apparently founded* the technique.
* I would have said formalised the technique. I used to tall it lamp posting, in that I’d run to the next lamppost then walk to the next one, but this was when I was a yoof.
look up fartlek training
Does for runners what riding yorkshire hills does for cyclists, alternately forcing you into anaerobic intensity, then recovering while in aerobic zone.
Yes, I know what fartlek is, just suggesting it to Beardy as a point of interest. It can be a very useful tool.
Note to self: When in conversation with leftpondian colleagues, reconsidering the use of the phrase "fag packet" may lead to greater understanding and less hilarity.An aeromodelling forum - hosted in Canuckistan I believe, but it may be Transpondia - I frequent automatically translates "fag" to "cheerful guy" as I found out a few weeks ago when I used the phrase, "back of a fag packet" in a post. Stupid or what?
Note to self: When in conversation with leftpondian colleagues, reconsidering the use of the phrase "fag packet" may lead to greater understanding and less hilarity.
That wateproof jacket of mine isn't.Possible outcomes of this sentence:
All sorts of industrial power tools seems to be the answer. Can't find any sewing machines on their website but that's cos they've shoved them off to a separate site, Husqvarna Viking. Still same family. Motorbikes sold off in the late 80s, as I vaguely knew, and now owned by KTM (who used to be tiny and obscure, a motorised equivalent of Puch, sort of).Lawnmowers is where I first discovered them, at the same time as discovering the Briggs and Stratton engine on Dad's one had a really rubbish starter cord as I broke it... Twice
That some e-cigarettes, including from Big Tobacco, contain zero nicotine. Which is slightly bizarre.
The meaning of "empennage"You've been reading the "Flights of Fancy" thread haven't you? :)
The meaning of "empennage"
The meaning of "empennage"You've been reading the "Flights of Fancy" thread haven't you? :)
I've probably told the story before of how I discovered that people who aren't sniggery 12 year olds actually call them, but just in case:
[1] Teenagers: Ask your parents.
Another colleague had the job of listening to each new cassette as it was submitted to us, and make sure it wasn't too racy......
Another colleague had the job of listening to each new cassette as it was submitted to us, and make sure it wasn't too racy......
Presumably the rejects got edited into a Christmas tape?
Phwoar!!!Another colleague had the job of listening to each new cassette as it was submitted to us, and make sure it wasn't too racy......
Presumably the rejects got edited into a Christmas tape?
Poor Brian who had that job was the meekest, shyest, most respectable chap you could imagine... I think he must have been a very effective censor. Certainly the few tapes I listened to in the line of duty would have had me asking for a refund..
I'm trying to remember the mechanics of how I did this job. I remember I had to remove a big digital (?) master cassette / tape drive & replace it, and also remember having to blank this on regular occasions using a special mains powered magnetic gadget
I've known these for some time, but they are relevant to pcolbeck's post;
"Midwife" originally meant "with the woman", a person asstisting with a birt.
I very rarely look at anything on twitter and don't have an account. If I refresh it, I get CNN, the White House, United Nations, Katy Perry and the Pope in Italian. So at least it's consistent. Mostly (isn't Katy Perry some sort of reality-type TV sleb?).Okay, it seems Katy Perry is a pop star and I was probably melding her into one with Katie Price. At least I didn't confuse either of them with Katy Hopkins. And I predict that in 30 years time, Katy will the Gen Z equivalent of Karen for whatever the by-then gen will be.
I've known these for some time, but they are relevant to pcolbeck's post;
"Midwife" originally meant "with the woman", a person asstisting with a birt.
Presumably originally something like "Mitt Wifa" which would be Germanic for "with a woman".
That there is such a thing as a metric British Thermal Unit. With the complication that MBTU can be either Metric BTU or Million BTUs. It's the gas industry...
That whilst making 1,000 of his UK staff redundant, Jamie Oliver paid himself £5.2 million in dividends last year.
That Sooty was / is yellow.One wonders how young rafletcher is.
That Sooty was / is yellow.One wonders how young rafletcher is.
I would be much more impressed if it was less than £4m.That whilst making 1,000 of his UK staff redundant, Jamie Oliver paid himself £5.2 million in dividends last year.
Having already invested some £4 million of his money earlier in the year trying to save the restaurants.
I'm currently listening to a very long podcast series on the origins and development of English.
That whilst making 1,000 of his UK staff redundant, Jamie Oliver paid himself £5.2 million in dividends last year.
I'm currently listening to a very long podcast series on the origins and development of English.
I'd be interested in this. Where do I find it?
I'm currently listening to a very long podcast series on the origins and development of English.
I'd be interested in this. Where do I find it?
There's also this song, but it doesn't sound the same to me:
https://youtu.be/44wzqWQxHpQ
With the size some people get to I wouldn't be surprised if cremation started to add a premium for super huge bodies.Oh, I don't know... With all that fat they could probably cut down on the amount of gas used, so I reckon a discount might be in order. :demon:
Unless I wither whilst dying, I am too heavy to donate my body for medical research. 80Kg is the limit Leicester University set for their donors.
That the equals sign (=) was a Welsh invention.Recorde also introduced some wonderful terminology for power functions above x3. We structural engineers measure the interent stiffness of a shape by its second moment of area, measured commonly in cm4, or "zenzizenzic centimetres", as I am wont to say.
Indeed body fat is the main fuel for a traditional cremation, the wood is only there to get the fat running and to provide a wick for the fat, thin people need much more fuel.With the size some people get to I wouldn't be surprised if cremation started to add a premium for super huge bodies.Oh, I don't know... With all that fat they could probably cut down on the amount of gas used, so I reckon a discount might be in order. :demon:
With the size some people get to I wouldn't be surprised if cremation started to add a premium for super huge bodies.Oh, I don't know... With all that fat they could probably cut down on the amount of gas used, so I reckon a discount might be in order. :demon:
On the day I was born the Luftwaffe grounded their fleet of F-104 Starfighters, because of their propensity for turning from aeroplane to mechanical mole.
<insert lyrics from Robert Calvert song here>
I've heard people suggest that the F-104 wasn't actually that much more dangerous than its contemporaries, but I've not checked the stats myself. Some of the suspicion may of course come from the whole bribery thing - even by arms company standards, the F-104G's procurement decisions were... motivated by external factors, shall we say?
Lockheed's slush-powered aeroplane.
An F-104 was responsible for an XB-70 prototype crashing. They were flying slowly in formation for a photo op but the F-104 couldn't hold station and drifted back into the XB-70's wing. Marketing-inspired fuckup, as usual.
From what I've read, the crashes in Europe were mostly due to the fact that the F-104 was a high-altitude interceptor, but in Europe it was forced into service as a low-level high-speed attack bomber - the kind of role that had been planned for the TSR-2 - and it was horribly unsuited for it. But Lockheed spread its sheltering slush fund around and none of the politicians died.
This place (https://www.google.com/maps/@52.8070674,0.059233,3a,60y,140.19h,85.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6q2oSjUzzMRAohNn5Ki0Aw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)?
Actually, 'teeny wing, big engine' is a decent solution to the low-level strike design problem, albeit one that makes for long takeoff and landing runs. I don't know what the avionics were like - the 'missile with a man in it' wasn't exactly endowed with loads of spare room.
One contributing factor to [the high rate of controlled flight into terrain] was the operational assignment of the F-104 in German service: it was mainly used as a fighter-bomber, as opposed to the original design of a high-speed, high-altitude fighter/interceptor. In addition to the much lower-level mission profiles, the installation of additional avionic equipment in the F-104G version, such as the inertial navigation system, added far more distraction to the pilot and additional weight that further hampered the flying abilities of the plane. In contemporary German magazine articles highlighting the Starfighter safety problems, the aircraft was portrayed as "overburdened" with technology, which was considered a latent overstrain on the aircrews.
That a 2-litre ice cream tub, when filled with ratatouille and transported in a pannier, is not watertight. Nor even vegetable juice-tight. Fortunately I had put it in a mk one plastic bag.
That a 2-litre ice cream tub, when filled with ratatouille and transported in a pannier, is not watertight. Nor even vegetable juice-tight. Fortunately I had put it in a mk one plastic bag.Does not compute - transported !??!? Do you not like ratatouille? If made in this house there will not be any left to transport elsewhere.
that seagull can also be used as a verb :o :hand:
One FB froup to which I belong is currently being plagued by a troll going by the name of "Uno Uno". This has led me to learn that the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession has a name. It is called epizeuxis.
Descaling probably. Not a fun job.
Highly resistant to corrosion and infused with violet radiation
I've been shopping for mudguards today. On the CRC site about SKS Bluemels: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.QuoteHighly resistant to corrosion and infused with violet radiation
;D ::-)
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.
The phrase "you've got another thing coming" was originally "you've got another think coming".
Microphones can listen to light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIKwGt38LQ
and
https://lightcommands.com/
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...
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).
This I learned a few days ago. First the scene set.
In France, the day before driving back to the UK, requiring 1200km driving in a day. I would like to ensure a good night sleep, for obvious reasons. I have a streaming cold. I have bought some cold remedy from a French Pharmacy, with pills marked "Day" and "Night". Not wishing to knock myself out for an early start, I choose a "Day" capsule, thinking I will get a good night sleep. Two hours later I have come to the conclusion that the "Day" capsules have an over-quantity of caffeine, as I am more than a little wired and sleep is a distant dream (only it isn't a dream, clearly). Which is odd, as my tolerance for caffeine is high. Oh well.
It is the day after return I learn that the French cold remedy decongestant is amphetamine, with the night dose being a fraction of the day dose. Oh well.
Yesterday but I appear to be able to control and move in a decent manual wheelchair using my hands on wheels and control them independently as well as forward (not sure about reverse) or on carpets rather than hard flooring.This might be a useful skill but the fact that you have discovered it could be not so good. ... ?
That some responsible for street names in South Yorkshire is a little bit of a comedian. The address of the South Yorkshire Police Operations Complex is something of a classic. Do google ‘south yorkshire police operations complex’ it’s a bit of a giggle.Erm. ??? 'Ave Oi got a humour bypass?
That some responsible for street names in South Yorkshire is a little bit of a comedian. The address of the South Yorkshire Police Operations Complex is something of a classic. Do google ‘south yorkshire police operations complex’ it’s a bit of a giggle.Erm. ??? 'Ave Oi got a humour bypass?
While researching entrepreneurial brothers in law for the KWC2019 quiz I discovered that Callard & Bowsers is cockney rhyming slang for trousers.
Those of a Certain Age may recall that there was a carton in Private Eye in the 1960s and early 1970s yclept "Barry McKenzie". At least once he referred to his "petrols", an abbreviation of "petrol bowsers".
That Ciao is derived from the Venetian term for slave.
What strides are, apart from the obvious.
In Gloucestershire, kecks were underwear.
In Gloucestershire, kecks were underwear.And indeed in East Kilbride, though pronounced "kechs".
In Northants keck is another name for cow parsley.That's interesting. I'm from Lincolnshire, and it's keck (for cow parsley) there too - but not heard it anywhere else in the UK. Maybe an East Midlands term?
In Northants keck is another name for cow parsley.That's interesting. I'm from Lincolnshire, and it's keck (for cow parsley) there too - but not heard it anywhere else in the UK. Maybe an East Midlands term?
This is getting spooky. I live now (and have for 30 years, at the very bottom south end of Cheshire.....). Cow parsley is cow parsley here, the locals have never heard of "keck". What's the OED citation say?In Northants keck is another name for cow parsley.That's interesting. I'm from Lincolnshire, and it's keck (for cow parsley) there too - but not heard it anywhere else in the UK. Maybe an East Midlands term?
The OED has a citation from south Cheshire.
It also occurs in the works of John Clare of Helpston, which is in Northants but within spitting distance of the Lincolnshire border.
This is getting spooky. I live now (and have for 30 years, at the very bottom south end of Cheshire.....). Cow parsley is cow parsley here, the locals have never heard of "keck". What's the OED citation say?In Northants keck is another name for cow parsley.That's interesting. I'm from Lincolnshire, and it's keck (for cow parsley) there too - but not heard it anywhere else in the UK. Maybe an East Midlands term?
The OED has a citation from south Cheshire.
It also occurs in the works of John Clare of Helpston, which is in Northants but within spitting distance of the Lincolnshire border.
The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe - what a magnificent name "Aslan" is. How creative was C S Lewis, eh?
Aslan is Turkish for "lion".
This is getting spooky. I live now (and have for 30 years, at the very bottom south end of Cheshire.....). Cow parsley is cow parsley here, the locals have never heard of "keck". What's the OED citation say?In Northants keck is another name for cow parsley.That's interesting. I'm from Lincolnshire, and it's keck (for cow parsley) there too - but not heard it anywhere else in the UK. Maybe an East Midlands term?
The OED has a citation from south Cheshire.
It also occurs in the works of John Clare of Helpston, which is in Northants but within spitting distance of the Lincolnshire border.
It's from "The folk-speech of South Cheshire" by Thomas Darlington published in 1887. "As dry as a keck".
The definition says it refers to "Any of the large Umbelliferæ, or their hollow stems", also that it is "now dialect", implying it was earlier used over a larger area.
One of our serves is called Shenzi, given its running an ancient version of Solaris it could be a good description of the heighheedyin responsible for it.The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe - what a magnificent name "Aslan" is. How creative was C S Lewis, eh?
Aslan is Turkish for "lion".
Wait till you hear about Simba...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51105056 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51105056)
"The issue of hyphens gets more complex when someone joins the House of Lords, with peerage rules demanding a double surname be hyphenated (so it's Andrew Lloyd Webber but Lord Lloyd-Webber, and Martha Lane Fox but Baroness Lane-Fox)."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51105056 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51105056)
"The issue of hyphens gets more complex when someone joins the House of Lords, with peerage rules demanding a double surname be hyphenated (so it's Andrew Lloyd Webber but Lord Lloyd-Webber, and Martha Lane Fox but Baroness Lane-Fox)."
Elohim is plural, so in the beginning gods created heaven and earth. Or is that the editorial we at work?I think it‘s thought to be like the Royal We.
Elohim is plural, so in the beginning gods created heaven and earth. Or is that the editorial we at work?I think it‘s thought to be like the Royal We.
Elohim is plural, so in the beginning gods created heaven and earth. Or is that the editorial we at work?I think it‘s thought to be like the Royal We.
So, let's put those together: "The beginning created god, with the heaven and with the earth"Out of the whole of your long and erudite post, this is the bit I will remember, understand, am not surprised by and actually makes sense to me. Even without knowing anything about the commas.
There you go, Big Bang theory, in the bible.
Blasphemer!
That's all very well, Ham, but the KJV is definitive and, moreover, is written in English Just Like Jesus Spoke. Blasphemer!
Elohim is plural, so in the beginning gods created heaven and earth. Or is that the editorial we at work?
Elohim is plural, so in the beginning gods created heaven and earth. Or is that the editorial we at work?
...and I meant to add that the reason for that as far as I can see was that Judaism differed from almost everything that went before, as well as almost all other concurrent religions, in that it is a monotheistic religion. That's actually a real big deal in a world that split divinity and often had those gods warring against each other. With that in mind, that the first name used in the bible is the one that expresses that critical difference most clearly (all in one), is no surprise.
Re mono- vs polytheism, there's an idea that monotheists tend to be more aggressive, via proselytism, oppressive laws or jihad, whereas polytheists tend more to take-it-or-leave-it. Dunno to what extent that holds - Modi's actions at present seem to argue against it, if he isn't being just another cynical populist.Though some would argue Hinduism is mono- or even atheistic. And others say it has 33.3 million deities.
That Henry Williamson, author of "Tarka The Otter" was a fascist >:(
Re mono- vs polytheism, there's an idea that monotheists tend to be more aggressive, via proselytism, oppressive laws or jihad, whereas polytheists tend more to take-it-or-leave-it. Dunno to what extent that holds - Modi's actions at present seem to argue against it, if he isn't being just another cynical populist.Though some would argue Hinduism is mono- or even atheistic. And others say it has 33.3 million deities.
There's a 'Sourdough Saloon' in a hotel in Dawson, Yukon, that serves a 'Sourtoe' cocktail. To join the 'Sourtoe club' you must drink the cocktail and your lips must touch the severed human toe at the bottom. Since 1973 when it was established as a cocktail (using a toe in a jar of bourbon that had been in the hotel since 1930) around 7 toes have been used. Some of the previous toes have been swallowed, either deliberately or by accident.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sourtoe-cocktail (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sourtoe-cocktail)
I remember Cliff Michelmore on Tonight in the 60s mentioning that Mr. Average Briton had one-third of an outside lavatory.
...and slightlylessfewer than two legs.
I remember Cliff Michelmore on Tonight in the 60s mentioning that Mr. Average Briton had one-third of an outside lavatory.
We've got a third of an outside lavatory. If you go by mortar, if not functional plumbing.
Does it have a shit hot hot seat?I remember Cliff Michelmore on Tonight in the 60s mentioning that Mr. Average Briton had one-third of an outside lavatory.
We've got a third of an outside lavatory. If you go by mortar, if not functional plumbing.
So the outhouse looks like it took a direct hot from a mortar, then? :demon:
Does it have a shit hot hot seat?I remember Cliff Michelmore on Tonight in the 60s mentioning that Mr. Average Briton had one-third of an outside lavatory.
We've got a third of an outside lavatory. If you go by mortar, if not functional plumbing.
So the outhouse looks like it took a direct hot from a mortar, then? :demon:
What to corpse means. 19c, apparently.
To roll up my sleeves before planing the edge of a door in situ.
THE POLICE IN THE NETHERLANDS USE SOME DIFFERENT METHODS TOhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/10iWb4SJPVt6irFsb-LcX1VocRBNnNRhI/view
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.
AFAIUI the UK system doesn't take your speed at two points, it times you between two points.
Agreed. I thought Cudzo was going to illuminate me about a common misconception, but it turns out that he has misread the Dutch pamphlet.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.)
That the first and third letters of 4a in this morning's Guardian's Quick Crossword were not F and E.:sick:
https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/quick/15521
I have. Sorry. :-[Agreed. I thought Cudzo was going to illuminate me about a common misconception, but it turns out that he has misread the Dutch pamphlet.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.)
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)
Jetsom Ambergris (https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/sperm-whales-confirmed-as-the-origin-of-jetsam-ambergris-67065)
So, is Jetsom Ambergris (https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/sperm-whales-confirmed-as-the-origin-of-jetsam-ambergris-67065) a different thing then?I have only ever heard it called just plain ambergris. It is worth a fortune - so if you find a rock like thing on the beach and it floats you could be ten grand better off for a kilogram lump of whale poop/vomit. The jetsam bit just means it was floating debris that washed up on the beach and the whale lightened it’s load deliberately.
That's likely to trigger me too. Using the same fucking word for two different things. I pity anyone trying to learn English. :facepalm:
That the phrase "Lashings of ginger beer " does not appear in any Enid Blyton book.Isn’t it from “five go on an audax”
Bit like "Play it again, Sam".
Or, "You dirty rat "
..if you have Trebuchet on your machine, that is.
Evidence of parent-offspring bonding appears around 200 million years ago, in the latest Triassic and earliest Jurassic periods. Fossils of Kayentatherium, a Jurassic proto-mammal from Arizona, preserve a mother who died protecting her 38 tiny babies. For this behaviour to exist, the instincts of both mother and offspring first had to evolve.https://theconversation.com/the-origin-and-evolution-of-love-131109
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand?wprov=sfti1Many writings of the late 19th century used &c. For etcetera
“The ampersand is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters et-Latin for "and".[1]“
I did not know that (in bold) until today.
That claiming a false mileage when advertising a car, or on an MOT certificate is not a DVSA issue, it's trading standards. A very suspect low mileage and iffy progresssion on a car I saw online.
That claiming a false mileage when advertising a car, or on an MOT certificate is not a DVSA issue, it's trading standards. A very suspect low mileage and iffy progresssion on a car I saw online.
Aye, I looked into it after I had a speedometer failure in the last SAAB I had, basically at sale if you state clearly enough that it's not a genuine mileage then as seller you're covered.
The mileage stated on the MOT certificate is a function of what the car is displaying.
... if you sell a car privately and return the V5, then DVSA automatically refunds the tax, had a cheque in the post this morning.Yes, all very convenient. Now sit back and wait for the reminder to tax the car you have sold. See earlier rant/grumble.
The German for thimble is Fingerhut = Finger hat.
This is also their name for a foxglove flower.
Various isolated words of Swahili, the only one of which that's ever remotely likely to be any use to me is maji, water, but my favourite has to be imechekua, "the boss has taken it away". Probably rather pidgin...
That a EURion constellation is a pattern on some banknotes designed to stop you photocopying them.See also first direct cheques, at least in the good old days.
There is SCIENCE built into copiers, scanners etc that prevents them from scanning banknotes. Which is a pain if you want a picture of a fiver or a ten dollar bill for joke comedy purposes.
Recent research in US indicates Electrolytes are not that useful for Athletes.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/25/health/ultramarathons-electrolyte-drinks-wellness/index.html (https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/25/health/ultramarathons-electrolyte-drinks-wellness/index.html)
From 1871, GWR workers had a small amount deducted from their weekly pay and put into a healthcare fund; GWR doctors could prescribe them or their family members free medicines or send them for medical treatment. In 1878 the fund began providing artificial limbs made by craftsmen from the carriage and wagon works, and nine years later opened its first dental surgery. In his first few months in post the dentist extracted more than 2,000 teeth. From the opening in 1892 of the health centre, a doctor could also prescribe a haircut or even a bath. The cradle-to-grave extent of this service was later used as a blueprint for the NHS.
Also that there are two (or more?) types of infinity: one consisting of integers and one with fractions. This from a maths grad and software programmer-developer. This seems to me to contradict the idea of infinity.
Also that there are two (or more?) types of infinity: one consisting of integers and one with fractions. This from a maths grad and software programmer-developer. This seems to me to contradict the idea of infinity.
Also that there are two (or more?) types of infinity: one consisting of integers and one with fractions. This from a maths grad and software programmer-developer. This seems to me to contradict the idea of infinity.
The proofs of different infinities is something covered in set theory in first term of university undergraduate maths from memory. Wouldn't surprise me if some of this is taught at A level these days. Taught in the same few weeks you are taught the proof that there are an infinite number of prime numbers.
Also that there are two (or more?) types of infinity: one consisting of integers and one with fractions. This from a maths grad and software programmer-developer. This seems to me to contradict the idea of infinity.
The proofs of different infinities is something covered in set theory in first term of university undergraduate maths from memory. Wouldn't surprise me if some of this is taught at A level these days. Taught in the same few weeks you are taught the proof that there are an infinite number of prime numbers.
The one that gets me is that the infinite series of even integers is exactly the same size as the infinite series of all integers. Common sense says that one is twice as big as the other but it's easy to prove that that isn't so.
Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel (colloquial: Infinite Hotel Paradox or Hilbert's Hotel) is a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. It is demonstrated that a fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms may still accommodate additional guests, even infinitely many of them, and this process may be repeated infinitely often.I'd say (I expect most people would say) if it has infinitely many rooms, it can never be full. But at this point one or more of my minds has boggled an uncountable number of times. I am unendingly glad that there exist people who understand these concepts.
Also that there are two (or more?) types of infinity: one consisting of integers and one with fractions. This from a maths grad and software programmer-developer. This seems to me to contradict the idea of infinity.The integers and the fractions (the rational numbers) are both the same size - they are “countable”. The irrational numbers - like pi or square root of 2 - numbers that cannot be expressed as a fraction (where the top and bottom are integers) they are a “bigger” infinity.
Wow.QuoteHilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel (colloquial: Infinite Hotel Paradox or Hilbert's Hotel) is a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. It is demonstrated that a fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms may still accommodate additional guests, even infinitely many of them, and this process may be repeated infinitely often.I'd say (I expect most people would say) if it has infinitely many rooms, it can never be full. But at this point one or more of my minds has boggled an uncountable number of times. I am unendingly glad that there exist people who understand these concepts.
...there was also discussion of when numbers evolved, what we did before them and speculation that cave paintings were a form of counting (of bison etc).You might enjoy, "The Universal History of Numbers, From prehistory to the invention of the computer." by Georges Ifrah. No need to be a maths whizz.
I had forgotten that ibuprofen and paracetamol can be combined.Although ibuprofen is well understood, paracetamol is a bit of a mystery according to my daughter who knows about these things.
The year 4 med student who saw me today at the doctors wasn't wrong about the "it's kind of like a 2 + 2 = 5 thing"
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Wow.QuoteHilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel (colloquial: Infinite Hotel Paradox or Hilbert's Hotel) is a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. It is demonstrated that a fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms may still accommodate additional guests, even infinitely many of them, and this process may be repeated infinitely often.I'd say (I expect most people would say) if it has infinitely many rooms, it can never be full. But at this point one or more of my minds has boggled an uncountable number of times. I am unendingly glad that there exist people who understand these concepts.
I had forgotten that ibuprofen and paracetamol can be combined.
The year 4 med student who saw me today at the doctors wasn't wrong about the "it's kind of like a 2 + 2 = 5 thing"
See, if I'm in enough pain that codeine seems like a good idea, by the time I've taken enough of it to make a difference[1] I'm too stoned to do anything, stupid or otherwise. And still in pain, just less able to pay attention to it. It's basically a way to make time pass more quickly.It made my whole body tingle, I just loved the stuff. When my wife found out I was no longer taking it for the pain she chucked the lot out, had to go cold turkey.
Paracetamol only seems to function as an antipyretic. It does absolutely nothing for pain, to the point where I've wondered if people were making it up. It's mainly useful as the thing you have to take before they give you opioids.
I remain unsure about NSAIs. They don't seem to have any magic effects on joint pain, but that doesn't mean they aren't stopping it being worse. I've not had enough migraine to tell if ibuprofen helps make it go away any faster. Possibly helpful against drippy snot. My digestive system isn't a fan.
The only time I've been given Tramadol (post-operatively), I wasn't in pain. It made my face tingle.
Can't help feeling that I'm just bad at drugs...
[1] This isn't strictly true: I've found that if I take a small dose of codeine, it makes me pleasantly sleepy some 6-12 hours later as it wears off, which can be useful for things like neck spasms. It's not repeatable, though, as taking more stops the effect.
Round Britain Quiz has a lottoof answers for which the question still eludes me.
See, if I'm in enough pain that codeine seems like a good idea, by the time I've taken enough of it to make a difference[1] I'm too stoned to do anything, stupid or otherwise. And still in pain, just less able to pay attention to it. It's basically a way to make time pass more quickly.It made my whole body tingle, I just loved the stuff. When my wife found out I was no longer taking it for the pain she chucked the lot out, had to go cold turkey.
Paracetamol only seems to function as an antipyretic. It does absolutely nothing for pain, to the point where I've wondered if people were making it up. It's mainly useful as the thing you have to take before they give you opioids.
I remain unsure about NSAIs. They don't seem to have any magic effects on joint pain, but that doesn't mean they aren't stopping it being worse. I've not had enough migraine to tell if ibuprofen helps make it go away any faster. Possibly helpful against drippy snot. My digestive system isn't a fan.
The only time I've been given Tramadol (post-operatively), I wasn't in pain. It made my face tingle.
Can't help feeling that I'm just bad at drugs...
[1] This isn't strictly true: I've found that if I take a small dose of codeine, it makes me pleasantly sleepy some 6-12 hours later as it wears off, which can be useful for things like neck spasms. It's not repeatable, though, as taking more stops the effect.
Paracetamol seems as good as anything for me. Opiates don't seem to do much for pain but (see above), and NSAIDs are just a complete waste of time for me. These things can work so differently in different people and animals. We had a dog where NSAIDs seemed to be an overnight cure.
... Then I stubbed my toe.
Hamsterkauf is the German word for panic buying/hoarding ..... https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-scare-when-will-hamsterkauf-become-an-english-word/a-52635400 (https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-scare-when-will-hamsterkauf-become-an-english-word/a-52635400)
Paracetamol only seems to function as an antipyretic. It does absolutely nothing for pain, to the point where I've wondered if people were making it up. It's mainly useful as the thing you have to take before they give you opioids.
Paracetamol only seems to function as an antipyretic. It does absolutely nothing for pain, to the point where I've wondered if people were making it up. It's mainly useful as the thing you have to take before they give you opioids.
I realised when I was an Eight-Year-Old Grumpy Child with Toothache that paracetamol was useless and didn't work when Disprin did.
I've hardly touched paracetamol for myself since, in the ensuing 54 years.
I have prescribed it for Others, some of whom seem to be helped. I don't like the stuff; it's NASTY to the liver and pretty useless.
AspIrin and NSAIDs work for me. I've never had opioids.
People pay up to £45 for vintage Feu Orange car air fresheners.???
You'd have to take a lot of aspirin/ibuprofen to cause stomach or kidney problems, they're relatively safe, whereas even small overdoses of paracetamol can cause fatal hepatotoxicity.But there is increased risk if your kidneys are stressed already. ie doing exercise, leading to dehydration.
It was definitely something we were warned about when I did the marathon des sables.You'd have to take a lot of aspirin/ibuprofen to cause stomach or kidney problems, they're relatively safe, whereas even small overdoses of paracetamol can cause fatal hepatotoxicity.But there is increased risk if your kidneys are stressed already. ie doing exercise, leading to dehydration.
There have been several studies of ultrarunners taking ibuprofen. Seems to be a significantly increased chance of kidney problems.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/07/pain-reliever-linked-to-kidney-injury-in-endurance-runners.html
Voltarol is diclofenac, which is worse for gastric side effects than ibuprofen. No idea how it compares kidney-wise.
You'd have to take a lot of aspirin/ibuprofen to cause stomach or kidney problems, they're relatively safe, whereas even small overdoses of paracetamol can cause fatal hepatotoxicity.But there is increased risk if your kidneys are stressed already. ie doing exercise, leading to dehydration.
There have been several studies of ultrarunners taking ibuprofen. Seems to be a significantly increased chance of kidney problems.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/07/pain-reliever-linked-to-kidney-injury-in-endurance-runners.html
That's how they can pinpoint their prey, binocular hearing, if that makes sense.Binaural?
They also have extra bones in their necks, which allows that articulation.
#NationalNappingDay: juvenile snow owls often sleep face down on the ground because the weight of their heads means they can't sleep when perched.
This one, pictured in a Japanese wildlife park in 2017, may look like an ex-owl but he is only having a nap. HE IS NOT A DRUNK OWL!!
Same process by which we can tell if sounds are in front of us or behind us: Subtle differences in the frequency and phase due to the shape of the outer ear. Predators tend to have steerable ears and higher frequency response than humans, for better pinpointing of critters.
The really impressive thing about owls is their vestibular system...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6M-h5g3PwI
https://youtu.be/k6M-h5g3PwI
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESrYpfjWAAAI7ID?format=jpg&name=large)I ATEN’T DEAD!Quote#NationalNappingDay: juvenile snow owls often sleep face down on the ground because the weight of their heads means they can't sleep when perched.
This one, pictured in a Japanese wildlife park in 2017, may look like an ex-owl but he is only having a nap. HE IS NOT A DRUNK OWL!!
https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1237039268838682624
AIUI it’s not binaural hearing in the same way that most predators have, because there ears actually point up and down. This allows then to locate their prey in 3 dimensions apparently.That's how they can pinpoint their prey, binocular hearing, if that makes sense.Binaural?
They also have extra bones in their necks, which allows that articulation.
See also: ambidextrous sight.
That the green woodpecker's tongue is not only incredibly long, it is "back to front and upside down" in comparison with most animals.
(https://cdn.birdwatchingdaily.com/2013/12/Flicker-Tongue-660x403.jpg)
Swarfega was invented in 1947 by Audley Bowdler Williamson (28 February 1916 - 21 November 2004), an industrial chemist from Heanor, Derbyshire.[1][2] In 1941 he had founded a detergent-sales company, Deb Silkware Protection Ltd., based in Belper, to produce a formulation for extending the life of silk stockings.[3] The name derived from "debutante",[1] to signify the newness of the company and its products. The introduction of nylon stockings threatened to render it superfluous; however, Williamson purportedly suggested that mechanics had already found it useful for cleaning their hands. This may have been a myth encouraged to attract interest, but the product was reformulated and marketed as Swarfega, becoming the company's main product.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarfega (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarfega)
Swarfega started life as a product to clean silk stockings.QuoteSwarfega was invented in 1947 by Audley Bowdler Williamson (28 February 1916 - 21 November 2004), an industrial chemist from Heanor, Derbyshire.[1][2] In 1941 he had founded a detergent-sales company, Deb Silkware Protection Ltd., based in Belper, to produce a formulation for extending the life of silk stockings.[3] The name derived from "debutante",[1] to signify the newness of the company and its products. The introduction of nylon stockings threatened to render it superfluous; however, Williamson purportedly suggested that mechanics had already found it useful for cleaning their hands. This may have been a myth encouraged to attract interest, but the product was reformulated and marketed as Swarfega, becoming the company's main product.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarfega (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarfega)
Now that is odd as I have a 10litre container bought 40years ago which still has a small amount left which is fine. Slightly less viscous, probably from deliquescence but still works fine.Swarfega started life as a product to clean silk stockings.QuoteSwarfega was invented in 1947 by Audley Bowdler Williamson (28 February 1916 - 21 November 2004), an industrial chemist from Heanor, Derbyshire.[1][2] In 1941 he had founded a detergent-sales company, Deb Silkware Protection Ltd., based in Belper, to produce a formulation for extending the life of silk stockings.[3] The name derived from "debutante",[1] to signify the newness of the company and its products. The introduction of nylon stockings threatened to render it superfluous; however, Williamson purportedly suggested that mechanics had already found it useful for cleaning their hands. This may have been a myth encouraged to attract interest, but the product was reformulated and marketed as Swarfega, becoming the company's main product.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarfega (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarfega)
I learnt several years ago that swarfega can go off. A tub bought when I was a PSO and doing stuff on my own cars was required much, much later, taken out of the garage chemical box and found to have gone distinctly nasty
I learned what recrudescence means from Ian in the Coronavirus thread. Great word!
That Ham is anxious. ;)
https://dcf.psychiatry.ufl.edu/files/2011/05/HAMILTON-ANXIETY.pdf
I learned what recrudescence means from Ian in the Coronavirus thread. Great word!
I learned of its biological sense relatively recently, I had previously used it to refer to those colleagues who leave the mothership to much cheer in ian's heart and then, several months later, reappear in a different role yet with precisely the same set of incompetencies.
I learned what recrudescence means from Ian in the Coronavirus thread. Great word!
I learned of its biological sense relatively recently, I had previously used it to refer to those colleagues who leave the mothership to much cheer in ian's heart and then, several months later, reappear in a different role yet with precisely the same set of incompetencies.
I learned what recrudescence means from Ian in the Coronavirus thread. Great word!
I learned of its biological sense relatively recently, I had previously used it to refer to those colleagues who leave the mothership to much cheer in ian's heart and then, several months later, reappear in a different role yet with precisely the same set of incompetencies.
....that cycling is a bit like gunslinging, in the Wild West. No matter how fast you think you are, there is always someone faster.
Ned Boulting is the grandson of a chap called John Boulting. John and his twin brother Roy were well-known British film-makers of the 1940s to 60s. (Not that I'd ever heard of them.)
https://twitter.com/nedboulting/status/1254879604030033920
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulting_brothers
For verily I didst buy myself an Elementary Screwdriver No 1 for Christmas
https://tinkerandfix.co.uk/collections/elementary-screwdrivers
And the Lord declared that it was a Very Nice Thing Indeed.
First used in anger yesterday as I want to keep it looking nice. I may revise this policy.
I know of them, but wouldn't have put the two (three?) together
Bethany (10): | Amanuensis? U dirty fckr! I ent doin' none ov that! Well, not yet! |
Today I learnt the word contenary. I'm using it now because I'll probably never have another opportunity.
Where reinforced insulation cannot be provided, such as at low overbridges, a section of contact wire typically replaces the catenary. This minimises the chance of wire stranding in the event of a flashover. This cable is known as contenary.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/ocs4rail/download/Overhead-Line-Electrification-for-Railways-4th-edition.pdf
If you have a problem with ants in your house and you've run out of ant powder,
try some Milton Sterilising Fluid. I'm having some success using it from a spray
bottle.
Online suggestions of white vinegar or lemon juice didn't appear to work for me.
If you have a problem with ants in your house and you've run out of ant powder,
try some Milton Sterilising Fluid. I'm having some success using it from a spray
bottle.
Online suggestions of white vinegar or lemon juice didn't appear to work for me.
Roger Moore / James Bond stylee :thumbsup:If you have a problem with ants in your house and you've run out of ant powder,
try some Milton Sterilising Fluid. I'm having some success using it from a spray
bottle.
Online suggestions of white vinegar or lemon juice didn't appear to work for me.
My brother and I once re-routed an ant trail to attempt to spell a rude word using his can of Lynx Nevada. Unfortunately the ants got fed up and fucked off to where the Lynx wasn't before we finished.
Hair spray is also effective on ants, particularly when ignited.
Hair spray is also effective on ants, particularly when ignited.
If you have a problem with ants in your house and you've run out of ant powder,
try some Milton Sterilising Fluid. I'm having some success using it from a spray
bottle.
Online suggestions of white vinegar or lemon juice didn't appear to work for me.
And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish
I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...
If you have a problem with ants in your house and you've run out of ant powder,
try some Milton Sterilising Fluid. I'm having some success using it from a spray
bottle.
Online suggestions of white vinegar or lemon juice didn't appear to work for me.
I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...
And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish
I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...
Too expensive.If you have a problem with ants in your house and you've run out of ant powder,
try some Milton Sterilising Fluid. I'm having some success using it from a spray
bottle.
Online suggestions of white vinegar or lemon juice didn't appear to work for me.
Turmeric
Some ants are sweet
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2018/09/06/these-sweet-australian-ants-are-best-honey-youve-ever-tasted
Too expensive.If you have a problem with ants in your house and you've run out of ant powder,
try some Milton Sterilising Fluid. I'm having some success using it from a spray
bottle.
Online suggestions of white vinegar or lemon juice didn't appear to work for me.
Turmeric
Too expensive.If you have a problem with ants in your house and you've run out of ant powder,
try some Milton Sterilising Fluid. I'm having some success using it from a spray
bottle.
Online suggestions of white vinegar or lemon juice didn't appear to work for me.
Turmeric
Ok, what's the price?Too expensive.If you have a problem with ants in your house and you've run out of ant powder,
try some Milton Sterilising Fluid. I'm having some success using it from a spray
bottle.
Online suggestions of white vinegar or lemon juice didn't appear to work for me.
Turmeric
Depends where you are and where you get it from. In-law, Leicester, Belgrave Gate etc
Ant powder and wasp nest powder are (well certainly we're a few years back) the same product in different packaging. A few years ago working in a store that sold both hsd run out of wasp nest destroyer powder and had a pest controller show us the back of the packaging and indeed they were the same
What an adverbiswas.
What an adverbiswas.
FTFY. They're dying out.
Coincidentally, my 'seen today' object was, between two parked cars on a side street, the following items: a round metal tin, such as contains biscuits or sweets, a mangled tea spoon and two hypodermic syringes. And I saw this after thinking to myself that the bloke two places ahead of me in the bakery queue looked like an homage to Lynnyrd Skynnyrd* (no actual connection between said bloke and aforesaid objects).
*Or however you spell that name.
And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish
I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...
Talk about your defence back-firing!And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish
I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...
And by the Cambridge Distillery for making gin. :thumbsup:
https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/anty-gin
A bit expensive if you do not like it. £220!!!Talk about your defence back-firing!And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish
I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...
And by the Cambridge Distillery for making gin. :thumbsup:
https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/anty-gin
That the full name of Tom Petty's keyboard player is Benjamin Montmorency Tench III, which thus beats Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV* for the title of Ponciest Name in Rock.Surely that title goes to Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno?
* aka Black Francis
A bit expensive if you do not like it. £220!!!Talk about your defence back-firing!And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish
I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...
And by the Cambridge Distillery for making gin. :thumbsup:
https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/anty-gin
That the full name of Tom Petty's keyboard player is Benjamin Montmorency Tench III, which thus beats Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV* for the title of Ponciest Name in Rock.Surely that title goes to Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno?
* aka Black Francis
And formic acid has a pleasantly citrus flavour. Ants are used by Brazilian Indians as a way of flavouring fish
I'm not sure why ants would be bothered by acetic & citric acid given they produce formic...
And by the Cambridge Distillery for making gin. :thumbsup:
https://cambridgedistillery.co.uk/collections/gin/products/anty-gin
The St. John le Baptiste de la Salle was added later.
EDIT. Was added on his confirmation.
That there is a real place called Skygate. Unfortunately, instead of being a portal into another dimension, it's an East Midlands warehouse for a group of tat-driven debt-mongers.
https://www.business-live.co.uk/retail-consumer/take-exclusive-look-inside-shop-17063309
https://theverygroup.jobs/locations/distribution-centres
That “tentacle porn” is a thing.
The Tendril Tendency? Or maybe Tentacles with Testicles (should that be Testicles with Tentacles?)That “tentacle porn” is a thing.
Hence the best "This article is about..." line on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendril_perversion
That “tentacle porn” is a thing.
Hence the best "This article is about..." line on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendril_perversion
You know the wee card US prezzes carry around, the one with a bunch of codes on that identify them for nuclear Armageddon purposes? Bill Clinton lost his, and Jimmy Carter's supposedly went to the cleaners in a suit pocket.Doesn't surprise me in the least. Question is; do the older presidents get large print versions? :)
You know the wee card US prezzes carry around, the one with a bunch of codes on that identify them for nuclear Armageddon purposes? Bill Clinton lost his, and Jimmy Carter's supposedly went to the cleaners in a suit pocket.Doesn't surprise me in the least. Question is; do the older presidents get large print versions? :)
When cutting a length of wood to act as a paint stirrer, with the paint poured into a plastic ice-cream tub, make sure the stirrer is not just longer than the longer edge of the ice-cream tub, but also longer than the diagonal. Or even the 3-D opposite corner diagonal. Just to be sure.:-)
When cutting a length of wood to act as a paint stirrer, with the paint poured into a plastic ice-cream tub, make sure the stirrer is not just longer than the longer edge of the ice-cream tub, but also longer than the diagonal. Or even the 3-D opposite corner diagonal. Just to be sure.I am not sure if it is still the case but it used to be that the Royal Mail maximum parcel size was 3 feet in any one dimension, so you could send a 3ft cube but not a 5 foot broom handle ... unless you packed it down the long diagonal of a 3ft cube box.
Does the groom have to keep his eyes shut?
Pre-wedding photoshoots are a thing.Unfortunately not...
Presumably this is a way of getting all those tiresome wedding pics done without having it spoil the day itself.
The french word for pollard is tadpole.
Têtard (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAtard) Têtard (http://www.oncfs.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Arbres-tetards-ONCFS-Focus.pdf)
I love this.
That despite buying a whiskey under their label, my wife has no idea what a Pogue is, or any recollection of Fairy Tale of New York, so I've just played it, all
For some reason, tonight I wondered if there was such a thing as a welsh sign language.
BSL is extremely regional, so people in Sheffield use lots of different signs than say Doncaster a few miles away.
