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Matt Black
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Originally posted by BroJames:
Latin anus -i=ring. Where did you get 'old woman' from?
Latin O-Level lesson. Now I'm really ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
Google is your friend. A quick search on "letter homosexuality leviticus stone daughter" turned up hundreds of links. This from Snopes gives a little background as well as the letter in full.
And the West Wing version is here. Even funnier, in my opinion, because of the killer punch-line: quote:
One last thing: While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.
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Matt Black
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Ah. Wikipedia has the answer: there are two Latin anuses. One, second declension = 'ring, circle'; the other is fourth declension and = 'old woman, crone'.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Originally posted by Angel Wrestler:
What's the difference between a grove and an orchard?
Just off the top of my head, I would say that a grove is a bunch of random trees, whereas an orchard is an intentionally arranged set of one species of fruit trees, usually in rows to make it easier to harvest.
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monkeylizard
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Originally posted by Campbellite:
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Originally posted by Angel Wrestler:
What's the difference between a grove and an orchard?
Just off the top of my head, I would say that a grove is a bunch of random trees, whereas an orchard is an intentionally arranged set of one species of fruit trees, usually in rows to make it easier to harvest.
Pretty close. A grove is any small stand of trees lacking undergrowth. It can be planted or wild, in rows or random, and it may or may not be used for growing fruit/nuts.
An orchard is a stand of trees of any size that is specifically for growing fruits/nuts. It can be planted or wild, in rows or random, but it is always used for growing fruit/nuts.
A small orchard is a grove, but a large orchard is not. A grove of non fruit/nut bearing trees is not an orchard, even if it's planted in neat rows (like a small Christmas tree farm).
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St. Gwladys
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Is there any evidence to back my suspicion that going to an area with different water - eg from a soft water area to a hard water area, or vice versa - can affect diabetes?
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Jengie jon
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Although difficult to find the answer seems to actually be yes:
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From WHO Meeting of Experts on the Possible Protective Effect of Hard Water Against Cardiovascular Disease
Insulin resistance
Insulin resistance is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus, the prevalence of which is escalating with the rise in obesity worldwide. Dietary calcium may be implicated in the etiology of insulin resistance through the fluctuations in calcium-regulating hormones in states of calcium sufficiency and deficiency. This is an area of active research; thus, it is premature to use such a clinical outcome as the basis for deriving recommendations for dietary intake of calcium.
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Loveheart
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Does anyone know anything about telescopes? Daughter (10) wants one for Christmas. I was thinking about this one:
Skywatcher Astrolux
Its had good reviews...
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Originally posted by Loveheart:
Does anyone know anything about telescopes? Daughter (10) wants one for Christmas. I was thinking about this one:
Skywatcher Astrolux
Its had good reviews...
You might take a look at this article from Sky and Telescope magazine. Some good ideas there...
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Emma Louise
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Can I cook with alcohol if I'm feeding (small amounts) of the finished thing to my child? I'm talking about a slosh in a pasta sauce or similar that is then cooked for a while on the stove.
I take it most of the alcohol would be cooked off but is there other nasties or a reason I shouldn't cook with it?!
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Latchkey Kid
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Pretty certain there are no nasties.
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Firenze
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There are a number of European countries which use wine fairly freely in their cuisine - eg France, Spain, Italy. Are their weans OK?
[ 06. December 2009, 19:28: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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It used to be not unknown to add a drop of whisky to baby's last bottle of the day, in the belief that it helped them sleep, and a drop of whisky on a parental finger rubbed onto baby's gums was used for teething (whisky being the miracle default cure-all for ..well.. just about anything, really). And there's tiny amounts of alcohol in gripe water, so I think you'd be fine.
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Gill H
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Hugal's mum admits to having used tiny amounts of brandy on his dummy, and then later whisky on his sister's.
Neither of them have turned out alcoholics - but he likes brandy and she likes whisky, so obviously something stuck!
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I was told to drink stout when I was breast feeding to help with the anaemia*, amongst other things like eating liver, after giving birth. I managed to work out a way of timing my can of stout to put the baby to sleep, and she's fairly hale and hearty.
* I lost a lot of blood through complications and although they were expecting it someone had had complications from a blood transfusion the week before, so lucky me, I got iron tablets.
