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

[silobass]

Why do products come with stickers? My new iPhone came with 2 Apple stickers, what am I supposed to do with them?

[P-Jay]

silobass said:

Why do products come with stickers? My new iPhone came with 2 Apple stickers, what am I supposed to do with them?

Stick them to something, ideally your car windows I would guess - to advertise to the world how great Apple Products are and subliminally remind them that they're the best when it comes to buy new stuff.

[FiF]

silobass said:

Why do products come with stickers? My new iPhone came with 2 Apple stickers, what am I supposed to do with them?

Stick them on Cox's Orange Pippins in the supermarket, increase fan boys 5 a day intake.

[LordLoveLength]

What are these for? see them at the side of the motorway a lot

[br d]

WolfAir said:

austinsmirk said:

Ok- vaguely topical question. In Bradford last week, there was a huge outcry that copies of the Quran were placed by accident into a skip.

not on purpose by some BNP nutter, but an Islamic bookshop having a shop refit. Cue "community up in horror" " public apologies" and all the other nonsense.

Therefore, if you cannot dispose of said book in a bin or suitable receptacle when it is no longer required: what do the scholars say you should do with it.

No book lasts forever.


NB:

other religions are available, all contain the same amount of complete nonsense about twisting your interpretation of something a sky pilot may/may not have said into whatever you fancy to suit your own purposes.

The Quran is deemed the word of God and so should be treated with the utmost respect in use and in disposal. When disposing of a Quran, one is given several options,
1)To wrap it in a cloth and then bury it, usually a place where nobody would walk over
2) To submerge it in flowing water
3) To burn it by itself some scholars suggest putting the ashes into flowing water or burying them.
4) Some Mosques will accept old Qurans and store them

Hope this helps

I've chucked hundreds of them away, haven't been visited by a plague yet.

[Moonhawk]

grumbledoak said:

Bare knuckle boxers actually don't punch to the head much; it breaks your hands first.

There was an episode of QI where this was discussed. Apparently brain injuries were virtually unheard of in boxing until the use of gloves was widely adopted.

[austinsmirk]

br d said:

WolfAir said:

austinsmirk said:

Ok- vaguely topical question. In Bradford last week, there was a huge outcry that copies of the Quran were placed by accident into a skip.

not on purpose by some BNP nutter, but an Islamic bookshop having a shop refit. Cue "community up in horror" " public apologies" and all the other nonsense.

Therefore, if you cannot dispose of said book in a bin or suitable receptacle when it is no longer required: what do the scholars say you should do with it.

No book lasts forever.


NB:

other religions are available, all contain the same amount of complete nonsense about twisting your interpretation of something a sky pilot may/may not have said into whatever you fancy to suit your own purposes.

The Quran is deemed the word of God and so should be treated with the utmost respect in use and in disposal. When disposing of a Quran, one is given several options,
1)To wrap it in a cloth and then bury it, usually a place where nobody would walk over
2) To submerge it in flowing water
3) To burn it by itself some scholars suggest putting the ashes into flowing water or burying them.
4) Some Mosques will accept old Qurans and store them

Hope this helps

I've chucked hundreds of them away, haven't been visited by a plague yet.

thanks, top answer and a good intelligent answer.

[grumbledoak]

Moonhawk said:

There was an episode of QI where this was discussed. Apparently brain injuries were virtually unheard of in boxing until the use of gloves was widely adopted.

It may have been QI where I learned it myself.

Either way, there are a couple of lessons about the medical profession industry to be learned there. Or, more likely, not learned.

[BristolRich]

LordLoveLength said:

What are these for? see them at the side of the motorway a lot

Wavetronix lane radar sensors.

Basically used to monitor traffic flows along motorways. They scan each lane and provide a detailed statistical picture of both vehicle and lane data - e.g. speed, vehicle type and size and number of vehicles in the lane, gaps, average flow speed etc...

[Vipers]

Replacing a fuse in the boot of my Volvo S80, and noticed this laying on the floor, this was visible when I lowered the interior trim.

I have had the car from when it was 2 1/2 years old from a main dealer, ex demonstrator.

Any idea what it's for?

[BigBen]

Nanook said:

Vipers said:

Replacing a fuse in the boot of my Volvo S80, and noticed this laying on the floor, this was visible when I lowered the interior trim.

I have had the car from when it was 2 1/2 years old from a main dealer, ex demonstrator.

Any idea what it's for?

Does it have a tow bar?

For a CD changer or Sat Nav perhaps?

[Vipers]

No tow bar, but would it com standard for CD changer when the incar CD takes 3 discs.

[Vipers]

Speed 3 said:

Currently on holiday and the river boats in Bangkok ( James Bond MWTGG stylie) have always had me puzzled. Why do they have such a long propshaft ? Other outboards have a 90 degree elbow, surely that's a better packaging. They certainly don't need to worry about shallow waters on this river.

