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

[Evoluzione]

schmunk said:

Evoluzione said:

Given babies put everything in their mouths, if you took one to the beach would it eat sand?

It would (will!) put sand in its mouth, probably not "eat" as such.

The expression on its face would be a picture too no doubt....

[schmunk]

[Tyre Smoke]

How does wireless charging work on my Samsung S7?

Can't get my head around it at all. It's witchcraft isn't it?

[OldSkoolRS]

Tyre Smoke said:

How does wireless charging work on my Samsung S7?

Can't get my head around it at all. It's witchcraft isn't it?

Almost...though that's more the 'flamin' hell' model isn't it?

It's like two halves of a transformer that completes the circuit when you put them together. Better explanation here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging

You can add them to other phones too.

[kowalski655]

Evoluzione said:

Given babies put everything in their mouths, if you took one to the beach would it eat sand?

Yes, but they are unlikely to do it twice

[glazbagun]

Evoluzione said:

Given babies put everything in their mouths, if you took one to the beach would it eat sand?

Probably until it tried to chew it! Penguins have died from eating sand as they (presumably) think it's snow. Although Scott's ponies ate sand too.

[Willy Nilly]

schmunk said:

This is someone's little lad who and I assume it was a family photo of a day out at the beach. When the picture was used in the ad campaign did he or his family get asked permission and paid for the image?

[Dr Jekyll]

Willy Nilly said:

This is someone's little lad who and I assume it was a family photo of a day out at the beach. When the picture was used in the ad campaign did he or his family get asked permission and paid for the image?

If the advertisers didn't have agreement of whoever took the picture and a signed model release they would be in deep trouble.

[Zombie]

kowalski655 said:

Yes, but they are unlikely to do it twice

You don't have children do you?

[anonymous-user]

Hopefully this hasn't been done to death already... and I know small details like this have little relevance in subjects like the tragic death of April Jones a few years ago..

I want to know what happens to criminals' cars. For example the vile Mark Bridger stuffed poor April in to the back of his Disco. Which I have just noticed is imported, very old, LHD and no doubt dodgy as fk just like him. DVLA say it's untaxed and no MOT (obviously! Due December 2012). Bridger bought the car on 3rd December 2010, car imported October 2010. I'm guessing this car is rotting away in a Police warehouse or been crushed. Deserved.

Rettendon murders. Numerous cars have been regd with the same number plate. No-one knows where the true car is; on the road or long since dead?

I guess it's the same story with fatal car accident involved cars. I don't know why it intrigues me.


Anyone got any info on what happens and any other details on cars involved in crimes? Not necessarily murder. I don't know why it intrigues me

[sc0tt]

Rettendon car is about and always has been.

[BigBen]

sleepera6 said:

I guess it's the same story with fatal car accident involved cars. I don't know why it intrigues me.

My mum helpfully stated "of course people have died in some of these cars" during a rare occasion when I persuaded her to take young me on an afternoon out at the breaker's yard.

[schmunk]

Willy Nilly said:

schmunk said:

This is someone's little lad who and I assume it was a family photo of a day out at the beach. When the picture was used in the ad campaign did he or his family get asked permission and paid for the image?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_Kid

[gazzarose]

talksthetorque said:

glazbagun said:

Assuming earth gravity, how many one penny pieces could you balance end on end before the weight deformed the one at the bottom?

1.
It will deform elastically in proportion to the compression force up to the material's yield point.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1aqqh8/assuming_you_could_stack_pennies_infinitely_high/

Lots! Its American but you get the idea!

[StevieBee]

Costa have just opened Europe's biggest roasters in Basildon where they roast raw coffee beans

Why would they not roast the beans where they are picked where energy and labour costs are likely to be a lot cheaper?

[SpeckledJim]

StevieBee said:

Costa have just opened Europe's biggest roasters in Basildon where they roast raw coffee beans

Why would they not roast the beans where they are picked where energy and labour costs are likely to be a lot cheaper?

Because Basildon is the place to go for a roasting. Everyone knows that.

[droopsnoot]

sleepera6 said:

I'm guessing this car is rotting away in a Police warehouse or been crushed.

You'd like to think that if it had been crushed, the appropriate paperwork would have been done (given who was crushing it) and it would show as 'scrapped' or just no longer come up on the DVLA site, whichever happens to scrapped cars. Perhaps they're just deliberately leaving it somewhere untaxed and un-SORNed so that if he ever gets out, he'll have a massive fine from the DVLA waiting.

[anonymous-user]

Something I've always wanted to know is - are dishwasher insides actually designed to fit a certain range of crockery or something similar? I've had a few dishwashers over the years and never ever found that the mugs or glasses or plates etc ever sit neatly in all the various weird angles and undulations in the racking, they inevitably all fall over when you move the racks in or out, and often just wont balance in the first place, cereal bowls seem to have no specific place to go, the prongs are too close to fit them in the lower rack and the angles etc.. dont let them stack on their sides in the upper rack, and then you put in an oven tray and it clangs on the spinny water thingy.

To further compound things they're covered in silly hinged pieces of plastic with weird shapes that seem to do nothing more than get in the way of it closing if anything is placed under them. They usually get ripped off and binned within a day.

And when you fully load it the stupid little plastic wheels then slide off the tiny runners and the rack drops into the base.
Are they designed for a certain very small and lightweight set of crockery that nobody actually owns??

This question usually boils through my head when all the glasses have fallen over for a fifth time , so I thought I'd finally ask and see if anyone knows? Or perhaps if anyone knows a dishwasher designer you could pass this on (or punch them, either would be acceptable).

[schmunk]

JimSuperSix said:

And when you fully load it the stupid little plastic wheels then slide off the tiny runners and the rack drops into the base.
Are they designed for a certain very small and lightweight set of crockery that nobody actually owns??

This was happening quite frequently with our dishwasher. New set of wheels, about £8 from eBay, made the world of difference - only happens now when yanked impertinently.

[Bluedot]

JimSuperSix said:

Something I've always wanted to know is - are dishwasher insides actually designed to fit a certain range of crockery or something similar? I've had a few dishwashers over the years and never ever found that the mugs or glasses or plates etc ever sit neatly in all the various weird angles and undulations in the racking, they inevitably all fall over when you move the racks in or out, and often just wont balance in the first place, cereal bowls seem to have no specific place to go, the prongs are too close to fit them in the lower rack and the angles etc.. dont let them stack on their sides in the upper rack, and then you put in an oven tray and it clangs on the spinny water thingy.

Yes! this, this, this!
I often think of this thread or the 'things that annoy you beyond reason' thread whilst stacking the dishwasher (it's the rockn'roll lifestyle I lead).
Every dishwasher we've owned has never had a suitable place to stack tall glasses safely, they just roll around and end up full of dirty dish water.