Post by: Basil on November 25, 2008, 09:44:11 pm
There are things that you experience for the first time. (Yes, even at my age) There are experiences that occur that make you think. There's stuff you read. There's stuff you hear. There's stuff you learn each day.
What did you learn today?
Post by: Basil on November 25, 2008, 09:44:31 pm
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?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on November 25, 2008, 09:56:47 pm
Post by: alan on November 25, 2008, 10:26:45 pm
Where business is concerned,trust no-one.My faith in human nature has taken yet another hit >:(
Post by: toekneep on November 26, 2008, 07:01:28 am
I re-learned an old lesson.
Where business is concerned,trust no-one.My faith in human nature has taken yet another hit >:(
You be Tom Price from Survivors and ICMFP ;D
Sorry you got let down my friend, don't give up on all of us.
Post by: alan on November 26, 2008, 09:05:39 am
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.
Post by: Tom M on November 26, 2008, 09:57:40 am
The addage has been proved correct. Bunch of (insert NWS expletive of choice)!
Wise old sage's no doubt many are, please carry on with your pitifull head shaking at my innocence.
Post by: ABlipInContinuity on November 26, 2008, 10:06:40 am
Thanks Kirst
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.
Post by: David Martin on November 27, 2008, 11:32:19 am
It is that inescapable feeling that you have heard this bull before..
..d
Post by: clarion on November 27, 2008, 11:36:56 am
Post by: Charlotte on November 27, 2008, 12:13:49 pm
I've also learned that joining candlepowerforums is a bad idea if you're into shiny, flashy things...
Post by: LE on November 27, 2008, 12:19:00 pm
Post by: Basil on November 27, 2008, 01:11:18 pm
I've just heard the phrase déja-moo.
It is that inescapable feeling that you have heard this bull before..
..d
Excellent. :thumbsup:
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 27, 2008, 01:47:25 pm
Post by: RichForrest on November 27, 2008, 01:54:57 pm
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?
Post by: David Martin on November 27, 2008, 02:13:32 pm
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?
I'm not sure if you are serious or joking..
or suffering an attack of deja-moo..
..d
Post by: Robbo5 on November 27, 2008, 03:04:38 pm
Post by: LE on November 27, 2008, 03:35:22 pm
Post by: LE on November 28, 2008, 11:51:32 am
Post by: Salvatore on November 28, 2008, 02:28:36 pm
Post by: Jaded on November 28, 2008, 02:46:18 pm
Post by: LE on November 28, 2008, 02:57:56 pm
Post by: MSeries on November 28, 2008, 03:08:37 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 28, 2008, 03:46:15 pm
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.
That's two people who have had pedals off Yorkshire types recently. Must be catching ;D
Post by: alan on November 28, 2008, 03:50:15 pm
Who got the opposite hand thread pedal
Post by: clarion on November 28, 2008, 03:52:05 pm
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on November 28, 2008, 05:33:38 pm
Post by: gordon taylor on November 28, 2008, 06:48:43 pm
Post by: PaulF on November 30, 2008, 04:58:02 pm
Post by: Clare on December 10, 2008, 04:59:25 pm
Who looks after the elves and gets the fat bearded one out on his sleigh in time?
Post by: hairyhippy on December 10, 2008, 05:38:40 pm
The two should not be confused.
Post by: numbnuts on December 10, 2008, 06:07:40 pm
Post by: clarion on December 10, 2008, 07:52:48 pm
I have mainly been learning knitting and welding.
The two should not be confused.
Tho some framebuilders may have done so...
Post by: nicknack on December 10, 2008, 11:34:23 pm
Post by: PaulF on January 13, 2009, 12:48:53 pm
Post by: Basil on November 15, 2009, 10:49:18 pm
Mr. Wowbagger's thread has taught me something today.
Edit:
Hmm, after re-reading article on Wikipedia I'm now totally confused.
There appear to be two definitions. Seasonal and Calendar.
The more modern Calendar interpretation (two in any month) would now appear to be the one in accepted modern usage.
Hmm, happy to go with the flow.
Post by: hellymedic on November 16, 2009, 03:45:53 am
Post by: tonycollinet on November 16, 2009, 09:06:36 pm
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...
Oh yes ;D. You want to avoid boost converters though if you can - they are much less efficient.
Post by: tonycollinet on November 16, 2009, 09:13:11 pm
Post by: tonycollinet on November 16, 2009, 09:16:15 pm
>:(
I'm gonna take it to the tip - they can sod off.
Post by: Jonno on November 18, 2009, 02:48:42 pm
Post by: Jonno on November 18, 2009, 02:55:17 pm
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. ::-)
You probably know that lossing weight is alot harder than putting it on.
I'm 'proof in the pudding' that the right diet and exercise helps.
Post by: jogler on November 18, 2009, 03:22:00 pm
Trust is everything in business! Tust me!
£ in business is more than everthing,it's the only thing
Post by: JStone on November 18, 2009, 04:58:05 pm
Post by: Wowbagger on January 31, 2010, 01:13:37 am
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Post by: geraldc on January 31, 2010, 01:53:31 am
So that explains 1 or 2 of the grams I put on over Xmas, now to find out what caused the rest of the 2kg gain.
Post by: Mr Larrington on February 01, 2010, 02:53:44 pm
Post by: hellymedic on February 01, 2010, 03:11:05 pm
Yakult has more sugar by volume than Coca Cola.
Tomato ketchup has more than either. The total sugar in a squidge of tomato ketchup is not that much though, a small pot of Yakult might contain 20g sugar but it's dead easy to drink 50g sugar in Coke (if you can stomach the stuff at all).
Post by: Regulator on February 01, 2010, 03:15:48 pm
Oi! I'm not dead!
Are you sure?
You could be an Audax Zombie (an increasingly common sight on the highways and byways of this sceptred isle).
Do you have the sudden urge to dismember people (either with or without a SHOVEL) and eat their BRANES?
Do you find yourself eating everything in sight?
Do you smell somewhat foetid, as though something had crawled into your shorts and died?
If so, you may in fact be an audax zombie...
Post by: Greenbank on February 01, 2010, 03:43:59 pm
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 >:(
A trip with said laptop to a cafe/pub/coffee-shop with wireless network can help test that out. "It's work, honest boss!"
Having signed up for BT Fon (as I have BT Broadband) means I get free access to BT Openzone which has free wireless in loads of places (such as Cafe Nero) as well as the wireless networks of other residential users who have subscribed to BT Fon.
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on February 02, 2010, 07:25:38 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on February 02, 2010, 03:33:28 pm
Oi! I'm not dead!
Are you sure?
Actually, I went for a blood pressure check yesterday and it seems that I very probably am. If I suddenly turn into a heap of steaming offal, it's just my cardio-vascular system going into meltdown...
Post by: Bledlow on February 02, 2010, 03:43:58 pm
Post by: Salvatore on November 09, 2010, 10:36:14 am
Post by: Ian H on November 09, 2010, 10:43:30 am
That Beeswing in Dumfriesshire is named after a racehorse.
And the racehorse is named after?
Post by: Nuncio on November 09, 2010, 01:42:56 pm
Post by: tiermat on November 10, 2010, 12:45:14 pm
Does what it says on the tin, really :)
Post by: CAMRAMan on November 10, 2010, 01:45:40 pm
Post by: Wombat on November 11, 2010, 08:04:39 am
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on May 09, 2011, 06:39:06 pm
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.
Post by: Kim on May 09, 2011, 06:43:53 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on May 09, 2011, 06:47:07 pm
Post by: Feline on May 09, 2011, 06:48:10 pm
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.
It caused all kinds of problems in the toilets on a long haul Royal Brunei flight to Australia I was once on too! They kept pausing the movie to show a map of the plane with an arrow to show which direction Mecca was in too :o
(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: )
Post by: andrewc on May 09, 2011, 08:19:08 pm
http://xkcd.com/ (http://xkcd.com/) who says cartoons are not educational ?
Post by: Pedaldog on May 09, 2011, 08:39:01 pm
Devout Muslims must have their toilets facing away from Mecca.
Doesn't that mean that they're pointing their Arses towards Mecca?
Post by: Mr Larrington on May 10, 2011, 11:04:20 am
(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: )
Dr Larrington once flew from Tokyo to London on PIA, via Beijing and Karachi. She and her friend solved the problem of no boozahol with a couple of two litre bottles1 of tonic water, only one of which contained that described by the label :thumbsup:
1 - This was about 1980, when no-one was trying to blow up aeroplanes with Lucozade Sport.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on May 10, 2011, 09:28:57 pm
Post by: Kim on May 11, 2011, 02:07:49 pm
Post by: Andrij on May 23, 2011, 12:30:28 pm
Post by: tiermat on October 03, 2011, 01:40:39 pm
Post by: clarion on October 03, 2011, 02:27:24 pm
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on November 09, 2011, 06:58:52 am
Post by: PaulF on November 09, 2011, 07:38:24 am
Post by: haliaetos on November 09, 2011, 07:57:57 pm
The poppies sold in Scotland are different to the one sold in E&W. The Scottish poppies have 4 petals and no leaf.
Makes it easier for schoolkids to make poppy darts. Well, it did back when I were a lad, when the stems were metal! Not very respectful, granted, but at least they received more donations than they would have done otherwise.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on November 09, 2011, 08:03:33 pm
Post by: Quisling on November 10, 2011, 09:01:37 am
Yes, the plague is in town chez Quisling :sick:
Post by: tiermat on November 16, 2011, 11:57:36 am
Post by: woollypigs on November 16, 2011, 12:01:54 pm
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:
Post by: Kim on November 27, 2011, 03:10:20 pm
Post by: Jurek on November 27, 2011, 03:17:28 pm
Chiral.
And having investigated its meaning, I'll be looking for the first opportunity to use it.
Post by: David Martin on November 27, 2011, 08:02:51 pm
Post by: CrinklyLion on November 27, 2011, 09:11:45 pm
Dangerous knowledge that, potentially...
Post by: Butterfly on November 27, 2011, 10:43:29 pm
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...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on November 27, 2011, 10:57:41 pm
She recorded world music before World Music, as they've just said.
Post by: αdαmsκι on November 29, 2011, 08:47:21 pm
Chiral.
And having investigated its meaning, I'll be looking for the first opportunity to use it.
A level chemistry
Post by: Jurek on November 29, 2011, 08:53:18 pm
Chiral.
And having investigated its meaning, I'll be looking for the first opportunity to use it.
A level chemistrytomorrowThursday?
Day after, I reckon ;).
Post by: fboab on November 30, 2011, 06:15:13 pm
I learned, that in the 20 years since I went University:
- It is just as easy to fall asleep in a lecture theatre
- Halls of Residence look exactly the same (except now there's more IKEA products in the kitchens)
- Students are exactly the same, even down to the outfits
- Maths Geeks are the same nationwide
- Debt is Unavoidable, even if you're dead clever1 and very poor2
1 A*AA and he gets £1k off fees as a scholarship
2 Keep up this unemployment and he gets maximum grant and a bursary.
Post by: PeteB99 on December 05, 2011, 10:22:53 pm
Post by: Arch on December 05, 2011, 10:44:18 pm
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...
Petit et bijou, I think, un velo being masculine and singular. (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...)
Post by: David Martin on December 05, 2011, 11:13:01 pm
(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.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on December 06, 2011, 08:17:16 am
Post by: clarion on December 06, 2011, 09:43:51 am
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on December 06, 2011, 11:23:37 am
Post by: CAMRAMan on December 06, 2011, 11:32:23 am
My late, old Gran, bless her, used to daub it in bucketfuls on and around her person & it's the smell I associate with her memory.
Post by: Kim on December 06, 2011, 02:03:53 pm
Post by: clarion on December 06, 2011, 05:59:59 pm
Post by: Arch on December 06, 2011, 09:00:13 pm
(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.
Exactly. I remember I started to feel comfortable in France when I realised I was saying "Au'voir" instead of "Au Revoir". Not that I'm anything like fluent, but after a day or so over there I feel more courageous about trying.
Post by: clarion on December 06, 2011, 09:29:15 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 07, 2011, 12:58:48 pm
Post by: TheLurker on December 07, 2011, 01:44:17 pm
Post by: Kim on December 18, 2011, 06:13:51 pm
Given that they already own an orc and a laser engraver, this doesn't really surprise me.
Post by: andrew_s on December 18, 2011, 07:56:31 pm
Bouncy castle and laser engraver are simple, but 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?
Post by: Butterfly on December 18, 2011, 07:57:02 pm
Post by: Kim on December 18, 2011, 08:04:20 pm
how does a subterranean humanoid normally found in the pages of LotR come in to things
It stands guard in the conference room (http://revk.www.me.uk/2011/02/orctastic.html).
Quote
and what's AAISP when it's at home?
A purveyor of fine internet services (http://aaisp.net.uk/).
Post by: Kim on December 22, 2011, 07:12:47 pm
Post by: PaulF on December 22, 2011, 08:21:30 pm
Post by: David Martin on December 27, 2011, 10:48:41 pm
Post by: Pingu on December 27, 2011, 10:56:32 pm
That Puffinus puffinus is not a Puffin. It is a Manx Sheerwater.
That was a question in my work's christmas quiz.
Post by: Pedaldog on December 28, 2011, 03:01:09 pm
Post by: clarion on December 28, 2011, 03:03:06 pm
Post by: Andrij on December 28, 2011, 03:04:59 pm
Mangerines
;D
Post by: pcolbeck on December 28, 2011, 03:08:32 pm
Post by: Pedaldog on December 28, 2011, 03:09:26 pm
But the good news is that the local choir are looking for Trebles. ;)
I've only got the two of them I'm afraid.
Post by: gordon taylor on December 28, 2011, 03:10:16 pm
If he'd shouted "We're all doomed" at the end of one of his diatribes, I'd have laughed.
Poor man.
Post by: Arch on December 28, 2011, 04:16:20 pm
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.
Console yourself in the knowledge that when it all goes tits up, he'll probably not have a single useful survival skill, and his wife will go off with the very practical Polish plumber she's been sleeping with for years....
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 29, 2011, 01:29:10 am
Anyways
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.
Post by: jogler on December 29, 2011, 09:16:04 am
Does anyone actually know a Polish plumber?
I know two Polish plumbers.Business & marriage partners.
Post by: Wowbagger on December 29, 2011, 09:25:19 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 29, 2011, 01:05:54 pm
Post by: clarion on December 29, 2011, 02:00:06 pm
Does anyone actually know a Polish plumber?
I know two Polish plumbers.Business & marriage partners.
So your marriage partner is a Polish plumber? :o
Post by: Mrs Pingu on December 29, 2011, 03:08:19 pm
What I learned today is that roller blinds were invented by sadists, and, it's best to go and actually see how sheer these fabrics are before purchase.
*bashes head off desk*
Post by: Arch on December 29, 2011, 03:18:05 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on December 29, 2011, 07:11:12 pm
Post by: Pedaldog on December 30, 2011, 05:10:49 pm
I learned that I shouldn't be so bloody touchy!
Post by: jogler on December 30, 2011, 05:45:13 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 30, 2011, 06:25:34 pm
Post by: David Martin on December 30, 2011, 08:40:54 pm
Post by: hellymedic on December 31, 2011, 01:23:27 am
My grandmother died in the Hammersmith Hospital on 1 April 1999 and was buried on 4 April. They must have been in the same morgue together...
Post by: Basil on February 17, 2012, 09:13:29 pm
Post by: Kim on February 17, 2012, 09:19:27 pm
I learned today that Kim has a homophobic phone! ::-)
SwiftKey X for Android with the English (UK) dictionary, if you want to play along at home. While it has no problem with swearing and arbitrary neologisms, it seems to have a specific blind spot for perfectly reasonable words pertaining to teh ghey. Most odd...
Post by: Basil on April 06, 2012, 11:42:45 pm
More stuff learned today. (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=58421.msg1203684#msg1203684)
Post by: Andrij on August 20, 2012, 09:32:19 am
In spite of the recent references to H2GT2G here guess what I forgot to pack before cycling to work this morning? :facepalm:
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on August 20, 2012, 10:07:17 am
That when my HR hits 187- I don't go much further up hill without taking a breather :o
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on August 20, 2012, 11:12:48 am
Post by: Basil on August 20, 2012, 12:25:12 pm
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on August 20, 2012, 12:30:30 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on August 21, 2012, 09:06:41 pm
Post by: CommuteTooFar on August 22, 2012, 01:20:26 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 22, 2012, 10:16:50 pm
YACF is the best source of velocipedic knowledge, inspiration, debate and entertainment that I know of.
Post by: Kim on August 22, 2012, 10:40:45 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on August 23, 2012, 09:54:47 am
Got one whilst exploring a new route to work this morning.
The ride was nice. The visitation a mere interlude.
Post by: tiermat on September 05, 2012, 11:38:32 am
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on September 05, 2012, 11:49:46 am
When going commando after putting my shreddies in the washing machine, moar care is needed when undoing my fly :o :'(
Post by: jogler on September 05, 2012, 03:57:17 pm
He obviously clocked me & came out* so we chewed the fat a bit about Mods & Wiggo :thumbsup:
Took me right back to 1970 when we had a Lambretta SX225 with all the mirrors,crash bars etc etc.
Mods Ruke,O.K.. :thumbsup:
*I suspect he was making sure I was not going to nick it ;D
Post by: jogler on September 06, 2012, 03:17:50 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on September 06, 2012, 03:21:41 pm
Reaching to the downtube to change gear achieves very little on a bike with STI ::-)
Exactly as effective as trying to change gear using non sti brake levers ;D
Post by: jogler on September 06, 2012, 03:28:37 pm
Post by: matthew on September 06, 2012, 07:07:52 pm
Post by: Torslanda on September 06, 2012, 07:18:09 pm
Sadly for their carpets and furniture she had exceeded this margin by some 5 seconds . . . :sick:
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on September 06, 2012, 07:42:14 pm
Post by: fboab on September 07, 2012, 03:47:10 pm
Post by: PaulF on September 07, 2012, 04:59:58 pm
Post by: Kim on September 07, 2012, 05:04:24 pm
Some 'non-drowsy' Allergy relief pills aren't as non-drowsy as they could be.
Were you riding a bike at the time? :hand:
Post by: Andrij on September 07, 2012, 05:17:08 pm
The term "Yellow Belly" is a local expression meaning someone form Lincolnshire.
It derives from the colour of the Lincolnshire regiment's uniform.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on September 10, 2012, 10:31:02 pm
Post by: David Martin on September 13, 2012, 01:26:23 pm
[1] The ones who stop the magic smoke from leaking out.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 30, 2012, 02:33:56 am
Post by: mr magnolia on October 30, 2012, 05:24:47 am
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.
Released in UK 01.11.12, according to Amazon.
We have a copy here, oddly. I wonder where it came from?
Post by: rogerzilla on October 30, 2012, 07:29:16 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 30, 2012, 06:46:58 pm
Post by: clarion on October 30, 2012, 08:35:43 pm
Post by: Exit Stage Left on October 30, 2012, 08:37:49 pm
Mobile phones work with technology originally developed for the pianola. Sort of.
I thought it was down to Hedy Lammar.
http://www.hedylamarr.org/hedystory5.html
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 30, 2012, 10:27:11 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on October 31, 2012, 12:48:37 pm
Post by: Basil on November 26, 2012, 09:38:55 pm
Post by: Basil on December 01, 2012, 08:51:11 pm
He says that it means "Game of ball -played on foot" - as opposed to on horseback.
Post by: Kim on December 01, 2012, 10:29:49 pm
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.
Suddenly handball sounds like a much more entertaining game than I assumed...
Post by: Basil on December 01, 2012, 10:33:40 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 04, 2012, 09:39:00 am
Post by: RJ on December 06, 2012, 09:41:40 am
Quote
the fine-scale structure of branching river networks is an organized signature of erosional mechanics, not a consequence of random topology.
Fractal-tastic! Read it here:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v492/n7427/full/nature11672.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20121206
Post by: Andrij on December 17, 2012, 11:43:35 am
Post by: Basil on January 01, 2013, 07:30:38 pm
Intrigued, I googled around to find that is not quite true. Blue and Pilot whales also share this.
Still, only three species.
More googling. It seems that the Grandmother is evolutionarily advantageous.
Post by: tiermat on January 01, 2013, 07:34:02 pm
How I did this is left to the imagination (but won't take much for those who have ever been on a ride with me!)
Post by: Bledlow on January 06, 2013, 08:30:54 pm
On 9th June 1947, it became legally impossible for Soviet labour camps to
1) access their bank accounts, or get money paid into them
2) get distributors of essential supplies to deliver to them.
This was because the secrecy rules changed. Their full addresses became secrets which they could not disclose.
Distributors of supplies already knew them, so could deliver goods that the labour camps ordered, but were no longer able to accept orders, because orders had to include the full address unless they were 'secret' orders, only military establishments could issue secret orders, & labour camps were not military establishments. The MVD had been transferred to the Ministry of Justice.
They could not access their bank accounts because they could not give Gosbank (the state bank) their full addresses. Gosbank already held the full address of every account holder, including labour camps. It was part of the identity of the account. Transactions could only be made if the correct identity was supplied. But because the address was now secret, neither the camps, nor entities seeking to transfer money to them, could supply it to Gosbank, even though Gosbank already knew it. It was therefore legally impossible for Gosbank to accept requests for payments into or from those accounts.
There was a way round the banking problem. Camps had an alternative identity. If Gosbank substituted this for the full address, all would be well. But it wasn't legally possible to give Gosbank the alternative identity in a form in which it could be matched to the information Gosbank already held.
For the next six years this caused immense problems, with illegal (& in theory punishable by severe penalties) unofficial arrangements having to be made simply to allow the GuLaG to work, & constant interruptions to supplies & payments as carefully & riskily negotiated arrangements broke down (I assume because one party retired, or died, or changed job, or got frightened) & had to be renegotiated.
All the transactions which were inhibited were official, authorised transactions between state agencies, which were necessary for them to make in order to fulfil their legal duty to abide by the plan. :facepalm:
Post by: Ashaman42 on January 06, 2013, 10:01:23 pm
Post by: Bledlow on January 06, 2013, 10:38:47 pm
The paper's about the transaction costs of secrecy.
Post by: SandyV on January 07, 2013, 03:45:50 am
Post by: Basil on January 07, 2013, 07:27:09 am
Before then, tins were opened using a hammer and chisel or other implement such as an axe!Been there. Done that.
In the days before easy-pull can lids, a lost can opener when camping would mean that the next meal was conducted with extreme violence. ;D
Post by: Arch on January 07, 2013, 09:46:25 am
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!
One of my favourite literary passages is the one in Three Men in a Boat where they are trying to open a tin of pineapple, having lost the tin opener. Especially when they get angry and beat it with the mast into a shape so grotesque they recoil in horror.
Post by: Bledlow on January 07, 2013, 12:24:42 pm
The two crew members of the USAF aircraft ejected & survived, but the pilot has had to have seven operations for the back injuries he received from the ejection, & is in constant pain.
Lt Dorsey remained in the US navy, though he was barred from flying. He is now a captain in the US navy reserve. Last year he was put up for promotion to admiral by the US navy. This involved a hearing by a US senate committee. He sent a letter of apology to the injured officer after the hearing had been scheduled, after showing no remorse for the previous 25 years.
The US navy omitted to mention the incident in the nomination papers, although the US senate armed services committee expects nomination papers to include full information, including anything adverse.
Timothy Dorsey is the son of James Dorsey, who at the time of the shooting down was a rear admiral & commander of the aircraft carrier USS America, & was promoted the following year to vice admiral.
Post by: Pedaldog on January 11, 2013, 01:00:40 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on January 11, 2013, 09:26:04 am
Post by: LEE on January 11, 2013, 09:32:57 am
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")
Post by: LEE on January 11, 2013, 09:34:58 am
That no matter how hard you work, how dedicated you are to your job, your boss doesn't give two shits...
I've noticed over the last 10 years that being made redundant bears no relation to people's skill, work-effort or dedication.
Post by: matthew on January 11, 2013, 09:40:19 am
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")
Post by: nicknack on January 11, 2013, 02:33:33 pm
Post by: tiermat on January 11, 2013, 03:11:24 pm
Espresso grind coffee takes FOREVER to clean up :)
Post by: fboab on February 14, 2014, 09:10:53 am
Spinster started off as a compliment, denoting competence at spinning, and therefore self sufficiency.
Post by: Kim on February 14, 2014, 01:49:45 pm
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.
Interestingly, I learned the same thing recently after encountering such use in some historical fiction.
Post by: Basil on February 18, 2014, 07:05:57 pm
Me: "Pete, what's that bloke's name?"
Pete: "That's Gay Pete. Surely you know him?"
Me: "Yes. But he's not gay.
Pete: "I know"
Me: "So why do we call him Gay Pete?"
Pete: "That's his name. ::-) "
Me: "OK ??? "
Post by: Kim on February 18, 2014, 08:49:54 pm
Post by: Basil on February 18, 2014, 09:03:29 pm
I also learned that anyone more than 15 years younger than me is determined to confuse the fuck out of me.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on February 18, 2014, 09:45:02 pm
Post by: clarion on February 19, 2014, 11:41:39 am
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.