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Originally posted by Emma Louise:
Can I cook with alcohol if I'm feeding (small amounts) of the finished thing to my child? I'm talking about a slosh in a pasta sauce or similar that is then cooked for a while on the stove.
I take it most of the alcohol would be cooked off but is there other nasties or a reason I shouldn't cook with it?!
Not as far as I know. The majority of alcohol gets cooked down. Having said that I have worked with women who have drunk consistently through their pregnancies and most of their babies are fine (not that I would recommend it you understand!!) A slosh of wine is unlikely to do any harm I would think.
Auntie Doris x
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Originally posted by PrettyFly:
... wondering whether we should sign up for Aflac or similar for when I would be on maternity leave. There is only a limited period of time in which can sign up at a special rate which is why we're thinking ahead... Would you recommend it? Would we be just as well putting that money into a savings account?
I have AFLAC for dental care and cancer treatment. So far thank God there's been no need for the cancer policy.
What the dental does for me is this -- I have a dental policy, there are negotiated discounts involved, and portions that are my responsibility to pay after the policy does whatever it's going to do. When I get a bill, I pay it, and send a copy to my AFLAC agent. He sends me a reimbursement check for that amount.
At least for me, that has been worthwhile.
But when you think in terms of setting money aside and maybe earning a little interest, I could accomplish the same sort of thing with savings, at least as far as the few hundred dollars involved.
What's really going to be a Godsend is the cancer expense reimbursement that I hope never to need, if I ever need it.
Look at the $$$ you'd have to spend to get the AFLAC policy, how you'd be paying; look at money you'd likely have to shell out for maternity needs, what would be covered and what not.
Did your deadline for this pass already? ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Hennah
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Can anyone recommend a book of beautiful arrangements of Christmas carols for piano? I've got various versions but all are fairly simple and "designed" for accompanying singing.
Does anyone know of anything a bit more challenging? I love the tunes but if I'm playing for pleasure (i.e. in the privacy of my own living room!) rather than with singers It'd be great to have something with a bit more oomph. I've had a look through musicroom.com and forwoods.com but can't seem to find the right thing.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks, Hen
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Originally posted by Hennah:
Can anyone recommend a book of beautiful arrangements of Christmas carols for piano?
How can there be? Carols (Christmas or otherwise) are essentially a late mediaeval/early modern form. They want recorders or whistles or flagepolets if they want instruments at all. Crumhorns. Rebecs. Shawms. Tabors. Organs, if arranged by JS Bach. Or even his mythical grandnephew PDQ. Harpsichords and continuo at the most extreme. Maybe acoustic guitars, just. Lutes would be better. Cellos, just, but viols are more appropriate.
Pianos are the quintessential late modern instrument. A product of the Industrial Revolution (them and the brass band and the saxophone). They go with 19th century tub-thumping hymns and romantic rippling runs and jazz.
Carols on a piano is worse than Shine Jesus, Shine on an organ.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by Hennah:
Can anyone recommend a book of beautiful arrangements of Christmas carols for piano? I've got various versions but all are fairly simple and "designed" for accompanying singing.
Have you seen "Well Tempered Christmas" by Mark Hayes? It has some very nice arrangements, I think!
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monkeylizard
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Originally posted by Hennah:
Can anyone recommend a book of beautiful arrangements of Christmas carols for piano?
Beauty is in the eye ..erm... ear of the beholder. If you're looking for something fun and different, Harry Connick Jr's Christmas sheet music is available on musicroom.com
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Can anyone help me with a quote? I'm having trouble because I think I'm not quoting it exactly right and so Google, Bartleby, etc are no help. It's the one that's something like, "He became like us so that we could become like Him." Who said that? Augustine? Bonhoeffer? Lewis? Something I dreamed up?
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Leaf
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Mamacita,
My Google-fu has come up with St. Athanasius, but if a passing patristics scholar happens by I'd be happy to be corrected.
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OK, a question which has been on my mind for a week or so now (since before the schools broke up for Christmas, anyway).
When a zebra crossing also has a lollipop lady on it ... sorry, "School crossing patrol".... which takes precedence: i.e. if the lollipop lady has a bunch of kids with her and is not allowing them across the road yet, and an adult walks on the other side of the road and looks as though they are about to cross on the zebra crossing (but isn't quite ready to step out), should I keep driving or stop to let her (and, consequentally, the children)cross?
