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

[gobuddygo]

You need one of these for tall wine glasses.

Stem Glasses Holder

I do agree though dishwashers are not designed properly, i wonder if they are based on commercial ones.

[TIGA84]

Reading a couple of comments about Africa/Corruption etc a few pages ago, this has always troubled me. You see the poor skinny girl wandering aimlessly on the TV while Ewan MacGregor tells us that "she has to get up at 3am everyday to walk the 25 miles to the nearest water hole/stream", it always strikes me, why don' they just move closer to the water hole/stream? Its not like they've got much to move and mud huts would be significantly easier to build with the presence of mud.

Or am I being really dense about something?

[Truckosaurus]

TIGA84 said:

R...why don' they just move closer to the water hole/stream?...

I suspect that someone else owns/controls the prime land near the water so you can't just move closer.

[Halmyre]

Bluedot said:

JimSuperSix said:

Something I've always wanted to know is - are dishwasher insides actually designed to fit a certain range of crockery or something similar? I've had a few dishwashers over the years and never ever found that the mugs or glasses or plates etc ever sit neatly in all the various weird angles and undulations in the racking, they inevitably all fall over when you move the racks in or out, and often just wont balance in the first place, cereal bowls seem to have no specific place to go, the prongs are too close to fit them in the lower rack and the angles etc.. dont let them stack on their sides in the upper rack, and then you put in an oven tray and it clangs on the spinny water thingy.

Yes! this, this, this!
I often think of this thread or the 'things that annoy you beyond reason' thread whilst stacking the dishwasher (it's the rockn'roll lifestyle I lead).
Every dishwasher we've owned has never had a suitable place to stack tall glasses safely, they just roll around and end up full of dirty dish water.

I get that with plastic storage containers. No carefully how I wedge them in or position them, there's always one that manages to get flipped upside down.

[Rostfritt]

sleepera6 said:

Hopefully this hasn't been done to death already... and I know small details like this have little relevance in subjects like the tragic death of April Jones a few years ago..

I want to know what happens to criminals' cars. For example the vile Mark Bridger stuffed poor April in to the back of his Disco. Which I have just noticed is imported, very old, LHD and no doubt dodgy as fk just like him. DVLA say it's untaxed and no MOT (obviously! Due December 2012). Bridger bought the car on 3rd December 2010, car imported October 2010. I'm guessing this car is rotting away in a Police warehouse or been crushed. Deserved.

Rettendon murders. Numerous cars have been regd with the same number plate. No-one knows where the true car is; on the road or long since dead?

I guess it's the same story with fatal car accident involved cars. I don't know why it intrigues me.


Anyone got any info on what happens and any other details on cars involved in crimes? Not necessarily murder. I don't know why it intrigues me

My car was stolen then used in a robbery which turned into a murder enquiry. They have a storage unit for all vehicles and other large pieces of evidence they have until the trial, in case they need them. They had mine for nearly two years, but I eventually got it back. If I had claimed on the insurance then it would have been their property and they presumable would have auctioned or crushed it once the police had released it. Maybe they have the option of instructing the police to dispose of it if they deem it not worth holding on until they can get some return on it.

This would be entirely different if the car was owned by a convicted criminal. It is still theirs so their family must have to deal with it. If not, the police will probably crush it or send it to police auction. There is also the proceeds of crime act, which wouldn't come it to play for that dodgy discovery for two reasons. First it wouldn't be worth st, secondly, he didn't buy it with money earned from a crime he was convicted of.

[anonymous-user]

droopsnoot said:

You'd like to think that if it had been crushed, the appropriate paperwork would have been done (given who was crushing it) and it would show as 'scrapped' or just no longer come up on the DVLA site, whichever happens to scrapped cars. Perhaps they're just deliberately leaving it somewhere untaxed and un-SORNed so that if he ever gets out, he'll have a massive fine from the DVLA waiting.

He's having a sentence of life imprisonment without possobility of parole. I guess maybe it's been passed to his family and they are just having it sit in their shed or something? Leaving it in the open could have a high possobility of vandalism by people "avenging April jones"

The man should be targeted, not his stty old car. Luckily someone already beat him to a pulp!

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 12th April 23:22

[Bluedot]

I'm always reading that the UK has more tornadoes each year than America.
Why then does America have such a wide community of tornado chasers and TV coverage yet over here in the UK you only hear of one every now and again when it's looked on as a 'freak event' ?

