Interesting Items...

[Black Hole]

5:2 is not the same as 8:3.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Well done Trev.

 

[Black Hole]

Not really, it's a well-known "puzzle".

 

[Deleted member 473]

This sentence has two things wrong it with.

 

[Black Hole]

Been there, done that.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Me too, but not everyone here may have.

 

[Black Hole]

Been there, done that.

...in the AvP thread.

 

[Ezra Pound]

This thread is rapidly turning into AvP2

 

[Black Hole]

Ditto AvP1 has had a fair stab at "interesting items"!

 

[Deleted member 473]

That's fine, as long as anyone with a need to use "MoT" in public has had that programmed into their copies of Word! (You don't expect them to do it for themselves, Shirley?)

They can do it in autocorrect, easily.

 

[Deleted member 473]

This sentence has two things wrong it with.

Surprised nobody noticed the paradox!

 

[Black Hole]

It's been done to death already.

There are two errors in this sentance.

(I know - been there, done that)

 

[Deleted member 473]

Did somebody say something?

 

[Deleted member 473]

There are some tiny sheep on the hillside. How interesting!

 

[Deleted member 473]

A planarian (flatworm) has a centralised brain and yet, if you cut off its head it is able to grow a new one in a couple of weeks. Amazingly, somehow it is able to retain a memory for its surroundings and where to find food, despite the decapitatio

Been there, done that.

https://biology.mit.edu/sites/default/files/Introduction%2520to%2520Planaria(1).pdf

 

[EEPhil]

Headline from latest edition of E&T (a magazine from the IET).
"Particulate pollution worse from clean cars".
A professor from the University of Birmingham claims that electric vehicles, being heavier than petrol or diesel ones, create more particulates when braking (presumably by shredding the tyres?). Just stop current and former Top Gear presenters doing doughnuts - that should allow the rest of us to use electric vehicles if we want to.

 

[Black Hole]

Been there, done that.

What, as a previous post on this forum?

presumably by shredding the tyres?

Or brake wear. That's what the black that gathers on your alloy wheels is.

 

[EEPhil]

Or brake wear. That's what the black that gathers on your alloy wheels is.

Electric vehicles could have regenerative braking. I should have remembered about brake wear. I have replaced brake shoes and drums on a car before and really enjoyed the black dusty mess. . But I didn't have alloy wheels then, and I don't have a car now. Therefore, I don't have black gathering on my alloy wheels.

 

[Trev]

and really enjoyed the black dusty mess

You mean the black dusty asbestos laden mess? Well until they banned asbestos and substituted it with something that wears out discs/drums nearly as quickly as the pads/linings. I remember in my youth when I worked in a garage, we used to blow out the dust with an air line.

 

[Black Hole]

Brake pads have never been the same without asbestos. I wonder whether it was really a problem, or if it was taken out of the formulation as a knee-jerk reaction (like banning lead in solder).

I must ask Mum if she still has my asbestos tile knocking about - it was very handy for doing anything hot on.