Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
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kowalski655 said:
Nimby said:
Willy Nilly said:
hairykrishna said:
They're looking for nitrates. Explosives in other words.
I spread a lot of ammonium nitrate fertiliser in the spring, that bad people like to do bad things with, rather than make wheat grow. Could they find it on me? Previously it used to be that if you set it off randomly you would get the full pat down shoes off malarkey but they have sped it up now by using the swabs instead.
Set it off fully, you would still get a full search.
What criteria does Google Maps use to determine the best routes? For my commute it suggests 3 routes; 1 which is the route I normally take, and the other two I just can't understand why they're suggested? I know a route which is shorter, but not as quick as my usual, but I know it's quicker than the other two but is never suggested unless there's been an accident
TTOBES said:
Having come into work to find a crane having been installed at the building site next door, I am wondering how much the operators get paid?
Google says £11.96 per hour, but is that really it for this type of crane? As I write there is a bloke halfway up the crane's arm, about fourteen stories up. They're better people than me!
I'd say Google is way off the mark but if you think the operator is nuts climbing up there, wait until the cable snaps and a repair bloke comes out and walks along the jib (long bit horizontal at the top) to fix it.Google says £11.96 per hour, but is that really it for this type of crane? As I write there is a bloke halfway up the crane's arm, about fourteen stories up. They're better people than me!
We have been high up next to tower cranes before and when you watch them they do sway a bit with the wind, I presume they're designed too though, oh and never pick up the pop bottles that get left at the bottom of the crane, it's not pop in them.
Willy Nilly said:
In pop and rock music it is possible for the lead vocalist to look cool and many do. The guitarists often look cool, as do the bass players and drummers, but has their ever been a cool keyboard player?
{Far Left) Clint Boon Inspiral Carpets
The Late Rob Collins The Charlatans
Ray Manzarek The Doors
And not so much
Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
Back in the bygone days of no Internet, 3 TV channels and proper summers, milk men had crappy slow electric milk floats. But now we've got 4g, 2 million TV channels and reasonably mature EV technology, what has changed that milk men prefer small panel vans with the side door left open? Why did they have electric milk floats in the first place? Was it for the quietness? You don't even seem to see the milk float type transits anymore. Surely he could get his rounds done quicker using the mechanicals from a Tesla.
How can Oxfam say that £3 will give a family in Syria water for a month. When I live in one of the largest cities in the world, in a country where it rains often and we have a well defined infrastructure. And I pay 8 times that?
And another £25p/m for waste services that presumably the people in Syria don't have due to lack of facilities.
And another £25p/m for waste services that presumably the people in Syria don't have due to lack of facilities.
gazzarose said:
Back in the bygone days of no Internet, 3 TV channels and proper summers, milk men had crappy slow electric milk floats. But now we've got 4g, 2 million TV channels and reasonably mature EV technology, what has changed that milk men prefer small panel vans with the side door left open? Why did they have electric milk floats in the first place? Was it for the quietness? You don't even seem to see the milk float type transits anymore. Surely he could get his rounds done quicker using the mechanicals from a Tesla.
Is there still such a thing as milk delivery ?????
Speed 3 said:
gazzarose said:
Back in the bygone days of no Internet, 3 TV channels and proper summers, milk men had crappy slow electric milk floats. But now we've got 4g, 2 million TV channels and reasonably mature EV technology, what has changed that milk men prefer small panel vans with the side door left open? Why did they have electric milk floats in the first place? Was it for the quietness? You don't even seem to see the milk float type transits anymore. Surely he could get his rounds done quicker using the mechanicals from a Tesla.
Is there still such a thing as milk delivery ?????
I can remember living at home that the milkman we had was just crap! He would be all over the place with his delivery times. During the summer we'd "lose" at least 1 bottle a week from going off! For some reason he'd deliver one neighbours milk at the start of his round and the rest of us 2 hours later. And bizarrely they were forever knocking him on money for a couple weeks but still got this special service (if he was shagging the wife he was more desperate than I thought!
) He always smoked really smelly fags whilst working. (You'd find fag ash on the bottles) I'm sure that contributed to my dislike of him! Looked like he rarely washed. Prices were creeping up. I remember one Christmas Eve we got our milk at 7 PM! Couple modern fridges with a Tescos/Sainsburys on every high street you can get fresh milk in under 10 mins these days there's literally no market for a 5 day daily service. Though every now and then I'll see one and wonder who the hell is still buying milk like this???
Local depot still exists though!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3437152,-0.10673...
Rich_W said:
How can Oxfam say that £3 will give a family in Syria water for a month. When I live in one of the largest cities in the world, in a country where it rains often and we have a well defined infrastructure. And I pay 8 times that?
And another £25p/m for waste services that presumably the people in Syria don't have due to lack of facilities.
And another £25p/m for waste services that presumably the people in Syria don't have due to lack of facilities.
It's cheaper if you supply your own bucket apparently. Although in the "Syria" Situation described above two buckets would perhaps be the minimum.
Rich_W said:
Speed 3 said:
gazzarose said:
Back in the bygone days of no Internet, 3 TV channels and proper summers, milk men had crappy slow electric milk floats. But now we've got 4g, 2 million TV channels and reasonably mature EV technology, what has changed that milk men prefer small panel vans with the side door left open? Why did they have electric milk floats in the first place? Was it for the quietness? You don't even seem to see the milk float type transits anymore. Surely he could get his rounds done quicker using the mechanicals from a Tesla.
Is there still such a thing as milk delivery ?????This on a daily basis.
My brother collected the equine droppings and flogged it in the neighbourhood for a handsome profit.
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