Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]

[GroundEffect]

227bhp said:

oceanview said:

Thinking about aftermarket suspension bushes- like Powerflex ,etc, if these are so beneficial to the feel/drive of the car, how come manufactures don't fit from the factory?

'NVH': Noise, vibration and harshness. 90% of people just want to drive somewhere in comfort and quietness.

It's not like they are 'un-PH' people. I'd hate to drive a road-car with stiff-as-hell bushes. Compliance is very important.

[FiF]

Vipers said:

SilverSpur said:

Vipers said:

Apart from being fekking annoying, why do immigration stamp passports on random pages, why not start at the top of page one, then then put the next stamp underneath that and so on.

If you had to stamp 5000 passports a day, finding the first open space on the first available page is going to take much more time and effort than just randomly opening any page and any spot and hitting it with the stamp.

Sounds reasonable, now you mention it.

I'd suggest a slightly different logic. Let's assume for a moment that the act of admitting the person is a decision process whether to admit or not, as opposed to a simple need to put a stamp in the passport.

You check that the document applies to the person, the reason for the visit, and a flick through the passport shows that they have no adverse observations noted, and there is no previous evidence of a visit to your borders. You decide to admit them.

If so, turn to a clean page and bang down the stamp. Next time they visit, it would make sense to place the next stamp to the first one, as opposed to just spraying them wherever and a handy record all in one place.

But then that's logical for you.

[SilverSpur]

FiF said:

Vipers said:

SilverSpur said:

Vipers said:

Apart from being fekking annoying, why do immigration stamp passports on random pages, why not start at the top of page one, then then put the next stamp underneath that and so on.

If you had to stamp 5000 passports a day, finding the first open space on the first available page is going to take much more time and effort than just randomly opening any page and any spot and hitting it with the stamp.

Sounds reasonable, now you mention it.

I'd suggest a slightly different logic. Let's assume for a moment that the act of admitting the person is a decision process whether to admit or not, as opposed to a simple need to put a stamp in the passport.

You check that the document applies to the person, the reason for the visit, and a flick through the passport shows that they have no adverse observations noted, and there is no previous evidence of a visit to your borders. You decide to admit them.

If so, turn to a clean page and bang down the stamp. Next time they visit, it would make sense to place the next stamp to the first one, as opposed to just spraying them wherever and a handy record all in one place.

But then that's logical for you.

Clearly that is logical, but also the exact opposite of the reality. They check the personal details page, but never seen them flick through all the other pages looking at other stamps and visas. But I guess it depends what country/regime you are visiting? I'd guess they'd be much more interested in North Korea or Cuba than in Spain for example....

[talksthetorque]

singlecoil said:

Why does cellophane etc not want to tear in the direction that you are trying to? I was trying to unwrap a multi-pack of tuna today and the stuff was tearing almost at a right angle to the force I was exerting.

Pretty sure it is extruded from a thread, so the thread is drawn out and then flattened so all the polymer chains are drawn out along the roll.

Think of trying to split a piece of wood across the grain.

[Frrair]

I have always wondered if there are more toilets than people country wide.

Four people share three in our house.

My Mum lives on her own and has two.

There is a row of them at the cinema.

I am guessing it's even, but just curious would like to know.

[FlyingMeeces]

Frrair said:

I have always wondered if there are more toilets than people country wide.

Four people share three in our house.

My Mum lives on her own and has two.

There is a row of them at the cinema.

I am guessing it's even, but just curious would like to know.

This is gonna sound like a dig, and it ain't.

But think about all of the millions of people in small, cramped, cheap housing. Add in everyone in Victorian terraces and that's the majority of the country, I suspect. Pretty much none of them have a second loo.

I reckon it evens out to something like 2:1.

[227bhp]

GroundEffect said:

227bhp said:

oceanview said:

Thinking about aftermarket suspension bushes- like Powerflex ,etc, if these are so beneficial to the feel/drive of the car, how come manufactures don't fit from the factory?

'NVH': Noise, vibration and harshness. 90% of people just want to drive somewhere in comfort and quietness.

It's not like they are 'un-PH' people. I'd hate to drive a road-car with stiff-as-hell bushes. Compliance is very important.

