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

[wiggy001]

Rostfritt said:

poing said:

Random thought for the day and might well have been covered previously.

Why is Sat Nav traditionally in landscape format? I'd have thought portrait would be better since we are mainly more concerned with seeing as far in front as possible and not the church a mile to the left.

Depends how all the icons around it are displayed. Most sat nav units are landscape but anyone who uses their phone seems to just have it in portrait mode. I have a proper sat nav (and currently no car) so I haven't used any phone based system, do they give you the option of both?

It allows for the icons etc to be placed on the left and right hand sides, so the main navigation area is roughly a square (albeit, the icons float over the map):


As these are normally stuck in the screen, they are less in the way if they are landscape (a Tomtom in portrait mode in the middle of the screen would be quite distracting I think)

In my car (with no in-built sat nav) I use Waze on my phone in portrait mode (in a holder on the vents):



which is much more useable than in landscape:

[FiF]

Watching the waffle on the beeb this morning about the threat to Liverpool losing its UNESCO World Heritage status, which is probably worth a thread all its own, one of these sort of questions arose.

Obviously there were shots of the waterfront and prominent were the 3 ladies, The Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building, and the Port of Liverpool Authority building. So in this connection, why is The Royal Liver Building, pronounced Laiver or Layevah (phonetics not my strong point) and not as in the city name Liverpool.

If there's an obvious explanation, don't get aerated , just ccalmm down!

[Tyre Tread]

FiF said:

Watching the waffle on the beeb this morning about the threat to Liverpool losing its UNESCO World Heritage status, which is probably worth a thread all its own, one of these sort of questions arose.

Obviously there were shots of the waterfront and prominent were the 3 ladies, The Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building, and the Port of Liverpool Authority building. So in this connection, why is The Royal Liver Building, pronounced Laiver or Layevah (phonetics not my strong point) and not as in the city name Liverpool.

If there's an obvious explanation, don't get aerated , just ccalmm down!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+is+the+liver+building+pronounced+differently+to+liverpool

[FiF]

Tyre Tread said:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+is+the+liver+building+pro...

Thanks but an observation. I'm not particularly disposed towards posters who come back with that sort of answer, as it smacks of smart arse. However when the answer let me Google it for you is followed, without the benefit of it being made into a hyperlink for ease of use, to find that it doesn't produce an otherwise easily found definitive answer, but produces a series of links with banter using inappropriate language, and various answers which amount to not much more than nobody really knows then it loses its effect. Couple that with one of the links seeming to be very easy to lead to a very nsfw website then it makes me even less well disposed towards the poster, to the extent that in this case consider yourself filed in the idiots to be ignored folder. HTH. You didn't btw.

[Ayahuasca]

What is the maximum fine that can be imposed for a late returned library book?

The reason is that a friend has just found a book that he borrowed from a library in 1989 !

[Bandit110]

Couldn't have put it better...

Back to the point, I'm from Liverpool and while not totally clued up on it, the name is derived from a 'Liver' bird, prounounced 'Lyver' which has something to do with Liverpool's past (I should know but don't...). There's two stone models of them ontop of one of the Liver buildings, one looking inland and one looking out, something to do with supposedly looking after the city. The name comes from them but I've always wondered why Liverpool isn't pronounced Lyverpool......

[Ayahuasca]

Bandit110 said:

Couldn't have put it better...

Back to the point, I'm from Liverpool and while not totally clued up on it, the name is derived from a 'Liver' bird, prounounced 'Lyver' which has something to do with Liverpool's past (I should know but don't...). There's two stone models of them ontop of one of the Liver buildings, one looking inland and one looking out, something to do with supposedly looking after the city. The name comes from them but I've always wondered why Liverpool isn't pronounced Lyverpool......

They pronounce lots of things funny there. For example, 'look' is pronounced 'locghshch' and 'Liverpudlian' is pronounced 'outraged innocence whilst almost certainly guilty. Of something.'



Joke. It is a joke.

