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

[nonsequitur]

Dr Jekyll said:

RATATTAK said:

Why is "vinyl" pronounced "V eye nill"

surely it should be " Vin" (as in Vehicle Identification Number) "ill"

I was once vaguely in the industry (juke boxes) and everyone seemed to pronounce it 'Veeneyl'.

VYN'L, surely.

[gazzarose]

nonsequitur said:

Rich_W said:

Speed 3 said:

gazzarose said:

Back in the bygone days of no Internet, 3 TV channels and proper summers, milk men had crappy slow electric milk floats. But now we've got 4g, 2 million TV channels and reasonably mature EV technology, what has changed that milk men prefer small panel vans with the side door left open? Why did they have electric milk floats in the first place? Was it for the quietness? You don't even seem to see the milk float type transits anymore. Surely he could get his rounds done quicker using the mechanicals from a Tesla.

Is there still such a thing as milk delivery ?????

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3437152,-0.1067388,3a,75y,171.03h,67.13t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFitcTXNX5_l948qWhAhBjA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en

As a young lad I can remember that the milkman and breadman had horse drawn transport to hawk their wares.
This on a daily basis.
My brother collected the equine droppings and flogged it in the neighbourhood for a handsome profit.

We have milk delivered to work and there is a guy with a small van does delivery around the area I live. It's funny how when as a nation we would rather have most things delivered to our house, the 2 traditional things we used to get delivered, namely milk and newspapers, we no longer have delivered.

[Dr Jekyll]

nonsequitur said:

Dr Jekyll said:

RATATTAK said:

Why is "vinyl" pronounced "V eye nill"

surely it should be " Vin" (as in Vehicle Identification Number) "ill"

I was once vaguely in the industry (juke boxes) and everyone seemed to pronounce it 'Veeneyl'.

VYN'L, surely.

No, pronounced to rhyme with senile. The first time I heard it, it took me a minute to figure out what they were talking about even in the context of jukeboxes. Then someone said it again and an equally new colleague said 'excuse me, what's a veeneyl?' 'it's a record', 'oh you mean a Vynil'.

[RATATTAK]

I quite like Veenile ! better than veyenill

[Jonboy_t]

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I imagine it's really well mixed. Put 1 part good stuff into 10 parts filler, mix for an hour in an industrial blender and make a pill, hey presto.

The actual process is probably more in depth than that, but I guess that's the gist.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Surely there's not much filler if any? You can get tiny little pills and big huge ones, why bother making them big and hard to swallow if they don't have to?

[mrtwisty]

Yes Prime Minister.

What is this silver doodad on Sir Humphrey's desk?

[mickk]

Is it a posh rolling calendar type thing?

Or a cigar holder.

[kowalski655]

Some sort of antique used to hold a scroll?
I doubt it's official Civil Service issue

[RATATTAK]

lamp ?

[Nimby]

RATATTAK said:

Why is "vinyl" pronounced "V eye nill"

surely it should be " Vin" (as in Vehicle Identification Number) "ill"

Wikipedia copy/paste:

The etymology of vinyl is the Latin vinum = "wine", because of its relationship with alcohol (in its original sense of ethyl alcohol). The term "vinyl" was coined by the German chemist Hermann Kolbe in 1851

So maybe that's how a German speaker would pronounce it.

[Jimmy Recard]

Nimby said:

Wikipedia copy/paste:

The etymology of vinyl is the Latin vinum = "wine", because of its relationship with alcohol (in its original sense of ethyl alcohol). The term "vinyl" was coined by the German chemist Hermann Kolbe in 1851

So maybe that's how a German speaker would pronounce it.

It sounds nothing like that in German, so I don't think so

[Hugo a Gogo]

they pronounce it like vuh-Neel

[Nimby]

Ok then - we pronounce vinyl as we do to annoy the Germans.

[Willy Nilly]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Surely there's not much filler if any? You can get tiny little pills and big huge ones, why bother making them big and hard to swallow if they don't have to?

I would expect that the carrier that the active ingredient is placed in is dependent on the active ingredient and how they want it to be released.

If your business is mixing very small quantities of chemicals into pills or what ever medicine, you will have the machinery to deal with very small, precise amounts.

[nonsequitur]

mrtwisty said:

Yes Prime Minister.

What is this silver doodad on Sir Humphrey's desk?

That looks like a standard issue civil service paperweight.

[alorotom]

I wouldn't call it silver, more if a satin gray ... looks to be a rotary dial telephone to me, popularised in the 70s through the 90s

[Rostfritt]

gazzarose said:

Back in the bygone days of no Internet, 3 TV channels and proper summers, milk men had crappy slow electric milk floats. But now we've got 4g, 2 million TV channels and reasonably mature EV technology, what has changed that milk men prefer small panel vans with the side door left open? Why did they have electric milk floats in the first place? Was it for the quietness? You don't even seem to see the milk float type transits anymore. Surely he could get his rounds done quicker using the mechanicals from a Tesla.

I would say with so few people still using milk delivery the coverage of one milkman is now too far for the range of a milk float. Also would any still be on the road, they can't have been made for a long time.

Interestingly the UK for many years had the largest fleet of all electric vehicles in the world. Unfortunately most of them could only do about 8mph.

[wiggy001]

Speed 3 said:

Is there still such a thing as milk delivery ?????

[irl]Milk and More| http://www.milkandmore.co.uk/home[/url] deliver in our area using a traditional electric milk float.

[Ste1987]

RenesisEvo said:

Willy Nilly said:

In pop and rock music it is possible for the lead vocalist to look cool and many do. The guitarists often look cool, as do the bass players and drummers, but has their ever been a cool keyboard player?

Kraftwerk?

Daft Punk?