When cutting a length of wood to act as a paint stirrer, with the paint poured into a plastic ice-cream tub, make sure the stirrer is not just longer than the longer edge of the ice-cream tub, but also longer than the diagonal. Or even the 3-D opposite corner diagonal. Just to be sure.aka 'body diagonal'.
Pete Shelley was inspired to write Ever Fallen In Love by a line in Guys & Dolls.I heard that too. Now trying to work it into what is officially the longest listener-generated, thematically-linked sequence of musically-based items on the radio.
BSL is extremely regional, so people in Sheffield use lots of different signs than say Doncaster a few miles away.
Northern Irish Sign Language is also sometimes recognised as being even more dialectically different from the rest - not sure why, whether more ISL influence or something else.
Pete Shelley was inspired to write Ever Fallen In Love by a line in Guys & Dolls.I heard that too. Now trying to work it into what is officially the longest listener-generated, thematically-linked sequence of musically-based items on the radio.
BSL is extremely regional, so people in Sheffield use lots of different signs than say Doncaster a few miles away.
Northern Irish Sign Language is also sometimes recognised as being even more dialectically different from the rest - not sure why, whether more ISL influence or something else.
Thanks. Dialects hadn't occurred to me, but I don't think there is any reason why they wouldn't develop. That's rather interesting.
Blimey. I don't think I've ever listened to the whole album. What have I been doing for the past 77 years?Pete Shelley was inspired to write Ever Fallen In Love by a line in Guys & Dolls.I heard that too. Now trying to work it into what is officially the longest listener-generated, thematically-linked sequence of musically-based items on the radio.
Bzzzt! Repetition...
https://www.thechain.uk/590-buzzcocks-ever-fallen-in-love-with-someone-you-shouldntve/
(Had to check to be sure, but it would have been a major oversight if they'd never had it yet.)
Must admit that I've not listened to Love Bites in its entirety for some years, but it is an abso-fucking-lutely awesome album. Cranked it up to 11 and pogoed round the kitchen while making dinner.
Youtube has a "1996 remastered" version of Just Lust. It's... wrong...Blimey. I don't think I've ever listened to the whole album. What have I been doing for the past 77 years?Pete Shelley was inspired to write Ever Fallen In Love by a line in Guys & Dolls.I heard that too. Now trying to work it into what is officially the longest listener-generated, thematically-linked sequence of musically-based items on the radio.
Bzzzt! Repetition...
https://www.thechain.uk/590-buzzcocks-ever-fallen-in-love-with-someone-you-shouldntve/
(Had to check to be sure, but it would have been a major oversight if they'd never had it yet.)
Must admit that I've not listened to Love Bites in its entirety for some years, but it is an abso-fucking-lutely awesome album. Cranked it up to 11 and pogoed round the kitchen while making dinner.
Do you use the traditional greeting "or-roight"?That might be what other people hear... ;)
Do you use the traditional greeting "or-roight"?
Do you use the traditional greeting "or-roight"?
Not yet, though I fear it may only be a matter of time. I've stopped replying to it with "Not bad, how are you?" or similar.
By Mr Childish I believe?
i have learned about a song called Medway Wheelers.SiD!
Also I learned that chocolate digestives are marked in France under the slogan "C'est Anglais, mais c'est bon!" ("It's English, but it's good")...
whereas someone I know whose daughter recently obtained a position in a prestigious German orchestra tells me the joke there is that 'The English don't have music'. Probably works better in some shouty hard German sentence"but they absolutely love the noise it makes."?
whereas someone I know whose daughter recently obtained a position in a prestigious German orchestra tells me the joke there is that 'The English don't have music'. Probably works better in some shouty hard German sentence
Accents are funny things you often can't hear in yourself but can pass on. I remember a Japanese girl in NZ asking me what currency we use in Britain. When she repeated 'pound' back to me, I could hear a Gloucestershire accent...
Anyways, a thing I've learnt today is the word 'perfusion'. A less interesting but, unfortunately, more directly applicable thing, is the New York 11 (a sugar contract).
I have no idea what my accent is after fifteen years trying to avoid getting webbed feet, but if I go back to the west country, there is a definite change over the course of a weekend
I have no idea what my accent is after fifteen years trying to avoid getting webbed feet, but if I go back to the west country, there is a definite change over the course of a weekend
Sorry Dave, you have to be born in the Fens to have webbed feet. I should know.... (A Bostonian)
And whilst my accent has softened after 40 years in Cheshire, my farm manager brother's Lincolnshire accent seems to get ever stronger.
The scene involves a bicycle IIRC.
the English name "booby" was possibly based on the Spanish slang term bobo, meaning "stupid" as these tame birds had a habit of landing on board sailing ships, where they were easily captured and eaten.
Janet Parker was the last person to die of smallpox. It was 1978, and Parker was a medical photographer at the Birmingham University Medical School in England and worked one floor above the Medical Microbiology Department where smallpox research was being conducted. She became ill on August 11 and developed a rash on August 15 but was not diagnosed with smallpox until 9 days later. She died on September 11, 1978. Her mother, who was providing care for her, developed smallpox on September 7, despite having been vaccinated on August 24. An investigation performed afterward suggested that Janet Parker had been infected either via an airborne route through the medical school building’s duct system or by direct contact while visiting the microbiology corridor one floor above.https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html#:
That the German for 'Great tit' is Kohlmeise, which translates literally to English as 'Coal tit'. The German for 'Coal tit' is Tannenmeise which literally translates to English as 'Fir tit'.
The coal tit used to be called the Kohlmeiß or Kleine Kohl-Maise and the great tit either Spiegelmeiß ('multicolored tit'), Brandtmeiß ('burnt tit') or Grosse Meiß ('great tit').
Completely unrelated, the Booby (the gannet-like bird) is, in German, Tölpel, which can also mean 'idiot', 'foolish person' or 'booby'. I'm not sure if the English 'Booby', meaning idiot, came after the bird since,Quotethe English name "booby" was possibly based on the Spanish slang term bobo, meaning "stupid" as these tame birds had a habit of landing on board sailing ships, where they were easily captured and eaten.
Oh, hippy stylings.
Tidy Hair™ is a virtue of a number 1 all over, and a number 3 on the Beard of Authority℠. There's a bit of finesse required to blend the sideburns and transition from beard to hair, but I have well-practised wrist movements. Then number zero around the back of the neck and trim of the moustache to prevent filter feeding. Then the magic twirly trimmer on the nose and eyebrows, and a sweep of the double razor around the throat to tidy the bottom edges.
Learnt how to do the Rubik's cube today. Something that had been on my to do list for almost 40 years. When I was a kid, my older brother read a book and learnt how to do it, and I always assumed I would do it one day. All it took was 40 years, a global pandemic with lockdown, and more importantly a search on YouTube and 40 minutes spent watching a video. Luckily it's a skill that can impress my toddler
Learnt how to do the Rubik's cube today. Something that had been on my to do list for almost 40 years. When I was a kid, my older brother read a book and learnt how to do it, and I always assumed I would do it one day. All it took was 40 years, a global pandemic with lockdown, and more importantly a search on YouTube and 40 minutes spent watching a video. Luckily it's a skill that can impress my toddler
Is it that easy?
I've been keeping an unlicensed breeding population of Canadians behind the garage for years. What's the fine for that?
In Alberta, possession of an unlicensed rat can earn you a fine of $5000 or sixty days in gaol.
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?
:facepalm:
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).
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.??? I don't doubt that this is true but ???
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?
:facepalm:
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?
:facepalm:
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?
:facepalm:
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?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?
:facepalm:
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.
Googling suggests corn oil has a density of around 90% that of water. You'll get around 10% more corn oil that you should.I think the instructions mention this. Would it be much out?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?
:facepalm:
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.
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?
:facepalm:
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?
:facepalm:
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... :facepalm:
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.
That’s enough to affect the outcome. Shan’t ditch the measuring jug yet then.
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.
A bit much to file out - would weaken it a lot.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.
Hmm, IME 14mm is fairly unusual, I'd have filed it out 17 :demon:
Mayonnaise can become sauce verte, a green sauce made with mayonnaise with parsley and spinach; sauce gribiche, mayonnaise with hard cooked eggs, French sour gherkins, capers and shallots; sauce tartare, mayonnaise with parsley, chives, chervil and sour pickles (etc etc)
I've lived in London most of my life, and consider myself to be something of a Londonista, but I've only just now found out that the box-like stainless steel structure in the middle of what was the E&C roundabout is a memorial to Michael Faraday (who was born nearby in Newington Butts) and (most appropriately) contains an electricity sub-station for London Underground.
Oddly, I know about the Faraday thing, but that's because our guide on one of those Hidden London things told us rather than it being anything obvious.
...London College of Printing (now called the London College of Communication)...
That WD40 lifts oil of a carpet!
We had a new patio laid and I must have walked through some oil by mistake. Footprints all over the kitchen carpet and into the hall. A little bit of googling and up came WD40. It was literally amazing. A spray of WD40, rub with a cloth and the oil just lifted out of the carpet.
I think my dwarfed went walk about in the move. Also needs more washing out. This was literally spray and wipe
That the word 'Dord', with the definition 'Density', was printed in Merriam's New International Dictionary from 1934 for 7 years. A lexicographer had sent a slip reading 'D or d, cont./density' indicating that 'Density' should be added to the list of words that could be abbreviated by upper or lower case 'D'.
A ghost word rather than a mountweazel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry)
See the post above mine...
It's not even someone's name so there is no excuse.
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly was a prequel. So what did Clint do with the money?
It's not even someone's name so there is no excuse.
I can't believe that's an accident.
I used to think Sandy Balls (as in the New Forest holiday resort) was a comedy made-up name but apparently it's genuine and dates back hundreds of years.
That "avocado" derives from the Aztec word for "testicle" and that "guacamole" means "testicle sauce"".
That "avocado" derives from the Aztec word for "testicle" and that "guacamole" means "testicle sauce"".
That Irish people still use "quid" as a slang term for their currency even now it's the euro. I wonder if similar nation-specific terms (I don't know what they would be) are still used elsewhere in euroland?
AIUI theThat Irish people still use "quid" as a slang term for their currency even now it's the euro. I wonder if similar nation-specific terms (I don't know what they would be) are still used elsewhere in euroland?
Germans use “pfund” to refer to 500g.
Klaus says they might say „Zahle ich auf Helle und Pfennig zurück „ which are two old forms of money.
He says they might also say „Mark“ for something.
Do halides share the same etymological root?Klaus says they might say „Zahle ich auf Helle und Pfennig zurück „ which are two old forms of money.
He says they might also say „Mark“ for something.
I remember groschen being used for a 10 pfennig piece.
Having learnt German and lived* in various Germanies in pre-euro days I have been known to instinctively use 'Mark' for 'Euro' when speaking German.
*including 2 months in Schwäbisch Hall, which was a town so rich** it had its own coin, the Häller. hence the Heller in the Czech Republic, Austro-Hungary, German East Africa etc.
** because of salt - cf Bad Reichenhall in Bavaria (where salt is produced) and 'halen' - Welsh for salt.
I remember groschen being used for a 10 pfennig piece.
I remember groschen being used for a 10 pfennig piece.
I remember 1 Austrian schilling being made up of 100 groschen, with a 10 groschen coin being an incredibly flimsy piece of aluminum (sorry, aluminium). I'm pretty sure the 10 groschen piece was as small as Austrian coinage got.
Ah, yes, me saying Francs instead of Euros in Corsica in 2006. The Euro had only been in use for ~7 years in my defence ::-)
Klaus says they might say „Zahle ich auf Helle und Pfennig zurück „ which are two old forms of money.
He says they might also say „Mark“ for something.
I remember groschen being used for a 10 pfennig piece.
Having learnt German and lived* in various Germanies in pre-euro days I have been known to instinctively use 'Mark' for 'Euro' when speaking German.
*including 2 months in Schwäbisch Hall, which was a town so rich** it had its own coin, the Häller. hence the Heller in the Czech Republic, Austro-Hungary, German East Africa etc.
** because of salt - cf Bad Reichenhall in Bavaria (where salt is produced) and 'halen' - Welsh for salt.
I don't recall the 1 rupee coin being particularly flimsy, but they might have changed it in the last ten years. It was still in normal circulation then and sometimes prices even went down to the last 50 paise, though you virtually never saw a 50 paise coin. Certainly the 1 rupee was nowhere near as flimsy as some of the Polish coins from the late 80s or early 90s which I've handled but never used. They were aluminium and felt as if they might even be hollow.
I remember groschen being used for a 10 pfennig piece.
I remember 1 Austrian schilling being made up of 100 groschen, with a 10 groschen coin being an incredibly flimsy piece of aluminum (sorry, aluminium). I'm pretty sure the 10 groschen piece was as small as Austrian coinage got.
I still have a few of those in my random foreign coin box, along with guilders, Belgian and French francs, pesetas, lira, escudos, rupees, Saudi riyals...
The closest I have in flimsiness would be the Indian one rupee, which seems more symbolic than anything. When you give money as a gift its bad form apparently to give 100 rupees as an example, considered too exact, so there is an industry in producing these coins to allow gifts of 101 rupees.
Most Indians even do it in this country, an envelope with fifty quid and one rupee etc.
Blackjacks a farthing each ;D
Jeez - you must be really old ;)Blackjacks a farthing each ;D
As a child I actually bought one blackjack with a farthing coin.
Jeez - you must be really old ;)Blackjacks a farthing each ;D
As a child I actually bought one blackjack with a farthing coin.
UK folk still talk shillings and bob and stuff... And that's nearly 50 yrs ago now.I was at the Weald and Downland open air museum today. The woman explaining the Victorian Railwayman's cottage told me that the rent would have been twenty five pence back in the 1890s. Maybe it was my Boyish Good Looks that made her think I wouldn't understand what five shillings were.
Blackjacks a farthing each ;D
As a child I actually bought one blackjack with a farthing coin.
Jeez - you must be really old ;)
It would appear so.
A million years ago, I was hitch hiking around Italy with the previous holder of the title 'Ms B' . The rate of exchange at that time was 1700 L to the £.
We loved a second hand car lot where the price went all the way across the windscreen and then down the side of the vehicle, almost to the back. I'm sure I have a picture somewhere, but I can't find it atm..
Maybe in the biscuit box in the loft n son's house in Bournville.
In pre-Euro Italy was there a unit of currency smaller than the Lira?I remember getting change for values of a not many Lira in the form of a handful of sweeties. That was in 1979.
A million years ago, I was hitch hiking around Italy with the previous holder of the title 'Ms B' . The rate of exchange at that time was 1700 L to the £.
We loved a second hand car lot where the price went all the way across the windscreen and then down the side of the vehicle, almost to the back. I'm sure I have a picture somewhere, but I can't find it atm..
Maybe in the biscuit box in the loft n son's house in Bournville.
4+ GALLONS of petrol for £1 when I first started driving (it was 4/10d in old parlance, per gallon) - and a brand new Austin Mini de luxe cost £515/12/6d.
. . . . and when Watneys Red Barrel passed two shillings a pint we boycotted it for a while.
UK folk still talk shillings and bob and stuff... And that's nearly 50 yrs ago now.But only IME as a joke or as (see above) reminiscence.
I remember in 1978 getting small denomination notes as change in Milan, and getting a shake of the head when I tried to spend them in Naples. Local money for local people.In pre-Euro Italy was there a unit of currency smaller than the Lira?I remember getting change for values of a not many Lira in the form of a handful of sweeties. That was in 1979.
UK folk still talk shillings and bob and stuff... And that's nearly 50 yrs ago now.But only IME as a joke or as (see above) reminiscence.
UK folk still talk shillings and bob and stuff... And that's nearly 50 yrs ago now.But only IME as a joke or as (see above) reminiscence.
one and six meaning some medium amount of money...
My mum was 30. She did occasionally say things like "That's 10 bob in old money!" but only to exclaim over price. I don't remember my dad ever doing this. Though my parents did have a chair they called "the half crown chair" because that's how much it had cost them (2/6d). In fact, I think my sister has it now and I'm sure she calls it that too! My introduction to pre-decimal money was not my parents but the Just William books.UK folk still talk shillings and bob and stuff... And that's nearly 50 yrs ago now.But only IME as a joke or as (see above) reminiscence.
You've not met my mother have you? She was about 20 at decimalisation...
She still talks about 10 bob (meaning 10 quid now) and one and six meaning some medium amount of money...
UK folk still talk shillings and bob and stuff... And that's nearly 50 yrs ago now.But only IME as a joke or as (see above) reminiscence.
You've not met my mother have you? She was about 20 at decimalisation...
She still talks about 10 bob (meaning 10 quid now) and one and six meaning some medium amount of money...
In pre-Euro Italy was there a unit of currency smaller than the Lira?I remember getting change for values of a not many Lira in the form of a handful of sweeties. That was in 1979.
I started school in 1968 and thus learned elements of pre-decimalisation and post decimalisation: money, weights and measures.
I was 23 at the time of decimalisation but still think of some stuff in old money - usually in horror, making a price comparison with then and now!
Not sure I follow this. Do you mean that under this plan, one New Pound would have been worth half an Old Pound? Or the Pound would have remained the same but would have been split into ten shillings, effectively introducing a New Shilling worth 2 Old Shillings? If so, what would have happened to the penny? 10 New Pence to 1 New Shilling?UK folk still talk shillings and bob and stuff... And that's nearly 50 yrs ago now.But only IME as a joke or as (see above) reminiscence.
You've not met my mother have you? She was about 20 at decimalisation...
She still talks about 10 bob (meaning 10 quid now) and one and six meaning some medium amount of money...
I was 23 at the time of decimalisation but still think of some stuff in old money - usually in horror, making a price comparison with then and now!
Before we moved to decimal there was some discussion that we should have a "10/- pound" - i.e. split a pound into 2 top level units of currency - which is what they, I think, did in Australia when they move to decimal and the Oz dollar. Given that the new (split) unit would have been the equivalent of 120d (old pence) with 100p (new pence) and thus much closer to the "penny" unit then the price increases and inflation that we saw immediaetly post-decimal may have been lessened?
Not sure I follow this. Do you mean that under this plan, one New Pound would have been worth half an Old Pound? Or the Pound would have remained the same but would have been split into ten shillings, effectively introducing a New Shilling worth 2 Old Shillings? If so, what would have happened to the penny? 10 New Pence to 1 New Shilling?UK folk still talk shillings and bob and stuff... And that's nearly 50 yrs ago now.But only IME as a joke or as (see above) reminiscence.
You've not met my mother have you? She was about 20 at decimalisation...
She still talks about 10 bob (meaning 10 quid now) and one and six meaning some medium amount of money...
I was 23 at the time of decimalisation but still think of some stuff in old money - usually in horror, making a price comparison with then and now!
Before we moved to decimal there was some discussion that we should have a "10/- pound" - i.e. split a pound into 2 top level units of currency - which is what they, I think, did in Australia when they move to decimal and the Oz dollar. Given that the new (split) unit would have been the equivalent of 120d (old pence) with 100p (new pence) and thus much closer to the "penny" unit then the price increases and inflation that we saw immediaetly post-decimal may have been lessened?
The we have fewer genes than an onion. And that onions have deodorising properties.
The word “lum” :thumbsup:
Prepare for R Bardet to get very confused…
That my daughter, who is 43, has had grapheme-colour synaesthesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme%E2%80%93color_synesthesia) since she was small. She never mentioned it to us before. She said that it's great for spotting errors in spreadsheets, but not what you'd put in your CV.
The word “lum” :thumbsup:
That the first 6 digits of a 16 digit cc number represent country, brand and type of card.
Intruigued by the payments by QR code statement...Seems to be quite popular in China, especially with Alipay. The shop displays a QR code, then you scan that with the Alipay app on your phone. That will send the payment to them.
That my daughter, who is 43, has had grapheme-colour synaesthesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme%E2%80%93color_synesthesia) since she was small. She never mentioned it to us before. She said that it's great for spotting errors in spreadsheets, but not what you'd put in your CV.
One of my many children has this. I found out one day when he was about 8 or 9 and told us that 2 is orange, and was quite bemused that we didn’t all see numbers etc like this. He doesn’t really mention it much (he’s 16 now) so I’m not sure how it effects his day to day life. I’ll have to question him again soon. One day. Maybe.
The full article is here! https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200821/p2a/00m/0bu/025000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200821/p2a/00m/0bu/025000c)
Apparently Japan is running out of credit card numbers with the COVID-driven shift from cash to credit cards.
Since the population is less than 120 million, how do larger countries cope?
I think payment by QR code is used at some parking machines in UK?
From trying to decipher a client's procedure I now know how to count to 3 in Bahasa,Don't know, but it's interesting to see the similarity to Indo-European numbers.
Not sure why the client's numbering goes satu, dua, tiga, 9 though?
Worth spreading about, how come I knew none of that before?
Worth spreading about, how come I knew none of that before?
AFAIK, he does it because it seems to him both the right thing to do and decent business sense - it's no secret, but he doesn't seek out publicity for it.
I've learned about Timpsons, the high street cobbler/repair shop, and their owner,I learnt some of that from his appearance on Desert Island Discs.
Stuff like they will dry clean an unemployed person's clothes for free, no proof required
https://www.timpson.co.uk/services/dry-cleaners/dry-cleaning-unemployed-interview
John Timpson, the founder, has fostered 90 kids
https://www.nfa.co.uk/story/blog-news/fostering-spotlight-interview-with-sir-john-timpson/
They are one of the largest ex offender employers in the UK
https://www.timpson-group.co.uk/timpson-foundation/ex-offenders/
Worth spreading about, how come I knew none of that before?
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.
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.
TY :thumbsup: :-[ :-[
That the best way to get my waterbutts filled is to order a new barbequeueueueueueue on the interweb;D ;D ;D
How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo
How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo
:thumbsup:
I never get tired of seeing these kind of videos. So much random cleverness goes into even the simplest everyday items.
"Jam station" is going to be word of the day.
How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo
:thumbsup:
I never get tired of seeing these kind of videos. So much random cleverness goes into even the simplest everyday items.
How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo
:thumbsup:
I never get tired of seeing these kind of videos. So much random cleverness goes into even the simplest everyday items.
Whereas it made me wonder what happened to all the people.
How Jaffa Cakes are made
https://youtu.be/zYoVeJGkRRo
:thumbsup:
I never get tired of seeing these kind of videos. So much random cleverness goes into even the simplest everyday items.
Whereas it made me wonder what happened to all the people.
It's in the Jaffa cake factory video."Jam station" is going to be word of the day.
What is that - trains that won't work today but will tomorrow if we just have faith in the revolution?
It's in the Jaffa cake factory video."Jam station" is going to be word of the day.
What is that - trains that won't work today but will tomorrow if we just have faith in the revolution?
The chief examiner of the SEC said that the agricultural science exam had been undermined by the level of online cogging
That Sappho was a poet (courtesy of my wife).
I dunno. If you'd asked me I'd have said "poet" first.That Sappho was a poet (courtesy of my wife).
Yet all she's ever remembered for is... proof if ever it were needed that history is written by men.
Are there any more of these social media dumpsters lurking that I should be aware of and carefully avoid please?Hmmm, perhaps a much shorter and very much more useful list would be those sites that are worth peoples' time and effort?
(the pencils are flat so they don't roll off the bench)
Oh, is that why the pencils are flat?
(the pencils are flat so they don't roll off the bench)
^This is what I have learned today.Oh, is that why the pencils are flat?
I mean, it's bllindingly obvious now he mentions it, but I never managed to work it out before.
(the pencils are flat so they don't roll off the bench)
^This is what I have learned today.Oh, is that why the pencils are flat?
I mean, it's bllindingly obvious now he mentions it, but I never managed to work it out before.
I have learned that there is a social media "thing" called nextdoor. I have also learned that it is not worth my time and effort to join it due to the inane drivel and petty bickering that pervades it's pages.
Thank you YACF for saving me from this. Are there any more of these social media dumpsters lurking that I should be aware of and carefully avoid please? 🙂
Parler: Cesspit of the far right.
The question is, why are the rest of them round?
The question is, why are the rest of them round?
Have you tried picking your nose with a flat pencil? Hmmm?
The question is, why are the rest of them round?
Have you tried picking your nose with a flat pencil? Hmmm?
And you can't reset TV's M Rendall to factory settings with a flat one. We've tried.
(the pencils are flat so they don't roll off the bench)
^This is what I have learned today.Oh, is that why the pencils are flat?
I mean, it's bllindingly obvious now he mentions it, but I never managed to work it out before.
The question is, why are the rest of them round? Especially when you think that traditional school desks, writing-slopes and pro drawing-boards are all tilted.
The question is, why are the rest of them round?
Have you tried picking your nose with a flat pencil? Hmmm?
And you can't reset TV's M Rendall to factory settings with a flat one. We've tried.
I suspect because you cannot get a fine precision grip as easily for hand writing and drawing.
Reddit: a forum for people who can't be bothered to join forums.
LinkedIn: Like Facebook but all your friends work in recruitment and you don't care if they die (knicked off of the wireless)I have learned that there is a social media "thing" called nextdoor. I have also learned that it is not worth my time and effort to join it due to the inane drivel and petty bickering that pervades it's pages.
Thank you YACF for saving me from this. Are there any more of these social media dumpsters lurking that I should be aware of and carefully avoid please? 🙂
LinkedIn: Spamming system for recruitment types.
Germans use “pfund” to refer to 500g.
The question is, why are the rest of them round?
Have you tried picking your nose with a flat pencil? Hmmm?
Kids these days get rubber grips put on the pencils
Germans use “pfund” to refer to 500g.
The Dutch do something similar.
When they went metric, they converted the terms from pre metric times, ~450g for a pound makes pfund of 500g sensible. With the ounce tho, rather than taking the 28.3g ounce and making it say, 25g, they went for 100g.
Must have made for some interesting conversations, particularly in shops.
Germans use “pfund” to refer to 500g.
The Dutch do something similar.
When they went metric, they converted the terms from pre metric times, ~450g for a pound makes pfund of 500g sensible.
With the ounce tho, rather than taking the 28.3g ounce and making it say, 25g, they went for 100g.That is bizarre. Still, I guess it's no more bizarre than the hundredweight/centner/quintal, which seems to vary between 100lbs, 112lbs, 100kg and 50kg depending on location, decade, trade...
Germans use “pfund” to refer to 500g.
The Dutch do something similar.
When they went metric, they converted the terms from pre metric times, ~450g for a pound makes pfund of 500g sensible. With the ounce tho, rather than taking the 28.3g ounce and making it say, 25g, they went for 100g.
Ditto here, half a kilo is a livre. I'll have a book of sausages, please.
ISTR, not that I was there, that after the metric system was formally adopted by the state, traders who persisted in using the old measurements could be executed. Napoleon was a bit of a bastardat times.
I never understood the anti-metric thing.
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It's almost like they're the province of the really fucking stupid.
These people think “irony” is an adjective.Lovely! :D
I never understood the anti-metric thing. It's a few minutes to learn that there's about two pounds in a kilo and the better part of two pints in a litre. Job done, you've learned a set of simple and easy-to-use units, rather than cubic bloody hogsheads per furlong.
It's almost like they're the province of the really fucking stupid.
I never understood the anti-metric thing. It's a few minutes to learn that there's about two pounds in a kilo and the better part of two pints in a litre. Job done, you've learned a set of simple and easy-to-use units, rather than cubic bloody hogsheads per furlong.
It's almost like they're the province of the really fucking stupid.
In principle yes - BUT actually visualising, say 15cm, is harder for us older folk that grew up with feet and inches . . .I'm getting better at it now - just need to work on my understanding of the new decimal currency ;D ;D ;D
That said with metric - I worked in the printing industry in the 60s and 70s and it was a fairly early adopter of metric measurements and the A sizes for work, as well as the "grammes per square metre" method of describing paper weight (that's "gsm" or more correctly "gm2") - before that there were arcane paper sizes that signified the weight in lbs (pounds) for 500 sheets (e.g. Large Post 21 lbs; Demy 17 lbs ... and the classic size - reserved for drawing paper/plans of Double Elephant ... that's 27 x 40 inches)
BTW - it's 10 chains to the furlong (a chain being 22 yards and the length of a cricket pitch) :thumbsup: Hogsheads were a measure of beer, among other things.
I never understood the anti-metric thing. It's a few minutes to learn that there's about two pounds in a kilo and the better part of two pints in a litre. Job done, you've learned a set of simple and easy-to-use units, rather than cubic bloody hogsheads per furlong.
It's almost like they're the province of the really fucking stupid.
One of the annoyances of having two systems is that things like tape measures are made worse because they are a compromise. A tape measure with both units will naturally read in one unit when reading from the left and the other when reading from the right. Electronic scales have a button to put them in the other units, that is just as easy to press as the on/off or tare button.
Also see rants passim about digital displays that indicate in one unit but the calculation behind them is rounded to another unit.
I still find it easier to say "it's 200 yards" for when giving rough distances such as in directions "How far's the pub?" "couple hundred yards!". When a Dutch friend asked wtf a yard is, I just said...it's like a garden without any grass. :D
My wife's phone started spaffling about '300 yards to the next junction' the other week till I hit it with the metric stick. Neither of us have any idea how long a yard is.
This follows on from a sci-fi book I read a few months back where the author kept using imperial measures. I really don't think feet (I imagine they're as long as actual feet, though that seems a variable standardization, we all know some people have bigger feet than other people) are going to be current in the 25th century.
Yes, but when reading from one side, the scale facing the user changes depending on whether the start of the tape is to the left or to the right.One of the annoyances of having two systems is that things like tape measures are made worse because they are a compromise. A tape measure with both units will naturally read in one unit when reading from the left and the other when reading from the right. Electronic scales have a button to put them in the other units, that is just as easy to press as the on/off or tare button.
Erm, don't all tape measures read from the same end? Even all my rules, which are dual system tend to read from one end only...
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Also see rants passim about digital displays that indicate in one unit but the calculation behind them is rounded to another unit.
Not a major issue, as long as it's done properly, without allowing floating point to make it all random. Many programmers see a problem, and think they can solve it with floating point maths. Now they have 2.00000000001 problems...
The imperial measures that I don't have a feeling for are Fahrenheit and ounces, both weight and fluid. I know a pound is about half a kilo and a pint is as much as a pub glass of beer(!) but how many ounces are they? And it doesn't help that it seems to vary across the Atlantic, not to mention between pints and lbs.
On a sat nav in one car I drove, it could,in common with all of them I guess, be toggled between metric and imperial units. Oddly though it could display height in yards, which just felt wrong. Feet for both length and height, yards for length only.Not quite right, shirley.
I don't think I've ever encountered yards in the wild,That's quite a frightening thing to say when you've been cycling and driving in the UK for decades. Though I suppose it's normal.
I never understood the anti-metric thing. It's a few minutes to learn that there's about two pounds in a kilo and the better part of two pints in a litre. Job done, you've learned a set of simple and easy-to-use units, rather than cubic bloody hogsheads per furlong.
It's almost like they're the province of the really fucking stupid.
In principle yes - BUT actually visualising, say 15cm, is harder for us older folk that grew up with feet and inches . . .I'm getting better at it now - just need to work on my understanding of the new decimal currency ;D ;D ;D
That said with metric - I worked in the printing industry in the 60s and 70s and it was a fairly early adopter of metric measurements and the A sizes for work, as well as the "grammes per square metre" method of describing paper weight (that's "gsm" or more correctly "gm2") - before that there were arcane paper sizes that signified the weight in lbs (pounds) for 500 sheets (e.g. Large Post 21 lbs; Demy 17 lbs ... and the classic size - reserved for drawing paper/plans of Double Elephant ... that's 27 x 40 inches)
BTW - it's 10 chains to the furlong (a chain being 22 yards and the length of a cricket pitch) :thumbsup: Hogsheads were a measure of beer, among other things.
More more correctly gm-2 or g/m2 surely?
I don't think I've ever encountered yards in the wild,That's quite a frightening thing to say when you've been cycling and driving in the UK for decades. Though I suppose it's normal.
Okay, I don't know what they have in the US (although I have cycled in LA, but it was a long time ago) but yards are on all sorts of UK road signs. Admittedly being told that a hazard is 100m off isn't terribly urgent at cyclist speed. And yeah, even in Somerset road signs get shot at.I don't think I've ever encountered yards in the wild,That's quite a frightening thing to say when you've been cycling and driving in the UK for decades. Though I suppose it's normal.
I've never driven in the UK though, only the US. That may or may not be less frightening, I think they use yards, but I can't be sure. Road signs r fur shootin'
I did, when googling the matter, discover this source of prime gammon (http://bwma.org.uk). Metric martyrs. I will happily adopt the term if there's genuine killing to be done.It's all there. Compulsory... Illegal... Conspiracy... Disruptive... Disaster... Without consumers knowing... EC directive... Not a UK government decision...
Pipt: Ever more desperate ways to look inventive with fonts.LinkedIn: Like Facebook but all your friends work in recruitment and you don't care if they die (knicked off of the wireless)I have learned that there is a social media "thing" called nextdoor. I have also learned that it is not worth my time and effort to join it due to the inane drivel and petty bickering that pervades it's pages.
Thank you YACF for saving me from this. Are there any more of these social media dumpsters lurking that I should be aware of and carefully avoid please? 🙂
LinkedIn: Spamming system for recruitment types.
I never understood the anti-metric thing. It's a few minutes to learn that there's about two pounds in a kilo and the better part of two pints in a litre. Job done, you've learned a set of simple and easy-to-use units, rather than cubic bloody hogsheads per furlong.
It's almost like they're the province of the really fucking stupid.
In principle yes - BUT actually visualising, say 15cm, is harder for us older folk that grew up with feet and inches . . .I'm getting better at it now - just need to work on my understanding of the new decimal currency ;D ;D ;D
That said with metric - I worked in the printing industry in the 60s and 70s and it was a fairly early adopter of metric measurements and the A sizes for work, as well as the "grammes per square metre" method of describing paper weight (that's "gsm" or more correctly "gm2") - before that there were arcane paper sizes that signified the weight in lbs (pounds) for 500 sheets (e.g. Large Post 21 lbs; Demy 17 lbs ... and the classic size - reserved for drawing paper/plans of Double Elephant ... that's 27 x 40 inches)
BTW - it's 10 chains to the furlong (a chain being 22 yards and the length of a cricket pitch) :thumbsup: Hogsheads were a measure of beer, among other things.
More more correctly gm-2 or g/m2 surely?
That there is a transporter bridge in that France, that they have now.Where?
paper weight (that's "gsm" or more correctly "gm2")
More more correctly gm-2 or g/m2 surely?
I'll bow to your superior figure . . . in the second of your fomats
You're right - but typewriters back then didn't have an option for superior, or inferior, figures.
That there is a transporter bridge in that France, that they have now.Where?
Double Elephant Indian Pale Ale can be had from hand pumps at a number of hostelries in the west country.paper weight (that's "gsm" or more correctly "gm2")
More more correctly gm-2 or g/m2 surely?
I'll bow to your superior figure . . . in the second of your fomats
You're right - but typewriters back then didn't have an option for superior, or inferior, figures.
No, it's not the superscript that's the issue, it's the lack of division. To my mathematical brain ignoring the lack of superscript, gm2 means grammes multiplied by square metres, which is not the same as grammes per square metre.
(I think Double Elephant should be a sort of beer...)
USAnians generally use feet for any distance under a mile. They don’t have fortnights either, and find the word hysterically funny.
Thanks LW&B. A trip to Rochefort seems in order, ideally for its fete.
Don'tUSAnians generally use feet for any distance under a mile. They don’t have fortnights either, and find the word hysterically funny.
I was double-digits years and about seven rounds of grommets old when I learned that they weren't actually 'forknights'. (I assume it's from 'fourteen', which is much less stabby.)
Don'tUSAnians generally use feet for any distance under a mile. They don’t have fortnights either, and find the word hysterically funny.
I was double-digits years and about seven rounds of grommets old when I learned that they weren't actually 'forknights'. (I assume it's from 'fourteen', which is much less stabby.)Les Serapu[/shed]the French call a forknight "quinze jours"? A bonus day just to make sure, presumably.
Thanks LW&B. A trip to Rochefort seems in order, ideally for its fete.
They went past it on today’s stage. Not sure if it made the highlights prog.
I suspect that's true for a lot of boomers, certainly is for me. I been happily mixing measurement systems for 50 odd years now. I generally pick the measuring system that gives me the smallest number of units to work with or is most convenient and easy to visualise for the task at hand. F'rinstance a model aeroplane will always have a span measured in inches ('cos small _whole_ number) and a weight measured to the nearest gramme ('cos easier than fractional ounces) and the components for it will likewise be measured in a mixture of imperial and metric units. As for yards and metres? A metre is just a yard with a superiority complex. :)Quote from: ianI never understood the anti-metric thing. ...
Because of my parents I grew up using imperial at home, and metric at school, and then to the exasperation of the woodwork workshop technician, the two together.
I never understood the anti-metric thing. It's a few minutes to learn that there's about two pounds in a kilo and the better part of two pints in a litre. Job done, you've learned a set of simple and easy-to-use units, rather than cubic bloody hogsheads per furlong.
It's almost like they're the province of the really fucking stupid.
Because of my parents I grew up using imperial at home, and metric at school, and then to the exasperation of the woodwork workshop technician, the two together*.
I still find it easier to say "it's 200 yards" for when giving rough distances such as in directions "How far's the pub?" "couple hundred yards!". When a Dutch friend asked wtf a yard is, I just said it's a small meter.
I went full metric when I worked at ESA, Mars polar orbiter taught me the importance.
My main bugbear tho is that the metric terms are more of a mouthful. "1 mile" vs "1 keel oh meet er", tho some pronounce it "clometer". "Ten k" is a bit easier to say. But 6 inches is still easier to say than 150 mil...
I tend to use the engineering subset of SI units, km, m, mm, µm, I find it offers a certain level of error checking to what you've written down. If you are cutting wood for a shelf and it's marked as 1m x 200{m x 10|m, and the bit in front of the m has been smudged out, or it's a noisy phone line, you can infer a certain to a certain amount what was intended. 1m x 20m seems a bit big for a shelf, 1m x 200cm could work, but then that's still a weird shape for a shelf... 1m x 200mm that seems about right for a shelf, so next up thickness. 10µm seems... complicated in wood... so maybe 10mm, bingo 1m x 200mm x 10mm, that looks like sensible size for a shelf. Built in error checking...
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*For a project I sent in a cutting list that included one part that was 3" x 10cm x 12mm...
Not that Rochefort (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochefort,_Belgium). This Rochefort (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochefort,_Charente-Maritime).Thanks LW&B. A trip to Rochefort seems in order, ideally for its fete.
They went past it on today’s stage. Not sure if it made the highlights prog.
Rochefort is in Belgium I thought...
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'forknights'.Forknights and spoondays. Spending far too long in Brexiteer's pub barns, probably as a result of orkdaxing.
I suspect that's true for a lot of boomers, certainly is for me. I been happily mixing measurement systems for 50 odd years now. I generally pick the measuring system that gives me the smallest number of units to work with or is most convenient and easy to visualise for the task at hand. F'rinstance a model aeroplane will always have a span measured in inches ('cos small _whole_ number) and a weight measured to the nearest gramme ('cos easier than fractional ounces) and the components for it will likewise be measured in a mixture of imperial and metric units. As for yards and metres? A metre is just a yard with a superiority complex. :)
P.S.
It's also extremely good fun to wind the youngsters up by using terms *they* find incomprehensible. Makes a very pleasant change to turn the tables on them. :)
Thanks LW&B. A trip to Rochefort seems in order, ideally for its fete.
They went past it on today’s stage. Not sure if it made the highlights prog.
Thanks LW&B. A trip to Rochefort seems in order, ideally for its fete.
They went past it on today’s stage. Not sure if it made the highlights prog.
Would have been ace if they'd gone over it 😀
How far ahead would the break need to be to get a massive time bonus?
And yet, QG, you're not a fan of the harmless gear inch? :demon:
something I learnt a couple of weeks ago (not today so OT sorry, not sorry) is that the USAnians have two definitions of the foot. They are almost exactly, but not quite, the same length.
Googling "amish hat" brings up "stetson" as well.
And yet, QG, you're not a fan of the harmless gear inch? :demon:
Of course not, it's a bloody stupid system, why would I compare my safety bike with an ordinary?
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The Texan foot is a whole 16 inches. Some of the New England states have a piddling little foot barely 10 inches.Not in the least surprised by this. Do you know if they are statutory measures or merely hang-overs retained because of custom and practice from a less regulated time?
Speaking of Texans, proper cowboys traditionally wore a range of hats, most commonly bowler hats*. The iconic Stetson wasn't invented till 1865 (and in its original incarnation looked more like an Amish hat) and didn't gain popularity till the very end of the 19th century.
*Billy the Kid favoured a top hat.
Most experts argue that the name “10-gallon hat” is actually an import from south of the border. Cattle drivers and ranchers in Texas and the Southwest often crossed paths with Mexican vaqueros who sported braided hatbands—called “galóns” in Spanish—on their sombreros. A “10 galón” sombrero was a hat with a large enough crown that it could hold 10 hatbands, but American cowboys may have anglicized the word to “gallon” and started referring to their own sombrero-inspired headgear as “10-gallon hats.” Yet another linguistic theory argues that the name is a corruption of the Spanish phrase “tan galán” —roughly translated as “very gallant” or “really handsome”—which may have been used to describe the majestic image of a hat-wearing cowboy in the saddle.https://www.history.com/news/why-do-we-call-it-a-10-gallon-hat
Whatever its origin, the 10-gallon hat wasn’t even the preferred headgear for most people in the Wild West—top hats and bowlers were more common. The nickname didn’t enter the popular lexicon until the 1920s, when silent film stars like Tom Mix and Tim McCoy helped popularize the oversized hat in Hollywood Westerns. The 10-gallon hat went on to earn a place as a quintessential piece of the frontier wardrobe, and presidents like Harry Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson would later use them to cultivate a rustic image while serving as commander in chief.
The iconic photo of Billy the Kid has him in a large top hat. He does look like the sort of chap you'd cross the street to avoid though.
The iconic photo of Billy the Kid has him in a large top hat. He does look like the sort of chap you'd cross the street to avoid though.
Also surprising were his great friendship with Socrates and his ability to deal with the oddity of time travel with the greatest of ease.The iconic photo of Billy the Kid has him in a large top hat. He does look like the sort of chap you'd cross the street to avoid though.
I have read that Mr The Kid had syphilis and shot most of his victims in the back. Even by USAnian standards this makes him an unlikely choice for a hero.
Oh I don't know. They were both quite anti-authority / anti-social in their view of society. More to the point they were both hardened criminals.Quote from: Mr LarringtonAlso surprising ... his great friendship with Socrates...Quote from: ianThe iconic photo of Billy the Kid has him in a large top hat. He does look like the sort of chap you'd cross the street to avoid though.
I have read that Mr The Kid had syphilis and shot most of his victims in the back. Even by USAnian standards this makes him an unlikely choice for a hero.
That'd be this one?Sunderland style.
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2010/top10_bandits/billy_kid.jpg)
If not Swindon, then Devizes.
The iconic photo of Billy the Kid has him in a large top hat. He does look like the sort of chap you'd cross the street to avoid though.
I have read that Mr The Kid had syphilis and shot most of his victims in the back. Even by USAnian standards this makes him an unlikely choice for a hero.
That'd be this one?