[MartG]

Bluedot said:

I'm always reading that the UK has more tornadoes each year than America.
Why then does America have such a wide community of tornado chasers and TV coverage yet over here in the UK you only hear of one every now and again when it's looked on as a 'freak event' ?

Because the majority of UK ones tend to be small and short lived, not like the deadly monsters they get in the US

[GroundEffect]

SpeckledJim said:

StevieBee said:

Costa have just opened Europe's biggest roasters in Basildon where they roast raw coffee beans

Why would they not roast the beans where they are picked where energy and labour costs are likely to be a lot cheaper?

Because Basildon is the place to go for a roasting. Everyone knows that.

I was wondering what that was for - I drive past it every day.

On topic: Coffee has a very short shelf-life after roasting - needs to be consumed within 2 weeks of roasting or it turns to st (I don't like coffee so it's all st to me...I just know odd things).

[Dr Jekyll]

Why does the Prodrive works in Banbury ALWAYS have an Aston Martin parked in front of it? Even at weekends, even when the rest of the car park is practically deserted.

It's almost like it's a gate guardian like the pensioned off fighters outside RAF bases.

[FiF]

GroundEffect said:

SpeckledJim said:

StevieBee said:

Costa have just opened Europe's biggest roasters in Basildon where they roast raw coffee beans

Why would they not roast the beans where they are picked where energy and labour costs are likely to be a lot cheaper?

Because Basildon is the place to go for a roasting. Everyone knows that.

I was wondering what that was for - I drive past it every day.

On topic: Coffee has a very short shelf-life after roasting - needs to be consumed within 2 weeks of roasting or it turns to st (I don't like coffee so it's all st to me...I just know odd things).

Does that still apply to the vacuum packed stuff? Just wondering, we hardly drink it now, but when we did, and lived in Sheffield, the packed stuff was never as good as the freshly roasted beans from Pollard's old shop on Charles Street.

[kowalski655]

TIGA84 said:

Reading a couple of comments about Africa/Corruption etc a few pages ago, this has always troubled me. You see the poor skinny girl wandering aimlessly on the TV while Ewan MacGregor tells us that "she has to get up at 3am everyday to walk the 25 miles to the nearest water hole/stream", it always strikes me, why don' they just move closer to the water hole/stream? Its not like they've got much to move and mud huts would be significantly easier to build with the presence of mud.

Or am I being really dense about something?

Also saying that the water is full of parasites caused by animals pissing in the water, but the as shows them watching a cow piss in the water! Just move the damn thing out of the water FFS!

[StevieBee]

TIGA84 said:

Reading a couple of comments about Africa/Corruption etc a few pages ago, this has always troubled me. You see the poor skinny girl wandering aimlessly on the TV while Ewan MacGregor tells us that "she has to get up at 3am everyday to walk the 25 miles to the nearest water hole/stream", it always strikes me, why don' they just move closer to the water hole/stream? Its not like they've got much to move and mud huts would be significantly easier to build with the presence of mud.

Or am I being really dense about something?

There can be many reasons.

The water source could be controlled by a tribe of less than gracious accommodation.

The area around it could be prone to disease or flooding.

The raw materials needed to build new huts and infrastructure no longer exist.

In truth, the number of cases where such a distance needs to be travelled is quite rare, most villages do tend to exist close to a water source although in this context 'liquid' source would be a more apt description so the message is no less pertinent.

[popeyewhite]

kowalski655 said:

Also saying that the water is full of parasites caused by animals pissing in the water, but the as shows them watching a cow piss in the water! Just move the damn thing out of the water FFS!

They'd still not be able to safely drink the water. It's not just animals pissing in it. More kids are killed by dehydration from diarrhoea than anything else,

[TTmonkey]

Why do the soldiers in armies of despots always do some rediculous goose step type of marching?

Just watched North Korea army marching in a rediculous and unnatural fashion.

Why?

[talksthetorque]

Can I throw my SCART leads away yet?

[lost in espace]

talksthetorque said:

Can I throw my SCART leads away yet?

Vinyl came back into fashion, are you sure you want to do this?

[Rostfritt]

talksthetorque said:

Can I throw my SCART leads away yet?

Haven't thought about the ever useful SCART lead in a long time. Quite a handy standard which I don't believe ever really got used outside Europe. You can probably throw them out if you have no plans on getting a new VCR any time soon.

[dfen5]

What's the name of the bird (yes, feathered variety, sexists) that sings all day, sounding like a squeaky bike pump and can I shoot it?

Drives me crazy from before sun up to sunset.

[Ructions]

When was the last time the Edge played a gig hat less?