Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
SpeckledJim said:
The Don of Croy said:
When & why did the Dutch develop such laid-back attitudes?
It's a natural contrarian reaction to living next to the Germans?Jonboy_t said:
P-Jay said:
Dagnir said:
Why do towels, after a reasonable period of use, invariablly end up with one side soft and one side scratchy?H/quote]
I am completely unaware of this phenomenon.
They do it if you let them dry naturally but don't if you put them through a tumble dryer. I am completely unaware of this phenomenon.
hmmmmm
mko9 said:
And how do towels get dirty? When I get out of the shower, I should be the cleanest object in my house. Shouldn't my towels get cleaner every time they touch me?
Do they bend?http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Out+To+Lun...
Dear Monty Don and Gardeners' Word,
A number of years ago I was travelling through central and very rural France. To the side of one of the arrow straight roads was a few fields of glorious sunflowers all standing tall and to attention. Swathes of the things and stunning to see, but not a bamboo stick in sight.
Why is it - how is it - that when I grow a cluster of the things over here i have to manufacture scaffolding to give mine a chance of not flopping over or snapping in two?
Do the cunning French mix viagra into the fertiliser or are they just naturally more virile?
A number of years ago I was travelling through central and very rural France. To the side of one of the arrow straight roads was a few fields of glorious sunflowers all standing tall and to attention. Swathes of the things and stunning to see, but not a bamboo stick in sight.
Why is it - how is it - that when I grow a cluster of the things over here i have to manufacture scaffolding to give mine a chance of not flopping over or snapping in two?
Do the cunning French mix viagra into the fertiliser or are they just naturally more virile?
Here's a question you didn't know you had.What was used before CPR was devised?
I was reading Dr. Geoffrey Garrett's book 'Cause of death'. Dr. GG was the Home Office pathologist
for the Manchester area; he took over where Dr. Keith Simpson (he of 'Acid Bath' Haigh, Ruth Ellis
and 'Lucky' Lucan fame) left off.
In the book, Dr. Garrett describes an incident in which a father and his amateur boxer son had a row. The father
threw some puny punches and these apparently triggered an internal bleed that killed the son. Shocked and full of remorse, the father collapsed, apparently with a cardiac arrest.
The good doctor's findings were that the son's haemorrhage could have happened at any time - it was effectively long overdue.
The father's weedy assault couldn't possibly have caused it or even contributed significantly to it.
The other post-mortem finding stemmed from evidence arising from the family's attempt to resucitate the father. The body had a severe
burn to the chest; this had nothing to do with the cause of death.
Well, forget your artificial respiration and the kiss of life. Before all this, the trick was to seize the smoothing iron from the
kitchen range, lift the collapsed person's shirt and put the hot iron on the chest. The principle was that anyone even remotely
capable of movement wouldn't stay put for long with a weighty lump of metal applying several hundred degrees F to
an area over the breastbone.
Makes sense. Too late for dad in this instance though.
I was reading Dr. Geoffrey Garrett's book 'Cause of death'. Dr. GG was the Home Office pathologist
for the Manchester area; he took over where Dr. Keith Simpson (he of 'Acid Bath' Haigh, Ruth Ellis
and 'Lucky' Lucan fame) left off.
In the book, Dr. Garrett describes an incident in which a father and his amateur boxer son had a row. The father
threw some puny punches and these apparently triggered an internal bleed that killed the son. Shocked and full of remorse, the father collapsed, apparently with a cardiac arrest.
The good doctor's findings were that the son's haemorrhage could have happened at any time - it was effectively long overdue.
The father's weedy assault couldn't possibly have caused it or even contributed significantly to it.
The other post-mortem finding stemmed from evidence arising from the family's attempt to resucitate the father. The body had a severe
burn to the chest; this had nothing to do with the cause of death.
Well, forget your artificial respiration and the kiss of life. Before all this, the trick was to seize the smoothing iron from the
kitchen range, lift the collapsed person's shirt and put the hot iron on the chest. The principle was that anyone even remotely
capable of movement wouldn't stay put for long with a weighty lump of metal applying several hundred degrees F to
an area over the breastbone.
Makes sense. Too late for dad in this instance though.
Edited by davhill on Thursday 3rd August 01:25
Cold said:
Dear Monty Don and Gardeners' Word,
A number of years ago I was travelling through central and very rural France. To the side of one of the arrow straight roads was a few fields of glorious sunflowers all standing tall and to attention. Swathes of the things and stunning to see, but not a bamboo stick in sight.
Why is it - how is it - that when I grow a cluster of the things over here i have to manufacture scaffolding to give mine a chance of not flopping over or snapping in two?
Do the cunning French mix viagra into the fertiliser or are they just naturally more virile?
OH planted what I believe are the stupidest plants ever a few years ago. Gladioli I think. they burst upwards and start flowering upwards, around the central stem. They get to about a third of the way to full bloom and then fall over and snap and die. How evolution hasn't sorted them out is beyond me!A number of years ago I was travelling through central and very rural France. To the side of one of the arrow straight roads was a few fields of glorious sunflowers all standing tall and to attention. Swathes of the things and stunning to see, but not a bamboo stick in sight.
Why is it - how is it - that when I grow a cluster of the things over here i have to manufacture scaffolding to give mine a chance of not flopping over or snapping in two?
Do the cunning French mix viagra into the fertiliser or are they just naturally more virile?
V8mate said:
SpeckledJim said:
The Don of Croy said:
When & why did the Dutch develop such laid-back attitudes?
It's a natural contrarian reaction to living next to the Germans?Hugo a Gogo said:
V8mate said:
SpeckledJim said:
The Don of Croy said:
When & why did the Dutch develop such laid-back attitudes?
It's a natural contrarian reaction to living next to the Germans?I must be one of the few people ever to go on Holiday to Germany, on purpose - they're not entirely different to the Dutch really, they take work seriously, some of their directness can seem like rudeness to Brits, but we seem equally rude to them - we lie a lot, or at least that's how they see some of the daft ways we use our language and our silly politeness. They take work seriously because that a lot of their self-worth is tied to their work - few occupations are looked down on, a Brick Layer proudly can stand shoulder to shoulder with a Lawyer and they seem to have a greater sense of community and 'the common good' than we do.
As for the Dutch and being laid-back, as other have said they're not, they're not a country of dope smoking porn addicts, what they are is tollerant to people who are, in fact they're tollerant to anyone who wants to do anything that doesn't hurt anyone else, but it's a fairly new thing - they were a very intollerant country in the past, very right wing too, but there was a big swing in the 60s and 70s and it stuck.
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