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2010/top10_bandits/billy_kid.jpg)
If not Swindon, then Devizes.
Only half? And I have the webbed feet and a Yellerbelly to prove it..........That'd be this one?
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2010/top10_bandits/billy_kid.jpg)
If not Swindon, then Devizes.
That's half the denizens of the Fens, brings to life NFN
IIRC the bowler was invented by some lord or other for his gamekeepers & outdoor staff, the idea being that the hard dome afforded a measure of protection from falling objects such as poachers' bludgeons. Crooks the world over adopted it - witness the City of London.
(https://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/04929c8590bd6fc9f494a5873190fd590f8e7a73.jpg)
Okay, I don't know what they have in the US (although I have cycled in LA, but it was a long time ago) but yards are on all sorts of UK road signs. Admittedly being told that a hazard is 100m off isn't terribly urgent at cyclist speed. And yeah, even in Somerset road signs get shot at.I don't think I've ever encountered yards in the wild,That's quite a frightening thing to say when you've been cycling and driving in the UK for decades. Though I suppose it's normal.
I've never driven in the UK though, only the US. That may or may not be less frightening, I think they use yards, but I can't be sure. Road signs r fur shootin'QuoteI did, when googling the matter, discover this source of prime gammon (http://bwma.org.uk). Metric martyrs. I will happily adopt the term if there's genuine killing to be done.It's all there. Compulsory... Illegal... Conspiracy... Disruptive... Disaster... Without consumers knowing... EC directive... Not a UK government decision...
There must be a loonjob conspiracy template with all these terms on and the loonjob conspiratists just fill in the guff of their choice, whether it's lizard people, 5G or metric martyrdom.
That you're not supposed to use cling film in the microwave.
That you're not supposed to use cling film in the microwave.
Why ever not? It shouldn’t be in contact with the food, but otherwise it’s ok.
"I'm never going to eat anything with chemicals in." I'm sure someone in the US must have said that.
"Oh goody, let's have lots." - Connie SachsI hope, when I go to my grave after a few years of dribbling and worse, I shall still remember this milestone in the evolution of the televisual experience in the English-speaking world. I thought the original series was simply life-changing, and the remake almost as good. I thank you T42 for reminding me. I thank you JLeC for changing my world. I thank you George Smiley, Control and the rest. Simply stunning.
"I'm never going to eat anything with chemicals in." I'm sure someone in the US must have said that.Well given chlorinated chicken and Hershey's "chocolate" that's probably the only safe attitude to have in the US. :)
It's certainly been said in the UK (https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/E_for_Additives.html)
Sorry. Try this. (https://www.waterstones.com/book/e-for-additives/maurice-hanssen/9780722515624)It's certainly been said in the UK (https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/E_for_Additives.html)
That link just gets me the Google Books splash page.
"Oh goody, let's have lots." - Connie SachsI hope, when I go to my grave after a few years of dribbling and worse, I shall still remember this milestone in the evolution of the televisual experience in the English-speaking world. I thought the original series was simply life-changing, and the remake almost as good. I thank you T42 for reminding me. I thank you JLeC for changing my world. I thank you George Smiley, Control and the rest. Simply stunning.
Ranks up there with the attack ships on the shoulder of Orion.
Pope Francis used to be a bouncer in a Buenos Aires nightclub.Also..... He only has one lung.
The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne. At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.
I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time. Miserable hole.
That the second largest single use plastic waste culprit is car tyres. Half a million tonnes in Europe alone. Clever gismo invented by Students to stop this and recover the waste for recycling.
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/09/20/student-s-invention-to-stop-microplastic-pollution-wins-dyson-award (https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/09/20/student-s-invention-to-stop-microplastic-pollution-wins-dyson-award)
The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne. At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.
I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time. Miserable hole.
The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne. At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.
I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time. Miserable hole.
Yeahbut. That would ruin the "In Seine" joke.
The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne. At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.
I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time. Miserable hole.
Yeahbut. That would ruin the "In Seine" joke.
If you pronounce it properly it's already buggered.
The whole North & South thing, that.
As would Elizabeth Gaskell (though IMO she might as fittingly have called it Town and Country).The whole North & South thing, that.
Cartographers for social equality would agree...
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I thought I knew things, when it came to Weather.
Then I saw scenes from Iowa recently, and I learnt the word Derecho. Never heard of it before. Looks fucking terrifying.
The river that flows through Paris and continues to Le Havre should really be called the Yonne. At Montéreau-Fault-Yonne, where the Seine and Yonne meet, the flow of the Yonne is greater than that of the Seine, which is therefore a tributary and should end there.
I've been through Montéreau-Fault-Yonne three times & been rained on every time. Miserable hole.
Yeahbut. That would ruin the "In Seine" joke.
If you pronounce it properly it's already buggered.
But we're Brittons. We don't let silly foreign stuff like correct pronunciation worry us.
I thought I knew things, when it came to Weather.Fucking hell! Looks like something done with implausible CGI in a disaster movie.
Then I saw scenes from Iowa recently, and I learnt the word Derecho. Never heard of it before. Looks fucking terrifying.
I thought I knew things, when it came to Weather.Fucking hell! Looks like something done with implausible CGI in a disaster movie.
Then I saw scenes from Iowa recently, and I learnt the word Derecho. Never heard of it before. Looks fucking terrifying.
I thought I knew things, when it came to Weather.Fucking hell! Looks like something done with implausible CGI in a disaster movie.
Then I saw scenes from Iowa recently, and I learnt the word Derecho. Never heard of it before. Looks fucking terrifying.
The Americans do proper weather, especially in the middle and south bits. Mostly they build trailer parks and wooden houses to tempt them.
The world 'allocution'.My new word of the day is ‘emunctory’.
The world 'allocution'.My new word of the day is ‘emunctory’.
Did you look up the etymology? Ultimately from mungere, meaning to milk.
Did you look up the etymology? Ultimately from mungere, meaning to milk.
Yes, it's a properly interesting word. The version I saw suggested it's from the Latin meaning to blow your nose, but I suppose you can see how that might in turn be derived from the word meaning to milk.
It was used in a piece written by a non-native English speaker (French) so I wonder if it's been translated literally from something in French that sounds similar. Can't think what that would be though.
Sort of word I might imagine coming across in Fielding or Swift.
I just looked up emunctory in French, too: émonctoire, with the same meaning as in English.
I can imagine Rabelais using it with glee.
I just looked up emunctory in French, too: émonctoire, with the same meaning as in English.
There you go, exactly as I thought! If you're interested, the context is a product description for a supplement to support the function of the 'emunctory organs' (kidneys, liver) - an area of healthcare for which I know the French have a special fondness (crise de foie being a favourite ailment).
That the French word for a BIIINNN – poubelle – comes from Eugène-René Poubelle, who as Préfet of the département of Seine decreed that all property owners must provide BIIINNNSSS for the residents thereof.
And also that Mike Batt and Neville Southall used to be binmen.
Oh, it is in England too, only it's known as "God, how many pints did I have last night?" The French, rather more analytical, localized the seat of the problem long ago, although their approach to causes is less laudable. "Si on boit une bouteille de whiskey et on mange un carré de chocolat on aura une crise de foie. Je crois que c'est le chocolat."
It has amused me for years that ailment is a trivial anagram of aliment.
Oh, it is in England too, only it's known as "God, how many pints did I have last night?" The French, rather more analytical, localized the seat of the problem long ago, although their approach to causes is less laudable. "Si on boit une bouteille de whiskey et on mange un carré de chocolat on aura une crise de foie. Je crois que c'est le chocolat."
It has amused me for years that ailment is a trivial anagram of aliment.
I have long assumed that crise de foie was an existentialist pun on crise de foi, but I may be overthinking it.
I just looked up emunctory in French, too: émonctoire, with the same meaning as in English.
There you go, exactly as I thought! If you're interested, the context is a product description for a supplement to support the function of the 'emunctory organs' (kidneys, liver) - an area of healthcare for which I know the French have a special fondness (crise de foie being a favourite ailment).QuoteI can imagine Rabelais using it with glee.
Oh yes, definitely!
That the French word for a BIIINNN – poubelle – comes from Eugène-René Poubelle, who as Préfet of the département of Seine decreed that all property owners must provide BIIINNNSSS for the residents thereof.
And also that Mike Batt and Neville Southall used to be binmen.
Mon père est une poubelle de table.
It is one of the (many) delights of the Semaine Federale that garnered us this info. Well, obviously we knew it as true before then, but that nos frères francaises had a perfect phrase for it was the highpoint of that week.
Remember the SheWee? Turns out to be not so recent. Gunter Grass mentions a very similar device in The Flounder. 1977. Back then it cost DM19.80 and fastened by a suction cup.
St Moritz, the ski resort in Switzerland. Turns out St Moritz was a Roman soldier from the border of Sudan/Egypt who got martyred while refusing to persecute Christians in the area. Whitest part of Europe, named after a black guy.It was one of the least welcoming looking places I visited in Switzerland, I had 30 minutes between trains, I think I did 't leave the ststion car park.
Someone who's spent twice the amount of their life as me working in healthcare IT had never learnt that medics should never be given the need to click more than once or ever touch a scroll bar lest they have a hissy fit.
Said colleague expressed surprise at a function of the system we're writing requiring 3 mouse clicks should be recorded as a "show stopper" UAT issue...
Someone who's spent twice the amount of their life as me working in healthcare IT had never learnt that medics should never be given the need to click more than once or ever touch a scroll bar lest they have a hissy fit.
Said colleague expressed surprise at a function of the system we're writing requiring 3 mouse clicks should be recorded as a "show stopper" UAT issue...
A lesson that should apply well beyond healthcare.
If I had my way, application developers would have their mice confiscated for one day a week on general principle.
That one of the more famous examples of apophenia, Pink Floyd's "Echoes" as a soundtrack to the "Jupiter and Beyond The Infinite" act from "2001 - A Space Odyssey" is pleasant enough but there's no real synchronicity. Same length* and the mood of the song vaguely matches some scenes, but no "wow" moments.There's a similar rumour linking The Floyd's Dark side of the Moon with the film of The Wizard of Oz.
Try it: https://youtu.be/rn7MmS3vazU
*not on a R2 DVD, which is always 4% too fast
St Moritz, the ski resort in Switzerland. Turns out St Moritz was a Roman soldier from the border of Sudan/Egypt who got martyred while refusing to persecute Christians in the area. Whitest part of Europe, named after a black guy.Well, St George was from (what is now) Turkey, which is ironic given that the mouth-breathers hanging his flag from their upstairs windows probably voted Brexit in case Muslamic Turkey joined the EU.
That one of the more famous examples of apophenia, Pink Floyd's "Echoes" as a soundtrack to the "Jupiter and Beyond The Infinite" act from "2001 - A Space Odyssey" is pleasant enough but there's no real synchronicity. Same length* and the mood of the song vaguely matches some scenes, but no "wow" moments.There's a similar rumour linking The Floyd's Dark side of the Moon with the film of The Wizard of Oz.
Try it: https://youtu.be/rn7MmS3vazU
*not on a R2 DVD, which is always 4% too fast
Today I learnt that some people refer to the poles of a magnet as "positive" and "negative". How long has this been going on? What's wrong with North and South?
The Poles weren't involved.Today I learnt that some people refer to the poles of a magnet as "positive" and "negative". How long has this been going on? What's wrong with North and South?
That way lies madness.
Today I learnt that some people refer to the poles of a magnet as "positive" and "negative". How long has this been going on? What's wrong with North and South?That’s a bit of a loded question.
Today I learned what a Forstner bit (https://www.rockler.com/learn/value-of-forstner-bits) is.
I'm resizing a kitchen cupboard door - the new fitted oven is larger than the old one, so the shelf above it had to be shifted upwards and a few cm trimmed off the door. This also entails moving the position of the hinge, which means drilling a 35mm flat-bottomed hole to accommodate it. I'm aware of auger bits for drilling wide holes, and self-feed bits for very wide holes, but I've not come across Forstner bits before - they are perfect for this job.
if you're talking about Blum hinges
The Forstners really come into their own if you use them in a drill press rather than a portable drill.
if you're talking about Blum hinges
Indeed I am (and that's another bit of terminology I have learned today, thanks!).
Getting the positioning correct was the part of the job that worried me most, but I was careful with my measuring - besides which, the bracket the hinge attaches to allows a small amount of vertical leeway to spare any blushes.QuoteThe Forstners really come into their own if you use them in a drill press rather than a portable drill.
This is precisely the thought that crossed my mind as soon as I started drilling...
I bought a cheap set of 5 bits from Screwfix for £7.99. They were fine for the job but annoyingly they have a protruding central guide point, which seems to me to rather defeat the object - I had to be very careful not to drill too deep so the point came through the other side. I note that more expensive models have no guide point and are fitted with a depth gauge. Probably not something I'm going to use often enough to make it worth investing in more expensive parts though.
Anyway, job done, door refitted - and I must say I'm pleased with the job. It even closes properly after making some small adjustments to the hinges. If you're looking very carefully, you can just about tell the cut edge of the door isn't perfectly straight. I'll take that. ;D
- almost all Forstners have a point as that locates the centre of the hole - it's the length of the point below the cutting edge (straight or wavy) that's the key issue for drilling "blind" holes.
Have a look at this for stuff on drill bits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey7crpai5ng
- almost all Forstners have a point as that locates the centre of the hole - it's the length of the point below the cutting edge (straight or wavy) that's the key issue for drilling "blind" holes.
Yes - the point on the screwfix ones protrudes more than is ideal for this job.
Some others I was looking at earlier had no point. They looked much better quality, but a) they were expensive, and b) I would have had to wait a few days for delivery and I wanted to get the job done today.QuoteHave a look at this for stuff on drill bits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey7crpai5ng
A video about drill bits, eh? That sounds very... boring. ;)
Was that you that the nice Mr Keavney just name checked? Middle Aged Shoutout, Forstner bit fun.- almost all Forstners have a point as that locates the centre of the hole - it's the length of the point below the cutting edge (straight or wavy) that's the key issue for drilling "blind" holes.
Yes - the point on the screwfix ones protrudes more than is ideal for this job.
Some others I was looking at earlier had no point. They looked much better quality, but a) they were expensive, and b) I would have had to wait a few days for delivery and I wanted to get the job done today.QuoteHave a look at this for stuff on drill bits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey7crpai5ng
A video about drill bits, eh? That sounds very... boring. ;)
Was that you that the nice Mr Keavney just name checked? Middle Aged Shoutout, Forstner bit fun.
I've had a letter from 23andme telling me that unlike 83% of their customers I have Neanderthal DNA.Huh ? :-)
Not sure how I feel about that.
That the glass in my oven door isn't tinted. It was just dirty. Student dirty. Mr Muscle could only do so much. I had to take a stanley knife blade to it.
Exactly.I've had a letter from 23andme telling me that unlike 83% of their customers I have Neanderthal DNA.Huh ? :-)
Not sure how I feel about that.
That the glass in my oven door isn't tinted. It was just dirty. Student dirty. Mr Muscle could only do so much. I had to take a stanley knife blade to it.
I bet you feel brilliant now though :)
Thanks to today's Grauniad prize crossword I've learnt what a snollygoster is.
Yes but hunched 😉Exactly.I've had a letter from 23andme telling me that unlike 83% of their customers I have Neanderthal DNA.Huh ? :-)
Not sure how I feel about that.
Should I be able to ride a bike?
Forgot I'd posted in here and dingied it.Someone who's spent twice the amount of their life as me working in healthcare IT had never learnt that medics should never be given the need to click more than once or ever touch a scroll bar lest they have a hissy fit.
Said colleague expressed surprise at a function of the system we're writing requiring 3 mouse clicks should be recorded as a "show stopper" UAT issue...
A lesson that should apply well beyond healthcare.
If I had my way, application developers would have their mice confiscated for one day a week on general principle.
I suppose medics etc. could even enjoy tabbing between buttons & memorizing CTRL codes. We could make the machines play early 80s rock at the same time.
That women served in the front line on both sides of the 1918-20 Polish-Bolshevik War but, on the Polish side at least, the only items of military uniform made available were boots in smaller sizes. They made do with a mixture of men's jackets etc and civilian clothing. Some fought in skirts.Just learnt about the 'Night Witches', an all female bomber regiment in the Soviet Air Force, during WW2. Apparently similar issue with jackets and boots that didn't fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
That women served in the front line on both sides of the 1918-20 Polish-Bolshevik War but, on the Polish side at least, the only items of military uniform made available were boots in smaller sizes. They made do with a mixture of men's jackets etc and civilian clothing. Some fought in skirts.Just learnt about the 'Night Witches', an all female bomber regiment in the Soviet Air Force, during WW2. Apparently similar issue with jackets and boots that didn't fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
Mechanics Raisa Kharitonova and Tamara Frolova were sentenced to ten years of imprisonment for dismantling a flare (used by navigators to illuminate bombing targets) and using the small silk parachute to sew undergarments.!
"Some of the same genes that cause prostate cancer are shared with breast cancer. If you have a mother or sister with breast cancer, it does increase your risk of prostate cancer. So you can actually inherit a gene from your mother that increases your risk of a male cancer."
* born Arthur Ward, in Birmingham, to Irish parentsHim, me and Dan Martin.
My MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6 in Scotland.
Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak.
I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.
My MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6 in Scotland.
Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak.
I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.
I could've told you that :) I wonder if he remembers the ghastly school song :hand:
My MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6 in Scotland.
Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak.
I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.
I could've told you that :) I wonder if he remembers the ghastly school song :hand:
I had heard the local name I just hadn't connected the two alternative pronunciations with the same person. I've been chuckling about my mistake all weekend.
I dread to think of which school but probably not Phd Academy
Outwith is a perfectly cromulent word.
...I could have sworn "It's a perfectly cromulent word" was from the dictionary episode in Blackadder the Third,...
From another thread:Outwith is a perfectly cromulent word.
My memory is playing tricks on me. I could have sworn "It's a perfectly cromulent word" was from the dictionary episode in Blackadder the Third, but I looked it up to check and it turns out the line was first used in an episode of The Simpsons in 1996, and was coined for an in-joke among the show runners, along with "embiggen".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-mean
Never really been into the Simpsons so that's not an episode I've knowingly seen.
That Drax is in North Yorkshire.
Always (lazily it turns out) assumed it was borderline East/West
As anyone who's ever cycled the seemingly endless road up from Thorne into a wet againsterly knows, Drax isn't so much a place as a state of mind.
Canson 70 g/m² tracing paper works in a laser printer. Ouf. I was half expecting the good old crackle'n'crumple, followed by a hot niff and maybe a wisp of smoke.
The toner stays on the paper, too.
Canson 70 g/m² tracing paper works in a laser printer. Ouf. I was half expecting the good old crackle'n'crumple, followed by a hot niff and maybe a wisp of smoke.
The toner stays on the paper, too.
*files this factoid away at back of brain for the day it becomes useful*
Dreich - Wet, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary or any combination of these. Scottish weather at its most miserable. The “ch” is pronounced as in Scots loch or German acAlso epitomised on any wet Sunday afternoon in mid November in Blaenau Ffestiniog, surrounded by the dark grey slate tips.
Drax is the Anglicised form of dreich.
Dreich - Wet, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary or any combination of these. Scottish weather at its most miserable. The “ch” is pronounced as in Scots loch or German ac
"Dog and pony show" is a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends.
'Thought leader' is not the kind of role I would like to hold,
'Thought leader' is not the kind of role I would like to hold, but I wouldn't mind being a "Thought manager". I just did a quick google to see if such a job exists, and I found a blog about how managers should aspire to be "Thought partners" rather than micro-managers... :sick:
http://thecontextofthings.com/2017/03/14/thought-partner/
You know what it means, do you? Please tell me, coz I don't
That 10% of the Population were slaves at the time of the Doomsday survey.
Who Mr Prawo Jazdy is.That's given me a laugh!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7899171.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7899171.stm)
As anyone who's ever cycled the seemingly endless road up from Thorne into a wet againsterly knows, Drax isn't so much a place as a state of mind.
I got as far as Goole services before I turned round and rode back the other way.
Admittedly, this was planned, being the route of the Flatlands 600. And actually, come to think of it, that didn't go through Thorne but passed somewhere nearer Scunthorpe IIRC.
The latitude and longitude coordinates of the virtual cycling world of Watopia on the Zwift cycling platform coincide with this island, and websites such as Strava therefore show Zwift rides overlain on a map of Teanu even though Teanu has no roads and rides seem to frequently cross between water and land.
That The Guardian has a chocolate column.
This could be expensive both financially and calorifically.
That The Guardian has a chocolate column.
This could be expensive both financially and calorifically.
That would be the Chocolate Fireguard column. :)Quote from: Mrs PinguThat The Guardian has a chocolate column.
This could be expensive both financially and calorifically.
Is that the same as the US politics column?
Putting a fly sticker strategically on a urinal can cut toilet cleaning costs by 8%, due to the reduced spillage when men have something to aim at. I can only assume places like Australia where there can be plenty of flies in toilets, the cost of toilet cleaning is higer due to the massive number of targets of opportunity
Putting a fly sticker strategically on a urinal can cut toilet cleaning costs by 8%, due to the reduced spillage when men have something to aim at. I can only assume places like Australia where there can be plenty of flies in toilets, the cost of toilet cleaning is higer due to the massive number of targets of opportunity
The urinals in the Victorian toilet in The Hayes (Cardiff) had targets (painted on before glazing) at the point of least splashage.
Some urinals of the same era had pictures of bees under the glaze; the Latin word for bee is apis... such wit!
The C-type was officially the XK120-C, where “C” stands for “Competition”.
My father took his old Anglia van to a mate's garage to have some work done. He came back in car - XK120! Couldn't shut the garage door as the rear end stuck out. Neighbours stopped talking to us (not all of them) then were shamefaced 2 days later when the Anglia appeared.
I didn't have a ride in the Jag as dad hardly dared to use it.
"Dog and pony show" is a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends.Originally, I believe, a dismissive term for a travelling circus whose advertised animal acts did not live up to expectations.
Another mammal fact for you: all the different species of porcupines aren't even vaguely related. Cuts down on the wedding"We don't invite those pricks..."invitesinvitations.
If you happen to go to/through Garstang in Lancashire call into Barton Grange Garden Centre - the ultimate urinal destination.
See https://live.staticflickr.com/8546/8668399302_54b4685321_b.jpg (Google "Barton Grange" and select images and you'll see a whole range - washbasins too in the same styles)
My daughter advised making a visit to the gents . .. (I assume on information from her husband?)
Aha! Florinals.:D :D :D :D
If you happen to go to/through Garstang in Lancashire call into Barton Grange Garden Centre - the ultimate urinal destination.
See https://live.staticflickr.com/8546/8668399302_54b4685321_b.jpg (Google "Barton Grange" and select images and you'll see a whole range - washbasins too in the same styles)
My daughter advised making a visit to the gents . .. (I assume on information from her husband?)
Dobbie's Garden Centre, Furryboottoon:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/3926/14687653611_6ed5953a70_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/onU4H6)
IMG_3571 (https://flic.kr/p/onU4H6) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
My father took his old Anglia van to a mate's garage to have some work done. He came back in car - XK120! Couldn't shut the garage door as the rear end stuck out. Neighbours stopped talking to us (not all of them) then were shamefaced 2 days later when the Anglia appeared.
I didn't have a ride in the Jag as dad hardly dared to use it.
I have sat in a XK120, I always thought they looked awesome. (particularly liked the headlights) Driving them is apparently interesting as visibility is compromised.
The one I was in sounded like a box of spanners being shaken about, no idea if that is standard.
If you happen to go to/through Garstang in Lancashire call into Barton Grange Garden Centre - the ultimate urinal destination.
See https://live.staticflickr.com/8546/8668399302_54b4685321_b.jpg (Google "Barton Grange" and select images and you'll see a whole range - washbasins too in the same styles)
My daughter advised making a visit to the gents . .. (I assume on information from her husband?)
Dobbie's Garden Centre, Furryboottoon:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/3926/14687653611_6ed5953a70_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/onU4H6)
IMG_3571 (https://flic.kr/p/onU4H6) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Meanwhile I have learnt that the US pronunciation of oregano, which has always made me wince, is closer to its oríginal Spanish, Latin and ancient Greek pronunciation than ours. Not that I'm going to change, though.I have a feeling this is often the case. Perhaps due to USanians thinking imported words are foreign whereas we Ukanians think because we're using them in English, they're English? We've surely had a thread on this...
Meanwhile I have learnt that the US pronunciation of oregano, which has always made me wince, is closer to its oríginal Spanish, Latin and ancient Greek pronunciation than ours. Not that I'm going to change, though.I have a feeling this is often the case. Perhaps due to USanians thinking imported words are foreign whereas we Ukanians think because we're using them in English, they're English? We've surely had a thread on this...
My MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6 in Scotland.Ye need tae gie the caledonia bank a ca'
Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak.
I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.
The origin of the word tyre. (Sorry if I am the only person not to have realised this.)
The iron band around the wheel that tied it together.
The origin of the word tyre. (Sorry if I am the only person not to have realised this.)
The iron band around the wheel that tied it together.
Being an avid viewer of Engels Coach Shop on YT, and seeing how much specialist kit he has to build a wheel, I was surprised that they could attempt to build a wheel in the Repair Shop. I think they had some outside kit too that we didn't see - like the tenoning machine they need to put the tenons on the spokes, and the dividing head to put the mortices in the hub.The origin of the word tyre. (Sorry if I am the only person not to have realised this.)
The iron band around the wheel that tied it together.
So, you watched The Repair Shop too?
- being pedantic the wheelmake bloke's use of the bandsaw wasn't too good, the upper bearing on the blade should be just above the surface of the work-piece . . . he had a good 3 or 4" of space - not lethal but reduces stability on the blade. Just saying.
If only for my weekly fix of Suzie......
The Engels Coach Shop steel tyre (or tire) heating up gadget is the best. Two oxyacetylene(?) torches playing on a slowly rotating steel tyre, powered by goodness knows what, while Mr Engels wanders around doing other stuffs.Being an avid viewer of Engels Coach Shop on YT, and seeing how much specialist kit he has to build a wheel, I was surprised that they could attempt to build a wheel in the Repair Shop. I think they had some outside kit too that we didn't see - like the tenoning machine they need to put the tenons on the spokes, and the dividing head to put the mortices in the hub.The origin of the word tyre. (Sorry if I am the only person not to have realised this.)
The iron band around the wheel that tied it together.
So, you watched The Repair Shop too?
- being pedantic the wheelmake bloke's use of the bandsaw wasn't too good, the upper bearing on the blade should be just above the surface of the work-piece . . . he had a good 3 or 4" of space - not lethal but reduces stability on the blade. Just saying.
Whatever, RS has to be the best programme for years. Long may it continue. If only for my weekly fix of Suzie......
I have learned about Martin "Sinker" mahoganyI was expecting something like pernambuco!
https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/news/140610/
;D ;D ;DIf only for my weekly fix of Suzie......
I think that belongs in the "You know you're middle aged when..." thread ;)
English-French band Stereolab, known for their use of early analogue synthesizers, recorded a song called "Jenny Ondioline", which was released on the 1993 album Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements, as well as the 1993 EP Jenny Ondioline. However, the song's lyrics have nothing to do with the Ondioline or Georges Jenny, and the band does not use an Ondioline on the track (or elsewhere on the album).
Initially the Cyprus pound was divided into 20 shillings, in common with its United Kingdom counterpart. However, unlike the United Kingdom shilling, the Cyprus shilling was divided into 9 piastres, thus establishing a nomenclature link to the earlier Ottoman currency. The piastre was itself divided into 40 para (like the kuruş). The para denomination did not appear on any coins or banknotes but was used on postage stamps.
Manon Lescaut is an opera or opéra comique in 3 acts by Daniel Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and, like Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Massenet's Manon, is based on the Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut (1731). Auber's version is nowadays the least-performed of the three.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut_(Auber)
That explains why every game ends in conflict - I've always hated it.
This wasn't just the "I've nudged a burner out of alignment" it was all burners, and ongoing which made me call. I don't fuck around with either gas or electric.
That for most of 1811 and 1812 my Royal Marine great great great grandfather James Entwistle* served on the same ship (HMS Briseis) as future polar explorer James Clerk Ross, then 12 years old. He (Ross) currently has 4 places in the Arctic named after him, as well as 4 in the Antarctic, a seal, a gull, a ship and a mountain. And a crater on the Moon.
That there is a website called Cheese.com
It is about cheese, cheese and wine parings and all dairy comestibles.
That's my afternoon gone!
Early humans may have hibernated to weather harsh winters, say researchersScience fiction? It's a thoroughly modern practice!
Academics admit their hypothesis might sound like ‘science fiction’
That Mark Fuckerberg bears a resemblance to H P Lovecraft.
Another great great great grandfather of mine John Wilkin was born in 1802 and first went to sea in 1814, but he was a merchant seaman. His son also went to sea at the age of 12 (with his dad) but didn't like it and became a blacksmith.That for most of 1811 and 1812 my Royal Marine great great great grandfather James Entwistle* served on the same ship (HMS Briseis) as future polar explorer James Clerk Ross, then 12 years old. He (Ross) currently has 4 places in the Arctic named after him, as well as 4 in the Antarctic, a seal, a gull, a ship and a mountain. And a crater on the Moon.
That in 1811, it was acceptable for a 12 years old to serve on a Royal Marine ship :( :(
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Neanderthals are so named because the first remains were discovered in the Neander Valley.More than that, the name apparently means 'New man'. How coincidental is that?
Well I knew that bit.
What I didn't know was the Neander Valley was named after Joachim Neander, a Calvinist theologian and hymn writer whose best known work is probably Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren/ Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, King of Creation.
Where Neanderthals fit in the whole creation thing is another question.
That early humans might have hibernated.QuoteEarly humans may have hibernated to weather harsh winters, say researchersScience fiction? It's a thoroughly modern practice!
Academics admit their hypothesis might sound like ‘science fiction’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/early-humans-hibernation-winter-atapuerca-spain-b1776824.html
That early humans might have hibernated.QuoteEarly humans may have hibernated to weather harsh winters, say researchersScience fiction? It's a thoroughly modern practice!
Academics admit their hypothesis might sound like ‘science fiction’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/early-humans-hibernation-winter-atapuerca-spain-b1776824.html
A few years ago, I read in 'The Discovery of France* (https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-discovery-of-france-by-graham-robb-464235.html)' that certain communities endured the winter by simply remaining in bed. Possibly pre-Napoleon but not much further back.
France was largely forest with huge numbers of tracks linking isolated communities. There was no common language and there were no maps. Travel was of course very precarious.
* the author explored the country the best way possible - by bicycle.
The family name was originally Neumann, but it was the fashion to have a Latin or Greek sounding name, so it became Neander (Gk ne=new, ander=man)Neanderthals are so named because the first remains were discovered in the Neander Valley.More than that, the name apparently means 'New man'. How coincidental is that?
Well I knew that bit.
What I didn't know was the Neander Valley was named after Joachim Neander, a Calvinist theologian and hymn writer whose best known work is probably Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren/ Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, King of Creation.
Where Neanderthals fit in the whole creation thing is another question.
What Kelly take-offs are.
Today I are learning that the geographical centre of Croatia is in Bosnia & Herzgovina.
Hope does get by with a little help from its friends when it comes to completing the build: “The dropouts and several connections are titanium 3D-printed, and this is done by Renishaw [a leading scientific and engineering company, who also specialise in 3D metal printing]. The bars and forks are supplied by Lotus.”https://www.renishaw.com
That some of everyone's favourite Lancashire cycle components are made in Gloucestershire.QuoteHope does get by with a little help from its friends when it comes to completing the build: “The dropouts and several connections are titanium 3D-printed, and this is done by Renishaw [a leading scientific and engineering company, who also specialise in 3D metal printing]. The bars and forks are supplied by Lotus.”https://www.renishaw.com
I think Renishaw also make a point of employing disabled people, though possibly I'm mixing them up with some other firm in the same area.
Don't remember this from my time at Renishaw, but things may have changed.That some of everyone's favourite Lancashire cycle components are made in Gloucestershire.QuoteHope does get by with a little help from its friends when it comes to completing the build: “The dropouts and several connections are titanium 3D-printed, and this is done by Renishaw [a leading scientific and engineering company, who also specialise in 3D metal printing]. The bars and forks are supplied by Lotus.”https://www.renishaw.com
I think Renishaw also make a point of employing disabled people, though possibly I'm mixing them up with some other firm in the same area.
I think you might mean Remploy?
The most produced Volkswagen part is Part no 199 398 500 A(click to show/hide)
The most produced Volkswagen part is Part no 199 398 500 A(click to show/hide)
... and in VW dealerships in Germany, customers are treated with free samples of said part, while in all other countries, customers just get useless junk like pens, lighters, etc.
What Kelly take-offs are.
What Kelly take-offs are.
I was curious as I thought they'd be related to a Kelly Drive, so wondering why they'd be referenced here, but they are not at all related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_drive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_drive)
The most produced Volkswagen part is Part no 199 398 500 A(click to show/hide)
... and in VW dealerships in Germany, customers are treated with free samples of said part, while in all other countries, customers just get useless junk like pens, lighters, etc.
You can buy them in the UK from The Sausage Man (https://sausageman.co.uk)
but these vessels were made out of clay, which was referred to as 'pygg' in the Middle Ages. The pronunciation eventually evolved to 'pig', and the shapes of the vessels followed suit.
“I’m a little child,” Patterson would say. “You know the emperor’s new clothes? I can see the naked emperor, just because I’m a little child-minded person. I’m not smart. I mean, good scientists are like that. They have the minds of children, to see through all this façade.”
The quote at the end of that Wikipedia article is excellent.Quote“I’m a little child,” Patterson would say. “You know the emperor’s new clothes? I can see the naked emperor, just because I’m a little child-minded person. I’m not smart. I mean, good scientists are like that. They have the minds of children, to see through all this façade.”
I remember the controversy over lead in automobile fuels. It turns out that a lot of the crime and anti-social behavior in American inner cities was caused at least in part by lead poisoning.
That there is a word - sparko - and it means to be in a deep sleep.
My dear wife had heard the word before. I have attempted - unsuccessfully - to research its etymology but have drawn a blank. There's a suggestion that it dates from the 1960s but where and why was not explained.
There is No limit to the benefits of exercise in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease (https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-01-14-no-limit-benefits-exercise-reducing-risk-cardiovascular-disease#).
Good news for us, I guess.
I have learned that 'Tyre Wipers' were/are a thing.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/zRvsHNbcPS-NfiMwAerpN8kf1LWTpmzke8--zNFmnCb6a3AYfUZUQoS4xa66DM6XkNEK0isHiAVn2Yk3B027o7jfNnqvaPYTzMPrZcW-alcbhhG4NoO--6h-KIJ3E1gYWeRRgyu4_U9B9qpvKVY)
There is No limit to the benefits of exercise in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease (https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-01-14-no-limit-benefits-exercise-reducing-risk-cardiovascular-disease#).
Good news for us, I guess.
My cardiologist reckons that it adds about 10 years of life on average. Mind you, most of the people he sees are already afflicted.
That there is a genetic condition, Williams-Beuren syndrome, one of the effects of which is to make people overly gregarious;
;DThat there is a genetic condition, Williams-Beuren syndrome, one of the effects of which is to make people overly gregarious;
Makes people gather in bakeries.
That the nosewheel on the Trident was offset two feet to the left of the aircraft’s centre line and retracted sideways.Then you may also be pleased to learn, if you don't already know it, that the B-52 main undercarriage is steerable (to 20 degrees either side of centre line) allegedly so that it can be landed in cross-winds. A
When I was in the Air Cadets (mid '70s), we got a tour of a B52 when they were at Marham RAF base. They told us about the wheels being 'steerable' and also that, on take off, the tips of the wings rise 17ft higher than when at rest! :o
I can't remember which of the crew's ejector seats, eject downwards... :-\
When I was in the Air Cadets (mid '70s), we got a tour of a B52 when they were at Marham RAF base. They told us about the wheels being 'steerable' and also that, on take off, the tips of the wings rise 17ft higher than when at rest! :o
I can't remember which of the crew's ejector seats, eject downwards... :-\
I've been sat over wing on an A380, and you can watch the wing take off before the rest of the aeroplane. Watching the flex by about 3m is quite bizarre, but at the same time awesome in terms of materials engineering
I flew to Canuckistan on a 787 a few years ago and it was quite a surprise to a Mr Larrington raised on non-bendy* æroplanes to have to crane upwards to see the wingtip in flight.
* or at least not noticeably bendy, before anyone sets the ghost of Sir Henry Royce** on my donkey
** “Every engineering material behaves more or less like rubber and if approached with a lighted match will expand”
I flew to Canuckistan on a 787 a few years ago and it was quite a surprise to a Mr Larrington raised on non-bendy* æroplanes to have to crane upwards to see the wingtip in flight.
* or at least not noticeably bendy, before anyone sets the ghost of Sir Henry Royce** on my donkey
** “Every engineering material behaves more or less like rubber and if approached with a lighted match will expand”
Kinda telling that Charlie Rolls got his name up front in the partnership when he was just the salesman. Still, he learnt all about the fallibility of engineering materials in 1910.
Well, yesterday in fact.
Claudette Colvin should really receive the accolades in place of Rosa Parkes. Amazing how the civil rights movement in the USA looked beyond her.
Biden has a Rosa Parkes bust in the Oval Office. Somebody should bring him up to date.
Wombats poo cubes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/29/box-seat-scientists-solve-the-mystery-of-why-wombats-have-cube-shaped-poo
Science isn't dull.
Vaccination was a mode of inoculation, the latter word borrowed from horticulture – the grafting of a bud, or ‘eye’ (oculus), to propagate a plant.https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n03/steven-shapin/a-pox-on-the-poor
That Big Bird from Sesame St is different colours in some different countries. For instance blue in the Netherlands, orange in Portugal, green in Mexico. In some countries he's* made to represent real birds (parrot-like in Mexico and Brazil, seagull in France). But why?
That in lithographs, the ink sticks to the greasy drawing, rather than to the un-greased stone. I always imagined the reverse.
Are we sure it's not due to Doppler shift? :)That Big Bird from Sesame St is different colours in some different countries. For instance blue in the Netherlands, orange in Portugal, green in Mexico. In some countries he's* made to represent real birds (parrot-like in Mexico and Brazil, seagull in France). But why?
From the department of wrong answers only: "They rolled out colour television at different times."
Are we sure it's not due to Doppler shift? :)That Big Bird from Sesame St is different colours in some different countries. For instance blue in the Netherlands, orange in Portugal, green in Mexico. In some countries he's* made to represent real birds (parrot-like in Mexico and Brazil, seagull in France). But why?
From the department of wrong answers only: "They rolled out colour television at different times."
Never The Same Colo(u)r.Are we sure it's not due to Doppler shift? :)That Big Bird from Sesame St is different colours in some different countries. For instance blue in the Netherlands, orange in Portugal, green in Mexico. In some countries he's* made to represent real birds (parrot-like in Mexico and Brazil, seagull in France). But why?
From the department of wrong answers only: "They rolled out colour television at different times."
NTSC
Not to be confused with Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club...... whose current name is self-evidently wrong.
Not to be confused with Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club...... whose current name is self-evidently wrong.
Oldham Athletic?
[“No.” – Ed.]
3-in-One oil says "Shake well before use". I never knew that. Teach me not to read the oil "how to use" :o ;D
That in Cameroon there is a brand of cigarette called Bastos, named after a district of Yaounde where many diplomats and ex-pats live. A bit like the (former? present?) brand Mayfair, I suppose.
Okay! Must be just coincidence then. Unless the district was named after the cigarette, but that would be silly.That in Cameroon there is a brand of cigarette called Bastos, named after a district of Yaounde where many diplomats and ex-pats live. A bit like the (former? present?) brand Mayfair, I suppose.
Wikinaccurate claims they’re:
a) originally Spanish, and
b) named after Juan Bastos, who founded the company in 1838
I always thought they were French, mind.
I expect that's on the agenda for after it's proven to work.F'course.
That in 1940 HMG were offering a bounty of 2/6d for live hedgehogs.
That in 1940 HMG were offering a bounty of 2/6d for live hedgehogs.
What were they planning to do with them? I'm imagining them being parachuted behind enemy lines to sabotage the Nazi slug effort...
Hedgehog parachuters is totally a thing.
I was twenty one years when I wrote this songfrom the opening lines of Simon and Garfunkel's The Leaves That Are Green.
I'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long
Sitting on a live horse is OK whether the horse likes it or not.
Sitting on a dead one that couldn't care less anymore is apparently a terrible thing.
What I learned today...
How to get what you want by offending your local MP.
Today I got my letter inviting me to visit the NHS website to book my Covid jab..... this means I am old :facepalm:
Per the website: nearest vaccination centre - a 45 minute drive (or 1h45min ride) away.
Must be some mistake shirley? No, it is confirmed by a call to the 119 Covid helpline.
Further digging on NHS.gov.uk and I find a list of all vaccination centres, searchable by postcode, with no less than 17 closer locations and including one less than a mile away from home !
Cue email to said MP
Who responded very quickly taking exception to my use of the word "shambles" because he apparently spent a day recently working as a volunteer at that same local vaccination centre.
However he did forward my email to both the my local GP and to the vaccination centre and I was called minutes later to book my appointment !
Whilst he could work out which centre it was from my address which I provided (MPs generally don't respond without that) I have absolutely no idea how he came by the information as to which GP I am registered with.
That there's an area of Stoke called Dresden.Makes sense. Maybe an area called Faenza would make sense too, but I dunno how you'd say that in Stoke!
Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
That there's an area of Stoke called Dresden.Makes sense.
But don't let go of the handle.Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
In my mind I see a teapot with Lenin pointing forward to the spout. "The futures is tea and biscuits for the proletariat of the world".
Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
Prouhon probably drank coffee, what would he know about it?
Anyway, I was thinking of Lenin's Green Label.
Never arrange for deliveries to be made to a house on which you haven't completed! In my naivety, I'd assumed that an agreed completion date of last Friday would be the go ahead to get things sent there, but I hadn't counted on the incompetence/chicanery of those in the process. Cue much rearranging!
Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
Not quite. The ne'er-do-wells in Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" also had to crank a car backwards up a Very Steep hill.
Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
Not quite. The ne'er-do-wells in Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" also had to crank a car backwards up a Very Steep hill.
If they're blocked, they usually just leave. It's a tight t-junction between the hill outside a lunar-surfaced lane that constitutes the street behind us. The green waste lorry appears unable to turn corners (they bought a new lorry, the old one was fine). I grinked about this once to Biffa and the chirpy 'waste collection executive' said 'oh no, that's not a new lorry, it's the one we have always used' so I sent her a nice picture of a brand new, shiny lorry with this year's plates (I looked them up) visibly wedged in the junction (it was there for four hours, so I didn't have to hurry). In the spirit of customer service, she never replied and I figured it was their problem. Mostly it reverses up the road, stops, and then drives back down. Comes back the next day. Repeats.
It is well-known that J. S. Bach liked to mess about with numbers and other patterns in his music. There are several instances in which he has spelt his own surname using notes, bearing in mind that in the German scale, what we call B flat was known as B, and B natural as H, so B-A-C-H becomes quite possible.
What I didn't realise until this evening was that Bach was born on 21st March 1685.
