Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]
Discussion
Ayahuasca said:
I have touched many toaster wires with forks etc and nothing happens except the wire cools down at the point you touch it.
That you have touched many is ...worrying.For the life of me I can’t think of any electrical appliance that I give more respect to.
Mediaeval fkers!
That and ‘bar’ fires.
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DervVW said:
Blib said:
Funkycoldribena said:
How much would it cost in AA batteries to run an average house for a day/year instead of electric?
Pound shop batteries or Duracel?SomeGuyOnTheInternet said:
The average UK electricity consumption for houses with gas for heating is 3,300 kWh(units) a year. Approx 9 units a day.
9KW/H in a day.According to This other guy on the internet
The best AA (Duracel Ultra) has ~2.2W/H
9000/2.2= ~4090 AA batteries
Feel free to check my maths. I'm eight pints up and ready to crash for the night.
singlecoil said:
Dr Jekyll said:
scarble said:
.. because people spill beer on the tables?
Well yes, but is it that beer is impossible to clean off, or that most pubs don't bother? Or is it the cleaning stuff that makes tables sticky? My favourite pub currently has non sticky tables, any chance it will stay that way?It's laziness for sure, quick spray with some sort of goodness knows what fluid and then a wipe with a cloth that has probably been recycled after cleaning up a bottom eruption in trap 2.
Probably the seat in trap 2 could be cleaner than the table.
torqueofthedevil said:
Does food last longer when cooked?
I have a huge slab of salmon. It's best before date is today.
If I cook it all today will it still be ok tomorrow / day after?
Generally food seems less inclined to go off when it's cooked
Today I cooked and ate some salmon that was 3 days out of date.I have a huge slab of salmon. It's best before date is today.
If I cook it all today will it still be ok tomorrow / day after?
Generally food seems less inclined to go off when it's cooked
Will keep you informed. I do this for science!
Wish me luck.
p.s. pub tables -> maybe they just can't wipe as fast as people spill (or maybe s**t pub)
toasters -> I'm more worried by showers, the poxy seal, the way the apes that install them crack the casing when they over tighten the screws and the number of times my life has been saved by an RCD (only to die from out of date salmon?)
FiF said:
singlecoil said:
Dr Jekyll said:
scarble said:
.. because people spill beer on the tables?
Well yes, but is it that beer is impossible to clean off, or that most pubs don't bother? Or is it the cleaning stuff that makes tables sticky? My favourite pub currently has non sticky tables, any chance it will stay that way?It's laziness for sure, quick spray with some sort of goodness knows what fluid and then a wipe with a cloth that has probably been recycled after cleaning up a bottom eruption in trap 2.
Probably the seat in trap 2 could be cleaner than the table.
Admittedly in some establishments it will be grot - but if it looks otherwise clean, that is what my money would be on.
tickious said:
If you use two estate agents to sell your house, who gets the commission? Both?
When we sold ours we had to agree in the terms and conditions that only they would represent us...But I do see houses with two boards up, so there must be an expirey on that. Perhaps its the one that gets the sale, you know the one who deals with the new buyer.
iva cosworth said:
I'm no expert but surely only 1 agent actually sells the house and the other misses out and gets nowt ?
The agent who sells does get the comission but I think multi-agency selling can attract a much higher fee. All agents involved have to agree to the multi-agency arrangement too,Fun Bus said:
iva cosworth said:
I'm no expert but surely only 1 agent actually sells the house and the other misses out and gets nowt ?
The agent who sells does get the comission but I think multi-agency selling can attract a much higher fee. All agents involved have to agree to the multi-agency arrangement too,K50 DEL said:
Fun Bus said:
iva cosworth said:
I'm no expert but surely only 1 agent actually sells the house and the other misses out and gets nowt ?
The agent who sells does get the comission but I think multi-agency selling can attract a much higher fee. All agents involved have to agree to the multi-agency arrangement too,The percentages they quote and terms are all highly negotiable particularly if there are a high volume of agents in your area.
Who gets the commission depends upon the terms of the contract and when the property is sold.
Usually an agent will want sole selling rights for the initail period of the marketing (you are not obliged to give it). This means that contractually you cannot sign up with another agent. However the terms usually contain a provision that if you sell to anyone, whether or not introduced by that agent, during the sole selling right period, you are liable to pay them their fees. If another instructed agent found the buyer you COULD end up paying two lots of fees.
I had an interesting discussion with an agent on Friday who tried explaining dual and multi agnecy agreements to me (having failed to askertain my level of knowledge on the subject). He was a Director of a large estate agency and he hadn't a clue and tried to BS me. Guess who i'm not going with?
ETA: Usually if there are 2 boards up then the initial sole agency period has expired and the vendor has instructed a second (sometimes third etc) agent and the agent who introduces the buyer gets the commission. There is a well known case,Dashwood (formerly Kaye) v Fleurets Ltd [2007] EWHC 1610 QB: An estate agent who introduced a buyer to a seller was entitled to commission, despite the buyer concluding the sale with another agent.
The High Court considered the wording of the agency agreement between the seller and the agent, the facts of the case and whether the agent needed to show it was the "effective cause" of the sale.
The case provides a useful summary of the case law on the principles governing estate agency and commissions, and has interesting implications for both estate agents and their seller clients.
Edited by Tyre Tread on Monday 27th October 09:38
Dr Jekyll said:
Why do so many pubs have sticky tables? (Apart from the fact that I'm obviously going to the wrong pubs).
Simply put they're crap at cleaning, it's inevitable that customer will spill a few drops of their drinks - lemonade / coke the sugary stuff is worse for stickiness of course.Pubs are going out of business at a rate of knots but even back in the 90's when I was a Barman we never had a cleaner on during business hours, you basically had to wait for a lull in action at the bar to venture out into no-man's-land to pick up empties, empty ashtrys and whatnot - to clean a table properly you'd need to spend far more time than you had - nowadays they probably don't bother with in-house cleaners at all, but sub it out - they're usually pretty terrible because they're given tiny slots of time to do their work
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