When I worked on the sound for Billy Graham, some of the Christians were a bit concerned about a member of the sound crew called Gay Paul. He was not gay, and worked for a Christian organisation. However, there were gayers aplenty in our stage crew doing the load in :thumbsup:
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 20, 2014, 09:01:32 pm
In fact, is there anyone called Gay who is gay?
Post by: clarion on February 20, 2014, 09:32:03 pm
Post by: Kim on February 20, 2014, 09:39:00 pm
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
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 20, 2014, 09:44:51 pm
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
There's also Gay Talese, an American author who is male and not gay.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 20, 2014, 09:54:21 pm
http://youtu.be/U7pv7sO5Gng
Post by: barakta on February 21, 2014, 12:28:16 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on March 03, 2014, 10:43:51 am
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
Post by: Kim on March 03, 2014, 12:52:39 pm
That Turkmenistan had hydroelectric power in 1910.
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
Phwor, look at the commutators on that!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on March 03, 2014, 01:49:50 pm
Post by: rogerzilla on March 18, 2014, 08:51:25 pm
Post by: mcshroom on March 28, 2014, 09:53:15 am
Quote
941 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
Post by: pcolbeck on March 28, 2014, 10:06:05 am
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's odd isn’t it.
I bet Alex Salmond claims this is a deliberate slight on Scotland by the English (even though Dewey Decimal is an American system)
Mind you the only country in Europe that gets a category all to itself is France.
Post by: tiermat on March 28, 2014, 11:59:41 am
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
Post by: Wombat on March 28, 2014, 01:06:43 pm
That Turkmenistan had hydroelectric power in 1910.
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
Phwor, look at the commutators on that!
It could only be you.... ::-) ::-)
p.s. that is a compliment, really!
Post by: hulver on March 28, 2014, 02:25:23 pm
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
(click to show/hide)
;D
Post by: tiermat on April 02, 2014, 10:28:22 am
Post by: Bledlow on April 02, 2014, 04:50:59 pm
The F-35 Lightning II , AKA JSF, should have been the F-24 (the next unused designation in the series of US fighters), but the US undersecretary for defence confused the designation of its experimental precursor the X-35 (on a different series of numbers) with the production aircraft designations at a press conference in 2001.
This annoyed the manufacturers & the USAF, USN & USMC, which had all been assuming it would be called F-24 & had been using that term in internal documents. The office that assigns designations recommended that F-24 should be used. But to no avail: F-35 stuck, & was officially adopted.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 18, 2014, 08:05:59 pm
Post by: mcshroom on May 18, 2014, 08:08:38 pm
Post by: Salvatore on May 18, 2014, 08:25:13 pm
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!
Coincidentally, 1888 was when the 26th Middlesex (Cyclist) Corps was founded. I wonder they observed the byelaw?
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2902/14028822959_a09b97f751.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/89773100@N02/14028822959/)
Morning Post 18th Feb 1888
Post by: Diver300 on May 19, 2014, 07:36:21 pm
That Turkmenistan had hydroelectric power in 1910.
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
Phwor, look at the commutators on that!
I suspect they are slip rings not commutators [/belated pedantry]
Post by: barakta on May 19, 2014, 08:45:30 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 22, 2014, 12:58:59 pm
Somebody had better tell the Wombles.
Post by: Kim on May 22, 2014, 01:09:48 pm
Somebody had better tell the Wombles.
:D
Post by: Bledlow on May 22, 2014, 01:56:26 pm
...Apparently when the Manichaean sect of heretical Christians ....Manichaeanism isn't specifically, or originally, Christian.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 22, 2014, 02:27:57 pm
Post by: Ruth on May 25, 2014, 03:58:23 pm
I would never have guessed.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on May 30, 2014, 09:59:17 pm
Post by: clarion on May 31, 2014, 11:05:46 am
Post by: Canardly on May 31, 2014, 12:47:01 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on May 31, 2014, 12:49:22 pm
Oh. Now that is a disappointment.For him as much as me, I thought.
Post by: pcolbeck on May 31, 2014, 03:44:54 pm
American Dad is based on All in the Family which is a very successful US remake of Till Death Do Us Part.
Post by: David Martin on May 31, 2014, 06:08:38 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on May 31, 2014, 07:38:15 pm
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.
I used to work with a Gay Anderson, of a similar vintage to myself. Her motor-car carries the plate V3GAY.
Post by: barakta on May 31, 2014, 09:07:46 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 02, 2014, 09:21:43 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 24, 2014, 10:09:46 am
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02951/peter_2951929b.jpg)
Post by: rogerzilla on June 24, 2014, 07:49:19 pm
Post by: Canardly on June 24, 2014, 08:12:10 pm
Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, shagged Wallace Simpson.
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on June 26, 2014, 05:39:03 pm
Post by: tiermat on July 01, 2014, 12:52:13 pm
Post by: Efrogwr on July 04, 2014, 11:03:41 am
* In Bridlington.
Post by: jogler on July 04, 2014, 01:35:54 pm
'tis a pity then that this establishment has no bike parking facilties nor Sheffield stands or similar. :(
I have also learned that the kitchen goddess who used to bake all their home made pies & cakes etc has been re-engaged despite retiring a while ago. :thumbsup:
Perhaps this should be in the GoodNewsBadNewsGoodNews thread?
Post by: Kim on July 04, 2014, 01:40:22 pm
Post by: jogler on July 04, 2014, 01:45:02 pm
There are alternative almost-flat routes available. as my blind stoker will confirm :smug:
Post by: Kim on July 04, 2014, 02:05:53 pm
Post by: Ruth on July 06, 2014, 11:28:31 am
I went for a walk in the Denes - little green areas around the beck in Darlington, each with their own name and character. I'd not fancied it before, there have been a couple of health alerts at work - the usual open space nocturnal activities have led to an epidemic of syphilis and genital warts. It didn't make me want to explore!
Today there were lots of condom wrappers. Hooray!
Post by: Kim on July 06, 2014, 10:25:31 pm
Post by: clarion on July 06, 2014, 10:55:05 pm
Post by: Speshact on July 06, 2014, 11:02:13 pm
Post by: clarion on July 06, 2014, 11:28:29 pm
Post by: billplumtree on July 09, 2014, 10:50:35 am
(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).
Post by: Kim on July 09, 2014, 12:50:46 pm
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).
Not Anneka Rice, several tonnes of chalk and a vast supply of cub scouts? Some people have no sense of tradition...
Post by: Exit Stage Left on July 09, 2014, 01:37:19 pm
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).
That's a classic 'Miner/Farmer Landscape' shot, with adits visible at the bottom of the limestone scarp. The construction of the barn from a mixture of limestone and gritstone suggests the use of mining spoil. I've learned today that the coming of the railway to Hawes in 1878 stimulated a boom in mining, quarrying and dairying.
Post by: clarion on July 09, 2014, 02:19:25 pm
Post by: phantasmagoriana on July 09, 2014, 09:33:08 pm
Post by: Pingu on July 09, 2014, 10:03:07 pm
How to do a wheelie. And an endo. I can only do tiny ones, though...
I look forward to seeing you demonstrating them down Glenshee :)
Post by: nicknack on July 11, 2014, 01:30:13 pm
Marvellous, this place. ;D
Post by: Efrogwr on July 11, 2014, 01:39:31 pm
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.
Surely this is a Claim to Fame? But convoluted, rather than tenuous.
Post by: Nuncio on July 11, 2014, 02:10:32 pm
Post by: Ruth on July 11, 2014, 04:04:59 pm
Post by: matthew on July 11, 2014, 05:00:44 pm
then the average would be one, however with testicular cancer not all men have 2 so the average will be just under 1.
Post by: Nuncio on July 11, 2014, 10:04:27 pm
Post by: Bledlow on July 11, 2014, 10:49:18 pm
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.
Post by: clarion on July 15, 2014, 03:32:48 pm
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.
4.8" more of what?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on July 20, 2014, 02:46:36 pm
Post by: clarion on July 20, 2014, 03:52:11 pm
Post by: T42 on July 20, 2014, 04:30:25 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 21, 2014, 10:11:12 am
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?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 21, 2014, 10:12:46 am
Post by: rogerzilla on July 27, 2014, 08:22:03 pm
Post by: Basil on July 30, 2014, 08:58:58 pm
From the Wikipedia page "Stolen and missing Moon rocks"
Quote
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.
Post by: Morrisette on July 31, 2014, 12:42:19 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 31, 2014, 07:33:36 pm
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/149188-nigeria-central-bank-mandate-biometric-data-identification-bank-customers.html#sthash.xHsCnK3I.dpbs
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 01, 2014, 01:25:47 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 05, 2014, 11:56:37 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 06, 2014, 02:04:10 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 06, 2014, 02:17:08 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 08, 2014, 06:15:05 pm
Post by: Bledlow on August 10, 2014, 04:25:43 pm
Post by: phantasmagoriana on August 12, 2014, 10:58:08 pm
Post by: Gattopardo on August 12, 2014, 11:50:23 pm
Doing a Google image search for Pompino is not a good idea. I'd forgotten the Italian meaning. :facepalm:
That is why i had one :-*
Post by: Guy on August 15, 2014, 11:43:50 am
I like dat so much I've started using it in conversation
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 15, 2014, 07:18:02 pm
Post by: Basil on August 17, 2014, 07:50:51 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 17, 2014, 08:20:15 pm
Post by: Basil on August 17, 2014, 10:36:11 pm
Post by: Kim on August 17, 2014, 10:40:02 pm
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.
Related: "That depends on whether you keep your lemonade in a lukewarm bottle under the bar." tends to result in mildly offended confusion when given in answer to the same question.
Post by: TheLurker on August 21, 2014, 07:12:17 pm
That is my current excuse for my lack of speed. It has absolutely _nothing_ to do with advancing years and a hefty reduction in mileage of late. Oh dear me no.
Post by: David Martin on August 24, 2014, 09:35:49 pm
When she wanted to do science for her matriculation she was told that was only available for boys. She didn't take no for an answer and persuaded them to let her do it. She then worked in a dairy where she helped develop the TT test for milk quality.
Post by: Pedaldog on August 24, 2014, 10:00:04 pm
Post by: tiermat on August 26, 2014, 03:01:06 pm
Pretty neat, but not as much use as grep/awk/sed and regex.
Post by: Andrij on August 30, 2014, 07:25:08 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 31, 2014, 12:57:18 am
Post by: Clare on August 31, 2014, 04:58:47 pm
Post by: Tim Hall on August 31, 2014, 09:03:03 pm
How to run my iPod from the Mudstang's steering wheel controls :thumbsup:
More impressive would be the other way around.
Post by: fboab on September 01, 2014, 07:33:53 pm
Post by: Mrs Pingu on September 01, 2014, 07:45:31 pm
My employer takes you to the doctor when you get grey shiny and make whimpering noises at work.Oh dear, hope you're OK?
Post by: barakta on September 01, 2014, 08:39:04 pm
Post by: clarion on September 02, 2014, 02:19:50 pm
Post by: Canardly on September 02, 2014, 02:59:32 pm
Post by: red marley on September 03, 2014, 05:50:43 pm
The mere presence of these circles prevents colour photocopiers from reproducing the image that contains them.
Trufax.
Really. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation)
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 04, 2014, 01:46:43 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 05, 2014, 06:31:44 am
Post by: Pingu on September 07, 2014, 11:14:47 am
Post by: nikki on September 07, 2014, 04:36:10 pm
Post by: mcshroom on September 07, 2014, 05:23:30 pm
Why I've been finding so many dead wasps in my bedroom over the last few months.
Is this yours?
http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/27/enormous-wasp-nest-takes-over-bedroom-after-homeowner-forgets-to-shut-the-window-4847499/
Post by: nikki on September 07, 2014, 11:56:49 pm
;D
Post by: Kim on September 07, 2014, 11:58:42 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 18, 2014, 07:15:23 am
Post by: clarion on September 18, 2014, 11:07:55 am
Post by: Kim on September 18, 2014, 12:56:17 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 18, 2014, 03:17:18 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 01, 2014, 03:52:22 pm
Post by: Wascally Weasel on October 01, 2014, 04:57:46 pm
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was obsessed with wombats :o
Isn't everyone?
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 01, 2014, 05:23:40 pm
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was obsessed with wombats :o
Isn't everyone?
Yes. Yes. Yes, they are (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATATRIEVE).
Post by: Juan Martín on October 10, 2014, 01:09:48 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 10, 2014, 01:16:46 pm
Prince Peter Kropotkin; notable anarchist type, spent nearly 20 years living in Bromley. And I thought that Camille Pissarro painting in Sydenham was weird.
No stranger than Ho Chi Minh having worked on the Newhaven-Dieppe ferry...
Post by: Juan Martín on October 10, 2014, 01:57:11 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 10, 2014, 07:29:02 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on October 10, 2014, 10:58:55 pm
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 :'(
Post by: Pingu on October 10, 2014, 11:22:42 pm
Post by: Dibdib on October 10, 2014, 11:35:07 pm
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.
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on October 10, 2014, 11:50:21 pm
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.
I'll give that a go next week :thumbsup:
Post by: mcshroom on October 11, 2014, 02:34:29 am
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on October 11, 2014, 06:24:05 am
Post by: SteveC on October 11, 2014, 02:54:31 pm
Get out of a straight jacket while on a giraffe unicycle.
He did need help getting onto the unicycle, though!
Post by: andrewc on October 11, 2014, 06:58:19 pm
My plastic tub of Proraso was now holding a piece of soap shaped like a polo mint, all around the edges & none in the middle. I decided to heat it up in the hope that it would melt & then cool into a nice flat puck.
A couple of minutes in the microwave on medium, covered by a paper towel. The haze in the kitchen alerted me first... luckily the towel took most of the splatter!
I've now got a microwave that smells of menthol & eucalyptus ::-)
Post by: woollypigs on October 11, 2014, 07:00:06 pm
Post by: Wowbagger on October 11, 2014, 08:26:25 pm
Post by: nicknack on October 12, 2014, 12:32:53 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on October 16, 2014, 12:50:42 pm
'kin ouch :o
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on October 24, 2014, 02:55:49 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 24, 2014, 09:41:10 pm
Post by: phantasmagoriana on October 24, 2014, 10:00:40 pm
Post by: Kim on October 24, 2014, 10:28:32 pm
How to deep fry both cheese and chocolate. :D (Not at the same time, though that could be interesting too.)
Sounds like you're going native...
Post by: phantasmagoriana on October 24, 2014, 10:34:58 pm
Post by: andrewc on October 24, 2014, 10:43:39 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 25, 2014, 09:17:59 am
That bioscope is the South African word for cinema.
BRITAIN used to have bioscopes too. Spike Milligan mentions one in one of his volumes of war memoirs.
Post by: Torslanda on October 25, 2014, 02:32:04 pm
. . . or moving.
Post by: Peter on October 25, 2014, 03:09:21 pm
Post by: Torslanda on October 25, 2014, 03:12:43 pm
Or you could eat or sleep more - maybe I've got the wrong house?
Careful, you. I've got your bike and haven't done the bill - YET! ;D
BTW Today I haz learned that old skool Deore cantis are an absolute bastard to set up . . . >:(
Post by: Peter on October 28, 2014, 12:12:00 am
Is that the set I left with you? I'm open to suggestions.....
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 28, 2014, 02:21:53 am
And vice-versa, obv.
Post by: tiermat on October 28, 2014, 10:30:17 am
It is a
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!
Post by: hulver on October 28, 2014, 10:46:34 am
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!
Urgh, I have one like that (an Asus, only the bottom part of the trackpad moves). It's like they thought "How can we make this harder to use". Horrible.
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 28, 2014, 11:21:47 am
Post by: Pingu on October 29, 2014, 10:41:29 pm
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.
Post by: tiermat on October 30, 2014, 08:49:11 am
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.
TBH, it being a new job, having to take a load of stuff in and try and work out just what on earth I am supposed to be doing, I didn't actually notice! Strangely, the little red nipple still lives on, not that I think anyone uses it as the natural place for the base of your thumb to rest, whilst using it, is on the trackpad!
Post by: ian on October 30, 2014, 09:34:00 am
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.
Other than Apple trackpads, they're universally suckier than a grumpy black hole. My Dell has a trackpad so ludicrously over-sensitive that it can detect a ghost farting next door sending the cursor scurrying to the edge of a screen. The only way to type with it active is with ballerina hands, your wrists painfully angled so your palms come nowhere near the damn thing. Ah, turn it down in the settings, you say. You can. Despite an entire slider, it has two modes. Hypersensitive and insensitive. In the latter mode, it just shrugs nonchalantly every time you try to use it. What's that, you want me to move the cursor... As a back-up it has a nipple-thing. I thought that kind of shit was embedded in temporal concrete and disposed of back in the 1980s. Trust me, if you used the kind of force that kind of nipple requires on a real nipple, you'd have some explaining to do.
Both options conspire to make you turn them off and get a mouse (in my case they've provided a home for the old Mighty Mouse, a nice mouse, but another venture into bad nippledom). Computer designers, just stop with the nipples, OK?
The Macbook trackpad on the other hand is a thing of swipy beauty. Mine does one tap for left click, two for left.
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 30, 2014, 11:49:48 am
Sometimes the fondleslab behaves similarly, in that you can whack a link half a dozen times before it deigns to respond while at other times even heaving a great sigh at for e.g. some particular piece of Super-Twattery can bring up the "Report to Moderator" wossname. And Wikinaccurate always wants links to be tapped twice, except when it doesn't.
Post by: Andrij on October 30, 2014, 06:23:09 pm
(http://www.flagz.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gin-Pennant-Flag.jpg)
Post by: David Martin on November 02, 2014, 07:17:27 pm
Post by: LEE on November 02, 2014, 07:21:16 pm
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.
Post by: Canardly on November 02, 2014, 10:51:37 pm
Post by: Pingu on November 02, 2014, 11:19:25 pm
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
Post by: PaulF on November 03, 2014, 05:45:45 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 03, 2014, 09:29:47 am
The Tutti Pole is a real place
Was this every in doubt ??? Unlike Rosie's...
Post by: Vince on November 03, 2014, 11:15:31 am
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)
Post by: Torslanda on November 03, 2014, 02:07:04 pm
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.
If only . . . Stella Street is a haven of peace and harmony by comparison!
And now it's not just threats. I think they're knocking lumps out of each other.
Post by: Andrij on November 03, 2014, 04:26:25 pm
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 may need to fly one of those next time I do the DunRun. ;D
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 07, 2014, 10:38:49 pm
Post by: David Martin on November 10, 2014, 09:27:27 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-fbd9JpiMs&feature=share is the video - very strange to have my world and that of those I never knew but whom I remember at this time brought into such close juxtaposition.
Post by: Torslanda on November 11, 2014, 02:07:01 pm
I have learned that "numbawan pikinini blong Missis Kwin" is Tok Pisin for "Prince Charles".
I always thought that was Phil the Greek . . .
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 11, 2014, 02:56:00 pm
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"
Post by: Andrij on November 11, 2014, 08:13:56 pm
This proscription was among the first orders they received at the outset of the war, so one would assume the practice was common. Senior officers clearly continued to enjoy the privilege – sky blue or lilac lids worn with a monocle, perhaps.
Historian Norman Stone describes the Romanian army as being particularly reluctant to adopt more practical uniforms suited to trench warfare, preferring to remain “smartly turned out, powdered and painted”.
From: http://www.historyextra.com/feature/first-world-war/15-things-you-didn%E2%80%99t-know-about-fashion-first-world-war?utm_source=Facebook%20referral&utm_medium=Facebook.com&utm_campaign=Bitly
Post by: David Martin on November 14, 2014, 03:37:18 pm
Earlier today I thought I'd been FUFO'd but fortunately the student who brought me the news was mistaken.
Post by: clarion on November 14, 2014, 03:43:06 pm
Post by: Chris S on November 14, 2014, 03:47:35 pm
Post by: Torslanda on November 15, 2014, 10:37:56 am
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"
Something else I have learned, thank you.
Post by: Pingu on November 18, 2014, 06:50:59 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on November 21, 2014, 09:19:58 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 22, 2014, 07:08:25 pm
I'd never heard of it until ten minutes ago.
Post by: David Martin on November 22, 2014, 11:43:29 pm
Post by: Kim on November 22, 2014, 11:52:57 pm
OK, who else just googled it?
I was going to, but I decided it probably wasn't going to be a sheet material produced through some improbable ballistic process involving burly men in kilts, and that life would generally be more satisfying if I were to maintain that illusion.
Post by: billplumtree on November 26, 2014, 05:55:55 pm
Post by: Efrogwr on November 26, 2014, 08:04:12 pm
OK, who else just googled it?
I did. I knew what it is; I didn't know what it's called.
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 26, 2014, 08:18:40 pm
Bah!
Post by: Wombat on November 27, 2014, 08:14:43 am
Post by: Guy on November 27, 2014, 08:30:44 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 27, 2014, 11:06:24 am
Plus HD TV is still not working properly chiz. And the AV receiver isn't receiving everything it should be either but that's probably for CTRL-ALT-DEL (or avforums).
Post by: Canardly on November 27, 2014, 11:10:22 am
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on November 27, 2014, 08:45:35 pm
Post by: Bledlow on November 28, 2014, 01:42:32 pm
I'm pleased by this because Babylon transmuted from a legitimate firm with decent software (particularly good for Arabic, apparently) into a malware pusher, making its money from advertising, which it pushed via a toolbar which hijacks browsers & tries to hide itself so that you can't uninstall it, & which it got onto computers by paying download sites to inconspicuously bundle it with legitimate software.
Eventually, Microsoft started limiting it on IE, & Google blocked it, & set Chrome to block it. Hence the crash of the company. Hooray!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on November 28, 2014, 08:04:56 pm
Post by: billplumtree on November 28, 2014, 08:29:35 pm
Post by: ian on November 28, 2014, 08:48:44 pm
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.
Blimey, both my cats added up only make 7kg. One is teeny though, and weighs in at 3kg. Of which 2 kg is fearsome claw. She doesn't have teeth though or she'd weigh more. They only get one sachet of food a day and the exceedingly expensive crunchy stuff (it'd be cheaper to hire Heston to cook unicorns I'm sure).
Anyway Bad Cat got told off by the vet (fortunately the über-stern German locum was off terrorising some other branch) for biting at her stitches. I fear there might have been some implicit criticism of her human staff for removing the collar of shame. She has compliancy issues
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on November 28, 2014, 09:44:26 pm
Post by: David Martin on November 28, 2014, 09:49:14 pm
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".
I always found that one quite amusing.
Post by: ian on November 30, 2014, 01:24:09 pm
Well, it's useful to know. In the event of being caught up in a terror attack my plan had been to build a papier-mâché decoy tank. Terrorists are scared of tanks. And griffins, though making a griffin is more challenging, especially under pressure. I now realise that my decoy tank strategy is misguided and I'd be better either running or hiding. I could run with a bathtub over my head which covers both bases.
Thanks Government!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on November 30, 2014, 01:55:28 pm
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.
Post by: ian on November 30, 2014, 02:12:51 pm
Bad cat managed to escape today by getting her paw behind the out-locked flap and pulling it inwards. Fiend. She did a good job of removing her own stitches earlier too. We're going to get stern looks from the vet. It's probably a good job we don't have kids, we'd be terrible parents, the ones that make the teachers sigh.
Post by: clarion on December 04, 2014, 03:05:39 pm
Yes, expert spotters, I am listening to RadMac on R6M.
Post by: Mr Larrington on December 04, 2014, 03:39:46 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on December 04, 2014, 04:27:34 pm
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.
Post by: David Martin on December 04, 2014, 05:53:51 pm
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
Post by: ian on December 04, 2014, 07:17:57 pm
...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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on December 04, 2014, 07:22:58 pm
Post by: Basil on December 04, 2014, 07:33:29 pm
A true Brummie cat. :smug:
Post by: Kim on December 04, 2014, 07:39:35 pm
Mine eats poppadoms. I have no idea what she does with the rest of the takeaway.
A friend's cat once hilariously made off with a poppadom. By the time we realised, she'd licked it until it was floppy. Actually eating it either didn't occur to her, or was hampered by lack of teeth.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on December 04, 2014, 09:36:14 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on December 06, 2014, 10:54:32 am
Post by: Torslanda on December 07, 2014, 12:26:36 am
Who runs a bike shop.*
In Minneapolis, Minnesota.
IIRC it's called John's Bikes.
Spooky.
Post by: Bledlow on December 07, 2014, 09:25:13 pm
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.
Post by: Canardly on December 07, 2014, 10:28:39 pm
Post by: Dibdib on December 07, 2014, 11:37:14 pm
In unrelated news I'm hiding my credit card.
Post by: David Martin on December 08, 2014, 12:00:09 am
Supposed to have been a bloke in west Wales (Saundersfoot) who flew years before anyone else.
A bloke in Chard, Somerset.
Post by: mcshroom on December 08, 2014, 12:20:47 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 08, 2014, 11:50:05 am
Post by: Basil on December 08, 2014, 11:52:08 am
Or a monk in Malmesbury.
Or a greek bloke by the name of Icarus.
Post by: clarion on December 08, 2014, 12:50:21 pm
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.
