Classic from the Mrs!

[JREwing]

TorqueVR said:

Last night watching the live tennis in Rome at about 20.45. I commented how it was broad daylight here but pitch black in Rome. "it would be" she said "They're an hour ahead of us" She could not see that the match was LIVE and what the clock said was irrelevant.

But it does get dark earlier in Rome than in the UK?

ETA: Well, that's not exactly what I mean. But if 20:45 in the UK is 21:45 in Rome, and Rome is further east based on a world map, does the sun not set there every day before it sets in the UK?

Edited by JREwing on Sunday 19th May 11:54

[Einion Yrth]

Vitorio said:

havoc said:

Orbital mechanics (no, not the chaps doing the fixing, I'm talking about the physics of it all) is not immediately intuitive. I've seen mathematicians get confused by it, to be fair. Catching something up can only be done by reducing altitude, for example...

If you are interested in this kind of stuff, check out kerbalspaceprogram.com, awesome little "game" with a cracking demo. It really made orbital mechanics make sense to me.

Personally I'd suggest Orbiter either as well or instead, cracking "proper" spaceflight simulator, bags of add-ons available and with the DirectX 9 graphics client staggeringly good looking.

[Einion Yrth]

onyx39 said:

Took the MG out today, lovely day for it. Could not find my sunglasses, not the end of the world, I thought. She then decided that her footwear was uncomfortable so went upstairs to change, came back 5 minutes later and said " I found you some sunglasses" I checked and pointed out they were cinema 3 d specs. "I know, they will be ok though right?"

Most cinema 3D systems use either plane or circular polarising lenses to separate the images, so they'd work Ok at a pinch, but wouldn't be particularly stylish.

[OlberJ]

Her to the dug this morning : "Does someone want to go to the P..R..A..K?"

[firemanSimon]

OlberJ said:

Her to the dug this morning : "Does someone want to go to the P..R..A..K?"

Why im i not surprised she is with you ! Only kidding green boy

[irocfan]

OlberJ said:

Her to the dug this morning : "Does someone want to go to the P..R..A..K?"

what's a dug?

[RizzoTheRat]

D'ya loik dags?

[Papa Hotel]

irocfan said:

what's a dug?

Jockanese for dog.

[Einion Yrth]

irocfan said:

OlberJ said:

Her to the dug this morning : "Does someone want to go to the P..R..A..K?"

what's a dug?

It's actually quite an old word for tit or nork. Does your missus often misspell words when addressing her secondary sexual characteristics?

[karona]

philthy said:

Last night:
"Why don't er go to that thing Kim goes to, the festival of light and noise".
Me: Errrr, go on, give us a clue?
"That thing Kim goes to every year, she got Lewis Hamiltons autograph last year"

Do you mean the Goodwood festival of speed?...............

Festival of light and sound, just up the road from us. A gigawatt sound system, and the whole mountainside floodlit, they have to ask permission from the national grid management before they can run the show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR5Sf1G7bQE
(Skip to 3 minutes in, the start's crap)

[Johnnytheboy]

Does anyone else's mrs spend ages getting ready to the extent that - having been ready - you sit down and start doing something (e.g. browsing PH), then when they appear they rather pointedly say "well I'm ready", as if it's you holding things up?

Or is it just Mrstheboy?

[Bullett]

They all do that sir.

[onyx39]

The Mrs was quoting some medical statistic at the weekend...
"did you know that 820% of people are likely to get....."

Transpires that whatever disease it was had had an 820% increase in x years...

as stated before... she works in accounts... bless her...

[Dr Murdoch]

Mrs watching the Eurovision song contest says 'where is she from "ber-lairious?" (said like hilarious)", I turned round and said "you mean Belerus?!"

Once she finished laughing at herself she said....

"Where is that, is it in Europe"...

[Dr Jekyll]

Johnnytheboy said:

Does anyone else's mrs spend ages getting ready to the extent that - having been ready - you sit down and start doing something (e.g. browsing PH), then when they appear they rather pointedly say "well I'm ready", as if it's you holding things up?

Or is it just Mrstheboy?

They all do it, you don't even need to be doing anything in particular, you can be sitting on the sofa with your coat on and they still do it.

[Grenoble]

Dr Murdoch said:

Mrs watching the Eurovision song contest says 'where is she from "ber-lairious?" (said like hilarious)", I turned round and said "you mean Belerus?!"

Did you mean Belarus?

And geographically part of Eastern Europe, but not part of the EU or EEA, IIRC.

[Dr Murdoch]

Grenoble said:

Did you mean Belarus?

And geographically part of Eastern Europe, but not part of the EU or EEA, IIRC.

Good job I didn't communicate via e-mail or text message, otherwise it would of been me who looked like the fool

[kowalski655]

When watching Eurovision,Mrs asked if Ireland was part of the UK! Well,not for about 90 years luv, you may have heard of these folk called the IRA!!!

[Vipers]

kowalski655 said:

When watching Eurovision,Mrs asked if Ireland was part of the UK! Well,not for about 90 years luv, you may have heard of these folk called the IRA!!!

But they are!

[Papa Hotel]

Dr Murdoch said:

"Where is that, is it in Europe"...

Not necessarily a daft question; it'd be quite a hard sell arguing the case for Israel currently being "in Europe".