I re-learned an old lesson.
Where business is concerned,trust no-one.My faith in human nature has taken yet another hit >:(
don't give up on all of us.
No,I'll not do that.
This place & its inhabitants go a long way to restoring my faith in human nature.
That you have to be careful when you're reticulating your silver pendant in your jewellery class or you can melt a hole right through it and have to do some careful adapting of the design to disguise the fact you just melted a fuckoff big hole through the pendant you've spent weeks working on.
I've just heard the phrase déja-moo.
It is that inescapable feeling that you have heard this bull before..
..d
I've just heard the phrase déja-moo.
It is that inescapable feeling that you have heard this bull before..
..d
I've just heard the phrase déja-moo.
It is that inescapable feeling that you have heard this bull before..
..d
Hasn't someone had that as a sig' on here for months?
That Yorkshire people are not as tight as the legend has it. ;) Someone sent me some pedals, FOC. Thank you, you know who you are.
I have mainly been learning knitting and welding.
The two should not be confused.
I've learned the difference between "buck" and "boost" (in the context of LED driver circuits).
I've also learned that joining candlepowerforums is a bad idea if you're into shiny, flashy things...
I've learned that if I eat less for a week, I lose weight. I thought my gargantuan mass was all down to my "metabolism" until today. ::-)
Trust is everything in business! Tust me!
Yakult has more sugar by volume than Coca Cola.
Oi! I'm not dead!
Just because a job run over a VPN connection works when tested in the office does not guarantee that it will work on the same laptop when working from home the next day >:(
Oi! I'm not dead!
Are you sure?
That Beeswing in Dumfriesshire is named after a racehorse.
Devout Muslims must have their toilets facing away from Mecca.
When you're doing a bathroom adaptation which involves repositioning the toilet and access to the soil stack is limited, this requirement can make it quite complicated.
Devout Muslims must have their toilets facing away from Mecca.
(it was for other reasons also probably the worst flight of my life because there was no alcohol on the plane, even the wine we pinched from firsdt class was alcohol free :sick: )
The poppies sold in Scotland are different to the one sold in E&W. The Scottish poppies have 4 petals and no leaf.
That it is quite possible to loose over 1/4 stone in 24 hours through ones bottom alone and that it's possible to have evil shivers and sweats without apparently running an abnormal temperatureDid you eat at the same Indian as me ? One second frozen to the bone, couldn't get warm at all, fell asleep, woke up in a "swimming pool", it all stopped after a trip to the loo.
Yes, the plague is in town chez Quisling :sick:
Technically, not today. Since it was actually Friday evening that I learned that a tandem fits in my living room. Just.I have a 20 inch wheeled tandem that is petite and bijoux (or petit and bijou, I don't know :-[). I could bring it for a trial at some point. :) It isn't very good at optical illusions but there aren't any near the den, are there?
Dangerous knowledge that, potentially...
Chiral.
And having investigated its meaning, I'll be looking for the first opportunity to use it.
Chiral.
And having investigated its meaning, I'll be looking for the first opportunity to use it.
A level chemistrytomorrowThursday?
Technically, not today. Since it was actually Friday evening that I learned that a tandem fits in my living room. Just.I have a 20 inch wheeled tandem that is petite and bijoux (or petit and bijou, I don't know :-[). I could bring it for a trial at some point. :) It isn't very good at optical illusions but there aren't any near the den, are there?
Dangerous knowledge that, potentially...
(I think. A good tip I was given for trying to be confident in limited French was not to get hung up about the le and la stuff and just have a go...)And don't. try. to. pronounce. every. word. because. it. doesn't. sound. right. You have to cultivate the right sense of flow, rhythm and mumble when speaking and let the reader's ears fill in the missing bits.
(I think. A good tip I was given for trying to be confident in limited French was not to get hung up about the le and la stuff and just have a go...)And don't. try. to. pronounce. every. word. because. it. doesn't. sound. right. You have to cultivate the right sense of flow, rhythm and mumble when speaking and let the reader's ears fill in the missing bits.
how does a subterranean humanoid normally found in the pages of LotR come in to things
and what's AAISP when it's at home?
That Puffinus puffinus is not a Puffin. It is a Manx Sheerwater.
Mangerines
But the good news is that the local choir are looking for Trebles. ;)
I've learned that Britain is broken and we're witnessing the end of civilisation as we know it... according to the miserable, spittle-flecked git who was reading selected articles out of today's Telegraph to his silent wife. All whilst sitting in a posh Costa Cafe sipping skinny latte... in a lovely county town on a beautiful winter's day in one of the richest and healthiest countries on earth.
If he'd shouted "We're all doomed" at the end of one of his diatribes, I'd have laughed.
Poor man.
made me laugh ;DBut the good news is that the local choir are looking for Trebles. ;)
I've only got the two of them I'm afraid.
Does anyone actually know a Polish plumber?
Does anyone actually know a Polish plumber?
I know two Polish plumbers.Business & marriage partners.
I learned today that Kim has a homophobic phone! ::-)
Reaching to the downtube to change gear achieves very little on a bike with STI ::-)
Some 'non-drowsy' Allergy relief pills aren't as non-drowsy as they could be.
The term "Yellow Belly" is a local expression meaning someone form Lincolnshire.
It derives from the colour of the Lincolnshire regiment's uniform.
I've found out why none of the books in the Moomin series seems to be the first. It's not because the first one, The Moomins and the Great Flood, Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen, was only translated into English in 2005, but because the English translation is only available in, bizarrely, Finland.
Mobile phones work with technology originally developed for the pianola. Sort of.
Son informed me today the the word "Football" does not refer to the part of the anatomy that is used to control the ball.
He says that it means "Game of ball -played on foot" - as opposed to on horseback.
the fine-scale structure of branching river networks is an organized signature of erosional mechanics, not a consequence of random topology.
Before then, tins were opened using a hammer and chisel or other implement such as an axe!Been there. Done that.
While canning of food was happening by the 1770s and was fairly widespread by the 1820s, the tin opener wasn't invented until the 1850s. Before then, tins were opened using a hammer and chisel or other implement such as an axe!
That a distraught elephant can make a noise like a small-block Chevy on the overrun.
That no matter how hard you work, how dedicated you are to your job, your boss doesn't give two shits...
The only Elephants to be found at Windsor Safari Park now will be made of Lego!!That a distraught elephant can make a noise like a small-block Chevy on the overrun.
I thought you were still banned from Windsor Safari park (following your previous Elephant "incident")
According to that bastion of learning... the innocent drinks e-mail,
Spinster started off as a compliment, denoting competence at spinning, and therefore self sufficiency.
Well yes. I learned that Gay Pete isn't gay. I think that it's fair enough that I assumed he was
I also learned that anyone more than 15 years younger than me is determined to confuse the fuck out of me.
No, Gay Search is not gay. But nor, IIRC, is Gay Search the name she was born with. Naturally, I can't find anything to back this up in the internet, but that's because nothing happened before about 1992/
Too hard. Never got over Alison.No, Gay Search is not gay. But nor, IIRC, is Gay Search the name she was born with. Naturally, I can't find anything to back this up in the internet, but that's because nothing happened before about 1992/
For the pre-1992 internet you need to ask Veronica (who is also not gay) ;D
That Turkmenistan had hydroelectric power in 1910.
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
941 General history of Europe; British Islesbut no "General History of Europe; Scotland"
942 General history of Europe; England & Wales
That the Dewey Decimal System has:Quote941 General history of Europe; British Islesbut no "General History of Europe; Scotland"
942 General history of Europe; England & Wales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes#Class_900_.E2.80.93_History_.26_geography
That Turkmenistan had hydroelectric power in 1910.
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
Phwor, look at the commutators on that!
After a discussion last night revolving around live music, and reading the OPG for "Car SOS", in which one of the presenters is described as "Musician and classic car expert", I looked up his Wikipedia entry.
Turns out he was a) the drummer in PWEI and b) the technical editor of "Practical Classics", both jobs he is no longer doing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_Townshend
That in 1888, the county of Middlesex passed a byelaw that a cyclist approaching a horse-drawn vehicle should either dismount or "politely inquire of the driver if they might pass." London cyclists, beware!
That Turkmenistan had hydroelectric power in 1910.
http://deser.pl/deser/51,111858,15534671.html?i=8
Phwor, look at the commutators on that!
Somebody had better tell the Wombles.
...Apparently when the Manichaean sect of heretical Christians ....Manichaeanism isn't specifically, or originally, Christian.
Oh. Now that is a disappointment.For him as much as me, I thought.
One of my mum's friend's daughters is called Gay and I don't think it has an e on the end. She would have been born in about 1967 so will be in her late 40s now.
Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, shagged Wallace Simpson.
Took an unspecified length of 4.5m white PVC sheeting, six thousand tent pegs (a bargain job lot from ebay), and a spotter on the opposite hillside to guide the placement after the initial stakeout (as it were).
That one of my cow-orkers was involved in the construction of this last week (the bike, not the barn):
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZLRbOfq_Dq0/U7hdg6W_NQI/AAAAAAAAF7Q/JoyWSknRNzw/s800/P2500253.jpg) (https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/llNl-YhN00N5pWfN9yecy9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink)
Took an unspecified length of 4.5m white PVC sheeting, six thousand tent pegs (a bargain job lot from ebay), and a spotter on the opposite hillside to guide the placement after the initial stakeout (as it were).
How to do a wheelie. And an endo. I can only do tiny ones, though...
That I worked with the Chuckle Brothers' brothers, the Patton Brothers. I'd previously thought they were their uncles, but no - Jimmy & Brian Patton, sons of entertainer Gene Patton, are two of the three older brothers (the other is Colin) of Paul and Barry Elliot, sons of Jimmy Elliot, who was Gene Patton. Obvs.
assume 50:50 split male: femaleYebbut there are slightly more males than females worldwide.
then the average would be one, however with testicular cancer not all men have 2 so the average will be just under 1.
I knew before that I have over twice the average number of testicles of humankind, and slightly more than the the average number of legs, but I've just learned that I have 0.4 feet more than the average London pigeon.
If someone says their daughter's name is Petra, don't say "oh, like the Blue Peter dog?"You're on rocky ground with that.
I also learned once that comparing said daughter to a 'rose-red city, half as old as time' is unpopular.Did you get a stony stare?
Of the 270 Apollo 11 Moon Rocks and Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rocks that were given to the nations of the world by the Nixon Administration approximately 180 are currently unaccounted for.
Doing a Google image search for Pompino is not a good idea. I'd forgotten the Italian meaning. :facepalm:
That " Of course I don't want ice. Are you fucking mad?" is not seen as an acceptable response to a query re my request for a large lafroaig.
How to run my iPod from the Mudstang's steering wheel controls :thumbsup:
My employer takes you to the doctor when you get grey shiny and make whimpering noises at work.Oh dear, hope you're OK?
Why I've been finding so many dead wasps in my bedroom over the last few months.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was obsessed with wombats :o
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was obsessed with wombats :o
Isn't everyone?
Prince Peter Kropotkin; notable anarchist type, spent nearly 20 years living in Bromley. And I thought that Camille Pissarro painting in Sydenham was weird.
Is that learning to unicycle is a bastard on the shins :o
I am trying to perfect the mount. The method I am attemting involves standing behind my steed, saddle in close proximity to crutch, unicycle at a 45o angle anead, pedals parallel to the ground, put foot on rear pedal and push down- the unicycle moves backwards under you. I am not always sucessful in getting my other leg out of the way as the unicycle moves back, resulting in a sudden pedal/ shin interface.
No pain no gain apparently :'(
Is that learning to unicycle is a bastard on the shins :o
I am trying to perfect the mount. The method I am attemting involves standing behind my steed, saddle in close proximity to crutch, unicycle at a 45o angle anead, pedals parallel to the ground, put foot on rear pedal and push down- the unicycle moves backwards under you. I am not always sucessful in getting my other leg out of the way as the unicycle moves back, resulting in a sudden pedal/ shin interface.