Post by: clarion on December 08, 2014, 01:08:25 pm
Post by: Kim on December 08, 2014, 01:16:43 pm
Or a greek bloke by the name of Icarus.
That one was a myth, warning of the dangers of relying on adhesives. Or perhaps that lusers don't follow instructions, depending on how much sympathy you feel for Daedalus...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 08, 2014, 01:24:24 pm
Post by: Jurek on December 08, 2014, 01:46:23 pm
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.
Post by: Wascally Weasel on December 08, 2014, 02:35:59 pm
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.
In one of my varied ‘book jacket’* of careers I used to work at the Science Museum in London and part of my job was to do guided tours of some of the galleries, including the flight gallery, in which there is a replica of the Wright Flyer – but the Science Museum actually used to have the original aircraft on display.
At first the Smithsonian did not recognise the Wright brothers as having made the first powered flight. So much so that the Wrights donated the Wright Flyer to the Science Museum in the UK instead, where it remained until 1945. The agreement the Smithsonian made referenced in the article occured in 1939 if I remember right, after the Smithsonian contracted to agree the Wright Brother’s claim in order to receive the Flyer.
The outbreak of war prevented the safe transport of the Flyer back to the US and the Science Museum made a full scale replica before giving it to the Smithsonian in 1945 after the end of WWII.
*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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on December 08, 2014, 03:03:19 pm
Post by: Efrogwr on December 08, 2014, 03:56:51 pm
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.
If he'd waited for sixty seconds, but failed to cheer up, he'd have left in a minute and huff.
Post by: Wascally Weasel on December 08, 2014, 04:33:57 pm
...chicken-shed cleaner, bodyguard, Dr Who scriptwriter...
Is that you or Douglas Adams?
Post by: PeteB99 on December 08, 2014, 08:22:21 pm
Local Sainsburys has reshuffled so when I walked up to where the kilo bags of basmati used to be they were gone. The sign over the next aisle promised Packet Rice but only had Noodles and boil in the bag rice.
I found the Basmati under the sign for speciality sauces?
The signs have been shuffled along with the shelves so it must be deliberate
Post by: Jakob W on December 08, 2014, 11:24:14 pm
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
The 1903 flights had catapult-assisted launches, so the under own power qualification is contestable. The qualifications I'd use are that they had the first powered, controlled, sustained heavier-than-air flight. Under those conditions, I don't think the Wrights' primacy will ever be revised - all of the other claims that pop up are based on dubious evidence, usually hearsay from years after the fact.
I'm more sympathetic wrt their long-term influence, even if it was in many ways indirect; after their European tour in 1908, where they literally flew rings around the local competition, it was clear that controllability was more important than most of the Europeans had realised (this is the Gibbs-Smith 'chauffeurs' vs 'airmen' distinction). Their demonstrations also spurred the Europeans to develop their own designs, having seen how much further advanced the Wrights were.
Post by: Jakob W on December 08, 2014, 11:36:07 pm
Not today, but recently: The prototype Bristol Type 142 airliner, which was subsequently adapted to become the Blenheim bomber, was called 'Britain First'. :o
And was given that name by the owner of the Daily Mail; just one of the many right-wing (if not crypto-fascist) enthusiasts for aviation in the 1930s*
*eg Lady Houston, who famously (for certain spoddy values of famous) funded the British 1931 Schneider Trophy team of Supermarine and Rolls-Royce that won it outright, mainly because she wanted to embarrass Ramsey MacDonald's national government.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 09, 2014, 08:13:36 pm
*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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on December 10, 2014, 04:53:12 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 11, 2014, 04:46:21 pm
More entertainingly, that if you spill a metric sploshful of water on your gas hob, so that if fills up the well over the gas spout thing under the burner, then when you turn the gas on, it makes a rather nice gurgling sound.
Post by: a lower gear on December 11, 2014, 10:02:47 pm
Post by: nikki on December 14, 2014, 09:29:30 am
http://www.taxadvisorypartnership.com/tax-compliance/why-does-the-uk-tax-year-start-on-6-april-each-year/
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on December 17, 2014, 10:58:17 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa)
Post by: Torslanda on December 18, 2014, 04:55:56 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on December 19, 2014, 02:13:29 pm
A notice board, 10mm thick was on the corridor wall. A couple of classes had done a display about Mt Vesuvius. This display included 4 papier mache and plaster of paris volcanoes which were constructed on a square cardboard base, complete with crepe paper eruptions. The volcanoes were too heavy to be mounted on the board with staples, pins or tape. Some bright spark fixed each volcano to the board with a 2" nail in each corner of the base.......
Nails discovered when trying to take the board down to move it.
::-)
Post by: a lower gear on December 19, 2014, 05:57:41 pm
[Point to ponder: why are old proverbs always said to be Chinese?]
Post by: Torslanda on December 19, 2014, 09:39:54 pm
Post by: Jurek on December 19, 2014, 09:42:41 pm
Post by: Basil on January 19, 2015, 06:52:24 pm
https://twitter.com/RDRonaldauthor/status/557146477517348864?s=09
Post by: Kim on January 19, 2015, 08:22:03 pm
That Lycra for camels exists
https://twitter.com/RDRonaldauthor/status/557146477517348864?s=09
I predict the next post will contain a cameltoe reference...
Post by: Deano on February 08, 2015, 10:47:09 pm
Some guy told me this at a gig, so it must be true.
Post by: Oaky on February 09, 2015, 03:24:35 am
Post by: jsabine on February 09, 2015, 09:11:21 am
I went to a pantomime at the Darlington Civic Theatre over Christmas, featuring the chuckle brothers.
Oxymoron, no?
Post by: David Martin on February 09, 2015, 09:55:34 am
Post by: Vince on February 09, 2015, 10:00:19 am
Post by: Tim Hall on February 09, 2015, 02:05:48 pm
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.
Years ago the was a TV documentary about how behind the technology curve the USSR was. They cited the case of a MiG something or other that defected/got forced down and how it was jammed full of teeny thermionic valves. Hah, they said, those pesky Soviets and their old technology.
Fast forward a few months and there was another documentary about how the EMP from a nuclear strike will banjax the whole of Western technology. They then roll out the same story about the defecting MiG, but this time change the ending to show how dastardly clever those pesky Soviets were with their clever EMP-defying technology.
Post by: Andrij on February 09, 2015, 02:29:47 pm
Post by: Vince on February 09, 2015, 05:05:33 pm
Post by: Deano on February 09, 2015, 08:36:24 pm
I went to a pantomime at the Darlington Civic Theatre over Christmas, featuring the chuckle brothers.
Oxymoron, no?
Oh, no it isn't!
Post by: spesh on February 16, 2015, 10:27:39 pm
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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.
;D
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-only-fun-fact-about-apollo-13s-dramatic-failure-is-1686124526
Post by: spesh on February 16, 2015, 10:41:26 pm
MiG-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Western_intelligence_and_the_MiG-25).
Balenko's MiG-25 wasn't the only Soviet plane that the West got to have a very good look at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4477th_Test_and_Evaluation_Squadron
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Post by: mcshroom on February 18, 2015, 10:12:46 pm
Post by: Andrij on March 14, 2015, 09:55:25 pm
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on March 27, 2015, 07:16:09 am
Post by: Feline on March 27, 2015, 10:51:52 am
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.
Post by: Andrij on March 27, 2015, 12:07:26 pm
Post by: Feline on March 27, 2015, 12:48:44 pm
Keep cats out of the bedroom?
Not if you expect to have any carpet left outside the bedroom door by the morning ;D
Post by: ian on March 30, 2015, 11:22:53 am
Keep cats out of the bedroom?
If I slept in a bank vault they'd blow the bloody doors off. There's no keeping them out. Bad Cat's latest morning thing is waiting for my wife to leave and then coming in and punching me on the shoulder while miaowing loudly. This is to get me to extend my arm so she can monorail and rest her chin on my hand. She wasn't giving my arm back this morning, instead as I tried to pull my hand free she simply clamped her jaws around it and refused to let go.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on March 30, 2015, 11:42:10 am
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
Post by: Pingu on March 30, 2015, 02:03:29 pm
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.
Saturday and Sunday morning I got a lick on the nose from Pumpkin ???
Post by: David Martin on March 31, 2015, 10:12:50 pm
Also my cake recipe is currently making it's presence felt by rising aout of the tin and oozing across the kitchen floor. I think it may be starting to become sentient.
Post by: Tim Hall on March 31, 2015, 10:21:42 pm
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?
Post by: Kim on March 31, 2015, 10:23:53 pm
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?
Because the food would get colder, obviously.
I think it's a good rule of thumb to suspect any fan of having a widdershins thread until proven otherwise.
Post by: David Martin on March 31, 2015, 11:24:03 pm
Anyhow, I baked a cake for the final winter track meet tomorrow. My estimates (9x12" pan being 3x the batch needed for a 7.5" round tin) whilst mathematically correct appeared to have ignored depth. It took some time to clean up the overspill, and the cake is a bit uneven, having been cooked in the top oven (no fan) whilst waiting for the insulator pad that I didn't know I needed till removing the old fan and having it crumble to pieces on me.
£75 in parts and delivery to repair the oven.
Post by: CrinklyLion on April 02, 2015, 01:08:52 pm
Honestly, I felt right at home ;-)
Post by: Kim on April 02, 2015, 01:10:40 pm
Wow, it really is. Hints of the old Manchester Piccadilly (Platforms 13/14) there too. There should be a law against 60s rebuilds of perfectly good stations. Probably a bit late, thobut.
Post by: PaulF on April 02, 2015, 01:23:37 pm
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...
Post by: Kim on April 02, 2015, 01:25:15 pm
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...
The Moor Street Effect™
Post by: The Seldom Killer on April 02, 2015, 01:35:51 pm
New Street definitely needs some liberation of moral freedoms, preferably with extreme prejudice.
Post by: hellymedic on April 02, 2015, 01:40:49 pm
It might be the only way...
Post by: The Seldom Killer on April 02, 2015, 01:56:03 pm
Post by: Kim on April 02, 2015, 01:59:59 pm
Post by: davelodwig on April 02, 2015, 02:00:29 pm
Nuking Mordor Central from orbit seems somewhat impractical and might create much collateral damage.
It might be the only way...
Please don't as horrible as it is I need it to get home this evening.
Just some sort of device to stop people with suitcases bigger than my last car would be a start.
D.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 02, 2015, 02:08:53 pm
Alternatively, they could bury it inside an enormous reinforced concrete sarcophagus.Surely that's what they did when they built it?
Post by: ian on April 02, 2015, 03:01:19 pm
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.
Post by: fboab on April 14, 2015, 09:47:56 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 15, 2015, 11:05:21 am
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on April 15, 2015, 11:16:14 pm
Post by: Ashaman42 on April 15, 2015, 11:36:25 pm
Post by: David Martin on April 15, 2015, 11:40:46 pm
I started learning how to weld and didn't set myself on fire at any point. Yay.Cool (or not). Gas, arc, MIG, TIG?
Post by: Ashaman42 on April 15, 2015, 11:52:20 pm
Did a little bit of MIG, seven of us each did three lines of weld along a little sheet of metal and then half of us (not me yet) did an external corner weld on two sheets that had been tacked into place by the instructor. Then we ran out of time so the rest of us will have a go at that next week.
Ultimately we will all have a little go at MIG, TIG, arc and gas.
I was the opposite of everyone else in that I was running too close to the work rather than too far away. I was also moving along the weld a bit too fast but part of that was being watched by a bunch of people. Once we've had a go at everything we'll be able to separate to different sections rather than all standing around watching the one person welding which should help.
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on April 16, 2015, 10:06:48 am
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 ::-)
Today I have learned that, if you were waiting for something yesterday, it is worth asking the contractors working near the entrance if they have taken a delivery for you whilst they were causing access problems.
As I cycled in this morning, the contractor boss fella said "I've got a parcel that was delivered yesterday morning".
::-)
Post by: tiermat on April 16, 2015, 04:12:12 pm
I now have to i) decide what wheels to get and ii) what frame to hang it all off (the only thing I do know is that it WILL be baked soot and will have clearence for 35mm (preferably 40mm) tyres)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 20, 2015, 09:18:41 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 20, 2015, 03:15:04 pm
Post by: Jurek on April 20, 2015, 07:49:05 pm
You'd think that asking for an email or a letter confirming that the conversation took place was a reasonable request. Wouldn't you?
Communications company. Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!
Post by: Kim on April 20, 2015, 07:57:49 pm
Post by: Jakob W on April 21, 2015, 06:56:02 pm
Post by: Basil on April 21, 2015, 07:06:34 pm
Post by: Torslanda on April 21, 2015, 07:09:10 pm
That my heart rate can still skyrocket in . . . well . . . a heartbeat.
That I should exercise a little more caution when stripping a bike that has been in a shed for a while.
Post by: Kim on April 21, 2015, 08:32:16 pm
Post by: CrinklyLion on April 21, 2015, 10:54:02 pm
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.
NYC didn't really flick my bic, so to speak, so Penn didn't get a second visit I'm afraid - not even the draw of going to visit Grand Central could encourage me back into the city without a responsible adult to supervise me with two chiddlers in tow (and a very shonky ankle which made yomping around a tad challenging).
Hoboken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoboken_Terminal), on the other hand, is now my most favourite station in the world. So far, anyway. And even though we accidentally bought the wrong tickets for our journey there via Secaucus a very nice NJ Transit lady took pity on us and let us through the barriers and also recommended going to The Bakery despite the hype, which meant we did indeed brave the queue before going back to Montclair, and it was worth the mere 20 minute wait. Plus also Hoboken has several particularly fine New Jersey play parks (we now consider ourselves quite expert on the play parks of NJ, y'know), an extremely splendid small-but-perfectly-formed Historical Museum.
We also had fun with perspective.
(https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/15584_10153145173561839_7300684612824100886_n.jpg?oh=07abd48f10e3b29d175dba3adee75458&oe=5597D05E]https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/15584_10153145173561839_7300684612824100886_n.jpg?oh=07abd48f10e3b29d175dba3adee75458&oe=5597D05E)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10421343_10153110243341839_4332543762074890449_n.jpg?oh=ea4da623088c17beb8b5b76d6782179f&oe=559B45D4&__gda__=1440634753_92f23f8c7aecca309093eae133ef0b2f)
(I'm only just starting to catch up on all the forum stuff from when we were away!)
Post by: Canardly on April 21, 2015, 11:12:21 pm
Post by: Basil on April 22, 2015, 07:16:47 am
There is a very interesting private hostel near Basil's place in Wales.
Is there?
Post by: Blazer on April 22, 2015, 10:35:29 am
I've learnt today that this doesn't mean I like swimming lengths in the public baths...
Post by: Canardly on April 22, 2015, 12:40:23 pm
There is a very interesting private hostel near Basil's place in Wales.
Is there?
Nanty Pobty at Coed Y Bryn SA44 SLQ . Seems to be an interesting place, reasonably priced, and possible venue? Access may be an issue.
Post by: David Martin on April 22, 2015, 11:27:47 pm
When I play I have no real idea what I sound like. It is a bit like not knowing how your own voice sounds.
Actually not bad - much better than I thought. I'm sure the professional musicians here would cringe, and of course I hear the fluffed bits and the bits that I know don't quite fit or where the fill missed the chord change, but overall quite pleased, especially for a 'improvise along to this that you have only heard once before - it might be in D' (it was in G).
Post by: JennyB on April 23, 2015, 04:26:53 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 24, 2015, 10:20:48 am
Post by: Kim on April 24, 2015, 11:09:54 am
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"
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 24, 2015, 11:14:11 am
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"
Post by: Kim on April 24, 2015, 11:16:00 am
Another thing Kim will have learned today: pile-on is not only northern. That was the term used in Gloucestershire.
Cheese-rollers are northern by default :)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 24, 2015, 11:21:19 am
It's surprising the variety in terms used for kids' games considering my son's school is only 30-odd miles from where I was (in fact, I've been meaning to start a thread on that for a while). For instance, what we called Freeo (how do you spell that?) he and his friends call Forty-forty In. Of course, the variety could be as much due to decades as miles.
Post by: tiermat on April 24, 2015, 12:46:43 pm
Not today, but on Tuesday I learnt that the SatNav in my car seems to have a liking for the Hallamshire Hospital.
Leaving DL7, set satnav destination as S3.
Set it to Fastest route.
Takes you down the A61 into Sheffield, right past said hospital.
So far, so logical.
However, ignore it's pleas and begs and go over the Tinsley Viaduct instead, coming off at the Parkway junction, the logical way to S3 is to go left at the end of the Parkway (heading past the station to Ring Road South) but, no, the SatNav decides you REALLY want to go around the North and past the Hospital.
On the return leg, set it to DL7 and fastest, again, and it thinks that sitting in car park that is the ring road approaching Upper Hannover Street is faster than just going to the Parkway, just so you can go past the hospital, again.
I now have done the trip enough to ignore the satnav* or not even use it.
*It is useful to leave it on, even if you know where you are going as it tailors the traffic alerts to your route.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 24, 2015, 03:29:11 pm
Post by: tiermat on April 24, 2015, 03:35:47 pm
Why is the post code for Sheffield DL? I can't think of a place it might refer to.
NO, DL7 is home, deepest, darkest North Yorkshire (DL is actually Darlington, which is confusing, slightly, as Darlo is in County Durham....)
Post by: De Sisti on April 24, 2015, 07:29:43 pm
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..
I've heard it down here referred to as "rock-paper-stone".
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 24, 2015, 07:55:36 pm
Post by: TheLurker on April 24, 2015, 08:52:44 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on April 24, 2015, 10:53:42 pm
They failed to grasp the significace of the fact that I had spent 6 years in the army, 26 and a bit years in the police and that I was a practicing cyclist. "Hmmmm, strong the caek radar in this one is"
Post by: Vince on April 27, 2015, 02:03:41 pm
2. When you have given up on the GPS and are using The ForceTM, try not to let a small sporting event cause a disruption in The Force
3. When planning a journey via GPS in a region not previously explored, ensure that the mapping for said region is actually installed on the GPS.
Post by: David Martin on April 28, 2015, 12:02:19 am
2) that I'm not sure if it will or not
3) that I really don't know enough hardcore Electrical Engineering and Physics to be sure.
4) that I will have to wait for the weekend to find out and it will bug me all week.
Post by: Mr Larrington on April 29, 2015, 06:53:37 pm
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Post by: Bledlow on May 09, 2015, 08:34:02 pm
Post by: David Martin on May 13, 2015, 10:08:54 am
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Post by: Ham on May 13, 2015, 12:55:32 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 15, 2015, 10:40:30 am
http://spirit-of-moscow.com/The%20Diggers.shtml
Some of is undoubtedly true — even obvious — such as people living in underground railway tunnels, some of it seems quite plausible, like underground military installations, but the subterranean monks do seem a bit far-fetched.
Post by: Ham on May 15, 2015, 11:35:46 am
(http://www.lspace.org/ftp/images/bookcovers/uk/diggers-1.jpg)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 15, 2015, 11:44:16 am
http://kikistrikeny.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/moscows-diggers-of-underground-planet.html
Post by: Torslanda on May 15, 2015, 08:45:52 pm
Post by: interzen on May 15, 2015, 09:00:59 pm
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".
Alan Rickman fills in on Tubular Bells II due to Viv being indisposed on account of being dead.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 17, 2015, 11:19:00 am
Post by: TheLurker on May 22, 2015, 07:50:52 pm
Details if you're interested: http://www.curwenscyclerepairs.co.uk/
Had a natter with Mr. Curwen, seems like a decent chap. Frame resprays done as well, but you might want to wait a bit tho' as his preferred sprayer has just retired and he's currently got a couple of frames with a company in Sandwich (not Lock's - someone on the trading estate) to see if they're up to snuff.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 29, 2015, 01:33:29 pm
Post by: Kim on May 29, 2015, 01:39:13 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 29, 2015, 01:42:36 pm
It's not even sales, TBF, it's income.
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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.
Post by: Kim on May 29, 2015, 01:55:13 pm
In the context, it's clear. CDs are tangible.
Not even that: CDs are read-only, non-volatile and the data is uncompressed and unencrypted. Those are all pretty desirable features when paying $evilco for some music, even if you're just going to rip it and stick it in a box as a backup. That you get cover artwork is a fringe benefit, cancelled out by the low storage density.
But the way people listen to music changed. You don't really have a record collection any more, you just summon up a track from the cloud as the whim dictates. Be it through iTunes, Spotify or Youtube.
Remember when software came with real paper manuals, and the first thing it told you to do was to make a working copy of the disks? It's going the way of that...
Also: Brothers in Arms is 30? Now I feel old...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 29, 2015, 06:51:48 pm
Anyways, cover artwork? No, that was on vinyl.
Post by: Tim Hall on May 30, 2015, 05:58:52 pm
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Post by: Biggsy on May 31, 2015, 07:16:03 pm
...To list just a couple of examples of the many ordinary items in Prohibited lists.
http://www.royalmail.com/personal/international-delivery/country-guides
Post by: Canardly on June 01, 2015, 12:10:00 am
Post by: mark on June 01, 2015, 01:57:56 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 01, 2015, 09:39:21 am
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.
Post by: TheLurker on June 01, 2015, 07:50:34 pm
How on earth did the Entente Cordiale happen?
V. Late 19th Cent.
France. Ey Rosbifs, les Allemands zey look a bit dangereux. We make, how you say, "alliance", non?
Britain. Oh I say, that's rather a top hole idea, err, oui c'est une bonne idee. This Dreadnought arms race's gettin' a bit pricey eh wot!?
And yah boo sucks to Sellars & Yeatman.
Post by: asterix on June 01, 2015, 08:04:52 pm
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
What? I am expecting 2 books from the UK and received another about a week ago. Don't tell anyone...
Post by: Biggsy on June 01, 2015, 08:25:13 pm
Post by: David Martin on June 01, 2015, 08:55:41 pm
Post by: Tim Hall on June 02, 2015, 11:25:39 am
Current role is Special Legal adviser to the IOC
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Making shure committee members get their fair share of perks eg limos, slap-up meals and vintage wine gums
Post by: fboab on June 19, 2015, 03:10:02 pm
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.
Our head of sixth gave an annual assembly pep-talk in September (FACT verified by older sister, who got it twice, I got expelled so only got it once) where he retold the tale that he'd told M Knopfler to stop messing on that gee-tar and focus on his studies. He told us to love what you do and do it as well as you can. I have it on fairly good authority that this was subsequently updated to include reference to one A Shearer (year below me- some dorky fussballing sporty type) who was told to follow his dream.
This belongs in another thread, doesn't it?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 19, 2015, 03:45:23 pm
Post by: Andrij on June 19, 2015, 08:37:04 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 19, 2015, 09:08:36 pm
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!
Post by: T42 on June 19, 2015, 09:39:20 pm
Post by: Basil on June 19, 2015, 09:51:27 pm
She's been here nearly two years and we never knew. Seems she thought I would not be happy about it ???
I've informed her that she has just gone to the top of the house cool table.
Post by: T42 on June 20, 2015, 02:22:15 pm
Post by: tiermat on June 24, 2015, 08:13:25 am
Dwight Eisenhower
Shannon Doherty
Dynamo
Anastasia
and Mike McCready.
Post by: rafletcher on June 24, 2015, 09:29:46 am
Also that Sweetspot, the organisers of the Aviva Women's Tour of Britain applied to the UCI for special dispensation. For the first time ever there were two 140km stages back to back in the middle of the 5 day race and an average distance per stage of 120km.
Post by: fboab on June 24, 2015, 05:04:06 pm
(Clue: Not just £2.79+VAT)
Post by: Ham on June 27, 2015, 12:16:03 pm
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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 27, 2015, 12:33:12 pm
Post by: Ham on June 27, 2015, 03:55:04 pm
If I still had the l33t 5k1llz required to put connectors on the stuff...
If you need some made up do shout, I have all the gubbins. It is wire not flex, but still works with RJ45 on the end.
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 28, 2015, 02:56:02 pm
Post by: Torslanda on June 28, 2015, 03:30:18 pm
Post by: fboab on June 28, 2015, 04:06:05 pm
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.
I need around 2,000 x 10m grey with RJ45 both ends pa... If (as I suspect) the F is over-specification from engineering that's a worthwhile cost saving.
Post by: Ham on June 29, 2015, 07:51:44 am
Post by: Salvatore on July 01, 2015, 06:02:49 pm
And the sentence for a Manchester thief convicted of pickpocketing £36 at a football match* was 7 years imprisonment.
*Gainsborough Trinity v Newton Heath.
Post by: Ham on July 01, 2015, 06:07:35 pm
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
I learned today that if you are expecting an email from a Russian source, you really need to check your spam box
Post by: Andrij on July 01, 2015, 09:00:44 pm
...
I learned today that if you are expecting an email from a Russian source, you really need to check your spam box
Who was it this time? Svetlana? Natalia? Olga? ;)
Post by: Kim on July 01, 2015, 10:18:30 pm
Obviously if you're a regular user of flats in all conditions, then it's just normal and ordinary and just part of the way bikes work, but I only usually use them for short trips without much in the way of a) hills or b) stuff, so the bike's up to speed by the time the starting foot reaches BDC.
