Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]

[popeyewhite]

number2 said:

RizzoTheRat said:

popeyewhite said:

Okinawa diet

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

Not sure if it was Okinawa but there was something on a podcast a while ago about an island that was considered to have a really healthy diet due the longevity of the population. By coincidence they also have one the largest rates of pension fraud with people claiming pensions for relatives that have already died...

Worth noting that the data isn't always what it seems .

It's a great story though.

[popeyewhite]

StevieBee said:

I was always of the understanding that the whole Mediterranean Diet thing was less about the foods and more about the associated lifestyles; dinners that last several hours, lack of stress, sunlight, etc. Unlike Northern Europe, they tend to eat seasonly which is said to have significant health benefits and overly processed food rarely features.

The lack of processed food is obviously of benefit, but if we're addressing 'Mediterranean Diet' as lifestyle concept rather than actual nutritional program, how does the lack of exercise/obesity in certain locations on the Med sit with the concept? It doesn't work. Here's some male lifespan averages from a quick Google. Med first: Greece 80.8 years, Italy 80.9 years, Spain 80.7 years, Turkey 76.4 years, Egypt 69.6 years. Non Med: Japan 81.5, Finland 79.2, Kuwait 79.3. I suspect a country's economic wealth, health service and delivery of care factors largely in those rates. It's a lot more than just diet. Incidentally polls have shown that Greece is the most stressed country in the world with a stress score of 58% (Rwanda's stress score is 52%).

Hmmm

[StevieBee]

popeyewhite said:

StevieBee said:

I was always of the understanding that the whole Mediterranean Diet thing was less about the foods and more about the associated lifestyles; dinners that last several hours, lack of stress, sunlight, etc. Unlike Northern Europe, they tend to eat seasonly which is said to have significant health benefits and overly processed food rarely features.

The lack of processed food is obviously of benefit, but if we're addressing 'Mediterranean Diet' as lifestyle concept rather than actual nutritional program, how does the lack of exercise/obesity in certain locations on the Med sit with the concept? It doesn't work. Here's some male lifespan averages from a quick Google. Med first: Greece 80.8 years, Italy 80.9 years, Spain 80.7 years, Turkey 76.4 years, Egypt 69.6 years. Non Med: Japan 81.5, Finland 79.2, Kuwait 79.3. I suspect a country's economic wealth, health service and delivery of care factors largely in those rates. It's a lot more than just diet. Incidentally polls have shown that Greece is the most stressed country in the world with a stress score of 58% (Rwanda's stress score is 52%).

Hmmm

It is a mystery that science and sociology has yet to work out. I remember Clarkson's Meet the Neighbours programme years back visiting somewhere where the average life expectancy was nudging 100 yet observing the locals, they were indulging in things that we're told would see us dead by 50.

[popeyewhite]

StevieBee said:

It is a mystery that science and sociology has yet to work out. I remember Clarkson's Meet the Neighbours programme years back visiting somewhere where the average life expectancy was nudging 100 yet observing the locals, they were indulging in things that we're told would see us dead by 50.

I think I remember that as well.

[SpeckledJim]

When I turn the dial on a toaster, what am I actually manipulating?

[Zumbruk]

SpeckledJim said:

When I turn the dial on a toaster, what am I actually manipulating?

A timer.

[P5BNij]

bigpriest said:

P5BNij said:

Alickadoo said:

Do train drivers wave to each other as they pass going in opposite directions?

Or is it only:-
1. If they know the other driver.
2. He/she/it is from their depot.
3. They are driving the same sort of train (a 737C for example)
4. It's a nice day and they are in a good mood..

Most of us wave to each other most of the time, no matter which depot or company we work for. On a few occasions I've waved at my brother coming the other way, back when we used to sign the same routes around Birmingham!

That's cheered up my day! Hope it's true If you're driving a clapped out 80's DMU and see a colleague driving a shiny new unit do you give them another gesture?

I used to occasionally if I knew the other driver! These days I tend not to take much notice of what type the other driver is on unless it's something old like a Class 37 or 47, most of the modern units all look the same to me. I've had quite a few steam charters come past me and always get a toot on the whistle and a wave from the crew (I know some of them as they're retirees from my own depot), often hauled by 'Flying Scotsman', 'Royal Oak', 'Britannia' etc.

