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

[DoctorX]

MartG said:

Why, when you've eaten a burger, no matter what or how much you've eaten after it, when you burp it tastes of burger

See also, mackerel and smoky bacon crisps.

[V8mate]

Rich_W said:

Why do bits (less than 20s) of songs get stuck in your head and you cant get them out for HOURS?

You should be so lucky.

Lucky.
Lucky.
Lucky.

[droopsnoot]

StevieBee said:

Condi said:

What do Music Magpie do with everyone's old games and mobile phones? Who is buying them all?

Most of the working mobile phones end up in Africa being sold into the local market.

Games and Music get sold onto CeX and similar high street retailers.

I think "That's Entertainment" new and used CD/DVD shops are owned by Music Magpie.

[Jonboy_t]

V8mate said:

Rich_W said:

Why do bits (less than 20s) of songs get stuck in your head and you cant get them out for HOURS?

You should be so lucky.

Lucky.
Lucky.
Lucky.

I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves....

[Ultra Sound Guy]

Jonboy_t said:

V8mate said:

Rich_W said:

Why do bits (less than 20s) of songs get stuck in your head and you cant get them out for HOURS?

You should be so lucky.

Lucky.
Lucky.
Lucky.

I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves....

How long can you keep This one out of your head?

[w00tman]

StevieBee said:

Most of the working mobile phones end up in Africa being sold into the local market.

Games and Music get sold onto CeX and similar high street retailers.

As previously mentioned, they own the 2nd-hand tat shown, "that's entertainment", which aren't bad if you're looking for a bit of cheap entertainment (as you would expect) but uniformly stink of B.O from the resident shoppers.

[w00tman]

Rich_W said:

Why do bits (less than 20s) of songs get stuck in your head and you cant get them out for HOURS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm

"Researcher Vicky Williamson at Goldsmiths, University of London, found in an uncontrolled study that earworms correlated with music exposure (having heard the song recently or frequently), but could also be triggered by experiences that trigger the memory of a song (involuntary memory) such as seeing a word that reminds one of the song, hearing a few notes from the song, or feeling an emotion one associates with the song. The list of songs collected in the study showed no particular pattern, other than popularity.[2]"

[JustinF]

There's only one way to clear out ean earworm and that's the mana-mana song by the muppets.

[Wiccan of Darkness]

Ultra Sound Guy said:

How long can you keep This one out of your head?

You absolute bd!!!

Just for that I throw back at you the techno version of the leek spinning

I am never going to erase this one from my mind. Ever. For that I throw this one back at you (I can testify this one is a true earworm, naturally done by the Genius Giorgio.)

What's the deal with the leek though?

[Ultra Sound Guy]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

What's the deal with the leek though?

See how many spins you can tolerate before total madness ensues!

[Bullett]

That’s the badger, badger, badger, badger






















Snake.

[Ayahuasca]

Try getting Leonard Cohen's 'hallelulia' out of your head...


Now, I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah

[227bhp]

FiF said:

RammyMP said:

227bhp said:

Plus everything has a turbo on it these days and turbos suit 3 and 6 cylinders better than any other.

Why?

+1, why?

The basics of it are on a 3 cyl or a 6 split into 2 (3/3) there is never a point where more than one exhaust valve is open at once. This means the exhaust gasses can't go out of one cylinder and back into another like they can in a 4, 5 or 8 cylinder motor. This in turn means you can run a longer duration cam successfully without one cylinder contaminating another with hot used gasses and make more power reliably.
Sixes are often run with two turbos or the exhaust is split into two to drive one turbo, also why Ford chose and made a good engine from a 3 cylinder with a turbo.
Very good six cylinder turbo engines include ones by Porsche, Maserati, Nissan, BMW and it's probably why F1 uses the V6 configuration too.

You can see here how a six is split into 2 threes to drive two turbos :



And here it's split so it can drive one turbo:



Notice no matter how it's done there is a definite division between the two sets of three cylinders so they can't contaminate each other.

[SpeckledJim]

Great post, thanks. ^^^

[FiF]

SpeckledJim said:

Great post, thanks. ^^^

Seconded, thanks indeed.

[Mastiff]

AstonZagato said:

Also did anyone have a real problem with the ‘’millennium bug”?

Not unless you count deciding to "run away" from it all on 27th December, winding up in Red Square in Moscow NYE and getting very, very drunk (and colder than I have ever been) with load of Russian Mobsters - no.

[Halmyre]

AstonZagato said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

Has anyone any actual experience of a car being damaged by unleaded? I've read one or two things suggesting that valve seat damage just doesn't happen

Also did anyone have a real problem with the ‘’millennium bug”?

Yes, me!

Working in IT outsourcing, I had one particular customer practically wetting themselves with fear all through 1999. Week after week testing possible scenarios. It had taken us 5 minutes to wind the date forward on a copy of their system and verify that it wouldn't fall over, but you try telling them that. They offered silly money to have someone on site on New Year's Eve; eventually my boss provided telephone support in the case of apocalyptic failure.

Looking back, I wished I'd had the foresight to pop up a dialogue box saying "BOO!" at midnight...

[98elise]

Halmyre said:

AstonZagato said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

Has anyone any actual experience of a car being damaged by unleaded? I've read one or two things suggesting that valve seat damage just doesn't happen

Also did anyone have a real problem with the ‘’millennium bug”?

Yes, me!

Working in IT outsourcing, I had one particular customer practically wetting themselves with fear all through 1999. Week after week testing possible scenarios. It had taken us 5 minutes to wind the date forward on a copy of their system and verify that it wouldn't fall over, but you try telling them that. They offered silly money to have someone on site on New Year's Eve; eventually my boss provided telephone support in the case of apocalyptic failure.

Looking back, I wished I'd had the foresight to pop up a dialogue box saying "BOO!" at midnight...

There were of course genuine problems. We had a massive task fixing old kit that had been around for decades. Pure IT stuff was easier but there is a lot of engineering kit with controllers etc which have been running for decades.

There were very few actual problems on the day so the "planes falling out of the sky" predictions were unfounded. this was mainly due to...

1. ridiculous press hype beforehand
2. proper planning, testing, and fixing
3. remedial teams ready to deal with issues
4. the first day being a bank holiday

I got a decent rate to be at work on 01/01, but the day was spent mostly playing on the play station in our AV room

[Fittster]

Last week there was a story in the media regarding the fact that the disposal cups used in Starbucks and the like can't be recycled. According to the packaging milk cartons can be recycled.

Why isn't the material used for milk cartons used for coffee cups?

[deeen]

Fittster said:

Last week there was a story in the media regarding the fact that the disposal cups used in Starbucks and the like can't be recycled. According to the packaging milk cartons can be recycled.

Why isn't the material used for milk cartons used for coffee cups?

My understanding was that the cardboard coffee cups can be recycled, but there is only 1 plant in the UK that can do it... and most of them don't go there.