What sort of engines are they? If they are car engines, maybe easier to have a straight shaft from the engine/gear box, guessing really.

[alorotom]

Vipers said:

Speed 3 said:

Currently on holiday and the river boats in Bangkok ( James Bond MWTGG stylie) have always had me puzzled. Why do they have such a long propshaft ? Other outboards have a 90 degree elbow, surely that's a better packaging. They certainly don't need to worry about shallow waters on this river.

What sort of engines are they? If they are car engines, maybe easier to have a straight shaft from the engine/gear box, guessing really.

It's exactly this, the longtails use nonmarine engines and this provides the best run plus it means the propellor is more easily manoeuvred to avoid flotsam and jetsam (as I was told when I asked the same question in Bangkok many moons ago)

[MissChief]

Vipers said:

Replacing a fuse in the boot of my Volvo S80, and noticed this laying on the floor, this was visible when I lowered the interior trim.

I have had the car from when it was 2 1/2 years old from a main dealer, ex demonstrator.

Any idea what it's for?

Looks identical to the connector for the Multi-CD caddy in the boot of my old 306 GTI-6.

[Vipers]

MissChief said:

Looks identical to the connector for the Multi-CD caddy in the boot of my old 306 GTI-6.

In which case I'll go with that, next time it's in for a service I'll ask.

[SpeckledJim]

I vaguely recall that Volvo fitted wiring looms ready to accommodate any/all options, to every car. Is there a 6-disc changer option that wasn't fitted?

[V41LEY]

BristolRich said:

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Bluedot said:

I recently watched an old Top Gear, the episode where Clarkson was the stoker in a steam engine racing Hammond (on a motorbike) and May (in a car) from London to Edinburgh.
What struck me was the level of engineering that goes into a steam locomotive yet getting the coal into the fire was a back-breaking manual 'shovel job'. Was a better solution never found ?

I guess labour was cheap, and a bloke can fine-tune and distribute the coal in the furnace more accurately and efficiently than a machine could? You had a relatively well-paid bloke driving the train, so a cheap stoker was a useful chap to have around.

And the coal was stored on the opposite side of the fire-plate to the furnace, so moving it forward by machine might have been pretty difficult.

Not to mention the power needed to drive any such mechanism.

Also wasteful of fuel - the coal was very fine so a lot of it was wasted being blasted out unburnt. These small unburnt particles of coal also abraded the firetubes in the boiler wearing them prematurely.

There was a docu (bbc?) not long ago that just filmed a fireman and engine driver as they drove a locomotive from somewhere to somewhere in the UK. As I recall the fireman's job was quite 'technical' as he controlled the power that the engine provided. He would shovel in more fuel just before a hill for example, and less coal on a down slope. His task was to anticipate and provide just the right amount of fuel, neither wasting it or allowing the engine to become underpowered.

Flying Scotsman from the Footplate: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b086kn87 via @bbciplayer

It's not just shovelling coal, which as that programme shows you can even get that a bit wrong, but sorting water levels in the boiler, watching gauges, looking out for signals, dealing with tokens on single track sections, plus getting the bacon and eggs sorted on the specially polished shovel, only kidding on that last bit.

If you watch the linked programme there were four on the Footplate of Flying Scotsman on a fairly slow, non stop journey down Severn Valley. Driver, fireman, engineer and supervisor from railway museum at York. The last two helped with some of the various jobs floating about, bet it gets busy with just two on the footplate, no wonder proper firemen are seriously strong and fit.

Mechanical stoakers were trialed on some UK locos following sucessful use of the technology in the US. One of the main reasons for them not being sucessful here in the UK is that they were found to be far less efficient than a fireman (who knew when and where to put the coal, rather than just shoving it in). They also required coal to be supplied in an optimum and apropriatly sized lump. Traditionally the fireman broke up coal stored on the tender using fireirons. Later coal briquettes were trialed but added cost and reduced efficiency.

Considering the size of UK locos at the time were relatively modest (compared to US standards) they were also not seen as a necessary expense and could only be integrated into some of the "largest" UK locos.

The service speeds of UK locos were also greater which casued reliability issues what with a moving tender, footplate/firebox opening and ultimatly proved unreliable for a system conceived for ships boilers which are essentially by design stationary.

Edited by BristolRich on Monday 3rd April 11:57

Look at the challenge Southern Rail is having trying to remove guards. Mechanical stokers - dream on !

[227bhp]

Science!

In the list of sections on PH why is there an exclamation mark after Science?

[anonymous-user]

How does drugs get to your sketchy fifteen year old dealer?
And how do twelve year old girls get hold of fake ID's and get hammered on Smirnoff.. in their bedrooms.

^ all fed from info from my own kids!