Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]
Discussion
walm said:
Spanglepants said:
When describing decades why are 'The Forties" spelt without the U.The other decades are spelt the same as the number (someones going to point out something very obvious now)
The Fiveties says hi.
It's like the American spelling of colo(u)r, it's been dumbed down
HTH
SeanyD said:
Here's mine. How on earth do upstairs/downstairs light switches work - you know the on/off at the top and another on/off at the bottom. Always baffled me. 
They use a common wire between them for the light. http://www.electronics-project-design.com/images/L...SeanyD said:
Here's mine. How on earth do upstairs/downstairs light switches work - you know the on/off at the top and another on/off at the bottom. Always baffled me.
Ha, we had this as a question in primary school physics. It is based on 2 way switches, where if the switch breaks one circuit, it completes another circuit. You can't do it with ordinary switches.
Ayahuasca said:
SeanyD said:
Here's mine. How on earth do upstairs/downstairs light switches work - you know the on/off at the top and another on/off at the bottom. Always baffled me.
Ha, we had this as a question in primary school physics. It is based on 2 way switches, where if the switch breaks one circuit, it completes another circuit. You can't do it with ordinary switches.
WinstonWolf said:
Ayahuasca said:
SeanyD said:
Here's mine. How on earth do upstairs/downstairs light switches work - you know the on/off at the top and another on/off at the bottom. Always baffled me.
Ha, we had this as a question in primary school physics. It is based on 2 way switches, where if the switch breaks one circuit, it completes another circuit. You can't do it with ordinary switches.
kowalski655 said:
WinstonWolf said:
Ayahuasca said:
SeanyD said:
Here's mine. How on earth do upstairs/downstairs light switches work - you know the on/off at the top and another on/off at the bottom. Always baffled me.
Ha, we had this as a question in primary school physics. It is based on 2 way switches, where if the switch breaks one circuit, it completes another circuit. You can't do it with ordinary switches.
grumbledoak said:
How much of South America would consider themselves AmerIndian (or whatever term), or are they all partly Spanish?
Depends. The majority are mixed European / Indigenous, but the mix varies a lot. Apart from a few relatively isolated pure indigenous tribes who have maintained their identity and will possibly kill you if you go into their neck of the forest. Argentina is almost pure European. Bolivia and the countryside of Ecuador and Peru are mostly indigenous. The cities are mostly mixed, with a few pure Euros and pure indigenous people too. Most of the governing classes, the professionals and the rich people are almost pure Euro. The only country with an indigenous president is Bolivia, and he is the first one. The isolated indigenous populations speak their own languages, the Europeans speak Spanish or Portuguese (in Brazil) and the Andean indigenous (mostly in the countryside) speak Kichwa, the language of the Incas. The only politically recognised autonomous indigenous area in the world is Kuna Yala in Panama where they distrust outsiders and speak Kuna. Some countries (Ecuador, Peru) are more proud of their Spanish connections and others (Mexico) are more proud of their indigenous connections. As I said, depends. Easy way of telling an indigenous person - he will have no facial hair. Lots of facial hair = Euro, straggly facial hair = mixed.
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