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

[V8mate]

generationx said:

The Mad Monk said:

What is the name of the British financial adviser - now discredied - who was top of the game in the late 20th century, and early 21st century?

Not Jim Slater. The other one?

I can't think of his name. It's driving me mad.

Not the Barings Bank bloke - Nick Leeson?

He wasn't a financial advisor.

I was going to suggest Neil Woodford... but he isn't either

[AstonZagato]

The Mad Monk said:

What is the name of the British financial adviser - now discredied - who was top of the game in the late 20th century, and early 21st century?

Not Jim Slater. The other one?

I can't think of his name. It's driving me mad.

"Financial adviser" is a broad term taking in anone from Neil Woodford to Fred Goodwin to Ernest Saunders. Any more specifics you can give us?

[The Mad Monk]

V8mate said:

generationx said:

The Mad Monk said:

What is the name of the British financial adviser - now discredited - who was top of the game in the late 20th century, and early 21st century?

Not Jim Slater. The other one?

I can't think of his name. It's driving me mad.

Not the Barings Bank bloke - Nick Leeson?

He wasn't a financial advisor.

I was going to suggest Neil Woodford... but he isn't either

It is Neil woodford, i was thinking of. Thank you.

[Exige77]

The Mad Monk said:

V8mate said:

generationx said:

The Mad Monk said:

What is the name of the British financial adviser - now discredited - who was top of the game in the late 20th century, and early 21st century?

Not Jim Slater. The other one?

I can't think of his name. It's driving me mad.

Not the Barings Bank bloke - Nick Leeson?

He wasn't a financial advisor.

I was going to suggest Neil Woodford... but he isn't either

It is Neil woodford, i was thinking of. Thank you.

Sure it wasn’t Neil Chambers ? He was so good, he only needed to think about it during breakfast.

[captain_cynic]

talksthetorque said:

10k was the trigger for the car buying debit card experience we had, had to do a 9k and a 3.5k, went through no problems.

Those money launderers would never work out that little wheeze would they.

It does seem a bit daft... But the whole reporting this is automatic so meh.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Tyre Smoke said:

I know the difference before you ask, but I am useless at a concise explanation. How do you easily explain the difference to someone who has incorrectly used 'affect' for 'effect' and vice versa?

Affect is usually a verb, effect is usually a noun

The great special effects affected the film's success

A few rare exceptions, the phrase 'to effect a change' to bring some change about, and some psychology uses for affect as a noun

[Tyre Smoke]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Tyre Smoke said:

I know the difference before you ask, but I am useless at a concise explanation. How do you easily explain the difference to someone who has incorrectly used 'affect' for 'effect' and vice versa?

Affect is usually a verb, effect is usually a noun

The great special effects affected the film's success

A few rare exceptions, the phrase 'to effect a change' to bring some change about, and some psychology uses for affect as a noun

Thanks. When you put it like that, I feel very foolish.

I won't let it affect me though, it'll have no effect.

[MartG]

On the subject of bank anti-fraud...

Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N

Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online

[Tyre Smoke]

MartG said:

On the subject of bank anti-fraud...

Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N

Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online

What's your question?

[captain_cynic]

Tyre Smoke said:

MartG said:

On the subject of bank anti-fraud...

Barclays send you a text asking if it's you making a certain transaction, asking that you reply Y or N

Unfortunately the number you have to reply to is a premium rate one which charges for text messages, and my network provider doesn't support sending texts to premium rate numbers...so I have to spend some time in a phone queue trying to get through to a human who can unblock the transaction, while being forced to listed to a recorded message telling me I can do things online

What's your question?

It's possible he's asking for recommendations of a bank to switch to.

[anonymous-user]

captain_cynic said:

It's possible he's asking for recommendations of a bank to switch to.

or change his phone settings.

[Speed 3]

The Spruce Goose said:

When shopping why do old people have to touch every product, fondle it, spend 5 minutes looking at it, look at the very back of the shelf, which means pulling them all out, then just put them back and move onto the next product to repeat the process. Squeezing bread is one, I can understand to a point batch produced bread, but bread made in a factory, they are all the fking same....

I was working in Tesco during LD1 when they had one-way systems and a "no overtaking" rule. The oldies doing this repeatedly nearly got lynched.

[FiF]

Something that puzzled me with my old rotary petrol lawnmower. Fire it up from cold and it would sit there with the motor rhythmically hunting, just like the old diesel engines idling against a speed governer, cutting in and out. Wondered if it was fuel supply. Until it got warmed up, then it would run and idle smoothly, until you gave it the gas, then it would run cleanly and faster than it had when idling and cutting out, so I guess it wasn't a governer or issue with fuel supply.

Just noticed a neighbour garden mower doing the same and it reminded me that never figured out what was going on. Don't own the mower still, it dismantled itself after an epic session trying to recover the m-i-l's garden and ended up whacking a stone at full welly. Blade knackered but presumably shaft just bent a little as even with a new blade the vibration was noticeable, and though it worked in the end just kept dismantling itself and finally gave up.

[Tyre Smoke]

Short answer is carburettor rather than fuel injection and the need for a choke to start the engine from cold. Fuel supply not as exact as fuel injection.

[Sway]

Actually, that leads onto a linked question - why are garden/landscaping tools petrol and not diesel?

I'd have thought a simpler engine, with more low down torque, would be preferential?

[deeen]

Sway said:

Actually, that leads onto a linked question - why are garden/landscaping tools petrol and not diesel?

I'd have thought a simpler engine, with more low down torque, would be preferential?

Not sure, but maybe diesels are harder to start from cold?

[Exige77]

Sway said:

Actually, that leads onto a linked question - why are garden/landscaping tools petrol and not diesel?

I'd have thought a simpler engine, with more low down torque, would be preferential?

Diesel engines tend to de heavier and the fuel is a bit stinky and messy ?

[paua]

Yep, weight is a critical factor - never seen a diesel chainsaw.

[Evoluzione]

Yes, power to weight ratio is important in hand held tools and motorbikes so it rules out diesels.

[Evoluzione]

FiF said:

Something that puzzled me with my old rotary petrol lawnmower. Fire it up from cold and it would sit there with the motor rhythmically hunting, just like the old diesel engines idling against a speed governer, cutting in and out. Wondered if it was fuel supply. Until it got warmed up, then it would run and idle smoothly, until you gave it the gas, then it would run cleanly and faster than it had when idling and cutting out, so I guess it wasn't a governer or issue with fuel supply.

Just noticed a neighbour garden mower doing the same and it reminded me that never figured out what was going on. Don't own the mower still, it dismantled itself after an epic session trying to recover the m-i-l's garden and ended up whacking a stone at full welly. Blade knackered but presumably shaft just bent a little as even with a new blade the vibration was noticeable, and though it worked in the end just kept dismantling itself and finally gave up.

It's down to the evaporation and atomisation of fuel. The warmer the engine the more evaporation happens so the better it runs.
When it's cold you've got droplets of fuel going in which are not what an engine wants as they burn very slowly and poorly.

Break it down to it's simplest form - a bowl of petrol sat on the ground. If you throw a match at it the bowl of petrol isn't burning, the evaporated fuel hanging over the top is though, that's why its so er, vigorous.