No pain no gain apparently :'(
The way I learnt was to stand with arse on saddle and non-dominant foot on the pedal, full extension, with the unicycle at an angle in front of you. Then launch forward from your dominant leg, foot on the pedal, and start pedalling to keep the unicycle under you.
How to deep fry both cheese and chocolate. :D (Not at the same time, though that could be interesting too.)
That bioscope is the South African word for cinema.
Or you could eat or sleep more - maybe I've got the wrong house?
I have a new work laptop.
It is aIBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.
There is no buttons next to the trackpad.
The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
I have a new work laptop.
It is aIBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.
There is no buttons next to the trackpad.
The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
I have a new work laptop.
It is aIBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.
There is no buttons next to the trackpad.
The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
Our Thinkpad does that, but it also has buttons above the trackpad. I find myself switching between them without any apparent consitency.
I have a new work laptop.
It is aIBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.
There is no buttons next to the trackpad.
The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
Our Thinkpad does that, but it also has buttons above the trackpad. I find myself switching between them without any apparent consitency.
That our new neighbours constant rowing, shouting, screaming, threats of physical violence is only interrupted by sleep and meals. Am seriously contemplating arson . . .
. . . or moving.
There is such a thing as a Gin Pennant! :D
(http://www.flagz.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gin-Pennant-Flag.jpg)
The Tutti Pole is a real place
There is such a thing as a Gin Pennant! :D
(http://www.flagz.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gin-Pennant-Flag.jpg)
Well, duh ::-) ;D
And that pennant is way to fancy :P
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3713/12701332264_2ab4370712_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj)
gin_pennant (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
That our new neighbours constant rowing, shouting, screaming, threats of physical violence is only interrupted by sleep and meals. Am seriously contemplating arson . . .
. . . or moving.
That Torslanda lives next door to Sir Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent.
There is such a thing as a Gin Pennant! :D
(http://www.flagz.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gin-Pennant-Flag.jpg)
Well, duh ::-) ;D
And that pennant is way to fancy :P
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3713/12701332264_2ab4370712_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj)
gin_pennant (https://flic.kr/p/kmnDzj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
They're not uncommon - I have one of these.
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3869/14531404389_26808c9918_h.jpg)
I have learned that "numbawan pikinini blong Missis Kwin" is Tok Pisin for "Prince Charles".
I have learned that "numbawan pikinini blong Missis Kwin" is Tok Pisin for "Prince Charles".
I always thought that was Phil the Greek . . .
I have learned that "numbawan pikinini blong Missis Kwin" is Tok Pisin for "Prince Charles".
I always thought that was Phil the Greek . . .
Him "longpela blong Missis Kwin"
OK, who else just googled it?
OK, who else just googled it?
Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.
That this (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-DDeRzSSuTeg/VHjZIcOwegI/AAAAAAAAHLU/016-zohg5iI/s56/symbol_small.jpg) is the weather symbol for, "Well, it would be sunny if the sun actually rose above the horizon, but it doesn't at this time of year so it won't be".
Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.
A friend of mine feeds her dog and cat stuff that's just ground up muscle and organ meat. I can't remember the name of the place she gets it from. It's only slightly more expensive than pouches of cat food. If I had a bigger freezer, I'd get it for him.Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.
I spent yesterday morning researching which is the best quality food for the kittens and found some interesting articles about the pet food industry and the crap the put in it, and how the manufacturers are prone to exaggerating the food required so they sell more. Some of the stuff I've been reading suggests that the premium food contain more meat and less grain based carbs which might be either less calorie or better calories. This site is quite interesting http://www.justanswer.com/cat-health/2dmhh-female-cat-weighed-3-6-kilos-10-mths-old-spaying.html
I'm hoping that our 2 will self regulate on dry food eventually, but not yet apparently....
When I feed next door's cat he only gets 2 pouches a day but how much of that gets eaten by other cats I dunno.
...A friend of mine feeds her dog and cat stuff that's just ground up muscle and organ meat. I can't remember the name of the place she gets it from. It's only slightly more expensive than pouches of cat food. If I had a bigger freezer, I'd get it for him.
Mine eats poppadoms. I have no idea what she does with the rest of the takeaway.
apparently the Smithsonian agreed to never recognise any other potential first flight pioneer in exchange for the Wright's plane. Dundee claims an early flying pioneer, possibly the first in UK, maybe the world.Loadsa people flew before the Wrights 'first' flight, including both of the Wrights (gliding). Some of 'em even did so (briefly) in powered craft. The Wrights' claim depends on a few qualification to 'first flight', e.g. powered, controlled, took off under own power. It seems pretty certain that their 'first' flight was closer to achieving all of those at once than any previous flight, but it was just one step among many.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/history-2.1462/is-history-right-or-was-dundee-s-preston-watson-the-first-to-make-a-powered-flight-1.718839
Supposed to have been a bloke in west Wales (Saundersfoot) who flew years before anyone else.
Or a monk in Malmesbury.
Or a bloke from Brazil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-DumontI disagree on this one. Even in the article you link to, it says he didn't start on heavier than air flight until 1905. LTA flight goes back to Montgolfier, though dirigibles were refined by S-D.
Or a greek bloke by the name of Icarus.
Or a bloke from Brazil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-DumontHis integrity as a pioneer flyer is somewhat questionable.
apparently the Smithsonian agreed to never recognise any other potential first flight pioneer in exchange for the Wright's plane. Dundee claims an early flying pioneer, possibly the first in UK, maybe the world.Loadsa people flew before the Wrights 'first' flight, including both of the Wrights (gliding). Some of 'em even did so (briefly) in powered craft. The Wrights' claim depends on a few qualification to 'first flight', e.g. powered, controlled, took off under own power. It seems pretty certain that their 'first' flight was closer to achieving all of those at once than any previous flight, but it was just one step among many.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/history-2.1462/is-history-right-or-was-dundee-s-preston-watson-the-first-to-make-a-powered-flight-1.718839
To me, their achievements were significant, but I'm not sure that they made any net contribution to aviation. Their insane patent war* held back the progress of aviation in the USA**, & the world was filled with experimenters & theoreticians at the time. It was going to happen, & soon, whether the Wrights existed or not.
*They claimed that any kind of control mechanism which changed the shape of a wing, whether by warping, ailerons, or any other means, was covered by their patent. Patently ridiculous, since wing-warping & ailerons had been in the literature for decades, had been used on experimental gliders, & there was even a prior patent (British, expired) for ailerons.
Or a bloke from Brazil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-DumontHis integrity as a pioneer flyer is somewhat questionable.
There were two instances of his dirigible being found to be irrepairably damaged moments before he was due to give a demonstration flight in the States.
Sabotage was suspected, but not proven.
A similar incident occurred when he was was about to give a demonstration flight in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, Sydenham.
On being accused of causing the damage himself, he took himself off, back to France, in a huff - an early type of aircraft propelled by fuel made of horse manure and discarded tram tickets.
...chicken-shed cleaner, bodyguard, Dr Who scriptwriter...
apparently the Smithsonian agreed to never recognise any other potential first flight pioneer in exchange for the Wright's plane. Dundee claims an early flying pioneer, possibly the first in UK, maybe the world.Loadsa people flew before the Wrights 'first' flight, including both of the Wrights (gliding). Some of 'em even did so (briefly) in powered craft. The Wrights' claim depends on a few qualification to 'first flight', e.g. powered, controlled, took off under own power. It seems pretty certain that their 'first' flight was closer to achieving all of those at once than any previous flight, but it was just one step among many.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/history-2.1462/is-history-right-or-was-dundee-s-preston-watson-the-first-to-make-a-powered-flight-1.718839
Not today, but recently: The prototype Bristol Type 142 airliner, which was subsequently adapted to become the Blenheim bomber, was called 'Britain First'. :o
*Two more jobs and I’ll have that long list of varied jobs that lots of authors seem to have. I’ve driven a train, worked in a chocolate factory and been Maureen Lipmann’s paperboy amongst other things.For some reason, that gives me a vision of a Wascally Weasel leaping from the cab of a moving tube train, climbing up a ventilation shaft and delivering a box of Milk Tray to Maureen Lipmann.
That Lycra for camels exists
https://twitter.com/RDRonaldauthor/status/557146477517348864?s=09
I went to a pantomime at the Darlington Civic Theatre over Christmas, featuring the chuckle brothers.
I worked with a couple of Hungarians who had previously been working onRussianUSSR ICBM launchers. Their targeting computers were based on relays as they aren't effected by EMP.
I went to a pantomime at the Darlington Civic Theatre over Christmas, featuring the chuckle brothers.
Oxymoron, no?
On April, 1970, the Grumman Aerospace Corporation—manufacturers of the Lunar Module—sent a $312,421.24 bill to North American Rockwell—who made the service module that malfunctioned in the Apollo 13 mission—for towing services.
MiG-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Western_intelligence_and_the_MiG-25).
If you're lying on your back in bed, and there is a cat standing on your chest demanding attention, turf him off before you start to stroke him otherwise you'll get cat drool in your mouth.
Keep cats out of the bedroom?
Keep cats out of the bedroom?
I don't have carpet. But I do have a cat who can open all the doors in the flat, and if I lock the bedroom door he either hurls himself against the door, yowling furiously, or he sits at the door crying piteously. He's generally very little trouble in the bedroom at nightKeep cats out of the bedroom?
Not if you expect to have any carpet left outside the bedroom door by the morning ;D
If you're lying on your back in bed, and there is a cat standing on your chest demanding attention, turf him off before you start to stroke him otherwise you'll get cat drool in your mouth.
I had an unpleasant awakening this morning when my cat actually licked my tongue while I was asleep with my mouth slightly open :-[
I am not quite sure what I have learned from this.
The nut securing an oven fan is reversed thread. It would have been useful knowing that a little earlier.
The nut securing an oven fan is reversed thread. It would have been useful knowing that a little earlier.
Neff?
I discovered that once. Why don't they just make the fan spin the other way, if the problem is of an unscrewy nature?
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.
Honestly, I felt right at home ;-)
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.
Honestly, I felt right at home ;-)
Grand Central is far nicer, but probably doesn't have trains going where you want to go...
Nuking Mordor Central from orbit seems somewhat impractical and might create much collateral damage.
It might be the only way...
Alternatively, they could bury it inside an enormous reinforced concrete sarcophagus.Surely that's what they did when they built it?
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.
Honestly, I felt right at home ;-)
I started learning how to weld and didn't set myself on fire at any point. Yay.Cool (or not). Gas, arc, MIG, TIG?
That if a company that has supplied some equipment forgets to pack some fixings, then says on being notified "We'll overnight them to you so they will be with you tomorrow", don't plan your tomorrow around the missing bits actually arriving in time to be useful that day ::-)
Mordor Central has a bigger, slightly uglier, sibling and their name is New York Penn.
Honestly, I felt right at home ;-)
The benefit of Penn Station is that it's NYC outside. But yes, it's a station modelled on the British 1960s train station experience. Though with more net curtains for some reason. I regularly travel between Philadelphia and NYC on the train, so that's my NYC arrival experience (30th St Station in Philadelphia is far nicer, if a bit neglected over the years). It's quite odd taking the Amtrak down south, through the grand stations of Philadelphia and Union Station in Washington DC, and then suddenly to get off you pretty much have to jump into a ditch by the side of the train.
There is a very interesting private hostel near Basil's place in Wales.
There is a very interesting private hostel near Basil's place in Wales.
Is there?
Australian rules football is not a variety of rugby. I always thought it was.
