Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
mickk said:
My alarm wakes me every morning at 5 o'clock, come the weekend when I don't set the alarm I still wake at 5.
My alarm is set for 4.30am but I need it maybe once every 2-3 weeks to wake me up. Still get up 4.30-5am at the weekends, great in the Summer, not so good in the Winter 
Ayahuasca said:
Soap. How does it work?
I don't understand the chemistry, but a soap is a surfactant, which lowers the surface tension of a substance in which it is dissolved. Does that in effect make water 'wetter' and better able to dislodge 'stuff' from your skin?
ETA: I've just learned that one end of a soap molecule attaches to water, and the other end repels water, and so attaches well to other stuff.
So it makes water a bit, for want of a better phrase, 'oil-magnetic'. ish.
Edited by SpeckledJim on Thursday 13th October 15:54
Europa1 said:
After a spell with many meetings in London, some train related ones:
- when I buy a ticket on a route served by more than one company, how is it decided whether the money goes to Virgin Trains East Coast or Great Northern?
- when I buy a single ticket from a machine, why does it give me 3 pieces of card?
- when I reach my destination and put my ticket into the barrier, why at some stations does it get eaten and others it pops out for me to take back?
The ticket money would be shared depending on how many seats each service provides on that route. There is a formula for this they use, the ticket will state 'any services'. There are a variety of services and there could be a comment on the ticket excluding certain carriers or specifying only one.- when I buy a ticket on a route served by more than one company, how is it decided whether the money goes to Virgin Trains East Coast or Great Northern?
- when I buy a single ticket from a machine, why does it give me 3 pieces of card?
- when I reach my destination and put my ticket into the barrier, why at some stations does it get eaten and others it pops out for me to take back?
One 'ticket' one seat reservation and a card receipt. I got a return with a bike reservation once and wondered if the printer was ever going to finish.
I guess a ticket which already has a receipt and is not a return no longer has any purpose. Or if you are going into an area where there might be some point keeping it.
SpeckledJim said:
Ayahuasca said:
Soap. How does it work?
I don't understand the chemistry, but a soap is a surfactant, which lowers the surface tension of a substance in which it is dissolved. Does that in effect make water 'wetter' and better able to dislodge 'stuff' from your skin?
ETA: I've just learned that one end of a soap molecule attaches to water, and the other end repels water, and so attaches well to other stuff.
So it makes water a bit, for want of a better phrase, 'oil-magnetic'. ish.
Edited by SpeckledJim on Thursday 13th October 15:54
Rostfritt said:
One 'ticket' one seat reservation and a card receipt. I got a return with a bike reservation once and wondered if the printer was ever going to finish.
Miss FiF does the purchasing for her department, including travel. There's probably about 80 or 90 of them now, soon to be 150.Anyway when booking train tickets, due to revenue protection officers keen attitude towards home printed tickets and people not carrying the proper identity she's been told to go to the station and get them printed out.
When she heads off to collect the tickets for half a dozen folk on fairly complicated journeys, the queue behind her gets a bit fraught.
fomb said:
Why do some pavements look like they've had to be bolted down? Every now and then you'll see a random stud with a washer.
It's a control station for surveyors/ engineers setting out roads and buildings. It will have a set of coordinates and a level that can relate back to the ordinance survey national grid.RammyMP said:
fomb said:
Why do some pavements look like they've had to be bolted down? Every now and then you'll see a random stud with a washer.
It's a control station for surveyors/ engineers setting out roads and buildings. It will have a set of coordinates and a level that can relate back to the ordinance survey national grid.RammyMP said:
fomb said:
Why do some pavements look like they've had to be bolted down? Every now and then you'll see a random stud with a washer.
It's a control station for surveyors/ engineers setting out roads and buildings. It will have a set of coordinates and a level that can relate back to the ordinance survey national grid.http://www.archaeologyskills.co.uk/dumpy-level-and...
The intention is that a card is inserted into the horizontal of the mark and the measuring staff placed on top of the card (the horizontal line). This is then read using the level referring your reading to the reference level for the benchmark. Once set up you can use this as your datum.
BristolRich said:
RammyMP said:
fomb said:
Why do some pavements look like they've had to be bolted down? Every now and then you'll see a random stud with a washer.
It's a control station for surveyors/ engineers setting out roads and buildings. It will have a set of coordinates and a level that can relate back to the ordinance survey national grid.http://www.archaeologyskills.co.uk/dumpy-level-and...
The intention is that a card is inserted into the horizontal of the mark and the measuring staff placed on top of the card (the horizontal line). This is then read using the level referring your reading to the reference level for the benchmark. Once set up you can use this as your datum.
On road signs there is often a brown box with places of interest in such as Castles etc. However there are often pubs on the signs and one in Basingstoke even has one for an Indian Restaurant.
If you owned a restaurant and wanted to get your place on one of these signs, do you just have to pay the council to have it done? If so, is it more cost effective than other advertising?
If you owned a restaurant and wanted to get your place on one of these signs, do you just have to pay the council to have it done? If so, is it more cost effective than other advertising?
Bobby_Mac said:
On road signs there is often a brown box with places of interest in such as Castles etc. However there are often pubs on the signs and one in Basingstoke even has one for an Indian Restaurant.
If you owned a restaurant and wanted to get your place on one of these signs, do you just have to pay the council to have it done? If so, is it more cost effective than other advertising?
Different places have different regs but around here it's 1000 visitors a year and is subject to a contribution from the place being signed. If you owned a restaurant and wanted to get your place on one of these signs, do you just have to pay the council to have it done? If so, is it more cost effective than other advertising?
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