Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

misskool

I've bottled ginger beer. The thing is, you're supposed to divide the plant in half, but I don't need logarithmic increases in ginger beer so will therefore be throwing it away. I'm sad to throw it away.

lemonjelly

Literally a very fast pop in from myself. I survived the football tuesday!

I'm unlikely to be around at any time before the big event this weekend - so all the bast from my good self to all the nice peeps!:xmastree:

I finished the very last of my wrapping today. Though I've had everything sat in bags for 2 weeks, just a lazy so & so & didn't get it done.

I think all the food shopping has been done, we just need to go out for the fresh fruit tomorrow of saturday.

All the best everyone! I'll see you before the new year!_party_

vivatifosi

I see the green light is still on, so hopefully I'm in time to wish you a very good one lj!

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

I see the green light is still on, so hopefully I'm in time to wish you a very good one lj!

You too Viva...

Going, going...;)

michaels

Ha Ha Ha

I'm hopefully seeing a window Saturday AM to get a few presents, wrapping will be sat night after the DDs are asleep which is always tricky as they are so excited then do the stockings quickly before falling in to bed exhausted with Church then trip to Sussex to look forward to on Sunday, SE London on Monday and may be Keynsham on Tuesday then my parents visiting (the spare room has no carpets or curtains and is unpainted but they will have to manage and back to work on friday.

The Rest wicked no for <- put these in to a sentance

Also trying to sort out a house purchase during the period, think I will put in an offer tomorrow, and hoping to get final sign off on the building work here from the builder and building control and meet with the planners to discuss the new project, not forgetting MIL to put back on a plane to The Carribean. and a bit of matched betting and the DW has sprained her wrist so is partly out of action.

There is just no time in my life for working on top of everything else.

Have a great Christmas Jello, I have not forgotten that I am tasked with fixing you up

lemonjelly wrote: »

Literally a very fast pop in from myself. I survived the football tuesday!

I'm unlikely to be around at any time before the big event this weekend - so all the bast from my good self to all the nice peeps!:xmastree:

I finished the very last of my wrapping today. Though I've had everything sat in bags for 2 weeks, just a lazy so & so & didn't get it done.

I think all the food shopping has been done, we just need to go out for the fresh fruit tomorrow of saturday.

All the best everyone! I'll see you before the new year!_party_

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

You have 6 sacks of coins. Each contains the same number of coins. 5 of the sacks contain real ones and the other contains forged ones. The forged ones are a different weight, but you don't know whether they're heavier or lighter. You have no weighing machine, but you do have a balance scale. All its standard weights are missing, so you can only use it to compare things against each other. You are allowed three weighings to find out which sack has the forged ones, and whether they are heavier or lighter than the real ones.

Lydia, would the following work?

label the sacks A to F

first weighing:
Put A+B on the left side of the scale and C+D on the right side. If they balance, it is easy to work out which of E+F is the forgery and whether it is heavier or lighter, just by balancing each one against one of the known good sacks from the first weighing.

Supposing they did not balance, and let us assume that the left-hand side of the scale went down.

second weighing:
Put A+B on the left side of the scale and E+F on the right side.
If they balance, one of C+D is a forgery (and it is lighter), and it is easy to determine which of them is a forgery by weighing one of them against sack A.

If they do not balance, we know that one of A or B is a forgery, and it is heavier. So, for the third weighing, weigh A against C, which determines which is of them is a forgery, and we already know that it is heavier.

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

Lydia, would the following work?

label the sacks A to F

first weighing:
Put A+B on the left side of the scale and C+D on the right side. If they balance, it is easy to work out which of E+F is the forgery and whether it is heavier or lighter, just by balancing each one against one of the known good sacks from the first weighing.

Supposing they did not balance, and let us assume that the left-hand side of the scale went down.

second weighing:
Put A+B on the left side of the scale and E+F on the right side.
If they balance, one of C+D is a forgery (and it is lighter), and it is easy to determine which of them is a forgery by weighing one of them against sack A.

If they do not balance, we know that one of A or B is a forgery, and it is heavier. So, for the third weighing, weigh A against C, which determines which is of them is a forgery, and we already know that it is heavier.

No that's not it. The answer (given that it is posed on MSE) must be:

You use the skills that you use at your supermarket, the ones that don't involve working out the price per kilo and working out which is cheapest. The skills I mean are the ones where you hold two boxes of (insert answer as appropriate) cornflakes/washing powder/chicken nuggets/anything else that comes in a box that you can't see the contents of... Because you are a trained MSEr, you automatically know which is the heaviest, because you've been the human weighing scale so many times. Therefore you work out which ones you think are a different weight and put that one on the scales against a random sample.

I have no idea whether this is the right answer, but it is a technique I regularly use to make sure I get the maximum amount in my boxes.

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

Lydia, would the following work?.....

Yes, that would do it. Well done. And very clearly explained, too. :T

viva - I love your answer too. :rotfl:

My laptop has a virus. Its antivirus software is taking forever to do a full system scan, everything is very very slow, and it is now saying it has found and quarantined two infected files. I am hoping it will be able to remove the thing once it's finished scanning. Meanwhile, I am using an ancient and tiny laptop that doesn't do much - attempts to install Office on it have failed, for example, but will at least let me use the internet.

PasturesNew

I've done no shopping, there are no presents this year.
Done no food shopping, will be doing it in under 1 hour later today probably.

Scrooge would approve.. and be full of admiration.

tomterm8

LydiaJ wrote: »

Yes, that would do it. Well done. And very clearly explained, too. :T

viva - I love your answer too. :rotfl:

My laptop has a virus. Its antivirus software is taking forever to do a full system scan, everything is very very slow, and it is now saying it has found and quarantined two infected files. I am hoping it will be able to remove the thing once it's finished scanning. Meanwhile, I am using an ancient and tiny laptop that doesn't do much - attempts to install Office on it have failed, for example, but will at least let me use the internet.

Er, what antivirus is it? And what virus has it detected?

As a rule, once you have one virus you have more than one, and some of them won't be detected by an ordinary antivirus and may be 'silent' - that is, showing no symptoms. So, just quarantining with your antivirus isn't enough. (Also, it's important to keep your internet off with a lot of these viruses... if you have a some forms of virus they can download more viruses as you are cleaning out the machine).