The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Pastures, have you thought of getting a water flosser? It might help stop the gums receding any further. My oral hygiene has improved immensely since I started using one.

I use a plug in one, but you may prefer a rechargeable handheld one. There are lots around, including some under £20.

I've never heard of those!



The trouble is that some gum recession is caused by years of over-zealous brushing! (Which is what has happened in my case), plus sometimes the shape of the jaw and how the teeth are placed can be a factor too.





Thanks Lydia! I'll have a look!

Jackmydad

zagubov wrote: »

Totally at random, does anyone know a more entertaining site than this?

I've got at least one of the books there!

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Pastures, have you thought of getting a water flosser? It might help stop the gums receding any further. My oral hygiene has improved immensely since I started using one.

I use a plug in one, but you may prefer a rechargeable handheld one. There are lots around, including some under £20.

Where do you keep your plug-in one?

I'm assuming it has a three pin plug, so not in the bathroom?

Just been having a look at a few.

I think I'd prefer a cordless one, but need to do more research.

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

ROTFLMAO

I suspect not, however.

I don't even know if those engines will run backwards, unlike some bubble cars which used a reversible engine to get around the requirement of no reverse gear to qualify for being driven on a bike licence. If you wanted to reverse you could turn off the engine, flick a switch and restart the engine running backwards - resulting in no forward gears but three reverse ones.

Far more sensible than the ones that had no reverse gear and a front-opening door - woe betide anyone who parked with the front too close to an obstruction
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The engines that will run backwards are two strokes. No valve timing apart from the spark, the engine doesn't "know" which was the crank is rotating as the piston acts as a "valve" when it covers the various ports. The Messer!!!!!!t three wheeler has a "Sachs" (I think) engine with two sets of points, one for forward one for reverse. I've worked on one briefly.
A trick known by Scott motorcycle owners was that if you set the spark up so that when !!!!!! (manual ignition timing back then) it was after TDC, (I think I've got that the right way round) then by kicking the engine over so that it "bounced back" off compression you could get it to run backwards. Useful trick with a sidecar fitted, but pretty scary I'd have thought.
The 2CV is a four stroke so you'd have to mess with the valve timing to run it backwards. Might even need reground cam profiles.

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

I've got at least one of the books there!

Which one? :D

Or should we guess? :D

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Pastures, have you thought of getting a water flosser? It might help stop the gums receding any further. My oral hygiene has improved immensely since I started using one.

I use a plug in one, but you may prefer a rechargeable handheld one. There are lots around, including some under £20.

New item alert.


Never heard of one.... I'll google them.

I would prefer a rechargeable one... I don't have sockets in the wall for things... and I'd fear being plugged into the mains while operating taps in any case

Pyxis wrote: »

Where do you keep your plug-in one?

I'm assuming it has a three pin plug, so not in the bathroom?

I assumed "in a shaver adaptor", which modern houses rarely seem to have ... but many many houses used to have them. His probably matches his avocado suite

PasturesNew

So, this new printer.....

Yesterday I printed the test print .... and 1 other sheet.

Little "pop ups" from Epson have already asked me if I'd like to give them feedback!

ONE SHEET ..... that's all I've done. It worked. Stop mithering me.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

So, this new printer.....

Yesterday I printed the test print .... and 1 other sheet.

Little "pop ups" from Epson have already asked me if I'd like to give them feedback!

ONE SHEET ..... that's all I've done. It worked. Stop mithering me.

Poor Pastures!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

New item alert.


Never heard of one.... I'll google them.

I would prefer a rechargeable one... I don't have sockets in the wall for things... and I'd fear being plugged into the mains while operating taps in any case


I assumed "in a shaver adaptor", which modern houses rarely seem to have ... but many many houses used to have them. His probably matches his avocado suite

i did some googling and all the plug-in ones had three pin plugs.

It was the rechargeable portable ones that presumably used the shaver socket when needing a recharge.

I must admit, the only normal power sockets I've ever seen in bathrooms were all abroad. I've never seen any here, even in the dark ages when I was a prawn.

I'm assuming they are still forbidden here.

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

There is something nice about sharpening pencils isn't there... with a penknife, or a good sharpener.

Or a chainsaw!

As far as the books go.
I've got "I told you I was sick" somewhere here and a couple more books of epitaphs too.
But I've collected lots of old books over the years, so I also have books which aren't on that page, like:
"Coffin Making and Undertaking" Edited by Paul N. Hasluck.
Which is a little book on how to do just that, from around 1900.
Also things like "Audel's Handy Book of Practical Electricity" from the 20s or 30s.
Books on all sorts! Too many books! :eek: