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If the closing roof on Wimbledon’s Centre Court was to continue at the same speed it would take 12 hours to reach Buckingham palace.
I work with a chap whose job description is "Principal Horn".
Stoner - I guess my bosses house in Gargaresh at 12000 Libyan Dinars per month is not average then.
the ground under George Square in glasgow is completely hollow!
The standard lane markings in the middle of a road are called a 1004 marking and has a 2 metre gap for every 4 metre marking
Going back a few years we had a request from a client to include someone's star sign in the car insurance policy calculation as apparently research had shown people with certain star signs were a higher risk - not sure if it ever went live though.
The road sign for a mini roundabout (TSRGD 2002 dia. 611.1) has a right way and a wrong way up.
(there should be an arrow at the bottom rather than a gap)
Oh, sorry, you said interesting.
The new girl in the BA Ticket office in Tripoli is a stunner sadly half my age. 😳
The wavelengths used in a G-PON network are 1490nm upstream and 1310nm downstream. If you have a video overlay this adds another upstream wavelength at 1550nm.
G-PON is a fibre to the X standard (where X is home, kerb, cabinet etc.)
The maritime black box (the voyage data recorder) is mandated to record data but there is no legislation regarding the playback of that data.
anokdale - that rent would imply something like a 4 or 5 bed house I think 😉
And thanks for the tip off re BA girl. Hopefully going to fernaygle a trip out there in the new year and Ill make a point of looking her up. How old would be too old though? 🙂
Still thinking!!!
Erm.... electricity is actually bought and sold every half-hour in wholesale markets. Your meter readings go through half-hour aggregation to give a 'virtual' quantity of electricity that you would use for pay-back. For large power users (e.g. smelters > 100kWhr) they are actually metered every half-hour due to the quantities and have much more regular bills.
wikipedia says it only burnt for 15 years although thats impressive too.
As far as I can find out it still smouldering. Until they are removed it's always going to be at risk of self igniting.
Re the Tire fire....
Anyone able to find it on Google Maps?! Would have assumed a 15year fire would be viewable!
Stoner she must be 22 ish, no scarf which is rare for a local lass and a babe, thick as a Ghurkas fore@skin mind but worth a trip into sort out your seat 😉
Keep out of here until the New Year too many conferences and security about at the moment i am booted out of my normal gaff the Corinthia because the Government want all the rooms !!!!!!!!!! Bless the Colonel and his boys.
WITHOUT anyone watching you (you dont want to look like a prat) and
while sitting in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.!!!!!!!!!
A 9mm MP5PDW has less recoil even in full auto than a .22 Weirauch HW90 air rifle.
numplumz, I'm intrigued as to how that relates to your work or speciality.
Just what is it you do for a living ?
Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.!!!!!!!!!
Even drummers?
And I still can't think of anything!!! ❓
I think he's either an assassin, or he works in IT.
If everything else is equal, a smaller loudspeaker will go lower than a bigger speaker will in the same box.
Re the Tire fire....
Anyone able to find it on Google Maps?! Would have assumed a 15year fire would be viewable!
I don't think you can see it tbh as it burns underground. I'll try and sort out a location though.
Airline reservation systems are still programmed in assembly language on mainframes
The formula for working out the endotrachael tube size in children is:
age/4 + 4 (or 4.5).
Or, if you're in a hurry and don't know said child's age just use the width of their little finger and select a tube of the same diameter (approxiamtely).
Also, when cutting said tube to length be sure to use the formula:
age/2 + 12.
Re the Tire fire....Anyone able to find it on Google Maps?! Would have assumed a 15year fire would be viewable!
Don't know about the tyres, but theres a wood with ER written in it just north of the railway line 😀
there is no such thing a a digital specific aerial...........
I love nuggets like this. Ton we should club together and start the anti-marketing bollocks website.
Elephants don't have a pleural space; the potential gap between their lungs and their ribcage.
XHTML 1.1 should not be served as text/html.
The highest electromagnetic power density was found to be 0.008499 W/m2, which is more than 541 times lower than the maximum permitted value of 4.6 W/m2 for public areas set ICNIRP. This value represents a signal strength that is 0.19% of the maximum power density set-down in by ICNIRP.
I have been struggling to come up with something, but I thought I would mention that there is now a new discipline called "Acoustic Archaeology." Researchers in South America are taking part in new research that suggests that many ancient temples were designed to create "hallucinogenic" or mind altering echoes which actually did not sound like echoes but of actual or mythical animals and birds. There are temples where the echos really do produce the most otherworldly experiences and are said to be extremely frightening for some.
There are 416 Citizens Advice Bureaux in England and Wales. Contrary to popular opinion each is an independent charity and relies on a range of grants, contracts and donations to survive. Over 21,000 volunteers work in the bureaux. Last year over 1.9 million people were provided with advice and support with over 6 million problems.
