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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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Oh, and I'm with silvercar on the "fairies at the bottom of the garden" comment. Anybody who keeps repeating the same single sentence as though it's the answer to everything is bound to be annoying. And it's facile to suggest that all religious belief is obviously at the same intellectual level as belief in fairies at the bottom of the garden. There's a debate to be had, but that sentence on its own isn't it.
personally, I rather think Dawkins is pretty excellent teenage fodder, I personally feel he has somewhat the truculance and smugness of that awkward almost adult age. I have immense sympathy towards atheaism myself, sometimes I am one, not quite half the time I think, but I hope I disbelieve with less religious fervour and more open mindedness and sympathy towards those who feel differently.0 -
DD1 in particular (but also DD2 now) sometime get a single line from a song in their head which they feel the need to sing repeatedly at high volume for ever - that can get a little bit annoying...Oh, and I'm with silvercar on the "fairies at the bottom of the garden" comment. Anybody who keeps repeating the same single sentence as though it's the answer to everything is bound to be annoying. And it's facile to suggest that all religious belief is obviously at the same intellectual level as belief in fairies at the bottom of the garden. There's a debate to be had, but that sentence on its own isn't it.I think....0
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DD1 in particular (but also DD2 now) sometime get a single line from a song in their head which they feel the need to sing repeatedly at high volume for ever - that can get a little bit annoying...
Don't remind me!
(Why isn't there a smiley with its fingers in its ears?)Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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DD1 in particular (but also DD2 now) sometime get a single line from a song in their head which they feel the need to sing repeatedly at high volume for ever - that can get a little bit annoying...
actually that happens here too....
as well as the normal ear worms ...(altogether now ''And I would walk 500 miles and I would walk five hundred more....'' (just to get the tune out of my ears?)) dh and I do a think we call ''phrase bashing'' which is taking musical phrases, breaking them down, building them back up again, dh improving and then us having a ''discussion'' about melodies and lyric interphase (it always amazes me how many musicians, particularly jazz musicians don't know the lyroics to tunes which a percentage of the audiance not being instrumentalists will know viw the lyrics as their hook). Its like normal pracitising or interpreting but on ritalin.....we can work on one or two phrases for ages. We don't do it that often, and we have never once broken down an entire tune in that way......it wpould be terminally boring, and in both our opinions would impinge on the intrinic musicality of ''our'' approach (''our'' because I haven't really done anyth)ing for ages and ages now.0 -
Besides that, her answer showed excellent lateral thinking skills. What can you do to track down that poor girl and put things right?
Strictly speaking, an electric chair does use an earth. While you want to fry the person sitting on it, you don't want to fry anyone else.
Not convinced about the question, to be honest, since there are many countries where they just use a two pin plug. Technically, the only appliance that really requires an earth is something like a kettle which can only operate with a deadly amount of electricity (Americans tend not to use electric kettles because their grid operates with less power than ours).
(There, done my inner quibble)
As for the faeries at the bottom of the garden argument, it is puerile. Just because we have not see faeries doesn't mean they are not there.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
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Strictly speaking, an electric chair does use an earth. While you want to fry the person sitting on it, you don't want to fry anyone else.
They're made of wood. What would you earth?Not convinced about the question, to be honest, since there are many countries where they just use a two pin plug. Technically, the only appliance that really requires an earth is something like a kettle which can only operate with a deadly amount of electricity (Americans tend not to use electric kettles because their grid operates with less power than ours).
Some countries with two pin plugs have the earth connectors on the edge of the plug rather than in a pin. Those that don't have earth at all are not as safe as countries like this one that do.
And saying that you only need to earth appliances that take high current like a kettle isn't right. The only exceptions are things that operate on a step-down transformer and are therefore at a lower voltage. Otherwise, if a live wire inside something comes loose and touches the metal casing, and you're touching the casing, then it doesn't matter diddly squat what current the appliance would have drawn if it had been connected correctly. You are connected to the live main, and you are in danger. If the casing of the appliance is earthed, then you are safe, because even if you are touching it at the very moment the fault occurs, you are shorted out by the earth wire, and the current will go down that rather than through you - like a lightning conductor. And then it will blow the fuse and turn everything off anyway.
American electricity supplies are not at lower power than ours. They are at lower voltage, and therefore their appliances draw higher current to get the power needed.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
American electricity supplies are not at lower power than ours. They are at lower voltage, and therefore their appliances draw higher current to get the power needed.
Still haven't got my head round whether the American system's more dangerous than ours.
You need a certain minimum voltage to push current through skin. but it only takes a fraction of an amp to kill you.
Do they have less deaths than us? Not counting the electric chairs of course.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Still haven't got my head round whether the American system's more dangerous than ours.
You need a certain minimum voltage to push current through skin. but it only takes a fraction of an amp to kill you.
Do they have less deaths than us? Not counting the electric chairs of course.
I haven't any facts, but I would guess they have fewer deaths (per head of population) from electric shock, but more from fires caused by plugging too many things in at once, etc, because of the higher current. That's assuming everything else is equal, which it probably isn't.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
speaking of electricity, a man and I gave each other an electric shock the other day on the Brussels metro....dh saw the spark. Thankfully he was confident that its the type of sparks only the two people involved feel that you have to worry about. I think the man thought I'd tazered him actually. I was wearing a jacket with some synthetic fabric in it, I guess that was it.0
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