21/3/85.
A B C D E F G H
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Now, what do the first 4 digits of his date of birth spell?
I have moved a car (using forward and reverse as required) using the starting handle. It was a Rover P4 that was temporarily without its cylinder head. It need to be moved a few tens of yards for some reason that I forget now. The ground was gravel and not tarmac, so pushing it would have been difficult.Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
I have moved a car (using forward and reverse as required) using the starting handle. It was a Rover P4 that was temporarily without its cylinder head. It need to be moved a few tens of yards for some reason that I forget now. The ground was gravel and not tarmac, so pushing it would have been difficult.Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
I have moved a car (using forward and reverse as required) using the starting handle. It was a Rover P4 that was temporarily without its cylinder head. It need to be moved a few tens of yards for some reason that I forget now. The ground was gravel and not tarmac, so pushing it would have been difficult.Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
Mention of those old P series Rovers brought back some memories - I passed my test in the bigger brother of the P4, a P5 3-litre automatic (before they changed the rules on automatic cars and driving licences) Heavy to drive but very comfortable . . and a bench front-seat - remember them?
It is well-known that J. S. Bach liked to mess about with numbers and other patterns in his music. There are several instances in which he has spelt his own surname using notes, bearing in mind that in the German scale, what we call B flat was known as B, and B natural as H, so B-A-C-H becomes quite possible.Tomorrow: Wowbagger's new career as a numerological diviner.
What I didn't realise until this evening was that Bach was born on 21st March 1685.
21/3/85.
A B C D E F G H
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Now, what do the first 4 digits of his date of birth spell?
About 1985 I had a Saturday job where my boss drove a P5. He also had an AJS that was always broken down.I have moved a car (using forward and reverse as required) using the starting handle. It was a Rover P4 that was temporarily without its cylinder head. It need to be moved a few tens of yards for some reason that I forget now. The ground was gravel and not tarmac, so pushing it would have been difficult.Hmmm. Every car I've ever owned has a lower reverse gear than 1st. Is that the same principle I wonder ?No, it's so you can crank it up the face of Extremely Steep sandy slopes, should one be obstructing you. So far in teh history of teh world only Dear Johnny Mills has needed such a facility.
Mention of those old P series Rovers brought back some memories - I passed my test in the bigger brother of the P4, a P5 3-litre automatic (before they changed the rules on automatic cars and driving licences) Heavy to drive but very comfortable . . and a bench front-seat - remember them?
On the rare occasions that I am obliged to stroll into the middle of Walthamstow I usually pass a healthy-looking 3 litre P5. Battleship grey, appropriately enough. The folks parked next to us at the caravan site in Altnaharra in the summer of 1970 had the coupé version, with the V8 engine, occasioning great car-envy in a six year old Mr Larrington.
My understanding is that that had been taken into consideration when planning Bach's birthday. :PIt is well-known that J. S. Bach liked to mess about with numbers and other patterns in his music. There are several instances in which he has spelt his own surname using notes, bearing in mind that in the German scale, what we call B flat was known as B, and B natural as H, so B-A-C-H becomes quite possible.
What I didn't realise until this evening was that Bach was born on 21st March 1685.
21/3/85.
A B C D E F G H
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Now, what do the first 4 digits of his date of birth spell?
Yebbut that seems to have been before Leipzig and the Surrounding Spaces adopted the Gregorian Calendar ;D
That it can cost £891.20 to ship a Yaris wiper arm to South Africa :o
Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.They seem to be fixies. The link is worth following for the great video too.
In Issus, the skeleton is used to solve a complex problem that the brain and nervous system can’t
Malcolm Burrows
The juvenile Issus - a plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing ‘teeth’ that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronise the animal’s legs when it launches into a jump.
Didn't say they didn't! I'm only interested in getting one sent to me in Staffordshire... But I had a quick squizz down the worldwide shipping list...
The Dutch for a pedant or nit-picker is miereneuker; lit. 'ant-fucker'.
That .fun is a permitted internet domain ending. Specifically http://inside-out.fun.
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.
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 ?
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 . . . .
France has the wealthiest billionaires (https://www.farandwide.com/s/amazing-world-maps-74d6186e6d0e414b?utm_campaign=amazingworldmaps-d7cacdd0b78445cf&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=out&aid=008d034cf1b163e30d943e921a0636ed90&utm_term=Sky+News+%28British+Sky+Broadcasting+Ltd%29&dicbo=v1-0900337d7d7648b73771934e43e7868c-008d034cf1b163e30d943e921a0636ed90-ge2tsmjwme4dkljyg5tdaljume4dgllcgzrtaljvmm2wcojrmzstayjumu) In The World.
Egalite and all that
France has the wealthiest billionaires (https://www.farandwide.com/s/amazing-world-maps-74d6186e6d0e414b?utm_campaign=amazingworldmaps-d7cacdd0b78445cf&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=out&aid=008d034cf1b163e30d943e921a0636ed90&utm_term=Sky+News+%28British+Sky+Broadcasting+Ltd%29&dicbo=v1-0900337d7d7648b73771934e43e7868c-008d034cf1b163e30d943e921a0636ed90-ge2tsmjwme4dkljyg5tdaljume4dgllcgzrtaljvmm2wcojrmzstayjumu) In The World.
Egalite and all that
Are you sure about that? The tope 10 wealthiest people are (in order):
- Jeff Bezos
- Elon Musk
- Bernard Arnault
- Bill Gates
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Warren Buffett
- Larry Ellison
- Larry Page
- Sergey Brin
- Mukesh Ambani
Only one of those is French. 7/10 are American.
The US has 10 times as many billionaires as France - and China has almost 20 time as many.
France has the wealthiest billionaires (https://www.farandwide.com/s/amazing-world-maps-74d6186e6d0e414b?utm_campaign=amazingworldmaps-d7cacdd0b78445cf&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=out&aid=008d034cf1b163e30d943e921a0636ed90&utm_term=Sky+News+%28British+Sky+Broadcasting+Ltd%29&dicbo=v1-0900337d7d7648b73771934e43e7868c-008d034cf1b163e30d943e921a0636ed90-ge2tsmjwme4dkljyg5tdaljume4dgllcgzrtaljvmm2wcojrmzstayjumu) In The World.
Egalite and all that
Are you sure about that? The tope 10 wealthiest people are (in order):
- Jeff Bezos
- Elon Musk
- Bernard Arnault
- Bill Gates
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Warren Buffett
- Larry Ellison
- Larry Page
- Sergey Brin
- Mukesh Ambani
Only one of those is French. 7/10 are American.
The US has 10 times as many billionaires as France - and China has almost 20 time as many.
Examine the picto attentively and you will see it proclaims France has the wealthiest billionaires. Pro rata. US billionaires are ten a penny.
Appropos of billionaires, I learned recently (I think I knew, but I hadn't see it put like this) that humans naturally think about numbers logarithmically, which is why we're not truly shocked by how gargantuan (and grotesque) an amount of money it truly is and what a vast gulf there is between a 'mere' millionaire and a billionaire. Top tip, trying plotting a million and a billion on a non-logarithmic scale.
Appropos of billionaires, I learned recently (I think I knew, but I hadn't see it put like this) that humans naturally think about numbers logarithmically, which is why we're not truly shocked by how gargantuan (and grotesque) an amount of money it truly is and what a vast gulf there is between a 'mere' millionaire and a billionaire. Top tip, trying plotting a million and a billion on a non-logarithmic scale.
That explains how we can cope with computers without getting tangled up in metaphysical dichotomy whenever we have to think about gigabytes.
Surely you'd have to ask “Yea and moreover verily, art thou Jesus, the king of the Israelites, and the Ammonites, and the Midianites, and the Simmonites, and the Canaanites, and the Jacobites, and the Levites, and the Trilobites, and the Ishmaelites, and the Sodomites, and the Adnanites, and the Megabytes, and the Qahtanites, and the Cheesibites?” i.e. in English Just Like Jesus Spoke.
Appropos of billionaires, I learned recently (I think I knew, but I hadn't see it put like this) that humans naturally think about numbers logarithmically, which is why we're not truly shocked by how gargantuan (and grotesque) an amount of money it truly is and what a vast gulf there is between a 'mere' millionaire and a billionaire. Top tip, trying plotting a million and a billion on a non-logarithmic scale.
That explains how we can cope with computers without getting tangled up in metaphysical dichotomy whenever we have to think about gigabytes.
Yes, and in the same way, a gigabyte isn't just a bigger kilobyte.
If you set your time machine to whizz you back one million minutes, you'll be enjoying the pre-COVID world of 2019. If you inadvertently set it to one billion minutes, you can wander around the middle-east asking people with beards 'are you Jesus?'
Surely you'd have to ask “Yea and moreover verily, art thou Jesus, the king of the Israelites, and the Ammonites, and the Midianites, and the Simmonites, and the Canaanites, and the Jacobites, and the Levites, and the Trilobites, and the Ishmaelites, and the Sodomites, and the Adnanites, and the Megabytes, and the Qahtanites, and the Cheesibites?” i.e. in English Just Like Jesus Spoke.
Surely you'd have to ask “Yea and moreover verily, art thou Jesus, the king of the Israelites, and the Ammonites, and the Midianites, and the Simmonites, and the Canaanites, and the Jacobites, and the Levites, and the Trilobites, and the Ishmaelites, and the Sodomites, and the Adnanites, and the Megabytes, and the Qahtanites, and the Cheesibites?” i.e. in English Just Like Jesus Spoke.
You forgot the Marmites.
Surely you'd have to ask “Yea and moreover verily, art thou Jesus, the king of the Israelites, and the Ammonites, and the Midianites, and the Simmonites, and the Canaanites, and the Jacobites, and the Levites, and the Trilobites, and the Ishmaelites, and the Sodomites, and the Adnanites, and the Megabytes, and the Qahtanites, and the Cheesibites?” i.e. in English Just Like Jesus Spoke.
You forgot the Marmites.
Vitalites...Good prompt. 007!
Appropos of billionaires, I learned recently (I think I knew, but I hadn't see it put like this) that humans naturally think about numbers logarithmically, which is why we're not truly shocked by how gargantuan (and grotesque) an amount of money it truly is and what a vast gulf there is between a 'mere' millionaire and a billionaire. Top tip, trying plotting a million and a billion on a non-logarithmic scale.
That explains how we can cope with computers without getting tangled up in metaphysical dichotomy whenever we have to think about gigabytes.
Yes, and in the same way, a gigabyte isn't just a bigger kilobyte.
If you set your time machine to whizz you back one million minutes, you'll be enjoying the pre-COVID world of 2019. If you inadvertently set it to one billion minutes, you can wander around the middle-east asking people with beards 'are you Jesus?'
Just look for someone who resembles David Essex in a nightdress.
It isn't Jesus. It's just a fella
And the complete and utter shites.
And the Wonderlites (remember them?).
[“They were Wonder Lights, clot!” – Ed.]
That the French are voting on making short haul internal flights illegal in favour of the train.Ah, the Pasdeflites?
I see no mention of the Skatalites.Me neither. Long overdue.
I see no mention of the Skatalites.Me neither. Long overdue.
Ermm. No. More this. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWSPL4ANLPY) :)I see no mention of the Skatalites.Me neither. Long overdue.
Skata from the Greek?
I tried bleaching the black bits on the silicone round the shower. I learned that not only did it do next to sod all (as expected) but it also turned some of it pink as well.
Not a very successful experiment, but worth a try.
My colleague was telling me today she had great success with Cillit Bang Black Mould Remover.
I did wonder if my bleach had lost its potency as I was using it neat and the smell didn't blow my head off in the same way I remember it did the last time I used it,
That there is (at least one) real place called Gotham. It's part of Nottingham.
From Wiki (this is delightful).
The village is most famed for the stories of the "Wise Men of Gotham".[3] These depict the people of the village as being stupid. However, the reason for the behaviour is believed to be that the villagers wished to feign madness to avoid a Royal Highway being built through the village, as they would then be expected to build and maintain this route. Madness was believed at the time to be highly contagious, and when King John's knights saw the villagers behaving as if insane, the knights swiftly withdrew and the King's road was re-routed to avoid the village.
Reminded of the foolish ingenuity of Gotham's residents, Washington Irving gave the name "Gotham" to New York City in his Salmagundi Papers (1807). In turn, Bill Finger named Batman's pastiche New York Gotham City.
That there is (at least one) real place called Gotham. It's part of Nottingham.
But will no-one think of the clay minerals?And not forgetting Pub-frontite, the generic geo-term for urban decorative cladding rocks (like Larvikite, e.g)
The Illites
The Chlorites
The Montmorillonites
And all the other-ites
These guys are seriously under-represented.
Junk?
I've got one somewhere. Probably still at Fort Larrington. But it's a rather prosaic clear glass one.
What a "lamb mac" is.
https://www.shearwell.co.uk/protective-slip-on-lamb-macs
What a "lamb mac" is.Plastic macs are all very well but they just end up as litter.
https://www.shearwell.co.uk/protective-slip-on-lamb-macs
What a "lamb mac" is.Plastic macs are all very well but they just end up as litter.
https://www.shearwell.co.uk/protective-slip-on-lamb-macs
In my day you skinned a dead one and wrapped the live ones in that.
Farming: the brutal truths episode xxxii
From οίκος. Various shades of meaning, but home, house or even household or estate according to context. So οικογένεια for family, i.e. of the house(hold) and also (eventually and after the usual drift of meaning) gives us economics to describe the management/study of the "οίκος" where the "household" is a nation or even a group of nations.
Study of oiks? Ermmm, how about μαγκασολογία (mangasology)? From μάγκας, various meanings but one is fairly close to (a wanna be) hard man.
QuoteStudy of oiks? Ermmm, how about μαγκασολογία (mangasology)? From μάγκας, various meanings but one is fairly close to (a wanna be) hard man.
Surely that’s the study of Japanese graphic novels?
About the phenomenon of the "Asian flush". (no, nothing to do with imaginatively designed Japanese toilets)
About the phenomenon of the "Asian flush". (no, nothing to do with imaginatively designed Japanese toilets)
International Organization* for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO**. ISO is derived from the Greek 'isos', meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, we are always ISO.
Less applicable to everyday life up here but perhaps more interesting, there is a mountain in Guinea, not far from Conakry, with the curious name of the Dog Who Smokes – le Chien qui Fume.I can see the dog; head, ear and left shoulder/leg. But, as a geologist, it does not look very volcanic from here.
Despite the name, it doesn't seem to be a volcano. To me, it doesn't look much like a dog either. What do you reckon?
(https://rachelfellowguinee.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/img_2231.jpg?w=700&h=)
That Rhode Island changed its name last year and didn't think to inform me, and not to the name I wanted, Little Rhody the Ornery State. (Sadly a more prosaic The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to The State of Rhode Island, thus depriving me of a bit of dull trivia.)
That Rhode Island changed its name last year and didn't think to inform me, and not to the name I wanted, Little Rhody the Ornery State. (Sadly a more prosaic The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to The State of Rhode Island, thus depriving me of a bit of dull trivia.)
Just had a gander at the Providence Plantations bit on Wiki. These settlers were good at falling out and going off in a huff, weren't they?
People over here do that with Renault Kangoo's or the Citroen equivalent.
About the Vito Russo test, (https://www.glaad.org/sri/2014/vitorusso) described as a "gay Bechdel test".
About the Vito Russo test, (https://www.glaad.org/sri/2014/vitorusso) described as a "gay Bechdel test".
Needs a "...and is still alive at the end of the film (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuryYourGays)".
About the Vito Russo test, (https://www.glaad.org/sri/2014/vitorusso) described as a "gay Bechdel test".
Needs a "...and is still alive at the end of the film (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuryYourGays)".
Shouldn't that come with an XKCD 609 warning? ;)
A single Bitcoin transaction uses 707 kWh. :o
https://www.trgdatacenters.com/most-environment-friendly-cryptocurrencies/
A single Bitcoin transaction uses 707 kWh. :o
https://www.trgdatacenters.com/most-environment-friendly-cryptocurrencies/
Appalling, but I'd like to see an estimate of how much energy the traditional banking system consumes by way of comparison...
Power consumption will keep growing (in theory) up to until it reaches the threshold for bitcoin (21 million – about 18.5 million have been mined to date) - once the mining effort exceeds the value, this is an effect of proof of work, of course, there's no incentive to mine more. So it's unlikely they'll mine all the bitcoin.
It's all a bit made-up, of course, but I have combined all my YACF posts-to-date to produce a non-fungible token. It's yours for £1,000,000.
I'm not really trying to. Presumably the power all goes in CPU churning and coms, but why it has to be so prodigal I've no idea. Smacks of bad design.
Christ, who thought that was a good idea?Finestre? See various of Ian's threads.
Nobody knows! The inventor has an alias and has managed to keep their identity secret from the public. They also created all the inital blocks giving them a large number of bitcoin worth tens of billions today.
The scarcity is not really the bitcoins but the rate at which the blockchain, the list of transactions, can be extended.
Adding data to the blockchain (creating new blocks) is expensive because that is a necessary part of the design. Anyone can add new blocks so the question is how does one decide which new blocks are accepted? The answer is that the longest line of blocks is accepted. If adding new blocks was cheap then I could spend some bitcoin, wait for the transaction to be accepted, then go back to the state before that transaction and create new blocks that did not include transaction -- and if I can create enough new blocks my new line would become the longest line, and I would have cancelled the transaction that spent my bitcoin. By making the process of adding blocks expensive (and bitcoin adjusts the expense as the hashing rate varies) bitcoin attempts to make it impossible for one person to create blocks faster than the majority of all people creating blocks.
Power consumption will keep growing (in theory) up to until it reaches the threshold for bitcoin (21 million – about 18.5 million have been mined to date) - once the mining effort exceeds the value, this is an effect of proof of work, of course, there's no incentive to mine more. So it's unlikely they'll mine all the bitcoin.That's not quite right. There is an overall limit on the number of bitcoin, but miners also get bitcoin from transaction fees. A transaction might transfer a defined amount from one account to another, but it can also transfer slightly more out of the source than goes into the destination -- the difference is then available to the miner. At present miners get newly created bitcoin when they mine a block as well as transaction fees, but once all the bitcoin have been mined they will continue to get transaction fees.
The word taint, meaning perineum, I suppose from persons of confusion being told "'tain't that. No, 'tain't that either".I have only encountered that being used by Leftpondians, especially those of a sub-Mason-Dixon persuasion.
Power consumption will keep growing (in theory) up to until it reaches the threshold for bitcoin (21 million – about 18.5 million have been mined to date) - once the mining effort exceeds the value, this is an effect of proof of work, of course, there's no incentive to mine more. So it's unlikely they'll mine all the bitcoin.That's not quite right. There is an overall limit on the number of bitcoin, but miners also get bitcoin from transaction fees. A transaction might transfer a defined amount from one account to another, but it can also transfer slightly more out of the source than goes into the destination -- the difference is then available to the miner. At present miners get newly created bitcoin when they mine a block as well as transaction fees, but once all the bitcoin have been mined they will continue to get transaction fees.
The astounding thing is that it's all made-up, there nothing to a bitcoin, nothing at all other than faith wrapped in a shroud of superficial cleverness.
Swifts can fuel up on insects without landing, which allows them to remain in flight for about 10 months of the year.
Swift’s can fly 800km in a day.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278226-common-swifts-can-fly-more-than-800-kilometres-a-day-during-migration/amp/QuoteSwifts can fuel up on insects without landing, which allows them to remain in flight for about 10 months of the year.
Swift’s can fly 800km in a day.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278226-common-swifts-can-fly-more-than-800-kilometres-a-day-during-migration/amp/QuoteSwifts can fuel up on insects without landing, which allows them to remain in flight for about 10 months of the year.
According to a different report I saw they can not only refuel but preen in flight. I wouldn't be surprised if they could start a family at the same time.
I wouldn't be surprised if they could start a family at the same time.They do. The only time they land is at the nest. They mate while flying.
They also sleep while flying. A series of nano sleeps apparently.I wouldn't be surprised if they could start a family at the same time.They do. The only time they land is at the nest. They mate while flying.
Swift’s can fly 800km in a day.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278226-common-swifts-can-fly-more-than-800-kilometres-a-day-during-migration/amp/QuoteSwifts can fuel up on insects without landing, which allows them to remain in flight for about 10 months of the year.
According to a different report I saw they can not only refuel but preen in flight. I wouldn't be surprised if they could start a family at the same time.
They do.
Swift’s can fly 800km in a day.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278226-common-swifts-can-fly-more-than-800-kilometres-a-day-during-migration/amp/QuoteSwifts can fuel up on insects without landing, which allows them to remain in flight for about 10 months of the year.
According to a different report I saw they can not only refuel but preen in flight. I wouldn't be surprised if they could start a family at the same time.
They do.
I wouldn't be surprised if they could start a family at the same time.They do. The only time they land is at the nest. They mate while flying.
Swift’s can fly 800km in a day.
Swift’s can fly 800km in a day.
well, they aren't called "Slows".
We live about 8 miles from the large, tall chimney (now disused) of a school building. It's on the swifts migration route, and for about a week at the start and end of summer large flocks of them circle it just before nightfall and then all fly straight down to roost. Local predator birds noticed this, too (along with the humans sitting on portable chairs to watch the spectacle), so measures were taken to make the area less friendly to them.
That the "Care in the Community" policy originated with Enoch Powell in 1961.
Epsom had similar. I believe that one in ten of the population was officially insane. Those institutions too are now all long gone.
Were you living in Epsom when the "Uh Uh !!" newspaper seller stood at the Spread Eagle crossroads ?
50ml of PVA glue, 1/4 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda, and 1/2 teaspoon of contact lens cleaning solution (as long as it contains borax), with a drop of food colouring, makes slime.brilliant. I might borrow that for the granddaughters coming on Saturday morning
It has kept my 4 year old amused all afternoon
Cragfest (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=119576.0)Pretty, but perhaps not as enjoyable as I (and I suspect jsabine) were thinking of for CragFest
Cragfest (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=119576.0)
Probably because there's been recent discussion of shipping containers, I'm now seeing a crate full of dromedaries.Cragfest (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=119576.0)
They're quite lovely - and I'm pleased that you avoided the temptations of CamelCase.
We resisted, so why couldn't cygnet?
Tonight I have learned that there are 2 Mountain Film Festivals appearing at the top of a Google searchI’m pretty sure the Banff one goes on tour (or used to). I’ve been to it in Brighton. :)
One is the Banff MFF and the other is a more global one.
Maybe check whether safesearch is on before you Google MFF in front of an audience though.
I have learned the word cragfest. When climbing, if you stuck and can't go up or down. Ooops.
I have learned the word cragfest. When climbing, if you get stuck and can't go up or down. Ooops.
Given the article I’ve just read on the Graun website, I’m not quite sure how it’s being allowed to be broadcast. It sounds abhorrent.
They keep flashing up trailers for it during shitvert breaks on the live coverage of the Tour. I not sure what kind of research they do into demographics but I suspect the overlap between “Cycle racing fans” and “People likely to watch 'Fuck Island'” is pretty minimal.
Old school x-ray generation resulted in some visible light photons, so there was a glow from the x-ray tubes.
In other exciting radiation trivia, we all have a weak gamma source in our house, the americium-241 in smoke detectors (primarily an alpha emitter, but it spits out low energy gamma photons if you fancy giving your cat a case of the Hulk.)
Today I've taken delivery of a box of scalpel blades.
They are sterilised.
Sterilised by gamma radiation according to what it says n the side of the box.
In other exciting radiation trivia, we all have a weak gamma source in our house, the americium-241 in smoke detectors (primarily an alpha emitter, but it spits out low energy gamma photons if you fancy giving your cat a case of the Hulk.)
Today I've taken delivery of a box of scalpel blades.
They are sterilised.
Sterilised by gamma radiation according to what it says n the side of the box.
Good thing too. Gamma-sterilization doesn't leave any residual radiation.
It's only bad publicity that stops it being used for everything perishable.
You could sterilize fish in a sealed bag with it and leave it out of the fridge for months without it going off.
In other exciting radiation trivia, we all have a weak gamma source in our house, the americium-241 in smoke detectors (primarily an alpha emitter, but it spits out low energy gamma photons if you fancy giving your cat a case of the Hulk.)
Sadly these are going out of fashion now that people have worked out how to make cheap optical smoke detectors that are Not Shit, and combine them with a temperature sensor to detect the fast flaming fires that optical smoke detectors are a bit reticent about. Which means fewer toast alarms, and no radioactive spiders.
(Ideally, you probably want a mixture of detector types, because reasons.)
That the word “Occitan”, the language as she is spoke in Occitanie (formerly Languedoc-Rousillon & Midi-Pyrénées) derives from òc – meaning “yes” – rather than being a mangled version of “Aquitaine”.
That the word “Occitan”, the language as she is spoke in Occitanie (formerly Languedoc-Rousillon & Midi-Pyrénées) derives from òc – meaning “yes” – rather than being a mangled version of “Aquitaine”.
Depending on who you like to believe, this may also be the origin of "OK", meaning "OK".
For a month in 2012 I worked in an art deco building in Merton which previously was the OK Sauce factory.That the word “Occitan”, the language as she is spoke in Occitanie (formerly Languedoc-Rousillon & Midi-Pyrénées) derives from òc – meaning “yes” – rather than being a mangled version of “Aquitaine”.
Depending on who you like to believe, this may also be the origin of "OK", meaning "OK".
Distant memories of the label on OK sauce bottles in the 1950s has it that the suggestion that OK was from "Orl Korrect" being illiterate spelling (I can't check as I think we finished the last bottle we had in the mid-1970s!)
That the word “Occitan”, the language as she is spoke in Occitanie (formerly Languedoc-Rousillon & Midi-Pyrénées) derives from òc – meaning “yes” – rather than being a mangled version of “Aquitaine”.
Depending on who you like to believe, this may also be the origin of "OK", meaning "OK".
Distant memories of the label on OK sauce bottles in the 1950s has it that the suggestion that OK was from "Orl Korrect" being illiterate spelling (I can't check as I think we finished the last bottle we had in the mid-1970s!)
For a month in 2012 I worked in an art deco building in Merton which previously was the OK Sauce factory.
These days it is home to design gurus Seymour Powell.
For a month in 2012 I worked in an art deco building in Merton which previously was the OK Sauce factory.
These days it is home to design gurus Seymour Powell.
Merton? Merton?
I'll have you know that's in Wandsworth - and just round the corner from me.
OH MY FREAKING GOD IT’S A WHISTLE!!!
Further proof that I'm always the last to know...
Queen Anne is dead (https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2014/08/queen-anne-is-dead.html)
The Duchess of Richmond, said to be the model for Britannia on coins, was accompanied by her stuffed pet parrot.
QuoteThe Duchess of Richmond, said to be the model for Britannia on coins, was accompanied by her stuffed pet parrot.
And I bet her hubby said "kill and stuff the confounded thing, I can't stand the racket".
You could once bend or fold a sixpenny piece by hand. Drinking beer all day would cost less than sixpence, hence going out on a bender.
You could once bend or fold a sixpenny piece by hand. Drinking beer all day would cost less than sixpence, hence going out on a bender.
Hmmm... citation needed, as the kids say.
A “bender” is a prolonged, irresponsible, and dangerous bout of drinking and took its name from the patrons of London, England, alehouses during the 1850s.https://zippyfacts.com/why-is-a-binge-drinking-spree-called-a-bender-and-where-did-the-term-come-from/
To promote drinking, it was common for a tavern to offer patrons all they could drink for a tuppence a day, so sixpence was good for three days.
The sixpence coin, which was worth about a quarter, was nicknamed a “bender” because if it wasn’t phony it could be easily bent.
Since this bendable coin guaranteed three days of libation, the subsequent binge became known as a “bender.”
http://The origin of the use of the term "bender" to refer to an extended bout of drinking alcohol is not certain. Some historians think it may refer to the act of bending one's elbow to take a drink, while others believe it is associated with the phrase "getting bent out of shape."https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-bender-67956
You could once bend or fold a sixpenny piece by hand. Drinking beer all day would cost less than sixpence, hence going out on a bender.
Hmmm... citation needed, as the kids say.
Beer token – commonly used but often assigned specifically to the £2 coin, as when it was introduced a pint of beer in Britain commonly cost around £2.Never heard that used for £2 specifically, just as a facetious reference to money in general.
QuoteBeer token – commonly used but often assigned specifically to the £2 coin, as when it was introduced a pint of beer in Britain commonly cost around £2.Never heard that used for £2 specifically, just as a facetious reference to money in general.
When did beer actually cost £2 a pint or thereabouts? It's quite possible I was out of the country, whenever it was!
You could once bend or fold a sixpenny piece by hand. Drinking beer all day would cost less than sixpence, hence going out on a bender.
Hmmm... citation needed, as the kids say.
https://www.royalmint.com/stories/collect/coin-nicknames/ (https://www.royalmint.com/stories/collect/coin-nicknames/)
When did beer actually cost £2 a pint or thereabouts? It's quite possible I was out of the country, whenever it was!
...3 Fountains kriek in the Rake the other year – for about twelve people. That didn't leave any change from £200.
Point pointed. In 2001 I was paying about 4 zloty (a bit less than a quid) for a half litre.When did beer actually cost £2 a pint or thereabouts? It's quite possible I was out of the country, whenever it was!
February 2001, apparently. https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/czms/mm23
By that graph, BEER was about £1.90/pint in summer 1998 when the tokens were first introduced.
I got charged over £7 for a pint at the pub at the end of the audax the other week. That included the 12% tip that was automatically added by the app they insisted on you using to order. Progress, eh?¬!"£$%^&*()_+~@:><?/\|#
You know, I don't think it was 3 Fountains, but it was some kind of expensive kriek because it was on tap and I bought it all down to the pink froth. There were people who pulled faces because it was 'too tart.' Wimps...
And I said the beer was only fit for putting on chips.You know, I don't think it was 3 Fountains, but it was some kind of expensive kriek because it was on tap and I bought it all down to the pink froth. There were people who pulled faces because it was 'too tart.' Wimps...
I'm reminded of the time many years ago when Mrs P, her brother and I went to the 3 Fonteinen tap on our first foray into Belgian gueuzey soury goodness ;D :-X :P
Christ, I’m still smarting from the time I bought *one* point in the Rake.
Graph dunt go far enough back for my Penniless Student Oaf days :'(
That graph is spot on for my student life (I was in Liverpool 1988-91, then Edinburgh 91-95) then I lost track by leaving the country for many years. Beer pricing in the US is far more complicated.
When I first started drinking at the splendid age of 15, beer was 75p a pint, and when the police raided the pub they'd make you pour it down the loo, and then drive off without having made you leave the premises. I figure they had a deal with the landlord because we all had to buy a replacement pint.
The most expensive pint I had recently was £21, but it was awesome and I would have paid double (Pirate Noir by Prairie Artisan, and for the record, three of us shared it). That said, I'm still smarting from the time I footed a round of 3 Fountains kriek in the Rake the other year – for about twelve people. That didn't leave any change from £200.
Even the *paint* on Concorde was special, becos of skin heating. Which any fule orter kno, but I didn't.
I seem to recall that the first pint I bought myself would have been in the Boston Rugby Club bar after a match, circa 1971. 2/6d. A lot of money for a 17yo in those days.Graph dunt go far enough back for my Penniless Student Oaf days :'(
Ditto - I recollect concern when Watneys Red Barrel went up in price to 2/6d a print (that's 12.5p in the new-fangled money we now use)
That graph is spot on for my student life (I was in Liverpool 1988-91, then Edinburgh 91-95) then I lost track by leaving the country for many years. Beer pricing in the US is far more complicated.
When I first started drinking at the splendid age of 15, beer was 75p a pint, and when the police raided the pub they'd make you pour it down the loo, and then drive off without having made you leave the premises. I figure they had a deal with the landlord because we all had to buy a replacement pint.
Hmmm, that graph starts 10 years too late for me. I think we were paying 30p a pint in the Union bar (Portsmouth Poly, St. Paul’s Road, 1975). Shorts were 50p.
That “Lloyd” was a common 19th century word for a shipping company, hence HAPAG-Lloyd* which survives to this day.
* Known in these parts as “Haddock-Floyd”.
We were paying 82p for a pint of Castlemaine XXXX in The Lazy Fox in Birmingham at the end of 1987. If you were willing to go into one of the locals' pubs and drink bitter, 57p. Mild was even cheaper, if you could actually stand the taste. Birmingham was always a little cheaper than average for beer, probably because most of the pubs sold M&B or Ansells swill.
We were paying 82p for a pint of Castlemaine XXXX in The Lazy Fox in Birmingham at the end of 1987. If you were willing to go into one of the locals' pubs and drink bitter, 57p. Mild was even cheaper, if you could actually stand the taste. Birmingham was always a little cheaper than average for beer, probably because most of the pubs sold M&B or Ansells swill.
We were paying 82p for a pint of Castlemaine XXXX in The Lazy Fox in Birmingham at the end of 1987. If you were willing to go into one of the locals' pubs and drink bitter, 57p. Mild was even cheaper, if you could actually stand the taste. Birmingham was always a little cheaper than average for beer, probably because most of the pubs sold M&B or Ansells swill.
We were regularly paying £1 pint in the Student Union bar at UEA (1993-96). The SU kept Adnams going as a business during a very tough period for the company.
I drank for free in the Grad Bar (one of the perks at the time of being a member of the volunteer bar staff).
We were paying 82p for a pint of Castlemaine XXXX in The Lazy Fox in Birmingham at the end of 1987. If you were willing to go into one of the locals' pubs and drink bitter, 57p. Mild was even cheaper, if you could actually stand the taste. Birmingham was always a little cheaper than average for beer, probably because most of the pubs sold M&B or Ansells swill.
We were regularly paying £1 pint in the Student Union bar at UEA (1993-96). The SU kept Adnams going as a business during a very tough period for the company.
I drank for free in the Grad Bar (one of the perks at the time of being a member of the volunteer bar staff).
Yeah but it was 50p a pint in Ritzy's or was that Peppermint Park ?
We were paying 82p for a pint of Castlemaine XXXX in The Lazy Fox in Birmingham at the end of 1987. If you were willing to go into one of the locals' pubs and drink bitter, 57p. Mild was even cheaper, if you could actually stand the taste. Birmingham was always a little cheaper than average for beer, probably because most of the pubs sold M&B or Ansells swill.
I remember that when we went for a not very sneaky pint on Friday lunchtimes during sixth form, half the teachers would already be the pub doing the same. Oh for lunchtime drinking. Mind you, they never got a round in.When I worked in Embra City Chambers in the mid 70s, it was a weekly custom that most of the "workforce" would decant to the many pubs in the Royal Mile of a Friday lunchtime. This was, when I joined the Cooncil, in the days when pubs would close for the afternoon at 2.30. giving everyone a wee hint that it was time return to our desks. Then, after a couple of years, the law changed and pubs could stay open all afternoon.
I remember that when we went for a not very sneaky pint on Friday lunchtimes during sixth form, half the teachers would already be the pub doing the same. Oh for lunchtime drinking. Mind you, they never got a round in.When I worked in Embra City Chambers in the mid 70s, it was a weekly custom that most of the "workforce" would decant to the many pubs in the Royal Mile of a Friday lunchtime. This was, when I joined the Cooncil, in the days when pubs would close for the afternoon at 2.30. giving everyone a wee hint that it was time return to our desks. Then, after a couple of years, the law changed and pubs could stay open all afternoon.
You'll never guess what the outcome was.
My boss, to our small friendly team: "Erm, guys, it's ten past four, maybe we should head back to the office."
Buggered if I can remember what beer cost when I started buying* it, but it has always seemed expensive to me.
*An entirely different thing from *drinking* it. :)
We were paying 82p for a pint of Castlemaine XXXX in The Lazy Fox in Birmingham at the end of 1987. If you were willing to go into one of the locals' pubs and drink bitter, 57p. Mild was even cheaper, if you could actually stand the taste. Birmingham was always a little cheaper than average for beer, probably because most of the pubs sold M&B or Ansells swill.
We were regularly paying £1 pint in the Student Union bar at UEA (1993-96). The SU kept Adnams going as a business during a very tough period for the company.
I drank for free in the Grad Bar (one of the perks at the time of being a member of the volunteer bar staff).
Yeah but it was 50p a pint in Ritzy's or was that Peppermint Park ?
Buggered if I can remember what beer cost when I started buying* it, but it has always seemed expensive to me.
*An entirely different thing from *drinking* it. :)
We were paying 82p for a pint of Castlemaine XXXX in The Lazy Fox in Birmingham at the end of 1987. If you were willing to go into one of the locals' pubs and drink bitter, 57p. Mild was even cheaper, if you could actually stand the taste. Birmingham was always a little cheaper than average for beer, probably because most of the pubs sold M&B or Ansells swill.
We were regularly paying £1 pint in the Student Union bar at UEA (1993-96). The SU kept Adnams going as a business during a very tough period for the company.
I drank for free in the Grad Bar (one of the perks at the time of being a member of the volunteer bar staff).
Yeah but it was 50p a pint in Ritzy's or was that Peppermint Park ?
I never actually made it to Peppermint Park in three years at UEA. I don't know whether to be embarrassed or proud...
That four-finger swipes on a fondleslab don’t work if you have a plaster on the tip of your little finger.
How to understand the circle of 5ths.I have one, laminated, next to my music stand. Covered in chinagraph pencil annotations.
Heavy whipping cream won't suffer from being deep-frozen. One site suggests freezing it in ice-cube trays so that small portions can be used without thawing the lot.
Just as well, since the only size of cream MrsT could find today was one litre and it's at its sell-by date.
Heavy whipping cream won't suffer from being deep-frozen. One site suggests freezing it in ice-cube trays so that small portions can be used without thawing the lot.
Just as well, since the only size of cream MrsT could find today was one litre and it's at its sell-by date.
I'm pretty sure one used to be able to get frozen whipping cream years ago - if memory serves, it came in the form of small cylindrical blocks in a bag.
That Somerset has an official fingerpost restoration project. (https://www.somerset.gov.uk/waste-planning-and-land/somerset-fingerpost-restoration-project/)Volunteers brandishing paint and brushes were a frequent sight around these parts a while ago.
That not all fingerposts look like this.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51380294841_cb0ebb6db0.jpg)
(https://flic.kr/p/2mhirAr)
That the Welsh for furlong is Ystad (which also means 'estate').
.. and she said "Oh yes, someone who taught Darwin was black." (She mentioned the name but I do not remember it.)
That in the 1960s, Fordson tractors ran on paraffin, because it was much cheaper than petrol or diesel, but they still needed petrol to prime. I don't know if this was make-specific or a general feature of tractors at the time. Further, that around 1966 petrol rationing was very briefly introduced as a result of collision in the Suez Canal.
That looks exactly like the tractor my father-in-law built for himself! That was from the 90s and had a diesel engine (no, he didn't make the engine himself).
My late F-i-L had both a grey and a red Fergie. Our kids' first driving experiences were on the red one. Great bits of kit.That looks exactly like the tractor my father-in-law built for himself! That was from the 90s and had a diesel engine (no, he didn't make the engine himself).
I can't remember the precise age of my TVO Ferguson in the picture - I think it was late 1940s/early 1950s. Later models when Ferguson morphed into Massey Ferguson did have diesel engines and were painted red instead of grey. The real innovation with the Fergie was the lifting/PTO mechanism at the back that allowed all sorts of implements to be used - mowers, transport boxes, ploughs, harrows . . . and the PTO to drive things like saw benches and log-splitters. That same system is the basis for the rear end of today's tractors.
Two of my daughters did their first driving on the tractor, at the ages of about 6 and 8. The throttle was a lever on the steering column and you sat pretty much on top of the gearbox with the lever between your legs - pedals (and footrests) for clutch and brake were either side and just forward of the gearbox.
Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press, and this fictional account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is still of considerable interest to outdoor minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper.
"Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savor these sidelights on the management of a Midlands shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion this book cannot take the place of J.R. Miller's Practical Gamekeeping" (Ed Zern, Field and Stream, November 1959, p. 142).
Thank you, Tomsk, interesting... and she said "Oh yes, someone who taught Darwin was black." (She mentioned the name but I do not remember it.)
John Edmonstone - a taxidermist who worked for, amongst other, the University of Edinburgh Medical School. A freed slave from British Guiana, taught by naturalist and explorer Charles Waterton (and plantation owner, it has to be said). Darwin describes Edmonstone in his autobiography as "a very pleasant and intelligent man" - the former witnessed many of the horrors of colonialism on his travels, though maybe Edmonstone also influenced Darwin's abolitionist beliefs.
Ah but did you allow your manservant to read it?
That Field and Stream, a hunting shooting, fishing magazine reviewed a book by DH Lawrence in 1959QuoteAlthough written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press, and this fictional account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is still of considerable interest to outdoor minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper.
"Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savor these sidelights on the management of a Midlands shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion this book cannot take the place of J.R. Miller's Practical Gamekeeping" (Ed Zern, Field and Stream, November 1959, p. 142).
This was apparently the first legal unexpurgated publication of the book and the alternative book recommended does not actually exist.
I remember as a teenager reading my father's Penguin copy which was published in 1960 after I was born.
I guess the box by her feet is for tools?I assumed that was a battery. Looking more closely it does appear to have a small petrol tank on the opposite side to the camera.
It does look like a battery. Would a little two-stroke (I'm presuming it's two-stroke from its appearance and size) engine like that need a battery? I suppose it might be difficult to start with only a magneto.I guess the box by her feet is for tools?I assumed that was a battery. Looking more closely it does appear to have a small petrol tank on the opposite side to the camera.
I guess the box by her feet is for tools?I assumed that was a battery. Looking more closely it does appear to have a small petrol tank on the opposite side to the camera.
The driver stood on a platform with 10-inch tires and operated the machine using only the handlebars and steering column, pushing them forward to engage the clutch, using a lever on the handlebar to control the throttle, and pulling the handlebars and column back to disengage the clutch and apply the brake.[1][2][3][4] After riding, the steering column would be folded onto the platform to store the scooter more easily. The engine was an air-cooled, 4-stroke, 155 cc engine over the front wheel.[2][3] The bike came with a headlamp and tail lamp, a Klaxon horn, and a toolbox. Developed during wartime and gasoline rationing, it was quite efficient, but was not widely distributed.[2]
According to Wiki, Florence Priscilla, Lady Norman is sporting this season's Autoped:QuoteThe driver stood on a platform with 10-inch tires and operated the machine using only the handlebars and steering column, pushing them forward to engage the clutch, using a lever on the handlebar to control the throttle, and pulling the handlebars and column back to disengage the clutch and apply the brake.[1][2][3][4] After riding, the steering column would be folded onto the platform to store the scooter more easily. The engine was an air-cooled, 4-stroke, 155 cc engine over the front wheel.[2][3] The bike came with a headlamp and tail lamp, a Klaxon horn, and a toolbox. Developed during wartime and gasoline rationing, it was quite efficient, but was not widely distributed.[2]
No room for a helmet with that fancy millinery either.
That Cheap Trick At Budokan was actually recorded at a show in Osaka and not at the Budokan at all. Boo! Money back …That'll be £3,50 for my yellow, transparent copy bought in 1980.
