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

[FiF]

Considering some of the scrotes around instead of discussing capital punishment might we be better off deporting them to somewhere remote and rancid.

Trouble is the gits would come back and beat us at cricket but that's another issue.


Not serious obviously.

[V41LEY]

FiF said:

The Body Farm

Warning includes some slightly gruesome photos of decaying corpses.

That's the place. pretty grim !
Slightly off topic, but my mother (81) has specified in her will that she wants to donate her body to medical research.
Curiously, they have advised her this only works if she dies Monday - Friday as they have no resource to collect
her body at weekends.

[Warw1ckHunt]

sleep envy said:

Does the tardis have a toilet or does The Doctor travel back to a time when he didn't need a st?

The good people from Viz provided an answer to this puzzle a while back...

Contains juvenile humour, you have been warned...

http://youtu.be/QiCcp4Jk-34

[Battyfine]

V41LEY said:

That's the place. pretty grim !
Slightly off topic, but my mother (81) has specified in her will that she wants to donate her body to medical research.
Curiously, they have advised her this only works if she dies Monday - Friday as they have no resource to collect
her body at weekends.

Interesting. Can't her body be stored in the morgue for a couple of days, ready for collection by said scientists?

[OlberJ]

V41LEY said:

Curiously, they have advised her this only works if she dies Monday - Friday as they have no resource to collect her body at weekends.

That is the single best thing I've read on here for months. Amazing.

[V41LEY]

Battyfine said:

V41LEY said:

That's the place. pretty grim !
Slightly off topic, but my mother (81) has specified in her will that she wants to donate her body to medical research.
Curiously, they have advised her this only works if she dies Monday - Friday as they have no resource to collect
her body at weekends.

Interesting. Can't her body be stored in the morgue for a couple of days, ready for collection by said scientists?

I thought that but apparently not. Apparently they don't hang about and your're being sliced and diced pretty soon after death in the name of research / training etc. Maybe two days in the morgue is too long as the bits they are interested in deteriorate quickly? I'll check through the paperwork next time I'm home.

[Carl_Spackler]

When the coffin "gives" why are grave yards not full of coffin/skeleton shaped "dents" in the ground, Shirley if you are standing tending to a grave that's a few years old then your weight plus rotting coffin would equal a bit of a collapse? (and brown trousers)

[Shaolin]

Carl_Spackler said:

When the coffin "gives" why are grave yards not full of coffin/skeleton shaped "dents" in the ground, Shirley if you are standing tending to a grave that's a few years old then your weight plus rotting coffin would equal a bit of a collapse? (and brown trousers)

I've thought the same thing. Though newly covered graves have a reasonably sized "hump" don't they? Maybe the hump drops into the gap that results?

[marshalla]

On motorways with the "stay two chevrons apart" system, why aren't the chevrons in lane 3 further apart than those in lane 1 ?

[ATTAK Z]

marshalla said:

On motorways with the "stay two chevrons apart" system, why aren't the chevrons in lane 3 further apart than those in lane 1 ?

I guess it's because two chevrons represents the thinking time rather than the braking time, which will be relatively the same for cars travelling at the same speed, be it 56 or 70 mph ...

[ATTAK Z]

ATTAK Z said:

marshalla said:

On motorways with the "stay two chevrons apart" system, why aren't the chevrons in lane 3 further apart than those in lane 1 ?

I guess it's because two chevrons represents the thinking time rather than the braking time, which will be relatively the same for cars travelling at the same speed, be it 56 or 70 mph ...

maybe not ... it doesn't make sense now I've re-read it ...

[marshalla]

ATTAK Z said:

I guess it's because two chevrons represents the thinking time rather than the braking time, which will be relatively the same for cars travelling at the same speed, be it 56 or 70 mph ...

s=ut+0.5a(t^2)

Time is more or less constant, but distance won't be.

[Hugo a Gogo]

marshalla said:

On motorways with the "stay two chevrons apart" system, why aren't the chevrons in lane 3 further apart than those in lane 1 ?

same speed limit

[marshalla]

Hang on, thinking about it - your initial thought may be right.

Vehicles travelling at roughly the same speed will travel the same distance in the thinking time. As long as the chevrons in lane 3 are far enough apart, then the chevrons in the inner lanes must actually be slightly too far apart if they all have equal spacing.

[GTIR]

marshalla said:

On motorways with the "stay two chevrons apart" system, why aren't the chevrons in lane 3 further apart than those in lane 1 ?

I was with a mate on the M11 and he saw those signs and said "What the fk are chevrons?"

[RyanOPlastry]

What exactly do they mean by "2 chevrons apart"? Isn't that open to different interpretation?

[ATTAK Z]

RyanOPlastry said:

What exactly do they mean by "2 chevrons apart"? Isn't that open to different interpretation?

Nope

[MissChief]

I'd assume it means that there should be a single chevron between yourself and the car in front?

[ATTAK Z]

MissChief said:

I'd assume it means that there should be a single chevron between yourself and the car in front?

You assume wrongly IMO ... you could be 1 metre from the car in front and still have a single chevron between yours and the car in front

[Hugo a Gogo]

it's called the 2 chevrons rule, always have 2 chevrons between you and the car in front

it's not rocket surgery