Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

I figured this one out some years ago, after wondering for ages why the back left heel of my left shoes was always the first point to wear down.

Indeed. For example, when you wear heels (especially stilettos) you don't walk in the traditional "heel down first, then toe" way. If you did you'd be over on your ankle the first step or two that you took, so you learn to walk differently.

[Lazadude]

Looks like metro writers read this and have nothing better to talk about. /wave metro people..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/08/1...

[Lazadude]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

I worked with some people who did Gait Analysis using motion capture cameras in addition to pressure plates on the floor - it was fascinating. Since then I really notice the different ways people walk.

I've had my gait analysed as part of learning to walk again whilst in Mary's hospital Roehampton (after a motorbike vs lamppost and tree incident.).

Super interesting when it's yourself too, and then having custom made insoles and walking aids to correct what the cameras capture.

It's also amazing how it's your buttocks (rather than thighs/calves etc) that do 80% of your walk, and changing the muscle firing order effects your stride hugely.

[Le Controleur Horizontal]

RosscoPCole said:

Has the skin on human feet evolved to be thinner since the invention of shoes?

Can the same be asked about the skin on a woman's knees (or man if that is you thing) since the invention of carpet ?

[talksthetorque]

Le Controleur Horizontal said:

RosscoPCole said:

Has the skin on human feet evolved to be thinner since the invention of shoes?

Can the same be asked about the skin on a woman's knees (or man if that is you thing) since the invention of carpet ?

Username is appropriate

[Blib]

I had my gait filmed when being fitted for running shoes some years back.

Apparently, I have a perfectly balanced gait with no pronation(?) of any kind.

It's the only perfect thing about me.

[kowalski655]

If a film is 15 or 18 certificate, can any children under those ages starring in the film attend the premiere?

[StevieBee]

kowalski655 said:

If a film is 15 or 18 certificate, can any children under those ages starring in the film attend the premiere?

Good question!

Don't know the answer but I'll take an educated guess and say no on the basis that the production of a film is a process removed from the story told in the final product and a process that protects the child actors from whatever determines it to be a 15 or 18 film.

[Halmyre]

StevieBee said:

kowalski655 said:

If a film is 15 or 18 certificate, can any children under those ages starring in the film attend the premiere?

Good question!

Don't know the answer but I'll take an educated guess and say no on the basis that the production of a film is a process removed from the story told in the final product and a process that protects the child actors from whatever determines it to be a 15 or 18 film.

There was a Ken Loach film some years ago (Sweet Sixteen?) which was rated 18 for excessive profanity, which meant that some of the principal actors, and a lot of the target audience, were effectively barred from being able to see the finished film. In some areas of Scotland, where it had been filmed, it was shown under a '15' certificate, presumably the local authorities were able to overrule the BBFC's rating.

[captain_cynic]

kowalski655 said:

If a film is 15 or 18 certificate, can any children under those ages starring in the film attend the premiere?

Content rating systems like PEGI and BBFC are industry codes rather than legal ones. There isn't any penalty for allowing children under 15 veiwing something rated for over 15s. Not even for R18 material if their parents permit it (although probably ko longer in the running for parent of the year).

The only legal power the BBFC has is to refuse classification, meaning it can't be sold in the UK (which given how easy it is to ship in from other countries is as effective as an ashtray on a motorbike)

R18 is probably the only restriction anyone takes seriously and that is really only at the point of sale. A cinema, for example, may choose to restrict entrance to a minor for a 15+ film, but likely won't especially if accompanies by a parent.

[Flibble]

captain_cynic said:

Content rating systems like PEGI and BBFC are industry codes rather than legal ones. There isn't any penalty for allowing children under 15 veiwing something rated for over 15s. Not even for R18 material if their parents permit it (although probably ko longer in the running for parent of the year).

The only legal power the BBFC has is to refuse classification, meaning it can't be sold in the UK (which given how easy it is to ship in from other countries is as effective as an ashtray on a motorbike)

R18 is probably the only restriction anyone takes seriously and that is really only at the point of sale. A cinema, for example, may choose to restrict entrance to a minor for a 15+ film, but likely won't especially if accompanies by a parent.