That the word 'meander' is derived from the name of this river:
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-_wlEiMR2Wo8%2FU9_A6ad4NwI%2FAAAAAAAAC1M%2FzMqNrUb8ejY%2Fs1600%2Fmeandering-river.jpg&f=1&nofb=1) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk_Menderes_River)
You took the words out of my mouth!That the word 'meander' is derived from the name of this river:
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-_wlEiMR2Wo8%2FU9_A6ad4NwI%2FAAAAAAAAC1M%2FzMqNrUb8ejY%2Fs1600%2Fmeandering-river.jpg&f=1&nofb=1) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk_Menderes_River)
Looks like there'll be oxbow lakes soon!
I say billabongThat the word 'meander' is derived from the name of this river:
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-_wlEiMR2Wo8%2FU9_A6ad4NwI%2FAAAAAAAAC1M%2FzMqNrUb8ejY%2Fs1600%2Fmeandering-river.jpg&f=1&nofb=1) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk_Menderes_River)
Looks like there'll be oxbow lakes soon!
You took the words out of my mouth!That the word 'meander' is derived from the name of this river:
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-_wlEiMR2Wo8%2FU9_A6ad4NwI%2FAAAAAAAAC1M%2FzMqNrUb8ejY%2Fs1600%2Fmeandering-river.jpg&f=1&nofb=1) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk_Menderes_River)
Looks like there'll be oxbow lakes soon!
Horace Batclelor! ;D :thumbsup: Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.
What a team, Zebra Kid and Horace Batchelor on percussion.
Horace Batclelor! ;D :thumbsup: Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.
Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.
Horace Batclelor! ;D :thumbsup: Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.
Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.
Nah, Caroline was (much later) for kids - Luxembourg with the signal fading and then coming back was the real deal. Where would we be without the Teen & Twenty Disc Club?
Horace Batclelor! ;D :thumbsup: Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.
Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.
Nah, Caroline was (much later) for kids - Luxembourg with the signal fading and then coming back was the real deal. Where would we be without the Teen & Twenty Disc Club?
I could tell you that!
Horace Batclelor! ;D :thumbsup: Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.
Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.
Nah, Caroline was (much later) for kids - Luxembourg with the signal fading and then coming back was the real deal.
That at least one mid-western USAnian Packers fan of my acquaintance believes, as he told a colleague and me this morning "Americans undertsand "inflammable" to mean it wont burn" :o
Horace Batclelor! ;D :thumbsup: Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets.
Radio Luxembourg was not cool when you could have Caroline between the sheets.
Nah, Caroline was (much later) for kids - Luxembourg with the signal fading and then coming back was the real deal. Where would we be without the Teen & Twenty Disc Club?
7 transistors in your radio and you were good to go for Luxembourg. Who was that bloke that was always advertising something from Keynsham?
7 transistors in your radio and you were good to go for Luxembourg. Who was that bloke that was always advertising something from Keynsham?
The aforementioned Horace Batchelor?
7 transistors in your radio and you were good to go for Luxembourg. Who was that bloke that was always advertising something from Keynsham?
The aforementioned Horace Batchelor?
... he of the "Famous Infra-Draw Method" for forecasting results on the football pools. Do they still have football pools with the paper forms and crosses/zeroes etc or is it all betting shops/online now? When I first went to work in the mid-60s we had a pools syndicate .... I can remember a winning share on just one week in about 3 years - 10/- (50p)
That the Spanish for mobile library is bibliobús
The first Messerschmidt Bf 109 prototype was powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine.
The first Messerschmidt Bf 109 prototype was powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine.
Well, Anglo-German relations were still cordial enough in the mid-30s - at the same time, Rolls-Royce bought a Heinkel He 70* for use as an engine test bed, and in 1936-37, it was used to test the engine which evolved into the Merlin.
* Some sources suggest that the He 70 was traded for four Kestrel engines, one of which was used in the Bf 108 prototype. If that was the case, I wonder who got the better end of the deal...
That AAAA batteries exist! I've spent nearly 40 years on this planet without ever having encountered one before.
That AAAA batteries exist! I've spent nearly 40 years on this planet without ever having encountered one before.
If you really want your mind blown, most 9V PP3 batteries contain 6 AAAAs in series huddled together. Either that or 6 lozenge cells stacked on top of each other.
If you like that, then you'll love B cells. They're the ones that make up those 4.5V lantern batteries that nothing made this century uses.
I had a (halogen) head torch that used them that I think last got used in about 1998.
More surprisingly, I noticed they were still for sale in some shop or other relatively recently.
I'm pretty sure the original Petzl head torches had one of those batteries. My younger brother had one, I seem to remember him constantly whingeing about not being able to get replacement batteries in any location close to where you would like to be using the thing! I had one of the Petzl Max head torches, a bit bigger and heavier, but at least it used 3 x AA *or* 3 x AAA batteries, available from any corner shop/garage/off licence/etc...Yes, I've got an old Petzl Zoom that used those square batteries. But I got an adapter, so can use 3 x AA instead.
I had a (halogen) head torch that used them that I think last got used in about 1998.
More surprisingly, I noticed they were still for sale in some shop or other relatively recently.
I'm pretty sure the original Petzl head torches had one of those batteries. My younger brother had one, I seem to remember him constantly whingeing about not being able to get replacement batteries in any location close to where you would like to be using the thing! I had one of the Petzl Max head torches, a bit bigger and heavier, but at least it used 3 x AA *or* 3 x AAA batteries, available from any corner shop/garage/off licence/etc...
I had a (halogen) head torch that used them that I think last got used in about 1998.
More surprisingly, I noticed they were still for sale in some shop or other relatively recently.
I'm pretty sure the original Petzl head torches had one of those batteries. My younger brother had one, I seem to remember him constantly whingeing about not being able to get replacement batteries in any location close to where you would like to be using the thing! I had one of the Petzl Max head torches, a bit bigger and heavier, but at least it used 3 x AA *or* 3 x AAA batteries, available from any corner shop/garage/off licence/etc...
Now I'm pondering an xkcd-style chart of battery specialisation vs annoyingness...Ever Ready B122s & B121s. My dad's old multimeter is perfectly servicable apart from needing a B122 which
Quote from: KimNow I'm pondering an xkcd-style chart of battery specialisation vs annoyingness...Ever Ready B122s & B121s. My dad's old multimeter is perfectly servicable apart from needing a B122 whichiswas, "Specially designed for hearing aids, photoflash and electronic equipment." Twenty one and a half volts?
Twenty one and a half volts?
Yes, but in imperial units, 22.5 volts = 1 tinglefinger.
... tonguejolt ...I'm nicking those and will shamelessly pass them off as my own invention. :)
The USSR had built the atom bomb (1949), the hydrogen bomb (1953), put a man into orbit (1961) and become the first nation to fly a supersonic airliner (1968) before they built their first toilet-paper factory (1969).A situation an American wrote about:
The USSR had built the atom bomb (1949), the hydrogen bomb (1953), put a man into orbit (1961) and become the first nation to fly a supersonic airliner (1968) before they built their first toilet-paper factory (1969).
The USSR had built the atom bomb (1949), the hydrogen bomb (1953), put a man into orbit (1961) and become the first nation to fly a supersonic airliner (1968) before they built their first toilet-paper factory (1969).A situation an American wrote about:
https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4
Car body filler (the stuff that's a putty you mix with a drop of hardener) works a treat for filling large-ish holes in walls, and repairing damaged wooden furniture. Dries hard in about 15 minutes and can be sanded smooth after about an hour.
Seems like the YT furniture flippers love it - trade name there is Bondo!
During the 1965 Leyton by-election campaign, Denis Healey prevented a stage invasion by noted fash shitbag Colin Jordan with a bunch of fives (https://youtu.be/23JqSNPqtFY) :thumbsup:
During the 1965 Leyton by-election campaign, Denis Healey prevented a stage invasion by noted fash shitbag Colin Jordan with a bunch of fives (https://youtu.be/23JqSNPqtFY) :thumbsup:
Is that the Colin Jordan depicted on Ridley Road on BBC1?
During the 1965 Leyton by-election campaign, Denis Healey prevented a stage invasion by noted fash shitbag Colin Jordan with a bunch of fives (https://youtu.be/23JqSNPqtFY) :thumbsup:
Is that the Colin Jordan depicted on Ridley Road on BBC1?
Harold "Harry" Joseph Stiff (23 October 1881 – 17 April 1939) was an English tug of war competitor who debuted at the age of 38 in the 1920 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal representing Great Britain, as part of the City of London Police.[1] He later became a landowner of the Horse and Groom Public House, Cornish Hall End, close to Finchingfield, Essex.[2]The glory days of the Olympic spirit!
The amount of morphine needed to stun a rhino.Fun day out at the zoo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgELGrC98Wow. I note the "hope they learned a lesson" comment – I'd say they were at least stunned, overturned and quite likely overdosed and RIP.
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Barakta has repeatedly claimed that she was on enough morphine to stun a rhino. So I looked it up. Turns out that they're surprisingly difficult to stun and you need at least an order of magnitude more equivalent dose than she was taking.
She wasn't even on enough to stun a baby rhino, which would be bad news for the car. If we had a car.
Well from further discussion this morning, it turns out morphine is really bad at stunning rhinos as are ketamines and you're better off using synthetic stuff with NxOx type chemical compounds in them. It's a constant tradeoff between not stunning the rhino sufficiently and stunning it too much and having its heart stop beating...There is an advantage to being a rhino - Emma Thynn said that her favourite job is smeaaring mud onto the rhinos at Longleat.
I think the figure Kim used on Twitter was 8000mg but I think by weight that's not too different to what I was taking at my highest as Rah did maths to calculate needed amount to stun a baby rhino... As you do...
I am not sure about now being more compared to a rhino... My own fault I fear.
That in the 60's you could buy a turbine powered back axle for cars.
That is, a turbine powered by rocket fuel driving the back axle (don't forget to engage neutral first, your valves and pistons will thank you) - Turbonique Turbo Drag-Axle (https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/turbonique-delivered-the-rocket-cars)
<fx>knock knock</fx>
Who's that?
It's the postman, I've got that 55 gallon drum of isopropyl nitrate that you ordered.
why bother unwrapping it, save yourselves 30 seconds for more choclolate
In order to enjoy a bar of Dairy Milk at its very best, open at either end. It doesn't matter which. Then throw it away and have some decent chocolate.
Wot he said.
This ^^^^. I accidentally bought plain chocolate digestives last week :sick:
This ^^^^. I accidentally bought plain chocolate digestives last week :sick:
Oh dear. Even plain chocolate digestives are preferable to rich tea.This ^^^^. I accidentally bought plain chocolate digestives last week :sick:
One of my fecking-div moments happened years ago when I asked a friend visiting from the UK to bring some rich tea biscuits with her. As soon as I saw them I realized I had meant digestives. :facepalm:
Suspicious that rich tea biscuits [Notable for being neither rich, nor tea flavoured - Ed] are one of those bland foods designed to stop people masturbating.
Pish to thee, Sirrah! Hobnobs are the One True Biscuit unless you want CHOKLIT on them. In which case it's the CHOKLIT Hobnob. Savoury biscuit? Hobnob with a piece of cheese.
Pish to thee, Sirrah! Hobnobs are the One True Biscuit unless you want CHOKLIT on them. In which case it's the CHOKLIT Hobnob. Savoury biscuit? Hobnob with a piece of cheese.
What of the Stroopwafel, from ABROAD where the FOREIGNS come from?
They are an acceptable substitute, though Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles puts them in a different aisle from the biscuits. He obviously thinks they are some variety of CAEK.Pish to thee, Sirrah! Hobnobs are the One True Biscuit unless you want CHOKLIT on them. In which case it's the CHOKLIT Hobnob. Savoury biscuit? Hobnob with a piece of cheese.What of the Stroopwafel, from ABROAD where the FOREIGNS come from?
Gosh, I'd totally forgotten about Stroopwafels, the joys of Schipol airport having been consigned to the pandemic dustbin of history.
:'(...
Pish to thee, Sirrah! Hobnobs are the One True Biscuit unless you want CHOKLIT on them. In which case it's the CHOKLIT Hobnob. Savoury biscuit? Hobnob with a piece of cheese.
Pish to thee, Sirrah! Hobnobs are the One True Biscuit unless you want CHOKLIT on them. In which case it's the CHOKLIT Hobnob. Savoury biscuit? Hobnob with a piece of cheese.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=14685.0 refers.
[he hides them from me in his office]
That there are still live firing ranges on Hythe beach.
That there are still live firing ranges on Hythe beach.
That there are still live firing ranges on Hythe beach.
I'm assuming you mean the Hythe in Kent, not the one in Hampshire, which does have a sort of beach.
That there's a word for efflorescence.
That shite courier company Yodel is ultimately owned by the Barclay Brother.
Poured bleach into ramekin last Saturday.
Perforated ramekin with dark matter oozing forth yesterday.
Poured bleach into ramekin last Saturday.
Perforated ramekin with dark matter oozing forth yesterday.
Poured bleach into ramekin last Saturday.
Perforated ramekin with dark matter oozing forth yesterday.
Don't knock it, it hold the Universe together.
That household bleach will eat its way through a stainless steel ramekin in fewer than four days.
Poured bleach into ramekin last Saturday.
Perforated ramekin with dark matter oozing forth yesterday.
Don't knock it, it hold the Universe together.
I think you'll find that'll be gaffer tape, which has a light side and a dark side, and it binds the universe...
BTW, I learned today that having a light right over your desk means that flies die in your tea.Knowledge of true practical value.
BTW, I learned today that having a light right over your desk means that flies die in your tea.
Poured bleach into ramekin last Saturday.
Perforated ramekin with dark matter oozing forth yesterday.
Don't knock it, it hold the Universe together.
I think you'll find that'll be gaffer tape, which has a light side and a dark side, and it binds the universe...
Duc{t,k} tape in the version I heard.
…the UK estimate is 5/100.Hell’s bells! That’s loads more than I’d have thought!
…the UK estimate is 5/100.Hell’s bells! That’s loads more than I’d have thought!
Is that private ownership, or does it include all the guns in the country (like service stuff)?
That I was born on the last ever Empire Day in Britain.
I now have it confirmed you're not my Uncle Robbie because that was the day he found out he failed.That I was born on the last ever Empire Day in Britain.
IIRC I got my 11+ result (passed) on the last Empire Day
Also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_of_households_with_guns_by_country (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_of_households_with_guns_by_country)
which gives % of households owning guns of all sorts and % of households owning handguns. In the UK, 6% and 0.4% , presumably most gun-owning households are pheasant-shooting types or farmers with shotguns. In the USA, 42% and 22% so even there it's not the norm for a household or individual to own a gun; the figures are skewed by some nuts with multiple guns.*
*Just like the figures for pedal cycles per 1000 people in the UK are skewed by YACF!
By my not necessarily trustworthy arithmetic, if we assume 100 single-person households, of which 42 own guns, and the total number of guns is 120, that's just under 3 guns per gun owner.Also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_of_households_with_guns_by_country (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_of_households_with_guns_by_country)
which gives % of households owning guns of all sorts and % of households owning handguns. In the UK, 6% and 0.4% , presumably most gun-owning households are pheasant-shooting types or farmers with shotguns. In the USA, 42% and 22% so even there it's not the norm for a household or individual to own a gun; the figures are skewed by some nuts with multiple guns.*
*Just like the figures for pedal cycles per 1000 people in the UK are skewed by YACF!
Something odd there. If there is no significant difference between the numbers of people in gun-owning and non-gun-owning houses, wouldn't that mean that - in the average household where there is a gun at all, there are at least two for every member?
I discovered yesterday that the track “Warning” off of that Sabbath's eponymous debut album was in fact a cover, the original being by The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. Which I learned when DJ Random played the said original, which I didn’t even know I had.Thanks, I suppose. I'd completely forgotten about the Retaliation. I shall now have to go rummaging around the internet to satisfy my nostalgia craving.
Today I are learning that Shark Tank is the USAnian version of Dragon's Den. The original was a Japanese show yclept Money Tigers. Which makes finding pictures of Bond villains consigning hapless underlings to the mercy of the elasmobranchs more trouble than it’s worth.
Also if you just put “shark” into a FWSE the first result is for a bloody vacuum cleaner ???
That there are things called Chupa-Chups Melody Pops, a cross between a boiled sweet and a kazoo.
That there are things called Chupa-Chups Melody Pops, a cross between a boiled sweet and a kazoo.Oh I thought they were meant to be whistles or was that another company's imitation?
They are still a thing here in DEThat there are things called Chupa-Chups Melody Pops, a cross between a boiled sweet and a kazoo.
Those were a thing when I was a young
That a Brompton isn't legally a bicycle in Texas.Wheels too small? Folding frame not allowed? ??? And does this mean it's not legal to ride one, or just that you're not legally riding a bicycle if you do?
What restrictions apply to a Not-A-Bicycle? Does that mean that it can't be ridden on the roads in Texas, but is allowed in the shopping maul?
Is it 20 inches in actual measured diameter? Because almost all “20 inch” sizes aren’t.
(The nominal sizes relate to using a given rim with giant balloon tyres that we don’t use anymore)
I ride with 28-406 front tyres on my velomobile and had to set the motor wheel size to 18 inch to get speed readings that were similar to my Garmin.Is it 20 inches in actual measured diameter? Because almost all “20 inch” sizes aren’t.
(The nominal sizes relate to using a given rim with giant balloon tyres that we don’t use anymore)
This ^^^^. My grate frend gNick rode the Hotter Than Hell 100 miler out of Wichita Falls TX a few years back, on a (borrowed) Optima Baron, on which the front wheel was a skinny 406; which my back-of-a-jiffy-bag calculations reckon about 18” diameter when the tyre is pumped up.
Reference to a deliberate misspelling from Terry Pratchett, although I don't know if Ankh-Mopork shops would be any more dangerous than those in Texas.What restrictions apply to a Not-A-Bicycle? Does that mean that it can't be ridden on the roads in Texas, but is allowed in the shopping maul?
Nah, you're expected to use your fists to clear your way to the bargains at opening time on Black Friday like everyone else - belabouring people with a folded Brompton in its travel case is considered a tad unsporting. ;)
Reference to a deliberate misspelling from Terry Pratchett, although I don't know if Ankh-Mopork shops would be any more dangerous than those in Texas.What restrictions apply to a Not-A-Bicycle? Does that mean that it can't be ridden on the roads in Texas, but is allowed in the shopping maul?
Nah, you're expected to use your fists to clear your way to the bargains at opening time on Black Friday like everyone else - belabouring people with a folded Brompton in its travel case is considered a tad unsporting. ;)
Just saw a video where a bloke easily slid grips onto a flat bar by blasting compressed air in as he pushed them on. He shoved the nozzle under the end nearest the stem.
Just saw a video where a bloke easily slid grips onto a flat bar by blasting compressed air in as he pushed them on. He shoved the nozzle under the end nearest the stem.
All sounds a bit complicated - what's wrong with the hairspray method? - spray the bars, slide grips on and the hairspray lubricates and then holds them in position, stopping rotation (you may have to cut the grips to get them off) When I ran an LBS people wondered why there was a can of hairspray on the shelf in the workshop area!
Can someone explain to me the physics of that? Is it just that the jet of compressed air is reducing friction between grips and bars so making it easier to push them along?
I'm guessing that this is the video that T42 saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qseRtY5eX94
The grips that it seems to work really well on look like Ourys which are very soft rubber. I don't have a compressor but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate off. They go on easily and stay put but getting them off again would undoubtedly be easier with a compressor.
I'm guessing that this is the video that T42 saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qseRtY5eX94
The grips that it seems to work really well on look like Ourys which are very soft rubber. I don't have a compressor but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate off. They go on easily and stay put but getting them off again would undoubtedly be easier with a compressor.
... but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate...Evaporate? Waste of good beer. :)
Quote from: JonBuoy... but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate...Evaporate? Waste of good beer. :)
I'm guessing that this is the video that T42 saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qseRtY5eX94
The grips that it seems to work really well on look like Ourys which are very soft rubber. I don't have a compressor but do have a can of IPA so I just use that to fit my Ourys and wait a while for it to evaporate off. They go on easily and stay put but getting them off again would undoubtedly be easier with a compressor.
For getting them off (assuming you're not just cutting them off because the grips are knackered) you can weasel the straw of a can of IPA or WD40 or similar under the grip, and work the lubricant along by massaging the grip until it just slides off. Grip and bars will then need cleaning if you've used something oily.
If it were the only choice, I'd rather drink propan-2-ol than Greene King IPA. I can't imagine this makes me unique among the people who have tried Greene King IPA.
That from 1967 to 2002, the Cadillac Eldorado was front-wheel drive, including the 8.2l V8 versions :o
I learned this today, and it made me larf:
Boris Johnson has an ethics adviser (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/10/boris-johnson-ethics-adviser-could-quit-over-downing-street-flat-scandal-lord-geidt)
Torque-steer is almost unheard of with equal length drive shafts. The FWD system on those cars had a longitudinal engine, with the power coming out of the back, and drive shaft off to the left. The differential would have been well to the left, but the right-hand drive shaft would have to supported as it went across from left to right of the engine, with a CV joint on the right of the engine. A single long drive shaft wouldn't have had the clearance to give suspension travel. It's the long right-hand driveshaft from a left-mounted differential on transverse engine FWD cars that leads to torque steer.That from 1967 to 2002, the Cadillac Eldorado was front-wheel drive, including the 8.2l V8 versions :o
Preceded by the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado of similar heft. Apparently the FWD system worked well and there was no torque steer in spite of having a big-block V8 supplying the torques, but the same could not be said of the (drum) brakes, which came with The Book of Common Prayer as standard. The oily bits also did service in the GMC motorhome.
Torque-steer is almost unheard of with equal length drive shafts. The FWD system on those cars had a longitudinal engine, with the power coming out of the back, and drive shaft off to the left. The differential would have been well to the left, but the right-hand drive shaft would have to supported as it went across from left to right of the engine, with a CV joint on the right of the engine. A single long drive shaft wouldn't have had the clearance to give suspension travel. It's the long right-hand driveshaft from a left-mounted differential on transverse engine FWD cars that leads to torque steer.That from 1967 to 2002, the Cadillac Eldorado was front-wheel drive, including the 8.2l V8 versions :o
Preceded by the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado of similar heft. Apparently the FWD system worked well and there was no torque steer in spite of having a big-block V8 supplying the torques, but the same could not be said of the (drum) brakes, which came with The Book of Common Prayer as standard. The oily bits also did service in the GMC motorhome.
The arrangement is much like the FWD part of a lot of modern 4WD systems with independent suspension.
I saw that on the photo in Wikipedia. It reminded me of the transfer chain that's in a lot of 4WD systems with longitudinal engines.Torque-steer is almost unheard of with equal length drive shafts. The FWD system on those cars had a longitudinal engine, with the power coming out of the back, and drive shaft off to the left. The differential would have been well to the left, but the right-hand drive shaft would have to supported as it went across from left to right of the engine, with a CV joint on the right of the engine. A single long drive shaft wouldn't have had the clearance to give suspension travel. It's the long right-hand driveshaft from a left-mounted differential on transverse engine FWD cars that leads to torque steer.That from 1967 to 2002, the Cadillac Eldorado was front-wheel drive, including the 8.2l V8 versions :o
Preceded by the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado of similar heft. Apparently the FWD system worked well and there was no torque steer in spite of having a big-block V8 supplying the torques, but the same could not be said of the (drum) brakes, which came with The Book of Common Prayer as standard. The oily bits also did service in the GMC motorhome.
The arrangement is much like the FWD part of a lot of modern 4WD systems with independent suspension.
There was a heavy-duty chain involved too, between the torque converter and the actual gears.
That EasyToys has nothing to do with EasyJet or any other EasyBrand, but rather it’s a Dutch online shop for sex toys (and sponsor of a Dutch curling competition).
That doing something wrong such that the 130mm long ball end cutter on the CNC mill drives itself down through your workpiece and spoilboard and then tries to move sideways results in:
- a very big bang
- a now 90mm long ball end cutter
- lots of sparks
- a somewhat chewed up collet holder
Sigh. I was doing well this week.
That it's possible* to have a sustainable superyacht (https://www.oceancoyacht.com/fleet/bravo-eugenia/)I see no contradiction - the International Superyacht Summit has only recently finished in the United Arab Emirates, the location also chosen last month by the dictator of our green, inclusive and sustainable future, Klaus Schwab of the WEF, to go schmoozing with the leaders of that authoritarian state for purposes of promoting his coming book 'The Great Narrative'. :sick:
This one is in West India Dock at Canary Wharf and it's an ugly beast...
* No I am not convinced either
Can someone explain to me the physics of that? Is it just that the jet of compressed air is reducing friction between grips and bars so making it easier to push them along?
Yep, air is a fluid, so force it between the grip and the bar and the grip will slide more easily. It may also serve to expand the grip somewhat, reducing contact area.
I can think of more fun things to do with compressed air in a workshop.
That the Miss World contest is still a thing. ???And that the United Nations has its own version: UN MISS (https://unmiss.unmissions.org).
That the Galápagos pengs at the northern end of Isabela island live in the Northern Hemisphere.
The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. It is not closely related to the birds now known as penguins, which were discovered later by Europeans and so named by sailors because of their physical resemblance to the great auk.
-Wikipedia
It's well established that penguins, like dolphins, are fish.
It's well established that penguins, like dolphins, are fish.
Is that one of those vegetarian get-out clauses?
Not sure how we ending with pengs in English. Most other languages spell it with an i which is much more fun to say - pinguim, pingüino, pingwiny.
Not sure how we ending with pengs in English. Most other languages spell it with an i which is much more fun to say - pinguim, pingüino, pingwiny.By being closer (geographically) to the Celts?
Not sure how we ending with pengs in English. Most other languages spell it with an i which is much more fun to say - pinguim, pingüino, pingwiny.
Peng, peng! On the door, baby!*Not sure how we ending with pengs in English. Most other languages spell it with an i which is much more fun to say - pinguim, pingüino, pingwiny.
Just to be unhelpful, peng is onomatopoeic German for bang. Banguins?
I've never actually been to Penge, but I hear it's very nice.Is that because it has ice?
I've never actually been to Penge, but I hear it's very nice.Is that because it has ice?
After watching a video where dyke was spelt dike, I discovered that when referring to a wall, Dyke is Scots and Dike English.is that similar etymology to wynd vs wind?
Bloody vowel shift.
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Peng is/was a word used by The Youth of Today to mean good, attractive, well tasty. Innit.Not sure how we ending with pengs in English. Most other languages spell it with an i which is much more fun to say - pinguim, pingüino, pingwiny.
Just to be unhelpful, peng is onomatopoeic German for bang. Banguins?
I can confirm for m'lud that such usage is still extant in the youth of today.Peng is/was a word used by The Youth of Today to mean good, attractive, well tasty. Innit.Not sure how we ending with pengs in English. Most other languages spell it with an i which is much more fun to say - pinguim, pingüino, pingwiny.
Just to be unhelpful, peng is onomatopoeic German for bang. Banguins?
There's an alternative version of the Lord's Prayer that has the line :
Lead us not into Penge Station
(Can't remember the rest but is quite amusing)
I'm much obliged to m'learned friend.I can confirm for m'lud that such usage is still extant in the youth of today.Peng is/was a word used by The Youth of Today to mean good, attractive, well tasty. Innit.Not sure how we ending with pengs in English. Most other languages spell it with an i which is much more fun to say - pinguim, pingüino, pingwiny.
Just to be unhelpful, peng is onomatopoeic German for bang. Banguins?
And there is that old limerick...;D(click to show/hide)
Pingos:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/23/buried-ponds-to-be-excavated-in-norfolk-to-revive-wildlife
Pingos:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/23/buried-ponds-to-be-excavated-in-norfolk-to-revive-wildlife
Different Pingos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo).
Pingos:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/23/buried-ponds-to-be-excavated-in-norfolk-to-revive-wildlife
Different Pingos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo).
The NWT seems to have mis-named kettleholes, which can be regarded as antipingos.
There is such a thing as a proving basket cleaning machine.
There is such a thing as a proving basket cleaning machine.
One of these (https://www.kaercher.com/uk/home-garden/pressure-washers.html)?
that Iran has crocodiles (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-59571711l), which surprised me.
Approximately half of Japan (the Eastern half) has electricity at 50Hz, the other half (you guess) has 60Hz. All of it at 100V.
Today I are learning that “calculus”, in addition to being a variety of Hard Sums, is also another word for tartar. The kind that afflicts teefs, not the Natives of Tartary.
Approximately half of Japan (the Eastern half) has electricity at 50Hz, the other half (you guess) has 60Hz. All of it at 100V.
Bet it's still better interconnected than Texas, thobut.
Today I are learning that the roadrunner:
- is a variety of cuckoo, and
- does not go “meep meep”
Sounds like a question for the mid-Essex audaxers...
Today I are learning that the roadrunner:
- is a variety of cuckoo, and
- does not go “meep meep”
The latest calculation from Cambridge University’s bitcoin electricity consumption index suggests that global bitcoin mining consumes 125.96 terawatt hours a year of electricity, putting its consumption above Norway (122.2 TWh), Argentina (121 TWh), the Netherlands (108.8 TWh) and the United Arab Emirates (113.20 TWh).
The spoon end is what I meant, but with the concave side leading.
Yes, I have got a book ;D
Usually spelled selkies here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie
And that’s the way Professor Larrington spells it too. In a book.Shifty things vowels. They've got history that way. No. 45 from, "Ye Bumpere Liste of Glo∫∫ological Jests & Japes"
In the part of the Midlands I grew up in they didn't do the vowel shift, so fight is still pronounced fate etc. Water is w-hat-er like someone fat sat on the a and squashed it flat and wide. The outside world, which debuted in the late 80s, is now eroding the delightful linguistics and turning it into a more standard Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire mix.Thank you for that jog of my memory. My late dad was from Langley Mill on the Notts/Derbys border. All of his uncles and aunts were of the short-tunged variety. I had to listen carefully to work out what was being said. Happy days.....
It is thought the english word smithereens comes from the Irish smidiríní i.e. little bits.
That on a yiddish virtual keyboard, the backspace key points to the left, even though the character to the right is deleted, yiddish being written right to left.
I'm betting the return key does too.
Norwich Pharmacal Order (https://www.brettwilson.co.uk/services/defamation-privacy-online-harassment/norwich-pharmacal-orders-identifying-the-anonymous)
I initially thought it was a typo...
That on a yiddish virtual keyboard, the backspace key points to the left, even though the character to the right is deleted, yiddish being written right to left.
I'm betting the return key does too. Unless it just says <Return>. I suppose we're far enough abstracted from the physical carriage return levers of typewriters that it doesn't matter any more.
(I remember my mum learning to use a word processor and subconsciously raising her hand to slap the monitor in a manner reminiscent of the funky chicken movement I perform with my left arm when exiting a roundabout in a hybrid[1] car.)
[1] But not electric. It seems my gear-change instinct is linked to engine noise, rather than road speed.
But not electric. It seems my gear-change instinct is linked to engine noise, rather than road speed
But not electric. It seems my gear-change instinct is linked to engine noise, rather than road speed
This. I have driven petril-engined motor-cars with CVT a few times and never felt the slightest urge to reach for theskiesstick. The first of them was an horbleOvlov 340,Daf 66 with Extra! Heavy! Bodywork! and ElasticBandTM Drive! though, so I did feel the urge to reach for the 14 lb lump hammer, the matches and the Lighthouse Family.
But not electric. It seems my gear-change instinct is linked to engine noise, rather than road speed
This. I have driven petril-engined motor-cars with CVT a few times and never felt the slightest urge to reach for theskiesstick.
Ob-the Perfectly Good Gentleman’s Mountain Bicycle: is it a perfectly good mountain bicycle for a gentleman, or a mountain bicycle for a perfectly good gentleman?
Today I are learning that TV On The Radio aka Thomas The Vance was born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, which seems a tad excessive.(files that away for a quiz wot I am writing)
Real names of notable wireless DJs? See also Michael Joseph Paternak (Emperor Rosko), Maurice James Christopher Cole (Kenny Everett), John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (John Peel) and, er, um, Alan Leslie Freeman.
Not 'arf!
Isn't it endemic in koalas too?Lou Sanders on The Unbelievable Truth said she found that out the hard way.
(Googles)
Yes. Yes, it is. I think there’s something going on in Captain Cook's Mistake that they’re not telling us in case it frightens away tourists.
Isn't it endemic in koalas too?Lou Sanders on The Unbelievable Truth said she found that out the hard way.
(Googles)
Yes. Yes, it is. I think there’s something going on in Captain Cook's Mistake that they’re not telling us in case it frightens away tourists.
Since when has fairness been part of the equation :demon:
Isn't it endemic in koalas too?
(Googles)
Yes. Yes, it is. I think there’s something going on in Captain Cook's Mistake that they’re not telling us in case it frightens away tourists.
Isn't it endemic in koalas too?
(Googles)
Yes. Yes, it is. I think there’s something going on in Captain Cook's Mistake that they’re not telling us in case it frightens away tourists.
It's environmentally endemic – it's a very successful organism that infects anything from protists to humans. It has an 'up to 100%' prevalence in fish. I'm not sure who's checked them all though.
I have learnt the difference between cactuses and succulents (even though cactuses are succulents)- I'm not sure if that should be cactii.
I used a torque wrench for the first time today. I set it to 22 wotsits and was surprised how easy it was to attain that torque. That means in all probability that I've been a serial over-tightener in the past
That one can buy a garlic skin removal tube.
Behold, my pedal-wrench-inna-scaffolding-tube:I used a torque wrench for the first time today. I set it to 22 wotsits and was surprised how easy it was to attain that torque. That means in all probability that I've been a serial over-tightener in the past
That's quite a bit - what were you tightening? Ease of use is, of course, related to the length of the bar on the wrench . . . what size wrench were you using?
Voila* (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurekb/6915451377/sizes/c/)Behold, my pedal-wrench-inna-scaffolding-tube:I used a torque wrench for the first time today. I set it to 22 wotsits and was surprised how easy it was to attain that torque. That means in all probability that I've been a serial over-tightener in the past
That's quite a bit - what were you tightening? Ease of use is, of course, related to the length of the bar on the wrench . . . what size wrench were you using?
(https://www.cyclechat.net/attachments/7b52cf1a-7a64-44ff-814e-b56439617e86-jpeg.629038/)
Now we’re torquing…
Who Mr Bojangles was. Maybe! He's dead too.
That in Taiwan you have to hand-deliver your rubbish to the bin men as rubbish isn't allowed to touch the ground. The lorries cruise around playing Für Elise to let you know it's time to take out your rubbish and hand it over. It's what Beethoven would have wanted.
Quite a short Jobsworth/Planet X one. I was tightening the housing bolts on the motor on my ebike.I used a torque wrench for the first time today. I set it to 22 wotsits and was surprised how easy it was to attain that torque. That means in all probability that I've been a serial over-tightener in the past
That's quite a bit - what were you tightening? Ease of use is, of course, related to the length of the bar on the wrench . . . what size wrench were you using?
Urrrrrrgh! Horrible tone.That in Taiwan you have to hand-deliver your rubbish to the bin men as rubbish isn't allowed to touch the ground. The lorries cruise around playing Für Elise to let you know it's time to take out your rubbish and hand it over. It's what Beethoven would have wanted.
I love this, though I'm not sure I'd appreciate having to run around after musical bin lorries with bags of rubbish. Different tunes are available, apparently - but here's Für Elise in all its glory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7DPXpqp9e4
The term Gormless is descended from the Norse 'Gaum' meaning attention.
Halfords sell car screen wash in scented versions - why?
Halfords sell car screen wash in scented versions - why?
A couple of new words, never to be used…
Ferreous - of or containing iron
Eke-name - nickname.
Today I are learning that Moomin creator Tove Jansson translated “The Hobbit” into Swedish, a book that featured a large and hairy Gollum rather than the 2/3rds scale model of Iggy Pop visualised by Peter Jackson et al.This did make me lolup. :D
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Large_Gollum_by_Tove_Jansson.jpg)
Does he have a brother called Dan?
That watching a helicopter take off in a strong breeze from a field to the grassy patch behind the neighbours house is worrying.Likewise watching a U2 - a notoriously tricky thing to fly and land - trying to land in very strong winds is not at all relaxing. Christ knows what the pilot was thinking, but the gust induced rolls (15? 20? more? degrees) at less than 1000' that I saw scared the shit out of me.
That our over bath shower screen appears to be wrong. It opens all the way out away from the bath into the room, but there is a stop which prevents it swinging over the bath. It seems it was meant for fitting on the other side/end of a bath. :facepalm:
Presumably that is why it is sealed to the bath on the wrong side (the inside instead of the outside), because that bit doesn't move. Brilliant. That should scupper my plan to replace the manky sealant and stop the leak.
Surely inward opening would get in your way as you entered?
Ours doesn't seem to be limited in its movement. Outwards movement ultimately gets restricted by the wiper thingy[1] being crushed against the rim of the bath.
The bath's the wrong way round, so no danger of it hitting the taps. This also means that the shower screen is barely long enough to prevent the stream of water running down your forearm, off your elbow and into a neat puddle on the bathmat as you rinse your hair.
[1] A thing I learned on a previous day is that these are replaceable, and there are a zillion different standard shapes.
Ours doesn't seem to be limited in its movement. Outwards movement ultimately gets restricted by the wiper thingy[1] being crushed against the rim of the bath.
The bath's the wrong way round, so no danger of it hitting the taps. This also means that the shower screen is barely long enough to prevent the stream of water running down your forearm, off your elbow and into a neat puddle on the bathmat as you rinse your hair.
[1] A thing I learned on a previous day is that these are replaceable, and there are a zillion different standard shapes.
Yes, I learnt that last year too and in the end decided it was worth paying well over the odds to get the correct one from the shower manufacturer rather than having four or five goes at getting the right one from unknown internet suppliers.
I think we're on the sixth seal now.
Ours doesn't seem to be limited in its movement. Outwards movement ultimately gets restricted by the wiper thingy[1] being crushed against the rim of the bath.
The bath's the wrong way round, so no danger of it hitting the taps. This also means that the shower screen is barely long enough to prevent the stream of water running down your forearm, off your elbow and into a neat puddle on the bathmat as you rinse your hair.
[1] A thing I learned on a previous day is that these are replaceable, and there are a zillion different standard shapes.
Yes, I learnt that last year too and in the end decided it was worth paying well over the odds to get the correct one from the shower manufacturer rather than having four or five goes at getting the right one from unknown internet suppliers.
We have this problem and despite the replacement seal looking and feeling the same, we now have a permanently drying bath mat. Unfortunately, we don't know who supplied the bloody shower cubical. I think we're on the sixth seal now.
I think we're on the sixth seal now.
This is where the leak is presenting
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51888818734_2045b61e12.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2n4eL2L)2022-02-18_06-28-34 (https://flic.kr/p/2n4eL2L) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
I guess the real question I would ask myself - is : Do I want a bath-tub? - or shall I replace it with a large shower tray/cubicle (the type with no door where the screens are sealed to the base)?
Y-M-C-A?:D ;D 8)
Napoléon's height is usually given as 5'2", but under the Ancien Régime an inch was 2.706 cm so that he was almost 1m68 tall, or 6'6", about average for the time.
I guess the real question I would ask myself - is : Do I want a bath-tub? - or shall I replace it with a large shower tray/cubicle (the type with no door where the screens are sealed to the base)?Well I know what I *want*, but it's entirely academic at the moment as I'm just about to blow the last of the magic beans on a new kitchen.
Napoléon's height is usually given as 5'2", but under the Ancien Régime an inch was 2.706 cm so that he was almost 1m68 tall, or 6'6", about average for the time.
5'6" shirly?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Logo_MCA_1921.png/220px-Logo_MCA_1921.png
I guess the real question I would ask myself - is : Do I want a bath-tub? - or shall I replace it with a large shower tray/cubicle (the type with no door where the screens are sealed to the base)?Well I know what I *want*, but it's entirely academic at the moment as I'm just about to blow the last of the magic beans on a new kitchen.
Yes, wet rooms. What can go wrong there?
You can spot anyone who's had a wet room installed from about 50 metres away just by the agonised look on their faces, a picture of what one wrong decision can do to contort one's soul.
This is where the leak is presenting
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51888818734_2045b61e12.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2n4eL2L)2022-02-18_06-28-34 (https://flic.kr/p/2n4eL2L) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Napoléon's height is usually given as 5'2", but under the Ancien Régime an inch was 2.706 cm so that he was almost 1m68 tall, or 6'6", about average for the time.
5'6" shirly?
I avoided the above scenario in my bathroom by having a simple shower curtain.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/303/32007376221_e14b145bb3_o.jpg)
Rather than cringeworthy arithmetic, I read it as TRINIDAD. That's like TOBAGO but not good.Napoléon's height is usually given as 5'2", but under the Ancien Régime an inch was 2.706 cm so that he was almost 1m68 tall, or 6'6", about average for the time.
5'6" shirly?
Indeed, I think T42’s post should go into the arithmetic that makes you cringe thread
Napoléon's height is usually given as 5'2", but under the Ancien Régime an inch was 2.706 cm so that he was almost 1m68 tall, or 6'6", about average for the time.
5'6" shirly?
Indeed, I think T42’s post should go into the arithmetic that makes you cringe thread
I guess the real question I would ask myself - is : Do I want a bath-tub? - or shall I replace it with a large shower tray/cubicle (the type with no door where the screens are sealed to the base)?
We have separate bath & cubicle, and I'm kicking myself to this day about not holding out for shower-only. "A bathroom has to have a bath," they said.
13 years later and it's been used just once for bathing. The rest of the time it has mostly gathered dust. The only positive thing about it is that I can take off the shower-head - the bath came with its own shower-head - and use the powerful jet of water from the hose to blast a stuck moby round the bend.
... real wood, possibly oak, but in strips laminated together and then with what looks like some sort of woodgrain wrap.I did wonder how they managed to keep their prices down. Mind you (a sort of) glulam has got to be better than IKEA's very best chipboard & sticky-back plastic offerings and looking on the "green" side of things it means wood that may otherwise be discarded or, worse, burnt gets used.
That Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Romans in the latter half of the 17th century, like hunting. Well of course he did. But rather than sneak through the forest with a gun or a bow and arrows to kill deer, he would have his minions beat the deer into a deep lake, where his entourage would pick them off with crossbows.
But that was as nothing compared to his preferred method of fox hunting, which did not involve horses and red coats, but having foxes brought to him so he could toss them in a blanket (!) before clubbing them to death.
From the cold-season sporty thing in China: polar penis, a frozen todger due to high speed and light clothing in cross-country skiing.
Suggestions for suitable protection, please.
That “Arena” is Latin for “Sand” which was the surface of the business part of a Roman amphitheatre.and the geological term for 'sandy' is arenaceous. Follows, innit?
That “Arena” is Latin for “Sand” which was the surface of the business part of a Roman amphitheatre.and the geological term for 'sandy' is arenaceous. Follows, innit?
... being pedantic - huntsmen don't wear RED coats - they are PINK (being named after the tailor Thomas Pink in Savile Row rather than the colour)
... being pedantic - huntsmen don't wear RED coats - they are PINK (being named after the tailor Thomas Pink in Savile Row rather than the colour)
Is that actually being pedantic though? If* the coats are named after a tailor, that doesn't mean their being described as red is incorrect, merely that the name of the tailor is - coincidentally - also the name of a colour. That doesn't stop them being red, any more than being Hunter wellies stops them being green.
