Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]
Discussion
P-Jay said:
torqueofthedevil said:
How can anyone go camping for more than one night? I went last night - well prepared - ate well, had a few drinks, asleep for 12, but awake at 5:45 - no chance of getting back to sleep. Cold hard floor. Now feel like I've been up for days and its going to take a week to get over it.
Frankly how anyone would go twice is beyond my comprehension - a few of my Mates go a few times a year, they take all their Kids and go in a big group - it looks HORRIBLE to me - the cheap way is to lay, eat, sleep and s
t in a field - like cows do, only under a few mm of plastic.The more you take in creature comforts the more you must reach the point when you think - there's a lovely B&B up the road - it'll cost us £65 a night and I won't have to sleep in an inflatable bed and someone else will sort out the bacon butties, as for the campervan lot - £20k to live like Gypsies???? Sod that, before you even consider the fuel the things drink, or the insurance, the storage or the maintenance - that's a decades worth of family holidays by which time the camper will be decidedly second-hand.
"Oh, but you can go when you want" is the usual reply to all that - but I'm not aware of anyone who comes in the night and locks me in my house - I can go whenever I want and there's ALWAYS a B&B Keeper willing to give me a proper roof over my head for the night in exchange for less than a 'deluxe' camping chair.
In my youth I camped a lot because it was cheap and I didn't understand/care that it was uncomfortable. I (sometimes alone, sometimes with friends) would camp in a farmers field "campsite" with an outside lav-block and a standpipe or just camp wild. Modern grown-ups camping has all of the negatives with none of the positives AND it's not cheap (I know you said that but it's worth repeating) AND you camp next right next to others hearing all of their conversations, kids tantrums, farts in the night etc. Why? just why?
The toaster thing - surely it's caused by people who can't understand the idea that there is a time lag between turning the knob and getting out fed-in bread? So it gets turned from one extreme to the next as people helpfully adjust it. Last time I encountered one was on a cruise where the waiters controlled it, so resulting in perfect toast for everyone.
On those great big machines that rip up the tarmac when roads are being re-surfaced, there are sometimes two balloon type things at the top that look really out of place.
They are maybe made out of plastic. It looks like some sort of weather station type equipment.
I hope I've been vague enough
any ideas? What do they do?
They are maybe made out of plastic. It looks like some sort of weather station type equipment.
I hope I've been vague enough
any ideas? What do they do?VEIGHT said:
On those great big machines that rip up the tarmac when roads are being re-surfaced, there are sometimes two balloon type things at the top that look really out of place.
They are maybe made out of plastic. It looks like some sort of weather station type equipment.
I hope I've been vague enough any ideas? What do they do?
Yeah, I work with road planers.They are maybe made out of plastic. It looks like some sort of weather station type equipment.
I hope I've been vague enough
any ideas? What do they do?Similar to this?
I have no idea what balloons you're talking about! All I can think is maybe a large GPS sensor or something similar...
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Can you post a link to a conveyor style toaster without any external settings for how you want your toast done. I don't see why anyone would make such a contraption or why anyone would buy one.
http://www.nisbets.co.uk/burco-conveyor-toaster-77010/CF597/ProductDetail.ractionNote the tamper proof cover option (pictured).
robbieduncan said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Can you post a link to a conveyor style toaster without any external settings for how you want your toast done. I don't see why anyone would make such a contraption or why anyone would buy one.
http://www.nisbets.co.uk/burco-conveyor-toaster-77010/CF597/ProductDetail.ractionNote the tamper proof cover option (pictured).
Or the Buffalo
On that one the picture doesn't include the "There is also a cover panel to hide controls for use front-of-house or in a self-service capacity."
There must be others.
Of course there could be some where there is no tamper proof cover plate and they just remove the control knobs.
But it serves to prove the point.
btw if it was a mind reading machine then I must have been thinking of the wrong sort of brown as the results were s
t.
Willy Nilly said:
When someone has to sign the sex offenders register, what actually happens? Do they just go into their local police station and sign a piece of paper?
I think they just need to sign up at their local police station and tell them where they are living. I doubt they'd need to turn up each week and sign up, but I'm sure a copper will know. HA51EMT][mumsnet said:
How do colour catchers work in washing machines? [/mumsnet]
They should be an easy-to-dye sheet that absorbs any loose dyes before they mix about on other clothes.MissChief said:
iva cosworth said:
Why don't TV presenters swot up on pronunciations of foreign stuff ?
Just heard a bloke pronounce Cagliari a club and place in Italy,Calgary.....fool.
The BBC has a whole department based on pronunciation apparently!Just heard a bloke pronounce Cagliari a club and place in Italy,Calgary.....fool.
It's not the most difficult pronunciation.
robbieduncan said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Can you post a link to a conveyor style toaster without any external settings for how you want your toast done. I don't see why anyone would make such a contraption or why anyone would buy one.
http://www.nisbets.co.uk/burco-conveyor-toaster-77010/CF597/ProductDetail.ractionNote the tamper proof cover option (pictured).
Utter madness.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
robbieduncan said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Can you post a link to a conveyor style toaster without any external settings for how you want your toast done. I don't see why anyone would make such a contraption or why anyone would buy one.
http://www.nisbets.co.uk/burco-conveyor-toaster-77010/CF597/ProductDetail.ractionNote the tamper proof cover option (pictured).
Utter madness.
It was a four star in a very good location and not exactly cheap.
Problem with your theory is that with pop up toasters or manual eg Dualit, it's easy to manage, guest just takes their toast out when it's done. There is the risk they forget and set a smoke alarm off however.
With the conveyor ones the guest doesn't know if the setting is to their liking until they've run one batch through. Adjust. Run another batch. Results in waste of bread and time I.e. throughput rate.
Presumably the hotel should set the machine at some setting to get a medium result. But ime, which isn't in doss houses, too many of them get it wrong. Maybe they do find it as difficult as setting up a F1 car for some unfathomable reason. They shouldn't but they do.
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