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- 17 Apr 2024, 09:06
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7610
- Views: 854659
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
What a night! I'm glad to hear it ended with relatively little damage to Sally. In a similar situation my mother fainted at the top of the stairs on a visit to the loo but fortunately she slumped down and didn't roll off the edge. Nevertheless it gave her a nasty fright and prompted us to help them ...
- 16 Apr 2024, 15:56
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7610
- Views: 854659
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
I've booked my Covid vaccination for Monday.
- 16 Apr 2024, 08:54
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16490
- Views: 1919191
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
I agree and the inability to see the implications of their actions seems to be a common fault in recent times, extending well beyond road planners.
- 16 Apr 2024, 08:48
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20039
- Views: 2288108
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it for connecting to a water main to top up the loco's tank?
- 15 Apr 2024, 15:59
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2025
- Views: 352876
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
`Coral bleaching: Fourth global mass stress episode underway - US scientists' LINK
- 15 Apr 2024, 08:40
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16490
- Views: 1919191
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
The M48 Severn Bridge is closed today due to the strong winds. It was closed a couple of weeks ago for the same reason and I hadn't seen this report until it was flagged up again today...
`M48 Severn bridge: Car crashes after driver ignores closure' BBC
`M48 Severn bridge: Car crashes after driver ignores closure' BBC
- 13 Apr 2024, 09:20
- Forum: Nostalgia
- Topic: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
- Replies: 5240
- Views: 597536
Re: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
One of my undergraduate pals got a job as chief chemist at a vinegar factory in London. He gave me a tour around it which was fascinating but was a challenge for my nose. He was used to the fumes by then.
This is an interesting read...
Vinegar
This is an interesting read...
Vinegar
- 13 Apr 2024, 09:01
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3742
- Views: 388984
Re: Seen in the News
Both Putin and Netanhayu know that Trump will probably win the next US Presidential Election; and they also know he is dangerously unpredictable, so he might support them, abandon them or even turn against them. So they're intent on destroying Ukraine and Palestine before the election.
- 13 Apr 2024, 08:52
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1810
Re: VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
And there isn't much Geology or Earth Sciences taught in schools now.
- 12 Apr 2024, 09:05
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
- Replies: 2236
- Views: 328653
Re: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
I think it would be difficult to make a comparison because you'd need to be able to determine the temperature of the liquids throughout the experiment, both heating and cooling. The distribution of heating is different in the two cases and the microwave can superheat due to the focusing of the energ...
- 12 Apr 2024, 08:28
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20039
- Views: 2288108
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Where Stanley used to keep his pasty warm?
- 11 Apr 2024, 16:04
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
- Replies: 2236
- Views: 328653
Re: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
Interesting Cathy! I can only suggest that one was oil-based and the other water-based. Oil is light than water so when the mixture was left to settle the oil-based layer floated to the top. The purple dye must be oil-soluble and the green pigment water-soluble too.
- 11 Apr 2024, 15:54
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4813
- Views: 559052
- 10 Apr 2024, 10:49
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4813
- Views: 559052
- 10 Apr 2024, 10:46
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
- Replies: 2236
- Views: 328653
Re: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
It can go on for a very long time because the mantle contains radioactive elements that are continuously producing heat. They've been doing it for billions of years and still have a long way to go! :smile: This is an interesting development and I can almost hear the Brexiteer climate deniers saying ...
- 10 Apr 2024, 10:38
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3742
- Views: 388984
Re: Seen in the News
I sympathise with this bloke but what struck me in the article is that `the most probable cause of the fire was an electrical fault or a component failure in a moving diesel vehicle'. The small number of electric vehicles present might have increased the danger slightly but the main problem is the l...
- 09 Apr 2024, 15:47
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12599
- Views: 1328400
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Apparently it's routine before every US Presidential Election for our Foreign Sec to visit the two leading candidates `for discussions'.
- 09 Apr 2024, 15:40
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4813
- Views: 559052
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Scottish First Minister Humza Yousef introduced the controversial Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill to the Scottish Parliament.... The Critic
But back to jokes...
- 09 Apr 2024, 08:49
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
- Replies: 2236
- Views: 328653
Re: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
That's a good video and as it reaches the end it shows the waves crashing against the new rocks - and that's the cycle starting all over again. The volcanic rock is being eroded, will form sand and silt, then be compressed and heated to form new sedimentary rock which will eventually be subducted ba...
- 09 Apr 2024, 08:39
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16490
- Views: 1919191
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Mrs Tiz spotted this video this morning...
`Amazing automata fascinate Cornwall museum visitors' BBC
`Amazing automata fascinate Cornwall museum visitors' BBC
- 08 Apr 2024, 08:36
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3742
- Views: 388984
Re: Seen in the News
As the lady said (but on a different matter) `Oh no, not another one!'...
`Ferocious blaze as e-bike explodes at Sutton railway station' LINK
`Ferocious blaze as e-bike explodes at Sutton railway station' LINK
- 08 Apr 2024, 08:28
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4813
- Views: 559052
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
An intellectual one to brighten up our Monday morning...
- 07 Apr 2024, 08:59
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16490
- Views: 1919191
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
`Mount Etna puffs 'smoke rings' in rare display'... Mount Etna
- 07 Apr 2024, 08:57
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4813
- Views: 559052
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Talking of sending pictures of genitals...
- 07 Apr 2024, 08:45
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12599
- Views: 1328400
Re: POLITICS CORNER
On a pedantic note, shouldn't it be 'Waste to energy' plant? Yes, and rarely `energy from waste' plant. A similar, common, mangling of the language is `substitute oil with gas' when they mean `replace oil with gas' or `substitute gas for oil.' I think the garbled version is due to the way football ...