When pink is involved in their description, they're not coats which "are PINK": they're "pinks".
Now that's pedantry...
*'tis a tale oft told, though one lacking in reliable documentary evidence.
Canola oil is a North American name for Rapeseed Oil.A massive win for the Canadian rape marketing team. Yes really.
That dogs shouldn't be given apple cores. Seems the pips contain a small amount of cyanide.
Well ours has been consuming at least two a week for her eleven years on this planet, so it can't be that bad.
Best we stop giving them to her now that we know.
<first world grumble > now we have to get up and go to the compost bin instead of just chucking it at the dog.
I'll drink the cider myself if I have to before I pour it on the compost heap!
I'll drink the cider myself if I have to before I pour it on the compost heap!
Watering the apple trees
With cider seems rather wrong
We’ll drink the cider then
We’ll water the trees before too long!
– The Kipper Family
Same applies to cider.
That dogs shouldn't be given apple cores. Seems the pips contain a small amount of cyanide.
Well ours has been consuming at least two a week for her eleven years on this planet, so it can't be that bad.
Best we stop giving them to her now that we know.
<first world grumble > now we have to get up and go to the compost bin instead of just chucking it at the dog.
The utterly bonkers origin of degaussing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degaussing#Ships'_hulls).
That dogs shouldn't be given apple cores. Seems the pips contain a small amount of cyanide.
Well ours has been consuming at least two a week for her eleven years on this planet, so it can't be that bad.
Best we stop giving them to her now that we know.
<first world grumble > now we have to get up and go to the compost bin instead of just chucking it at the dog.
I wouldn't worry. The same goes for plums, peaches, apricots etc. Our parrot likes to crack open the stones and chew the bits inside: he's been doing it for over 30 years and the cantankerous bugger is still with us.
Slivovitz is made from damsons with the stones still in.
Do geese eat children?
Do geese eat children?
Do geese eat children?
A goose attacked my trousers once when I was walking round the Serpentine.
Hope this helps.
I reckon a goose could have a swan in a square go. All that stuff about breaking arms is just bluster.
If you want a dangerous farm animal look no further than a pig. They can be very big, very fast and aggressive.Great bit of trivia that !!
The thing I've learned today is that France's longest land border is with Brazil.
I wouldn't worry. The same goes for plums, peaches, apricots etc. Our parrot likes to crack open the stones and chew the bits inside: he's been doing it for over 30 years and the cantankerous bugger is still with us.
Slivovitz is made from damsons with the stones still in.
Birds aren’t a significant threat until they are the size of a cassowary at least. I don’t see why people freak out about birds smaller than that.
If you want a dangerous farm animal look no further than a pig. They can be very big, very fast and aggressive.Presumably this is why there's so much focus on the possibility of pigs being able to fly.
If you want a dangerous farm animal look no further than a pig. They can be very big, very fast and aggressive.
Birds aren’t a significant threat until they are the size of a cassowary at least. I don’t see why people freak out about birds smaller than that.
That reminds me.
Also riding along a fell road at dusk and seeing, flying directly ahead of me, an enormous pteridactyl type bird.
Massive wing span, with articulated wings going steadily up and down.
I eventually worked out it was 3 geese flying in a v-formation and wings beating in perfect synchrony.
If you want a dangerous farm animal look no further than a pig. They can be very big, very fast and aggressive.Saw a clip of a leopard grabbing a wild boar piglet. The area was sand and the cat couldn't accelerate much; the sows charged and then were overtaken by a boar that rammed the cat. It dropped the piglet and fled.
The thing I've learned today is that France's longest land border is with Brazil.
Terry Jack's "Seasons in the sun" is an English version of a Jacques Brel song, le moribond.
Terry Jack's "Seasons in the sun" is an English version of a Jacques Brel song, le moribond.
Terry Jack's "Seasons in the sun" is an English version of a Jacques Brel song, le moribond.
Courtesy of my wife, that the Times of London used to have its front page covered with adverts, and (courtesy of the Graun) this continued until 1966. :o
Courtesy of my wife, that the Times of London used to have its front page covered with adverts, and (courtesy of the Graun) this continued until 1966. :oWe didn't get that answer in the quiz this week.
Courtesy of my wife, that the Times of London used to have its front page covered with adverts, and (courtesy of the Graun) this continued until 1966. :o
Courtesy of my wife, that the Times of London used to have its front page covered with adverts, and (courtesy of the Graun) this continued until 1966. :o
I remember that from my paper round. It was just a mass of birth, marriage and deaths, plus other announcements and general small ads.
The Renault Zoe one – a Nissan accelerator pedal may have been installed instead of a Renault accelerator – made this Unit smile.Saw one today - it's 'lectrick.
Kyocera AVX offer 2.96 million types of capacitor.
Electrolytic capacitors haven't improved much in the last 20 years, and oddities like that aren't easy to find.Kyocera AVX offer 2.96 million types of capacitor.
I'll give you 10,000 house points to Griffindor if you can find me a source of replacement reservoir caps for the NAD amp I have on the bench.
22000uF 63v 105c.
Form factor: 35mm dia, 70mm tall, snap-in 10mm pin spacing.
The form factor is critical to fit the board.
I can only find these from crappy off-brand JCCON shit on ebay.
I might have to mount the replacements off-board with flying leads.
I'd also be tempted to see if it genuinely needs 63v, or if the designer specced that because they were cheap/no more expensive at the time. Could even be that that was a part they already had on their system. I've done that in the past.
If it's over-rated, then 50v caps are available that otherwise meet the spec. But you'll need to look at the circuit carefully to be sure.
To give them due credit, it does make the system somewhat more efficient. However, charging GBFO capacitors can't be done quickly, and it's not a big change from 50 to 55 V.I'd also be tempted to see if it genuinely needs 63v, or if the designer specced that because they were cheap/no more expensive at the time. Could even be that that was a part they already had on their system. I've done that in the past.
If it's over-rated, then 50v caps are available that otherwise meet the spec. But you'll need to look at the circuit carefully to be sure.
Oh, it does.
The power supply on this device has a slightly unusual NAD feature, called PowerDrive.
The marketing blurb for this is total tosh ( it's hi-fi, after all ), but what it amounts to is this:
The main transformer has two sets of tappings: 'regular', and 'high voltage' (my terminology)
Each is connected to it's own bridge rectifier.
Under normal load, the 'regular' tappings feed the regular rectifier, and charge the reservoir caps to around +/- 50v.
If the load exceeds a threshold, then a pair of SCRs fire, and the higher-voltage DC from the 'high voltage' tappings and rectifier are switched on to the reservoir caps, pushing them up to slightly over 55v.
Basically a crappy solution to a poorly regulated under-spec PSU.
Make the base PSU able to hold up under load!
But there's not a marketing name for that...
Another arrangement that I have seen described is to have a switch-mode power supply, where the output voltage changes in response to what is being amplified, and stays a few volts above the output voltage required, following the waveform. The output transistors then remove the switching noise, but they never have a large voltage across them, so they don't get too hot.
±55 V will give around 1500 W into 4 Ohms if run as push-pull, so there is quite a lot of power to be handled. I've seen quite a few amplifiers where the power transistors have exploded, and anything that can keep the heating down is a help.
It's very difficult to filter enough of the switching noise to be inaudible. It's a lot easier to leave a few volts across some analog output transistors, and that will remove the switching noise. As there is only a few volts across the transistor, they don't become the serious room heaters that they would if the power supply was turned up to 11 all the time.Another arrangement that I have seen described is to have a switch-mode power supply, where the output voltage changes in response to what is being amplified, and stays a few volts above the output voltage required, following the waveform. The output transistors then remove the switching noise, but they never have a large voltage across them, so they don't get too hot.
At that point, you've gone 90% of the way to building a class D amp.
Why not go the rest of the way, and ditch the 'analog' output transistors room-heaters totally.
Was told a couple of days ago actually. That the term "Asperger's syndrome" is now officially disused in America and discouraged in Europe, due to the eponymous doctor's Nazism and eugenic involvement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger#Nazi_involvement
Was told a couple of days ago actually. That the term "Asperger's syndrome" is now officially disused in America and discouraged in Europe, due to the eponymous doctor's Nazism and eugenic involvement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger#Nazi_involvement
Autistic spectrum seems to be more widely used these days
That “Roundheads” didn’t refer to the helmets the Parliamentarians wore, but rather likened them to the crop-haired Apprentice boys, or London based hooligans.
Rimmer : You all think I'm a petty-minded bureaucratic nincompoop who delights in enforcing political regulations because he gets some kind of perverse pleasure out of it. And in many ways, you're absolutely damn right! But that doesn't alter the fact that the only we're gonna down track Red Dwarf and get through this in one piece is with a sense of discipline, a sense of purpose, and wherever possible a sensible haircut.
Lister : [Feeling bored after Rimmer's speech] I'm going back to bed.
Rimmer : Would it harm you to have hair like mine?
The Cat : I have got hair like yours. Just not on my head.
Rimmer : Well, I'm no stranger to the land of scoff. Perhaps you'd like to explain to me why it is that every major battle in history has been won by the side with the shortest haircut.
Kryten : Oh, surely not, sir!
Rimmer : Think about it! Why did the US cavalry beat the Indian nation? Short back and sides versus girly-hippie locks. The Cavaliers and the Roundheads, 1-0 to the pudding-basins. Vietnam, crew-cuts both sides, no score draw.
Kryten : Oh, for a really world-class psychiatrist!
Arnold Judas Rimmer BSC SSC has clearly never seen a picture of General George Armstrong Custer, military idiot and bar...Ahh, but we don't know how his opponents on the day were wearing their hair. Custer and his men may have been beaten by warriors with their locks dressed in fashionable short bobs in which case Rimmer's hypothesis cannot be categorically refuted.
Quote from: Mr LarringtonArnold Judas Rimmer BSC SSC has clearly never seen a picture of General George Armstrong Custer, military idiot and bar...Ahh, but we don't know how his opponents on the day were wearing their hair. Custer and his men may have been beaten by warriors with their locks dressed in fashionable short bobs in which case Rimmer's hypothesis cannot be categorically refuted.
If it's MethaneSat that is the reason we are now in NZ. Vernon will be driving it when it launches.
If it's MethaneSat that is the reason we are now in NZ. Vernon will be driving it when it launches.
No, it was a Canadian bunch, GHGSat. NewSci have an in-shallows article (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318299-methane-emissions-from-cows-spotted-from-space-for-the-first-time/) about it.
I am currently in that Manchester.I don’t miss the rain. Edinburgh is so much drier.
And it's true. It's bloody pissing down.
I am currently in that Manchester.
And it's true. It's bloody pissing down.
I am currently in that Manchester.I don’t miss the rain. Edinburgh is so much drier.
And it's true. It's bloody pissing down.
I am currently in that Manchester.I don’t miss the rain. Edinburgh is so much drier.
And it's true. It's bloody pissing down.
And none of the proposals for the said fleg had a BEAR on them.
Today I are mostly learning that the fleg of Surrey looks like something you’d use to signal the end of a motor race in Ukraine:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Surrey.svg/320px-Surrey.svg.png)
Today I are learning that the current Canadian fleg was only adopted in 1965. And none of the proposals for the said fleg had a BEAR on them.It is widely believed in Poland that the red and white colours were chosen as a nod to the Polish diaspora in Canada. This probably says more about Poland than Canada.
Today I are mostly learning that the fleg of Surrey looks like something you’d use to signal the end of a motor race in Ukraine:Looks like a police car.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Surrey.svg/320px-Surrey.svg.png)
That the forum search is crap and returns many results, most of which seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with the subject.
That the forum search is context sensitive. e.g. "TailFin" returns many results, "tail fin" a few and "tailfin" 200 pages, most of which seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with the subject.
That there is a town with two exclamation marks in its name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha!
About Harriet TubmanI love that record. The lyrics are so 80s, with the popular culture references to films and Memorex. And Stevie Wonder giving it a musical shot in the arm halfway through, of course.
Courtesy of Radio 6, The Crown by Gary Bird and the GB Experience, and Google/Wikipedia.
Butyric acid in Hershey's innit? Back from ye olden days before chilled tankers. Apparently the USanians like the taste & smell of vom so much they decided to keep it.
Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrowbone jelly. Lasts longer than any other type of milk, dog's milk. […] Plus the advantage of dog's milk is when it goes off it takes exactly the same as when it's fresh.
I saw a sign advertising camels' milk on yesterday's ride. Which begged the obvious question, to which I suppose the answer is "very carefully".I understand it's pink, which is actually because it contains traces of blood. Camel blood, obvs.
Anyone for camelpox?
Anyone for camelpox?
Apparently it gives you the right hump
But what does it do to your toes?Anyone for camelpox?
Apparently it gives you the right hump
If you drink enough it gives you two
There seems to be a smoke alarm shortage at the moment, so unless it’s fried itself (like two of mine) you might want to hold off the replacements!
The town had a strict set of rules imposed by the managers. Alcohol, women, tobacco and even football were forbidden within the town, including inside the workers' own homes. Inspectors would go from house to house to check how organised the houses were and to enforce these rules.
Fordlandia is one of the places that features on Abandoned Engineering - a generally interesting programme if a little irritating in style as it dumbs things down and tries to build up suspense of "what on earth could that have been for?" before the generally obvious reveal.
(Most of the time it was the Nazis. Or someone fighting the Nazis).
There seems to be a smoke alarm shortage at the moment, so unless it’s fried itself (like two of mine) you might want to hold off the replacements!I've just managed to order a couple from Tool Station.
It’s possible to change a set of guitar strings without bloodshed.
That there is an A Team episode in which Boy George plays a major role.
That was the one with Don Henderson as scruffy oik DS Bulman, no? I rather enjoyed it back in the day.That's the one - with a Vick inhaler permanently stuck up his nez.
That was the one with Don Henderson as scruffy oik DS Bulman, no? I rather enjoyed it back in the day.That's the one - with a Vick inhaler permanently stuck up his nez.
That there is an A Team episode in which Boy George plays a major role.I really want to see Boy George and Mr T side by side.
Christianity is often regarded as a staunch opponent of veganism – after all, most Christian denominations are highly carnivorous in their dietary ethics. Many proclaim liberty to consume animal flesh as they assume animals to be a gift created for food by God.https://theconversation.com/why-seventh-day-adventists-are-so-often-vegan-or-vegetarian-177298
Gee, Martha, I'd never have guessed:
Scientists Found an Animal That Walks on Three Limbs. It’s a Parrot. (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/science/parrots-three-limbs.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DIDm8diP8eAoWG8EqKfaN5fdwvxHGHRMVMPforRfl41alfI0lpAUGOk6ezpa4kcW8zuJ7hGSQ_xY7MVrQ1tmHgNjfod-wngeG2tRjDbTPrC7iMhXNyOAhiosBhIV2q0CNYkrzXUbIggqkI1vYmBZl-TTgFdXPK66GuU0MiTY3AOhLM6QA2WPVbXSXTmbOf7rEHdAZVATHWXS81oDZ8uJ4HZoRhbOuoJAUgecH-nbwVFmduSY-vDJE2TITf_K54YXxAMxB_MOfsfXrVHImSSQ&smid=url-share&utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=035058e3fd-briefing-dy-20220525&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-035058e3fd-46873974)
I know a better one: water's wet.
That traditionally made Soy sauce takes up to four years to mature in timber barrels. A quick Google reveals 1,000 day sauce for sale.Meh, I reckon there's 8 year old soy sauce in the back of my kitchen cupboard.
That traditionally made Soy sauce takes up to four years to mature in timber barrels. A quick Google reveals 1,000 day sauce for sale.Meh, I reckon there's 8 year old soy sauce in the back of my kitchen cupboard.
It's still reading Viz and making fart noises.That traditionally made Soy sauce takes up to four years to mature in timber barrels. A quick Google reveals 1,000 day sauce for sale.Meh, I reckon there's 8 year old soy sauce in the back of my kitchen cupboard.
Yes, Rog, but if it is your house, what's the chances it is mature?
That Christianity makes you eat meat. Apart from the Seventh Day Adventists.QuoteChristianity is often regarded as a staunch opponent of veganism – after all, most Christian denominations are highly carnivorous in their dietary ethics. Many proclaim liberty to consume animal flesh as they assume animals to be a gift created for food by God.https://theconversation.com/why-seventh-day-adventists-are-so-often-vegan-or-vegetarian-177298
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I've just taken delivery of a box set of all of the episodes of Strangers, a detectivvy sort of thing that ran in the 70s and 80s which, at the time, I thought was the dog's doo-dahs.
10 discs.
I managed about 15 minutes of it before deciding that it is a pile of dire shite.
Next stop for the box set is the charity shop.
I have learned at first hand that the current weather in the Scottish Highlands is, officially, pish. :(Furryboots are you then?
I have learned at first hand that the current weather in the Scottish Highlands is, officially, pish. :(Furryboots are your then?
From the sound of it somewhere furry boots are needed to prevent one’s toes from turning blue and falling off.
Edit: if it’s any consolation it's raining in East Londonton too, but fortunately didn’t start until after I'd ridden back from Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.
From the sound of it somewhere furry boots are needed to prevent one’s toes from turning blue and falling off.
Edit: if it’s any consolation it's raining in East Londonton too, but fortunately didn’t start until after I'd ridden back from Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.
I'll just note that the temperature on the Scottish border as we passed through yesterday at around 10:30 was 4 and one half of your finest Celsius degrees.
Today I are learning that there is a band called Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who clearly merit further investigation.Wasn't he the bloke that crashed his ship, and several others, into the Isles of Scilly in Thee Olden Days?
Today I are learning that there is a band called Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who clearly merit further investigation.Wasn't he the bloke that crashed his ship, and several others, into the Isles of Scilly in Thee Olden Days?
Today I are learning that there is a band called Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who clearly merit further investigation.Wasn't he the bloke that crashed his ship, and several others, into the Isles of Scilly in Thee Olden Days?
He was, in 1707. Aiming for Portsmouth, but missed. That was where I knew the name from.
And, *if* I remember the relevant passage in Dava Sobell's, "Longitude" correctly, a posthumous candidate for the super twat thread. Having been most respectfully been advised by a lower deck oik that he was in danger of running the fleet onto the rocks he ignored said advice and (increasingly unreliable memory says) had the oik flogged (or hanged) for breaching a regulation prohibiting lower deck oiks from reckoning the ship's postion. He then ran the fleet into the rocks.Quote from: Tim HallQuote from: Mr LarringtonToday I are learning that there is a band called Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who clearly merit further investigation.Wasn't he the bloke that crashed his ship, and several others, into the Isles of Scilly in Thee Olden Days?
He was, in 1707. Aiming for Portsmouth, but missed. That was where I knew the name from.
I have learnt that there is a district of Toronto yklept with the wonderful name Cabbagetown.
Quote from: Mr LarringtonAnd, *if* I remember the relevant passage in Dava Sobell's, "Longitude" correctly, a posthumous candidate for the super twat thread. Having been most respectfully been advised by a lower deck oik that he was in danger of running the fleet onto the rocks he ignored said advice and (increasingly unreliable memory says) had the oik flogged (or hanged) for breaching a regulation prohibiting lower deck oiks from reckoning the ship's postion. He then ran the fleet into the rocks.Quote from: Tim HallQuote from: Mr LarringtonToday I are learning that there is a band called Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who clearly merit further investigation.Wasn't he the bloke that crashed his ship, and several others, into the Isles of Scilly in Thee Olden Days?
He was, in 1707. Aiming for Portsmouth, but missed. That was where I knew the name from.
Also I discovered that there is a thing called a Presta Schrader rim hole grommet which allows the use of a tube with a Presta valve on a rim with a Schrader sized hole. According to one source, these are 'often' supplied with Presta equipped tubes. How come I've never even seen one?I have two. One make of Presta tubes (Specialized maybe) features valve lock rings with an ridge on them that locates into the Schrader sized hole too.
They come as standard with Continental tubes (which I like purely for their yellow valve caps; yellow is fast, so my valves overtake my rims, or something).When it's at the top of the wheel, the valve cap is going nearly twice as fast as your bike! :thumbsup:
They come as standard with Continental tubes
A new (to me) verb learned whilst chatting with the local painter and decorator last night.
To carcher.
Seems someone was carchering the building he'll be working on later in the week. I had no idea and had to have it explained.
A bit like using the verb 'to hoover', it describes what you are doing, but not necessarily using that particular brand.
A new (to me) verb learned whilst chatting with the local painter and decorator last night.
To carcher.
Seems someone was carchering the building he'll be working on later in the week. I had no idea and had to have it explained.
A bit like using the verb 'to hoover', it describes what you are doing, but not necessarily using that particular brand.
TIL that Kärcher (which is what I think is meant above) started off making industrial immersion heaters for use in smelting before switching to making pressure washers.
Lease the fishing rights ;D
Today I are learning who Steve McFadden is.
That the Woolwich Ferry no longer runs at weekends.... apparently since early June until further notice. I assume it's a TfL cut as they have also reduced to a one boat service every day (was two Mon-Fri). Not a big problem as a cyclist as it is always quicker to go under the river, andthe lifts are moderately reliable there, but sometimes it was nice to use the ferry.They've also cut down on the staffing levels to the point where it only takes a couple of staff to call in sick, causing them to have insufficient crew to operate the service safely.
That the Woolwich Ferry no longer runs at weekends.... apparently since early June until further notice. I assume it's a TfL cut as they have also reduced to a one boat service every day (was two Mon-Fri). Not a big problem as a cyclist as it is always quicker to go under the river, andthe lifts are moderately reliable there, but sometimes it was nice to use the ferry.They've also cut down on the staffing levels to the point where it only takes a couple of staff to call in sick, causing them to have insufficient crew to operate the service safely.
TfL website says one boat service 07.00-18.00 Mon-Fri only.I think that the staff's gripe was along the lines of he can only operate one boat at a time.
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/river/woolwich-ferry?intcmp=16238 (https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/river/woolwich-ferry?intcmp=16238)
Seem to recall there being some dispute with the operating staff.
That somebody who isn't Radical Designs or Brompton makes a seat pack with a £200 price tag
When formatting hours and minutes in Excel , the format [hh]:mm , ensures that hours are not mod 24.
When formatting hours and minutes in Excel , the format [hh]:mm , ensures that hours are not mod 24.
Doing stuff with time in excel is so fraught with pitfalls, I tend to write down what I've done to make it work, such as how I can get actual hours:min:sec, rather than taking (hours-hours in whole days):min:sec, or is tha what you meant?
The retroreflective bits on clothing are visible on x-rays.Not posted from A&E I hope?
The retroreflective bits on clothing are visible on x-rays.Not posted from A&E I hope?
That there is an item of clothing called a "shacket". No. Just no.Combined shorts and jacket?
That there is an item of clothing called a "shacket". No. Just no.Combined shorts and jacket?
That there is an item of clothing called a "shacket". No. Just no.
That there is an item of clothing called a "shacket". No. Just no.
"Please, miss, Ralfie just hanged Jeanette."I must confess I did not have a noose in mind. :-D
In many parts of the UK, homes that face each other at the rear are required to be built 21 metres apart... The 21-metre rule is, according to the Stirling prize-winning architect Annalie Riches, a bizarre hangover from 1902, originally intended to protect the modesty of Edwardian women. The urban designers Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker walked apart in a field until they could no longer see each other’s nipples through their shirts. The two men measured the distance between them to be 70ft (21 metres), and this became the distance that is still used today, 120 years later, to dictate how far apart many British homes should be built.
The Edwardian nipple rule in planning regulations:QuoteIn many parts of the UK, homes that face each other at the rear are required to be built 21 metres apart... The 21-metre rule is, according to the Stirling prize-winning architect Annalie Riches, a bizarre hangover from 1902, originally intended to protect the modesty of Edwardian women. The urban designers Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker walked apart in a field until they could no longer see each other’s nipples through their shirts. The two men measured the distance between them to be 70ft (21 metres), and this became the distance that is still used today, 120 years later, to dictate how far apart many British homes should be built.
Try putting your glasses on, you idiot, then you won’t need to spend 10 minutes wondering why a USB-C plug won’t fit in a Micro USB socket.
That link appears to be about the Euphemism Song Contest.;D :D ;D
???
the kitchen lighting goes to purple alert.
What is????
the kitchen lighting goes to purple alert.
some rules that turn them on automagically when there's someone in the room in hours of gloom.When there's someone in the room
The origin of “to wait one’s turn” dates from waiting to have your grain milled.
More yesterday than today, learning that John Betjeman was a long time resident of Wantage, where King Alfred was born.When I was a lad we had friends who lived in Wantage. The Betjeman house was at the bottom of their garden.
Of course the "οπτερο" part could be (probably is) back-formed from the Latin opter (operate / work as per helicopter), which gives a more prosaic "windpowered/driven" but I prefer my interpretation. :)Someone on here smarter than me (yes, yes, form a line) explained that there isn't an 'opter' in helicopter, it's 'helico' and 'pter' translating (roughly, IIRC) as circular wing.
You can melt cheese with a heat gun but radiant heat works better for toasting.Have you been practising cuisine a l'outil?
You can melt cheese with a heat gun but radiant heat works better for toasting.Have you been practising cuisine a l'outil?
;DYou can melt cheese with a heat gun but radiant heat works better for toasting.Have you been practising cuisine a l'outil?
Yeah, but I made a Bosch of it.
Muesli with pineapple juice and milk tastes weird.
It's a very long way from Balmoral to Auld Reekie.Especially if you start off by going fifty miles in the wrong direction
It's a very long way from Balmoral to Auld Reekie.
That there are two versions of the Royal Standard - one for Scotland and one for the rest of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Standard_of_the_United_Kingdom
Once again, Wales' presence on a flag is absent... :-\
That there are two versions of the Royal Standard - one for Scotland and one for the rest of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Standard_of_the_United_Kingdom
Once again, Wales' presence on a flag is absent... :-\
I assume that's 'cause Wales is a principality whereas Scotland is/was a kingdom in its own right?
Psychopomp. I like that word.
Similarly in German "Wer zuerst kommt mahlt zuerst" (I think I've got that right) - "who comes first grinds (their corn) first" - meaning "First come, first served".The origin of “to wait one’s turn” dates from waiting to have your grain milled.
cf. Welsh expression 'Y cyntaf i'r felin caiff falu'
first to the mill gets ground/milled first
(approx 'early bird catches the worm.')
Similarly in German "Wer zuerst kommt mahlt zuerst" (I think I've got that right) - "who comes first grinds (their corn) first" - meaning "First come, first served".The origin of “to wait one’s turn” dates from waiting to have your grain milled.
cf. Welsh expression 'Y cyntaf i'r felin caiff falu'
first to the mill gets ground/milled first
(approx 'early bird catches the worm.')
The oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.Parking spaces at the Tree Museum car park are in short supply.
The oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.
The oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.
There’s a few bristlecone pines over thataway //// that are more than 4000 years old, though since even the living ones look dead I'm not sure how they tell.
But the apples in the cafeteria are so glossy.The oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.Parking spaces at the Tree Museum car park are in short supply.
The oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.Parking spaces at the Tree Museum car park are in short supply.
The oldest yews are more than 2000 years old. We’d chop them down in minute to make room for another parking space.
There’s a few bristlecone pines over thataway //// that are more than 4000 years old, though since even the living ones look dead I'm not sure how they tell.
Someone took a core sample of the oldest one in 1957. I bicycled up to the Schulman Grove of bristlecone pines a few times in the late '80s/early '90s from the town of Big Pine.
Similarly in German "Wer zuerst kommt mahlt zuerst" (I think I've got that right) - "who comes first grinds (their corn) first" - meaning "First come, first served".The origin of “to wait one’s turn” dates from waiting to have your grain milled.
cf. Welsh expression 'Y cyntaf i'r felin caiff falu'
first to the mill gets ground/milled first
(approx 'early bird catches the worm.')
And in French there's an expression "entrer comme dans un moulin" or "go in [somewhere] as if it's a mill", implying that anyone could walk into a mill any time.
That's because the Frenchs won't queue politely before the mill the way the Brits or Germans will do ;D
Quote from: The French TandemThat's because the Frenchs won't queue politely before the mill the way the Brits or Germans will do ;D
Ahem.
"The French initiated the line-of-people meaning in the 1790s, and the first uses noted by the OED either italicized it as a foreign word or used it in a Gallic context, as in this quote from Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution (1837): 'That talent … of spontaneously standing in queue, distinguishes … the French People.'"
See https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2022/09/20/the-queue/
Quote from: The French TandemThat's because the Frenchs won't queue politely before the mill the way the Brits or Germans will do ;D
Ahem.
"The French initiated the line-of-people meaning in the 1790s, and the first uses noted by the OED either italicized it as a foreign word or used it in a Gallic context, as in this quote from Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution (1837): 'That talent … of spontaneously standing in queue, distinguishes … the French People.'"
See https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2022/09/20/the-queue/
That DIN paper sizes included B, C and, possbly, D series as well as A. ISO now appears to specify A and B only.
They are/were all rectangles in the proportions 1:1.41...
It turns out that I've been working on B1, B2 and B6 for years!
That DIN paper sizes included B, C and, possbly, D series as well as A. ISO now appears to specify A and B only.
They are/were all rectangles in the proportions 1:1.41...
It turns out that I've been working on B1, B2 and B6 for years!
IIRC "C" is reserved for envelopes and pockets. Trivia quiz: does anyone know the difference between an "envelope" and a "pocket" ?
That DIN paper sizes included B, C and, possbly, D series as well as A. ISO now appears to specify A and B only.And that Germans always use the word DIN when referring to the size. I would say “I need to buy some A4 paper” but they would always say “I need to buy some DIN A4 paper”. Local pride I guess!
They are/were all rectangles in the proportions 1:1.41...
It turns out that I've been working on B1, B2 and B6 for years!
Pockets have the opening on a short edge.
That DIN paper sizes included B, C and, possbly, D series as well as A. ISO now appears to specify A and B only.And that Germans always use the word DIN when referring to the size. I would say “I need to buy some A4 paper” but they would always say “I need to buy some DIN A4 paper”. Local pride I guess!
They are/were all rectangles in the proportions 1:1.41...
It turns out that I've been working on B1, B2 and B6 for years!
Deutsches Institut für Normung
Today I are learning that Richard Nixon was a Quaker. Or at least he started out as one.Ooh, I knowed that. There was a series of plays on The Home Service yclept The Republicans, one which had the story of Tricky Dicky. <Fx:tappity tap> still available on BBC Sounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
Today I are learning that Richard Nixon was a Quaker. Or at least he started out as one.I did not know that but I did know that Herbert Hoover was.
Today I are learning that Richard Nixon was a Quaker. Or at least he started out as one.I did not know that but I did know that Herbert Hoover was.
Together, we would achieve total ignorance.Today I are learning that Richard Nixon was a Quaker. Or at least he started out as one.I did not know that but I did know that Herbert Hoover was.
I knew about Nixon, but not about Hoover.
During his early career when nothing he did with Taupin was anything other than a hit, Elton John wrote a nonsense song, just to see if he could make even that a hit, he couldn'tA strange album that also includes perhaps the only song ever written that celebrates Grimsby.
Solar Prestige A Gammon, on the Caribou album
During his early career when nothing he did with Taupin was anything other than a hit, Elton John wrote a nonsense song, just to see if he could make even that a hit, he couldn'tA strange album that also includes perhaps the only song ever written that celebrates Grimsby.
Solar Prestige A Gammon, on the Caribou album
Strange indeed, but Ticking is a brilliant piece of music.During his early career when nothing he did with Taupin was anything other than a hit, Elton John wrote a nonsense song, just to see if he could make even that a hit, he couldn'tA strange album that also includes perhaps the only song ever written that celebrates Grimsby.
Solar Prestige A Gammon, on the Caribou album
Wasn't he the terribly nice and out-of-place Delta president in "Animal House"?Today I are learning that Richard Nixon was a Quaker. Or at least he started out as one.I did not know that but I did know that Herbert Hoover was.
What the E stands for. Allegedly.Inserts surprised avatar
This clue was in yesterday's Guardian crossword:
Reserved hotel inside for Wile Ethelbert? (6)
To which the solution was:
COYOTE
(For those who don't do cryptic crosswords, it breaks down as: Reserved = COY + the "inside" of [h]OTE[l], and "Wile Ethelbert" is the definition.)
Despite being a big fan of the Warner Bros cartoons, I've never encountered this factoid before. I've always assumed it was just a homophonic pun on wily. This Ethelbert business sounds decidedly non-canonical to me, and so it proved to be, although apparently it gained currency after being used in a question on Jeopardy.
Here's the story, from the horse's mouth:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071014121501/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_02_20.html#012965
And this is the source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131024055826/http://www.goldenagecartoons.com/miscjunk/ETHELBERT.JPG
Definitely counts as apocrypha for me.
What the E stands for. Allegedly.
This clue was in yesterday's Guardian crossword:
Reserved hotel inside for Wile Ethelbert? (6)
To which the solution was:
COYOTE
(For those who don't do cryptic crosswords, it breaks down as: Reserved = COY + the "inside" of [h]OTE[l], and "Wile Ethelbert" is the definition.)
Despite being a big fan of the Warner Bros cartoons, I've never encountered this factoid before. I've always assumed it was just a homophonic pun on wily. This Ethelbert business sounds decidedly non-canonical to me, and so it proved to be, although apparently it gained currency after being used in a question on Jeopardy.
Here's the story, from the horse's mouth:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071014121501/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_02_20.html#012965
And this is the source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131024055826/http://www.goldenagecartoons.com/miscjunk/ETHELBERT.JPG
Definitely counts as apocrypha for me.
The game Musical Chairs exists in Germany but is called die Reise nach Jerusalem (the journey to Jerusalem).
What a servitor is.
That violin bows are made from Pernambuco Wood which is the wood from Brazil which is dark red in colour. This wood was named in portugese “braza” which means ember after the colour and is the reason Brazil is called Brazil and not Holy Cross.
That violin bows are made from Pernambuco Wood which is the wood from Brazil which is dark red in colour.
That's cool.That violin bows are made from Pernambuco Wood which is the wood from Brazil which is dark red in colour.
Not all of them. Mine's a go-faster carbon fibre one. ;D
The use of other materials I understood was partly caused by the loss of pernambuco wood as part of deforestation and the export of the wood to Europe. We have been staying in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest for the last few days which has been amazing.That violin bows are made from Pernambuco Wood which is the wood from Brazil which is dark red in colour.
Not all of them. Mine's a go-faster carbon fibre one. ;D
That violin bows are made from Pernambuco Wood which is the wood from Brazil which is dark red in colour.
Not all of them. Mine's a go-faster carbon fibre one. ;D
That violin bows are made from Pernambuco Wood which is the wood from Brazil which is dark red in colour.
Not all of them. Mine's a go-faster carbon fibre one. ;D
Does it combine lateral stiffness with vertical compliance?
That the post office will only buy back their own euros.
That the post office will only buy back their own euros.
How do they tell?
As an aside - why have actual notes
As an aside - why have actual notes
Tyre boot for 650B tyres. ;D
And in case your bank randomly decides that card use in ABROAD is a sign of FOREIGNS conducting fraud, rather than you travelling. Even though you warned them in advance.
That the post office will only buy back their own euros.
How do they tell?
. . . you have to take the original transaction ticket. (the "actual" Euros are of course not necessarily the ones the PO issued - it's the total value of the original purchase that can't be exceeded) - they don't want to provide their rates to other suppliers' Euros.
As an aside - why have actual notes...Because you just don't know (as your bar that preferred not to take cards exemplifies). Plus, the pool table didn't take cards.
That people still use postal orders.
that well known author of cowboy fiction, Charlotte Bronte.
Listening to The Write Stuff this morning, I learnt that the term "the Wild West" was coined by that well known author of cowboy fiction, Charlotte Bronte.Referring to Lancashire?
that well known author of cowboy fiction, Charlotte Bronte.
I'd totally read that.
Listening to The Write Stuff this morning, I learnt that the term "the Wild West" was coined by that well known author of cowboy fiction, Charlotte Bronte.Referring to Lancashire?
- The Outlaw Josey Eyre
Listening to The Write Stuff this morning...
I gave up on Radio 4 about a year after returning to the UK. There is good stuff but you have to get though seven hours of news, news digest, news discussion, news analysis, news headlines, news repeats, The Archers, current affairs, prospective affairs, reflective affairs, The Archers repeat, introspective affairs, comparison of news analysis techniques, The Archers Omnibus, et cetera, ect, and so on, in order to get to any of it.
Not to mention the news as reported on The Archers.I gave up on Radio 4 about a year after returning to the UK. There is good stuff but you have to get though seven hours of news, news digest, news discussion, news analysis, news headlines, news repeats, The Archers, current affairs, prospective affairs, reflective affairs, The Archers repeat, introspective affairs, comparison of news analysis techniques, The Archers Omnibus, et cetera, ect, and so on, in order to get to any of it.
FTFY ;)
- The Outlaw Josey Eyre
Calamity Jane Eyre, surely?
Also, her sister's famous work: The Good, The Bad and The Wuthering
That are there are people who know (or think they know) which way up a Piet Mondrian painting should hang.Black lines parallel or perpendicular to the floor.
That are there are people who know (or think they know) which way up a Piet Mondrian painting should hang.Black lines parallel or perpendicular to the floor.
Always.
Listening to The Write Stuff this morning...
What, people actually listen to that?
I suppose it could have been worse - it could have been Quote, Unquote. Or anything with Marcus Brigstocke.
Confession: I do sometimes listen to The Write Stuff. But it is so very Radio 4. And not in a good way.
That are there are people who know (or think they know) which way up a Piet Mondrian painting should hang.Black lines parallel or perpendicular to the floor.
Always.
Jurek, be SERIOUS will you? This is art we are talking about; we're not pissing about with wishy-washy concepts like quantum physics or molecular biology. Define what you mean by "parallel" ... and floor! Brian Sewell is turning in his spaceship.
The painting should always be hung vertically.
That are there are people who know (or think they know) which way up a Piet Mondrian painting should hang.Black lines parallel or perpendicular to the floor.
Always.
That are there are people who know (or think they know) which way up a Piet Mondrian painting should hang.Black lines parallel or perpendicular to the floor.
Always.
Apparently the sky goes at the top. Someone hd put it at the bottom.
Probably an Australian.Quote from: JurekQuote from: PeterThat are there are people who know (or think they know) which way up a Piet Mondrian painting should hang.Black lines parallel or perpendicular to the floor.
Always.
Apparently the sky goes at the top. Someone hd put it at the bottom.
That are there are people who know (or think they know) which way up a Piet Mondrian painting should hang.Of course, the famous example of this is Le Bateau by Matisse…
Today I are learning that Daylight Saving Time was first implemented in Thunder Bay ON in 1908.It must be a very sunny place now they've been saving daylight for 114 years.
Figures for UK?8.4 years according to SMMT.
I spose I should JFGI, but can't be bottomed.
Total vehicles in use on UK roads falls to 40.35m units – the first drop since 2009.https://www.smmt.co.uk/2021/05/britains-cars-getting-older-but-van-ownership-reaches-historic-highs/
Average age of car rises to 8.4 years old – the oldest on record – with almost 10m vehicles from 2008 and earlier still in service.
Vans reach historic highs, up to 4.6m, but declines recorded in truck, bus and coach numbers.
Number of BEVs and PHEVs increase by more than 168,000 cars, but account for just 1.3% of the parc – demonstrating scale of task ahead to meet ambitious green targets.
That my husband distinguishes between Christmas Lights, which may be put up before Christmas, and the Christmas Tree, which should only go up on Christmas Eve.
That my husband distinguishes between Christmas Lights, which may be put up before Christmas, and the Christmas Tree, which should only go up on Christmas Eve.
10.7 for Norway, which is perhaps surprising given how enthusiastic they are about electric ones. 7.5 in Oslo, thobut.
It's also striking how the Baltics and Sweden have much lower car ownership than the others (and Poland the highest).
Poppymas, and the inevitable War On It, has been ramping up steadily over the past Several of years. There is a strong correlation between those getting exercised over tEh WaR ,,,,,,,,,,,, oN pOpPeEz and fleg-noncers, veterans of The War On Christmas and other things that rile the Gammonariat.
Probably a good time to make the most of https://twitter.com/giantpoppywatch while the birdsite still works...This one:
Public transport in Poland is pretty good. Certainly a lot better than in the UK in rural locations.It's also striking how the Baltics and Sweden have much lower car ownership than the others (and Poland the highest).
A look at population location and densities, combined with public transport maps may answer that.
A bit like bicycle ownership figures in Britain being inflated by a small number of people having one bike for commuting, another for racing, a third for time trials, a fourth for touring, a fifth for audaxing, a sixth for summer Sundays, a seventh for off-roading, etc?Dentists, eh? Don't you just hate them? :)
Listening to The Write Stuff this morning, I learnt that the term "the Wild West" was coined by that well known author of cowboy fiction, Charlotte Bronte.Referring to Lancashire?
Listening to The Write Stuff this morning, I learnt that the term "the Wild West" was coined by that well known author of cowboy fiction, Charlotte Bronte.
NZ Post has guidance on how to package and send live bees.To parliament?
That Veritas (https://www.veritas.com/en/uk) is not at all the same company as Bureau Veritas. (https://group.bureauveritas.com) That was almost embarrassing!
That our Squirrel Buster seed feeder has spare parts available (the plastic of the feeder tube is opaque and brittle, one screw has already corroded, split the plastic and fallen out, the remaining 2 are on their way). Not only that, but it has a lifetime guarantee, and I can get a brand new feeder tube for £6 postage as opposed to £30 for a new feeder. Duly ordered, fingers crossed!
Today I are learning that Tony Sirico, who played Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri in “The Sopranos”, died back in July (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/09/the-sopranos-paulie-walnuts-actor-tony-sirico-dies-aged-79). Which has me wondering whether the name was widely applied to Paul Manafort or whether it was just something concocted by spesh in the TЯump thread downstairs.
In a charging document released by authorities, it goes into detail about Manafort’s work for Viktor Yanukovych in 2012, who was running against Yulia Tymoshenko for president of Ukraine.
The document shows that he tried to spread stories in the United States that would have accused a “senior Cabinet official” of being anti-Semitic for supporting Tymoshenko.
The document says he worked with an unnamed Israeli official to spread the story and wanted to have “Obama Jews” put “pressure” on the administration to support Yanukovych. As part of the work, according to the document, Manafort wrote to “Person D1” as he worked to disseminate the story for media outlets in the United States.
“I have someone pushing it on the NY Post,” he wrote. “Bada bing bada boom.”
Naturally, Manafort’s use of “bada bing bada boom” was spotted by people online.
...QuoteHe actually wrote “Bada bing bada boom.” #Sopranos https://t.co/dX2ETM837B...
— Bruce Rheins (@BruceRheins)
September 14, 2018 (https://twitter.com/BruceRheins/status/1040643373479034881)QuoteMatt Ford@fordm·Sep 14, 2018 (https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1040601459329572864)
This is quite a paragraph from Mueller's latest superseding indictment of Paul Manafort.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnD1fg2XoAA-ipk?format=jpg
Bill C.@only_a_bill
Replying to @fordm
"Bada bing bada boom"?
Damn, Paul Manafort REALLY wanted to be Paulie Walnuts, didn't he? Guess he got his wish...