Another thing Kim will have learned today: pile-on is not only northern. That was the term used in Gloucestershire.Australian rules football is not a variety of rugby. I always thought it was.
I always thought it derived from that other popular playground activity: The bundle[1]?
[1] Or in northern: "pile-on"
Another thing Kim will have learned today: pile-on is not only northern. That was the term used in Gloucestershire.
Why is the post code for Sheffield DL? I can't think of a place it might refer to.
Hmmm. Go say that in Cheltenham.We had one in my primary school (Princess Road Junior, M/cr) called "sciss-bag-brick" (aka, scissors-bag-brick).
It's surprising the variety in terms used for kids' games..
That the voice introducing the instruments on Tubular Bells (you know, that bit) is Vivian Stanshall's. One of those things that's obvious when you know it.Pretty sure he's credited on the album sleeve as "Master of Ceremonies".
After more than a decade of decline, worldwide CD income was finally surpassed by digital music revenues last year.http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/28/how-the-compact-disc-lost-its-shine
In the context, it's clear. CDs are tangible.
How on earth did the Entente Cordiale happen?It started with a lime, then some fizzy water and sugar. The entente was only added later.
How on earth did the Entente Cordiale happen?
You're not allowed to post a book to Ireland without a licence from the ROI Minister of Justice, and you're not allowed to post any printed matter to France and Japan, full stop. According to the Royal Fail. ...Well, you can post them, but the items aren't supposed to be accepted by the receiving countries' postal services.
...To list just a couple of examples of the many ordinary items in Prohibited lists.
http://www.royalmail.com/personal/international-delivery/country-guides
Making shure committee members get their fair share of perks eg limos, slap-up meals and vintage wine gums
I noticed in another thread the Knopfler brothers were at the same school as someone on this forum. I think it might have been fboab. Maybe.Their uncle lived in the house which had a garage opposite ours on the back lane.
How All 50 States Got Their Names (http://mentalfloss.com/article/31100/how-all-50-states-got-their-names)California is a mythical island. I think we'd all suspected this!
The difference between F/UTP and UTP Cat5e cables.
(Clue: Not just £2.79+VAT)
If I still had the l33t 5k1llz required to put connectors on the stuff...
Er, no.The difference between F/UTP and UTP Cat5e cables.
(Clue: Not just £2.79+VAT)
If it is any help I have c 300m of Cat 5e cable to give away.
That in 1896 the average wage of a Manchester bricklayer was 10d a day.
And the sentence for a Manchester thief convicted of pickpocketing £36 at a football match* was 7 years imprisonment.
*Gainsborough Trinity v Newton Heath.
...
I learned today that if you are expecting an email from a Russian source, you really need to check your spam box
That in 1896 the average wage of a Manchester bricklayer was 10d a day.
And the sentence for a Manchester thief convicted of pickpocketing £36 at a football match* was 7 years imprisonment.
*Gainsborough Trinity v Newton Heath.
http://www.measuringworth.com/
In 2011, the relative worth of £36 0s 0d from 1896 is:
£3,420.00 using the retail price index
£3,630.00 using the GDP deflator
£13,700.00 using the average earnings
£23,300.00 using the per capita GDP
£37,200.00 using the share of GDP
That all the bridges on the Lancaster canal are individually numbered, with lovely cast iron number plates affixed. All 200 or so of 'em. To a geek with OCD and a camera this represents a challenge, an opportunity, and an enormous time-sink.
*strongly approves of this learning*
Bill, have you spotted this guy's flickr feed?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/suspensionstayed/sets/
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe.
Cos the pikeys can't get a flatbed tranny down a towpath . . . ?
Cos the pikeys can't get a flatbed tranny down a towpath . . . ?
Pity. They could have nicked the anti-cycling barriers while they were at it.
Nautical terminology distinguishes between collisions (two moving objects into one another) and allisions (moving object into stationary object).
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe. Does this suggest that all the bridges on the whole national network are similarly numbered?
The bridge or lift has the same number with A after it . :)I've seen bridges with number then 'E' after them when there's been a lot of development since the canal was built. Motorway bridges over canals don't get 'canal bridge' numbers and nor (as far as I can remember) do railway ones. I presume it's to do with who is responsible for the maintenance and so on.
Have any more sensible criminals been successfully prosecuted for refusing to reveal an encryption key yet? That's where it really gets interesting.
Motorway and railway bridges will have their own numbering system, so I suppose that's to avoid confusion.The bridge or lift has the same number with A after it . :)I've seen bridges with number then 'E' after them when there's been a lot of development since the canal was built. Motorway bridges over canals don't get 'canal bridge' numbers and nor (as far as I can remember) do railway ones. I presume it's to do with who is responsible for the maintenance and so on.
Have any more sensible criminals been successfully prosecuted for refusing to reveal an encryption key yet? That's where it really gets interesting.It has certainly happened in the UK under RIPA for which section 49 covers court orders to decrypt. Look at the encryption section in the OSC annual reports: https://osc.independent.gov.uk/about-us/annual-reports-2/
The line in hairdye instructions about unused mixture exploding is not in fact just there to make you buy more instead of using up leftovers.What did you blow up? :D
The line in hairdye instructions about unused mixture exploding is not in fact just there to make you buy more instead of using up leftovers.What did you blow up? :D
That sufficiently long hair is a successful substitute for reading the instructions. :o
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe. Does this suggest that all the bridges on the whole national network are similarly numbered?
I think you may have a bit of a job on, matey. :)
So now buying more than one pack of hair colourant could be regarded as evidence of radicalisation.
A feminist is a woman with red hair.
Probably.Quote from: someone GermanA feminist is a woman with red hair.
Probably.Quote from: someone GermanA feminist is a woman with red hair.
And indeed, my exact problem. Hair too long for one box of dye, but not long enough to warrant using all of the second box…
And indeed, my exact problem. Hair too long for one box of dye, but not long enough to warrant using all of the second box…
The Die Hard 3 solution would surely be not to mix up all of the second box...
The weird thing about that, which I've heard from several Germans (male and female, albeit last century), is that it wasn't "feminists like to dye their hair red" or "having red hair is often a sign of being a feminist" it was given as an actual definition. Maybe just a language thing though.Probably.Quote from: someone GermanA feminist is a woman with red hair.
Guilty as charged.
And indeed, my exact problem. Hair too long for one box of dye, but not long enough to warrant using all of the second box…
That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
If it helps, I'll make a call to your local old bill saying there is a body buried 6ft down.
That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
A few more bags filled before the rain, most of the path is up now. Found a completely intact 3x2' paving slab under the path for no apparent reason. Wonder what's hiding underneath.
That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
A few more bags filled before the rain, most of the path is up now. Found a completely intact 3x2' paving slab under the path for no apparent reason. Wonder what's hiding underneath.
The bodies. And the guns.
A secret bunker, already filled with every bike you've ever dreamed of.That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
A few more bags filled before the rain, most of the path is up now. Found a completely intact 3x2' paving slab under the path for no apparent reason. Wonder what's hiding underneath.
Elephants. Elephants all the way down.That there is a lot more gravel on my back garden than I thought (16 rubble sacks has hardly made a dent), and that the ground underneath is bumpy, full of building rubble and made of heavy clay.
Tempted to put it all back.
That'll be the reason for the gravel, then.
It does look a bit shit Marcus, don't put it back. Stay with your vision!
A few more bags filled before the rain, most of the path is up now. Found a completely intact 3x2' paving slab under the path for no apparent reason. Wonder what's hiding underneath.
Well, not learned, as I don't believe it to be true.
I've just read on twitter that adding "The" to the names of major roads is a Birmingham thing.
The Pershore Road and The Bristol Road are examples near me.
But surely other towns do this too don't they? Whoever speaks of "Edgware Road"?
Well, not learned, as I don't believe it to be true.
I've just read on twitter that adding "The" to the names of major roads is a Birmingham thing.
The Pershore Road and The Bristol Road are examples near me.
But surely other towns do this too don't they? Whoever speaks of "Edgware Road"?
I'd always heard it was a Londonton thing. Roads are "the", everything else is not, hence "the Mile End Road" or "the Leyton High Road" but "Oxford Street" and "Northumberland Avenue".
It's always been The Old Kent Road, and The Edgeware Road. Seems to apply to roads that go to places (like Old Kent, no one bothers with New Kent), though is random in application.
Through my annual visit to ITV4 thanks to the TdF, I learn that The Sweeney is really rather shite. A carnival of bad acting and cut price fisticuffs.Harumph! For (some of) us wrinklies an hour of The Sweeney followed by an hour of TdF is as close to televisual perfection as it is possible to get. I just wish the bloody continuity announcer wouldn't talk over the end credits drowning out the lovely melancholy arrangement of the theme tune.
And can the young inspector Morse do anything other than scowl?He can also do wry smiles / grimaces. :)
Check the jockey wheels too.I put the new cassette on and it still didn't work. :facepalm:
That King sized beds are not just 6" wider than doubles, but also 3" longer.
That King sized beds are not just 6" wider than doubles, but also 3" longer.
There used to be a rail bridge across the Severn Estuary which was destroyed when two fuel barges collided with it in 1960.You can still see the remains of it alongside the Sharpness Canal and at very low water levels even the tops of the piers in the river bed are just about visible. There is a theory that the piers were damaged from an earlier collision and that, rather than the fire, is what really brought it down.
That the song Turn turn turn was from the book of Ecclesiastes I didn't know that
What do you think of Bristol?
I have a love for the people of Bristol who I met through FLC and they have shown me real, ‘frontline’ Bristol and I see more and more similarities with New York there than any other UK city. It’s a port city, so is NYC; we see things for what they really are, and I love me some of that. Big yourself up, Bristol!
That Google maps streetview now marks places you can see inside with an amber blob. Some fun places, like the Hackney Empire (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.54557,-0.0557986,3a,75y,351.13h,100.55t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXDRGMiyJm9bl0el4SbjtLA!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656) and odd, like Attic Self Storage (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5344636,-0.0224501,3a,75y,316.35h,61.62t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s254oAQxr9a4AAAAGOptQkQ!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656). I have a new conference call time wasting tool.
Rudest plant name ever: https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=3813&fromplants=pl%5Fid%3D3811
Botanist John Gerard called it the "pricke mushroom" or "fungus virilis penis effigie" in his General Historie of Plants of 1597, and John Parkinson referred to it as "Hollanders workingtoole" or "phallus hollandicus" in his Theatrum botanicum of 1640.
Back in the SFW world, not me, but No1Daughter just found out that St Pancras is not, in fact, St Pancreas.
;D
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ySt9SeZl9s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ySt9SeZl9s)
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
So, not content with turning a Mustang into a Mudstang, you're doing a number on the interior . . . ?
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
TPIUWOV ;D
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
TPIUWOV ;D
I Googled that and Google thought I was looking of TPOWIS (The Power of Women in Spandex)... ;D
Still haven't worked it out - care to elaborate?
That opening a bottle of Fizzy Pop in 30+ degree heat and a mile above sea level is best not done when driving at 70 mph :-\
TPIUWOV ;D
I Googled that and Google thought I was looking of TPOWIS (The Power of Women in Spandex)... ;D
Still haven't worked it out - care to elaborate?
This Post Is Useless WithOut Video?
That headphones really can get down to 16Hz and below. Just treated myself to a pair of sennheiser hd380pro, and testing that fact out. Mrs W asked why that was so important, so I pointed out that a 32ft organ pipe is 16Hz, and I'm currently proving the point with Daniel Roth on the organ of St Sulpice. I think my head is about to dissolve. That is gooooood. They also seem to work well with Gilbert Rowland punishing a harpsichord with the creations of Antonio Soler. A good purchase, methinks.
