Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]

Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]

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SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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lord trumpton said:
What happens when we drill for oil and remove it from under the ground? Is there a huge empty void where the oil once was? Like an empty tank?
You may have been mislead by Sesame Street type cartoons.

I was too.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,246 posts

149 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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lord trumpton said:
What happens when we drill for oil and remove it from under the ground? Is there a huge empty void where the oil once was? Like an empty tank?
I think they pump water in as the oil comes out. But that might be an urban myth.

DrTre

12,955 posts

231 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Permeable rock saturated with hydrocarbons that have become trapped.
Water (and other substances such as gas, co2, steam) are injected to keep pressure up (and migrate oil to the production wells) in secondary and tertiary recovery.
From what I've gathered from the rock nerds at work.

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Not something I've always wondered about but something that came up in conversation.

Suppose Someone (M) marries a woman (W1) and has a child 1. Later they split and M marries woman 2 (W2) and has child 2.

The relationship between W2 and Child 1 is stepmother/stepchild and it's conventional for them to refer to each other this way even if Child 1 was an adult when W2 came on the scene. I knew someone who was a Child 1 and invariably referred to W2 as 'my stepmum' even though W2 was younger than her.

But what is the relationship between W1 and Child 2?

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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There is no relationship between W1 and C2.

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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SpeckledJim said:
There is no relationship between W1 and C2.
Just as much relationship as W2 and C1 surely? Even though there isn't a word for it.

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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No. W2 is step mother to C1, because her husband is C1s dad.

C2 has no relationship to W1, she's just a woman his dad used to be married to.

Though C1 and C2 are half-brothers (sisters, whatever).

There is neither a blood, nor marriage relationship between W1 and C2.

Edited by SpeckledJim on Saturday 24th January 13:19

FiF

43,960 posts

250 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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Somehow I can't help but think that somewhere there is a W1 who is after going a round or two with C2 in order to get back at W2 and M?

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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FiF said:
Somehow I can't help but think that somewhere there is a W1 who is after going a round or two with C2 in order to get back at W2 and M?
To get a slot on the JKS.

CaptainSlow

13,179 posts

211 months

Saturday 24th January 2015
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SpeckledJim said:
No. W2 is step mother to C1, because her husband is C1s dad.

C2 has no relationship to W1, she's just a woman his dad used to be married to.

Though C1 and C2 are half-brothers (sisters, whatever).

There is neither a blood, nor marriage relationship between W1 and C2.

Edited by SpeckledJim on Saturday 24th January 13:19
...and if W1 and W2 were male, ie Husband 1 and Husband 2, they would be custard cousins.

CRA2Y

2,632 posts

204 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Assuming both at their peak - who would win:

Mike Tyson vs Bruce Lee ?

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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CRA2Y said:
Assuming both at their peak - who would win:

Mike Tyson vs Bruce Lee ?
Tyson by a mile.

singlecoil

33,309 posts

245 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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SpeckledJim said:
CRA2Y said:
Assuming both at their peak - who would win:

Mike Tyson vs Bruce Lee ?
Tyson by a mile.
My thinking too. He'd only need to connect once, and that would be it.

whirly

234 posts

270 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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torqueofthedevil said:
What gives banana skins that disgusting taste if you happen to even catch your teeth on it?

Also, why are Braeburn apples a fraction of the cost of Pink Ladies when they are twice as nice?
Pink Lady is a trade marked "brand". The apples are Cripp's Pink of a fixed size range. You sometimes seem Cripp's Pink in value bags.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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torqueofthedevil said:
Also, why are Braeburn apples a fraction of the cost of Pink Ladies when they are twice as nice?
Braeburn are twice as nice as pinks? Get out! Pinks are gorgeous and the best tasting apple available over here which is probably why they're twice the price. Braeburns just have that cheap generic apple taste to them which is about as interesting as chewing on a piece of cardboard.

gazzarose

1,157 posts

132 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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Whats the deal with the sprung bed on some trolleys in BandQ and Wickes? They're only lightly sprung so can't be anything useful. Is it purely just to let water run off. If it is, there must be simpler (and cheaper) ways of doing that.

goldblum

10,272 posts

166 months

Sunday 25th January 2015
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singlecoil said:
SpeckledJim said:
CRA2Y said:
Assuming both at their peak - who would win:

Mike Tyson vs Bruce Lee ?
Tyson by a mile.
My thinking too. He'd only need to connect once, and that would be it.
In any contest between someone (comparatively) heavy and slow, and small and quick, it depends entirely upon tactics...or lack thereof. I imagine if you asked Lee to stand still while Tyson hit him your hypotheses might be correct.

Boozy

2,337 posts

218 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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Why do babies dance? no one tells them what dancing is, or how to do it but they do, put music on and they start moving. Most peculiar and the internet doesn't seem to have an answer.

goldblum

10,272 posts

166 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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Boozy said:
Why do babies dance? no one tells them what dancing is, or how to do it but they do, put music on and they start moving. Most peculiar and the internet doesn't seem to have an answer.
They're not 'dancing'. That's an adult understanding of a sequence of rhythmic movements deliberately done in time to music. Neither are they obeying some primitive call to rhythm or other nonsense. They are babies with an undeveloped mind and little, if any, control over their undeveloped limbs.

You are watching them mess about and try to learn not to fall over.

Boozy

2,337 posts

218 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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goldblum said:
They're not 'dancing'. That's an adult understanding of a sequence of rhythmic movements deliberately done in time to music. Neither are they obeying some primitive call to rhythm or other nonsense. They are babies with an undeveloped mind and little, if any, control over their undeveloped limbs.

You are watching them mess about and try to learn not to fall over.
Disagree, my one year old can't walk yet but is steady on her feet when holding on to something, you put music on and she sways her hips and starts "dancing", same if she's sat in her high chair and you put music on, she starts to sway and giggle. It's got the square root of nothing to do with not falling over.
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