3:08 PM · Sep 14, 2018 (https://twitter.com/only_a_bill/status/1040603100405481472)
It was in the thread downstairs as early as June 2017 :D
Indonesia is anomalous in having left hand road traffic but right hand rail traffic.
But that's not really an anomaly, it applies to eg Spain, Portugal, probably a dozen other countries which took their rail layouts from Britain but (now at least) drive on the right.Indonesia is anomalous in having left hand road traffic but right hand rail traffic.
France is the opposite!
Spain has a non standard gauge. A Spanish colleague explained it thus.:"Teem, it ees to prevent invasions." (I think their high speed stuff is standard gauge).But that's not really an anomaly, it applies to eg Spain, Portugal, probably a dozen other countries which took their rail layouts from Britain but (now at least) drive on the right.Indonesia is anomalous in having left hand road traffic but right hand rail traffic.
France is the opposite!
James Lovelock microwaved frozen mice.
James Lovelock microwaved frozen mice.
James Lovelock microwaved frozen mice.
James Lovelock microwaved frozen mice.
I believe it was hamsters. Unless I've also just learned that he microwaved frozen mice.
Today I are learning – thank to the half-Finnish Mr von Brandenburg – that it’s Independence Day in Finland.Ah. That would explain the blue and white flag being flown by the village flag officer.
There are penguins in the Mediterranean.
There are penguins in the Mediterranean.
There are penguins in the Mediterranean.
Citation needed.
I believe the traditional BRITISH approach involves driving self-tapping screws into the meter tails or similarly sketchy shit. At least a jump lead on an overhead line is rated for the current and relatively unlikely to start a fire.
Anyway, I've also learned that Orange Tuesday is a thing. Currently only in USAnia, but I'm sure well have it over here before the end of the decade.
Presumably Orange Tuesday is another marvellous occasion to buy things rather a celebration of fruit, Irish Protestantism or even Dutch football, which leads to the question: what colour are Wednesday, Thursday, etc going to be?
Presumably Orange Tuesday is another marvellous occasion to buy things rather a celebration of fruit, Irish Protestantism or even Dutch football, which leads to the question: what colour are Wednesday, Thursday, etc going to be?
Surely Blue and White? Up The Owls!Presumably Orange Tuesday is another marvellous occasion to buy things rather a celebration of fruit, Irish Protestantism or even Dutch football, which leads to the question: what colour are Wednesday, Thursday, etc going to be?
Wednesday should be black and white, but that might confuse the Gammonariat, which is already FUMMIN coz tHaReS nO ,,, wItE fRiDaY!!!one!
I've seen people in India "bypassing the meter" (where there was never even a meter) by means of crocodile clips and oversized jump leads on to the overhead cables. I've never seen anyone die doing this or even require medical attention, which definitely doesn't mean I'm recommending it.
I've seen people in India "bypassing the meter" (where there was never even a meter) by means of crocodile clips and oversized jump leads on to the overhead cables. I've never seen anyone die doing this or even require medical attention, which definitely doesn't mean I'm recommending it.
That there's a drunk bloke going viral on TikTok teaching people how to safely[1] bypass electricity meters. And moreover, this is a response to the many videos teaching people how to do it unsafely.
[1] FCVO 'safely'. I doubt that anyone desperate enough to resort to bypassing a meter is in a state to go out and spend tens of pounds on suitable electrical fittings.
Snakes have a clitoris (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/14/snakes-have-a-clitoris-scientists-overcome-a-massive-taboo-around-female-genitalia)
'Reptilian mating' is the stage after 'kissing a Tory'.Snakes have a clitoris (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/14/snakes-have-a-clitoris-scientists-overcome-a-massive-taboo-around-female-genitalia)
Barakta informed me of this while I was busy wiring a plug without remembering to thread the strain relief over the cable earlier. I realised that my understanding of the mechanics of reptilian mating was almost non-existent, so made her google things for me.
Fangs for that.'Reptilian mating' is the stage after 'kissing a Tory'.Snakes have a clitoris (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/14/snakes-have-a-clitoris-scientists-overcome-a-massive-taboo-around-female-genitalia)
Barakta informed me of this while I was busy wiring a plug without remembering to thread the strain relief over the cable earlier. I realised that my understanding of the mechanics of reptilian mating was almost non-existent, so made her google things for me.
King Farouk 1 of Egypt had a collection of pornographic neckties. Has anybody ever seen such a thing?
That the last death sentence for witchcraft in Britain was passed on Jane Wenham of Walkern, Hertfordshire in 1711. She was pardoned by Queen Anne and the case led to the law against witchcraft being repealed in 1736. But the best thing is that the evidence against her included having been seen flying on a broomstick by several locals (as they were walking back from the pub...), to which the judge said there was no law against flying as long as due care was taken. A useful precedent to quote if you should get your broomstick aerial!
In her final years, she was visited by Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660–1739), author of an Historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718) in which he applied an extremely rational approach to the subject. Hutchinson, who had met other survivors of witch-hunts, regarded their persecution as Tory superstition.
That the clock icon for the er clock/stopwatch/timer app on my phone actually tells the time. Just thought it was a picture of a clock
That the clock icon for the er clock/stopwatch/timer app on my phone actually tells the time. Just thought it was a picture of a clock
That's the sort of attention to detail that I find unreasonably pleasing.
That white goods equipped with little-tune-playing beepers can use it to beep diagnostic data down the phone to customer support.Is it your fridge, freezer or washing machine that's broken down? ;)
That's pretty clever. Wish I'd thought of it.
That white goods equipped with little-tune-playing beepers can use it to beep diagnostic data down the phone to customer support.
That's pretty clever. Wish I'd thought of it.
That white goods equipped with little-tune-playing beepers can use it to beep diagnostic data down the phone to customer support.Is it your fridge, freezer or washing machine that's broken down? ;)
That's pretty clever. Wish I'd thought of it.
No way.
That's a step too far.
I've said it before.
Do not allow machines to talk to one another.
(Sings)
When I press a special key
It plays a little melody!
(Sings)
When I press a special key
It plays a little melody!
You are Ralf Hütter AICMFP. :demon:
Regarding machines beeping to call back to base, McLaren F1s came equipped with modems.
I have no idea if a bank of modems is still maintained in the depths of MTC so the poor things can talk to the mothership.
I did hear tales of the heritage racing department having to source outdated laptops on eBay in order to start certain cars though.
$RICH_COLLECTOR found himself unable to start a Ferrari F1/86 wot he had acquired. Exasperated, he asked former Ferrari driver Stefan Johansson if he'd ever had trouble starting it. “Oh no,” said the affable Swede, “I just did this [raises right hand with index finger pointing upwards; moves hand in vaguely circular motion] and it started every time!”
Our washing machine has got a unscrewable thingy that let's you check if the pump is full of sock.Oh yes. This is one of the reasons I keep old towels. And a large rusty baking tray.
It's behind a hard to remove panel at floor height.
Instructions : "A small amount of water may be released" - I've washed the kitchen floor again.
'Print' (up there, top right) and ctrl-F works fine fine for me, if what I'm interested in is in a single thread.
$RICH_COLLECTOR found himself unable to start a Ferrari F1/86 wot he had acquired. Exasperated, he asked former Ferrari driver Stefan Johansson if he'd ever had trouble starting it. “Oh no,” said the affable Swede, “I just did this [raises right hand with index finger pointing upwards; moves hand in vaguely circular motion] and it started every time!”
For anyone interested, F1 cars do not have their own starters. A muckle big battery is brought up on trolley which has what looks like an oversized hand blender which is shoved up the car's jacksy.
As far as I can see that article doesn't actually tell you the word so I am none the wiser.I had to do exactly the same googling ;D
EDIT - found it by googling Loybas Hill, one of the new names. Like Roger I had no idea it was so derogatory!
The word is "squaw".I'm old enough the have guessed that in the context of the post.
I agree with Feanor. When being told something is unacceptable, it's essential to be told what the unacceptable word or thing is (and why it's unacceptable), otherwise how can you avoid it?
The word 'squaw' has historically been used as "an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women", the department said.
I agree with Feanor. When being told something is unacceptable, it's essential to be told what the unacceptable word or thing is (and why it's unacceptable), otherwise how can you avoid it?
Language isn't 'bad' or 'unacceptable', so much as 'inappropriate'. Meta-discussion of when you should or shouldn't use the word, explaining problematic meanings, or indeed just making people familiar with a term in the context of learning a language seems entirely appropriate to me.
As far as I can see that article doesn't actually tell you the word so I am none the wiser.
EDIT - found it by googling Loybas Hill, one of the new names. Like Roger I had no idea it was so derogatory!
From that article, 6th para : -
"The word 'squaw' has historically been used as "an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women", the department said."
Yup, I replied before getting to this page of the thread, so I've removed my now redundant post.As far as I can see that article doesn't actually tell you the word so I am none the wiser.
EDIT - found it by googling Loybas Hill, one of the new names. Like Roger I had no idea it was so derogatory!
From that article, 6th para : -
"The word 'squaw' has historically been used as "an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women", the department said."
The article was edited. The word wasn't there when Auntie Helen (and I) first read it.
Sorry, this page isn't available.
...and then in Catch-22, we have the character called Major who is promoted to the rank of major. To add to the fun his first names are also Major Major.
Appointments to see him in his office can only be made for times when he is not in his office...
...and then in Catch-22, we have the character called Major who is promoted to the rank of major. To add to the fun his first names are also Major Major.
Appointments to see him in his office can only be made for times when he is not in his office...
IIRC it was rank = Major, surname = Major, and as the older he was “Major”. That distinguished him from Major Major Minor who was younger. I can’t remember if they were father and son.
And was then forever held at that rank. And his basketball team members sort of started ignoring him. (I last read Catch 22 about 40 years ago.)...and then in Catch-22, we have the character called Major who is promoted to the rank of major. To add to the fun his first names are also Major Major.
Appointments to see him in his office can only be made for times when he is not in his office...
IIRC it was rank = Major, surname = Major, and as the older he was “Major”. That distinguished him from Major Major Minor who was younger. I can’t remember if they were father and son.
Having just found the relevant passage in my copy of Catch-22: He was born with the family name Major, and was named Major Major Major by his father, who had a rather unusual sense of humour. Four days after enlisting in the US Army he was promoted from Private to Major, "by an IBM machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's".
And was then forever held at that rank. And his basketball team members sort of started ignoring him. (I last read Catch 22 about 40 years ago.)...and then in Catch-22, we have the character called Major who is promoted to the rank of major. To add to the fun his first names are also Major Major.
Appointments to see him in his office can only be made for times when he is not in his office...
IIRC it was rank = Major, surname = Major, and as the older he was “Major”. That distinguished him from Major Major Minor who was younger. I can’t remember if they were father and son.
Having just found the relevant passage in my copy of Catch-22: He was born with the family name Major, and was named Major Major Major by his father, who had a rather unusual sense of humour. Four days after enlisting in the US Army he was promoted from Private to Major, "by an IBM machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's".
Having just found the relevant passage in my copy of Catch-22: He was born with the family name Major, and was named Major Major Major by his father, who had a rather unusual sense of humour. Four days after enlisting in the US Army he was promoted from Private to Major, "by an IBM machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's".
Having just found the relevant passage in my copy of Catch-22: He was born with the family name Major, and was named Major Major Major by his father, who had a rather unusual sense of humour. Four days after enlisting in the US Army he was promoted from Private to Major, "by an IBM machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's".
Catch 22 and IBM? Is that timeline right? Only ever seen the film, and sadly only remember the plane and the (half) bloke on the jetty :sick:
Yes, it is. IBM was around in the 1930s. A German subsidiary supplied data processing machines that were used in the management of the Holocaust.
The company that changed its name to IBM in 1924 was originally founded in 1911 and according to FruitCo fanboiz stands for “I Bought Macintosh” or “It's Broken Mate”.
The company that changed its name to IBM in 1924 was originally founded in 1911 and according to FruitCo fanboiz stands for “I Bought Macintosh” or “It's Broken Mate”.
Or if you work there "I've Been Moved" - as in to another role/department
"Papa told him not to be such a Ralph Spooner and stop going about with them, but when has my brother ever listened?"
Today at 16:50 pm the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn all line up over the house opposite, 25% cloud cover forecast tho' but.
Or:Today at 16:50 pm the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn all line up over the house opposite, 25% cloud cover forecast tho' but.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/celestial_events applies. :demon: ;)
Or:Today at 16:50 pm the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn all line up over the house opposite, 25% cloud cover forecast tho' but.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/celestial_events applies. :demon: ;)
https://www.theregister.com/2013/12/02/xmas_list_suggestions/
Bram Stoker was Irish.
Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."
Today at 16:50 pm the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn all line up over the house opposite, 25% cloud cover forecast tho' but.Thanks! By the time I went to look, I just got mars, the moon and Jupiter, between clouds and houses.
That moles build fortresses.Also, in winter, they dig deeper, for that is where the worms are.
That there are telescopic urinals.
And that it is possible to be crushed underneath one :( Doesn’t bear thinking about.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/27/man-crushed-and-injured-while-working-on-open-air-urinal-in-london
Urinals for women do exist too, but they're a recent invention.
https://www.bristol247.com/festivals/news-festivals/get-your-squat-on-bristol-start-up-launches-womens-urinal-at-glastonbury-2022/
On similar lines, that when Canadian railways were switching from steam to diesel in the 1950s, they tried out diesel-fired steam locomotives. More even burning and no need for a fireman.
Windscreens on Tube trains have their impact resistance tested by firing a 1kg mass at them at 233km/h.
I've just been reading a fascinating article about the process of finding a new supplier of windscreens for Tube trains after the factory that has been making them for decades closed down in 2020. What I'm not sure of is the significance of that speed.
ETA: it's not just Tube trains but all trains. BS EN 15152 (https://landingpage.bsigroup.com/LandingPage/Undated?UPI=000000000030270294) applies.
Windscreens on Tube trains have their impact resistance tested by firing a 1kg mass at them at 233km/h.
I've just been reading a fascinating article about the process of finding a new supplier of windscreens for Tube trains after the factory that has been making them for decades closed down in 2020. What I'm not sure of is the significance of that speed.
ETA: it's not just Tube trains but all trains. BS EN 15152 (https://landingpage.bsigroup.com/LandingPage/Undated?UPI=000000000030270294) applies.
That's interesting - and I can't help but speculate wildly.
Perhaps this is derived from the maximum closing speed of two opposing tube trains. i.e. something comes off one, hitting the other whilst they are both closing at max speed.
Top speed of tubes today is 60mph - which is 193kph for 120mph closing speed: But if there is a 12.5% engineering uplift, just in case, then that gets 233kph.
Complete speculation on my part - but I think there is some logic in the biggest speeds being two closing trains?
That there are telescopic urinals.
And that it is possible to be crushed underneath one :( Doesn’t bear thinking about.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/27/man-crushed-and-injured-while-working-on-open-air-urinal-in-london
Speaking of urinals - have you seen the ones like a giant 3 or 4 sided traffic cone that they position over drains? Not sure if they still do but they used to put them out in Central London on Friday and Saturday nights.
Like https://www.urinal.net/charing_cross/ (note it's marked for men!)
That there are telescopic urinals.
And that it is possible to be crushed underneath one :( Doesn’t bear thinking about.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/27/man-crushed-and-injured-while-working-on-open-air-urinal-in-london
Speaking of urinals - have you seen the ones like a giant 3 or 4 sided traffic cone that they position over drains? Not sure if they still do but they used to put them out in Central London on Friday and Saturday nights.
Like https://www.urinal.net/charing_cross/ (note it's marked for men!)
Not over drains but at a festival a few years back they had hoist in ones with piss holes on four sides. Problem was it wasn't level, was on the piss and insufficient capacity so was draining out one side
Paco Rabanne was a real person and not just some made up brand.The one that surprised me was Hugo Boss. I'd always assumed that it was just along the lines of "boss clothes". Which now leads me to wonder where the word boss, in that sense, comes from.
About the Panama Canal “mules”.
Boss, noun; decorative knob.Syn. Manager, Project Manager, Chief Executive Officer.
That in extemely cold (for BRITAIN) conditions, UPVC doors can contract enough that they can't be locked. I actually suspected this last week, but had it confirmed today on that internet they have now.
From 31st March 2023, the underlying weather feed, Dark Sky, will cease to function as a result of being purchased by Apple. Due to this WeatherBagel will shut down for the foreseeable future.
I've sadly not had enough time to develop a new version of the site using alternative data feeds, and life just gets more complicated each day so I can't see my schedule freeing up any time soon.
I hope everyone found the site useful in avoiding those unwanted showers!
- Alvaro
In 1928 Evans patented a frame with ovalised top, down and seat tubes, the Evans Oval. He claimed that the oval tubes increased lateral rigidity 18% or offered a greater vertical resilience. These frames were made in very small numbers in the 1930s – unlike many of the other frame designs (curly Hetchins, Baines gate) it was not obvious on first sight so did not attract buyers who wanted something different.https://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/classic_builders/evans-f-w/
My chap tells me that men cannot pee and poop at the same time.It is a craft which men have largely failed to embrace.
This is a skill that women have.
Surely the real skill is pooing without peeing? I think you have to either be an astronaut or in advanced levels of digestive distress to manage that.Well, quite.
My chap tells me that men cannot pee and poop at the same time.
That in the good ole' US of A, parolee's have to make monthly payments to the state to cover their supervision fees.
You can have your driving licence revoked for non-driving offences in the UK too. I think it might be part of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Or maybe some other act. I guess it's very rarely used though.
I remember Teh Julian mentioning it many years ago and she said it could be applied to any crime whatsoever that carried a prison sentence.You can have your driving licence revoked for non-driving offences in the UK too. I think it might be part of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Or maybe some other act. I guess it's very rarely used though.
Non-driving but I thought still motor-vehicle-related (eg. fraud, parking, stealing).
I remember Teh Julian mentioning it many years ago and she said it could be applied to any crime whatsoever that carried a prison sentence.You can have your driving licence revoked for non-driving offences in the UK too. I think it might be part of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Or maybe some other act. I guess it's very rarely used though.
Non-driving but I thought still motor-vehicle-related (eg. fraud, parking, stealing).
That mains electricity in much of Norway it the IT system where the neutral isn't earthed. That's the system used for shaver sockets in the UK. The system in Norway causes problems with some appliances designed for elsewhere.
That mains electricity in much of Norway it the IT system where the neutral isn't earthed. That's the system used for shaver sockets in the UK. The system in Norway causes problems with some appliances designed for elsewhere.
To navigate safely with map and compass, the needle needs to be weighted differently for use in the southern hemisphere from how it is weighted for use in the northern hemisphere.There are compasses designed to work in both hemispheres, but I’m not sure how they do this.
Here in the northern hemisphere the lines of magnetic flux are dipping down to the magnetic north pole. To ensure the needle remains level and the bearing does not bind, the south end is weighted. If this type of compas is used in the southern hemisphere, where the lines of magnetic flux rise up towards the equator and the north, the needle bearing may bind.
A southern hemsphere compass is weighted at the north end of the needle.
American Wire Gage differs from Imperial SWG.
They have bearings that continue to allow rotation when one end or the other is trying to point downwards. That's a lot more difficult, so therefore expensive, than balancing the needle with a small weight and supporting it on a single pivot.To navigate safely with map and compass, the needle needs to be weighted differently for use in the southern hemisphere from how it is weighted for use in the northern hemisphere.There are compasses designed to work in both hemispheres, but I’m not sure how they do this.
Here in the northern hemisphere the lines of magnetic flux are dipping down to the magnetic north pole. To ensure the needle remains level and the bearing does not bind, the south end is weighted. If this type of compas is used in the southern hemisphere, where the lines of magnetic flux rise up towards the equator and the north, the needle bearing may bind.
A southern hemsphere compass is weighted at the north end of the needle.
American Wire Gage differs from Imperial SWG.
Still doesn't explain American knitting needle sizes.
What about compass for use on the equator?
IGMC
Over here number 8 wire is a national treasure.
I'm trying to remember if I've knowingly come across SWG for actual wire. Normally it's either AWG for the small stuff, or - more sensibly, because it's the value you're most likely to need for strength or resistance calculations - the cross-sectional area is quoted in square millimetres.
I'm trying to remember if I've knowingly come across SWG for actual wire.You need to build more toy aeroplanes; you can't move for piano wire in assorted SWG sizes. :)
Right enough, I ran into SWG around 65 years ago, making a coil for a crystal set. 3" former and N hundred turns.
Second mention of that book in a couple of weeks. lkingscott, from the hardcore brompton fettling thread, said it was a childhood influence.Right enough, I ran into SWG around 65 years ago, making a coil for a crystal set. 3" former and N hundred turns.
I'm fairly sure (as sure as you can be after >50 years) that SWG was specified in Ladybird book instructing brother how to build a transistor radio...
Second mention of that book in a couple of weeks. lkingscott, from the hardcore brompton fettling thread, said it was a childhood influence.Right enough, I ran into SWG around 65 years ago, making a coil for a crystal set. 3" former and N hundred turns.
I'm fairly sure (as sure as you can be after >50 years) that SWG was specified in Ladybird book instructing brother how to build a transistor radio...
I had it too. OC71. Jumpers for goal posts.
Online version here: https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/Making-a-Transistor-Radio-Ladybird%20Books-1972.pdf (https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/Making-a-Transistor-Radio-Ladybird%20Books-1972.pdf)
Thanks for that!Second mention of that book in a couple of weeks. lkingscott, from the hardcore brompton fettling thread, said it was a childhood influence.Right enough, I ran into SWG around 65 years ago, making a coil for a crystal set. 3" former and N hundred turns.I'm fairly sure (as sure as you can be after >50 years) that SWG was specified in Ladybird book instructing brother how to build a transistor radio...
I had it too. OC71. Jumpers for goal posts.
Online version here: https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/Making-a-Transistor-Radio-Ladybird%20Books-1972.pdf (https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/Making-a-Transistor-Radio-Ladybird%20Books-1972.pdf)
I'm pretty sure that compasses as used in the yachting world are made differently (in some way) if being used in high latitudes, something to do with the magnetic field applying less torque to the needle (or something).What about compass for use on the equator?
IGMC
Good question! The deeper I look into the compass question, the more interesting it gets. It appears that compass manufactures consider three zones: northern, southern and equitorial. Presumably the "equitorial" versions do not have any bias weighting at either end of the needle.
It is all rather accademic since Silva do what they call "global" models (for use in both hemispheres) for about £60.
Second mention of that book in a couple of weeks. lkingscott, from the hardcore brompton fettling thread, said it was a childhood influence.Right enough, I ran into SWG around 65 years ago, making a coil for a crystal set. 3" former and N hundred turns.
I'm fairly sure (as sure as you can be after >50 years) that SWG was specified in Ladybird book instructing brother how to build a transistor radio...
I had it too. OC71. Jumpers for goal posts.
Online version here: https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/Making-a-Transistor-Radio-Ladybird%20Books-1972.pdf (https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/Making-a-Transistor-Radio-Ladybird%20Books-1972.pdf)
Cor, PNP. You oldies did everything standing on your head...
Once you get into large boats, the magnetic field of the boat has to be compensated for, allowing for all directions of the boat may be pointing, as well as a wide range of angles of heel. I think it's witchcraft, personally, but apparently science and not incantations are used in making binnacles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binnacle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binnacle)I'm pretty sure that compasses as used in the yachting world are made differently (in some way) if being used in high latitudes, something to do with the magnetic field applying less torque to the needle (or something).What about compass for use on the equator?
IGMC
Good question! The deeper I look into the compass question, the more interesting it gets. It appears that compass manufactures consider three zones: northern, southern and equitorial. Presumably the "equitorial" versions do not have any bias weighting at either end of the needle.
It is all rather accademic since Silva do what they call "global" models (for use in both hemispheres) for about £60.
Yes, well, I never really encountered those JFET-with-a-pilot-light things until I was old enough to know better... Shame really, as you say there's something about being able to see what's going on...
I'm trying to remember if I've knowingly come across SWG for actual wire. Normally it's either AWG for the small stuff, or - more sensibly, because it's the value you're most likely to need for strength or resistance calculations - the cross-sectional area is quoted in square millimetres.
I've come across it when specifying enameled copper wire for building ferrite rod antennas.
(The Ladybird Book 'Making a Transistor Radio' uses 50 turns of 36 SWG on a 3/8" ferrite rod...)
You lot probably all know this, but...
Kings Cross has a platform zero.
You lot probably all know this, but...
Kings Cross has a platform zero.
As does Cardiff Central.
Once you get into large boats, the magnetic field of the boat has to be compensated for, allowing for all directions of the boat may be pointing, as well as a wide range of angles of heel. I think it's witchcraft, personally, but apparently science and not incantations are used in making binnacles.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binnacle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binnacle)I'm pretty sure that compasses as used in the yachting world are made differently (in some way) if being used in high latitudes, something to do with the magnetic field applying less torque to the needle (or something).What about compass for use on the equator?
IGMC
Good question! The deeper I look into the compass question, the more interesting it gets. It appears that compass manufactures consider three zones: northern, southern and equitorial. Presumably the "equitorial" versions do not have any bias weighting at either end of the needle.
It is all rather accademic since Silva do what they call "global" models (for use in both hemispheres) for about £60.
Add into that the problems of the changing inclination of the earth's magnetic field, and I can see the whole process being very difficult.
You lot probably all know this, but...
Kings Cross has a platform zero.
As does Cardiff Central.
And Stockport.
Actually, I bet someone's made a list on Wikipedia....
There we are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_0)
Wonder if anywhere has a Platform -1?
You lot probably all know this, but...
Kings Cross has a platform zero.
As does Cardiff Central.
And Stockport.
Actually, I bet someone's made a list on Wikipedia....
There we are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_0)
Wonder if anywhere has a Platform -1?
Not yet*, but if the tentatively proposed work to install 2 new platforms on the north west side of Leeds station** goes ahead, they could well be -1 and -2.
* In the UK - other jurisdictions may differ!
** Next to platform 0
You lot probably all know this, but...
Kings Cross has a platform zero.
As does Cardiff Central.
And Stockport.
Actually, I bet someone's made a list on Wikipedia....
There we are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_0)
Wonder if anywhere has a Platform -1?
Not yet*, but if the tentatively proposed work to install 2 new platforms on the north west side of Leeds station** goes ahead, they could well be -1 and -2.
* In the UK - other jurisdictions may differ!
** Next to platform 0
Don't know about -1 & -2. I reckon A & B is more likely.
I have learnt two things already today, and frankly I'm not sure which is most disturbing.
The first is that one man, Thomas Midgley Jr., is responsible for the invention of both leaded fuel and CFC's (Freon). If there's an Oppenheimer scale then he's got to be right up there.
Oh, the other thing?
Gwyneth Paltrow is shooting ozone up her but for the sake of "wellness" (https://futurism.com/neoscope/gwyneth-paltrow-shooting-ozone-butt-wellness)
That there is a 5000 mile wide “blob” of Sargassum seaweeds stretching from Africa to the Caribbean. And that it can wash ashore in drifts 2m high, emits Hydrogen Sulphide and contains Arsenic.
When you buy plywood, chipboard, OSB etc from B&Q or other timber supplying emporia the items usally have a sticky label placed in the middle of the sheet - with glur of the "shit to a blanket" variety . . .
I've discovered, courtesy of YT, that gentle heat from a heat gun (or even a hairdrier) and gentle scraping eases the label from the surface leaving minimal glue residue which can then be gently sanded away.
A couple of weeks ago I learnt the word eleemosynary. Came across it in a book written in the early 18th century. Now, reading another book written recently but set in the same time period, I've encountered it again! I guess it should stick in my mind now.IIRC PTerry uses it in 'Making Money' (Uttered by the conman who is posing as a vicar).
A couple of weeks ago I learnt the word eleemosynary. Came across it in a book written in the early 18th century. Now, reading another book written recently but set in the same time period, I've encountered it again! I guess it should stick in my mind now.
That TK Maxx is actually TJ Maxx, but in the UK the name was changed so as to avoid confusion the British retail “giant” TJ Hughes - which I’ve never heard of before reading that.Seems TJ Hughes are mostly a northern England thing, based in Liverpool.
That TK Maxx is actually TJ Maxx, but in the UK the name was changed so as to avoid confusion the British retail “giant” TJ Hughes - which I’ve never heard of before reading that.Seems TJ Hughes are mostly a northern England thing, based in Liverpool.
Not to be confused with TJ Morris, also based in Liverpool, who own Home Bargains.
A couple of weeks ago I learnt the word eleemosynary. Came across it in a book written in the early 18th century. Now, reading another book written recently but set in the same time period, I've encountered it again! I guess it should stick in my mind now.
Ditto! The second being Suskind's Pefume...A couple of weeks ago I learnt the word eleemosynary. Came across it in a book written in the early 18th century. Now, reading another book written recently but set in the same time period, I've encountered it again! I guess it should stick in my mind now.
I first came across that in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (mid-18th century - obviously something they were all into back then). He uses it *a lot*, so it has stuck, even though it's quite a few years since I read it.
Ditto! The second being Suskind's Pefume...A couple of weeks ago I learnt the word eleemosynary. Came across it in a book written in the early 18th century. Now, reading another book written recently but set in the same time period, I've encountered it again! I guess it should stick in my mind now.
I first came across that in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (mid-18th century - obviously something they were all into back then). He uses it *a lot*, so it has stuck, even though it's quite a few years since I read it.
I'm still in the middle of it! Keep getting sidetracked by other things... But I'm enjoying it. And it's interesting how in some ways it seems more modern than something which was written a century later.Ditto! The second being Suskind's Pefume...A couple of weeks ago I learnt the word eleemosynary. Came across it in a book written in the early 18th century. Now, reading another book written recently but set in the same time period, I've encountered it again! I guess it should stick in my mind now.
I first came across that in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (mid-18th century - obviously something they were all into back then). He uses it *a lot*, so it has stuck, even though it's quite a few years since I read it.
Ah! I don't recall it from Perfume, though I'm sure I would have noticed it at the time of reading. Can't think of any other books where I've come across it.
What did you think of Tom Jones? It's one of my all-time favourite books.
I first came across that in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (mid-18th century - obviously something they were all into back then). He uses it *a lot*, so it has stuck, even though it's quite a few years since I read it.Gutenberg says only twice in Tom Jones. But the first one is in the first sentence. Unusual words in first sentences can have quite an impact. I learnt 'catamite' from the first sentence of Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers:
Gutenberg says only twice in Tom Jones. But the first one is in the first sentence. Unusual words in first sentences can have quite an impact.
One of my favourite opening sentences. :thumbsup:I first came across that in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (mid-18th century - obviously something they were all into back then). He uses it *a lot*, so it has stuck, even though it's quite a few years since I read it.Gutenberg says only twice in Tom Jones. But the first one is in the first sentence. Unusual words in first sentences can have quite an impact. I learnt 'catamite' from the first sentence of Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers:
"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me." (Who wouldn't want to read on after a first sentence like that?)
It is now in fairly common use at work - so much more acceptable than the 'bitch' it replaced.
In Real life Dads army star Captain Mainwaring was actually a Sgt Major in WW2 (REME). Sgt Wilson was actually a Captain in the Royal Tank corps.
Today I are learning the word “presbycusis”.I have recently realised that I have this.
Pardon?
Today I are learning the word “presbycusis”.I have recently realised that I have this.
Pardon?
But didn't know what to call it.
Today I are learning the word “presbycusis”.I have recently realised that I have this.
Pardon?
But didn't know what to call it.
RNID stats on prevalence are quite scary, 40% of people over 50 rising to 70% of people over 70 https://rnid.org.uk/about-us/research-and-policy/facts-and-figures/
Although their definition point is slightly lower than most hearing aid provision which usually waits till the deafness is at 30dB.
I've always thought that it meant a Priest - ie Presbyter.
Interesting to know that about metformin - explains a lot.
I assume that's 25/30dB across all the frequency bands[1]?
[1] In the audiology universe, hearing takes place at 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and 8000Hz. Anything above 8kHz is teenager repellent, anything below 250Hz doesn't exist, and whatever you do don't mention the gaps.
My sign name for RNID is <WHAT> cos they had that silly name for a while (Action on Hearing Loss) and no one could remember what it was, so <WHAT> seemed like a good snark.Oh, I'd always assumed it was just a "What did you say?" sort of what.
Today I are learning the word “presbycusis”.I have recently realised that I have this.
Pardon?
But didn't know what to call it.
That Parisi Celts gave rise to the city of Paris.
Stalin purged his own parrot. He got infuriated with the bird imitating his crude hawking and spitting and whacked it on the head with his pipe. He also once plucked a live bird to make a political point.
That Parisi Celts gave rise to the city of Paris.
I used to drive to work through Villeparisis, on the edge of the Parisi tribal lands.
Stalin purged his own parrot. He got infuriated with the bird imitating his crude hawking and spitting and whacked it on the head with his pipe. He also once plucked a live bird to make a political point.
Stalin purged his own parrot. He got infuriated with the bird imitating his crude hawking and spitting and whacked it on the head with his pipe. He also once plucked a live bird to make a political point.
Einstein told jokes, reportedly bad ones, to his parrot after deciding it was depressed. There are some not bad ones here. (https://sci.physics.narkive.com/Ep18EdyY/article-einstein-s-parrot)
That Robert Watson-Watt, to save time and money, synchronised Britain’s ‘chain home’ radar stations using the national grid.
That Robert Watson-Watt, to save time and money, synchronised Britain’s ‘chain home’ radar stations using the national grid.A former colleague was in a radar tower when the CO came in with an old man and showed all the (then) modern gear to him.
That if you press the power button on a Samsung mobile for too long it autodials 112 which is the same as 999.
Was trying to reboot the phone whilst talking to someone and did this by accident.
That “ocun” is Scots for weird. But not, I suspect, much used for the last 100 years.
That “once” is Scots for weird. But not, I suspect, much used for the last 100 years.
ETA Edited as per JennyB’s comment. :thumbsup:
That “once” is Scots for weird. But not, I suspect, much used for the last 100 years.
Schrödinger had a dog.
They even have a DIN standard for English1.
They even have a DIN standard for English1.
They certainly do in Portsmouth.
In Pompey din is an insult.
Today I are learning that following a not terribly successful career in Formula 1 in the 1970s, driver and professional descendant Rikky von Opel moved to Thailand and became a Buddhist monk. He's apparently still at it too.One of our clients is Georg von Opel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_von_Opel), second cousin of the aforementioned Rikky, and great-grandson of the großer Käse Adam Opel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Opel).
What bee poo looks like.And I have learned, after washing the car, how quickly 4 beehives’ worth of bees can cover a car with poop in 2 hours.
HT: Auntie Helen
Rotherham United's supporters hold the record for the most pies consumed at a football match, with a consumption 40% above the Football League average.
According to Wikipedia:QuoteRotherham United's supporters hold the record for the most pies consumed at a football match, with a consumption 40% above the Football League average.
They even have a DIN standard for English1.
They certainly do in Portsmouth.
They even have a DIN standard for English1.
They certainly do in Portsmouth.
At school we had to do cadets, so we were sent to Portsmouth for a training camp, where we heard the the proper way to say block and tackle for the first time. However being young, rather than accepting the navy had a specific way of saying "tackle", we just assumed everyone from Portsmouth were a little slow and a very specific speech impediment
They even have a DIN standard for English1.
They certainly do in Portsmouth.
At school we had to do cadets, so we were sent to Portsmouth for a training camp, where we heard the the proper way to say block and tackle for the first time. However being young, rather than accepting the navy had a specific way of saying "tackle", we just assumed everyone from Portsmouth were a little slow and a very specific speech impediment
Both those things seem equally probable to me. Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if the former were a consequence of the latter.
Anyway, for the benefit of those with limited experience of Portsmouth[1] (or for that matter, the Navy), what's the specific way of saying "tackle"?
[1] It took me several years of reading this forum to work out what a Pompey was[2].
[2] Which by rights should be some sort of Roman fixed-wheel bike, but seemed to be a sportsball thing, except when it wasn't.
They even have a DIN standard for English1.
They certainly do in Portsmouth.
At school we had to do cadets, so we were sent to Portsmouth for a training camp, where we heard the the proper way to say block and tackle for the first time. However being young, rather than accepting the navy had a specific way of saying "tackle", we just assumed everyone from Portsmouth were a little slow and a very specific speech impediment
Both those things seem equally probable to me. Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if the former were a consequence of the latter.
Anyway, for the benefit of those with limited experience of Portsmouth[1] (or for that matter, the Navy), what's the specific way of saying "tackle"?
[1] It took me several years of reading this forum to work out what a Pompey was[2].
[2] Which by rights should be some sort of Roman fixed-wheel bike, but seemed to be a sportsball thing, except when it wasn't.
I think that it's pronounced "taykle".
However, that may be an old, generic, seadogs' thing (I read it in an article on traditional sailing boat rigging).
My thing wot I learned is that the Hifi shop sketch off of TV's Not The Nine O'Clock News first saw life on The Burkiss Way, a sketch show onThe Home ServiceRadio 4 in 1977.
Also earlier in the day, when I heard it, which prompted some frantic googling.My thing wot I learned is that the Hifi shop sketch off of TV's Not The Nine O'Clock News first saw life on The Burkiss Way, a sketch show onThe Home ServiceRadio 4 in 1977.
'Twas on the wireless this evening.
How to use a smartwatch to obtain multichannel electrocardiograms.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2770022
How to use a smartwatch to obtain multichannel electrocardiograms.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2770022
That's quite clever, though I had to look up what a "digital crown" was. It turns out that the general purpose twiddle-knob on the latest Mega-Global Fruit Co watches also serves as an electrode (the other being the back of the watch) for single-channel ECG purposes.
At the other end of the scale, we probably have a few old aluminium francs somewhere. They were still on the go, mixed in with the new stuff, when we came to France, and people still spoke in old francs - cinq cent balles was 5 frs and a brique was 10,000. Kinda confusing when you aren't yet fluent.Like this?
Come to think of it, some of them still had the Travail, Patrie, Famille slogan on them instead of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.
I seem to remember a few denominations of Italian Lire and Austrian Schillings/Gröschen being aluminum. Am I right about this?I'm sure I remember aluminium coins from Austria too. And old Polish coins were aluminium; they were replaced in the mid '90s at the rate of 1 new for 10,000 old (and about 5 new to 1 GBP), so you can imagine just how little the old ones were worth...
At the other end of the scale, we probably have a few old aluminium francs somewhere. They were still on the go, mixed in with the new stuff, when we came to France, and people still spoke in old francs - cinq cent balles was 5 frs and a brique was 10,000. Kinda confusing when you aren't yet fluent.
Come to think of it, some of them still had the Travail, Patrie, Famille slogan on them instead of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.
At the other end of the scale, we probably have a few old aluminium francs somewhere. They were still on the go, mixed in with the new stuff, when we came to France, and people still spoke in old francs - cinq cent balles was 5 frs and a brique was 10,000. Kinda confusing when you aren't yet fluent.Like this?
Come to think of it, some of them still had the Travail, Patrie, Famille slogan on them instead of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Piece_de_monnaie_1943_124_2419.JPG/800px-Piece_de_monnaie_1943_124_2419.JPG)
That the American pronunciation of the word ‘primer’ (a book or document which helps you decipher information) is pronounced rhyming with strimmer rather than climber.
I watched the film Contact.
That the American pronunciation of the word ‘primer’ (a book or document which helps you decipher information) is pronounced rhyming with strimmer rather than climber.
I watched the film Contact.
Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho, described Ellison as "the only living organism I know whose natural habitat is hot water."
That “Soldier” by Harland Jay Ellison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison) was the inspirational book behind “The Terminator”.Quote
Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho, described Ellison as "the only living organism I know whose natural habitat is hot water."
Ellison was a dick, but wrote some truly oddball and unique stories.
That “Soldier” by Harland Jay Ellison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison) was the inspirational book behind “The Terminator”.Quote
Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho, described Ellison as "the only living organism I know whose natural habitat is hot water."
That is what Ellison claimed.
I've read that story. There is almost nothing connecting Soldier to Terminator, apart from them both featuring a soldier sent back in time.
Ellison was a dick, but wrote some truly oddball and unique stories.
Cameron was against Orion's decision and was told that if he did not agree with the settlement, he would have to pay any damages if Orion lost a suit by Ellison. Cameron replied that he "had no choice but to agree with the settlement. Of course there was a gag order as well, so I couldn't tell this story, but now I frankly don't care. It's the truth."
In a delicious and sad irony, that the Cutty Sark was launched in the same year that the Suez Canal opened.Mind slightly blown.
Dawn from The Office is Jasper Carrott's daughter.
That councils can no longer charge for DIY waste
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65977938
They say it’ll push up costs, but they have to clear up the fly tipped waste already. It’ll also mean when you want a new bathroom the plumber will want you to dispose of the old one.
That councils can no longer charge for DIY waste
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65977938
They say it’ll push up costs, but they have to clear up the fly tipped waste already. It’ll also mean when you want a new bathroom the plumber will want you to dispose of the old one.
But some local authorities were still able to charge for certain types of DIY material, under rules designed for construction waste.It's going to make hardly any difference to fly tipping unless they extend free disposal to commercial waste too.
The the Cambridge house fire which sadly killed a woman and two children over the week end was caused by an electric bike which was on charge at the time.
The the Cambridge house fire which sadly killed a woman and two children over the week end was caused by an electric bike which was on charge at the time.
I think the next question is what was the bike/battery ? . . . . . there are some notoriously poor quality bikes and batteries out there . . . From data I've seen I doubt it was an established/mainstream brand. Whatever, not leaving the battery on-charge unattended is prudent.
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https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=126102.0
Marty Robbins recorded a follow up to El Paso
https://youtu.be/74AkX3D35fo
I share a birthday with notorious sex pests Roman Polanski and Huw Edwards. A bit relieved that I don't also share it with Prince Andrew or Kevin Spacey.Thatcher died on my birthday, which didn't in the least put a dampener on things.
The term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory, which posits that the term was popularized by the CIA in order to discredit conspiratorial believers, particularly critics of the Warren Commission, by making them a target of ridicule.
+0.75 for intermediate vision my arse. I've no idea what it needs to be, but it's definitely negative...
I had to resort to titanium...
I had to resort to titanium...
Plain grey or those lovely colours that Snowpeak used to do ?
Do you mean the shimmery colours like an oilslick puddle that they still do?I had to resort to titanium...
Plain grey or those lovely colours that Snowpeak used to do ?
That Geneva has a Rue des Garages. And it's aptly, if depressingly, named:
https://goo.gl/maps/VbpDZt75VVWppH729
That chartreuse is the colour of tennis balls.
The original Mr Boeing of aircraft fame was a massive, massive racist.
Wouldn't "reposted" do as one word to cover all platforms? We can't, unfortunately, expect the various platforms to use already existing, normal English words, but we can do so ourselves. Please...The original Mr Boeing of aircraft fame was a massive, massive racist.
I re-skeeted [1] a perfect quote about this phenomenon (https://bsky.app/profile/pairofclaws.bsky.social/post/3k3oat3cpyw2z) the other day. Quoted below to save the Bluesky(net)-less.