I never mentioned any 'un PH people'.

[droopsnoot]

FlyingMeeces said:

Frrair said:

I have always wondered if there are more toilets than people country wide.

Four people share three in our house.

My Mum lives on her own and has two.

There is a row of them at the cinema.

I am guessing it's even, but just curious would like to know.

This is gonna sound like a dig, and it ain't.

But think about all of the millions of people in small, cramped, cheap housing. Add in everyone in Victorian terraces and that's the majority of the country, I suspect. Pretty much none of them have a second loo.

I reckon it evens out to something like 2:1.

Wouldn't the sheer number of public toilets, and toilets at business premises that aren't public but provided for people who also have them at home, skew the numbers though?

[Frrair]

droopsnoot said:

FlyingMeeces said:

Frrair said:

I have always wondered if there are more toilets than people country wide.

Four people share three in our house.

My Mum lives on her own and has two.

There is a row of them at the cinema.

I am guessing it's even, but just curious would like to know.

This is gonna sound like a dig, and it ain't.

But think about all of the millions of people in small, cramped, cheap housing. Add in everyone in Victorian terraces and that's the majority of the country, I suspect. Pretty much none of them have a second loo.

I reckon it evens out to something like 2:1.

Wouldn't the sheer number of public toilets, and toilets at business premises that aren't public but provided for people who also have them at home, skew the numbers though?

That's my point when you add in offices, hotels and cinemas, theatres, stations and the like I just wondered...... Which was rather the purpose of the thred.

[BristolRich]

Whats the point of Pinterest? Is it just digital hoarding?

[Speed 3]

BristolRich said:

Whats the point of Pinterest?

My wife finds it quite useful for creative ideas in her Pre-School Education business.

[Silent1]

BristolRich said:

Whats the point of Pinterest? Is it just digital hoarding?

i think so

[talksthetorque]

Pinterest is the correct app/site if you find the right picture of a car in the right colour you want to examine on google, but rather than look at that picture, you would prefer to be frustrated with annoying sign up popups that stop you seeing it.

[marshalla]

talksthetorque said:

Pinterest is the correct app/site if you find the right picture of a car in the right colour you want to examine on google, but rather than look at that picture, you would prefer to be frustrated with annoying sign up popups that stop you seeing it.

Bang on. The point of Pinterest is to collect more subscribers so the owners can vastly overestimate the value when they sell it to some other mugs.

[Ayahuasca]

There are two-legged animals and four-legged animals, eight, six, 100 and 1,000 legged animals.

Why have no three-legged animals evolved?

[FlyingMeeces]

Ayahuasca said:

There are two-legged animals and four-legged animals, eight, six, 100 and 1,000 legged animals.

Why have no three-legged animals evolved?

Symmetry works well with cell division. Especially in the early, divvying up the soon-to-specialise stem cells stage of things.

Symmetry also works well for balance and running and stuff.

Macropods (kangaroos, wallabies etc.) get kind of close.

[anonymous-user]

Ayahuasca said:

There are two-legged animals and four-legged animals, eight, six, 100 and 1,000 legged animals.

Why have no three-legged animals evolved?

because they're fking useless

[DJFish]

My cat had three legs & could still climb trees.
Couldn't scratch his right ear though...

[DervVW]

DJFish said:

My cat had three legs & could still climb trees.
Couldn't scratch his right ear though...

Found that funnier than I thought I should

[Rostfritt]

FlyingMeeces said:

This is gonna sound like a dig, and it ain't.

But think about all of the millions of people in small, cramped, cheap housing. Add in everyone in Victorian terraces and that's the majority of the country, I suspect. Pretty much none of them have a second loo.

I reckon it evens out to something like 2:1.

I would guess closer to 1:1. Maybe 2-3:1 in houses, although I live alone and have one, my Dad and Granddad live together and have two. When you add up all the others, there are those in businesses, where to be fair I live in a large office with barely above the minimum required, probably a higher proportion in smaller businesses, then shops, restaurants, train stations, trains, planes public loos etc. There are so many other places you might find one that it might bring it back to 1:1.