[Einion Yrth]

Ayahuasca said:

They pronounce lots of things funny there. For example, 'look' is pronounced 'locghshch' and 'Liverpudlian' is pronounced 'outraged innocence whilst almost certainly guilty. Of something.'



Joke. It is a joke.

Aren't jokes supposed to be amusing?

[FiF]

Ayahuasca said:

What is the maximum fine that can be imposed for a late returned library book?

The reason is that a friend has just found a book that he borrowed from a library in 1989 !

Think I'd be googling about library book amnesty day or something.

[Tyre Tread]

FiF said:

Thanks but an observation. I'm not particularly disposed towards posters who come back with that sort of answer, as it smacks of smart arse. However when the answer let me Google it for you is followed, without the benefit of it being made into a hyperlink for ease of use, to find that it doesn't produce an otherwise easily found definitive answer, but produces a series of links with banter using inappropriate language, and various answers which amount to not much more than nobody really knows then it loses its effect. Couple that with one of the links seeming to be very easy to lead to a very nsfw website then it makes me even less well disposed towards the poster, to the extent that in this case consider yourself filed in the idiots to be ignored folder. HTH. You didn't btw.

Sincere apologies, I didn't actually look at the links it generated. Certainly didn't intend to lead anyone towards NSFW.

I am from Liverpool too. This question seems to appear on all sorts of forums on an (ir)regular basis and the answer as far as I can ascertain is "nobody knows". But there are lots of theories about why.

[talksthetorque]

FiF said:

Think I'd be googling about library book amnesty day or something.

Keep it another 50 years or so, you'll make the local tv news.



Keep it another 20 years and there won't be any libraries left

[bigandclever]

FiF said:

Feirny said:

Should've probably worded that a little better, I meant famous. I knew of the majority of that list, Mabbutt mainly but no others.

The most high profile there I know is Nacho.

Come off it, what about 5 times Olympic gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave.

Interestingly most of the ones on that list are type 1. Not surprising really.

He's many things, but a "diabetic professional footballer" he isn't

[Vipers]

This is a genuine question, not a piss take. Can anyone identify the currency for me. My daughter has just found the same article in an antique shop, and this is the only link I can find with a price shown.

[CB2152]

Vipers said:

This is a genuine question, not a piss take. Can anyone identify the currency for me. My daughter has just found the same article in an antique shop, and this is the only link I can find with a price shown.

Yen

Edit: I know the symbol for Yen is ¥, just as the symbol for Pounds is £.

This is the equivalent of writing the word 'Pounds'.

17980¥ is about £123.

Edited by CB2152 on Wednesday 5th July 22:18

[Vipers]

CB2152 said:

Vipers said:

This is a genuine question, not a piss take. Can anyone identify the currency for me. My daughter has just found the same article in an antique shop, and this is the only link I can find with a price shown.

Yen

Edit: I know the symbol for Yen is ¥, just as the symbol for Pounds is £.

This is the equivalent of writing the word 'Pounds'.

17980¥ is about £123.

Edited by CB2152 on Wednesday 5th July 22:18

Thank you.

[lord trumpton]

Why don't electric cars have gears?

Also, is there development of electric motorbikes?

[wiggy001]

lord trumpton said:

Also, is there development of electric motorbikes?

Guy Martin says it's the future: https://www.iomtt.com/News/2017/06/09/Bruce-Anstey...

[Willy Nilly]

lord trumpton said:

Why don't electric cars have gears?

Max Torque will be along in a minute, but they don't need them. I THINK, you get 100% torque at zero rpm with electric motors.

[grumbledoak]

Willy Nilly said:

Max Torque will be along in a minute, but they don't need them. I THINK, you get 100% torque at zero rpm with electric motors.

And the motors are quite happy to run at the speed of the wheels.

[Shakermaker]

lord trumpton said:

Also, is there development of electric motorbikes?

One of the characters in Hawaii 5-0 was riding an electric motorbike in an episode I saw a while ago. Clearly a paid-for promotional spot but it was out there