Oh, yes, very definitely so. Sort of farting, pulsing, or in the case of St Sulpice, if you are there in person, a bit like thinking someone has rested the end of a pneumatic drill on your chest and pulled the trigger. 16Hz is a bit odd, but apparently an organ in Sydney has 64ft pipes. What the hell that sounds like I cannot grasp. 8Hz, obviously, but presumably like 16 but half the speed. i struggle to grasp how we can "hear" the individual pulses, but my knowledge of audio physics is lacking.
I was amused by ther specs of some of these heaphones, top end went up to 32KHz on some of them. A bit of an academic pint as I won't be lending them to a bat, they're too big, for a start.
It says they are rated for 108dB.... Hmm, not sure of the wisdom of that.
It also makes VMWare even more of a spoiler for Inception than ever.
That Owayo shirts say wash at 30oC on the label. Washing my YACF jerseys at 40oC for the last few years doesn't seem to have damaged them :-\
The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...
The complete cynic in you would suspect they run cool when they detect a test cycle to reduce energy consumption, hot when they detect a test cycle for washing efficiency and about right in normal use. :demon:That Owayo shirts say wash at 30oC on the label. Washing my YACF jerseys at 40oC for the last few years doesn't seem to have damaged them :-\
They're pleasingly resilient, as long as you don't shoulder-barge too many canal bridges in them. :thumbsup:
I can't help wondering what the accuracy of the average washing machine's temperature control is anyway. But not to the point of getting covered in irritant bodging a DS18B20 past the seal. The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating... ;)
(I generally work on the principle that if it can't go in the 40C synthetics wash with everything else, then it's far too much effort.)
The complete cynic in you would suspect they run cool when they detect a test cycle to reduce energy consumption, hot when they detect a test cycle for washing efficiency and about right in normal use. :demon:That Owayo shirts say wash at 30oC on the label. Washing my YACF jerseys at 40oC for the last few years doesn't seem to have damaged them :-\
They're pleasingly resilient, as long as you don't shoulder-barge too many canal bridges in them. :thumbsup:
I can't help wondering what the accuracy of the average washing machine's temperature control is anyway. But not to the point of getting covered in irritant bodging a DS18B20 past the seal. The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating... ;)
(I generally work on the principle that if it can't go in the 40C synthetics wash with everything else, then it's far too much effort.)
QuoteThe cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...
I didn't think VW made washing machines**
**Mind you, that was before I looked at an Up! :demon:
QuoteThe cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating...
I didn't think VW made washing machines**
**Mind you, that was before I looked at an Up! :demon:
I can vouch for that, except for the barge bridge barging bitThat Owayo shirts say wash at 30oC on the label. Washing my YACF jerseys at 40oC for the last few years doesn't seem to have damaged them :-\
They're pleasingly resilient, as long as you don't shoulder-barge too many canal bridges in them. :thumbsup:
I can't help wondering what the accuracy of the average washing machine's temperature control is anyway. But not to the point of getting covered in irritant bodging a DS18B20 past the seal. The cynic in me would guess that they run cool in order to fudge the energy consumption rating... ;)I would have thought a Kim solution would have been a waterproofed minion skeleton (kinder egg insert) containing battery, wireless module and temperature sensor) would have been more appropriate bodgery (corrected back from the autocorrupt's badger)
(I generally work on the principle that if it can't go in the 40C synthetics wash with everything else, then it's far too much effort.)
There is an ISO Standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103).
(Has a nice cup of tea and a sit down)
There is an ISO Standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103).
(Has a nice cup of tea and a sit down)
It is a standard for brewing tea for tasting and blending. Not for making and serving.
It's just the BS with a new cover page thobut.
(If anyone is really interested I have it as a PDF kicking around somewhere...)
The Ukrainian word for otter (Lutra lutra) is видра [vydra].I would have known that. :) I can't think when I might have had a conversation about wydra but I certainly have done at some time.
As otters rarely come up in conversation, no surprise it's taken so long to encounter the word.
People on forums don't like it (get annoyed, angry, sarcastic) when others disagree with them.
People on forums don't like it (get annoyed, angry, sarcastic) when others disagree with them.
This is because thinking about sex raises your testosterone levels, apparently.
Good things to learn, Dangerous Disastrous Cyclist! :thumbsup:
O.
Pictures?
I wouldn't have thought there was enough paper in a modern Yellow Pages to cause more pulp than the average train ticket...
I wouldn't have thought there was enough paper in a modern Yellow Pages to cause more pulp than the average train ticket...While not being as thick as the ones I remember as a child, the local one here in silicon valley is still nearly an inch thick. *Everything* was grey. I almost threw out a sock as it looked just like a lump of wet paper.
Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.
Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.
Today I have discovered Arvo Pärt.
You lucky chap. Such lovely music to encounter for the first time. :thumbsup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZe3mXlnfNc
If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
I also don't have to ride anywhere until tomorrow, when it might have stopped raining.If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain ::-)
I also don't have to ride anywhere until tomorrow, when it might have stopped raining.If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain ::-)
Really love my job.
I also don't have to ride anywhere until tomorrow, when it might have stopped raining.If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
I soooooooo shouldn't have read that just before riding home in the pissing rain ::-)
Really love my job.
You can go right off people.
;)
Does this mean you are an Official Pancake Tester? *rewrites CV: ...extensive pancake experience, MSc Pancakeology,... *
I'm fairly sure that's Victorian for 'pr0n'
That before ladybirds were called ladybirds, they were called ladycows. And that the 'lady' comes from a connection between the seven spots and the Seven Pains of Our Lady. In some languages they have names like 'Mary's beetle'.
I suppose this means that just as they are not birds or cows (nor true bugs, it turns out) the ones with different numbers of spots aren't really ladies!
If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
First World Problem Thread isIf you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.
I love my job.
Oh yum, that sounds almost as good as the chocolate and chestnut puree pancake I buy in Val d'Isere :P :P
Gotham, the village in Notts, is directly linked to Gotham City, of Batman fame. This is due to it's reputation, in the Middle Ages, of being a village of lunatics....but of course it's not pronounced the same (Goat'em)
Gotham, the village in Notts, is directly linked to Gotham City, of Batman fame. This is due to it's reputation, in the Middle Ages, of being a village of lunatics.
I was on a personal safety course yesterday, and the facilitator guy told us that the thing about knowledge is, if you're in the know, you've got the edge.Was he from Unthinkable Solutions? Or maybe he was played by Ricky Gervais. Either way, did you manage not to laugh?
I was on a personal safety course yesterday, and the facilitator guy told us that the thing about knowledge is, if you're in the know, you've got the edge.Was he from Unthinkable Solutions? Or maybe he was played by Ricky Gervais. Either way, did you manage not to laugh?
Dorothy Hodgkin, Chancellor of the University of Bristol (1971 to 1988), was the first British woman to win the Nobel Prize for science. She remains the only woman to have received this award.Oh, and that there is a "Nobel Prize for Science". ::-)
I was on a personal safety course yesterday, and the facilitator guy told us that the thing about knowledge is, if you're in the know, you've got the edge.Was he from Unthinkable Solutions? Or maybe he was played by Ricky Gervais. Either way, did you manage not to laugh?
Please tell me that someone managed to respond with a straight face and tell him they'd always thought that if they were in the know, they were on a ledge.
That if you divide a mass ofYep, 6V/xUrastuff into spheres of diameter 'x', or cubes of side 'x', the pile of stuff you have has the same total surface area.
That shaving with a straight razor is something that will require a lot of practice! Not as smooth a result as my usual DE razor and a few nicks :o
Keep watching the videos ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGMcZjTWOw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGMcZjTWOw)
Not sure if I've learned this or not, as Wikipedia has no mention of it.
Bloke in the pub tonight works on Estates at BU. He reckons that Old Joe used to double as a water tower. Many years ago, obv. But he told me that the old tank was only taken out a few years ago. It had to be cut up to get it out.
He’s not just a pretty face - Old Joe is also a water tower and services the University!
"Fiesta Island Fun" (http://www.ride-fit.com/Shopping/Ride-Fit-Fiesta-Island-Fun.html)is all about cycling, who would have guessed?
Oh that! Have you seen what it's based on (Bennett Airtruck)?
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
Next lesson: Tophats and Gobos.
London noses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Noses)!!! I've lived in this city 16 years and have only just learned about these.The tutor on my Art Foundation course used to make plaster of Paris noses. But his name was Ben.
I must now find them all.
This evening I learned what barn doors are (in relation to lighting).
Next lesson: Tophats and Gobos.
I done learned that the Nazis were extracting oil from shale in Estonia during WW2.Oil was being extracted from shale in the late 19th century, though maybe not in Estonia.
Wahoo! My preferred exercise logging software comes up with the announcement "your heart is about to explode" if my heart rate exceeds a certain level.
Ben Goldacre (the Bad Science bloke) is the daughter of seventies pop star Noosha Fox.It would be less surprising, but still interesting, to hear that Ben is Noosha's son.
Ah. Really bad science, obvs.Ben Goldacre (the Bad Science bloke) is the daughter of seventies pop star Noosha Fox.It would be less surprising, but still interesting, to hear that Ben is Noosha's son.
In the UK. Midlothian and West Lothian and possibly other parts into the early years of the C20. We used to have huuge pink shale bings*, which one was completely forbidden to play on *ahem*, but they've all gone in the last 20 or 30 years.I done learned that the Nazis were extracting oil from shale in Estonia during WW2.Oil was being extracted from shale in the late 19th century, though maybe not in Estonia.
In the UK. Midlothian and West Lothian and possibly other parts into the early years of the C20. We used to have huuge pink shale bings*, which one was completely forbidden to play on *ahem*, but they've all gone in the last 20 or 30 years.
Transplant corneas are very readily available in the USA but are in short supply in the UK. Why is that? I asked my opthalmologist. Without a second's hesitation, he replied, "Gunshot wounds".What, gunshot wounds are good for corneas?
Transplant corneas are very readily available in the USA but are in short supply in the UK. Why is that? I asked my opthalmologist. Without a second's hesitation, he replied, "Gunshot wounds".What, gunshot wounds are good for corneas?
Transplant corneas are very readily available in the USA but are in short supply in the UK. Why is that? I asked my opthalmologist. Without a second's hesitation, he replied, "Gunshot wounds".What, gunshot wounds are good for corneas?
They're good for killing healthy young people in a way that leaves most of the spare parts intact.
we've been fracking on and offshore UK for donkeys years. Most of the wandering public would be unaware of the oilfield onshore in the forest just outside Bournemouth/Swanage and on Furzey Island in Poole Harbour, which has the longest extended reach well in the UK.
Ditto. But I don't think anything will be suitable for donation because steroids.Transplant corneas are very readily available in the USA but are in short supply in the UK. Why is that? I asked my opthalmologist. Without a second's hesitation, he replied, "Gunshot wounds".What, gunshot wounds are good for corneas?
They're good for killing healthy young people in a way that leaves most of the spare parts intact.
Everything of mine is up for grabs when I no longer want it. Not sure the pancreas will have any takers though.
we've been fracking on and offshore UK for donkeys years. Most of the wandering public would be unaware of the oilfield onshore in the forest just outside Bournemouth/Swanage and on Furzey Island in Poole Harbour, which has the longest extended reach well in the UK.
The company I used to work for thirty years ago did a bunch of consultancy work on the Wych Farm oil wossname down that way.
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.
We once unscrewed the knobs off a ballaceous coat stand and another off the top of a kettle then played pétanque up & down the office corridor.
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.
We once unscrewed the knobs off a ballaceous coat stand and another off the top of a kettle then played pétanque up & down the office corridor.
My night shifts in the control room were often passed by joining two Silverstone size Scalextric sets together to mak a BFO track and racing the cars round. I nearly decapitated (or took the nose off) a card playing radio operator one night when taking the banked bend at the Aylesbury desk end of the room a tad too fast.