BBFC classification is enforceable under the Video Recordings Act, it's an offence for a shop or cinema to sell or admit a person under the age of classification, regardless of parental consent.

If a parent buys a film legally though, they can show it to their kids at home without an issue.

[StevieBee]

Flibble said:

captain_cynic said:

Content rating systems like PEGI and BBFC are industry codes rather than legal ones. There isn't any penalty for allowing children under 15 veiwing something rated for over 15s. Not even for R18 material if their parents permit it (although probably ko longer in the running for parent of the year).

The only legal power the BBFC has is to refuse classification, meaning it can't be sold in the UK (which given how easy it is to ship in from other countries is as effective as an ashtray on a motorbike)

R18 is probably the only restriction anyone takes seriously and that is really only at the point of sale. A cinema, for example, may choose to restrict entrance to a minor for a 15+ film, but likely won't especially if accompanies by a parent.

BBFC classification is enforceable under the Video Recordings Act, it's an offence for a shop or cinema to sell or admit a person under the age of classification, regardless of parental consent.

If a parent buys a film legally though, they can show it to their kids at home without an issue.

I believe the enforcers are local authorities. Some films never get shown in some places but do in others as the boundaries acceptability changes with the boundaries of the councils.

[48k]

Flibble said:

BBFC classification is enforceable under the Video Recordings Act, it's an offence for a shop or cinema to sell or admit a person under the age of classification, regardless of parental consent.

If a parent buys a film legally though, they can show it to their kids at home without an issue.

In the same way - I'd bet that a Premier is a private event where the film company is hiring the cinema so it probably avoids the legal issue of the cinema admitting under age people.

[FredericRobinson]

Has a cinema ever been prosecuted for allowing under age people into a showing?

[HTP99]

FredericRobinson said:

Has a cinema ever been prosecuted for allowing under age people into a showing?

Our cinema is hot on it, I've been behind "kids" who are collecting pre-booked tickets, they have been asked for id and have ended up having to phone home to get mum to WhatsApp a picture of their passport to them.

[Jonboy_t]

Fly fishing - what’s the point? I don’t mean in terms of why people do it/go fishing, more in terms of what fishing in that manner achieves over and above just casting normally?

[vonuber]

Why are video game classifications not treated as a thing akin to films?
Parents are more likely to let a child play an 18 rated game than watch an 18 rated film.

Is it merely lack of edcuation and experience on their part? Or a wider cultural perception of games being for children?

[Fastchas]

Have Good Year ever made motorcycle tyres? If not, why?

[David A]

Jonboy_t said:

Fly fishing - what’s the point? I don’t mean in terms of why people do it/go fishing, more in terms of what fishing in that manner achieves over and above just casting normally?

Fly fishing can be dry which is dropping a hook wound with stuff to look like a fly or insect onto the top of the water to tempt fish. Or wet which is a little more like normal casting and lure fishing where you pull the lure through the water to emulate a fish or something

Casting could be float fishing - line through a float down to the hook with bait on suspended in the water
Or cast sinking that sinks down and bait suspend just above the bottom of the lake/river or on the bottom.

[gobuddygo]

David A said:

Jonboy_t said:

Fly fishing - what’s the point? I don’t mean in terms of why people do it/go fishing, more in terms of what fishing in that manner achieves over and above just casting normally?

Fly fishing can be dry which is dropping a hook wound with stuff to look like a fly or insect onto the top of the water to tempt fish. Or wet which is a little more like normal casting and lure fishing where you pull the lure through the water to emulate a fish or something

Casting could be float fishing - line through a float down to the hook with bait on suspended in the water
Or cast sinking that sinks down and bait suspend just above the bottom of the lake/river or on the bottom.

Some trout waters, especially stocked waters are fly only, this makes it a lot harder to catch fish that have probably never even see a fly, if you fished the same water using say maggots with normal coarse fishing gear you would empty the place in no time, an angling club i was a member of introduced 1000's of small stock trout, was a complete pain as with normal methods you couldn't catch anything else, they soon changed it to fly only.