My brother drives Voyagers most days so I tease him by calling him a lightweight bubble car driver

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Zumbruk said:

SpeckledJim said:

When I turn the dial on a toaster, what am I actually manipulating?

A timer.

Not always. Some toasters actually measure the temperature of the bread.

Also, older pre-digital toasters used a rheostat and a capacitor. The rheostat controlled how quickly the capacitor discharged and when the capacitor was discharged it would release the electromagnet holding the handle down and up would pop your toast. No timers involved (unless you count the rate of discharge of the capacitor as a timer)

[Cliftonite]

Punctilio said:

Alickadoo said:

Do train drivers wave to each other as they pass going in opposite directions? .

They do if they are on the same track.

[Zumbruk]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Zumbruk said:

SpeckledJim said:

When I turn the dial on a toaster, what am I actually manipulating?

A timer.

Not always. Some toasters actually measure the temperature of the bread.

Also, older pre-digital toasters used a rheostat and a capacitor. The rheostat controlled how quickly the capacitor discharged and when the capacitor was discharged it would release the electromagnet holding the handle down and up would pop your toast. No timers involved (unless you count the rate of discharge of the capacitor as a timer)

a) that *is* a timer! & b) our Dualit has a mechanical timer.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Zumbruk said:

a) that *is* a timer!

Of sorts, I guess. Yes.

[Stan the Bat]

HTP99 said:

If someone is given change of identity and moved to a different part of the country due to witness protection or similar; given one by the authorities as opposed to just fancying a change of name, what happens to existing debts, loans mortgages etc?

Think they are given a clean sheet.

But this is a very secretive business.

[Doofus]

Stan the Bat said:

HTP99 said:

If someone is given change of identity and moved to a different part of the country due to witness protection or similar; given one by the authorities as opposed to just fancying a change of name, what happens to existing debts, loans mortgages etc?

Think they are given a clean sheet.

But this is a very secretive business.

Not any more, it's not!

Nark.

[Jordie Barretts sock]

Was National Socialism (Fascists) ever as popular anywhere in the world before Hitler and Mussolini came to power in the 1930s?

[mko9]

National socialism was a response to the Soviet communist worldwide socialist revolution concept. Socialism with a local, national flavor. There were national socialist movements in a lot of places, but Germany gets all the press.

[StevieBee]

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Was National Socialism (Fascists) ever as popular anywhere in the world before Hitler and Mussolini came to power in the 1930s?

Not really.

There is some debate and argument as to the existence of Afro-Fascism in some African states but in terms of the type you refer to, that followed WW1 and the carving up of Europe into smaller entities by allied states that perpetrated the emergence of the fascist ideology.

[Brother D]

Turtle Shed said:

audi321 said:

Alickadoo said:

Do train drivers wave to each other as they pass going in opposite directions?

Or is it only:-
1. If they know the other driver.
2. He/she/it is from their depot.
3. They are driving the same sort of train (a 737C for example)
4. It's a nice day and they are in a good mood..

Lol I’d love to know this too

What about pilots?

If you are able to see and wave at someone coming in the opposite direction then the CAA/FAA will be having a word.

[Gladers01]

Brother D said:

Turtle Shed said:

audi321 said:

Alickadoo said:

Do train drivers wave to each other as they pass going in opposite directions?

Or is it only:-
1. If they know the other driver.
2. He/she/it is from their depot.
3. They are driving the same sort of train (a 737C for example)
4. It's a nice day and they are in a good mood..

Lol I’d love to know this too

What about pilots?

If you are able to see and wave at someone coming in the opposite direction then the CAA/FAA will be having a word.

Does the same apply to Astronauts?

Does anyone know why actors are often seen to be sporting a beard when being interviewed in between acting roles and not in work at the time?

[StevieBee]

Gladers01 said:

Does anyone know why actors are often seen to be sporting a beard when being interviewed in between acting roles and not in work at the time?

How do you know they are in between roles?

It could be that they have a role coming up that requires a beard. They just might fancy it. Can also be useful for disguising a famous face in public.... though generally speaking, when you see a bloke with a beard, shades and baseball cap, it's normally someone famous.

[popeyewhite]

StevieBee said:

How do you know they are in between roles?

It could be that they have a role coming up that requires a beard. They just might fancy it. Can also be useful for disguising a famous face in public.... though generally speaking, when you see a bloke with a beard, shades and baseball cap, it's normally someone famous.

Or US Special Forces, aka the Netflix look.