Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

silvercar

So basically you get 11 idiots and one old person who likes an afternoon snooze trying (or actually not trying at all) to assimilate 30 lever arch files of complicated informatio and decide if someone did it.

My MIL fell asleep on jury service.


I've posted way back about the p@edo at my sons' primary school (though I may have said alleged at the time, convicted in 2006). Totally fits the profile in Lydia's quoted article. He was offering free tutoring to kids who couldn't afford tutors, then he would offer lifts home where the parents couldn't get to school to pick up - often single parents. Then he formed a school football team...

When it was all discovered there were some nutty parents - one even defended him on the grounds that if it was true he would have fancied her kid!

When it went to court he was found guilty on some charges and not on others. The ones where he was found not guilty was where he had befriended the single mums and been "helpful" in transporting their kids about. Some of the families were really upset that their evidence hadn't been believed and others had. There was also a general embarrassment amongst the kids he had abused that they had got into these situations, whereas other kids had rebuked him quickly. Of course, 10 year olds are not meant to know how to deal with abusing !!!!! teachers, but kids of that age think they know everything.

LydiaJ

On a more cheerful note... DS is 12 today.

Generali

CKhalvashi wrote: »

They look so cute! Can you bring me one please Generali?

Take all of them, they're bloody horrible things. They get into your roof space and their wee stinks. It's such a problem that the Victorian Government is putting out food baited with contraceptive hormones in an effort to keep the numbers down.

They are cute I admit. We went to Jervis Bay a while back (Google it: it's one of the lovely places Aussies keep for themselves rather than letting everyone else know about it) and they used to try to steal the food out of our eskys. At least they're not venomous like most of the rest of the Australian fauna I suppose.

The weather is great here again: the 8 weeks of winter are a distant memory. The veggies in the garden are doing great especially the tomatoes. BTW it is a well known fact that tomatoes are actually a vegetable not a fruit. That's just something you're told when you're a kid like Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy. Tomatoes are a vegetable because you don't have them in fruit salad.

Another fact I discovered recently is that a sperm contains about 35MB of DNA data which means that the average male ejaculation contains about 1TB.

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

Another fact I discovered recently is that a sperm contains about 35MB of DNA data which means that the average male ejaculation contains about 1TB.

But a huge amount of that is duplicate data. Surely you've only really got 70MB of data, with millions of sperm each having a different selection of 35MB from that 70MB, haven't you?

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

But a huge amount of that is duplicate data. Surely you've only really got 70MB of data, with millions of sperm each having a different selection of 35MB from that 70MB, haven't you?

Interesting point.

If I have 1,000,000 copies of the same song on a hard drive, let's assume it's a crappy hard drive so each one has a few random errors on it, how much data do I have: 1 or 1,000,000?

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

Interesting point.

If I have 1,000,000 copies of the same song on a hard drive, let's assume it's a crappy hard drive so each one has a few random errors on it, how much data do I have: 1 or 1,000,000?

Depends on your definition of "data".

If I have 10 trillion cells in my body, each containing the same 70MB of data, how much data am I carrying around with me? Assuming that most cells (whether sperm or otherwise) don't have replication errors, it's the same question as the ejaculate one, but with bigger numbers.

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

Depends on your definition of "data".

If I have 10 trillion cells in my body, each containing the same 70MB of data, how much data am I carrying around with me? Assuming that most cells (whether sperm or otherwise) don't have replication errors, it's the same question as the ejaculate one, but with bigger numbers.

The answer to that is, "I have no idea". I was always rubbish at biology, comparatively. Physics I was great at, geology and chemistry I was pretty good at, biology not so much.

Where is that shruggy shoulders smilie when you need it? Maybe this is a question I should leave the Brains Trust that is the Nice People to ponder whilst I sleep.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

...Government is putting out food baited with contraceptive hormones in an effort to keep the numbers down.

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We should do that with the chavvy underclass

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

We should do that with the chavvy underclass

You mean lace cheap cider with contraceptives? I think you could be on to something there.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

... We went to ...

I keep meaning to ask you .... you're doing all this gadding about and I wonder if you can inform us:
- how much are you paying per litre/gallon?
- how does this compare to the minimum wage?

It seems to have dropped by 1-2p at my garage since I filled up last week (b4st4rds) ... and it's £1.40/litre here for diesel, which is £6.40/gallon (roughly).

NMW is now £6.19. So one gallon is a bit more than one hour of NMW.