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Also, if you have a pacemaker, a 3T MR scanner can rip it out.
Can you show some evidence for this? Pacemakers are non-magnetic.
The reason you should stay out of a magnetic field if you're fitted with one is that you can generate a current in the leads connecting the pacemaker to the heart as you move about in a field. This can cause a change in the generated heart beat, or heating of the wires leading to tissue damage.
The UK nail bar industry is worth 6 billion quid.
The 'stuff' in between the layers of wafer in a kitkat is actually made of reject kitkat.
The CE marking on a product must be more than 5mm high.
If it won't fit, it must be on the packaging and accompanying documentation.
Breach of the WEEE Directive in Ireland can land you with up to a £10 million fine and ten-year jail terms.
All I can think of now is stuff that shouldn't be said to the public about the London Underground network 😯
RichS storms into the lead....
thanks iDave
Nerve endings can detect the sensation of cold, but not wetness, hence you might think you have wet feet but in reality, they may just be freakin' cold. Of course, they may actually be wet.
The 'stuff' in between the layers of wafer in a kitkat is actually made of reject kitkat
how did they make the first kitkat then?
All I can think of now is stuff that shouldn't be said to the public about the London Underground network
like "Bob Crow's weekend name is Mandy"?
how did they make the first kitkat then?
That is a mystery beyond the scope of this post.
The way to test/tell the sensitivity of a lady to the vibrations of vibrator, is to place said article on the skin above the top lip but below the nose...
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The first kitkat was rejected as there was no filler, so it was crused and used as filler in the 2nd attempt.
...which was inevitably a success, so instantly damning the world to no more kitkats...
3 things I learned from selling production scheduling software to food & beverage companies:
1) All lager is brewed to about 8.8% alcohol. They just dilute it with tapwater to get to the lower strength stuff.
2) Greene King never start a brew of IPA. It's just Abbott, or Speckled Hen or Ruddles that doesn't quite manage to get up to spec.
3) Pet food factories operate to higher hygiene standards than human food factories. Not only do they get regular H&S checks, they also get plagued with animal rights nutters. But they're still not as clean as the Bentley factory where they make the cars.
Ron Jeremy - that's the philtrum.
which was inevitably a success, so instantly damning the world to no more kitkats...
Does that mean that the filler bit is actually a vacuum then?
Babies cry/scream at a frequency of around 1kHz - where your ear is most sensitive.
Many loudspeakers have crossovers and tweeter resonance close to this point - hence the importance of crossover design.
all new bikes dont really alter that much from the previous year....except color/price/graphics
endura order overshoes by the container...
powerbands dont work..
you can use thermally tolerant bacteria found in hot springs to test the efficacy of alternative treatment plants for clinical waste. If you can render them inactive to at least a 4Log10 kill then you'll have jumped up and down on any pathogenic organisms present.
However the fun bit is that you have to go and find them in the waste and until you've grown the little blighters you don't actually know if you've been climbing around in "live" waste. It also makes needle stick injuries all the more fun waiting to find out if you're in the doodoo or not.
anyone want a job?
There really are no pockets in shrouds.
(Although when I retire, I'm going to spend a few hours deliberately sewing some on, just for a laugh)
There isn't lack of oxygen in the air at altitude, it's just that the lower air pressure makes it harder for oxygen to cross the cell membrane.
The Michelin man is actually called Monsieur Bibendum.
Related to the tyre fire;
The mine fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania will continue to burn for the next 250-1000 years. There is an underground coal mine fire in China that produces almost as much CO2 as all the cars in the USA, and consumes 200 million tonnes of coal per annum.
The energy carried by an ocean wave, per metre width, is approximately 0.5 x Hs^2 x Te where Hs is the significant wave height and Te is the wave energy period.
there's no such thing as a perfect circle.
Got one!
Contrary to popular belief, apparently [url= http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/there ]there[/url] and [url= http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/their ]their[/url] are not the same.
I so want to respond to Ron's post. But I don't want to be banned 😀
I did think that the best way would be to try it out on the lady in questions clitoris, given that the purpose is presumably sexual stimulation.
A standard l6 electricity pylon is 48m high
aircraft fill up their cabins with fume a lot more often than people think.
and my all time fave
a woman in the USA who worked as a telephone sex operator successfully sued her employer for damages as a result of over use of a vibrator on an occupational basis which resulted in damage to the circulatory system and sensory nerves in much the same way as vibration white finger although it would be more apt to think of it as vibration white fanny.
emsz, go on whisper it so no one hears??
failing that email in profile!!
there's no such thing as a perfect circle.
y^2+x^2=1
also
i^i = e^(-pi/2) which is roughly 0.208
Therefore the ith root of e^(-pi/2) is i
If you plot the nth roots of a number on an argand diagram you get a regular n sided shape. So what happens if you tried to plot the ith roots of a number?
