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

[marshalla]

Oldandslow said:

In NI we also get to vote in the referendum. It'll be all out or all in unless the Jocks try to split off again.

Which reinforces the point that BRexit is stupid. It should be UKexit, if anything.

[walm]

marshalla said:

Oldandslow said:

In NI we also get to vote in the referendum. It'll be all out or all in unless the Jocks try to split off again.

Which reinforces the point that BRexit is stupid. It should be UKexit, if anything.

I am guessing you don't work in marketing.

[MarshPhantom]

GroundEffect said:

wildone63 said:

gazzarose said:

Whilst expecting a parrot... It's just BRitain EXIT, BREXIT.

Yet another example of some politician or the media inventing a word and just assuming that anyone who hears it will know what it means.
Another phrase iam mystified about that has recently cropped up is twiters fear or something like that.

Twittersphere. They just mean Twitter...

I think they mean online forums in general, rather than just Twitter.

[anonymous-user]

Dies the middle aged man driving laps around Chelmsford city centre every day in his stupidly loud and very gay green Focus RS not feel like a bit of a knob?

[marshalla]

walm said:

I am guessing you don't work in marketing.

Correct. I have a proper job

[walm]

marshalla said:

walm said:

I am guessing you don't work in marketing.

Correct. I have a proper job

Harsh... but... may contain an element of truth... what did John Wanamaker say again... 50% wasted?

[glazbagun]

OpulentBob said:

Dies the middle aged man driving laps around Chelmsford city centre every day in his stupidly loud and very gay green Focus RS not feel like a bit of a knob?

I hope not. What's the point of a midlife crisis if you can't buy yourself a brilliant obnoxious car and enjoy it. I miss the days when something like an Impreza would be an aspirational car instead of a metallic grey diesel with a nice dashboard and low BiK.

I'd hope he'd feel more of a knob starting it up at 6AM and waking the neighbours though.

[anonymous-user]

^^^ All the 7's...

[RizzoTheRat]

droopsnoot said:

Yes, it's just a cheap re-sprayed version of Grexit from a year or two ago

Is that when everyone was leaving Greggs due to the pasty tax?

[anonymous-user]

glazbagun said:

OpulentBob said:

Dies the middle aged man driving laps around Chelmsford city centre every day in his stupidly loud and very gay green Focus RS not feel like a bit of a knob?

I hope not. What's the point of a midlife crisis if you can't buy yourself a brilliant obnoxious car and enjoy it. I miss the days when something like an Impreza would be an aspirational car instead of a metallic grey diesel with a nice dashboard and low BiK.

I'd hope he'd feel more of a knob starting it up at 6AM and waking the neighbours though.

It's the accelerating (hard) up to the red light and stamping on the brakes to scare the old ladies, driving in first gear past the offices full of people working, generally being an antisocial fkwk.

And it's green. A green Focus. About as "look at me" and try hard as you can get. The pikiest.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

RizzoTheRat said:

droopsnoot said:

Yes, it's just a cheap re-sprayed version of Grexit from a year or two ago

Is that when everyone was leaving Greggs due to the pasty tax?

No, the pasty tax effected wallpaper sales.

[Dr Jekyll]

When did it become correct to refer to railway stations as train stations?

Why do instructions for microwave dinners say things like 'full power for 5 minutes, stand for 1 minute, then full power for 4 minutes'? What is the purpose of the minute in the middle?

[Silent1]

Dr Jekyll said:

When did it become correct to refer to railway stations as train stations?

Why do instructions for microwave dinners say things like 'full power for 5 minutes, stand for 1 minute, then full power for 4 minutes'? What is the purpose of the minute in the middle?

Because microwaves heat unevenly so the minute to stand is for the heat to equalise

[Dr Jekyll]

Silent1 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

When did it become correct to refer to railway stations as train stations?

Why do instructions for microwave dinners say things like 'full power for 5 minutes, stand for 1 minute, then full power for 4 minutes'? What is the purpose of the minute in the middle?

Because microwaves heat unevenly so the minute to stand is for the heat to equalise

Sure, but why part way through the process? Would the second heating session have a different effect if the temperature was uneven to start with?

[marshalla]

Dr Jekyll said:

Silent1 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

When did it become correct to refer to railway stations as train stations?

Why do instructions for microwave dinners say things like 'full power for 5 minutes, stand for 1 minute, then full power for 4 minutes'? What is the purpose of the minute in the middle?

Because microwaves heat unevenly so the minute to stand is for the heat to equalise

Sure, but why part way through the process? Would the second heating session have a different effect if the temperature was uneven to start with?

A hot spot is likely to become an even hotter spot and may result in an eruption of steam which spreads your "meal" all over the inside of the oven.

And, in answer to the first question - never, unless you're a colonial who doesn't know any better. Even worse are the train crews who refer to "station stops". Einstein might take the view that they're relatively correct, but in my frame of reference it's always the train that stops.

[ashleyman]

What happens when you get to the point of being able to lift all the weights on the machines at the gym?

Do you just plateau or do you have to go to a new gym?

[Krikkit]

marshalla said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Silent1 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

When did it become correct to refer to railway stations as train stations?

Why do instructions for microwave dinners say things like 'full power for 5 minutes, stand for 1 minute, then full power for 4 minutes'? What is the purpose of the minute in the middle?

Because microwaves heat unevenly so the minute to stand is for the heat to equalise

Sure, but why part way through the process? Would the second heating session have a different effect if the temperature was uneven to start with?

A hot spot is likely to become an even hotter spot and may result in an eruption of steam which spreads your "meal" all over the inside of the oven.

It's also for a scalding risk on less conductive foods, they also add a stir instruction for the same reason.

[popeyewhite]

ashleyman said:

What happens when you get to the point of being able to lift all the weights on the machines at the gym?

Do you just plateau or do you have to go to a new gym?

Sensible person wouldn't train at a machines-only gym.

[ashleyman]

popeyewhite said:

Sensible person wouldn't train at a machines-only gym.

Well, obviously. But the reason I ask is because at the gym today. I saw a guy doing some cable ab workout that looked like he was bowing down to the machine and pulling the weights down as he bent over. He had all of the weight on the cable. So he's using the maximum possible weight on that machine.

What does he do now? There is literally no way for him to up weights on that specific exercise so does he just stop and do something else or does he move on to a better gym with heavier weight machines? Is there such a thing?

[popeyewhite]

Someone with strong abs can lift quite a bit doing cable crunches, but they're not a terribly good abs exercise. Leg raises are far more beneficial, he could do them with a dumbbell between his feet. Extremely unlikely he'll run out of weights then. No dumbbells? Plenty of other abs exercises.