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

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

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Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Friday 29th May 2015
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Dr Jekyll said:
Ayahuasca said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Is a 4 wheeled 2 wheel drive vehicle a 2X4 or a 4X2?
Depends whether it if FWD or RWD, obviously.
So what about a 6 wheeled 2 wheel drive with middle wheel drive?
(2X4)+2



TheEnd

15,370 posts

187 months

Friday 29th May 2015
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It's total number of wheels x driven wheels, so you get trucks as 6x2, 6x4, 8x4 etc.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Friday 29th May 2015
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Dr Jekyll said:
Is a 4 wheeled 2 wheel drive vehicle a 2X4 or a 4X2?
4 x 2 = 4 by 2 = 4 wheels driven by 2


wildone63

989 posts

210 months

Friday 29th May 2015
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Why will some hotels and b&b's not accept a booking of less than 2 or 3 nights?

singlecoil

33,317 posts

245 months

Friday 29th May 2015
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When cremations take place, do the crematorium people remove the handles and other furniture from the coffins before incinerating them?

popeyewhite

19,626 posts

119 months

Friday 29th May 2015
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singlecoil said:
When cremations take place, do the crematorium people remove the handles and other furniture from the coffins before incinerating them?
No, I don't think so. It all burns except metals.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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Yes they do remove fittings

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

243 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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Hugo a Gogo said:
Yes they do remove fittings
Do they give them back to the undertakers, sell them on eBay...?

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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wildone63 said:
Why will some hotels and b&b's not accept a booking of less than 2 or 3 nights?
Because all the faff associated with your visit is before and as you arrive, and as and after you leave. They may have decided the faff is not worth it for £100, but is worth it for £200 (or whatever). The middle of your visit is very low-maintenance for the B&B - thats their easy money.

Evoluzione

10,345 posts

242 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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Hugo a Gogo said:
Yes they do remove fittings
No they don't, they aren't allowed to take anything from the body or the coffin.
Interestingly Pacemakers have to be removed beforehand though, I wonder what people who believe in afterlife think to that.....

singlecoil

33,317 posts

245 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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Evoluzione said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Yes they do remove fittings
No they don't, they aren't allowed to take anything from the body or the coffin.
Interestingly Pacemakers have to be removed beforehand though, I wonder what people who believe in afterlife think to that.....
In a way that's reassuring. I was a pallbearer on Friday and if it had been necessary to grab one of the handles there's less likelihood that it might have come off (leading to my dropping my corner of the coffin) because it had been designed to be easily removable.

Evoluzione

10,345 posts

242 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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singlecoil said:
Evoluzione said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Yes they do remove fittings
No they don't, they aren't allowed to take anything from the body or the coffin.
Interestingly Pacemakers have to be removed beforehand though, I wonder what people who believe in afterlife think to that.....
In a way that's reassuring. I was a pallbearer on Friday and if it had been necessary to grab one of the handles there's less likelihood that it might have come off (leading to my dropping my corner of the coffin) because it had been designed to be easily removable.
No not really. The golden rule (for next time) 'Never use the handles to pick up or support a full coffin'. You may have noticed the finger grooves around the edge of the underside? The handles are mainly for decoration or just to hang onto to steady it.
That would have been one for the archives if you'd slipped, grabbed a plastic handle which came off in your hand and the whole lot hit the deck. wink

popeyewhite

19,626 posts

119 months

Saturday 30th May 2015
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Einion Yrth said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Yes they do remove fittings
Do they give them back to the undertakers, sell them on eBay...?
A lot of the fittings nowadays are hard plastic made to look like metal, these are not removed. A magnet is used to pick up other metals such as nails that are incinerated. This is the process at the local crematorium.

wildone63

989 posts

210 months

Sunday 31st May 2015
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SpeckledJim said:
Because all the faff associated with your visit is before and as you arrive, and as and after you leave. They may have decided the faff is not worth it for £100, but is worth it for £200 (or whatever). The middle of your visit is very low-maintenance for the B&B - thats their easy money.
So if I want to book a room for one night say a Wednesday for example,and someone else has booked the room for the preceeding Monday and Tuesday,and another person has booked the room for the following Thursday and Friday nights then the hotel would rather turn my custom away than have all the "faff"?
Strange way of doing buisness

BristolRich

545 posts

132 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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Why do Central London Traffic Lights not have the white border on the signal head? Why the exception when the rest of the UK follows the 'rule'?

walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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wildone63 said:
SpeckledJim said:
Because all the faff associated with your visit is before and as you arrive, and as and after you leave. They may have decided the faff is not worth it for £100, but is worth it for £200 (or whatever). The middle of your visit is very low-maintenance for the B&B - thats their easy money.
So if I want to book a room for one night say a Wednesday for example,and someone else has booked the room for the preceeding Monday and Tuesday,and another person has booked the room for the following Thursday and Friday nights then the hotel would rather turn my custom away than have all the "faff"?
Strange way of doing buisness
I think it is more to do with opportunity cost - in this case the risk they miss a really big booking.
Most hotels and even B&B have more than one room.
Say the other room was empty on the Wednesday night too.
If they took single night bookings then both could get booked up and lose them any weekly custom that was looking to include that Wednesday in their week.
That risk isn't worth it for just one night of income but is OK if you have two nights income out of it.
This is particularly acute over a weekend - for many there is enough demand over weekends for two nights' stay that they don't mind missing the odd time when a one-nighter would have been all they could get.

Once you get to bigger hotels who almost always have an empty room - you will see them accept single night stays since they will only very rarely miss the week-long bookings as they have that available capacity.
Or they go for dynamic rules whereby as soon as a particular date gets popular they enforce multi-night stays to maximise revenue.

That said, as the date approaches you can often get them (hotels and B&Bs) to bend the rules for you as it becomes clear that the mythical week-long booking looks unlikely to appear.

Funkycoldribena

7,379 posts

153 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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Why dont I mind doing the dishwasher but wouldnt dream of using the washing machine when they do pretty much the same sort of thing?and why isnt there a window in the dishwasher?

BristolRich

545 posts

132 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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You can tell its been a quiet day in the office and here's another...

Why is "normal" Whole, Skimmed and Semi Skimmed Milk sold in plastic Pint unit bottles (with litre equivalent printed on the label as you'd expect), but Filtered milk e.g. Cravendale sold in Litre unit plastic bottles?

marshalla

15,902 posts

200 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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Funkycoldribena said:
Why dont I mind doing the dishwasher but wouldnt dream of using the washing machine when they do pretty much the same sort of thing?and why isnt there a window in the dishwasher?
There is a certain amount of skill involved in correctly loading a dishwasher. It's the kitchen equivalent of Tetris, and one can derive great satisfaction from optimising the packing.

Certain groups in the population lack the spacial awareness to do it properly, and the faculties to understand why it matters. Washing machines are designed for them.

As to a window on a dishwasher - do you really want to see grease and gravy being flung around at high speed ?

Funkycoldribena

7,379 posts

153 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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marshalla said:
As to a window on a dishwasher - do you really want to see grease and gravy being flung around at high speed ?
Oh yes,I do.
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