Use your imagination Ron
I once caught a glimpse of our Administrator password - it was either 8 or 9 asterisks.
emsz - Member
Use your imagination Ron
You really dont want me to do that....
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Designing and making one off pieces of furniture
If you ask people the right question, they will tell you what you need to know.
Willow is fast growing and can be used to improve the quality of polluted soil as it will absorb heavy metals. However the resultant potash (when burned obviously) will be full of now concentrated heavy metal (think mercury) and therefore should not be used as fertiliser in the human food chain.
Building control doesn't like biomass boilers as they deliver minute particles which 'may be hazardous to human health'. Just as well we haven't been using wood for fires for thousands and thousands of years as we could all die!
The programme for iSBEM is such that the information required for input will render the results far from accurate and it comes as no surprise that buildings designed with low CO2/kg/annum don't actually deliver the low values in reality.
They don't like it up 'em (them fuzzy wuzzies...)
Wouldn't the Hg just volatilise up the flue when the wood is incinerated? Maybe things like Cu, Cr, Zn etc are the issue?
The programme for iSBEM is such that the information required for input will render the results far from accurate and it comes as no surprise that buildings designed with low CO2/kg/annum don't actually deliver the low values in reality.
The building I used to work in in Bangor had the highest energy efficiency rating, which always puzzled me seeing as the solar pannels were over the glass roof, so we had to turn the lights on...
Moet, as in, Moet et Chandon the champagne, is pronounced Mow-it not Mow-aye as nearly everyone in the UK wrongly pronounces it (thinking it French presumably). Moet has umlarts over the e, it's a dutch or German surname. Not sure that's very interesting tho 😳
Only taking dumps at work could save you about £25 a year
The building I used to work in in Bangor had the highest energy efficiency rating, which always puzzled me seeing as the solar panels were over the glass roof, so we had to turn the lights on..
Nah, they were cunning: minimising solar gain obviously... 😉
Don't really know about the HM's other than them being, well, heavy, they would sink rather than float up the flue... no?
Two of England's major gas transmission pipelines cross each other underneath a unsecured field.
The calorific value of gas stated on your bill is probably higher than it should be.
PTFE evolves Phosgene gas if burnt.
for an event lasting more than 6 hours with an attendance of 100,000 people based on a 50/50 split men and women, presuming that the audience will consume an average amount of food, drink and drugs the recommended number of toilets is 600 toilets and 334 urinals.
Thats a lot of poo and wee
Dry cleaning is not "dry".
The line above the symbol means the garment needs a delicate cycle - a reduction of the cycle duration and the temperature at which it operates.
sorry.
Building control doesn't like biomass boilers as they deliver minute particles which 'may be hazardous to human health'. Just as well we haven't been using wood for fires for thousands and thousands of years as we could all die!
good reason for that, inhalation of thorasic and respirable sized particles from the combustion of wood can contain all sorts of delightful little carcinogens depending on the wood being burned and all the metals which may have bio-accumulated will also be released, in additon you can also get other pollutants such as carbon monoxide,nitrogen oxides, benzene, butadiene, formaldehyde and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
The world health organisation and various others have carried out long term studies that show that there is a significantly higher rate of lung disease in people who use fires within the home as a dominant heat/cooking source.
"PTFE evolves Phosgene gas if burnt"
No it doesn't but if heated to above 600 degrees C it can liberate perfluoroisobutylene which is a listed chemical warfare agent. It's a lot more toxic (about 10 time) than phosgene which can be liberated when chlorinated hydorcarbons are heated. A common one was welding stuff that had been cleaned with trichloroehtylene and still had residues on.
sorry, just done some research work on fire retardants using PTFE, god I'm a geek
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TJ have you used this list for reference as well?
1. Ghost: The kind where you feel it come out but there is nothing
in the toilet.
2. Clean: The kind where you poo it out, see it, but there is
nothing on the toilet paper.
3. Wet: The kind where you wipe your butt at least 90 times and it
feels unwiped so you have to put some toilet paper between your butt
and your underwear so you won't ruin your pants.
4. Second Wave: It happens when you're finished and you've
pulled your pants up to your knees and you realize you have to go
some more.
5. Pop-A-Vein-In-Your-Head: The kind where you strain so much to get it out you practically have a stroke.
6. Richard Simmons: You poo so much you lose 30 pounds.
7. Lincoln Log : The kind of poo that is so huge that you are afraid
to flush the toilet without breaking it into little pieces with the
toilet brush.
8. Gassy: It's noisy; everyone within earshot is giggling.
9. Drinker: The kind of poo you have the morning after a long night
of drinking. It's most noticeable trait is the tread marks on the
bottom of the toilet.