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 01, 2015, 11:36:51 pm
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
And compared with the price of the "average house"?
</Daily Mail>
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on July 03, 2015, 01:38:09 pm
Post by: Andrij on July 03, 2015, 02:04:11 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 04, 2015, 09:24:27 pm
Post by: Jakob W on July 06, 2015, 03:11:57 pm
Post by: Ham on July 06, 2015, 03:14:41 pm
Post by: billplumtree on July 06, 2015, 08:47:29 pm
Post by: CrinklyLion on July 06, 2015, 08:52:19 pm
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*
Post by: Torslanda on July 06, 2015, 08:55:34 pm
Post by: Deano on July 06, 2015, 09:22:32 pm
https://www.flickr.com/photos/suspensionstayed/sets/
I love the wee digital display he carries.
https://flic.kr/p/pefrJx
Post by: billplumtree on July 06, 2015, 09:23:49 pm
*strongly approves of this learning*
Mmm. Well, I could go as far down as the Lune Aqueduct (#107), I s'pose. But I'm not going south of the River Lune, not at this time, not for anyone guv.
Post by: billplumtree on July 06, 2015, 09:27:10 pm
Bill, have you spotted this guy's flickr feed?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/suspensionstayed/sets/
Wow. I'm out-geeked, out-bridged and, er, over here.
Post by: billplumtree on July 06, 2015, 09:37:25 pm
Post by: Basil on July 06, 2015, 09:43:25 pm
I think you may have a bit of a job on, matey. :)
Post by: Kim on July 06, 2015, 09:46:04 pm
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.
A lot of them certainly do. Which raises the question: Why haven't they been nicked for scrap?
Post by: Torslanda on July 06, 2015, 10:19:15 pm
Post by: Torslanda on July 06, 2015, 10:24:42 pm
The bridges from Marple on the canal rise in number as you approach Macc, the ones on the track decrease in the same direction.
Confused? you will be . . .
Post by: Kim on July 06, 2015, 10:28:18 pm
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.
Post by: Deano on July 06, 2015, 10:31:49 pm
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.
That's what happens to them around Darlo ;D
I assume this is the cause of their disappearance, rather than the council having seen the light, cos if that was the case, they'd all be gone. It's also worth noting that the terrible motorbikes are usually being pushed by lads who move over for cyclists and pedestrians, so it hardly feels like a harbinger of social breakdown.
Post by: Pingu on July 06, 2015, 10:48:12 pm
Nautical terminology distinguishes between collisions (two moving objects into one another) and allisions (moving object into stationary object).
What about 'In collision with'? :demon:
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 07, 2015, 10:04:55 am
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?
They are indeed; 'tis common among canalistas to refer to locations on the system by bridge number. What happens when one is removed or a new one built is another matter entirely.
Post by: cycleman on July 07, 2015, 06:54:59 pm
Post by: geraldc on July 10, 2015, 05:10:56 pm
Post by: SteveC on July 10, 2015, 05:27:15 pm
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.
Post by: Kim on July 10, 2015, 05:33:57 pm
Of course anyone who collects child porn (or equivalently incriminating data) and doesn't have the sense to encrypt the crap out of it deserves a double sentence on the grounds of stupidity. Have any more sensible criminals been successfully prosecuted for refusing to reveal an encryption key yet? That's where it really gets interesting.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 10, 2015, 07:57:34 pm
Meanwhile, what I found out today is that the site in Bristol currently known as the Bearpit did once feature a real live bear on display. With its fur shaved, clothed, and a huckster passing it off as "an Ethiopian savage". But that has nothing to do with the present name.
Post by: jsabine on July 11, 2015, 12:22:03 am
Have any more sensible criminals been successfully prosecuted for refusing to reveal an encryption key yet? That's where it really gets interesting.
Presumably you don't refuse to reveal the key. Either you're really stressed by all these horrid questions and you can't remember it, or there's some clever kind of two-level encryption where you can give them a key that just shows lots of lovely spreadsheets, then deny everything else.
Post by: ian on July 13, 2015, 10:29:56 am
Most people don't understand encryption. I wonder what happens too, if it's all encrypted, Apple for instance have Filevault on by default. I might be wrong, but the latest iteration must be pretty tough to crack if you don't pony up the key. Not sure if Microsoft do something similar, but setting up encrypted partitions and storage isn't super-complicated. But given the (non-child) p0rn I've seen smeared across nearly all the computers I've been asked fix over the years, curating that collection hasn't been high on the owners' agenda.
Edit: sniffer bees are a thing, though. Sort of.
Post by: geraldc on July 15, 2015, 02:53:35 pm
Post by: clarion on July 15, 2015, 04:28:19 pm
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.
Post by: philip on July 15, 2015, 07:17:37 pm
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/
2014-15: 3 convictions
2013-14: 2 convictions
2012-13: 3 convictions
Edit:
A better reference: https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000/Part_III
Section 49 is the notice to decrypt, section 53 is failure to comply.
Post by: Katie on July 15, 2015, 09:46:49 pm
Post by: mcshroom on July 15, 2015, 10:10:04 pm
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
Post by: Kim on July 15, 2015, 10:37:21 pm
Post by: Jaded on July 15, 2015, 11:41:20 pm
Post by: Katie on July 16, 2015, 09:19:45 am
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
Just the hairdye, but it was really messy ;(
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 16, 2015, 01:41:22 pm
That sufficiently long hair is a successful substitute for reading the instructions. :o
(Runs fingers through flowing tresses, make Jennifer Aniston head-toss gesture)
Pray explain.
Post by: mcshroom on July 16, 2015, 01:50:50 pm
Post by: Kim on July 16, 2015, 02:15:33 pm
Post by: rafletcher on July 16, 2015, 02:22:11 pm
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. :)
I though ALL canal bridges were numbered? Those on the Aylesbury arm of the Grand Union certainly are (I think ours in No. 8)
Post by: Ruthie on July 16, 2015, 09:58:55 pm
They're really beautiful but illuminated only on summer evenings, due to their orientation.
Post by: clarion on July 16, 2015, 10:11:41 pm
Post by: Kim on July 16, 2015, 11:04:10 pm
So now buying more than one pack of hair colourant could be regarded as evidence of radicalisation.
Wasn't it always?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 16, 2015, 11:10:52 pm
Quote from: someone German
A feminist is a woman with red hair.
Post by: Kim on July 16, 2015, 11:23:15 pm
It's got a forum and everything. Horsey tips involving Sudocrem, and I expect there's an "Achey Bollock Saddle Advice" thread in there somewhere. At this point I'd only be mildly surprised if there's a "What stirrups for PBP?" one, too.
Post by: Katie on July 16, 2015, 11:24:58 pm
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…
Post by: jsabine on July 16, 2015, 11:33:15 pm
Probably.Quote from: someone GermanA feminist is a woman with red hair.
That reminds me of yesterday's Graun piece on Sarah Maple (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/14/sarah-maple-feminist-artist-photography), illustrated with, inter alia, her painting The Opposite to a Feminist is an Arsehole.
Post by: Kim on July 16, 2015, 11:34:07 pm
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...
Post by: Katie on July 16, 2015, 11:36:19 pm
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...
Yeah, that's exactly what I tried yesterday ;) turns out I'm not very good at estimating "about half the tube of colour" …
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 16, 2015, 11:52:39 pm
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…
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 16, 2015, 11:58:16 pm
Post by: Jakob W on July 17, 2015, 04:15:53 pm
Post by: andrewc on July 17, 2015, 06:48:19 pm
And that you should always check _which_ head is on your electric toothbrush before cleaning your teeth........ :sick:
Post by: mcshroom on July 19, 2015, 09:35:00 pm
Tempted to put it all back.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 20, 2015, 11:37:28 am
Post by: Ruthie on July 20, 2015, 03:01:51 pm
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!
Post by: Kim on July 20, 2015, 03:20:01 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on July 20, 2015, 04:23:43 pm
Post by: Ham on July 20, 2015, 04:32:49 pm
Post by: mcshroom on July 20, 2015, 05:49:43 pm
If it helps, I'll make a call to your local old bill saying there is a body buried 6ft down.
An old man lived alone. His only son was in prison, and he didn't know anyone who would spade up his potato garden, so he wrote to his son about it.
"For heaven's sake, don't dig up that garden," his son wrote back. "That's where I buried the guns!"
The next day, a dozen police officers, who had intercepted the letter, arrived and dug up the entire garden, but didn't find any guns.
Confused, the man wrote to his son telling him what happened and asking him what to do next.
"Plant your potatoes," his son wrote.
;D
Post by: red marley on July 20, 2015, 08:38:59 pm
Post by: mcshroom on July 20, 2015, 10:01:10 pm
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.
Post by: Ruthie on July 20, 2015, 10:13:44 pm
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.
Post by: Mrs Pingu on July 20, 2015, 10:27:29 pm
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.
Reading this is bringing back memories of moving to Furrybootoon as a child. We ended up in a University house, previous occupants a sociology lecturer and his 'bidey-in'. Interior decor appeared to be distemper and stolen institutional shades of gloss paint (on the walls), green, mustard etc.
Both gardens were like a jungle and in 1 was a coal shed-cum shed with a greenhouse built on the end made entirely from old windows.
On the floor, a giant wooden door, looking for all the world like a trap door. I was convinced there would be a cavity underneath and the sociology lecture's ex-wife, or buried treasure, or something.
Sadly, there was only concrete. I was so disappointed. Still, there was all manner of random shit in that shed, kept me amused for months....
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 20, 2015, 10:44:13 pm
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.
Post by: Tim Hall on July 21, 2015, 12:04:27 am
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.
Post by: T42 on July 21, 2015, 07:23:01 am
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Louie_Dewey_and_Huey.png/220px-Louie_Dewey_and_Huey.png)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 22, 2015, 10:50:21 am
Post by: Basil on July 25, 2015, 05:40:35 pm
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"?
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 25, 2015, 06:55:25 pm
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".
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 25, 2015, 07:31:16 pm
Post by: jsabine on July 26, 2015, 01:43:06 am
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".
I always thought it was a courier thing - The TCR (which incidentally is the only road in the West End), The Beak, The Dean etc etc
Post by: ian on July 26, 2015, 12:41:00 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 26, 2015, 12:42:57 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 26, 2015, 01:04:09 pm
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.
The Caledonian Road doesn't go to Scotland...
Post by: ian on July 26, 2015, 01:04:30 pm
I've just broke my theory by remembering that we used to live 'off the Askew Road' in W12 and I don't think there's an Askew to go to.
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 26, 2015, 03:27:55 pm
Post by: TheLurker on July 26, 2015, 03:46:41 pm
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.
Quote
And can the young inspector Morse do anything other than scowl?He can also do wry smiles / grimaces. :)
Anyway, I learnt today that whilst not, for my money, as good as Humph., Jack Dee makes an acceptable host for ISIHAC. I shall have to discard my mourning weeds and resume listening on a regular basis.
Post by: Mrs Pingu on July 26, 2015, 06:36:49 pm
Things to try next: hanger, followed by new cassette.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 26, 2015, 08:48:55 pm
Post by: Kim on July 27, 2015, 02:41:42 pm
Post by: Bledlow on August 01, 2015, 05:05:50 pm
Post by: Mrs Pingu on August 01, 2015, 10:06:29 pm
Check the jockey wheels too.I put the new cassette on and it still didn't work. :facepalm:
Then I RTFM and stuck it on the 4th smallest sprocket, adjusted the placement of the jockey wheel and all was well. Oh well, it was probably getting on for time for a new cassette anyway.
The moral of the story, sometimes you should read the manual instead of relying on the Park Tools website....
Post by: mcshroom on August 04, 2015, 07:40:10 pm
Post by: Andrij on August 04, 2015, 07:53:41 pm
That King sized beds are not just 6" wider than doubles, but also 3" longer.
Duvet/sheets too small?
Post by: mcshroom on August 04, 2015, 08:00:01 pm
*I added a leg on one side as a 'temporary' repair after smashing through the main beam when falling over and kneeing it a while ago
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 05, 2015, 12:43:53 pm
That King sized beds are not just 6" wider than doubles, but also 3" longer.
Moreover, Queen sized beds are sized for Brenda at her current height rather than that she had at the time of the accession.
Post by: Kim on August 05, 2015, 12:57:47 pm
Post by: David Martin on August 06, 2015, 11:06:06 pm
Post by: barakta on August 06, 2015, 11:30:44 pm
Post by: Pingu on August 07, 2015, 09:34:20 am
Post by: Ruthie on August 07, 2015, 01:39:33 pm
Post by: phantasmagoriana on August 07, 2015, 03:21:51 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on August 07, 2015, 08:20:51 pm
Post by: cycleman on August 08, 2015, 08:54:36 am
Post by: ian on August 08, 2015, 11:31:58 am
Edit: Oh yeah, I forget, and then I have to carry a loudly miaowing cat back down the hill to the house, which I am sure makes it look like I'm kidnapping her.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on August 08, 2015, 12:43:51 pm
Post by: Peter on August 08, 2015, 05:53:05 pm
Post by: clarion on August 08, 2015, 09:14:15 pm
I am considering therapy.
Post by: Peter on August 14, 2015, 08:35:20 pm
Post by: billplumtree on August 15, 2015, 07:47:36 pm
Post by: Clare on August 15, 2015, 07:53:55 pm
Next time I'm using spray paint and hang the expense.
Post by: Canardly on August 15, 2015, 08:23:26 pm
Post by: Clare on August 15, 2015, 09:55:26 pm
Post by: Canardly on August 15, 2015, 10:04:51 pm
Post by: tiermat on August 16, 2015, 03:17:03 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uveitis
Post by: TheLurker on August 18, 2015, 08:17:21 pm
Bit slow on the uptake here, but I only ever bought stuff from them over the counter so didn't get the closing down e-mail. This is jolly annoying as I'd planned to cycle over on Friday afternoon and buy some glare shields for my Ixon IQs (cardboard doesn't work too well in the wet).
Post by: Canardly on August 18, 2015, 10:50:57 pm
Post by: numbnuts on August 19, 2015, 09:11:18 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 19, 2015, 11:16:57 am
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.
Post by: Andrij on August 19, 2015, 11:22:08 am
That the song Turn turn turn was from the book of Ecclesiastes I didn't know that
Today I have learned numbnuts has not seen Footloose (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087277/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_68) (relevant quote (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087277/quotes?item=qt0949053)).
Post by: David Martin on August 21, 2015, 05:00:04 pm
http://news.stv.tv/tayside/1327099-muhammed-hameed-saleem-shikari-and-shahid-aslam-guilty-of-cash-scam/
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 22, 2015, 01:13:11 am
Post by: Peter on August 22, 2015, 01:16:06 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 25, 2015, 09:54:41 pm
That the British Empire started on 20 May 1497 in Bristol docks, according to at least one person's reckoning.
And, sticking with the transatlantic link but more surprisingly, that Bristol is just like New York. So says Huey Morgan of Fun Lovin Criminals:
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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!
But it is true that buckwheat is related to sorrel!
Post by: Canardly on August 26, 2015, 10:29:19 pm
Post by: Ham on August 27, 2015, 01:32:03 pm
Post by: David Martin on August 27, 2015, 03:13:32 pm
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.
And this is where we have small group tutorials with the students. It even has Narwhals. (check the hooves on those..)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Darcy+thompson+museum/@56.4577774,-2.9785829,3a,75y,328.33h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sfAVQ-Uk3PbgfHGKcDc-rMg!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xc411526445296b79?sa=X&ved=0CHsQoB8wDGoVChMI6dWG_bjJxwIVxD4UCh3i-gig
Post by: Basil on August 28, 2015, 06:15:26 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on August 30, 2015, 07:51:34 pm
Post by: rogerzilla on September 07, 2015, 09:00:35 pm
Post by: spesh on September 07, 2015, 09:09:51 pm
Rudest plant name ever: https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=3813&fromplants=pl%5Fid%3D3811
I see that and raise you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus
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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.
Post by: fboab on September 07, 2015, 09:37:33 pm
;D
Post by: Ashaman42 on September 12, 2015, 05:11:15 pm
Back in the SFW world, not me, but No1Daughter just found out that St Pancras is not, in fact, St Pancreas.
;D
Huh, well whadya know. I have also learnt a thing :facepalm:
Post by: JonBuoy on September 12, 2015, 05:24:02 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 13, 2015, 01:54:45 am
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on September 14, 2015, 08:43:50 am
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
Post by: Torslanda on September 14, 2015, 09:24:51 am
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 . . . ?
Post by: tiermat on September 14, 2015, 09:39:49 am
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 :-\
About 10 years ago, on holiday in Austria, I discovered that opening a bottle of pop that had sat on the balcony all night leads to a frozen fountain of pop everywhere!
Post by: Diver300 on September 14, 2015, 11:01:35 pm
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)
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 15, 2015, 05:16:29 am
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 . . . ?
Fortunately I had the roof down so was able to hold it at arm's length and spray ID-51 with it instead of myself, the door trims, the headlining, ect. ect.
Post by: Legs on September 15, 2015, 12:53:39 pm
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?
Post by: spesh on September 15, 2015, 12:57:07 pm
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?
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on September 15, 2015, 01:38:48 pm
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?
Wot Spesh said.
Post by: Legs on September 15, 2015, 02:26:10 pm
Post by: Wombat on September 16, 2015, 09:09:55 pm
Post by: Kim on September 16, 2015, 11:05:50 pm
(TBH, it's the top end I really noticed. Or did, back in the days when my hearing[2] went higher than about 15kHz.)
[1] Replaced with the now legendary Bose QC15. Because noise cancellation makes for a better listening experience for 95% of the time I'm using headphones than good sound reproduction.
[2] Audiologically fine. Because audiologists don't believe there's anything important above above 6kHz. Don't let an audiologist fettle your bike, especially if it has disc brakes.
Post by: Pedal Castro on September 17, 2015, 06:11:01 am
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.
Interesting, I thought that 20Hz was the lower limit of human hearing and anything below that would be heard as separate sounds. I can remember doing an experiment in my early teaching days which supported this figure. Is the sound from a 32' organ pipe a discernible pulsing sound?
Post by: Wombat on September 17, 2015, 08:31:21 am
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.
I flinched at the harpsichord bits, Gilbert Rowland can be a vicious harsichord thrasher, but the hardness of the attack really came through on these 'phones. It says they are rated for 108dB.... Hmm, not sure of the wisdom of that.
Post by: Kim on September 17, 2015, 12:54:51 pm
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.
You seem to get to the point where the cochlea doesn't respond, but you can still feel it through your skin / hairs. Obviously with headphones that's limited to the ears, while the effect tends to work better on the rest of the body.
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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.
I think that's mostly about achieving a decently linear response, rather than it being useful range. Nyquist limits you to 22kHz on most commercial recordings, anyway. That said, on a good day in my yoof I could hear 25kHz.
I suppose 32kHz is ideal if you want to play high-sample-rate binaural wildlife recordings to your cat...
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It says they are rated for 108dB.... Hmm, not sure of the wisdom of that.
The HD25 can do 114dB (when driven by a sufficiently decent amplifier; the impedance mismatch makes them feeble when fed by the average portable device). That's loud enough for barakta to hear properly - along with anyone else in the room.
It seems to be a desirable feature amongst certain types of electronic musician, who need monitoring that's audible over the ear-damagingly loud sound they're making. :hand:
Post by: Morat on September 18, 2015, 12:58:23 pm
It also makes VMWare even more of a spoiler for Inception than ever.
Post by: Kim on September 18, 2015, 01:17:09 pm
It also makes VMWare even more of a spoiler for Inception than ever.
;D
Post by: Ruthie on September 21, 2015, 09:43:22 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 22, 2015, 07:02:16 am
Post by: mcshroom on September 23, 2015, 11:24:28 pm
Post by: Kim on September 24, 2015, 12:03:16 am
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.)
Post by: Torslanda on September 24, 2015, 12:31:31 am
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The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...
I didn't think VW made washing machines**
**Mind you, that was before I looked at an Up! :demon:
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 01, 2015, 12:03:06 pm
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.)
Post by: Kim on October 01, 2015, 12:19:21 pm
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.)
Not much scope for detecting the test conditions, though.
I could imagine running by the book for the first n washes, then upping the power or water consumption to do a better job...
Post by: Clare on October 01, 2015, 10:12:00 pm
Post by: Raj on October 01, 2015, 10:19:27 pm
Post by: Raj on October 01, 2015, 11:09:44 pm
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:
;D ;D ;D
Post by: PeteB99 on October 02, 2015, 01:46:59 pm
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:
It's a little known fact that the beetle was initially designed as the peoples washing machine. It was only when they couldn't fix the vibration problems that made it wander round the floor that they thought about repurposing it.
Post by: Wombat on October 02, 2015, 04:32:53 pm
Post by: David Martin on October 03, 2015, 07:45:14 pm
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:
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I can't help wondering what the accuracy of the average washing machine's temperature control is anyway. But not to the point of getting covered in irritant bodging a DS18B20 past the seal. The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating... ;)I would have thought a Kim solution would have been a waterproofed minion skeleton (kinder egg insert) containing battery, wireless module and temperature sensor) would have been more appropriate bodgery (corrected back from the autocorrupt's badger)
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(I generally work on the principle that if it can't go in the 40C synthetics wash with everything else, then it's far too much effort.)
That is my mother's rule. If it can't go in XXX wash then you are doing it yourself. I have followed that line too.
Post by: tiermat on October 06, 2015, 11:15:59 am
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/inthroughtheoutfield/2011/12/british-standard-for-a-cup-of-tea-bs-6008-revisited.html
Post by: Torslanda on October 06, 2015, 12:33:04 pm
Milk & 2 sugars . . .
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 06, 2015, 04:14:23 pm
(Has a nice cup of tea and a sit down)
Post by: spesh on October 06, 2015, 04:19:32 pm
2) That the weather gods truly believe that timing is the essence of comedy.
Post by: Jakob W on October 07, 2015, 03:37:50 pm
There is an ISO Standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103).
(Has a nice cup of tea and a sit down)
It's just the BS with a new cover page thobut.
(If anyone is really interested I have it as a PDF kicking around somewhere...)
Post by: David Martin on October 07, 2015, 08:01:49 pm
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...)
Post by: Andrij on October 10, 2015, 06:50:41 pm
As otters rarely come up in conversation, no surprise it's taken so long to encounter the word.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on October 12, 2015, 08:19:10 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 13, 2015, 06:07:54 pm
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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 13, 2015, 07:04:46 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 14, 2015, 10:38:45 am
Post by: De Sisti on October 16, 2015, 07:31:17 pm
Post by: billplumtree on October 17, 2015, 09:20:54 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 17, 2015, 09:57:15 am
It is, as any fule kno, knobhead.
Post by: Ruthie on October 17, 2015, 10:01:39 am
People on forums don't like it (get annoyed, angry, sarcastic) when others disagree with them.
No they don't! >:(
Post by: Torslanda on October 18, 2015, 05:37:35 am
Post by: David Martin on October 18, 2015, 03:34:03 pm
Post by: tiermat on October 18, 2015, 04:24:32 pm
Post by: Torslanda on October 18, 2015, 05:03:19 pm
Post by: mcshroom on October 18, 2015, 05:05:20 pm
Post by: billplumtree on October 18, 2015, 05:10:05 pm
People on forums don't like it (get annoyed, angry, sarcastic) when others disagree with them.
Now look what you've started...
Post by: fboab on October 18, 2015, 07:11:44 pm
This is because thinking about sex raises your testosterone levels, apparently.
Post by: Kim on October 18, 2015, 07:14:14 pm
This is because thinking about sex raises your testosterone levels, apparently.
I always thought it was the other way round...
Post by: DDCyclist on October 19, 2015, 11:04:57 am
Friday: That if you buy a used bike you should check everything thoroughly after you've got it home. Even if everything you do check is ok, there will be a problem with anything you don't check.
I didn't check the back tyre thoroughly enough on my new-to-me MTB because I was going to strip and re-grease the hub, and tighten a few spokes, after getting a freewheel remover and nipple wrench. Turns out the side-walls were too far gone (great tread though). Bought a few parts including a puncture repair kit (knowing that if I already had one the rubber solution would have dried up while languishing in a garden shed for years). Walked home. :(
There was a seriously muddy stretch on the shortest route home. Learned that flat tyres fill up with mud and water. Cleaning that out can wash/brush away evidence of what caused the puncture making it difficult to find the damage to the tyre. :facepalm:
Saturday: Relearned how to fix a punctured inner tube. Also learned that rubber solution doesn't always dry up while languishing in a garden shed for years. Now have (hopefully) far too many patches. :-\
Sunday: Learned about a bike parts/tools supplier who seems to have everything at a reasonable price. Cheaper than Hal****'s, and certainly cheaper than the dealers around me who seem to think that cycling is a rich man's game and no-one could possibly be capable of maintaining their own bike (or want to, for that matter). Parts and tools ordered. :thumbsup:
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 19, 2015, 11:23:32 am
Post by: asterix on October 19, 2015, 02:18:32 pm
Post by: DDCyclist on October 19, 2015, 04:59:11 pm
Good things to learn, Dangerous Disastrous Cyclist! :thumbsup:
Who? Me?