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.
We once unscrewed the knobs off a ballaceous coat stand and another off the top of a kettle then played pétanque up & down the office corridor.
My night shifts in the control room were often passed by joining two Silverstone size Scalextric sets together to mak a BFO track and racing the cars round. I nearly decapitated (or took the nose off) a card playing radio operator one night when taking the banked bend at the Aylesbury desk end of the room a tad too fast.
I've ordered pizzas to the gatehouse at midnight when comissioning before now.
You all need a shadow tool box and a Park magnetic parts bowl.
Today I have learned that "yclept" is a real word (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=95194.msg1972935#msg1972935), and not ROT13 for something, as I'd previously assumed.It is.
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.
'A' Barakta. Hmm. Do you have more than one? Are they available for hire?
I have a part-time fettling bod for the shop but he's at least as useless as me and has been known to lose entire bicycles!
Today I have learned that "yclept" is a real word (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=95194.msg1972935#msg1972935), and not ROT13 for something, as I'd previously assumed.Aaaaaaah, don't know exactly what ROT13 is but now I want a roti. And we do have some dal...
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.In conjunction with the adjective 'bijou', no doubt. This is a construction I use in all sorts of wildly inappropriate scenarios.
Yup. Simple Ceaser cypher. Used as a functional equivalent of the [spoiler] tag in text-only media, and to obfuscate names of people/organisations/things you want to post defamatory rants about, so they don't come up on search engines.Although I've never visited the Scary Devil Monastery and ain't been in ye shedde for ages, I translated hohagh in my head. Should I be proud or slightly worried?
Certain newsgroups use it excessively for comic effect, as a sort of swear filter for terms they find offensive. So as we might talk of the "p*nct*r* fairy", denizens of ye shedde might say "have to ohl an arj one", or monks of the scary devil monastery might talk about supporting Hohagh[1] Linux. The net effect of this is that you end up learning them as words in their own right, as it's less jbex than reaching for the ROT13 button to decode them...
[1] The official Linux Distribution of the Klingon Empire.
Today I discovered I have a propensity for threatening behavior when people keep touching me and we asked more than four times to stop touching me that I can make people afraid.
I'm not a nice person, because I can not deal with a situation without resorting to violence and showing a side of me that makes loved ones feel afraid of me.
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.
Oooo! In'n 'e BOLD!
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.In conjunction with the adjective 'bijou', no doubt. This is a construction I use in all sorts of wildly inappropriate scenarios.
That the bull emblem that the rest of Europe has come to see as representing Spain was originally an advertisement for Sherry. Worse than that, though is that it has now been appropriated by the Spanish far right.
That the walrus is Paul.
Well of course no zebras: that'd be like a random bar code in the middle of your passport!
It's been claimed that the mildly racy Java Head made history with the first inter-racial kiss ever shown on screen.Maybe!
Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
I hung up after 25 minutes, so I might have missed some.Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
no Arctic Monkeys? def lepard? and how did they forget cud?
I hung up after 25 minutes, so I might have missed some.Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
no Arctic Monkeys? def lepard? and how did they forget cud?
Now I'm wondering what AAISP's hold music is...
ETA: I've just asked on IRC and it appears their policy is to have someone answer the phone. Spoilsports.
I did that on Tuesday and they told me to phone customer services to pay for p&p for a new router...I hung up after 25 minutes, so I might have missed some.Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...
no Arctic Monkeys? def lepard? and how did they forget cud?
Go for the talk on line to one of our agents option. It works much better (for me) than all that hold music. Of course your work arrangements might preclude this.
Today I learned that Mr Smith has never heard of the Lambton Worm.
That they renovated my old school. It's now a restaurant. They're doing afternoon teas.
I'll have to say that again, because I don't think I believe it. They're doing afternoon teas at my old school.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/acklam-hall-restoration-complete-take-10905068
Belmont (the bit south of Sutton) used to be called California (named after the pub, which I was assumed named after the state). I didn't learn that today though.
I've never heard of a Lambton Worm either. As I'm espousing my ignorance, I don't actually know what Mornington Crescent is either and I've deliberately avoided finding out. Something to do with the radiogram. Yes, yes, I know it's a Tube station.
Here you go, courtesy of the Book of Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambton_Worm
That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.Were they? I always thought the one in Gloucestershire – I didn't know there was one in Devon – was named after the Penn Family, one of who (William?) later went on to found the US state; ie the village and the state were named independently but after the same person or family. But it sounds like you actually know what you're talking about!
That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.There is one just outside Bath as well, on the road to the M4
I presume that's the S. Glos one that Vince is talking about.That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.There is one just outside Bath as well, on the road to the M4
How to reboot barakta's desk. :facepalm:
How to reboot barakta's desk. :facepalm:
What. You kicked it :o ☺
They are separate hamlets. Petty France is first as you head North on the A46, then Dunkirk is on the junction with A433 to Tetbury.I presume that's the S. Glos one that Vince is talking about.That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.There is one just outside Bath as well, on the road to the M4
Yes, the Penns were defo Quakers.
Mind you, talking about the A46 not that far from Bath, I always confuse Dunkirk and Petty France. Can never remember which is the place and which the hotel (there are – or used to be – two hotels there. I'm pretty sure the one on the right as you head north used to be the Petty France. Or was it the one on the other side? Or was Petty France strictly speaking a separate hamlet?)
When a stair lift was first installed for my mum, a norty boy (1), who should know better, downloaded onto his phone, and then played, the Thunderbirds theme as she made her inaugural descent.How to reboot barakta's desk. :facepalm:
What. You kicked it :o ☺
It goes up and down, so she can vary her posture. For barakta-friendliness, this is motorised, rather than the usual hand-cranked arrangement, and it's a legal requirement to hum the Thunderbirds theme when it's in action.
When a stair lift was first installed for my mum, a norty boy (1), who should know better, downloaded onto his phone, and then played, the Thunderbirds theme as she made her inaugural descent.How to reboot barakta's desk. :facepalm:
What. You kicked it :o ☺
It goes up and down, so she can vary her posture. For barakta-friendliness, this is motorised, rather than the usual hand-cranked arrangement, and it's a legal requirement to hum the Thunderbirds theme when it's in action.
(1) Me.
I presume that's the S. Glos one that Vince is talking about.That in addition to the one in South Gloucestershire, there is a Pennsylvania in Devon. Both were named after the US state.There is one just outside Bath as well, on the road to the M4
Yes, the Penns were defo Quakers.
Mind you, talking about the A46 not that far from Bath, I always confuse Dunkirk and Petty France. Can never remember which is the place and which the hotel (there are – or used to be – two hotels there. I'm pretty sure the one on the right as you head north used to be the Petty France. Or was it the one on the other side? Or was Petty France strictly speaking a separate hamlet?)
Alt Graphic.
On the UK international keyboard alt gr 4 is € for instance. alt gr 2 on a Swedish keyboard should be the @ symbol. Perhaps the keyboard is not Swedish?
Also a New York in Rotherham, and a Rhodesia and a Wales not far away
also a few Hollands or New Hollands around in the flatlands of East Anglia, Linclolnshire, East Yorks
I have learned that if you plug your keyboard into one of the USB ports on your monitor it stops working when the monitor goes to sleep so you can't prod the space bar to wake the minotaur up again :facepalm:
I learned that my Abus cable lock weighs exactly 500g according to the greengrocer's scales. (Now I have to decide whether that's really too heavy to lug up the Gospel Pass... I thought it was nearer a kilo.)
That <organisation> is not the same as <organization> and remarkably hard to spot when checking xml for syntax errors.
... that some disc platters have a very similar property to glass when you hit them with a hammer. Ain't nobody reading those ones again, that's for sure!
There's an accessible formats association which publishes standards for large print, braille, audio and other formats. http://www.ukaaf.org/
That self-amalgamating tape self-amalgamates immediately, on introduction to its other half.
That self-amalgamating tape self-amalgamates immediately, on introduction to its other half.
Unless there's water involved, of course.
There's always water involved IME :(That self-amalgamating tape self-amalgamates immediately, on introduction to its other half.
Unless there's water involved, of course.
That Archbishop Desmond Tutu is an oblate of the Order of Julian of Norwich.
Well I never did.
Angle grinder.
Outdoors.
Rain.
Don't.
Just don't.
Angle grinder.
Outdoors.
Rain.
Don't.
Just don't.
Oops. RCD?
RCD is why I am here today ;)
Way back perhaps xp days, when windows explorer stopped being just a sensible file manager and started groping inside files in order to make thumbnail previews, it was much worse.
If it found exif tags in images it didn't understand, it deleted them!
Microsoft's approach to respecting the data integrity of it's clients is questionable to say the least.
There were stotinki in 1983 ...
I have a 5000 lev note from the 1990s, before the 1000:1 upgrade which put the lev on par with the deutschmark - not long before it was abolished. None of this stotinki nonsense then!
Unfortunately that note wasn't worth 5000 new lev when I went there at the beginning of this millennium. :( But it was possible to use stotinki.
That PC Hipsta is now Gas Safe registered and has just serviced our boiler.I want to say "we need photos" but that's rather rude towards Gas Man Hipsta so we'll just take the info instead.
That the Brandenburg concertos were written as an audition piece. He didn't get the job. I don't know who did.
(Further to stotinki: it's hundredths. Sto = hundred.Da, stotinki is just cents in Slav.
Is there a measurable difference between the natural curiosity of organic spuds and the regular sort?
Why sometimes there are bins overturned in the street and the refuse appears to have been rummaged through.
It's what identity thieves do apparently.
Why sometimes there are bins overturned in the street and the refuse appears to have been rummaged through.Mrs B rips names & addresses off anything that goes into the bins. They go in the fireplace. ;D
It's what identity thieves do apparently.
Jane from Rod, Jane and Freddy used to be married to Rod but is now with Freddy.
Jane from Rod, Jane and Freddy used to be married to Rod but is now with Freddy.
Is that the recent celebrity threesome injunction ménage e tois?
What I have learned today: Don't eat anything fboab's chopped on a chopping board, but definitely get her to do any grating :facepalm:.
Roy Wood's given name is Ulysses Adrian Wood. Too cool.
My Granddad joined the Royal Field Artillery in Feb 1914 and was discharged in Sep 1920. I knew he was a "front-line gunner" but I didn't know the dates.
(no, I'm not busy this afternoon)
My Granddad joined the Royal Field Artillery in Feb 1914 and was discharged in Sep 1920. I knew he was a "front-line gunner" but I didn't know the dates.
(no, I'm not busy this afternoon)
Surely discharged must be the wrong word for a fusilier? A bit like 'fired'
My Granddad joined the Royal Field Artillery in Feb 1914 and was discharged in Sep 1920. I knew he was a "front-line gunner" but I didn't know the dates.
(no, I'm not busy this afternoon)
Surely discharged must be the wrong word for a fusilier? A bit like 'fired'
Did they have difficulty replacing him with someone of similar calibre?
My Granddad joined the Royal Field Artillery in Feb 1914 and was discharged in Sep 1920. I knew he was a "front-line gunner" but I didn't know the dates.
(no, I'm not busy this afternoon)
That eating an industrial-sized portion of chickpea and lentil curry on the eve of a long-haul flight is about as good an idea as it sounds.
That a honey bee, in its whole life's work, makes a third of a teaspoon of honey.
That there is a passenger ferry across the Manchester Ship Canal at Thelwall that takes bikes. Looks like fun.
That there is a passenger ferry across the Manchester Ship Canal at Thelwall that takes bikes. Looks like fun.
Last time I was there it was a gnarly old bloke with a rowing boat. Er, thanks but no thanks . . .
That there is a passenger ferry across the Manchester Ship Canal at Thelwall that takes bikes. Looks like fun.
