Women, and their understanding of the physical world ?

Women, and their understanding of the physical world ?

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Carthage

4,261 posts

143 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Getragdogleg said:
Then you open the door to insert your soon to be cooked food and let some heat out, if you start off with more heat then when you close the door it will probably still be around the original target temp.

*man cooking*
I was trying to give him hints, but you got it.
Men just don't understand the physical world do they? tongue out

Targarama

14,635 posts

282 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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GadgeS3C said:
Speed addicted said:
My wife and her sister are completely incapable of understanding the gears on mountain bikes. I've explained the theory, I've showed them and they still just don't get it.
I now shout which digit to use to get easier or harder gears.
I've been given permission to say that sounds familiar wink

Do you have to do chain ring as well?
Glad it's not just mine then. I'm forever shouting "put it on 3 on the left hand lever" etc. At least she's worked out which way to push the levers to get the numbers going the right direction.

Timmy35

12,915 posts

197 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Carthage said:
Getragdogleg said:
Then you open the door to insert your soon to be cooked food and let some heat out, if you start off with more heat then when you close the door it will probably still be around the original target temp.

*man cooking*
I was trying to give him hints, but you got it.
Men just don't understand the physical world do they? tongue out
Even when you're trying to be clever it's still some utterly insane logic you apply. hehe that's the sort of logic my 3 year old comes up with. Women cloud9

Silver

4,372 posts

225 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Getragdogleg said:
doogz said:
Carthage said:
You seriously don't understand why you set the oven higher than the cooking temperature to preheat it?
Nope, although if I've been missing something all these years, please enlighten me.

If I want the oven at 150, I turn it to 150, and when the orange light goes off, it's at 150.
Then you open the door to insert your soon to be cooked food and let some heat out, if you start off with more heat then when you close the door it will probably still be around the original target temp.

*man cooking*
Common sense cooking, more like. hehe

Getragdogleg

8,736 posts

182 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Timmy35 said:
Carthage said:
Getragdogleg said:
Then you open the door to insert your soon to be cooked food and let some heat out, if you start off with more heat then when you close the door it will probably still be around the original target temp.

*man cooking*
I was trying to give him hints, but you got it.
Men just don't understand the physical world do they? tongue out
Even when you're trying to be clever it's still some utterly insane logic you apply. hehe that's the sort of logic my 3 year old comes up with. Women cloud9
As a fully functioning man I arrived at this method of cooking with the oven after I noticed the light would come back on after I had opened the door and inserted my food, I decided to set the preheat temperature higher so the actual cooking temp would be maintained after insertion.
My theory works, the light remains off after insertion, I then turn the dial down to the actual required temp and all is well.

Carthage

4,261 posts

143 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Timmy35 said:
Even when you're trying to be clever it's still some utterly insane logic you apply. hehe that's the sort of logic my 3 year old comes up with. Women cloud9
So...are you disputing that heat is lost when an oven door is opened?

Or are you so insecure that regardless of logic, if someone happens to be female, you need to shout that they're 'trying to be clever' (because a woman could never actually be clever), 'insane' or like a child?

Disappointing.

Carthage

4,261 posts

143 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Getragdogleg said:
As a fully functioning man I arrived at this method of cooking with the oven after I noticed the light would come back on after I had opened the door and inserted my food, I decided to set the preheat temperature higher so the actual cooking temp would be maintained after insertion.
My theory works, the light remains off after insertion, I then turn the dial down to the actual required temp and all is well.
Perfect explanation, and probably exactly what Doogz's fiancée does.

Timmy35

12,915 posts

197 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Carthage said:
Timmy35 said:
Even when you're trying to be clever it's still some utterly insane logic you apply. hehe that's the sort of logic my 3 year old comes up with. Women cloud9
So...are you disputing that heat is lost when an oven door is opened?

Or are you so insecure that regardless of logic, if someone happens to be female, you need to shout that they're 'trying to be clever' (because a woman could never actually be clever), 'insane' or like a child?

Disappointing.
No although I'd question whether given how much heat is getting radiated off all the internal surfaces once an oven is upto temperature that opening the door will result in any siginificant reduction in temperature at all and if so for anything more than a very short time, certainly not enough to impact on your cooking time. Unless you open the door and stand there vacantly looking into the oven for a several minutes before inserting whatever it is you're cooking.

Carthage

4,261 posts

143 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Timmy35 said:
No although I'd question whether given how much heat is getting radiated off all the internal surfaces once an oven is upto temperature that opening the door will result in any siginificant reduction in temperature at all and if so for anything more than a very short time, certainly not enough to impact on your cooking time. Unless you open the door and stand there vacantly looking into the oven for a several minutes before inserting whatever it is your'e cooking.
That's a 'no, but yes, but you're a woman so must be vacant' answer, huh?