Seriously, most of my pre-puncture ride was on a trailway so not particularly dangerous. Scared the living daylights out of the couple I was riding past (and their dog) when it popped, though. :demon:;D
As I intended to change the knobbly MTB tyres for something more suitable when they wore out I hoped to get a couple of months (at least) out of the ones that were on the bike when I bought it for the princely sum of £20. Frame's straight, bearings are all good, front wheel runs true, back wheel has a little wiggle which I'll deal with soon. Just needs a little work to turn it into a respectable, simple, basic bike with very little to go wrong. Money well spent to acquire a bike that, when fettled, will be far more reliable than any BSO from the likes of Hal****s or Argos.
Post by: Thing2 on October 22, 2015, 08:59:19 pm
Also, what happens when you wash your clothes with a copy of the yellow pages........
Post by: fboab on October 22, 2015, 09:38:45 pm
Pictures?
Post by: Chris S on October 22, 2015, 09:40:00 pm
O.
Pictures?
My guess. It'll be yellow(ish).
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on October 22, 2015, 09:51:16 pm
Post by: Kim on October 22, 2015, 10:04:16 pm
Post by: Basil on October 22, 2015, 10:14:34 pm
I wouldn't have thought there was enough paper in a modern Yellow Pages to cause more pulp than the average train ticket...
Or a tenner. :( Bugger!
Post by: Thing2 on October 22, 2015, 10:45:05 pm
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.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 28, 2015, 12:13:24 pm
Post by: Ham on October 28, 2015, 01:25:45 pm
Post by: Wombat on October 28, 2015, 01:53:51 pm
Post by: Ham on October 28, 2015, 02:05:12 pm
It was an excellent quality, quite heavy, diamond disc in at the time.
That period before it came to rest (with at least another 1/4 turn on the boss) allowed for a fairly extended amount of introspection and speculation. I used to think that the rotation kept it done up, apparently not.
Post by: DDCyclist on October 28, 2015, 02:08:34 pm
I learned that I must have worn my old cycling gloves with grubby mitts before I lost them in the deepest, darkest recesses of 'stuff that might be useful one day'.
Arrived at my destination with filthy hands.
Post by: Canardly on October 28, 2015, 05:08:44 pm
Post by: Ham on October 28, 2015, 05:36:53 pm
Post by: Pedaldog on October 28, 2015, 09:26:29 pm
Post by: Torslanda on October 29, 2015, 10:28:39 am
Post by: asterix on October 29, 2015, 10:29:16 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 29, 2015, 01:18:24 pm
Post by: David Martin on October 31, 2015, 12:19:16 am
The U-boat was then handed over to the French, but sank whilst crossing the Bay of Biscay with the loss of all hands.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on November 03, 2015, 09:09:02 pm
Post by: andrewc on November 03, 2015, 09:56:52 pm
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
Post by: Canardly on November 03, 2015, 10:56:29 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 04, 2015, 12:59:16 am
Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.
And claimed it for the Empire?
Post by: asterix on November 04, 2015, 03:12:30 pm
Post by: Peter on November 04, 2015, 03:16:06 pm
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
Try the Advent O Antiphons - it will soon be the season!
Post by: Ham on November 04, 2015, 04:38:17 pm
Who knew, eh? Probably a few on here ;)
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 04, 2015, 05:21:19 pm
When two tribologists go to war
One is all that you can score.
I thang yew!
Post by: billplumtree on November 04, 2015, 08:06:10 pm
Post by: Steph on November 05, 2015, 08:01:33 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34721419
Post by: mcshroom on November 05, 2015, 09:08:18 am
(unfortunately not that sort of stargate)
Post by: Kim on November 05, 2015, 03:38:57 pm
Post by: Katie on November 05, 2015, 04:27:08 pm
I love my job.
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on November 05, 2015, 04:28:43 pm
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 ::-)
Post by: Katie on November 05, 2015, 04:29:48 pm
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.
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on November 05, 2015, 04:32:18 pm
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.
;)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on November 05, 2015, 04:34:53 pm
Post by: Katie on November 05, 2015, 04:35:01 pm
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.
;)
You don't want to do that, I make really good pancakes.
:D
Does this mean you are an Official Pancake Tester? *rewrites CV: ...extensive pancake experience, MSc Pancakeology,... *
Oh I wish. Nope, just making pancakes for someone else and getting to nom the leftovers. :)
Post by: geraldc on November 06, 2015, 01:47:52 pm
"On erection of the obelisk in 1878, a time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal, containing : a set of 12 photographs of the best-looking English women of the day, a box of hairpins, a box of cigars, several tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, some children's toys, a shilling razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in the erection, a 3' bronze model of the monument, a complete set of contemporary British coins, a rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a written history of the transport of the monument, plans on vellum, a translation of the inscriptions, copies of the Bible in several languages, a copy of John 3:16 in 215 languages,[6] a copy of Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London and copies of 10 daily newspapers."
I'm fascinated by the first item listed.
Post by: Kim on November 06, 2015, 01:56:13 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 06, 2015, 04:11:41 pm
I'm fairly sure that's Victorian for 'pr0n'
Probably showing their ankles, the
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on November 07, 2015, 09:42:09 pm
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!
Post by: PeteB99 on November 08, 2015, 11:43:56 am
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!
In Norfolk they're called Bishy Barnabys after a local Bishop who had red and black vestments
Post by: matthew on November 08, 2015, 08:45:16 pm
Post by: geraldc on November 10, 2015, 04:35:36 pm
Which colour smartie has a different flavoured chocolate from all the others?
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Post by: Jakob W on November 10, 2015, 06:53:57 pm
Post by: Katie on November 10, 2015, 07:22:15 pm
By things, I mean a large quantity of kitchen, the crotch of your jeans, the insides of the closed kitchen cupboards…
Post by: Mrs Pingu on November 10, 2015, 08:46:05 pm
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.
Oh yum, that sounds almost as good as the chocolate and chestnut puree pancake I buy in Val d'Isere :P :P
Post by: Jurek on November 10, 2015, 09:00:14 pm
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
<-------------------------------- Thataway ;) :-*
Post by: Ham on November 10, 2015, 09:12:03 pm
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/robert_orben.html
Post by: tiermat on November 11, 2015, 08:46:12 am
Post by: Legs on November 11, 2015, 12:42:44 pm
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)
Post by: Kim on November 11, 2015, 12:47:19 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 11, 2015, 01:13:33 pm
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.
That has triggered a memory of a tale in one of my early reading books of the people of Gotham, Notts, pretending to be mad in order to make the lackeys of The Man go away and leave them in peace. It was probably an allegorical reference1 to the Vietnam Police Action. Man.
1: Lie.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on November 11, 2015, 09:55:41 pm
Post by: Tim Hall on November 11, 2015, 10:25:27 pm
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?
Post by: jsabine on November 11, 2015, 10:39:21 pm
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.
Post by: Ham on November 12, 2015, 07:01:09 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11988396/Jony-Ive-interview-The-story-of-the-Apple-Pencil.html
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on November 12, 2015, 03:35:32 pm
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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". ::-)
Post by: clarion on November 12, 2015, 03:37:58 pm
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 was my comment on FB.
Post by: Andrij on November 12, 2015, 05:58:33 pm
I've tossed out loads of stuff recently. Even once I shift all the boxen of stuff I'm storing for a friend who had to suddenly return to Singapore (not ideal in a one bedroom flat) there are still too many TPoC.
Apologies for drifting into Grumble/FWP territory.
Post by: mcshroom on November 12, 2015, 06:08:19 pm
Post by: Ruthie on November 12, 2015, 06:35:00 pm
Could've knocked me down with a feather!
Post by: Legs on November 13, 2015, 09:18:20 am
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.
Post by: Andrew on November 13, 2015, 11:51:54 am
thevillager.com/2015/09/15/adam-purple-legendary-gardener-84-is-dead-was-biking-across-williamsburg-bridge/ (http://thevillager.com/2015/09/15/adam-purple-legendary-gardener-84-is-dead-was-biking-across-williamsburg-bridge/)
Post by: clarion on November 13, 2015, 07:58:41 pm
Post by: andrewc on November 14, 2015, 11:08:08 am
Keep watching the videos ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGMcZjTWOw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGMcZjTWOw)
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on November 16, 2015, 11:05:05 am
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)
I could have told you that...... sage advice from a bloke who has bled buckets for the cause of straight razor use.
Post by: rogerzilla on November 17, 2015, 08:01:32 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on November 18, 2015, 09:08:00 am
Post by: Basil on November 20, 2015, 09:43:25 pm
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.
Post by: jsabine on November 20, 2015, 11:46:34 pm
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.
UoB page (http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/alumni/Currentstudents/OldJoeNewFriends.aspx) reckons he's wrong - but only WRT to the 'used to.'
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He’s not just a pretty face - Old Joe is also a water tower and services the University!
Post by: Ham on November 25, 2015, 09:20:58 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 25, 2015, 10:27:35 am
"Fiesta Island Fun" (http://www.ride-fit.com/Shopping/Ride-Fit-Fiesta-Island-Fun.html)is all about cycling, who would have guessed?
I would, coz some of my USAnian mates do TTs at Fiesta Island ;D
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 26, 2015, 02:06:56 am
Post by: clarion on November 26, 2015, 11:04:30 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 26, 2015, 05:35:59 pm
Oh that! Have you seen what it's based on (Bennett Airtruck)?
By the miracle of Wikinaccurate, yes. Is there something in the water Down There?
Post by: Basil on November 28, 2015, 12:43:30 am
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=94483.msg1951425#msg1951425
Post by: Torslanda on November 28, 2015, 11:07:27 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on December 10, 2015, 07:31:20 pm
Post by: Andrij on December 10, 2015, 07:53:01 pm
Post by: Kim on December 10, 2015, 08:24:03 pm
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
Next lesson: Tophats and Gobos.
Post by: Ham on December 11, 2015, 03:32:07 pm
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
Next lesson: Tophats and Gobos.
Ahem. Ahem. I suspect Andrij would rather be booked into the redhead session.
Post by: rogerzilla on December 11, 2015, 09:34:02 pm
Post by: Andrij on December 13, 2015, 06:45:28 pm
I must now find them all.
Post by: Jurek on December 14, 2015, 11:38:03 am
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.
Post by: Guy on December 14, 2015, 12:50:06 pm
The first Highway Act was intended to improve the state of England's roads and was passed in 1555. It didn't make any difference to the state of the roads, it just shifted responsibility for their upkeep from Manorial officials* to the Parochial Surveyors of Highways**.
*who weren't doing their job
**who didn't do theirs, either
Post by: clarion on December 14, 2015, 02:48:15 pm
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
Next lesson: Tophats and Gobos.
That might be awkward, as a TV lighting gobo is a different beast from a theatre one.
Post by: Mr Larrington on December 15, 2015, 05:00:39 pm
Post by: Basil on December 17, 2015, 12:32:21 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 17, 2015, 01:10:47 am
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.
Post by: PaulF on December 17, 2015, 04:39:42 pm
Post by: offcumden on December 17, 2015, 09:30:56 pm
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.
How can you be sure it isn't?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 24, 2015, 01:37:10 pm
Post by: Tim Hall on December 25, 2015, 10:30:04 am
Post by: Diver300 on December 25, 2015, 11:04:34 am
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.
Post by: Tim Hall on December 25, 2015, 11:12:07 am
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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on December 25, 2015, 11:43:44 am
Needless to say, this has brightened up an otherwise rather dull morning.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on January 03, 2016, 09:53:29 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on January 03, 2016, 10:21:45 am
Yesterday I learned that not only is Alison Steadman's character in Abigail's Party not Abigail but also that Abigail doesn't appear in it at all.
Post by: TheLurker on January 03, 2016, 11:04:55 am
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.
Google +"Paraffin Young" if you're bored.
*Slag heap.
Post by: Mr Larrington on January 03, 2016, 11:21:08 am
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.
Gideon flogged them to the Godless Communist HordesTM Of Peking.
Post by: ElyDave on January 03, 2016, 12:30:08 pm
I have learned that the coefficient of friction of that red anti slip paint on cycle lanes is lower than I thought, particularly in the wet when unloading the rear of a disc-braked recumbent as you come in a bit to fast to a halt and sit up.
Post by: De Sisti on January 03, 2016, 12:33:17 pm
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?
Post by: Kim on January 03, 2016, 12:45:07 pm
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.
Post by: ElyDave on January 03, 2016, 01:00:49 pm
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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on January 03, 2016, 02:37:58 pm
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.
Post by: clarion on January 03, 2016, 03:58:38 pm
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.
Post by: ElyDave on January 03, 2016, 04:09:23 pm
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.
That's the one, Ive done a bit down there myself as a consultant, looking at how well they manage their risks from an environmental management and performance standpoint.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on January 08, 2016, 03:03:23 pm
Post by: mcshroom on January 08, 2016, 04:22:44 pm
More for me then :thumbsup:
Post by: Torslanda on January 08, 2016, 11:49:36 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on January 11, 2016, 04:43:48 pm
https://youtu.be/l685JEwFPb4
Edit: "Vaguely obscure 1970s rock". I've never knowingly listened to Uriah Heep before learning this factoid but now, thanks to the wonders of electrons, I discover I'm actually familiar with a few of their tracks. Possibly they were in the ether when I was very small indeed, far more likely they were sufficiently non-obscure to last well into the next decade. They seem to have a heavy-folk tinge, a bit like Led Zep; quite appropriate for what seems, from the description I've read, to be a rather post-hippy freedom-comes-from-the-West* morphing into disillusionment-and-hedonism beach party thingy.
*Shame they're facing the rising sun!
Post by: T42 on January 11, 2016, 04:50:22 pm
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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on January 11, 2016, 06:49:10 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on January 11, 2016, 10:55:34 pm
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.
Post by: Torslanda on January 12, 2016, 12:54:37 am
Post by: ElyDave on January 12, 2016, 07:54:38 am
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.
Post by: mcshroom on January 12, 2016, 09:32:09 am
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.
We used to play curling in the back of the kitchen at KFC on slow night shifts using wheeled mop buckets.
Post by: Vince on January 12, 2016, 10:39:09 am
Post by: DDCyclist on January 12, 2016, 11:08:17 am
Now ... where did I leave that screwdriver I was using 5 minutes ago?
Post by: Torslanda on January 12, 2016, 02:16:00 pm
Sorry, what were we talking about?
Post by: Kim on January 12, 2016, 02:25:43 pm
I attribute this to a fundamental, yet unresearched, difference in cognitive style - she has the 'finding things' gene, where I rely on 'remembering where I saw them' (a strategy that works well until dealing with people who like to tidy things up, or objects prone to macroscopic quantum effects like recently-used screwdrivers).
Post by: Torslanda on January 12, 2016, 02:36:35 pm
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!
Post by: Tim Hall on January 12, 2016, 03:29:51 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on January 12, 2016, 03:32:40 pm
Post by: Kim on January 12, 2016, 07:21:24 pm
Nuts and washers are skilled at hiding in plain sight, aided by the pattern in the carpet.
Post by: Efrogwr on January 12, 2016, 07:45:04 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on January 12, 2016, 09:54:58 pm
Post by: Kim on January 12, 2016, 09:57:18 pm
Post by: Torslanda on January 12, 2016, 10:01:32 pm
You all need a shadow tool box and a Park magnetic parts bowl.
Have both. Doesn't help . . .
Post by: Kim on January 12, 2016, 10:50:47 pm
Post by: Jurek on January 12, 2016, 10:55:21 pm
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.
I am looking for the opportunity to insert it into a method statement or risk assessment.
Post by: Torslanda on January 12, 2016, 11:20:37 pm
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!
Post by: Gattopardo on January 13, 2016, 01:07:30 am
'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!
I forgot I owned a car.
Post by: Gattopardo on January 13, 2016, 01:15:12 am
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.
Post by: ElyDave on January 13, 2016, 06:53:53 am
Good job I have no paper-joining emergencies, and a back up supply of paper clips.
Post by: DDCyclist on January 13, 2016, 07:10:23 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on January 13, 2016, 10:50:53 am
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...
Post by: fboab on January 13, 2016, 01:50:20 pm
Dunno which Caesar, mind. Back to Google...
Post by: Kim on January 13, 2016, 02:14:29 pm
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.
Post by: clarion on January 13, 2016, 02:23:57 pm
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.
Post by: Tim Hall on January 13, 2016, 03:39:42 pm
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.
Post by: barakta on January 13, 2016, 05:00:50 pm
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.
I think when you have used your words and told people to stop touching you once nevermind more than one that escalating to violence is understandable and not unreasonable. I don't think this is a pathological problem or anything which makes you a bad person. Repeated unwanted touching is not nice!
Post by: Efrogwr on January 13, 2016, 05:17:44 pm
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!
Not ony that, but I have ridden on the Ball's Pond Road...
Post by: Efrogwr on January 13, 2016, 05:21:32 pm
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.
Not so far, but I will start to use it for outings of less than a day.
Post by: tiermat on January 17, 2016, 03:39:57 pm
Post by: Ham on January 17, 2016, 06:01:34 pm
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.
I learned that before I stuck a burro Catalan on the back of the motor, finding out its significance seemed like a good idea. (ans: not a lot, but if you guys are going to have a silly bull without much real history, we'll have a donkey)
Post by: billplumtree on January 23, 2016, 06:52:34 pm
Post by: David Martin on January 23, 2016, 11:19:36 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on January 23, 2016, 11:22:05 pm
That the walrus is Paul.
And he's [not] dead.
Post by: rafletcher on January 25, 2016, 01:58:41 pm
Post by: clarion on January 25, 2016, 02:14:30 pm
To list:
Love, American Style
begat
Happy Days
begat
Mork & Mindy
Mork & Mindy (animated series)
Laverne & Shirley
Laverne & Shirley In The Army (animated series)
Joanie Loves Chachi
Out Of The Blue
Blansky's Beauties
The Fonz & The Happy Days Gang (animated series)
I wonder if this is a record.
Post by: Torslanda on January 26, 2016, 12:53:15 pm
Copyright Minn Diffgain.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on February 08, 2016, 10:14:52 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 08, 2016, 10:26:03 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on February 08, 2016, 12:18:58 pm
Well of course no zebras: that'd be like a random bar code in the middle of your passport!
SPLORT!!!1!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 10, 2016, 11:09:18 pm
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It's been claimed that the mildly racy Java Head made history with the first inter-racial kiss ever shown on screen.Maybe!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on February 11, 2016, 10:02:18 am
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on February 11, 2016, 11:22:08 am
Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
Post by: Guy on February 11, 2016, 11:35:59 am
Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
It's enough to make you chuck your router in the bin and go and be a spoon-whittler in the woods!
Post by: MagnusOpus on February 11, 2016, 11:56:29 am
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?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on February 11, 2016, 12:46:48 pm
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?
Post by: Tim Hall on February 11, 2016, 12:54:23 pm
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.
Post by: Kim on February 11, 2016, 01:29:34 pm
ETA: I've just asked on IRC and it appears their policy is to have someone answer the phone. Spoilsports.
Post by: Dibdib on February 11, 2016, 01:31:22 pm
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.
This is pretty much the only reason I bank with First Direct. No hold music, no automated menus, just a nice person in Scotland (or sometimes the North East, I think they have two call centres now) who usually answers the phone after two or three rings.
(to clarify - I don't have a problem with overseas call centres per se, but call quality seems to be inversely proportional to how far away they've outsourced the operations.)
Post by: Kim on February 11, 2016, 01:35:59 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on February 11, 2016, 09:26:31 pm
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.
Post by: Kim on February 12, 2016, 08:26:51 pm
(Double sided tape that conducts electricity upwards but not sideways.)
It's clearly witchcraft, but witchcraft that's going to come in handy at some point.
Post by: Torslanda on February 16, 2016, 06:45:08 pm
Post by: Torslanda on February 18, 2016, 12:20:50 pm
I have over £90 of unused vouchers.
There is a link to exchange vouchers for travel and entertainment.
For Eurotunnel the exchange rate is tripled.
Our Easter holiday just got a whole lot cheaper. Result! :thumbsup:
Post by: fboab on February 19, 2016, 01:44:56 pm
Today I learned that Mr Smith has never heard of the Lambton Worm.
Post by: Wobbly John on February 19, 2016, 02:28:18 pm
::-)
Post by: Legs on February 19, 2016, 02:30:47 pm
Today I learnt the correct spelling of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke (http://"poka-yoke"). A bit disappointing that it's not "pokey-yolky" or similar. It's one of those concepts that you keep noticing examples of: "Aha! Poka-yoke!"
Post by: numbnuts on February 19, 2016, 04:07:18 pm
Post by: Ruthie on February 19, 2016, 04:11:27 pm
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
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 19, 2016, 04:22:30 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on February 19, 2016, 06:24:09 pm
Today I learned that Mr Smith has never heard of the Lambton Worm.
:o. Is such ignorance even possible?
Post by: Torslanda on February 19, 2016, 10:19:29 pm
Post by: spesh on February 20, 2016, 12:25:48 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambton_Worm
Post by: Peter on February 20, 2016, 12:47:14 am
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
Ruthie, I think one of my many brothers taught there, certainly in Acklam. He taught Chris Rea English (yes, I know). Does that compute?
Post by: Ruthie on February 20, 2016, 07:31:54 am
Post by: Vince on February 20, 2016, 09:40:31 am
Post by: ian on February 20, 2016, 12:44:44 pm
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.
Post by: Butterfly on February 20, 2016, 05:19:11 pm
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.
The rumour is that the California pub was owned by someone who made their fortune in the gold rush.
Post by: Mrs Pingu on February 20, 2016, 05:22:23 pm
Post by: Ham on February 20, 2016, 05:40:05 pm
Post by: Basil on February 20, 2016, 08:31:02 pm
I assumed that these were test plugs or something, but no. It seems they take the core out before cutting. That way they can get a nice crisp cut wedge. Without the core plug removed the wedge point would crumble.
Anyway. Free cheese. :thumbsup:
Post by: Torslanda on February 21, 2016, 08:44:50 am
Post by: ElyDave on February 21, 2016, 04:47:46 pm
Here you go, courtesy of the Book of Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambton_Worm
Haven't read the wiki, but wasn't it in the Lair of the White Worm (book being better than the poorly made, but amusing Hugh Grant movie)
Today I learned that Audaxes in Essex in February can be a bit breezy.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 21, 2016, 05:37:16 pm
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!
Post by: Vince on February 21, 2016, 06:50:20 pm
It was the Quakers in the case of both UK Pennsylvanias.
Courtesy of Wikinaccurate.
Post by: David Martin on February 21, 2016, 08:56:39 pm
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
Post by: Kim on February 21, 2016, 09:26:11 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 21, 2016, 11:10:38 pm
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?)
Post by: cycleman on February 22, 2016, 08:33:29 am
How to reboot barakta's desk. :facepalm:
What. You kicked it :o ☺
Post by: Kim on February 22, 2016, 11:45:09 am
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. She was demonstrating this to nikki OTP, when it got to the bottom of the range of travel and stubbornly refused to move again (which, with hindsight, I realise is preferable to it getting stuck at the top - about head height).
Turns out there's a procedure for calibrating what position the motor controller thinks it's in. Invoking that brought it back to life. And yes, I did try thumping it first (and more scientifically, checking the continuity on the switch, which is a known failure point).
Post by: Canardly on February 22, 2016, 12:59:26 pm
Post by: Vince on February 22, 2016, 01:26:03 pm
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?)
Post by: Tim Hall on February 22, 2016, 03:54:25 pm
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.
Post by: ElyDave on February 22, 2016, 05:16:17 pm
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 will now have that in mind every time I play with my own sit/stand desk (also motorised)
Post by: ElyDave on February 22, 2016, 05:17:32 pm
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?)
I remember Petty France well, passing there in my Uni days.
There is a Dunkirk around the corner from me as well in rural Cambs.
Post by: Steph on February 23, 2016, 03:45:45 am
Anyway, what a name for a beasty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_hairy_armadillo
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 23, 2016, 10:01:38 am
Post by: Guy on February 23, 2016, 10:42:40 am
I've also ridden through Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Gibraltar, all without leaving England.
Post by: Vince on February 23, 2016, 11:17:53 am
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?
This. Thanks PB.
€€€€€€€€€€€€€
Post by: mcshroom on February 23, 2016, 11:39:48 am
Post by: ElyDave on February 23, 2016, 12:23:34 pm
Whilst preparing my very tasty lunch of assorted veggies sauted in copious olive oil with a nice tofu sausage thrown in, I managed to remove a chunk of the end of my thumb. ::-)
It was surprisingy less bleedy and ouchie than I expected, glad I keep the knives sharp.
Post by: Wombat on February 23, 2016, 01:10:33 pm
Also a New York in Rotherham, and a Rhodesia and a Wales not far away
and a Palestine in Hampshire, and an Alamein not far away.
Post by: ElyDave on February 23, 2016, 01:28:44 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on February 23, 2016, 02:25:02 pm
Post by: ElyDave on February 23, 2016, 02:30:26 pm
One of the neighbouring villages has a The Americas
Lots of ex-WWII USAF/USAAC airbases in these parts
Post by: Tim Hall on February 23, 2016, 02:34:33 pm
also a few Hollands or New Hollands around in the flatlands of East Anglia, Linclolnshire, East Yorks
New Hollands are often found on farms.