Last time I was there it was a gnarly old bloke with a rowing boat. Er, thanks but no thanks . . .
"What's the French for have you ever lost one?" :)
You probably all know this already (and I think I may have previously known it but forgotten it) but Nottingham was originally known as 'Snottingham' -'the homestead of Snot's tribe'.
You probably all know this already (and I think I may have previously known it but forgotten it) but Nottingham was originally known as 'Snottingham' -'the homestead of Snot's tribe'.
That the "Meadows" referred to in L'Anse aux Meadows - the Viking settlement in Newfoundland - refers not to fields but to jellyfish, called by ye Frenchies "Méduses".I didn't know that! And I've wondered for many years how the place got a mixed French/English name.
Chris Boardman & Daniel Craig were in the same year at the same secondary school.
Via faceache. Today 31 years ago, 'Brothers in Arms' first entered the US album chart.
I. Feel. Old.
Via faceache. Today 31 years ago, 'Brothers in Arms' first entered the US album chart.
I. Feel. Old.
I feel older - I had to look it up.
That The Old Kent Road is the only monopoly board property, including the stations, that is sarf of the river.You should visit more often ;)
Probably well known by those in that London, but new to me.
that dropping a wheel on your head hurts.
Not sure if it was the skewer or cassette that caught me, but it's bloody sore.
YKINMKBYKIOK, as they say on the internet.
(The lid had fallen down the back of the bathroom shelves, for those wondering...)
YKINMKBYKIOK, as they say on the internet.
(The lid had fallen down the back of the bathroom shelves, for those wondering...)
I wasn't wondering where the lid was, just how your boob managed to get there. ;)
YKINMKBYKIOK, as they say on the internet.
(The lid had fallen down the back of the bathroom shelves, for those wondering...)
I wasn't wondering where the lid was, just how your boob managed to get there. ;)
Fortunately, it was barakta's. :D
Meanwhile in other news.
Dahon Jetstream P8 comes with a parallelogram linkage Kinetics front suspension fork. When the linkages wear there is a deal of slop in the front fork akin to a loose headset bearing.
No repair parts are available. You can replace THE FORK*. End of . . .
I've got one of those. the rubber boot on the fork disintegrated after about 2 years, so I asked them to supply a new boot, and some clues as to disassembly. Their answer was to supply a complete new fork, gratis. Sadly, yes, they did want the old one back.... and yes, the rubber boot on that one fell apart after a couple of years. I must work out how to sort it, as currently its just got plenty of grease on the shaft to protect from muck and rusting.
Come to think of it, you are probably referring to the later type, mine is more of a sort of leading link one, with effectively two forks, I always thought the later one seemed more sensible, although it drastically altered the whole geometry of the bike. Mine is late 2004 vintage.
Methinks an engineering solution involving machine tools and new bushes may be your only answer, but it'll cost as much as a new fork!
*Something close to £200. Can't see THE PUNTER going for it, somehow.
Noggin the Nog - obvs...
Today I have learnt that no, you should not directly substitute cayenne pepper for paprika on your melted cheese
I've got one of those. the rubber boot on the fork disintegrated after about 2 years, so I asked them to supply a new boot, and some clues as to disassembly. Their answer was to supply a complete new fork, gratis. Sadly, yes, they did want the old one back.... and yes, the rubber boot on that one fell apart after a couple of years. I must work out how to sort it, as currently its just got plenty of grease on the shaft to protect from muck and rusting.
Come to think of it, you are probably referring to the later type, mine is more of a sort of leading link one, with effectively two forks, I always thought the later one seemed more sensible, although it drastically altered the whole geometry of the bike. Mine is late 2004 vintage.
Methinks an engineering solution involving machine tools and new bushes may be your only answer, but it'll cost as much as a new fork!
One of Donald Trump's early inspirations was Roy Cohn.The others were Juan Peron, Toscanini and Dacron.
Comoros. Where, what, and what they produceJust another name for a shag, isn't it. Where and what are negotiable between participants, they produce shaglets.
Comoros. Where, what, and what they produce
it is not guaranteed, in fact is unlikely, that those best equipped to rule will get a chance to manage public affairs. Instead the loudest voices will dominate, irrational, ill-motivated decisions will be made and the complex arena of politics which is in need of careful ordering and management will turn into a crazy circus.
Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarrelling with one another about the steering - every one is of opinion that he has a right to steer, though he has never learned the art of navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned, and will further assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut in pieces any one who says the contrary.
They throng about the captain, begging and praying him to commit the helm to them; and if at any time they do not prevail, but others are preferred to them, they kill the others or throw them overboard, and having first chained up the noble captain's senses with drink or some narcotic drug, they mutiny and take possession of the ship and make free with the stores; thus, eating and drinking, they proceed on their voyage in such a manner as might be expected of them.
Irish flag colours = Indian flag colours.
Italian flag colours = Hungary, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Mexico - except I think some of greens are a bit darker.
Loving your under-avatar line, billplumtree. :thumbsup:
I don't think that any flags of proper countries (I don't count Monaco) are identical.Irish flag colours = Indian flag colours.
Italian flag colours = Hungary, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Mexico - except I think some of greens are a bit darker.
Most of them the stripes go different ways or are different widths or have some kind of emblem on them.
I only found out the Irish and Italian flags weren't identical when discussing the other nights football match with a colleague.
The origin of the phrase, Ship of Fools. I had a vague idea of its meaning, but was inspired to find out more when it sprang to mind as I listened to Cameron's resignation speech about needing a new captain to steer us in this new direction...
I'm entitled to Irish citizenship if I want it, and it's only a couple of hundred quid. I might take them up on it...
That the Italian Flag and ROI flags are different colours. Seems the red bit on the Irish flag is actually orange.
#colourblind
Interesting. I might be, if I could somehow acquire a whole load of paperwork I don't have access to. Hopefully it won't come to that.
Stands to reason. I'll bet she was the one who persuaded you into that arduous and deeply unrewarding of the extremely unpicturesque islands too...Loving your under-avatar line, billplumtree. :thumbsup:
I have Ruthie to thank for that one ::-)
Libya and Nepal I think.
But that's the old Libyan flag, post Gadaffi it's a bit different https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Libya
Occasionally, differing shades of yellow, instead of orange, are seen at civilian functions. However the Department of the Taoiseach state that this is a misrepresentation which "should be actively discouraged", and that worn-out flags should be replaced. In songs and poems, the colours are sometimes enumerated as "green, white and gold", using poetic licence. Variants of different guises are utilised to include -for example, various emblems of Ireland, such as the presidential harp, the four provinces or county arms.
...is now a chiropractor.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/b12f197b01c40dda801a5c0919ee26a8562b2c13.jpgPhoto, ride report, map, etc etc. And a five pound note! :D
It was a rather splendid bridge, used for the first steam railway. It's still rather splendid but hidden behind a lot of gas pipes and litter. I'll go down another time if you like and get a photo?
Alexander "Boris" Johnson's other middle name is de Pfeffel ;D
:DAlexander "Boris" Johnson's other middle name is de Pfeffel ;D
Is that pronounced 'piffle' perchance?
Alexander "Boris" Johnson's other middle name is de Pfeffel ;D
Is that pronounced 'piffle' perchance?
Nope, and neither is Herman Wouk.
I didn't know that either, one of my several endearing disappointments about my Brompton was that they couldn't – on a thousand quid bike – get three little wheels to work. Are those the crappy default wheels or the special ones? All the crappy ones do is snap at my heels when I pedal.I'm not sure that its supposed to roll with the default wheels.
I saw an epically shiny brand-new Brommie at the station the other day. One of the clear one (lacquered I guess). He looks at my dirt-smeared one and edges away like it might be contagious. I look up the cloudy sky threatening rain. It ain't going to stay like that, buddy. Anyway, they seem to have improved the little wheels somewhat.
I'm advised that if you reverse them, so that the conical bits point outwards, they're less likely to catch your heels.
If you want proper roll, a pair of eazy wheels is around £12.00 from £vans - given that their real cost is probably 25% of that, I don't know why they don't fit them as standard to, as you say, a thousand pound bike, and be done with it. Those default wheels do little other than let down an otherwise great (never thought I'd find myself saying that about a Brompton) bike.
Someone, on Planet Brompton, has woken up.I'm advised that if you reverse them, so that the conical bits point outwards, they're less likely to catch your heels.
If you want proper roll, a pair of eazy wheels is around £12.00 from £vans - given that their real cost is probably 25% of that, I don't know why they don't fit them as standard to, as you say, a thousand pound bike, and be done with it. Those default wheels do little other than let down an otherwise great (never thought I'd find myself saying that about a Brompton) bike.
They've done away with the crap default wheels on this year's models.
I'm advised that if you reverse them, so that the conical bits point outwards, they're less likely to catch your heels.
Is that on Sophie?I'm advised that if you reverse them, so that the conical bits point outwards, they're less likely to catch your heels.
:thumbsup: Thank you!
That TV's Mark Kermode plays double bass in a skiffle band.Didn't he do that years ago? They were the house band on a chat show hosted by loveable cockney, Danny Baker.
Use two-part hinges with pintels instead of butt hinges, then you can screw both halves on separately and then lift the door on. You get the barrel of the hinge sticking out a bit further than with butt hinges, but it's a hell of a lot easier and you can remove the door easily if you need to. Our front door is solid oak and uses them, as do most European wooden doors that I've seen.
Use two-part hinges with pintels instead of butt hinges, then you can screw both halves on separately and then lift the door on. You get the barrel of the hinge sticking out a bit further than with butt hinges, but it's a hell of a lot easier and you can remove the door easily if you need to. Our front door is solid oak and uses them, as do most European wooden doors that I've seen.
That is probably why the vote was for Out.
Lithic mulch (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00813138).They did that on Easter Island after they used up all the trees & a lot of the soil washed into the sea.
That the Tour de France is a bi-athlonI think and hope you mean duathlon.
I suspect that that little bit of knowledge took a frustrating amount of time to discover ...
That Shimano 10 speed rear mtb mechs do not work with road shifters. Pre 10 speed the rear mechs were compatible across road and mtb with only the front mechs being incompatible.
Parma violet cheese exists http://shop.lovehearts.com/parma-violet-cheese :sick:
That i know more about the UK offshore medical requirements for a T1D than the occupational physicians who are supposed to give me the tick in the box
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
Aren't there easier ways to startle someone?
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
Aren't there easier ways to startle someone?
;D
Andrij. I've just lost an entire swig of my ale. Git. ;D
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
There are minefields in Bolivia.And between Chile and Peru too, which got flooded which washed them out on the roads doing a storm in 2012.
That the lady opposite us is not Welsh (he is), she is from Birmingham. Perry Barr to be exact. 35 years ago, mind.35 years ago I was 16 and desperate to leave Perry Barr.
No. That's not true. I found that out last week, not today.
What I learned today was that the lady 4 doors down on our side also originates from Brum.
Guess which part.
Yes. Perry Barr.
That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war.I sometimes wonder how they decided where to put those pill boxes. They don't always seem to be in particularly strategic or defensible places. For instance, there's a line of them along the Fosse Way just north of Malmesbury, at which point it's just a gravel byway, and others on the Frome south of Bath, which is a small river with little villages. I guess there might have been important structures though and also it's a matter of chance which ones have survived.
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
According to Wikipedia, sticking a finger up your arse cures hiccups. Does anyone care to try it and report back?
That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war.I sometimes wonder how they decided where to put those pill boxes. They don't always seem to be in particularly strategic or defensible places. For instance, there's a line of them along the Fosse Way just north of Malmesbury, at which point it's just a gravel byway, and others on the Frome south of Bath, which is a small river with little villages. I guess there might have been important structures though and also it's a matter of chance which ones have survived.