Physics clearly doesn't apply to men whilst opening oven doors, only 'vacant' women, and Getragdogleg above.

Well done, male superiority conclusively proven (!)

Carthage

4,261 posts

143 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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doogz said:
Taking this a bit personally, aren't we?!

I have the oven door opened for what, 5 seconds, to put something in? How much heat does it lose in that time? Show your working laugh
Bless.


Edited by Carthage on Friday 16th August 11:47

Silver

4,372 posts

225 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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doogz said:
Fair enough though, just seems pretty insignificant.
Yet significant enough for you to post this about your wife for doing it:

doogz said:
Mind-bogglingly stupid.
This is what I don't get about these threads and what's most aggravating about them. Some posters think that because their wife does x and they do y, their wife is automatically wrong. Furthermore, that because their wife does x, ALL women in the known universe do x too.

It really is mind-bogglingly stupid.

Silver

4,372 posts

225 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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doogz said:
Do you think that turning the oven to a higher temperature than you need actually makes it heat up quicker?

Do you think your oven thinks to itself "150C? I'll only make a bit of an effort, if she'd asked for 200C, I'd have really tried!"

And do you think that I said anywhere in this fairly trivial little pointless thread, that because my (future) wife does something a little bit silly, that all women in the universe do it too?

You need to chill out. And learn to read things properly before blowing a fuse!
I didn't say you generalised. I said 'some posters' generalise. I think it's you who needs to read things properly before blowing a fuse!

Carthage

4,261 posts

143 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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doogz said:
Do you think that turning the oven to a higher temperature than you need actually makes it heat up quicker?

Do you think your oven thinks to itself "150C? I'll only make a bit of an effort, if she'd asked for 200C, I'd have really tried!"

And do you think that I said anywhere in this fairly trivial little pointless thread, that because my (future) wife does something a little bit silly, that all women in the universe do it too?

You need to chill out. And learn to read things properly before blowing a fuse!
I'm sure you're very clever. Much more intelligent than your 'mindbogglingly stupid' fiancée.
Much smarter than Silver and I, who are clearly fuse-blowing irrational and hysterical women.
There, there.

Kiltie

7,504 posts

245 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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rohrl said:
Kiltie said:
You don't want the second e but the first one needs a thing over it like the one below.

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Fiancé is masculine, fiancée is feminine.
... and what is funkyrobot's gender?

Adenauer

18,564 posts

235 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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-walks in, snaps the bone into pieces-

There you go, you can all have a piece each now biggrin

Adenauer

18,564 posts

235 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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doogz said:
What temperature was the oven at when it was cooked?
pre heated to 200°c but I had the door open for three seconds so probably about 80°c biggrin

Timmy35

12,915 posts

197 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Carthage said:
Timmy35 said:
No although I'd question whether given how much heat is getting radiated off all the internal surfaces once an oven is upto temperature that opening the door will result in any siginificant reduction in temperature at all and if so for anything more than a very short time, certainly not enough to impact on your cooking time. Unless you open the door and stand there vacantly looking into the oven for a several minutes before inserting whatever it is your'e cooking.
That's a 'no, but yes, but you're a woman so must be vacant' answer, huh?

Physics clearly doesn't apply to men whilst opening oven doors, only 'vacant' women, and Getragdogleg above.

Well done, male superiority conclusively proven (!)
I think you should have a paracetamol, and a cup of tea and calm down a bit.

8Ace

2,681 posts

197 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
Well, one of my ex's was with me one day when we went to a barbecue at a mate's house that she hadn't been to before.

Upon entering the garden, she said to the host 'ooh, your bird table is a bit high isn't it?'

To which he obviously replied with a poker face 'yeah, it's ok though, they can fly...'
On her side. While the blackbirds don't care how high the table is, an excessively lofty birdtable would be harder than it needs to be to put nuts on.



cwis

1,147 posts

178 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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8Ace said:
On her side. While the blackbirds don't care how high the table is, an excessively lofty birdtable would be harder than it needs to be to put nuts on.
On his side. A low birdtable is in fact a cattable. How hard it is to rest your nuts on is immaterial...

Carthage

4,261 posts

143 months

Friday 16th August 2013
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Timmy35 said:
I think you should have a paracetamol, and a cup of tea and calm down a bit.
So, the default setting is to patronise, and say 'calm down, dear' when challenged on misogyny?
Right.