(http://agriculture.newholland.com/uk/en/Gallery/Gallery_Images/Golden_Jubilee/Lavoro_9257.jpg)
Post by: Torslanda on February 23, 2016, 02:52:39 pm
Hmm... That would be an expensive mistake to make, wouldn't it?
*Might have helped if they'd come with instructions but that's the penalty of buying stuff that's not boxed.
Post by: Basil on February 23, 2016, 05:22:37 pm
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=16657.0
Post by: ElyDave on February 23, 2016, 05:46:46 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on February 23, 2016, 05:49:02 pm
Post by: Basil on February 23, 2016, 05:55:46 pm
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:
;D
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 23, 2016, 10:00:41 pm
Post by: woollypigs on February 23, 2016, 10:11:50 pm
Post by: Polar Bear on February 23, 2016, 10:14:19 pm
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.)
When touring I take a New York Kryptonite which I believe weights more than half a kilo. If I can lug that around you should be just fine, especially given that you are younger, significantly lighter and much much fitter than me.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on February 23, 2016, 10:20:01 pm
(The amazing thing is how little some people take on these rides – and how much others lug around.)
Post by: Legs on February 26, 2016, 09:52:57 am
Post by: spesh on February 27, 2016, 12:05:36 am
The lid of my veg steamer now looks rather... different. :facepalm:
Post by: Vince on March 03, 2016, 02:11:57 pm
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on March 03, 2016, 02:17:36 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on March 03, 2016, 03:45:23 pm
That <organisation> is not the same as <organization> and remarkably hard to spot when checking xml for syntax errors.
Got the same thing with .el6 and .e16 yesterday, made the more difficult by the font in question. What do you mean with your talk of _nameless.e16 I yelled as the program crashed for the seventh time >:(
Post by: tiermat on March 03, 2016, 07:10:26 pm
... 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!
Probably because they are! Glass, that is.
Post by: Andrij on March 03, 2016, 07:54:08 pm
Post by: Jakob W on March 03, 2016, 09:18:26 pm
Post by: barakta on March 03, 2016, 09:21:52 pm
Post by: Kim on March 04, 2016, 07:05:54 pm
Post by: Polar Bear on March 04, 2016, 07:25:05 pm
There's an accessible formats association which publishes standards for large print, braille, audio and other formats. http://www.ukaaf.org/
Gosh. How useful.
Thankyou. :-*
Post by: barakta on March 04, 2016, 09:21:37 pm
Post by: Ham on March 06, 2016, 04:05:15 pm
Alcohol is forbidden, so nobody ever gets tested for drink driving
Alcohol is forbidden but there is no wetter dry place on earth
Alcohol is forbidden, so if you have an account with an Arab bank, you can't use it to buy alcohol in bars, it will be refused by the machine (some bars show alcohol as other things to work around that
Post by: Andrij on March 06, 2016, 04:26:17 pm
Post by: tiermat on March 06, 2016, 04:31:20 pm
Post by: mark on March 06, 2016, 05:34:19 pm
Good fun, though, and I will be back out on the new moto this afternoon.
Post by: Mr Larrington on March 07, 2016, 07:42:51 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on March 08, 2016, 06:56:52 pm
Post by: Andrij on March 13, 2016, 10:38:35 pm
Post by: red marley on March 14, 2016, 07:41:51 pm
Post by: Canardly on March 14, 2016, 08:34:14 pm
Post by: Kim on March 15, 2016, 10:02:34 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island
Post by: Mr Larrington on March 18, 2016, 09:42:34 am
Post by: Jurek on March 23, 2016, 05:08:58 pm
There is no honeymoon period.
You need it get it right the first time.
Or start the job again, using new tape.
Post by: Kim on March 23, 2016, 05:39:19 pm
That self-amalgamating tape self-amalgamates immediately, on introduction to its other half.
Unless there's water involved, of course.
Post by: Jurek on March 23, 2016, 06:26:13 pm
That self-amalgamating tape self-amalgamates immediately, on introduction to its other half.
Unless there's water involved, of course.
Indeed.
I don't think I've ever used it in the water-torn environment for which it was intended.
It is far more useful for Other Things.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on March 30, 2016, 10:08:27 am
http://www.bristol247.com/channel/news-comment/features/investigations/will-it-ever-end-bristol
(http://b247cdn.co.uk/img/shoes-on-a-wire-1458748181.jpg)
Post by: Mr Larrington on March 30, 2016, 10:53:42 am
Post by: Andrij on April 01, 2016, 12:37:13 pm
The SETI Institute organises weekly lectures, which it makes available via its website (http://www.seti.org/talks) (scroll down for Lectures archive) and its YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/setiinstitute).
If anyone needs me, I'll be busy geeking out on astronomy...
Post by: clarion on April 01, 2016, 01:42:29 pm
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.
But I did like to have a roll of 'Smalgy' handy. :)
Post by: Ruthie on April 18, 2016, 12:59:22 pm
Well I never did.
Post by: billplumtree on April 18, 2016, 01:16:51 pm
Confused me for a minute, that did.
Post by: PaulF on April 18, 2016, 01:19:49 pm
Post by: Torslanda on April 18, 2016, 02:45:06 pm
That Archbishop Desmond Tutu is an oblate of the Order of Julian of Norwich.
Well I never did.
Julian's from Norwich!!!!!!???????? :o :o :o :o
Post by: Jurek on April 24, 2016, 04:53:19 pm
Outdoors.
Rain.
Don't.
Just don't.
Post by: Tim Hall on April 24, 2016, 06:32:49 pm
Angle grinder.
Outdoors.
Rain.
Don't.
Just don't.
Oops. RCD?
Post by: Canardly on April 24, 2016, 06:36:23 pm
Post by: Jurek on April 25, 2016, 09:52:24 am
Angle grinder.
Outdoors.
Rain.
Don't.
Just don't.
Oops. RCD?
RCD is why I am here today ;)
Post by: Kim on April 25, 2016, 11:59:59 am
RCD is why I am here today ;)
I heartily endorse this product/service. :thumbsup:
Post by: rogerzilla on April 25, 2016, 02:22:51 pm
Post by: Feanor on April 25, 2016, 05:52:13 pm
An offshore cabin was in the yard, for maintenance.
It was hooked up to a 3-phase electrical supply with a Commando-type plug, from a 64A supply.
It only used 2 of the phases, to feed a single-phase transformer.
This was working fine.
The person who wired up the plug had wired the 3rd phase to the earth pin.
The entire cabin was floating at 240v above ground potential, on a 64A breaker.
This went un-noticed until someone had at it with an earthed drill.
As soon as the bit got through the paint, there was an almighty BANG.
Post by: PaulF on April 26, 2016, 02:44:34 pm
Our office manager has just bought one as a present for a friend
Post by: T42 on April 26, 2016, 02:59:19 pm
Post by: Chris S on April 26, 2016, 03:02:45 pm
Probably doesn't help that it's rear-wheel drive and usually empty. And it's automatic.
Downhill wasn't much better. I had to use the kerb as a brake ::-).
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 29, 2016, 10:13:40 am
Post by: T42 on April 29, 2016, 10:18:26 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on April 29, 2016, 10:32:34 am
Post by: T42 on April 29, 2016, 10:34:18 am
Why was I expecting that?
Post by: Guy on April 29, 2016, 10:47:27 am
(I didn't know what it meant, either. Thanks Webster's on-line, you've been most helpful)
Post by: Vince on April 29, 2016, 04:24:16 pm
Microsoft use outdated standards for ID3 tags in MP3 files, thus rendering all the useful information on the music library redundant
Post by: Feanor on April 29, 2016, 07:43:29 pm
If it found exif tags in images it didn't understand, it deleted them!
Post by: Bledlow on April 29, 2016, 10:32:11 pm
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Onomichi_Panorama.jpg/1284px-Onomichi_Panorama.jpg)
http://wikitravel.org/en/Onomichi (http://wikitravel.org/en/Onomichi)
OK, maybe the name started with the place.
Post by: David Martin on April 29, 2016, 11:28:35 pm
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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on April 30, 2016, 05:24:55 am
Microsoft's approach to respecting the data integrity of it's clients is questionable to say the least.
I'm picturing an animated paper clip popping up, asking "did you means its or it's" and then ignoring what you tell it :demon:
Any typos in this post are, needless to say, entirely the fault of iOS.
Post by: rogerzilla on April 30, 2016, 03:46:50 pm
Post by: David Martin on May 06, 2016, 12:42:16 pm
Post by: PeteB99 on May 09, 2016, 11:18:53 am
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/niagara-falls/niagara-falls-is-going-to-go-dry-x2013-again-20160123 (http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/niagara-falls/niagara-falls-is-going-to-go-dry-x2013-again-20160123)
It was done before in 1969 apparently.
Post by: T42 on May 09, 2016, 11:45:16 am
Post by: ian on May 09, 2016, 09:40:49 pm
Post by: Bledlow on May 10, 2016, 03:14:34 pm
She'll be giving a speech at a conference in Japan next week, & I'm tidying up the MC's script.
Post by: T42 on May 10, 2016, 03:28:50 pm
Post by: ian on May 11, 2016, 04:18:26 pm
You can't say Stotinki without feeling happy. Try it.
Post by: Bledlow on May 11, 2016, 10:56:03 pm
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.
Post by: Ruthie on May 12, 2016, 09:52:04 am
Post by: T42 on May 12, 2016, 09:59:12 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on May 12, 2016, 10:13:49 am
There were stotinki in 1983 ...
I remember reading of the then-current stotinki circa 1978.
Post by: Legs on May 12, 2016, 04:04:00 pm
Post by: asterix on May 12, 2016, 06:42:53 pm
Post by: ian on May 12, 2016, 07:21:57 pm
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.
I stayed at the Hotel Balkan in the Largo. Splendidly overwrought edifice of socialist classicism. They don't make them like that any more.
Stotinki. Saying it still makes me happy.
Post by: Ham on May 12, 2016, 08:13:57 pm
First, there was a good reason I normally avoid the Chigwell area around school run time. at least 16 reasons ackcherly (do the math)
Next, I find that Epping is actually higher than Toot Hill, who knew? (courtesy of putting it on the GPS rather than just riding)
I also discovered that it was more pleasant attending a business conference call looking at this
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DHFa19sjpfs/VzRa7rmWoYI/AAAAAAAA3PU/DNeBKXX8jochq4TvX2CfsCkOUJQBP4EkgCCo/s640/IMG_20160512_090414.jpg)
rather than a computer monitor
On top of that I learned that it would be a good move to go with the suggestion that you just suspend your lost credit card rather than cancel it straight off, because after doing the cancelling thing, the caff who you had already phoned to ask if they had it may call you back to say that they have.....
I must be very clever now.
Post by: Si S on May 13, 2016, 07:45:19 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on May 13, 2016, 10:05:29 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 17, 2016, 02:19:31 pm
(Further to stotinki: it's hundredths. Sto = hundred. Presumably lev has some other origin than lion, cos hundredths of a lion would take us back to Cecil and the dentist.)
Post by: Kim on May 17, 2016, 02:41:51 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 17, 2016, 04:15:00 pm
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.
Post by: pcolbeck on May 17, 2016, 05:13:19 pm
That the Brandenburg concertos were written as an audition piece. He didn't get the job. I don't know who did.
Imagine that. "Hmm that Bach chap was pretty good but I'm seeing a couple of other composers next week and I think one of those will be better". Major recruitment fail !
Post by: Bledlow on May 18, 2016, 12:22:49 am
(Further to stotinki: it's hundredths. Sto = hundred.Da, stotinki is just cents in Slav.
Post by: pcolbeck on May 19, 2016, 11:48:14 am
The two fields opposite my house (about 25 acres in total) have been wheat or rape for years but this year its potatoes.
A couple of weeks ago they were ploughed then this week two tractors turned up and harrowed them then ridged them.
Today eleven tractors and a front loader arrived !
The fields have been de-stoned and potatoes planted its a major operation. I counted five de-stoners working at once !
Post by: Thing2 on May 19, 2016, 09:19:30 pm
Post by: David Martin on May 19, 2016, 10:27:12 pm
Post by: T42 on May 20, 2016, 07:52:05 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on May 20, 2016, 12:48:05 pm
Post by: Kim on May 20, 2016, 12:52:39 pm
Is there a measurable difference between the natural curiosity of organic spuds and the regular sort?
I hope so; the whole plan hinges on it.
Post by: Polar Bear on May 20, 2016, 01:06:26 pm
It's what identity thieves do apparently.
Advice is to put bins out on the morning of collection.
I found this out whilst attending an interview under caution with a client this morning.
Post by: Mr Larrington on May 20, 2016, 01:29:35 pm
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.
Are you sure there isn't a nest of journalists in the area? Advanced bin-rummaging is one of the requirements for promotion1 from Dirty Lying Journalist Scum to Filthy Lying Journalist Scum.
1: According to my chum Samfast, last heard of reducing the already ankle-high standards of journalism in Captain Cook's Mistake.
Post by: Ruthie on May 20, 2016, 07:44:20 pm
Excellent.
Post by: Kim on May 20, 2016, 08:54:00 pm
Post by: rogerzilla on May 20, 2016, 09:10:10 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 20, 2016, 09:27:48 pm
Post by: rogerzilla on May 20, 2016, 09:29:55 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on May 20, 2016, 09:34:20 pm
Post by: Bledlow on May 20, 2016, 10:31:58 pm
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.
Post by: David Martin on May 21, 2016, 11:57:03 pm
Post by: ElyDave on May 22, 2016, 06:39:08 pm
On the other hand, my personal learning over the last three days - a rear mech is not just a rear mech, at least not past 10sp. Gone are the days of cross compatibility. Lots of swearing ensued
Post by: rafletcher on May 23, 2016, 10:08:50 am
Post by: rogerzilla on May 24, 2016, 07:41:31 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on May 25, 2016, 08:32:21 am
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?
Post by: Guy on May 25, 2016, 02:42:46 pm
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?
Nah. That was Bungle, George and Zippy
Post by: ian on May 25, 2016, 02:52:50 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on May 25, 2016, 04:24:45 pm
Post by: Chris S on May 25, 2016, 06:20:53 pm
Post by: Mrs Pingu on May 25, 2016, 07:27:40 pm
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:.
You making pink macaroni cheese?
Post by: Legs on May 25, 2016, 07:35:17 pm
Post by: orraloon on May 25, 2016, 08:38:54 pm
Roy Wood's given name is Ulysses Adrian Wood. Too cool.
Erm, too cool to be true. (Urban) myth alert. You might want to check his Wikipedia page.
Post by: Legs on May 26, 2016, 09:33:24 am
Post by: Bledlow on May 26, 2016, 11:57:24 am
Post by: Guy on May 26, 2016, 02:31:57 pm
(no, I'm not busy this afternoon)
Post by: David Martin on May 26, 2016, 10:49:39 pm
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'
Post by: Andrij on May 26, 2016, 11:12:45 pm
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?
Post by: ElyDave on May 27, 2016, 08:40:26 am
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?
This is like shooting fish in a barrel
Post by: Torslanda on May 28, 2016, 01:17:44 am
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)
Coinkidink. So was mine. Heavy artillery at the Somme, they had a direct hit (or a premature detonation) and a burial party came around to fill in the crater. Someone threw a shovel of earth on him and he groaned. If he hadn't I wouldn't be here.
Post by: Kim on May 28, 2016, 01:22:37 am
I've understood the principles since I was a kid, but you don't really get a proper feel for these things until you build one yourself.
Post by: T42 on May 28, 2016, 10:46:13 am
Post by: Bledlow on May 31, 2016, 08:02:27 pm
I'd heard of Whitehead, largely because his works in Fiume became Italian after WW1, & the business still exists in Italy (Whitehead Sistemi Subacquei, subsumed into a division of Finmeccanica-Leonardo last year) & still builds torpedoes, used by the Italian & many other navies. I had no idea of the Whitehead-von Trapp connection, or that von Trapp had been a submarine commander.
Post by: Tim Hall on June 01, 2016, 12:21:57 am
Post by: ian on June 01, 2016, 02:51:14 am
Post by: Bledlow on June 01, 2016, 01:37:20 pm
Things commented on include that the police respond to them better here, & that they don't feel out of place when there are no or very few other black people around, because non-black people aren't reacting differently to them than the others present.
Oh, & black American women say that they find they have more choice of men here. One suggested it might be because the US stereotype of the angry black single mother doesn't exist here, so really just another aspect of the same thing.
"Weren’t tense and hostile the way that some American police officers are when I approach" - black US former airman.
"I don’t remember being followed around by store security"
Post by: T42 on June 01, 2016, 01:41:45 pm
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.
In James Dickey's book "To the White Sea" he mentions the USN's habit of feeding its aviators on beans before flights in unpressurized planes; and unconventional uses for the flare chute.
My own alimentary mishap, never to be forgotten, involved lobster mayonnaise with a pint of Guinness and a very rough crossing of the Irish Sea.
Post by: rogerzilla on June 02, 2016, 04:43:31 pm
Post by: Si S on June 03, 2016, 02:37:31 pm
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Post by: rogerzilla on June 03, 2016, 09:36:30 pm
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Post by: ElyDave on June 03, 2016, 11:29:50 pm
Post by: Ruthie on June 04, 2016, 11:45:53 am
Wow.
Post by: Kim on June 04, 2016, 12:19:16 pm
That a honey bee, in its whole life's work, makes a third of a teaspoon of honey.
obxkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/144/
As a function of body mass, that's surprisingly similar.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 04, 2016, 12:48:28 pm
Isn't it?
Post by: Ham on June 04, 2016, 08:27:20 pm
Post by: Torslanda on June 05, 2016, 10:53:03 am
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 . . .
Post by: tiermat on June 05, 2016, 10:58:09 am
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?" :)
Post by: Canardly on June 05, 2016, 11:13:01 am
Post by: Torslanda on June 05, 2016, 12:31:27 pm
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?" :)
Going there for my birthday . . . ;D ;D ;D
Post by: Nuncio on June 06, 2016, 02:11:19 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 06, 2016, 02:27:52 pm
Post by: T42 on June 06, 2016, 03:06:02 pm
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'.
There's a sign outside Karlsruhe that announces "KARLSRUHE - Partnerstadt mit NANCY NOTTINGHAM". Maybe they know more about Snot than they're telling.
Post by: Andrij on June 06, 2016, 03:57:30 pm
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'.
The initial S was dropped by the Normans. You can see why the people of Scunthorpe were glad the Normans didn't get further north. ;)
Post by: Bledlow on June 07, 2016, 03:52:25 pm
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.
Jellyfish Bight - much more sensible!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 07, 2016, 04:09:08 pm
Post by: Jakob W on June 07, 2016, 05:44:16 pm
Post by: Bledlow on June 08, 2016, 10:51:17 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 08, 2016, 12:33:28 pm
Chris Boardman & Daniel Craig were in the same year at the same secondary school.
Chis Boardman to be the next Bond James Bond :thumbsup:
Post by: matthew on June 08, 2016, 01:29:29 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 08, 2016, 01:43:43 pm
Post by: Torslanda on June 08, 2016, 08:55:40 pm
I. Feel. Old.
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 09, 2016, 08:53:29 am
valuable: true
Post by: T42 on June 09, 2016, 09:46:22 am
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.
Post by: ElyDave on June 09, 2016, 07:56:49 pm
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.
I don't feel quite so old. I was 12 when it came out. Still one of my favourite albums though, along with most of the rest of their stuff and the Moody Blues - I blame my dad.
Post by: T42 on June 10, 2016, 07:20:29 am
Post by: Basil on June 13, 2016, 08:37:38 pm
Probably well known by those in that London, but new to me.
Post by: Jurek on June 13, 2016, 08:43:12 pm
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.
It's an awesome city.
Post by: ElyDave on June 14, 2016, 09:38:24 am
Not sure if it was the skewer or cassette that caught me, but it's bloody sore.
Post by: T42 on June 14, 2016, 11:03:59 am
So the question remains, what do you call the flying noggins?
Post by: Torslanda on June 14, 2016, 11:42:02 am
Post by: Tim Hall on June 14, 2016, 11:44:58 am
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.
Was this some radical attempt at solving your dropout width problem? Bash the wheel until it's narrower? (Hope you aren't too badly damaged)
Post by: Torslanda on June 14, 2016, 11:47:50 am
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 . . .
*Something close to £200. Can't see THE PUNTER going for it, somehow.
Post by: Kim on June 14, 2016, 08:36:56 pm
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on June 14, 2016, 08:39:33 pm
Post by: Kim on June 14, 2016, 08:40:33 pm
(The lid had fallen down the back of the bathroom shelves, for those wondering...)
Post by: ElyDave on June 14, 2016, 09:07:13 pm
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. ;)
Post by: Ruthie on June 14, 2016, 09:19:37 pm
Post by: Kim on June 14, 2016, 10:28:54 pm
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
Post by: Pedaldog on June 14, 2016, 11:47:06 pm
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
wasn't she using said boob herself?
Post by: Wombat on June 15, 2016, 08:24:53 am
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.
Post by: T42 on June 15, 2016, 09:02:10 am
Noggin the Nog - obvs...
Nah. Graculus was the flying one, Noggin just sailed.
Post by: Basil on June 15, 2016, 09:04:04 am
Post by: T42 on June 15, 2016, 10:24:15 am
Post by: fboab on June 15, 2016, 12:49:35 pm
Post by: T42 on June 15, 2016, 01:19:45 pm
Post by: Torslanda on June 15, 2016, 01:47:20 pm
Today I have learnt that no, you should not directly substitute cayenne pepper for paprika on your melted cheese
FUUUHHHHAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWKKKK! My guess is you won't be doing that again anytime soon. :thumbsup:
BTW you owe me a laptop. Unless you know someone who can get tomato soup out of a keyboard . . .
Post by: Torslanda on June 15, 2016, 01:51:12 pm
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!
I was thinking along the same lines but machine time costs. LOTS.
Post by: T42 on June 22, 2016, 12:59:44 pm
Post by: Legs on June 22, 2016, 01:50:06 pm
One of Donald Trump's early inspirations was Roy Cohn.The others were Juan Peron, Toscanini and Dacron.
Post by: Ham on June 22, 2016, 01:52:42 pm
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Post by: De Sisti on June 22, 2016, 01:57:36 pm
Post by: Kim on June 22, 2016, 02:16:33 pm
Post by: Bledlow on June 22, 2016, 11:55:32 pm
And Bakst was originally Rosenberg, but changed his name because being too obviously Jewish was bad for business in Russia.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 23, 2016, 09:37:04 am
Post by: T42 on June 23, 2016, 09:41:44 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 23, 2016, 09:42:32 am
Post by: T42 on June 23, 2016, 09:57:26 am
Post by: fboab on June 23, 2016, 02:35:36 pm
Post by: Kim on June 23, 2016, 02:36:29 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 23, 2016, 02:52:59 pm
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.
Oh, that's cormorants. Okay.
Post by: T42 on June 23, 2016, 02:56:01 pm
Comoros. Where, what, and what they produce
Islands, aren't they? Dunno what they produce - fish and pirates?
Post by: fboab on June 23, 2016, 06:14:00 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 23, 2016, 06:50:22 pm
Post by: T42 on June 24, 2016, 09:44:11 am
Post by: PeteB99 on June 24, 2016, 01:28:07 pm
#colourblind
Post by: Bledlow on June 24, 2016, 01:40:54 pm
Italian flag colours = Hungary, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Mexico - except I think some of greens are a bit darker.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 24, 2016, 01:53:49 pm
Post by: billplumtree on June 24, 2016, 01:58:58 pm
Well, well, well. It comes from Plato's Republic, where he argues that
Quote from: https://philosophynow.org/issues/101/The_Ship_of_Fools
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.
The allegory goes
Quote from: Wikipedia
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.
Hmm.
Post by: PeteB99 on June 24, 2016, 02:08:36 pm
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.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 24, 2016, 02:08:47 pm
Post by: billplumtree on June 24, 2016, 02:14:21 pm
Loving your under-avatar line, billplumtree. :thumbsup:
I have Ruthie to thank for that one ::-)
Post by: Bledlow on June 24, 2016, 02:30:50 pm
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.
Post by: T42 on June 24, 2016, 02:32:50 pm
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 didn't know it either but I was certainly thinking it this morning.
Post by: Dibdib on June 24, 2016, 02:53:57 pm
Post by: Kim on June 24, 2016, 03:15:11 pm
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...
*peers*
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.
Post by: Vince on June 24, 2016, 03:23:44 pm
That the Italian Flag and ROI flags are different colours. Seems the red bit on the Irish flag is actually orange.
#colourblind
One time I was wondering through Rome and thought I had found the Irish embassy...
Post by: Dibdib on June 24, 2016, 03:34:01 pm
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.
I think either my mum or my aunt will have the documents I'd need, possibly my uncle as a last resort. I hope it doesn't come to it either, but if nothing else travelling to Europe from the UK might end up being easier with an EU rather than UK passport.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 24, 2016, 03:37:21 pm
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 ::-)
Post by: ElyDave on June 24, 2016, 11:29:19 pm
Post by: Tim Hall on June 24, 2016, 11:37:11 pm
Post by: hatler on June 24, 2016, 11:38:00 pm
Post by: ElyDave on June 24, 2016, 11:44:07 pm
Libya and Nepal I think.
