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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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Nobody knows.I used to think that but as they think this universe doesn't look like it's going to collapse, would that mean we're in the last ever universe in the so-called oscillating chain.Doozergirl wrote: »Did people see pictures of the house that fell down near there, this week?
http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/03/luxury-six-bedroom-home-caves-in-after-renovations-go-badly-wrong-4748371/
I had a look at the planning application for it. The plans involve reducing downstairs to about four rooms. Lots and lots of walls coming out. Looks like the builder forgot the minor detail of gravity! We've worked on two houses on that road and had a huge project of our own around the corner - the one we lived in before here. We saved that house.
How did you find the planning application? I tracked down the road name, but couldn't find any corresponding planning application on the Birmingham City Council planning site. Am I looking in the wrong place?Hm... (scratches head)... presumably you'd still be able to see it going on? Some objects would appear to be moving considerably faster than light speed... at least, since the universe is expanding.
I wondered if it's more to do with symmetry. Rather like how an object can be in freefall. If you image you're on a ball that is the universe, if the universe is identical in every direction then you're being pulled by the same amount of gravitational force in every direction. Gravity cancels itself out, and the universe doesn't collapse on itself.
Then you've just got to explain what breaks symmetry locally, which is a bit of a head scratcher.
Well, for one thing, what I was taught ages ago about the universe being finite but not bounded appears now to be only one possibility. There's more about it on this Veritasium video, although I have to admit I don't understand it all.
Although I am pretty sure gravity is thought to have an effect on the size of the universe and the rate at which it changes.
Fundamentally, though, most of this stuff is really really not very well understood, and most of what we "know" about it should be regarded as "the best theory we can think of so far" rather than "definitely true".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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Is yossie a cat?
Give Daniel my love.
I am not on antibiotics, as I was not quite ill enough. DW qualified by having very low blood pressure, a racing pulse, and high temperature. She was treated for acute septicaemia and was given around 15 litres of IV fluids, mostly saline. The annoying thing is that she now feels better than I do. So, the treatment worked.
Yossie is indeed a cat, now a boarder in Kent with my parents. I posted a photo of him eating a newly-caught rabbit a few months ago, which gave you collywobbles - do you remember?
Danny is asleep. At the moment. Not sure how long it will last!
Hope you too feel better soon - I'm not sure being in hospital (for her) is that annoying, I'd rather not have been in, even if the treatment worked!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Forget raining cats and dogs, in New Mexico it's grasshoppers:
http://www.wftv.com/videos/weather/huge-grasshopper-swarm-so-dense-it-shows-up-on-nm/vCct56/Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Sorry, just seen this, so £5 a go won't be enough.
We have lots of buttercups at the moment, and i am leaving off the mowing so as not to disturb them. Gorgeous, aren't they? Ditto dandelions. I sowed a wild flower mix in one corner of the Lawn, but I think the birds copped the lot. Maybe you just need to start liking weeds?
My mum tried to tease my about half my lawn is daisies not grass. I just kept replying that I like daisies (which I do) 0 -
My mum tried to tease my about half my lawn is daisies not grass. I just kept replying that I like daisies (which I do)
I like daisies and buttercups too. Thanks for all of the ideas everybody.
It's just the fine line between liking a bit of a meadow and the neighbours wanting to call environmental health... That's a reference to a thread on the board one up from here, where someone didn't like that their neighbours garden was overgrown and that it was bound to have rats in. For the record, there are no rats in my garden.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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PasturesNew wrote: »I'd have thought that "only 300 payments to go" would have done that!
I started with 360 :eek:
Think I'm probably down to around 330 now. This month's installment means 1/3 of it is properly mine
I'll still need to pay for living after that though. I like sleeping a lot more than I like getting up 0 -
My mum tried to tease my about half my lawn is daisies not grass. I just kept replying that I like daisies (which I do)
One of my parents' fields in Kent is so heavily buttercup-strewn that it looks yellow rather than green from a distance, it's absolutely beautiful. The horses like it, too....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »One of my parents' fields in Kent is so heavily buttercup-strewn that it looks yellow rather than green from a distance, it's absolutely beautiful. The horses like it, too.
Sadly, buttercups are bad for horses.
Some types more than others.
Its going to be a bad year for butter cups. They like it wet and poor
Y drained, we've had lots of rain!0 -
I can't think of anything more awful than cutting grass... but at that rate even I'd be chomping at the bit to do itvivatifosi wrote: »The going rate is £25 per hour. 0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Sadly, buttercups are bad for horses.
Some types more than others.
Its going to be a bad year for butter cups. They like it wet and poor
Y drained, we've had lots of rain!
My sisters know that. The horses are in the next field.
The horses don't know that. One keeps trying to break in....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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