Amusing Items

[Black Hole]

Hoover recommends 100 airwatts for upright vacuum cleaners and 220 airwatts for cylinder vacuum cleaners.

So 185 airwatts ain't so good then.

OK, let's test the "79,000g". Strangely enough, I worked on industrial cyclones as a student holiday job, for recovering dried yeast from the airflow used to transport it across the factory. Pity I didn't have the idea of putting one in a bagless hoover!

a = v²/r, and the cyclones in a Dyson are pretty small, so I'll guesstimate r = 0.01m. g ~ 10m/s²

v² ~ 8,000, v ~ 90m/s. I'm not clear, but at least it sounds feasible.

 

[Black Hole]

Anybody else listening to the old ISIHAC episodes on R4? I had to laugh at the Welsh version of Mornington Crescent and the arguing satnavs. Especially enjoyed the standard satnav trying to pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

I forgot to mention: I had tickets for what should have been a recording for this series.

 

[gomezz]

I called my sat-nav voice Mona after her increasing annoyance toward me at refusing to do a U-turn while following what I know to be the better route.

 

[Black Hole]

I keep the voice turned down.

 

[EEPhil]

I called my sat-nav voice Mona after her increasing annoyance toward me at refusing to do a U-turn while following what I know to be the better route.

Please execute a U-turn immediately. This is a one-way street.

I've never used a satnav, but the route planners I've used seem to like to send you the "wrong" way (through the city centre, or around the busy ring-road). Then, just to disprove my theory, I tested a route on the AA website and the damn thing used my preferred route! (slightly longer, but usually less traffic). Make one slight adjustment - destination a few miles further away - and I'd be sent all the way to the A1 and back.

 

[Black Hole]

Strangely enough, I worked on industrial cyclones as a student holiday job, for recovering dried yeast from the airflow used to transport it across the factory. Pity I didn't have the idea of putting one in a bagless hoover!

 

[Black Hole]

A black hole walks into a bar and orders a drink.
The bartender asks if it would like food with that.

The black hole says, "No thanks, I'm a light eater."

 

[EEPhil]

I wonder if post #207 is a cut and paste from https://upjoke.com/the-black-hole-jokes ?

 

[Black Hole]

I got it from somewhere, ages ago, and came across it again so I posted it here... but I have never seen that particular site before.

 

[EEPhil]

Neither had I, but I decided to look for "black hole jokes" and that was the first on the list.

 

[EEPhil]

Frankly, this is one of the nicest politest forums around,

Bollox.

 

[Black Hole]

That will give you a fair idea of how high the bar is.

 

[EEPhil]

With a bar that low I'll be drinking my beer from a dog bowl!

 

[Black Hole]

I must say I do enjoy the nerds that run Dave

 

[prpr]

Dear Dave,

Learn how to punctuate the word "lets". Twice.

 

[Black Hole]

I must be losing my edge.

 

[RobH1]

I must be losing my edge.

Cutting? losing? Never!

 

[Black Hole]

What about all those aggressive full stops??? There's even one after the kiss! And there's a "what, wait". How many AvP themes can you get in one paragraph?

 

[MikeSh]

"... take the time out of their day to stop what they were doing, pause the TV and read this."

That makes no sense. Clearly they were using their time to watch TV, so they are neither taking time out or stopping what they were doing.

 

[EEPhil]

so they are neither taking time out or stopping what they were doing

nor?