Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]

[Dr Jekyll]

What do TV channels like 'Dave' and 'Alibi' actually consist of?

I visualise one poor bloke in a basement sending recordings to a transmitter, and an office somewhere with a couple of 20 somethings selling ads and another arranging access to whatever 1970s series they want to show.

[Justin Cyder]

Dr Jekyll said:

What do TV channels like 'Dave' and 'Alibi' actually consist of?

I visualise one poor bloke in a basement sending recordings to a transmitter, and an office somewhere with a couple of 20 somethings selling ads and another arranging access to whatever 1970s series they want to show.

UKTV, sizeable outfit.

http://corporate.uktv.co.uk/about-uktv/executive-l...

[Hugo a Gogo]

Justayellowbadge said:

Hooli said:

gwm said:

Morningside said:

Strange the things you learn. You know those half pattens on coins? Well look what happens when you put them all together.

Damn that's quite cool! Going to have to try track down all those different coins

Me too & I see a small display case appearing if I can get them all from the same year too.

http://www.royalmint.com/shop/The_2014_United_Kingdom_Definitive_Coin_Set

I can't believe anyone didn't know that they went together like that

[kowalski655]

Is there a lot of difference in mpg for a convertible top up as opposed to top down?

[Jobbo]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Hooli said:

gwm said:

Morningside said:

Strange the things you learn. You know those half pattens on coins? Well look what happens when you put them all together.

Damn that's quite cool! Going to have to try track down all those different coins

Me too & I see a small display case appearing if I can get them all from the same year too.

http://www.royalmint.com/shop/The_2014_United_Kingdom_Definitive_Coin_Set

I can't believe anyone didn't know that they went together like that

I can't believe they charge £25 for a set with £3.88 of coins in it. That's some expensive cardboard packaging.

[Jobbo]

andygo said:

This has been bugging me for ages and nobody seems to be convincing enough with their explanations...

On a (for instance)'a formula ford you can run ,say, a 300 lb spring. It supports the car giving a ride height of, say, 280 mm. If I want the car stiffer at the rear I can swap the spring to a 350 lb spring. Alternatively I can compress the spring by winding up the spring platform to preload the spring by compressing it.

What's the difference between the two? As far as I can see, the net result is the same, so why can you buy springs in 50 lb increments?

I've seen a couple of answers but nobody specifically mentioned this: if you pre-load the spring, that means it has to have that load applied *before it will move at all*; after that, the rate remains 300lb. So it's nowhere near the same thing as a 350lb spring; it's not stiffer when it's working, but it's not even working properly because it needs a pre-load before it does anything at all.

[Scuba_steve]

TV advert question: Season 9 of 24 (Live another day) starting in May, the advert has been popping up on Sky 1 HD fairly regularly, they use a sample from Imagine Dragons: Radioactive, but it sounds different? Anyone know if there is a reworked version of the tune?

[P-Jay]

OlberJ said:

P-Jay said:

Who on earth is watching Scooby Doo at 02:45 on a Tuesday on Cartoon Network?

Also how come CN is able to cover the cost of it selling advertising time for people selling steam cleaners to insomniac toddlers when the BBC says they save money by still making all of BBC3's content, but only showing it online.

You don't have kids do you.

They sleep or rather don't sleep when they like. There is also nothing more succeptable to product placement than a tired, post natal female.

I have an 8 year old and my Wife is expecting at the moment - neither of which will be in front of the TV at that time of day ha ha.

[P-Jay]

psgcarey said:

P-Jay said:

He was hunting about when scrap prices were so low that by the time the scrap dealers followed all the various recycling rules that it cost money to scrap cars.

A main dealer took the old Volvo in part-ex to close a deal, faced with paying £150 to scrap it, they sold it for £1 and saved themselves £149.

They saved £150, and made £1.

Bet you're fun at parties.

[Engineer1]

P-Jay said:

OlberJ said:

P-Jay said:

Who on earth is watching Scooby Doo at 02:45 on a Tuesday on Cartoon Network?

Also how come CN is able to cover the cost of it selling advertising time for people selling steam cleaners to insomniac toddlers when the BBC says they save money by still making all of BBC3's content, but only showing it online.

You don't have kids do you.

They sleep or rather don't sleep when they like. There is also nothing more succeptable to product placement than a tired, post natal female.

I have an 8 year old and my Wife is expecting at the moment - neither of which will be in front of the TV at that time of day ha ha.

I agree having had nights of rocking the little one to sleep anything on TV to numb the pain of too little sleep and a child who will nap for an hour scream for 2 then nap for another hour is welcome I watched some truely st films trying to get / keep my daughter asleep so my wife could get some rest.

[OlberJ]

How is your suck-o-matic hair cutter and super-squeegee make up applier holding up?

[marshalla]

Why, when I'm in transit through an airport (making a connection between flights) and therefore technically staying airside all the way, do I have to go through security screening even though I was screened before getting on the first flight and shouldn't have any opportunity to acquire anything that hasn't already been screened by virtue of it being airside ?

[fomb]

This is because many local airports don't have good security, and you may have flown into somewhere like Gatwick from somewhere like Shoreham.

[marshalla]

fomb said:

This is because many local airports don't have good security, and you may have flown into somewhere like Gatwick from somewhere like Shoreham.

NCL - DXB - HKG
HKG - DXB - NCL

screened at DXB both times. None of those are exactly amateur airports.

Also

LTN - NCE - MCM
screened at Nice before getting in the helicopter.

I can understand it going the other way (MCM-NCE).

[anonymous-user]

marshalla said:

NCL - DXB - HKG
HKG - DXB - NCL

screened at DXB both times. None of those are exactly amateur airports.

Also

LTN - NCE - MCM
screened at Nice before getting in the helicopter.

I can understand it going the other way (MCM-NCE).

That's:
Newcastle
Dubai
Hong Kong
Luton
Nice
Monaco

For those that don't speak airport.

[Shaolin]

I've been on some nice holidays too, though Luton is an unusual choice if you live in Monaco.

[fomb]

marshalla said:

fomb said:

This is because many local airports don't have good security, and you may have flown into somewhere like Gatwick from somewhere like Shoreham.

NCL - DXB - HKG
HKG - DXB - NCL

screened at DXB both times. None of those are exactly amateur airports.

Also

LTN - NCE - MCM
screened at Nice before getting in the helicopter.

I can understand it going the other way (MCM-NCE).

The don't look at individual routes, they screen everyone regardless of source airport.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

The financial services compensation scheme, where the government apparently guarantee the first £85K of your savings should your bank collapse....if Barclays or one of the other huge banks went to the wall, could they afford to pay it??

[CraigyMc]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The financial services compensation scheme, where the government apparently guarantee the first £85K of your savings should your bank collapse....if Barclays or one of the other huge banks went to the wall, could they afford to pay it??

The pound is fiat currency, so they could just create more and call it qe.
This already happened.

[Ayahuasca]

Who shot who in the Copa, Copacabana?