"There's always at least a 30% chance of finding out that your favorite science fun fact is something first discovered by Dr. Otto Von Racism during an attempt to make children more flammable." - Jessica Conwell @pairofclaws.bsky.social
[1] - Explainer: Re-skeeted seems to be the brand new hip word for Bluesky's equivalent of the Twitter retweet or Mastodon boost, with 'Skeet' being to make a post...
Instead of learning about Mr Boeing, I've learnt how little I know about things very nearby.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jul/30/worth-the-wait-sunday-lunch-bank-tavern-bristol-pub-backlog
A pub in Bristol with a four-year waiting list?!!? Where's that? The Bank Tavern. Never heard of it. They don't mean the Greenbank, surely?
So I look it up. It's on John Street. No idea where that is, must be in some distant outer district. No! It's bang in the old town, barely a mile away. I've walked right past this pub many times and... I'm still not tempted to go there, even if I could get in. It's one of those historic corners which now feel like they're underground thanks to the shadow of the surrounding brutalist office towers (and to call them brutalism is high praise, they're more brutal without anything as considered as an -ism). But I'm sure the food is great.
https://goo.gl/maps/mY8W7xKWUvLf4Uiw9
Coincidentally it's very near the shop selling coloured Snow Peak titanium mugs a few posts above.
Also, your Bluesky link just goes to a sign-in page, which is pretty useless.
It would seem that Bluesky, which I hadn't even heard of till yesterday, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc, and so on, are multiple exclusive walled gardens. I do wonder if some of them are also like exclusive nightclubs, which have long queues but if you get in, turn out to be nearly empty.
Well that gives you the whole dancefloor to strut your funky stuff.It would seem that Bluesky, which I hadn't even heard of till yesterday, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc, and so on, are multiple exclusive walled gardens. I do wonder if some of them are also like exclusive nightclubs, which have long queues but if you get in, turn out to be nearly empty.
That's my current experience of Bluesky, though barakta reckons it's gaining a bit more traction amongst the people who really wanted Twitter without Elon Musk. I only really signed up to bag the username, as I'm finding the Mastodon experience generally acceptable for nonspecific pissing-about-on-the-internet purposes (with the obvious disclaimer that I'm a white queer person who knows more than two programming languages, likes cats and doesn't object to artistic photos of moss).
The speed of light is 299792 metres/second.
That number is the same as the northing coordinate of The Great Pyramid of Giza.
Only if the pyramid has a gert massive eye hovering over it.The speed of light is 299792 metres/second.
That number is the same as the northing coordinate of The Great Pyramid of Giza.
Does this belong in the Conspiracies thread?
Speed of light is around 3*10**8 m/s so a factor of a thousand out, not that I expect that would worry the conspiracy theorists.The speed of light is a foot per nanosecond.
Thanks to today's Guardian crossword, I now know that the word clerestory is pronounced clear-story and not, as I previously imagined, cleh-ress-tory.
At least I did already know what the word means though.
That in Japanese a Toyota wankpanzer is called Randokaruza.Is that a randy carouser or a rando[nneur] car user?
That in Japanese a Toyota wankpanzer is called Randokaruza.Is that a randy carouser or a rando[nneur] car user?
That in Japanese a Toyota wankpanzer is called Randokaruza.Is that a randy carouser or a rando[nneur] car user?
It sounds more like the first one.
That in Japanese a Toyota wankpanzer is called Randokaruza.Is that a randy carouser or a rando[nneur] car user?
It sounds more like the first one.
Or maybe a Japanese pronunciation of Land Cruiser.
Back in Days of Yore when Professor Larrington lived in Japan there was on the TV a commercial for the Honda City, complete with chorus of ladies joyfully singing “Shitty Shitty Shitty!”
Back in Days of Yore when Professor Larrington lived in Japan there was on the TV a commercial for the Honda City, complete with chorus of ladies joyfully singing “Shitty Shitty Shitty!”
Made oi larf. Shades of Pschitt! lemonade And Choky chocolate milk.
Back in Days of Yore when Professor Larrington lived in Japan there was on the TV a commercial for the Honda City, complete with chorus of ladies joyfully singing “Shitty Shitty Shitty!”Bang Bang Bang!
That the Cutthroat Bridge at Ladybower Reservoir really does relate to a 17th century baggage train robbery and cutthroat murder. More recently the bridge has also been involved a decapitation murder and the Def Leppard Drummer Rick Allen losing an arm in a car crash.
I learnt about Ann Moores of Tutbury (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Moore_(impostor)) who didn't eat anything between 1807 and 1813, apparently.
That the Cutthroat Bridge at Ladybower Reservoir really does relate to a 17th century baggage train robbery and cutthroat murder. More recently the bridge has also been involved a decapitation murder and the Def Leppard Drummer Rick Allen losing an arm in a car crash.
Have you been attending the BBC school of collision reporting? Saying the bridge was "involved" makes it sound like its role was not entirely passive. Which strikes me as unlikely.
That Victor Kiam, who liked the Remington shaver his wife bought for him so much that he bought the company, had the middle name of.......Delving into the Kermit rabbit hole, I found Kermit Love, who was a puppeteer and worked on Sesame Street and The Muppets. However, Wikipedia says
Kermit.
Despite the coincidence of names, Kermit Love first met Jim Henson after the 1955 creation and naming of Kermit the Frog.
That Victor Kiam, who liked the Remington shaver his wife bought for him so much that he bought the company, had the middle name of.......Delving into the Kermit rabbit hole, I found Kermit Love, who was a puppeteer and worked on Sesame Street and The Muppets. However, Wikipedia says
Kermit.QuoteDespite the coincidence of names, Kermit Love first met Jim Henson after the 1955 creation and naming of Kermit the Frog.
Chatting to a seal warden today... I learnt -
- That the marine animals called seals, carry natural anti-coagulant so if they bite a dog, the dog could bleed to death without attention by a vet.
- That Renault have a problem making wheels now, and new cars needing replacement wheels, face a wait of at least a few weeks.
Chatting to a seal warden today... I learnt -
- That the marine animals called seals, carry natural anti-coagulant so if they bite a dog, the dog could bleed to death without attention by a vet.
- That Renault have a problem making wheels now, and new cars needing replacement wheels, face a wait of at least a few weeks.
Seems not just Renault, looking at replacing our VW ID4, we can have one with alloys now, 2.5k extra. Steel wheels, wait until January
According to wiki (I have no recent experience), Swan Vesta* matches are safety matches these days. It's health and safty gorn mad.That's criminal.
*following an answer in the Guardian Saturday quiz.
My GerMan says an adjustable spanner is called an Engländer in German too.
According to wiki (I have no recent experience), Swan Vesta* matches are safety matches these days. It's health and safty gorn mad.
*following an answer in the Guardian Saturday quiz.
That the name Tiffany dates from the 12th century (https://medium.com/swlh/the-tiffany-problem-when-history-makes-no-sense-703b86522627). And Fiona, only from the 19th century.
Sorry, my bad,That the name Tiffany dates from the 12th century (https://medium.com/swlh/the-tiffany-problem-when-history-makes-no-sense-703b86522627). And Fiona, only from the 19th century.
Nah. Fiona in several variants goes as far back the 9th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona
"it kind of is, but isn't... a really ancient Gaelic name from the Highlands of Scotland..." (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0g9x1c9)
Celibacy is a bicycle in motion.
I knew the two were related.
Just been on 4 day break, not cycling - "packing cube" bags are just brilliant for organising a suitcase contents.
Just been on 4 day break, not cycling - "packing cube" bags are just brilliant for organising a suitcase contents.
I've been using those for >15years of, at one point, weekly travelling. You just needed to ask ;D
Yes, Thursday GrauniadCelibacy is a bicycle in motion.
I knew the two were related.
Very clever! Cryptic Crossword clue?
Just been on 4 day break, not cycling - "packing cube" bags are just brilliant for organising a suitcase contents.
Just been on 4 day break, not cycling - "packing cube" bags are just brilliant for organising a suitcase contents.
I love them so much I bought some Ortleib ones (https://www.ortlieb.com/uk_en/f3905) for cycling trips.
That the Volkswagen Golf is not named after a sport but weather (Gulf stream). See also Scirocco.
That the Volkswagen Golf is not named after a sport but weather (Gulf stream). See also Scirocco.
And Bora (Golf with a boot). Maserati did the same: Bora, Mistral, Khamsin etc.
That the Volkswagen Golf is not named after a sport but weather (Gulf stream). See also Scirocco.
And Bora (Golf with a boot). Maserati did the same: Bora, Mistral, Khamsin etc.
Wonders what a Bora was called in the US, given the Golf was a Rabbit.
That the Volkswagen Golf is not named after a sport but weather (Gulf stream). See also Scirocco.
And Bora (Golf with a boot). Maserati did the same: Bora, Mistral, Khamsin etc.
Wonders what a Bora was called in the US, given the Golf was a Rabbit.
ISTR that the 1970's Passat (also a wind) was called the Dasher. Agressive names work[ed] better in the US, apparently.
Is red coloured/shaded carpet not a thing any more? I can see blue, and any shade you want on the grey to brown continuum, but not much in the way of warmer colours. (I want something that hides cat fur and biscuits 😁)
Although it was Britain that had the Hillman Avenger.
That the Volkswagen Golf is not named after a sport but weather (Gulf stream). See also Scirocco.
And Bora (Golf with a boot). Maserati did the same: Bora, Mistral, Khamsin etc.
Wonders what a Bora was called in the US, given the Golf was a Rabbit.
ISTR that the 1970's Passat (also a wind) was called the Dasher. Agressive names work[ed] better in the US, apparently.
Although the 1990's Passat dream sold pretty well
https://youtu.be/VFGJb1rpoFI (https://youtu.be/VFGJb1rpoFI)
Red dyes tend to bleach quickly in sunlight (because they only reflect the lowest energy light rays). It's why red cars parked outside always end up looking like shit. A semi-sunbleached carpet isn't popular.When my parents moved into the house I grew up in in 1974 they brought a carpet from their previous house with them. It was red. When they moved again, over 40 years later, that carpet was still there, and was showing its age more by being worn than by being faded.
That the Volkswagen Golf is not named after a sport but weather (Gulf stream). See also Scirocco.
And Bora (Golf with a boot). Maserati did the same: Bora, Mistral, Khamsin etc.
Wonders what a Bora was called in the US, given the Golf was a Rabbit.
ISTR that the 1970's Passat (also a wind) was called the Dasher. Agressive names work[ed] better in the US, apparently.
Although the 1990's Passat dream sold pretty well
https://youtu.be/VFGJb1rpoFI (https://youtu.be/VFGJb1rpoFI)
I can't think why.
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When the first Passat had just been released they had one on show on the concourse of the Gare de Lyon. I remember noticing that the boot overhung the rear bumper - which was a flimsy chromed effort that might have been pinched from a 1950's Ford Pop.
The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts".
That Lynyrd Skynyrd were actually from Florida. I guess they were just sufficiently with it to realize that "Sweet home Florida-da" wouldn't make a good song!
That Lynyrd Skynyrd were actually from Florida. I guess they were just sufficiently with it to realize that "Sweet home Florida-da" wouldn't make a good song!
That song was in riposte to some Neil Young songs referencing Alabama and the South.
That Donald Trump actually did something good. In 2019 he passed legislation that guaranteed Federal employees furloughed without pay during government shutdowns (occasioned by the Federal budget disagreements, such as the one about to happen) would get their back pay once normal service was resumed. OK they usually had, eventually, in the past, but it was never guaranteed.
Sounds like rhyming slang for some unpleasant ailment.;D
That Abercrombie & Fitch is a thing, and furthermore it's not a Scottish law firm.
That Abercrombie & Fitch is a thing, and furthermore it's not a Scottish law firm.
You must have somehow dodged this earworm:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=70&v=NHuGG_FsC20&feature=youtu.be
That Americans, or at least Californians, call cairns "ducks". Apparently if you put a little rock on top of a big rock, making a cairn, it looks like a duck. I guess ducks are funny shapes over there.
That the magnetic pole at the south polar region is actually a north magnetic pole (and visa versa).
That Americans, or at least Californians, call cairns "ducks". Apparently if you put a little rock on top of a big rock, making a cairn, it looks like a duck. I guess ducks are funny shapes over there.
My observation of USAnian ducks (and Horrible Gooses) suggest that many of them differ little from BRITISH ones. Especially the Horrible Gooses:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53158243320_e8142d4098_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oZpTJy)
Horrible Gooses shouting abuse at the gulls next door (https://flic.kr/p/2oZpTJy) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Generally, it's a lot easier on the brain if you just accept that magnetism is just some kind of magic, like electrickery.
Goose trifle! Nom!That Americans, or at least Californians, call cairns "ducks". Apparently if you put a little rock on top of a big rock, making a cairn, it looks like a duck. I guess ducks are funny shapes over there.
My observation of USAnian ducks (and Horrible Gooses) suggest that many of them differ little from BRITISH ones. Especially the Horrible Gooses:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53158243320_e8142d4098_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oZpTJy)
Horrible Gooses shouting abuse at the gulls next door (https://flic.kr/p/2oZpTJy) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
De goosetibus non disputandum est.
Queensland special!Goose trifle! Nom!That Americans, or at least Californians, call cairns "ducks". Apparently if you put a little rock on top of a big rock, making a cairn, it looks like a duck. I guess ducks are funny shapes over there.
My observation of USAnian ducks (and Horrible Gooses) suggest that many of them differ little from BRITISH ones. Especially the Horrible Gooses:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53158243320_e8142d4098_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oZpTJy)
Horrible Gooses shouting abuse at the gulls next door (https://flic.kr/p/2oZpTJy) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
De goosetibus non disputandum est.
Generally, it's a lot easier on the brain if you just accept that magnetism is just some kind of magic, like electrickery.
It's magic, but at right angles.
there must always be a dipole, north cannot exist without a south and vice versa. Well, there are theoretical monopoles, but they imply significant symmetry violation.
That South-westerly winds are less damaging than winds that are not South-westerly winds.
That South-westerly winds are less damaging than winds that are not South-westerly winds.
Probably because sw is the prevailing wind and trees have grown up dealing with that.
Impacts from the these gusts could be exacerbated by the fact the wind direction will be south-easterly. This is a less common wind direction for storms hitting the UK.
The prevailing wind direction is a south-westerly so nature and infrastructure is built with this in mind. As a result, trees and some structures are more vulnerable in strong south-easterly winds.
This is part of the reason why Storm Arwen in 2021 felled so many trees and brought a lot of disruption.
Not me, but a colleague today thanked me for 'that knowledge nugget', which amused me.
Not me, but a colleague today thanked me for 'that knowledge nugget', which amused me.
Do you work at Globelink News?
Not me, but a colleague today thanked me for 'that knowledge nugget', which amused me.
Do you work at Globelink News?
Did they use that in DTDD?
That victorian cos-player and inverterate S-T J Rees-Mogg is younger than KylieBut that's not counting his un-dead years sleeping in the coffin.
It isn’t just trees. Structures are designed for expected wind loads and the design wind speed varies depending on direction (amongst lots of other things).Indeed, BS 6399-2 Cl 2.2.2.3 is my one of my absolute faves!
Not NA to BS EN 1991-1-4 NA.2.6? ;DNo, always avoid designing in Eurocode if I can help it!
BS 6008:1980 is the one, I think.I'll file that under 'things I have learnt today' - thanks!
BS 6008:1980 is the one, I think.I'll file that under 'things I have learnt today' - thanks!
Must try to shoehorn it into a structural report. "An engineer from this office made a visit to the site on 20 October 2023, and partook of a beverage in full compliance with BS 6008:1980 in accordance with the prevailing weather conditions, which were wet and cold..."
Might not be such a good idea - seems the standard was withdrawn last month (https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/method-for-preparation-of-a-liquor-of-tea-for-use-in-sensory-tests?version=standard&tab=preview).BS 6008:1980 is the one, I think.I'll file that under 'things I have learnt today' - thanks!
Must try to shoehorn it into a structural report. "An engineer from this office made a visit to the site on 20 October 2023, and partook of a beverage in full compliance with BS 6008:1980 in accordance with the prevailing weather conditions, which were wet and cold..."
That victorian cos-player and inverterate S-T J Rees-Mogg is younger than KylieSo am I, and according to my colleagues I pre-date Hadrian and his wall building shenanigans.
That victorian cos-player and inverterate S-T J Rees-Mogg is younger than Kylie
The British phrase 'Bob's your uncle' is thought to have derived from Robert Cecil's appointment of his nephew, Arthur Balfour, as Chief Secretary for Ireland.[76]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury
Today I are mostly learning that TV's Tomasz Schafernaker “loves llamas”. The dirty sod.
Today I are mostly learning that TV's Tomasz Schafernaker “loves llamas”. The dirty sod.
Ah... Tomasz(click to show/hide)
As do the worst; just a less efficient one.
That there is a cat called Archie that frequents the A&E department of Stoke Mandeville hospital.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1046399815766046/?locale=en_GB
The state was established by a Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1966, in response to the annexation of the land used for the annual Donkey Grand National at Whiteman’s Green (which had been used to raise funds for the local community).
MAYOR’S ELECTIONhttps://cuckfieldstate.org/ (https://cuckfieldstate.org/)
Held on the third Friday in October, the Mayor’s Election prides itself on being completely and openly corrupt – whichever candidate buys the most votes is declared the winner and elected as the next Mayor of The Independent State of Cuckfield.
Votes cost 1 penny each
That there's a village in Durham called Pity Me.It's not really a village- it's an extension of suburban Durham. I'm in the middle of trying to buy a house there.
Quaking Houses (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Quaking+Houses,+Stanley+DH9+7ES/@54.853802,-1.7142167,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x487e7f4eef2a073f:0x546bacef2314e50c!8m2!3d54.853803!4d-1.703917!16zL20vMDQ3eDFs?entry=ttu), however...Wikipedia suggests it may have been originally settled by Quakers. I'd have thought in that area its name was more likely due to mining subsidence. Whatever the origin, it's a great name.
Quaking Houses (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Quaking+Houses,+Stanley+DH9+7ES/@54.853802,-1.7142167,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x487e7f4eef2a073f:0x546bacef2314e50c!8m2!3d54.853803!4d-1.703917!16zL20vMDQ3eDFs?entry=ttu), however...Wikipedia suggests it may have been originally settled by Quakers. I'd have thought in that area its name was more likely due to mining subsidence. Whatever the origin, it's a great name.
Maybe this'll cheer you up: In 1967 a Bavarian gent built a catapult to shoot potato dumplings at Starfighters...I lived in Munich from late 1967 until 1972. We were on the opposite side of town from this gentleman, but we had a pretty good stream of passenger jets flying overhead on their approach to Munich-Riem airport (the old airport, much closer to town than the current airport. We also had a steady stream of helicopters landing at the nearby hospital. I can't say I blame the man for doing this.
https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A87904407
In the part of Germany that was the location of Fort Larrington in 1968-70 supersonic overflights were pretty common, though not generally at low altitude. Though you needed to be ready to run if the aircraft in question was a Luftwaffe F104-G :demon:
In the part of Germany that was the location of Fort Larrington in 1968-70 supersonic overflights were pretty common, though not generally at low altitude. Though you needed to be ready to run if the aircraft in question was a Luftwaffe F104-G :demon:
Because they were generally prone to uncontrolled flight leading to unintended contact with random parts of Germany?
“This is quite unique given that ticks cannot jump to reach their hosts,” says Martin Giurfa, a neuroscientist at University of Toulouse in France who studies learning and memory in insects and who was not involved in the study. “The fact that they are teletransported by the electrostatic fields produced by their hosts … is remarkable.” It’s possible, he adds, that other parasites that latch on to skin might be similarly attracted to their hosts. Previous research has demonstrated how parasitic nematodes can use static electricity to catapult themselves on to fruit flies (SN: 3/16/23).https://www.sciencenews.org/article/static-electricity-pull-ticks-hosts
’Napoleon’ is a great Dad-movie with exploding horses.
(https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/napoleon-movie-review-18499144.php)
’Napoleon’ is a great Dad-movie with exploding horses.
(https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/napoleon-movie-review-18499144.php)
Do they fall into a ravine, explode and then a single flaming horseshoe rolls out of the fireball inna Music With Rocks In style?
Today I are mostly learning that Wild West outlaw Big Nose George Parrott, following his lynching by an angry mob of townspeople, had part of his skull turned into an ashtray and some of his skin tanned and made into a pair of shoes worn by the first Governor of Wyoming.Handy.
the irish created Islam in the first place to get the holy lands meaning irish government and nationalists parties are to blame for bringing them here. […] Yip thats right the pope /vatican and catholics created Islam and all the terrorist parties that are the cancer of the world !so save your criticism for your own leaders the true rulers of islam ?!
Today I are mostly learning that, according to one scholar* in Mr Zuckerberg's Walled Garden:Gobsmacked.Quotethe irish created Islam in the first place to get the holy lands meaning irish government and nationalists parties are to blame for bringing them here. […] Yip thats right the pope /vatican and catholics created Islam and all the terrorist parties that are the cancer of the world !so save your criticism for your own leaders the true rulers of islam ?!
Whatever she’s on, I want some.
* Lie
Never mind the homophobic CEO, I'm boycotting them for that atrocious cookies policy.That wasn't them, that was some god-awful advertisers being self congratulatory 'magazine'. I've swapped the link to a different one, which is differently bad.
I did not know either of those things. Google suggests Barilla have reformed: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/7/18535740/barilla-homophobia-italy-chick-fil-a-comparison but as it's still the same people in charge, you have to wonder.I note neither company suffered financially from their
Never mind the homophobic CEO, I'm boycotting them for that atrocious cookies policy.That wasn't them, that was some god-awful advertisers being self congratulatory 'magazine'. I've swapped the link to a different one, which is differently bad.
What Keith Flett looks like.
He was the letters page. :)Quote from: TheLurkerWhat Keith Flett looks like.Yes, I learned that too. Wasn't/isn't he a regular contributor to the Grauniad's letters page?
If they are not launching themselves at you in drug-fuelled desperation, their bloodshot eyes are searching for their next fix, pink paws scrabbling in the ground. Sometimes they seize upon a rock of crack hidden in front gardens, and scarper to feed their addiction.
Quote from: WowbaggerHe was the letters page. :)Quote from: TheLurkerWhat Keith Flett looks like.Yes, I learned that too. Wasn't/isn't he a regular contributor to the Grauniad's letters page?
Letters from "Keith Flett, London N17" are regularly published in the press, literary and political journals, advancing his favoured causes of socialism and the Beard Liberation Front.He may be at the front of liberation, but he's a long way behind Wowbagger. Call that a beard! Doesn't even reach his collar!
What Keith Flett looks like.
Yes, I learned that too. Wasn't/isn't he a regular contributor to the Grauniad's letters page? I don't usually get to see the letters these days because I don't buy the paper version (I haven't for about 25 years) and it's not obvious where they lurk.
What I have learned today is that Geoff Capes' most recent world championship is in breeding budgerigars.
What a Hofmeister Kink (or Knik) is.
What a Huck bolt is. The subject came up on social media so I googled it. Very interesting technique for what seems to be a constant replicable tension and then better shear strength.
https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works (https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works)
What a Huck bolt is. The subject came up on social media so I googled it. Very interesting technique for what seems to be a constant replicable tension and then better shear strength.
https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works (https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works)
That's pretty cool. Never seen that system before.
But how is it removed? :demon:
But how is it removed? :demon:
But how is it removed? :demon:
What a Huck bolt is. The subject came up on social media so I googled it. Very interesting technique for what seems to be a constant replicable tension and then better shear strength.
https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works (https://www.hfsindustrial.com/us/how_huck_works)
That's pretty cool. Never seen that system before.
Look at the next lorry chassis passing you, used on at least Volvo truck for more than 25 years.
No they don’t unscrew. That is the point of them. You apply a known compression and then the “nut” compresses and locks into the grooves but the nut is round not hexagonal and so will not undo.But how is it removed? :demon:
How is which removed? The huck bolt simply unscrews, if that is what you meant.
I guess so. (I'm not arguing, just mildly curious.)Don’t know. I have no personal knowledge of them.
No they don’t unscrew. That is the point of them. You apply a known compression and then the “nut” compresses and locks into the grooves but the nut is round not hexagonal and so will not undo.But how is it removed? :demon:
How is which removed? The huck bolt simply unscrews, if that is what you meant.
Easier to machine that way?
The PC game Doom was released 30 years ago this month. That's not the interesting fact.
The interesting fact is that it repaid the development costs and was profitable ONE DAY after release :o
You can buy it for a couple of quid via Steam. I'm afraid it's a bit rough by today's standards; the fact that you can't look or aim up or down is odd if you're used to Quake, or more or less anything released since 1996.
I've learned a new french word when doing the french version of wordle.
And the word is: nonce. (nm)
Turns out it means a representative to the Pope ;D
I've learned a new french word when doing the french version of wordle.
And the word is: nonce. (nm)
Turns out it means a representative to the Pope ;D
And the word also has a meaning in cryptography...All the two-factor authentication systems are too squeamish to use the word "nonce" and use the far clunkier description of "one time passcode" or similar.
And the word also has a meaning in cryptography...
Given the Americans liking of forcing their censorship on us, it's time we force it back on them, Mongo DB can go in the bin to start...And the word also has a meaning in cryptography...
I once managed a project around SSO that had nonces everywhere. As a result, all the British people would snigger, and the Americans looked puzzled. Then we'd get to crabs and all the younger British people would also be confused. I'm fairly sure they wouldn't get that on TV these days.
The father of the founder of Scouting Robert Baden-Powell was called Baden Powell.
Today I are mostly learning that while Iceland has many crime writers it has only one forensic pathologist. Consequently said pathologist decided to hold a seminar to bring the crime writers up to speed instead of bothering him all the time. It sold out, obliging him to hold another. Which also sold out.Well. This needs further investigation ...
There's only 300 000 of them 'cos they're all busy killing each other utterly to deth if you believe their crime literature.
An anti-forgery device?
During the Great Statue Panic of June 2020, I saw with some considerable amusement, that a small platoon of thumbheads had taken it upon themselves to guard the statue of Baden-Powell in Poole Harbour lest it be toppled by those anarchists keen on "destroying are history"*.
One of the people interviewed was somebody I recognised and have met, who is worth idly googling if you want to see how weird some of these people are. Her name is Viv Endecott, and she ran a little gift shop in Corfe Castle called the Ginger Pop Shop
*statues aren't history, but never mind
There's only 300 000 of them 'cos they're all busy killing each other utterly to deth if you believe their crime literature.
Or rather, there's only 300,000 of them because they spend the long arctic winter writing crime fiction instead of making' whoopie. :demon:
On that page I noticed the artist's initials below the Queen's portrait. J.C. Queen's head by Jeremy Corbyn?An anti-forgery device?
That's what I assumed.
PS and that's what the Royal Mint says
https://www.royalmint.com/new-pound-coin/#:~:text=Micro%2Dlettering%20%E2%80%93%20it%20has%20very,%E2%80%9D%20side%2C%20for%20example%202017.
On that page I noticed the artist's initials below the Queen's portrait. J.C. Queen's head by Jeremy Corbyn?An anti-forgery device?
That's what I assumed.
PS and that's what the Royal Mint says
https://www.royalmint.com/new-pound-coin/#:~:text=Micro%2Dlettering%20%E2%80%93%20it%20has%20very,%E2%80%9D%20side%2C%20for%20example%202017.
I thought female marsupials have two vaginas (and two uteruses) to cater for the male's double penis (they only fire, erm, one barrel at a time, no sense blowing the bloody doors off).
However, let me present the echidna (https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/solving-the-mystery-of-the-four-headed-echidna-penis) with a four-headed spectacular, a sort of coital Gatling gun. The platypus disappoints with two, but wait for it ladies, keratinous spines. Apparently, no one has ever seen a platypus erection, but really who have they been asking. I think a lady platypus might have.
An anti-forgery device?
That's what I assumed.
PS and that's what the Royal Mint says
https://www.royalmint.com/new-pound-coin/#:~:text=Micro%2Dlettering%20%E2%80%93%20it%20has%20very,%E2%80%9D%20side%2C%20for%20example%202017.
28 persistent myths about naked mole rat biology (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12660)
Learnt today, what a modern 16 year old keeps under his bed.You really ought to share this new-found information with us.
Your imaginations are probably working overtime. Possibly somewhere near the reality though!He's got a set of golf clubs impressed into a boxful of marshmallows, hasn't he.
Neither. The power limits for cargo cycles are higher, though I can't remember what. They do seem to be pedalling all the time (though the rider demographic looks very different to standard Roos, ie Zedify seem to employ cyclists, whereas takeaway delivery cos seem to hire people who are in the gig economy and have a bike) so I think there must be some sensing. Possibly the pedals actually drive a generator of some sort?
There have definitely been proposals to allow higher power motors for cargo bikes, I thought the regulations had been amended, but maybe not. Anyway, the vehicle I saw, which looked like this below, definitely had no registration. Don't know about type approval. And as it's a trike, helmet not required. But like I said, no number plate.
(https://www.zedify.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Local-authorities-square-second-1.jpg)
Bloke I spoke to said he found it quite stable but one of his colleagues had had one blow over in high winds.
They they are misinforming their riders.
It's an interesting legal question.Would there be anything to stop you having an electric transmission (no power limit apart from fitness) and an electrical assist (250 W limit)?
I reckon if you made a bike with an electric transmission, but no power to the motor from a battery, it would be a pedal cycle in law, and power ratings would be irrelevant.
But as soon as it's providing assistance, the motor's continuous power rating becomes subject to regulation. I don't think there's any scope for having a, say, 1000W motor where only 250W can come from the battery.
(Yesterday) I learned that those huge cattle in 18th and 19th century paintings (Comme Ca (https://stories.field-wt.co.uk/why-did-they-paint-fat-cows/index.html)) despite what that article said, actually were pretty fecking huge. As potential sale instructions, if the paintings weren't representative, there would have been trouble. Fat beasts were in favour because they weren't only bred for meat, but for tallow.
At least that's what the nice lady in fancy period dress told me at Beamish when we were laughing at the chonkiest of chonky cattle in the pictures.
What an atmospheric river is.
That until 1968 police officers wore an armband on their left cuff to indicate that they were on duty. Like this one talking to Irish playwright Sean O'Casey. They could wear their uniform without being on duty.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53515317462_8df9c5b6bf_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pwXZrh)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_armband
That until 1968 police officers wore an armband on their left cuff to indicate that they were on duty. Like this one talking to Irish playwright Sean O'Casey. They could wear their uniform without being on duty.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53515317462_8df9c5b6bf_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pwXZrh)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_armband
I thought there was also some rule about armbands when a policeman was directing traffic? [For younger readers: yes policemen did direct traffic on some junctions at busy times - especially in London in the 1950s/early 60s]
What Dry Needling is.
Now in proper pain, both calfs. Can hardly stand let alone walk. Not impressed.
What Dry Needling is.
Now in proper pain, both calfs. Can hardly stand let alone walk. Not impressed.
Cf acupuncture?
Maurice Fadida, one of the producers of the remake, explained:
“Our goal is to build upon the counterculture and freedom narrative the original left us with, and give the youth of today a film that pays serious attention to their own countercultures and challenges,” Fadida told Variety. “What the young viewers of today are experiencing in their everyday lives may seem crazy to older generations, but it can very well become the societal norm, as was the case with the cultural shift of the late 1960s. We are hoping to play a part in that shift.”
ICONIC MOTORCYCLE MOVIE EASY RIDER TO GET MODERN REMAKE
A remake of the motorcycle movie Easy Rider is already in the early stages of production according to rights holders
(https://www.visordown.com/news/general/iconic-motorcycle-movie-easy-rider-get-modern-remake)Quote
Maurice Fadida, one of the producers of the remake, explained:
“Our goal is to build upon the counterculture and freedom narrative the original left us with, and give the youth of today a film that pays serious attention to their own countercultures and challenges,” Fadida told Variety. “What the young viewers of today are experiencing in their everyday lives may seem crazy to older generations, but it can very well become the societal norm, as was the case with the cultural shift of the late 1960s. We are hoping to play a part in that shift.”
Will they have mobile phones and stuff?
Who Holly Valance is.
Seen the name pop up here and there recently, and assumed it was about a member of Frankie Goes To Hollywood. :facepalm:
I urge you all to go lightly on the punnage here.
@rafletcher is correct. 'Dry needling' = acupuncture for all intents and purposes. Medics tend to prefer to refer to 'dry needling' (or sometimes call it 'muscular stimulation') as they think it sounds more scientific. Some try to claim that its different from acupuncture because it's about myofascial trigger points rather than 'energy'... but the reality is the clinical evidence for dry-needling is similar to that for acupuncture (in fact there's probably more evidence for acupuncture) and no real explanation of if/how/why it works.
As @barakta said, the failure the obtain informed consent is a big no-no. I'd not go near that physio again and I'd make a complaint. If this was done via health insurance, I'd let the insurers know - they're very hot on this at the moment.
The phrase "tin tabernacle".... https://x.com/SimoninSuffolk/status/1760022538867093794Ah! There's one on the left as we exit Faversham on the FNRTTC to Whitstable.
https://www.sudburymercury.co.uk/news/24131133.ancient-mission-hall-village-near-clare-goes-sale/
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2004/9-july/features/worshipping-in-churches-made-of-iron-resolve
Delivery services for locals and tourists in the opulent Norwegian ski resort town of Lillehammer just got a lot more exclusive.
The suburbians can order deliveries through the company’s Kyte app and can order about 1.5kg worth of goods such as medicine, groceries, and meals from independent restaurants. They can expect an average delivery time of 24 minutes.
World's longest-distance drone delivery service makes shopping more exclusive in Norway (https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/20/worlds-longest-distance-drone-delivery-service-makes-shopping-more-exclusive-in-norway)
As the competition for delivery services like Uber Eats and Deliveroo heats up on the ground, there is still an uphill battle of legal restrictions and airspace limitations for drone delivery systems. But Aviant has regulatory approval to operate in EU airspace in Lillehammer.
Today I are mostly learning that the bike shed at St. Catherine's College Oxford is a Grade-I Listed Building in its own right :o
The phrase "tin tabernacle".... https://x.com/SimoninSuffolk/status/1760022538867093794Chignal Road, Chelmsford (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240223/b1403e1a8e4eda0b5dba0af635c6f995.jpg)
https://www.sudburymercury.co.uk/news/24131133.ancient-mission-hall-village-near-clare-goes-sale/
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2004/9-july/features/worshipping-in-churches-made-of-iron-resolve
Or is it because Benazir Bhutto and Peter Mandelson (both born 1953 but I can't find their attendance dates) had a snog there?Today I are mostly learning that the bike shed at St. Catherine's College Oxford is a Grade-I Listed Building in its own right :o
Is that 'cos it's got an abandoned original Kryptonite u-lock fixed on one of its Sheffield stands?
The phrase "tin tabernacle".... https://x.com/SimoninSuffolk/status/1760022538867093794
https://www.sudburymercury.co.uk/news/24131133.ancient-mission-hall-village-near-clare-goes-sale/
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2004/9-july/features/worshipping-in-churches-made-of-iron-resolve
Or is it because Benazir Bhutto and Peter Mandelson (both born 1953 but I can't find their attendance dates) had a snog there?Today I are mostly learning that the bike shed at St. Catherine's College Oxford is a Grade-I Listed Building in its own right :o
Is that 'cos it's got an abandoned original Kryptonite u-lock fixed on one of its Sheffield stands?
Use an 8 speed chain.Not on a 3 speed with a 1/8" sprocket!
Use an 8 speed chain.Not on a 3 speed with a 1/8" sprocket!
"Needles have functional sharp points."I'd like to think it was a little act of rebellion. The scenario would be something like this:
On a sewing kit. I despair, I really, really do. They'd be fuck all use without and what's the point (ha ha) of "functional", eh!?
Bought some blunt syringes a while back to inject ivy with a chemical agent.Blunt syringes needles are often used for dispensing small quantities of liquids. eg. https://www.intertronics.co.uk/product-category/dispensing/dispensing-consumables/dispensing-needles-and-tips/ (https://www.intertronics.co.uk/product-category/dispensing/dispensing-consumables/dispensing-needles-and-tips/)
You do get blunt needles though. Used for darning, and sewing in (when knitting and crocheting).Indeed you do, but it doesn't alter the fact that anyone using needles for sewing would expect the bloody things to be sharp* (or even crewel - ha ha) and that they'd be precious little use if they weren't.
Ball headed needles are also used for knitted jersey (ie anything stretchy) fabric.Quote from: RegulatorYou do get blunt needles though. Used for darning, and sewing in (when knitting and crocheting).Indeed you do, but it doesn't alter the fact that anyone using needles for sewing would expect the bloody things to be sharp* (or even crewel - ha ha) and that they'd be precious little use if they weren't.
*In case you don't know. Sharps are (more or less) general purpose** needles and crewel needles have a longer eye to take embroidery thread.
**A sewing expert will be along shortly to explain in more detail and correct my wild generalisation.
Inspectors for the Guide Michelin eat around 250 meals in restaurants per annum, all with wine, ranging in price from around 50€ for lunch in a 1-star to 500€ for dinner in a 3-star.
About the New River in London."Neither new nor a river" apparently.
About the New River in London."Neither new nor a river" apparently.
Brilliant series. My only problem is the comic books don't render on my kindleAbout the New River in London."Neither new nor a river" apparently.
Which is why it’s never featured in the “Rivers of London” series from Ben Aaronovitch presumably.
What does that make me when I can see light flicker at 10,000Hz (nevermind 60!).
I don't think I'm especially 1337 at sports, in fact my vision is outright wonky AF and scares various optiquacken.
This maybe explains why MrsT's dad, who lived with us, was always knocking things over, and why MrsT and I both knock plates against the edge of the kitchen units when putting them into the dishwasher. Also, maybe, why I don't enjoy plunging down a hill on my bike as much as I used to.
Bah.
Knocking things over may be a proprioception thing rather than visual, of course.This, I was thinking, before I even read Kim's post.
About the New River in London."Neither new nor a river" apparently.
I for one do not consider myself disabled, but do consider that I have a long term medical condition.
I've not had to insist on any reasonable accomodation of it, generally been able to have a sensible chat, but I do realise that is not the case fro all.
... that on the day I was born, an American fighter plane shot itself down. The test pilot fired a long burst from the guns of his supersonic aircraft, hit the afterburners then caught up with the cannon rounds which smashed his windscreen. The pilot survived.
more here (https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27967/the-fighter-plane-that-shot-itself-down/)
Now I'm wondering how much reverse thrust those kind of guns generate. Can you run out of airspeed before you run out of ammunition...?Hawker Hurricanes in WWII had a minimum airspeed for firing the cannons, to avoid stalling.
Now I'm wondering how much reverse thrust those kind of guns generate. Can you run out of airspeed before you run out of ammunition...?
Now I'm wondering how much reverse thrust those kind of guns generate. Can you run out of airspeed before you run out of ammunition...?The "Brrrrt" of the 30mm GAU-8 cannon in the A10 is often cited as like hitting the brakes, but someone has put some numbers to it:
... that on the day I was born, an American fighter plane shot itself down. The test pilot fired a long burst from the guns of his supersonic aircraft, hit the afterburners then caught up with the cannon rounds which smashed his windscreen. The pilot survived.I like how it's a long burst in the first paragraph, but by the fourth para it's become "a brief, four-second burst". Four seconds doesn't sound at all brief to me, not that I'd know.
more here (https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27967/the-fighter-plane-that-shot-itself-down/)
Four seconds would imply a larger supply of ammunition than most aircraft could carry. It also implies that the gun used is more resistant to heat damage than most!
The Tiger gained the dubious distinction of being the first jet aircraft to shoot itself down.[8][9] On 21 September 1956, during a test-firing of its 20 mm (0.79 in) cannons, pilot Tom Attridge fired two bursts midway through a shallow dive. As the trajectory of the cannon rounds decayed, they ultimately crossed paths with the Tiger as it continued its descent, disabling the aircraft and forcing Attridge to crash-land the aircraft; he survived with a broken leg and multiple broken vertebrae.[10][11]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-11_Tiger#Flight_testing
On Sept. 21, 1956, young U.S. Navy test pilot Tom Attridge took off in an F11F Tiger (BuNo 138620) from Long Island, New York, for a weapons test over the Atlantic. He climbed to 20,000 feet, started a Mach 1 dive, and fired two bursts of rounds from his 20mm cannons until the ammunition was expended at 13,000 feet.https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/pilot-talk/grumman-f11-tiger-shoot-itself-down/
On Sep 21, 1956 Grumman test pilot Tom Attridge shot himself down in a graphic demonstration of two objects occupying the wrong place at the same time—one being a Grumman F11F-1 Tiger [138260], the other a gaggle of its own bullets..http://www.aerofiles.com/tiger-tail.html
It happened on the second run of test-firing four 20mm cannon at Mach 1.0 speeds. At 20,000' Attridge entered a shallow dive of 20°, accelerating in afterburner, and at 13,000' pulled the trigger for a four-second burst, then another to empty the belts. During the firing run the F11F continued its descent, and upon arriving at 7,000', the armor-glass windshield was struck, but not penetrated, by an object..
Flying over the designated gunnery range some 20 miles from shore, out over the Altantic Ocean, Attridge entered a shallow dive from an altitude of 20,000 feet, as he readied to test-fire the Tiger's cannons. He fired a short four-second burst at 13,000 feet, expending about 70 rounds in total. Advancing the engine to afterburners, he paused his fire, and entered into a steeper dive. and fired the cannons again at 7,000 feet to clear the gun belts. Having just finished firing this second four-second burst, the plane rattled. The Tiger had been struck, and Attridge's windshield buckled inward.https://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Tiger138260.htm
I am some form of ND (which was probably misdiagnosed in the 80s) which I consider a disability but would not consider myself disabled.
I didn't use to think of my glasses corrected eyesight as either, but I am getting to the point where I don't have corrected vision with glasses and it's going to disabled me.
That said my friend is going blind so I feel weird putting myself in the same boat (I don't need my employer to make adjustments for me, just a little consideration for my foibles).
I suspect MPs would consider a disability a weakness to be shared with the opposition.
... that on the day I was born, an American fighter plane shot itself down. The test pilot fired a long burst from the guns of his supersonic aircraft, hit the afterburners then caught up with the cannon rounds which smashed his windscreen. The pilot survived.I like how it's a long burst in the first paragraph, but by the fourth para it's become "a brief, four-second burst". Four seconds doesn't sound at all brief to me, not that I'd know.
more here (https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27967/the-fighter-plane-that-shot-itself-down/)
There is a restaurant in Hong Kong called Ho Lee Fook.
There is a restaurant in Hong Kong called Ho Lee Fook.
Warren Zevon, via ouija board: "They had better have a big dish of beef chow mein on the menu."
And let soil.pipe smells into your bathroom
Do you get a baby growing in your mouth?
Four seconds would imply a larger supply of ammunition than most aircraft could carry. It also implies that the gun used is more resistant to heat damage than most!
The A-10 is a much heavier aircraft than the Hunter - roughly twice the mass (11,000kg vs 23,000kg). Also the 20mm rounds of the Vulcan cannon are considerably lighter (about 100g) than the Aden's (270g). The muzzle velocity is greater (1000m/s vs 800 or so) and the rate of fire is slightly higher (6000rpm vs 5200 rpm), but these aren't enough of a factor to make the A-10's reaction to firing the gun anything like that of the Hunter!