Bingo
Post by: Tim Hall on June 24, 2016, 11:52:21 pm
Post by: PaulF on June 25, 2016, 12:07:10 am
Post by: ElyDave on June 25, 2016, 07:35:08 am
But that's the old Libyan flag, post Gadaffi it's a bit different https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Libya
shhhh, don't tell 'em
Post by: T42 on June 25, 2016, 08:18:09 am
Quote
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.
When I was a child I never heard it described as anything other than green, white and gold, and the idea that the flag of a nation which had spent years and lives trying to throw off union with GB should enshrine in its flag the colour of its greatest antagonist in doing so is about as daft as the idea that the Orange Order still stands for religious freedom.
As the line used to go: "Yes, Mr. Paisley, we know the grass is green, the daisies are white and the dandelions are golden but there's not a fucking thing we can do about it."
Post by: Andrij on June 25, 2016, 09:48:05 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 25, 2016, 09:48:29 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 25, 2016, 10:35:55 am
Post by: tiermat on June 25, 2016, 04:00:31 pm
This came about from ordering a limited edition bronze and being supplied with an artists proof. No I am not going to tell the gallery of their mistake...
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 26, 2016, 12:23:57 pm
Post by: Ian H on June 26, 2016, 01:14:23 pm
...is now a chiropractor.
Why does that word always summon the mental image of something that is a cross between a dinosaur and a helicopter?
Post by: T42 on June 26, 2016, 01:47:30 pm
Post by: Ruthie on June 26, 2016, 05:09:08 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 27, 2016, 09:04:16 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 27, 2016, 09:29:11 am
Post by: Ruthie on June 27, 2016, 02:40:51 pm
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?
Post by: T42 on June 27, 2016, 03:29:00 pm
It's also a brand of espresso machine, which is how I found out.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 27, 2016, 03:36:56 pm
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?
Post by: rogerzilla on June 27, 2016, 07:28:44 pm
Post by: Ruthie on June 29, 2016, 08:15:35 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on June 29, 2016, 08:39:53 am
ps: pies
pts: pasties
ha: myocardial infarction
Post by: Wombat on June 29, 2016, 08:42:41 am
Post by: T42 on June 29, 2016, 08:44:47 am
Post by: Polar Bear on June 29, 2016, 10:54:37 am
Alexander "Boris" Johnson's other middle name is de Pfeffel ;D
Is that pronounced 'piffle' perchance?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on June 29, 2016, 11:05:35 am
:DAlexander "Boris" Johnson's other middle name is de Pfeffel ;D
Is that pronounced 'piffle' perchance?
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on June 29, 2016, 12:07:53 pm
Alexander "Boris" Johnson's other middle name is de Pfeffel ;D
Is that pronounced 'piffle' perchance?
Nope.
In that upper crust English way that Featherstone-Hough is pronounced Fanshaw, Alexander 'Boris' de Pfeffel Johnson is pronounced Boris The Fuckwit Johnson.
HTH.
Post by: Bledlow on July 01, 2016, 10:46:06 am
Post by: Legs on July 01, 2016, 01:17:00 pm
Post by: rafletcher on July 01, 2016, 03:02:48 pm
Nope, and neither is Herman Wouk.
Crikey! I can barely remember reading The Winds of War.
Edit: I think I'll have to re-read some of his stuff.
Post by: T42 on July 03, 2016, 08:59:56 am
Our weekly grocery bill is about twice that.
Post by: Jurek on July 04, 2016, 10:52:53 am
So, here goes.....
I've always found the eazy-wheels on the Brompton a bit of a disappointment, especially their claim to making the bike easy to wheel around when it is folded.
I've always found them a bit crap in that respect.
But then, that is because I was folding the bike and pushing it around using the seat post.
:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
I now know that you're supposed to drop the seat post, and unfold the 'bars and pull it around with them.
I'll be clock-watching the rest of today 'cos I can't wait to get home and try this. :D
Post by: ian on July 04, 2016, 12:11:34 pm
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.
Post by: Kim on July 04, 2016, 01:48:10 pm
If you're in the habit of lifting the folded package by the back edge of the saddle and rolling on the front two easy wheels alone you don't have to do this. I find that gives the best directional control, but how practical it is will depend on your height.
Post by: Jurek on July 04, 2016, 04:19:23 pm
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 found out today that the upgrade eazy-wheels (slightly larger Ø) allow you to pull the bike by the bars - the third wheel doesn't come into it.
@Kim - I'm rackless - so only have three wheels to contend with.
ETA: This evening I am delighted! :D
Post by: ian on July 05, 2016, 09:22:10 am
Post by: Jurek on July 05, 2016, 09:40:45 am
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.
Post by: Bledlow on July 05, 2016, 10:58:27 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 05, 2016, 11:13:49 am
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on July 05, 2016, 04:49:04 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on July 05, 2016, 05:26:50 pm
Post by: Kim on July 05, 2016, 05:44:38 pm
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.
Post by: Jurek on July 05, 2016, 06:52:30 pm
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.
Post by: Andrij on July 05, 2016, 07:24:22 pm
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!
Post by: Jurek on July 06, 2016, 07:04:52 am
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!
Post by: Andrij on July 06, 2016, 07:48:16 am
Post by: ian on July 06, 2016, 07:57:22 am
I think I shall have to try changing or inverting my crappy wheels. And yes, the shiny new Brompton had thinner, more practical wheels. Frankly, the entire thing was too shiny to contemplate riding. I have never seen a bike that clean.
Post by: pcolbeck on July 07, 2016, 08:05:38 am
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/functioning-mechanical-gears-seen-in-nature-for-the-first-time
Cool.
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 07, 2016, 08:06:37 am
Post by: Jaded on July 07, 2016, 08:34:59 am
Post by: Tim Hall on July 07, 2016, 11:33:14 am
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.
The something Rattlers IIRC.
Edit. Railtown Bottlers.
Post by: Basil on July 07, 2016, 12:16:35 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 07, 2016, 12:20:43 pm
Post by: T42 on July 07, 2016, 01:08:03 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on July 07, 2016, 01:58:05 pm
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.
Post by: Efrogwr on July 07, 2016, 11:46:37 pm
Post by: Kim on July 08, 2016, 01:22:56 pm
Post by: Pickled Onion on July 10, 2016, 01:28:46 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 10, 2016, 02:52:28 pm
Post by: T42 on July 10, 2016, 05:06:26 pm
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.
Right enough, even UK windows open outwards. Must have had a referendum 'way back when.
Post by: Torslanda on July 10, 2016, 09:32:45 pm
In October 1965, to signify the dropping of the 6 millionth pound of ordnance on Vietnam a Douglas A-1 Skyraider carried a special one time addition. A toilet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-1_Skyraider#/media/File:A-1H_VA-25_CVA-41bomb.jpg)
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 13, 2016, 12:19:32 pm
Post by: Bledlow on July 13, 2016, 01:58:44 pm
http://www.stephan-remmler.de/ (http://www.stephan-remmler.de/)
Post by: T42 on July 14, 2016, 09:34:03 am
Post by: Andrij on July 14, 2016, 10:45:09 pm
Post by: T42 on July 15, 2016, 11:01:42 am
Post by: Guy on July 15, 2016, 11:27:46 am
Post by: Bledlow on July 15, 2016, 11:32:24 am
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.
Post by: Legs on July 15, 2016, 12:13:12 pm
That the Tour de France is a bi-athlonI think and hope you mean duathlon.
Post by: Bledlow on July 15, 2016, 12:37:59 pm
Post by: Polar Bear on July 15, 2016, 02:29:27 pm
Post by: hatler on July 15, 2016, 02:45:47 pm
Post by: barakta on July 15, 2016, 08:03:17 pm
Post by: Polar Bear on July 15, 2016, 09:29:51 pm
I suspect that that little bit of knowledge took a frustrating amount of time to discover ...
No. I read it in an old Chris Juden CTC article.
Post by: ElyDave on July 15, 2016, 09:58:28 pm
Post by: Torslanda on July 16, 2016, 08:59:58 am
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.
Beware the Shimano DynaSys. It only works as a set. Not only is it different from 'old Shimano ' but also incompatible with SRAM. All the road groups now use Shimano's cable pull ratio for 11speed, too. So not only is it as ugly as fcuk, none of the older groups will function with it. A crash that breaks an STi now means a frustrating search for NOS bits or a new groupset.
Way to go Big S. NOT!
Post by: Efrogwr on July 16, 2016, 08:41:29 pm
Parma violet cheese exists http://shop.lovehearts.com/parma-violet-cheese :sick:
That should be a crime.
Post by: Efrogwr on July 16, 2016, 08:44:58 pm
Post by: Mrs Pingu on July 16, 2016, 08:46:04 pm
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
Figures. Last 2 offshore medicals I had they told me I should fail due to poor eyesight sans-lunettes but they passed me anyway.
(Admittedly the last doctor made me walk along a corridor and up some stairs first. )
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 16, 2016, 10:08:59 pm
Post by: Mrs Pingu on July 17, 2016, 05:23:36 pm
Post by: Kim on July 17, 2016, 05:28:44 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 18, 2016, 07:20:00 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 22, 2016, 06:33:27 pm
Post by: Kim on July 22, 2016, 06:36:01 pm
Are Betamax and Betacam tapes different? Wait, it's Sony, of course they are. The latter would have an excuse for hanging around this long...
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 22, 2016, 06:39:00 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 22, 2016, 06:52:43 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 22, 2016, 08:41:07 pm
Post by: ElyDave on July 22, 2016, 08:56:19 pm
VHS was ditched years ago, finally upgraded to
Post by: T42 on July 23, 2016, 04:15:38 pm
Post by: Andrij on July 23, 2016, 05:34:52 pm
Who am I kidding? This isn't the first time I've 'learned' this lesson, and I'm sure I'll learn it many times more. ::-)
Post by: rogerzilla on July 23, 2016, 05:42:10 pm
Post by: Andrij on July 23, 2016, 05:46:42 pm
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?
Post by: Basil on July 23, 2016, 06:17:31 pm
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
Post by: Mr Larrington on July 23, 2016, 06:22:35 pm
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
And I have just had to turn myself back the opposite of inside-out after an incident involving Brown Drink, a fondleslab and Andrij's soaring heights of gittery ;D
Post by: Andrij on July 23, 2016, 06:29:42 pm
Post by: Basil on July 23, 2016, 08:32:08 pm
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.
Also that they were both unaware of this.
Llandysul Brum club? No, sorry. We're from Sarf brum, dontcha know?
Post by: Pedaldog on July 24, 2016, 12:50:42 am
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
No way am I sticking my finger up your arse. Keep asking though, somebody might?
Post by: T42 on July 24, 2016, 08:02:58 am
One of these, maybe?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 24, 2016, 08:25:43 pm
Post by: Canardly on July 24, 2016, 08:43:20 pm
Post by: Vince on July 24, 2016, 09:44:59 pm
Post by: T42 on July 25, 2016, 08:08:40 am
Post by: Andrij on July 25, 2016, 08:36:58 am
Post by: T42 on July 25, 2016, 08:47:51 am
Post by: woollypigs on July 25, 2016, 09:23:38 am
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.
Post by: pcolbeck on July 25, 2016, 09:37:04 am
Post by: ElyDave on July 25, 2016, 09:38:54 am
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/27/worlds-most-dangerous-school-run-chinese-children-800m-cliff (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/27/worlds-most-dangerous-school-run-chinese-children-800m-cliff)
Post by: Bledlow on July 25, 2016, 11:50:17 am
Post by: Ruthie on July 25, 2016, 12:27:44 pm
Post by: Basil on July 25, 2016, 08:29:28 pm
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
Post by: Paul on July 25, 2016, 09:20:24 pm
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.
Wales would have done, but I was determined to go to more exotic climes.
I'm in Derby now...
If you get the chance have a sneaky peek in her shed in case she has an incongruous red racing bike (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=95664.msg2002389#msg2002389) in there. The timing is about right, though I admit that moving to Wales after a single like theft is less likely than fencing it as quickly as possible. Even with a red bike. Still, you could pump her for information?
I know, I know, you're probably trying to settle in and make friends.
Maybe you could do it subtly? I'll leave it with you. I'll give you till the weekend before I alert the fuzz.
;)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 26, 2016, 09:28:41 am
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.
Post by: T42 on July 26, 2016, 09:55:02 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 27, 2016, 06:48:05 pm
Post by: Andrij on July 27, 2016, 09:54:15 pm
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
Perhaps something a bit simpler? (http://www.mentalfloss.com/uk/health/44937/how-to-cure-your-hiccups-in-15-seconds-or-less)
Post by: ElyDave on July 28, 2016, 07:19:09 am
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
Post by: T42 on July 28, 2016, 05:03:02 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on July 28, 2016, 06:11:17 pm
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
Post by: Vince on August 03, 2016, 01:55:17 pm
Post by: Ham on August 03, 2016, 02:16:14 pm
That Witham is pronounced Wit-ham.
I find that a bit of a joke
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 03, 2016, 06:18:35 pm
That Witham is pronounced Wit-ham.
Unless it's the river that flows through Lincoln...
Post by: asterix on August 04, 2016, 12:25:42 pm
Post by: Jakob W on August 04, 2016, 09:08:54 pm
[ETA: silence, puny autocorrect! (correct term added)]
Post by: Pingu on August 04, 2016, 09:13:44 pm
Post by: Bledlow on August 04, 2016, 09:36:57 pm
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.
Post by: Kim on August 05, 2016, 04:32:11 pm
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.
Post by: TimC on August 06, 2016, 02:10:51 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 06, 2016, 02:23:11 pm
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.
*After the bikes, obvs.**
**Ob cycling content.
Post by: Kim on August 06, 2016, 03:21:12 pm
I can imagine plenty of situations where adults might expect to rely on older children waking to smoke alarms - adults with hearing or mobility impairments, for example. It also seems likely that residential institutions would have fire procedures that begin with "when you hear the alarm..." rather than designated adults waking all the children manually.
Anyway, this was brought to light by a friend of a friend with a faulty smoke alarm outside the kids' bedroom wondering why they hadn't woken up in the time it took to kill it...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 06, 2016, 04:12:17 pm
Post by: yellowsubmarine on August 07, 2016, 04:55:00 am
Post by: T42 on August 07, 2016, 08:08:21 am
Post by: Ruthie on August 07, 2016, 05:09:18 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 07, 2016, 05:22:45 pm
Post by: Ruthie on August 07, 2016, 05:24:23 pm
Post by: Mrs Pingu on August 07, 2016, 05:37:55 pm
Post by: Torslanda on August 07, 2016, 06:02:10 pm
Especially on the internet . . . :hand:
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 07, 2016, 08:28:41 pm
Post by: Vince on August 07, 2016, 09:00:48 pm
I'm not impressed with the entrants in this edition - Not one Seekrit Bunkah to be seen.
Post by: tiermat on August 08, 2016, 01:12:57 pm
Post by: Paul on August 08, 2016, 01:29:38 pm
That must make designing maps, speedometers and arranging meetings a nightmare.
Post by: Bledlow on August 08, 2016, 02:53:08 pm
By the time he stopped at his turn-off, a lot more than 3.218 km down the road, we were wondering whether he'd tried to make it easy for us but didn't know old English measurements, or whether Swedish miles were different.
The latter. They're 10 km.
Post by: T42 on August 08, 2016, 03:22:35 pm
That Millenarianism has absolutely nothing to do with hats. Made a podcast make a whole lot more sense once I found that out!
Reminds me of a translation I did for a French exam at school, all about this bloke who, on the first day of his retirement, opened a cupboard at home to disclose a rack full of cans of peaches. He selected a couple, then went and sat on the river bank and cast with a can into the river. At that point I realised that "canne à pêche" meant fishing-rod.
Post by: Ham on August 09, 2016, 02:52:04 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpvwKiOpag
Yay!
Post by: Andrij on August 09, 2016, 08:40:51 pm
* Not a steam-punk internet.
Post by: Andrij on August 09, 2016, 09:10:38 pm
The Ukrainian word for watermelon - кавун [kavun] - is a borrowing of the Turkish word for muskmelon (Cucumis melo) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskmelon): kavun.
Post by: meddyg on August 10, 2016, 09:08:46 pm
which is it in Russian арбус
(pace Soviet realist novelist Alexei Arbusov which promoted sixth form sniggering).
Post by: Andrij on August 10, 2016, 09:25:25 pm
Post by: ElyDave on August 10, 2016, 09:26:12 pm
Post by: Jurek on August 10, 2016, 09:28:57 pm
That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
Post by: Andrij on August 10, 2016, 09:30:04 pm
That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
I learned a new word.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 10, 2016, 09:30:24 pm
Post by: Jurek on August 10, 2016, 09:33:24 pm
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
Post by: Ruthie on August 10, 2016, 10:17:48 pm
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. :-\
Post by: ElyDave on August 11, 2016, 06:30:29 am
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. :-\
I didn't mention the dynamite, gelignite, smokeless gunpowder as I thought everyone knew them.
He also pioneered the use of aluminium after the Paris world fair, designing and building his own motor yacht.
Post by: CAMRAMan on August 11, 2016, 09:10:43 am
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.
Post by: ElyDave on August 11, 2016, 01:48:52 pm
Post by: Ruthie on August 12, 2016, 09:27:33 pm
Post by: Basil on August 12, 2016, 09:34:47 pm
You can't get an erection in space.
Really? Why?
Post by: Ruthie on August 12, 2016, 09:42:00 pm
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.
Post by: Ruthie on August 12, 2016, 09:45:43 pm
It's fascinating stuff.
AC Clarke wrote about intimacy in space, and suggested that falling asleep in one another's arms would actually be possible in space, since you wouldn't get a dead arm. But it seems penetrative acts would be difficult or impossible. You'd just have to do it orally - and talk about it.
Post by: Feanor on August 12, 2016, 09:56:31 pm
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...
Post by: Tim Hall on August 12, 2016, 10:04:16 pm
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.
Post by: Kim on August 12, 2016, 10:09:09 pm
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.
There's probably more to it than that, as erections work just fine while lying in bed...
Post by: Feanor on August 12, 2016, 10:11:35 pm
G is irrelevant.
The hydrostatic head provided by h-rho-g is irrelevant, as demonstrated by lying in bed.
All that counts is the differential provided by the pump ( heart ).
Post by: Ruthie on August 12, 2016, 10:11:58 pm
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.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 12, 2016, 10:16:54 pm
Post by: Ruthie on August 12, 2016, 10:20:38 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 12, 2016, 10:27:46 pm
Post by: Ruthie on August 12, 2016, 10:28:24 pm
Gametes? Wot, like pheasants and partridges?
Yeah, them.
Post by: Feanor on August 12, 2016, 10:32:20 pm
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.
Post by: Ruthie on August 12, 2016, 10:40:33 pm
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.
Err they did. My son. He asked Chris Hadfield. Who said you can't get an erection in space.
The 'loop' you described isn't really a closed circuit. There are compensatory feedback mechanisms all the way round working in combination. Relatively small episodes of vascular damage (say, in diabetics) can cause a failure of the erectile mechanism, whilst still allowing for the maintenance of blood pressure and brain function. Another factor is the influence of baroreceptors - their function changes massively in space, to the extent that people tend to faint when they get back to Earth.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/cciss_feature.html
Post by: Torslanda on August 12, 2016, 10:44:58 pm
I wouldn't disagree with him. He spent however long in space. Not theorising.*
Do turkey basters work in zero g?
*Bit of a bastard if your fantasies as a teenager were based on Barbarella...
Edit. X posted
Post by: Feanor on August 12, 2016, 10:45:08 pm
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...
Post by: Kim on August 12, 2016, 10:47:40 pm
Post by: Torslanda on August 12, 2016, 10:57:19 pm
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...
There's some interesting research for when humans have to colonise space...
Post by: Ruthie on August 12, 2016, 11:04:47 pm
It would be interesting to know which mechanical systems are analagous to the human body, and how their feedback mechanisms regulate.
When you think about it, the times of highest demand and fluid through-put are likely to be when the body is vertical - flying or fighting. But the system also needs to function when the body is horizontal or even inverted for short periods, as when you get your foot stuck in a tree and then fall, hanging upside down. Although you probably can't do that for long.
Post by: Vince on August 13, 2016, 10:57:02 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 14, 2016, 07:19:37 pm
Post by: Paul on August 14, 2016, 10:09:11 pm
God?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 14, 2016, 10:31:18 pm
Post by: Paul on August 14, 2016, 10:33:23 pm
Post by: Ben T on August 15, 2016, 09:59:51 pm
Post by: Ruthie on August 15, 2016, 10:07:55 pm
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?
It's hard to say, isn't it? But we evolved to function optimally in 1G, so chances are there'd be problems. If your willie was double the weight, would it need twice as much blood in it to get it off the ground, as it were? If so, it would be even heavier ... hmm ...
Or you could lie face-down with your willie hanging down, and see if gravity did the work for you?
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 15, 2016, 10:14:40 pm
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on August 17, 2016, 02:27:05 pm
Vacuuming, apparently. You go out each weekend and vacuum your lawn.
Post by: Canardly on August 17, 2016, 03:03:36 pm
Post by: Efrogwr on August 17, 2016, 05:05:41 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on August 17, 2016, 05:51:36 pm
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.
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 17, 2016, 06:34:06 pm
Post by: Andrij on August 17, 2016, 10:18:47 pm
Post by: Bledlow on August 18, 2016, 12:48:55 pm
Post by: T42 on August 18, 2016, 05:45:44 pm
Then, owls and bats, cowls and twats,
Monks and nuns, in a cloister's moods,
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry !
Post by: ElyDave on August 18, 2016, 08:12:19 pm
Also that Parisians seem to have a thing for front racks on bikes of any kind
Post by: T42 on August 21, 2016, 07:36:37 am
Post by: Torslanda on August 24, 2016, 01:46:29 pm
Post by: Torslanda on August 24, 2016, 02:15:35 pm
and
according to official estimates it may well be 700 years before the French Zone Rouge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge)* is finally cleared of all unexploded munitions. I wonder if they have taken account of lunch breaks...?
*Originally designated as "Completely devastated. Damage to properties: 100%. Damage to Agriculture: 100%. Impossible to clean. Human life impossible"
Post by: Mr Larrington on August 24, 2016, 02:19:27 pm
Post by: T42 on August 24, 2016, 04:50:08 pm
Post by: fboab on August 25, 2016, 05:08:03 pm
If I still had a waistline, it would now have disappeared.
Post by: TheLurker on August 25, 2016, 05:44:43 pm
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.
Post by: Canardly on August 25, 2016, 09:06:46 pm
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.
FBOAB you are a norty gurl. :thumbsup:
Post by: Andrij on August 25, 2016, 09:12:40 pm
Post by: David Martin on August 25, 2016, 09:25:19 pm
It's not just cities which can be twinned - toilets can be twinned as well (http://www.toilettwinning.org/). (SFW)
Yes they can and it is a good thing too.
Post by: Mrs Pingu on August 26, 2016, 07:01:04 am
This exists (http://www.taylorsbutchers.com/pies.html)
If I still had a waistline, it would now have disappeared.
Nah, what you need is a Lochinver pie.... http://www.piesbypost.co.uk/catalog.html
Post by: David Martin on August 26, 2016, 09:58:38 am
Post by: Kim on August 26, 2016, 10:03:40 am
Post by: Salvatore on August 27, 2016, 10:01:05 am
Post by: T42 on August 27, 2016, 11:00:29 am
Post by: ElyDave on August 27, 2016, 06:27:31 pm
There is such a thing as an 'isosceles trapezium'.
wot's that, all four sides different lengths?
Post by: Bledlow on August 27, 2016, 10:02:11 pm
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.
Post by: T42 on August 28, 2016, 08:33:09 am
Post by: jsabine on August 28, 2016, 09:16:38 am
Post by: ElyDave on August 28, 2016, 06:02:16 pm
After 200km on an upright I have sore hands, a sore neck and a sore arse. No more than 100km on one of those things for me in future.
Post by: Bledlow on August 28, 2016, 11:12:52 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 02, 2016, 12:16:52 am
Post by: Nuncio on September 06, 2016, 12:32:48 pm
I have learned today that Jean Ping is the son of Cheng Zhiping and, as a young boy, was referred to as 'Son of Ping' by his fellow Gabonese villagers.
I have also learned (it's been a busy day) that the phrase 'Stiff upper lip' originates from the United States.
Time for a rest.
Post by: clarion on September 06, 2016, 12:48:30 pm
Post by: billplumtree on September 06, 2016, 01:17:17 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 06, 2016, 03:27:09 pm
Well, I am surprised, since President of the Magic Circle and legendary illusions creator Ali Bongo died in 2009.
As a result of The Curse of Half Man Half Biscuit.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on September 14, 2016, 09:45:14 am
Post by: ian on September 14, 2016, 10:19:14 am
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.
Blame the Belgians, they decided they needed to put Hutu or Tutsi on the identity cards they issued, so duly did so thus conveniently stratifying Rwandan society. We know how that panned out.
