Urban myth buster thread!

[oobster]

surveyor said:

I think the general rule is luke warm not too bad. Boiling water out of kettle not good.

Thats what I remember being told years ago too. Thing is though, you need to get into the car and use the windscreen wipers quickly to get the outside of the screen dry otherwise the warm water just ends up freezing onto the glass again!

I've been using warm water on my cars for years and never had a problem. Three-quarters of a kettle of hot water from the kitchen tap, top it up with the cold tap.

[EDLT]

sherbert90 said:

singlecoil said:

Anybody blown up their microwave or suffered some other unpleasantness by putting some metal in it?

Not blown up, but my ex once put a takeaway container in the microwave once. Cracked the glass in the door.

Stupid cow.

Was the door frozen at the time, you could be on to something

[redtwin]

surveyor said:

ALso discovered downside to warm water technique a couple of weeks ago. It ain't readily available with suitable container in the station car park.

Think outside the box.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

A large whirlpool at sea will indeed spin the opposite way in in northern and southern hemispheres. However, the whirlpool in the hotal sink is far to small to be effected by external influences and how it spins will be as a result of the design of the sink and the angle at which you remove the plug.

[littleredrooster]

JohnnyJones said:

I'll go first with the de icing myth. Has anyone ever cracked their icy windscreen by chucking hot water on it? Thought not.

Yes. A schoolteacher neighbour of mine did exactly this in about 1978 as I was laboriously scraping my screen.

Kettle full of hot water on to a frozen screen and - bang! - toughened windscreen in many thousands of pieces. Impressive sound effect and impressive mess to clean up.

[T5R+]

redtwin said:

Think outside the box.

This raises the question over - what happens if the stream touches an electric fence.......is that another myth or is there truth in the tingle.

[Eric Mc]

An electric fence is far too weak to create a meaningful spark that could jump a gap and vcause serious medical damage. I've heard this phenomenon being described in relation to railway workers peeing on electrified rail. I've also heard that even an electrified rail would not cause this effect.

[GarryA]

Eric Mc said:

An electric fence is far too weak to create a meaningful spark that could jump a gap and vcause serious medical damage. I've heard this phenomenon being described in relation to railway workers peeing on electrified rail. I've also heard that even an electrified rail would not cause this effect.

Electrified rail in the UK is a maximum of 750v DC, anyone care to work it out?

[gog440]

GarryA said:

Eric Mc said:

An electric fence is far too weak to create a meaningful spark that could jump a gap and vcause serious medical damage. I've heard this phenomenon being described in relation to railway workers peeing on electrified rail. I've also heard that even an electrified rail would not cause this effect.

Electrified rail in the UK is a maximum of 750v DC, anyone care to work it out?

TBH I'm not going to piss on one to find out, the thought of my piss literally boiling inside me doesnt appeal

[4keymonsta]

furiously masturbating at every moment you get makes you blind

[sday12]

4keymonsta said:

furiously masturbating at every moment you get makes you blind

I can't read that

[hyperblue]

Do you lot not have de-icer where you live? What is this bks about hot water?

[Ferg]

A friend of mine put some of his 'waste' in a jar in the microwave. Don't do this..ever.

[Blib]

headcase said:

Sounds like a job for Mythbusters!

[Furberger]

GarryA said:

Eric Mc said:

An electric fence is far too weak to create a meaningful spark that could jump a gap and vcause serious medical damage. I've heard this phenomenon being described in relation to railway workers peeing on electrified rail. I've also heard that even an electrified rail would not cause this effect.

Electrified rail in the UK is a maximum of 750v DC, anyone care to work it out?

An electric fencer is anywhere over 5000v. Pissing on it is not a good idea. Feel free to put your money where your ermmmm... mouth is!

[singlecoil]

GarryA said:

Eric Mc said:

An electric fence is far too weak to create a meaningful spark that could jump a gap and vcause serious medical damage. I've heard this phenomenon being described in relation to railway workers peeing on electrified rail. I've also heard that even an electrified rail would not cause this effect.

Electrified rail in the UK is a maximum of 750v DC, anyone care to work it out?

The voltage alone is not enough to tell anyone about the energy available. Static electricity often involves 1000s of volts but doesn't normally cause serious injury.

[anonymous-user]

littleredrooster said:

toughened windscreen in many thousands of pieces.

You just answered the question, laminated glass doesn't shatter.

[Mini1275]

[Ferg]

Sopposed?

[1point7bar]

R300will said:

The direction of water spinning down the plughole depends more on the shape of the bowl rather than the Coriolis effect. However i think it does go the other way in the southern hemisphere.