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
The Admiralty was in the Empire Hotel opposite Parade Gardens but I don't know about other depts. I'd presume they all had further fall back locations in the event of an invasion though there must have been a point beyond which the practical options were reduced to Dublin or New York!That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war.I sometimes wonder how they decided where to put those pill boxes. They don't always seem to be in particularly strategic or defensible places. For instance, there's a line of them along the Fosse Way just north of Malmesbury, at which point it's just a gravel byway, and others on the Frome south of Bath, which is a small river with little villages. I guess there might have been important structures though and also it's a matter of chance which ones have survived.
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
Bath was home to the Admiralty wasn't it? Other government depts removed from London?
Plenty round here along the line of the Cam and out on the road to Peterborough. Looking at them the only reason I can think of them still being here is because getting rid of that munch reinforced concrete would require an assault gun or a log of explosives.
I assume we were just a delaying line for an invasion from the east
That Witham is pronounced Wit-ham.
That Witham is pronounced Wit-ham.
They were planned & built in a great hurry when many other things also needed the attention of the people who knew most about defensive lines, & mistakes were made. I recall reading about complaints at the time that many pillboxes were badly built & worse sited.That the river Teifi formed one of Britain's Retreat To And Defend lines in the second world war.I sometimes wonder how they decided where to put those pill boxes. They don't always seem to be in particularly strategic or defensible places. For instance, there's a line of them along the Fosse Way just north of Malmesbury, at which point it's just a gravel byway, and others on the Frome south of Bath, which is a small river with little villages. I guess there might have been important structures though and also it's a matter of chance which ones have survived.
I always wondered at the pill box which still exists.
Actually a thing I learned last week, but it's an important thing that bears repeating:I didn't know that but it does seem to me that smoke alarms are less loud than burglar alarms (both seem equally liable to false triggerings). Why did they stop the test at 30 seconds in the Australian research? That's not how smoke alarms actually behave. And do they wake up adults? Because surely any parent's initial reaction to a fire in the night is going to be to get the kids out?*
Children don't wake up to the sound of smoke alarms.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311121842.htm
https://www.strath.ac.uk/press/newsreleases/2013/headline_728294_en.html
There's some evidence that a recording of a parent's voice is more effective (but far from reliable). No idea about low-frequency alarms, flashing lights or vibrators, which are the off-the-shelf (if expensive) alternatives.
That Millenarianism has absolutely nothing to do with hats. Made a podcast make a whole lot more sense once I found that out!
That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
It should serve you well.That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
I learned a new word.
It should serve you well.That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
I learned a new word.
Feel free to come back and ask for another :P
It should serve you well.That among other things, Alfred Nobel invented several bicycle designsAs well as dynamite and intumescent paint.
I learned a new word.
Feel free to come back and ask for another :P
I googled it too. Must confess, I was a bit disappointed. :-\
Arbuz, which is watermelon in Polish too, is originally from Persian via Turkish, I think.Paradicsom, which is Hungarian for tomato, and means fruit of paradise, is from a similar source, I think.
You can't get an erection in space.
You can't get an erection in space.
I'm not sure. I'm guessing the changed fluid dynamics make it impossible. When you're weightless there are significant fluid shifts and you carry more fluid in your upper body, and therefore possibly less in your lower body.Weightless globules drifting around. Eew.
My son asked Cdr Chris Hadfield about masturbating in zero-G, and he said it's almost impossible to get an erection. This should also be in the tenuous claims to fame thread, I reckon.
You can't get an erection in space.All you lose is gravity, and the loss of h-rho-g hydrostatic head.
But if you are on Earth, lying flat on a bed, the h term in the equation becomes zero, and so g becomes irrelevant.
The pump ( heart ) still provides sufficient head for the purpose.
You can't get an erection in space.
I expect that's not true.
If the normal blood flow and pressure through my body required to keep me alive still works, then I can't see why other functions of blood pressure would not also continue to work.
All you lose is gravity, and the loss of h-rho-g hydrostatic head.
But if you are on Earth, lying flat on a bed, the h term in the equation becomes zero, and so g becomes irrelevant.
The pump ( heart ) still provides sufficient head for the purpose.
Now, if you were thrown out indo deep space ( perhaps after listening to Vogon poetry ), the pressure differential may indeed enhance your erection as in the manner of the manhood-enhancing vacuum pumps offered on the Internet (or is that just my Internet? ).
Anyways, enough of this...
Gametes? Wot, like pheasants and partridges?
You can't get an erection in space.
I expect that's not true.
If the normal blood flow and pressure through my body required to keep me alive still works, then I can't see why other functions of blood pressure would not also continue to work.
All you lose is gravity, and the loss of h-rho-g hydrostatic head.
But if you are on Earth, lying flat on a bed, the h term in the equation becomes zero, and so g becomes irrelevant.
The pump ( heart ) still provides sufficient head for the purpose.
Now, if you were thrown out indo deep space ( perhaps after listening to Vogon poetry ), the pressure differential may indeed enhance your erection as in the manner of the manhood-enhancing vacuum pumps offered on the Internet (or is that just my Internet? ).
Anyways, enough of this...
Your blood pressure is much lower in zero-g. That's one factor. And the flow of blood and other fluids is significantly altered. Think about it: at 1G your heart needs to work against gravity to perfuse your brain. It doesn't need to work nearly so hard in zero G. During the first few days in space astronauts get facial and eye oedema, as the fluid pumping systems (you have more than one, and they interact) adapt to zero G. All sorts of other stuff happens too that I can't remember.
You can't get an erection in space.
I expect that's not true.
If the normal blood flow and pressure through my body required to keep me alive still works, then I can't see why other functions of blood pressure would not also continue to work.
All you lose is gravity, and the loss of h-rho-g hydrostatic head.
But if you are on Earth, lying flat on a bed, the h term in the equation becomes zero, and so g becomes irrelevant.
The pump ( heart ) still provides sufficient head for the purpose.
Now, if you were thrown out indo deep space ( perhaps after listening to Vogon poetry ), the pressure differential may indeed enhance your erection as in the manner of the manhood-enhancing vacuum pumps offered on the Internet (or is that just my Internet? ).
Anyways, enough of this...
Your blood pressure is much lower in zero-g. That's one factor. And the flow of blood and other fluids is significantly altered. Think about it: at 1G your heart needs to work against gravity to perfuse your brain. It doesn't need to work nearly so hard in zero G. During the first few days in space astronauts get facial and eye oedema, as the fluid pumping systems (you have more than one, and they interact) adapt to zero G. All sorts of other stuff happens too that I can't remember.
No, I don't agree.
( My background is in an industry where we design hydraulic systems to work on the surface and also and extreme depths of 20k psi, so there may indeed be differences I have not appreciated. )
At 1G whilst standing up, you have a closed circuit of fluid going up one way from the pump, down to the bottom, and then back up to the pump.
A loop of fluid in this system is entirely in equilibrium.
The hydrostatic head on the down leg exactly equals the hydrostatic head on the up leg.
So H-rho-g on one side of the system equals h-rho-g on the other,
The pump really does not have to work too hard: it does not need to work against gravity; because gravity both helps and hinders in equal measure. It helps by providing a down-force on one side of the pump, and hinders on the up-ward suction side of the pump.
So lying down on the job makes no difference.
And for the same reason, I think zero G is the same.
Someone should tweet that astronaut chap who was in the space thing and ask him.
OK, fine, I accept the evidence.
I can believe there are biological factors which make it different from a mechanical hydraulic system.
I never had to add blue pills to the mechanical hydraulic systems...
Would the reverse be true? i.e. if you went to a planet with high gravity, would it be the equivalent of having a f-off overdose of Viagra?
Stepson was considering getting artificial turf for the lawn outside his new house, because "its just the same as a real lawn" (yes, he's that sort of person). I suddenly wondered how you prevented wind-blown soil from building up and plants taking root in it.Reality overtakes the surreal in a new way each day.
Vacuuming, apparently. You go out each weekend and vacuum your lawn.
This exists (http://www.taylorsbutchers.com/pies.html)I think we have a new home page for YACF.
If I still had a waistline, it would now have disappeared.
This exists (http://www.taylorsbutchers.com/pies.html)I think we have a new home page for YACF.
If I still had a waistline, it would now have disappeared.
It's not just cities which can be twinned - toilets can be twinned as well (http://www.toilettwinning.org/). (SFW)
This exists (http://www.taylorsbutchers.com/pies.html)
If I still had a waistline, it would now have disappeared.
There is such a thing as an 'isosceles trapezium'.
That Kirkenes, in northern Norway near the border with Russia, where I spent a day of my hols this year,is further east than Istanbul, and yet is in the same time zone as Galicia in western Spain.Spain is in the wrong time zone. It's arguable that so is France.
Well, I am surprised, since President of the Magic Circle and legendary illusions creator Ali Bongo died in 2009.
That the Hutus and Tutsis of Rwanda are not competing tribes but different castes of the one Banyarwanda people. Tutsis are the aristocratic cattle-owning caste, Hutus the farmers and there is also a very small labourer and servant caste, Twa.
Vacuuming, apparently. You go out each weekend and vacuum your lawn.
Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
That the Hutus and Tutsis of Rwanda are not competing tribes but different castes of the one Banyarwanda people. Tutsis are the aristocratic cattle-owning caste, Hutus the farmers and there is also a very small labourer and servant caste, Twa.Banyarwanda just means 'people of Rwanda'. It's a name derived from the state, not an ethnic label. Like Canadian or American. More or less the same language (called Kirundi instead of Kinyarwanda) & same three castes are found in Burundi, but the people there aren't Banyarwanda, because they don't live in Rwanda. Note that both states long predated European colonisation.
It began before the IMF existed. Dammit, why this knee-jerk rejection of analysis? Allocate blame to the usual suspects, then look for evidence. :facepalm:Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
It began before the IMF existed. Dammit, why this knee-jerk rejection of analysis? Allocate blame to the usual suspects, then look for evidence. :facepalm:Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
It began before the IMF existed. Dammit, why this knee-jerk rejection of analysis? Allocate blame to the usual suspects, then look for evidence. :facepalm:Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
No kneejerk. This is the result of a great deal of research. Yes, there were conflicts there, and a divide. But the difference between Rwanda & Burundi, which meant one descended into brutal civil war, and, despite violence, the other did not, was very much the use of Structural Adjustment Programmes as an act of war.
Fwiw, I am usually the one calling the cause earlier - for example, the cause of the First World War has nothing to do with defending British freedom, or student revolutionaries in Sarajevo. It most clearly dates back to the Scramble for Africa, and the Berlin Conference of 1884-5.
Burundi didn't descend into brutal civil war? In which universe? A few hundred thousand dead (again) is just 'violence'.It began before the IMF existed. Dammit, why this knee-jerk rejection of analysis? Allocate blame to the usual suspects, then look for evidence. :facepalm:Belgian stirring of the conflict pot goes back to the 50s according to what I've read, when they switched from using the Tutsis as their channels of power to the Hutus, because the better educated Tutsis were getting too uppity and demanding independence. Mitterand is also to blame, indirectly, for the 1994 massacre by sending paras to repel the 1990 invasion in the name of Francophonie. A conflict going back to Fashoda. Apparently.The IMF is more to blame.
No kneejerk. This is the result of a great deal of research. Yes, there were conflicts there, and a divide. But the difference between Rwanda & Burundi, which meant one descended into brutal civil war, and, despite violence, the other did not, was very much the use of Structural Adjustment Programmes as an act of war.
That there is logic to my casual referring to our no2 cat as "coarsefur cat". I measured one of his hairs from the middle of his back, and it was 0.1mm diameter. I later grabbed one from Baggins' (AKA silkyfur cat) back and it was 0.06mm diameter. So it wasn't just my imagination, and the fact that Alfie is a scruffy git. In contrast one of Mrs W's hairs was 0.04mm.