Kigali is probably the tidiest African capital I've been to.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on September 14, 2016, 10:27:05 am
Post by: ianrauk on September 14, 2016, 11:14:15 am
Vacuuming, apparently. You go out each weekend and vacuum your lawn.
My aged MIL replaced a patch of grass in her back garden with fake grass. It looks surprisingly real and she does actually hoover it.
Post by: barakta on September 14, 2016, 12:10:45 pm
Post by: clarion on September 14, 2016, 12:42:06 pm
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.
Post by: Bledlow on September 14, 2016, 01:35:48 pm
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.
Unfortunately for the idea of them being purely castes, it's usually possible to identify which group a person belongs to from physical characteristics, & the fact that historically, most Tutsi weren't aristocratic (only members of specific aristocratic lineages), but were still Tutsi. The 'castes of one people' idea seems to be another over-simplification by outsiders, like the colonial rigid racial classification but in reverse.
The Twa are generally thought to have been there first, living as hunter-gatherers, then Bantu-speakers arrived between 1000 & 1500 years ago. According to local oral histories, the Tutsi arrived maybe 5-600 years ago & adopted the Bantu language of the Hutu, leading Tutsi families establishing themselves as a ruling caste. It's all a bit confused by intermarriage & groups & individuals managing to switch status.
Post by: Bledlow on September 14, 2016, 01:59:09 pm
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.
Same with the Belgian pot-stirring. That began sort of accidentally, from the Belgians imposing their own over-simplified interpretation of society on their colonies, while thinking that what they were doing was describing reality. And it was mixed up with actions taken by Rwandan kings, such as taking Hutu chiefs (yes, there were such) into the small aristocratic elite around the royal family when, with Belgian help, they integrated Hutu-run districts which had previously been outside their control into the kingdom. Some locals seem to have found the Belgian tidy-mindedness & resultant simple classification a useful tool to help along an already begun (in the 19th century, before the Germans arrived, let alone the Belgians) process of strengthening & making more rigid a division that was previously rather flexible.
The more I read about it (& I've been reading about the histories of Rwanda & Burundi since my attention was drawn to them by the 1972 Burundi massacres), the more complicated I find it is.
The 1972 massacres were far from the first, by the way.
Next, why Tamerlane's conquests were caused by the IMF.
Post by: clarion on September 14, 2016, 03:15:09 pm
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.
Post by: ElyDave on September 14, 2016, 03:25:26 pm
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.
Of course it doesn't have anything to do with defending freedom or Sarajevo - that was just an excuse to start it. It was entirely about control of trade, with the British still based on a seagoing empire and seeing Germany partly as a threat to that power and to our trade with Europe, much the same as today.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on September 14, 2016, 09:01:46 pm
How reliable Kapuściński is, I don't know, but he's interesting. You can read it on this slightly dodgy site (ignore the Russian adverts!), starting near the bottom of p34.
http://mreadz.com/read-265722/p34
Post by: Bledlow on September 15, 2016, 12:29:28 pm
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.
Of course, the attempt to exterminate the Tutsi population of Rwanda had nothing to do with a small Hutu clique exploiting tensions to try to destroy the internal power base of the mostly expatriate Tutsi army which invaded from Uganda, but was everything to do with an IMF 'act of war'. And the structural adjustment explains why Rwanda descended further into horror even than Burundi. Never heard of the IMF structural adjustment programmes in Burundi, have you, or you'd know that both Rwanda & Burundi had more or less simultaneous programmes in the early 1990s?
Now do you see what I mean? In the selected sources you rely on, the fact that Rwanda had a structural adjustment programme just before the genocide is obviously the cause of the genocide. Since Burundi didn't have an equally* ghastly episode, then clearly it didn't have a structural adjustment programme. :facepalm: Rwandan politics, such as the existence of a large & organised (with the co-operation of a neighbouring state) expatriate population dating back to inter-ethnic conflict over 30 years earlier, don't count. Nor do the ambitions of the leaders of neighbouring states. The poor natives are helpless puppets dancing on the strings pulled by white people, & incapable of having their own motivations, or acting on their own initiative.
*Unutterably horrible, but much less intense.
Post by: David Martin on September 20, 2016, 05:04:13 pm
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=qGuYgMsAAAAJ&hl=en
Post by: Basil on September 20, 2016, 07:11:36 pm
Post by: lou boutin on September 20, 2016, 07:33:10 pm
Post by: barakta on September 20, 2016, 08:03:25 pm
Post by: ElyDave on September 20, 2016, 08:19:36 pm
Post by: Wombat on September 21, 2016, 08:26:42 am
Really changes my life, that ;D
Post by: Tim Hall on September 21, 2016, 09:07:47 am
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
I needed to read that twice. At first I thought "my casual" was a fancy modern way of referring to your paramour. What Mrs W might say about that I really don't know.
Post by: Wombat on September 21, 2016, 09:20:43 am
Post by: T42 on September 21, 2016, 09:35:47 am
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.
Post by: ElyDave on September 21, 2016, 10:13:38 am
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.
Personally I've heard a lot said that the reason for upping the target is due to a dismal failure to achieve the 6% target. The implication of actually getting to 6% which may reduce the risk of other complications, is that much greater access is needed to testing equipment and strips for T2s like yourself to allow better self management, along with the appropriate education for all of us. But nobody wants to pay for it.
As for me, HbA1C has always been in the mid to low 40's mmol/mol (<6% in old money) and I've never been given any caution about cardio risk, just the potential for hypos
Post by: T42 on September 24, 2016, 02:16:29 pm
Travel tip: hotels in Marseille are really cheap right now.
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 24, 2016, 02:18:57 pm
Post by: TheLurker on September 24, 2016, 05:45:33 pm
Post by: Bledlow on September 24, 2016, 10:47:05 pm
Post by: fboab on September 27, 2016, 08:56:53 pm
Anywhere.
ETA: Voluntary Liquidation Dec 2014.
/wonders if I can get the R&D at work to match it...
Post by: David Martin on September 29, 2016, 08:04:48 pm
Post by: Mrs Pingu on September 29, 2016, 10:38:58 pm
Post by: lou boutin on September 29, 2016, 11:09:15 pm
Post by: Basil on September 29, 2016, 11:12:37 pm
That's the 3rd one. We need nine more, peeps.
Post by: Kim on September 29, 2016, 11:17:43 pm
Post by: Torslanda on September 29, 2016, 11:31:11 pm
Post by: Ashaman42 on September 30, 2016, 05:59:12 am
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on September 30, 2016, 08:22:19 am
Post by: Ruthie on September 30, 2016, 08:25:35 am
Post by: T42 on September 30, 2016, 08:41:51 am
Post by: Legs on September 30, 2016, 08:43:11 am
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on September 30, 2016, 09:29:29 am
(is anyone counting? :D)
Post by: Ham on September 30, 2016, 09:56:36 am
Post by: Canardly on September 30, 2016, 10:16:09 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 30, 2016, 10:17:27 am
Post by: barakta on September 30, 2016, 11:42:49 am
Post by: rogerzilla on September 30, 2016, 02:58:58 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on September 30, 2016, 03:06:52 pm
Wonder Woman is on the other bus (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37518991/comic-book-writer-says-wonder-woman-is-queer)
So who's going to be the first to go to Themyscrira and yell "Your all gay"?
Post by: Kim on September 30, 2016, 03:20:41 pm
Wonder Woman is on the other bus (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37518991/comic-book-writer-says-wonder-woman-is-queer)
I'm surprised that was even a question...
(Not a fan of bus metaphors for bisexuality. It's just not cricket.)
Post by: T42 on October 01, 2016, 04:58:24 pm
Meanwhile, what I have learnt today is that the real palaeolithic diet, as opposed to the Paleo diet, included wheat. Shove that up yr glory hole, faddists.
Post by: Kim on October 01, 2016, 05:38:01 pm
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language.
Yeah, but this is YACF.
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 01, 2016, 06:41:39 pm
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
Post by: Bledlow on October 01, 2016, 11:39:46 pm
Post by: ElyDave on October 02, 2016, 08:17:18 am
We need a house poet for photos like that.
Post by: rogerzilla on October 02, 2016, 10:43:22 am
Post by: Ruthie on October 02, 2016, 10:51:31 am
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.
Me! Me!
There was a big hole in da water
That frightened the fisherman's daughter
She fell off the front
Her face took the brunt
And she knew then she shouldn't have oughter
Do I win?
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 02, 2016, 02:50:46 pm
Post by: T42 on October 02, 2016, 02:54:51 pm
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
Now I'm jealous.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 03, 2016, 12:57:14 pm
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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.
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“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
Post by: Deano on October 03, 2016, 01:35:19 pm
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Post by: Kim on October 03, 2016, 01:57:40 pm
Post by: David Martin on October 04, 2016, 11:00:03 pm
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
Post by: T42 on October 05, 2016, 07:23:53 am
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.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 05, 2016, 01:58:28 pm
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.
Post by: lou boutin on October 06, 2016, 05:32:14 pm
Post by: Basil on October 06, 2016, 06:38:28 pm
Post by: David Martin on October 06, 2016, 10:00:48 pm
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/house-caecilius-iucundus-pompeii-04248.html
Post by: Guy on October 07, 2016, 09:02:06 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 07, 2016, 12:34:15 pm
Post by: T42 on October 07, 2016, 01:35:24 pm
Post by: Bledlow on October 07, 2016, 02:48:02 pm
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
Post by: hatler on October 07, 2016, 03:19:39 pm
Post by: Torslanda on October 07, 2016, 07:33:16 pm
Five hours later it still hurts like fuck. I can still move it but won't be fitting any tyres this weekend if I can help it.
Post by: hatler on October 07, 2016, 07:49:13 pm
Post by: ElyDave on October 07, 2016, 09:26:57 pm
Ouch
Post by: mcshroom on October 08, 2016, 10:13:36 am
Post by: David Martin on October 08, 2016, 01:26:50 pm
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
Post by: Pickled Onion on October 09, 2016, 11:39:54 am
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
All those papers, but not a single one as First Named Author.
Post by: Efrogwr on October 09, 2016, 07:03:01 pm
Post by: Canardly on October 09, 2016, 11:20:03 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 09, 2016, 11:34:11 pm
Post by: Bledlow on October 09, 2016, 11:39:29 pm
http://taybehbeer.com/activity/drink/ (http://taybehbeer.com/activity/drink/)
There's an outlet in Shibuya, so maybe I can try some next time I visit Tokyo.
Post by: Feanor on October 11, 2016, 10:34:05 am
( The bike is a Canyon. )
There's nothing inside the steerer at all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHiQSnrq0o
A couple of observations:
1) The tiny screw which expands the doofer doesn't have any kind of locking mechanism on it.
2) The bike in question has a bunch of spacers on top of the stem ( he's not cut the steerer down because he wants to sell the bike on ). Then, there's just a decorative push-on top cap. This means the spacers above the stem are not under any pre-load compression at all, in fact they are quite loose and rattly.
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on October 11, 2016, 12:56:05 pm
I did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 11, 2016, 01:13:05 pm
I did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Post by: T42 on October 11, 2016, 01:15:46 pm
I did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Carpe clunem.
Post by: Tim Hall on October 11, 2016, 02:02:23 pm
Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 11, 2016, 03:04:31 pm
Caesar sic in omnibus.Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on October 11, 2016, 03:08:28 pm
Caesar sic in omnibus.Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
I have a clean up kit for that.
Post by: clarion on October 11, 2016, 04:06:08 pm
Brutus sic inatCaesar sic in omnibus.Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Post by: TheLurker on October 11, 2016, 07:26:21 pm
Bernie Sanders (yes the famous, or is that notorious? usanian leftwing firebrand* politician) has a brother, Larry.
Larry is a member of the Green Party and is moreover intent on becoming the new MP for Witney.
Larry Sanders (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/23/bernie-sanders-larry-sanders-brother-to-fight-david-camerons-old-seat-for-greens)
*Or, depending on your point of view, the only sane usanian politico in existence.
Post by: clarion on October 12, 2016, 12:41:28 pm
Post by: asterix on October 12, 2016, 06:30:42 pm
also..
Thorium-232 is now classified as carcinogenic.
Post by: Pingu on October 12, 2016, 06:51:07 pm
Cat litter contains elevated levels of thorium-232.
also..
Thorium-232 is now classified as carcinogenic.
What sort of cat litter? Before or after use?
Post by: rogerzilla on October 12, 2016, 08:17:34 pm
Post by: Torslanda on October 12, 2016, 08:44:58 pm
Not 100% about litter being radioactive but it certainly smells like that's what the cats are leaving in the tray . . .
*IGMC
Post by: Bledlow on October 12, 2016, 09:47:46 pm
My mind is boggled.
Post by: hatler on October 12, 2016, 09:58:38 pm
Post by: jsabine on October 12, 2016, 10:26:27 pm
Oh, sorry. The Archers thread is thataway >>>>
Post by: Basil on October 12, 2016, 10:29:42 pm
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.
A fascinating program. Amazing that new hominids are being identified even when they have left no physical trace. Only residual non-modern human DNA still surviving in isolated clusters.
Post by: Bledlow on October 12, 2016, 10:54:54 pm
The discussion of Neanderthal populations & genetic diversity or lack of was also fascinating. What did they think they were? Cheetahs?
A proper Horizon. I liked it a lot. Now I have some reading to do.
Post by: David Martin on October 12, 2016, 11:00:42 pm
Post by: Torslanda on October 12, 2016, 11:03:22 pm
Post by: Bledlow on October 12, 2016, 11:04:13 pm
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.
Post by: Paul on October 13, 2016, 12:54:24 pm
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.
Post by: Kim on October 13, 2016, 12:56:15 pm
That it's 50 years since the Aberfan disaster.
I wonder how many people of my age or younger have even heard of it?
I only became aware when it came up in a Geography lesson at GCSE. It must be prehistoric for the younger generations. I suppose the same can probably be said for coal mining.
Post by: Wombat on October 13, 2016, 01:04:44 pm
Whatever, it should be a lesson for the future.
Post by: ElyDave on October 13, 2016, 03:50:54 pm
Along with
Bhopal
Alexander Keilland
Piper Alpha
Seveso
Texas City
Feyzin
Deepwater Horizon
... (unfortunately we keep repeating these)
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on October 13, 2016, 04:01:01 pm
Post by: hatler on October 13, 2016, 04:02:03 pm
Post by: David Martin on October 13, 2016, 04:10:53 pm
Post by: Legs on October 13, 2016, 04:56:45 pm
Post by: T42 on October 13, 2016, 05:08:31 pm
Post by: Torslanda on October 13, 2016, 05:23:53 pm
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.
The thing that struck me was the stoicism demonstrated by the residents and rescue workers. One guy was asked a question by a young reporter and replied his mother was 'probably in there' before going back to digging. Another man interviewed said he was looking for his son, his daughter had already been found safe.
Difficult to watch, can only thank the stars and hope to never have that experience.
Post by: Canardly on October 13, 2016, 06:30:56 pm
Post by: matthew on October 13, 2016, 11:10:38 pm
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.
I had the same in 2000 as part of the first year of my chem eng course, 'what happens if we make a mistake'. Buildings blown out, Piper Alpha, Bhopal etc. were all part of it.
Texas City was while I was post grad as was Bunsfield.
They were all examples of doing things without full thought or full quality control during construction. Most of the fatalities at Texas City would have been avoided by following protocol and telling next door what you were about to do, the meeting would have been held elsewhere. Though the route cause of the incident is more involved the consequences would have been much reduced.
Post by: Jakob W on October 14, 2016, 08:48:04 am
Post by: hatler on October 14, 2016, 08:50:30 am
Post by: Quisling on October 14, 2016, 09:26:28 am
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)
Seveso was so important that there's an entire EU Directive named after it. "The Directive is widely considered as a benchmark for industrial accident policy and has been a role model for legislation in many countries world-wide."[http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seveso/index.htm]
The production director of the Seveso chemical plant was subsequently shot and killed by a terrorist organisation. This incident led to much of our current understanding of the dangers of dioxins.
Back OT, I learned about the structure of the foot in a dissection programme on BBC4 last night. Gross, but fascinating.
Post by: T42 on October 14, 2016, 09:49:36 am
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.
Similar in development to the Shenzen landslide last December.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Shenzhen_landslide
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on October 14, 2016, 10:45:51 am
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 14, 2016, 10:52:52 am
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.
God will provide ;D
Post by: Bledlow on October 14, 2016, 03:30:18 pm
Ah, the lives of royalty!
Post by: ElyDave on October 14, 2016, 06:21:10 pm
Alexander Kielland was an interesting case. My father lost a number of friends that day. It certainly had an impact on testing and certification.
They have a piece of the leg in the oil museum in Scavenger, quite sobering to see such thick steel twisted like rubber.
The Buchan, is a sister vessel, still in use as a floating production platform, but with severe restrictions on wave height before they need to downman. They will have to cease operations next year as they will not pass the latest safety case regulations.
Post by: Efrogwr on October 15, 2016, 06:28:10 pm
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!
King Walter?
Post by: hatler on October 20, 2016, 11:53:22 am
Post by: Legs on October 20, 2016, 04:29:40 pm
Post by: Torslanda on October 20, 2016, 07:08:27 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on October 20, 2016, 07:09:45 pm
Post by: Bledlow on October 21, 2016, 09:52:20 pm
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:674576/mmsi:441941000/imo:9379923/vessel:DONGBANG_GIANT_NO_5 (http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:674576/mmsi:441941000/imo:9379923/vessel:DONGBANG_GIANT_NO_5)
Post by: CAMRAMan on October 23, 2016, 05:37:13 pm
Post by: cycleman on October 23, 2016, 06:24:34 pm
Post by: David Martin on October 23, 2016, 06:48:49 pm
Won't you choke if you swallow a bird ;D
to catch a spider?
Post by: cycleman on October 23, 2016, 07:15:18 pm
Post by: Torslanda on October 23, 2016, 08:59:02 pm
Post by: Canardly on October 23, 2016, 09:16:09 pm
Post by: Feanor on October 23, 2016, 09:25:18 pm
But I don't know why you'd swallow a fly . . .
Perhaps you'll die.
Post by: Pingu on October 24, 2016, 12:14:27 am
No shit!
Post by: T42 on November 05, 2016, 12:52:46 pm
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C07E0DC1E38EF34BC4851DFB1668389669FDE
Not the charging Pickett, he was a general.
Post by: Bledlow on November 05, 2016, 01:19:17 pm
Post by: Torslanda on November 07, 2016, 09:20:28 pm
Post by: Basil on November 07, 2016, 10:28:14 pm
That duct tape is otherwise known as 'Havana chrome'. ;D
Yes. I started to watch Rich Hall, but as I fell asleep, I decided it wasn't really grabbing me and so returned to R4.
Post by: T42 on November 08, 2016, 07:38:09 am
Post by: Salvatore on November 08, 2016, 07:44:07 am
Many others here may already know it, but I found out today that Schwalbe means swallow. The bird, that is...
It's also a dive in football.
Post by: rafletcher on November 15, 2016, 09:10:13 am
Post by: Polar Bear on November 15, 2016, 09:16:02 am
Post by: Pingu on November 16, 2016, 09:54:07 am
That duct tape is otherwise known as 'Havana chrome'. ;D
In a song by Jim White it's Alabama chrome.
Post by: rafletcher on November 17, 2016, 11:05:33 am
Post by: jsabine on November 17, 2016, 11:30:08 pm
In truth, we should probably acquire one.
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on November 18, 2016, 02:01:33 pm
I have a brace of CHP engineers in my plant room who nearly had a heart attack :-[
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 18, 2016, 06:31:55 pm
Post by: matthew on November 18, 2016, 07:03:59 pm
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.
Post by: Kim on November 18, 2016, 07:12:15 pm
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.
Bonus points for large installations with a conspicuous lack of black start capability...
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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.
Enough to tip it over the edge if something's about to go kaboom anyway, thobut.
Post by: mark on November 18, 2016, 07:21:56 pm
Post by: JonBuoy on November 18, 2016, 07:32:56 pm
Post by: Andrij on November 18, 2016, 09:27:31 pm
But I put my skill in the same category as moms lifting cars off of trapped children - something that only happens in the heat of the moment and cannot be repeated on demand.
After the peds saw sense and cleared the path, I almost fell over when I realised what I was doing. Thankfully forward motion won out over sideways.
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 19, 2016, 12:55:35 pm
Post by: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on November 19, 2016, 05:31:25 pm
The rim was fine. I think I may have been a bit careless in fully seating the bead of the tyre but it remained in place for an 8 mile commute.......
Post by: Wombat on November 19, 2016, 06:20:33 pm
Post by: David Martin on November 20, 2016, 09:02:22 pm
Post by: Mr Larrington on November 20, 2016, 09:16:25 pm
Post by: Canardly on November 21, 2016, 10:24:47 am
Post by: David Martin on November 21, 2016, 01:19:10 pm
Post by: T42 on November 21, 2016, 04:54:08 pm
In the recent election, Colorado had a question on their ballot papers as to whether a similar exemption should be removed from the state constitution, but it was so confusingly worded that the majority would appear to have mistakenly voted to keep it.
Post by: TheLurker on November 21, 2016, 07:19:53 pm
Post by: Torslanda on November 21, 2016, 08:05:42 pm
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.
Post by: ElyDave on November 21, 2016, 10:59:37 pm
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 :-[
That's the funniest thing I've read in days.
Go on, do another one ;D
Post by: tiermat on November 22, 2016, 09:44:42 am
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
Post by: T42 on November 22, 2016, 09:51:54 am
Post by: rafletcher on November 22, 2016, 11:35:06 am
Post by: ElyDave on November 22, 2016, 12:08:22 pm
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on November 22, 2016, 12:53:22 pm
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
But if and when you have grandchildren, it is a law that you have to pretend to shave them by rubbing the other side of the activated electric razor over their faces, causing squeals and giggles.
Post by: Bledlow on November 22, 2016, 01:11:31 pm
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.
Post by: Legs on November 24, 2016, 08:43:47 am
Post by: T42 on November 24, 2016, 09:37:42 am
Post by: barakta on November 24, 2016, 10:36:08 am
Post by: TheLurker on November 24, 2016, 05:47:01 pm
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.
Post by: Ham on November 26, 2016, 05:03:58 pm
Post by: T42 on November 27, 2016, 03:52:55 pm
Post by: David Martin on November 30, 2016, 09:31:55 pm
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on December 02, 2016, 11:30:39 am
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane)
Post by: T42 on December 02, 2016, 01:10:23 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer
Post by: Legs on December 08, 2016, 09:56:56 am
Post by: Kim on December 08, 2016, 12:59:58 pm
Post by: Ham on December 15, 2016, 09:24:41 am
Since December 1 I have had a Christmas tree on my bike, and in residence atop the said tree is Cheery, a fairy (first cousin of Cheery Littlebottom, Dwarf). She has been throwing parties and inviting her friends every day. Apparently the Puncture Fairy could only make it three times.
Post by: Wombat on December 15, 2016, 02:13:58 pm
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.
She wasn't also there when he was working with Mr Peto on their stuff on effects of asbestos, was she? That was a brilliant work, and has had considerable influence on part of my career (and on a court case relating to the death of a friend).
Post by: David Martin on December 15, 2016, 03:53:01 pm
Post by: Torslanda on December 15, 2016, 07:43:22 pm
A small bottle sufficient for a hub service is over a tenner. That makes it over £200 per litre...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 16, 2016, 12:44:04 pm
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.
Post by: David Martin on December 23, 2016, 10:57:36 pm
Post by: Ruthie on December 23, 2016, 10:59:59 pm
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.
This was referred to by that Kate Rusby in York on Sunday night 8)
Post by: David Martin on December 23, 2016, 11:11:53 pm
Post by: T42 on December 24, 2016, 08:05:08 am
Baht'at and nowt to do wi' sock-washers.
Post by: Ruthie on December 24, 2016, 09:06:30 am
bar t'at
Aye, and wi'out 'tshoes wi' ribbons on.
She was lovely :D
Post by: T42 on December 26, 2016, 02:55:20 pm
Post by: Phil W on December 26, 2016, 03:08:04 pm
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on December 27, 2016, 09:07:00 pm
Post by: Ham on January 01, 2017, 07:06:42 pm
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.
Post by: Jakob W on January 02, 2017, 09:46:56 pm
Post by: mark on January 02, 2017, 10:14:16 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake
Post by: hatler on January 03, 2017, 03:36:34 pm
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.
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on January 05, 2017, 12:45:45 pm
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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.
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?
Post by: T42 on January 05, 2017, 01:49:28 pm
Post by: hatler on January 05, 2017, 02:29:39 pm
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.
Post by: hatler on January 05, 2017, 02:32:21 pm
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on January 05, 2017, 02:49:51 pm
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.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on January 05, 2017, 02:50:15 pm
Post by: hatler on January 05, 2017, 02:55:58 pm
:-)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.
Post by: fd3 on January 06, 2017, 09:09:41 pm
Post by: Basil on January 06, 2017, 09:52:52 pm
Post by: hatler on January 06, 2017, 10:10:59 pm
Post by: T42 on January 09, 2017, 01:49:45 pm
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.