Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
talksthetorque said:
s p a c e m a n said:
What do you do when one of those mobility scooter things breaks down? Is there a recovery service or do you just have to Uber a transit van?
Phone a solicitor for compensation from the supplier/manufacturer surely?You can buy breakdown insurance for them.
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?
The people growing them commercially will have to grow them in a way to stop the lodging (which is falling over) or they can't harvest them. plant population and fertiliser application are key. In the field, they will sort of hold each other up against strong winds, but when they start falling over (this applies to a lot of crops like wheat, barley, oilseed rape, linseed, things you harvest when the plant is dead with a combine), it is generally too much fertiliser. Most of the varieties of plants now are breed to stay standing up because they are very difficult to harvest when they go flat.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?
I harvested a few thousand acres of 'flowers when I worked in Kansas and their smell reminds me of the good time I had there.
P-Jay said:
Erm, yes and no in my experience - I was lucky to travel a lot in my younger years, which meant staying in hostels with every type of euro trash and Americans (if it couldn't be helped) I wouldn't call Dutchies conservative, more reserved, they were by far the nicest people (as a rule) to share rooms with, they tended to be happy, polite and pretty funny once you got used to the mannerisms, although I never had a crossed word with anyone from mainland Europe.
was this fellow travelling Dutch people you met?a vast percentage of Dutch people don't live in Amsterdam, don't smoke weed, live and work in the same small town they've always lived in, go on holiday with other Dutch people to all-Dutch resorts in France/Spain/Alps, don't drive a flash car, don't break the rules, go to church on Sunday...
the young hippy travellers and the Amsterdammers give the world a false impression of NL,
threespires said:
Why do spark plugs come in boxes of 10?
Plenty of 5 - pot motors have come off Audi's lines. Plus all these had a five cylinder option at leastMercedes-Benz W123
Honda/Acura Vigor
Alfa Romeo 159
Volvo 850 R
Jeep Grand Cherokee
Ford Focus RS Mk 2
Chevrolet Colorado
Land Rover Defender
And of course, there are the poor, put upon V10 owners who
naturally need the bulk buy discount.
davhill said:
threespires said:
Why do spark plugs come in boxes of 10?
Plenty of 5 - pot motors have come off Audi's lines. Plus all these had a five cylinder option at leastMercedes-Benz W123
Honda/Acura Vigor
Alfa Romeo 159
Volvo 850 R
Jeep Grand Cherokee
Ford Focus RS Mk 2
Chevrolet Colorado
Land Rover Defender
And of course, there are the poor, put upon V10 owners who
naturally need the bulk buy discount.
Hugo a Gogo said:
P-Jay said:
Erm, yes and no in my experience - I was lucky to travel a lot in my younger years, which meant staying in hostels with every type of euro trash and Americans (if it couldn't be helped) I wouldn't call Dutchies conservative, more reserved, they were by far the nicest people (as a rule) to share rooms with, they tended to be happy, polite and pretty funny once you got used to the mannerisms, although I never had a crossed word with anyone from mainland Europe.
was this fellow travelling Dutch people you met?a vast percentage of Dutch people don't live in Amsterdam, don't smoke weed, live and work in the same small town they've always lived in, go on holiday with other Dutch people to all-Dutch resorts in France/Spain/Alps, don't drive a flash car, don't break the rules, go to church on Sunday...
the young hippy travellers and the Amsterdammers give the world a false impression of NL,
I've worked with a few since, yeah they're not as wide-eyed and idealistic as a bunch of teenagers and 20 something 'gap yaaaah' types, but I still find them pretty tolerant of most things and I've always found them friendly and open - perhaps it's the 'Conservative' badge - perhaps I'm thinking too US style Conservative, basically a
holes who think anyone who isn't a PLU is out to get them or 'up to something'. I can't imagine 40-50 years of sucessive Dutch Goverments allowing such tollerant laws to continue if the population didn't at least think it was worth it.Hugo a Gogo said:
the young hippy travellers and the Amsterdammers give the world a false impression of NL,
That and the advocaat.I was reading about the Anglo-Dutch wars, and it was a feature that the Dutch didn't press-gang their natives unlike us Brits, due to their tolerant and freedom respecting ways. So that's 400 years of pleasant-ness, except when it comes to bargaining (if you've negotiated with them you'll know what it's like).
steveo3002 said:
how are clairvoyants and the like allowed to carry and not shut down because of scam? must be a fair few of them making a living by tricking the believers into thinking theyre talking to the dead and so on
Legally classed as entertainers and have to have signage saying so in some towns. (Including Blackpool). Entertainers can make st upRight. Bear with me.
Pressure differences cause wind, or at least air currents. EG opening your car window means the air running past the window is at a low pressure than the air in the car, due to Bernoulli's principle, therefore the air from inside the car rushes out, making it blustery and sucking things like fag ash, old receipts and dog's tongues out of the window.
If I was able to mount a large fan on the dash, capable of pushing a fat amount of air out at (eg) 70mph, then if I drove at 70mph with the window open (matching the speed inside and outside the car), would the effects cancel, and therefore not be windy enough to suck things out?
Pressure differences cause wind, or at least air currents. EG opening your car window means the air running past the window is at a low pressure than the air in the car, due to Bernoulli's principle, therefore the air from inside the car rushes out, making it blustery and sucking things like fag ash, old receipts and dog's tongues out of the window.
If I was able to mount a large fan on the dash, capable of pushing a fat amount of air out at (eg) 70mph, then if I drove at 70mph with the window open (matching the speed inside and outside the car), would the effects cancel, and therefore not be windy enough to suck things out?
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