Really changes my life, that ;D
From my doc, that the WHO have just revised their recommended upper figure for HbA1c from 6 to 7%. This after years of beating me morally about the head for not managing to get it under 6%.
This, too, after I read last week that there is a higher incidence of cardiovascular events* among diabetics who strive to get their HbA1c under 7% than among those who remain a bit over.
Personal observation: fasting blood glucose < 120** => I feel like shit. 130 < FBG < 140 => I feel fine.
*event: medical euphemism for one's personal WW2, Hiroshima, 1970 World Cup, etc.
** conversion factor is 18.
Wonder Woman is on the other bus (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37518991/comic-book-writer-says-wonder-woman-is-queer)
Wonder Woman is on the other bus (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37518991/comic-book-writer-says-wonder-woman-is-queer)
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language.
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language. A few years back I engendered on-line merriment by referring to our store-room as the office glory hole.
I like that photo, the perfect calm of the lake, uniformity of the torus and a hint of what lies beneath
We need a house poet for photos like that.
Hard to keep up with sexual metaphors when you're not immersed in the language. A few years back I engendered on-line merriment by referring to our store-room as the office glory hole.
If you've got one of these
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8313/29573504415_9247220b26_o.jpg)
in yr office I'm glad I never worked there ;D
Then, just three years ago, German mathematician Dr Thila Gross, who teaches at the University of Bristol, noticed there were many similarities between Königsberg and Bristol. The cities are a similar size, the same distance from the sea and had the same number of islands. However, there was one catch, Bristol had 43 bridges instead of seven.So he went on to devise a solution.
“It's not easy - the fact that is is possible in Bristol is fairly unique,” said Gross. “Although in Bristol many things are possible which are not possible elsewhere.”Like bumping into the Teutonic Knights on Wine Street?
That Euler's Seven Bridges of Konigsberg (https://nrich.maths.org/2484) problem does have a solution; you just have to transfer it to the 43 bridges of Bristol! Apparently this is not cheating, becauseIt is not a direct transfer because there are an odd number of bridges which do not connect two nodes but effectively just connect their ends. Topologically many of the bridges are not crossing an otherwise uncrossable river.QuoteThen, just three years ago, German mathematician Dr Thila Gross, who teaches at the University of Bristol, noticed there were many similarities between Königsberg and Bristol. The cities are a similar size, the same distance from the sea and had the same number of islands. However, there was one catch, Bristol had 43 bridges instead of seven.So he went on to devise a solution.Quote“It's not easy - the fact that is is possible in Bristol is fairly unique,” said Gross. “Although in Bristol many things are possible which are not possible elsewhere.”Like bumping into the Teutonic Knights on Wine Street?
http://www.bristol247.com/channel/news-comment/features/investigations/the-bristol-bridges-walk-challenge
There's a top-level domain for "People named Kim"
Spiritual discovery or people's democracy? Cannons by old forts?There's a top-level domain for "People named Kim"
I heard that the displaced immigrants from Le Jungle are having a whip-round to buy that particular instance new baubles.
Caecilius est in domus. Domus electronic est.Ooooh, did you have those Latin books?
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/house-caecilius-iucundus-pompeii-04248.html
Oh yes. Latin was the one O'Level I failed due to thinking that memorising set texts was not proper learning so I treated them as unseen.Caecilius est in domus. Domus electronic est.Ooooh, did you have those Latin books?
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/house-caecilius-iucundus-pompeii-04248.html
The person who is the most cited author on Google Scholar with an H-Index of 333..
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=qGuYgMsAAAAJ&hl=en
I did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
I did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
I did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Caesar sic in omnibus.Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Caesar sic in omnibus.Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Brutus sic inatCaesar sic in omnibus.Brutus aderatI did. Caecilius est pater.Flavia puella est. Marcus sub arbore sedet.
Caesar adsum iam forte.
Cat litter contains elevated levels of thorium-232.
also..
Thorium-232 is now classified as carcinogenic.
Thanks to Svante Pääbo, I now know that very roughly half the Neanderthal genome has so far been found to be still floating around - in us. And the more people are tested, the more is found.
My mind is boggled.
Damn - missed it. I'm good friends with Janet Kelso, one of the bioinformatics group leaders in Pääbo's department. Have to get it on iPlayer.She's in it.
That it's 50 years since the Aberfan disaster.
That it's 50 years since the Aberfan disaster.
That it's 50 years since the Aberfan disaster.
I only caught the last 3 minutes of the programme last night (The Young Wives' Club) but I was in tears at the final scene. I found it on +1 and recorded it. I'll watch when I'm feeling strong.
Reviewing engineering failures is part of the first year of engineering courses in Oz. I hadn't come across Aberfan before now, not unexpectedly. Also not too surprising that it made a big impression in the UK.
A Welsh university lecturer with a bent for process safety. One of those sad case studies that every chemical engineer should learn about.
Along with
Bhopal
Alexander Keilland
Piper Alpha
Seveso
Texas City
Feyzin
Deepwater Horizon
... (unfortunately we keep repeating these)
Reviewing engineering failures is part of the first year of engineering courses in Oz. I hadn't come across Aberfan before now, not unexpectedly. Also not too surprising that it made a big impression in the UK.
That cardinals over 80 do not have the right to vote for the next pope. At present only 111 of the 211 cardinals are entitled to take part in a conclave, which means if Francis were to die right now, they'd have to do something special: they need a minimum of 121 voters to choose a pope.
Alexander Kielland was an interesting case. My father lost a number of friends that day. It certainly had an impact on testing and certification.
The not-yet-declared new king of Thailand used to have a poodle called Fufu (or Foo Foo - 1997-2015). It is said to have been made an Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force, at his instigation, & often attended official occasions where it was treated as a guest, e.g. seated at table alongside humans. It featured prominently in a low-resolution video (probably shot from a phone) of its 2007 birthday party, in which the then crown princess fed it birthday cake while wearing only a g-string (the princess, not the poodle).
Ah, the lives of royalty!
Won't you choke if you swallow a bird ;D
But I don't know why you'd swallow a fly . . .
That duct tape is otherwise known as 'Havana chrome'. ;D
Many others here may already know it, but I found out today that Schwalbe means swallow. The bird, that is...
That duct tape is otherwise known as 'Havana chrome'. ;D
Combined Heat and Power, so basically a boiler that is producing steam for electrisity and using the low grade heat from the back end to heat the school.
I wouldn't have thought the temp difference was more than 30 deg K or about 11% and I wouldn't have thought a 10psi increase would cause a rim failure.
That when repairing a puncture or replacing a tyre in the cold, inflating to max pressure should be avoided if the storage space for the bike at work is a warm room.
I have a brace of CHP engineers in my plant room who nearly had a heart attack :-[
More 'what I have relearned today' . . .
The reason I stopped using an electric razor <mumble> years ago. The skin around my collar line looks like someone took a belt sander to it.
More 'what I have relearned today' . . .
The reason I stopped using an electric razor <mumble> years ago. The skin around my collar line looks like someone took a belt sander to it.
You are not the only one to suffer with that, despite the time savings that can be had from using an electric, I haven't used one for *mumblemumble* years
When Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich, returned to Bavaria as an old man, having previously trotted off to USAnia as a young man, he was turfed out in short order, by royal decree, for not having done mandatory military service and dodging emigration paperwork. Oh and he (it is alleged) ran a brothel in one of the gold rush areas in USAnia.Friedrich Trump was 35 when he returned to Germany, supposedly because his wife (who he'd met & married the previous time he'd been back) was homesick. So, not quite an old man. His home town is in the Pfalz, which was part of of the Kingdom of Bavaria, but not in Bavaria proper, or the modern German state.
Aww spoilsport. None of that unimportant detail made it into the article I read. Anyway, what have facts and accuracy got to do with anything when it comes to Agent^wPresident-Elect Orange? :)When Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich, returned to Bavaria as an old man, having previously trotted off to USAnia as a young man, he was turfed out in short order, by royal decree, for not having done mandatory military service and dodging emigration paperwork. Oh and he (it is alleged) ran a brothel in one of the gold rush areas in USAnia.Friedrich Trump was 35 when he returned to Germany, supposedly because his wife (who he'd met & married the previous time he'd been back) was homesick. So, not quite an old man. His home town is in the Pfalz, which was part of of the Kingdom of Bavaria, but not in Bavaria proper, or the modern German state.
And it wasn't a royal decree as in an order made personally by the king or even that the king knew of, but an order issued by officials in the Ministry of the Interior, which like all such paperwork at the time was in the king's name.
And on a related note, tonight I discovered that my mother's first job was as an assistant in the MRC unit in Gower Street, transcribing data and plotting graphs for Sir Richard Doll in his ground breaking study on smoking. She worked there for two weeks and was paid £4 10' per week.
Not all AA batteries are the same size :demon:. We've got a baby monitor that recharges its batteries when sitting on its base, so I can quite understand if non-rechargeables were minutely bigger than rechargeables (THAT would be a clever bit of poka-yoke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke)) to safeguard against putting the wrong type in, but even the new rechargeable ones I've bought won't fit...I've noticed Vapex are a bit bigger than Duracell rechargeables.
That the tune originally written for 'While shepherds watched their flocks' was later taken up for a popular song regarding someone dying in Yorkshire and being eaten by waterfowl.
bar t'at
Inspired by driving back yesterday through c 900Km of freezing fog (a fun activity I can recommend to those of masochistic tendency) I now know what freezing fog is.One of my runs to the Alps (in December '88) was in a 6 pot Landy that had no heater matrix fitted. I had freezing fog from somewhere just a bit South of Calais for hours and the rime accumulation on the front of the vehicle was something to behold.
On the road, I was befuddled by the contradictory information lodged in my brain: Water freezes at 0o and fog is water vapour. How, I asked myself could water vapour stay watery at -6o?
It turns out that water needs something to freeze on, in the absence of which it remains liquid. Thus, providing a wondrous show of rime on the roadside vegetation, and depositing thick ice layer onto any car surface it could.
Women are not allowed within 500 metres of the shore, and even female animals are prohibited from walking on Mount Athos. This is because the Virgin Mary is said to have visited the peninsula and prayed to have it as her own.
Mount Athos is the spiritual capital of the Orthodox Christian worldQuoteWomen are not allowed within 500 metres of the shore, and even female animals are prohibited from walking on Mount Athos. This is because the Virgin Mary is said to have visited the peninsula and prayed to have it as her own.
So, Virgin Mary, a woman, prayed to have the peninsula as her own and now woman are not allowed within 500m of the place by the very church that venerates her?
Irony, much?
er, my disgust in their hypocrisy was recently tweaked.Mount Athos is the spiritual capital of the Orthodox Christian worldQuoteWomen are not allowed within 500 metres of the shore, and even female animals are prohibited from walking on Mount Athos. This is because the Virgin Mary is said to have visited the peninsula and prayed to have it as her own.
So, Virgin Mary, a woman, prayed to have the peninsula as her own and now woman are not allowed within 500m of the place by the very church that venerates her?
Irony, much?
If you haven't already read From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Holy_Mountain), I highly recommend it if your interest in the Orthodox church has been recently piqued.
:-)er, my disgust in their hypocrisy was recently tweaked.Mount Athos is the spiritual capital of the Orthodox Christian worldQuoteWomen are not allowed within 500 metres of the shore, and even female animals are prohibited from walking on Mount Athos. This is because the Virgin Mary is said to have visited the peninsula and prayed to have it as her own.
So, Virgin Mary, a woman, prayed to have the peninsula as her own and now woman are not allowed within 500m of the place by the very church that venerates her?
Irony, much?
If you haven't already read From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Holy_Mountain), I highly recommend it if your interest in the Orthodox church has been recently piqued.