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The Kat in the Hat
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I was told by my driving instructer that you should always stop for people on a zebra crossing - they have the right of way.
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Once a pedestrian has put a foot onto a zebra crossing they have right of way, no matter how little chance the vehicle has of stopping and even if a crossing patrol is stopping children from crossing from the other side.. They do not have right of way just because they look as though they are going to step onto the crossing though common sense suggests that it might be a good idea to stop.
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Mamacita
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Originally posted by Leaf:
Mamacita,
My Google-fu has come up with St. Athanasius, but if a passing patristics scholar happens by I'd be happy to be corrected.
Thanks, Leaf. It looks like an interesting article which I will have to read after Christmas. A quick glance shows that the writer also quotes Augustine and Athanasius saying similar things. Hmmmm.
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Qoheleth.
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What's the great fashionable attraction in adding chilli to every pre-prepared dish?
I bought some 'nice' venison meat balls from our Farmers Market as something special for my little Christmas-Dinner-for-one, with Cumberland sauce. No prior warning from the main label, but the first mouthful took the top of my mouth off. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif) Buried in the small print was the chilli that I hadn't thought to check for.
Why spoil a perfectly good Olde Englishe dish?
And my Christmas Dinner.
Why?
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Drifting Star
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I wish I knew - it's driving me mad. Even Starman, who loves chilli, doesn't want hidden chilli in places where chilli shouldn't go.
And cracked black pepper - yeuch - it's in everything, and it's all I can taste. Preprepared food is as good as off-limits for me these days.
I hope you can find something delicious for Boxing day.
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Oh no! My clever posting is ruined ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
... there I was about to say that if you don't like chili (a few people are allergic to it & it can have a sort of bitter taste as well as the general hotness, especially when overcooked) the thing to go for is black pepper. Not only the hotness but also a beautiful aromatic smell, especially when freshly broken. The dust-like stuff you buy as a powder isn't worth it, always buy whole grains and grind them - after all its cheaper as well as nicer. Chili really took off in Asian and European food in the 18th & 19th centuries as a cheap alternative to pepper.
... but then you said you didn't like black pepper either and spoiled it all! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
I can't say I've ever noticed an excess of chili in everything. There is sometimes more than I like in West African and Caribbean food where it is of course appropriate and expected, just not what I'm used to. (pepper soup!) And also of course in the silly curries at the bottom of the menu in cheap Indian restaurants - which are deliberately put there to satisfy drunk customers who want to take the piss out of each other by daring each other to eat hotter and hotter food.
But most pre-packaged or pre-cooked supermarket food, like sausages or whatever, is underspiced if anything.
Is this another national or cultural thing? I've noticed that Brits in general like food both spicier and less sweet than Americans do.
And I just remembered I have a red Hungarian paprika sausage in the kitchen. Yum!
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Lyda*Rose
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I've noticed in the comment sections of cooking sites, a lot of recipes come in for judgments of "too bland" if they don't put in something pungent. I think modern cooking has lost some of its subtlety and variety. Everything really doesn't need chile, hot mustard, curry powder, or tons of pepper or garlic to taste good. Sometimes I'd just like some semblance of the taste of the main ingredient to shine through. And this is spoken by someone who adores Mexican and Indian food.
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mousethief
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I think part of the reason that food these days is so bland is the health-officionados telling us that we have to not use salt in anything, and minimize fat. Salt and fat bring out the flavors of other foods to a great extent. Use too much salt and all you taste is the salt. But if you use too little, then you don't taste the other flavors as much as you should.
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Originally posted by The Kat in the Hat:
I was told by my driving instructer that you should always stop for people on a zebra crossing - they have the right of way.
Latest legislation here (Aotearoa-New Zealand)is that if you see someone about to step on to a zebra crossing you must stop for them, whether they are on your side of the road or the other side.
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Yeah. Officially. We arrived complete with kuruman's beloved Micra just under three years ago. Diving said Micra I stopped for a pedestrian, carrying flowers, approaching from my right on the crossing - taking extra care as he was clearly intellectually handicapped. Woman in car behind - some 70 metres behind, texting. Bang.
- One surprised pedestrian. Unhurt, does not break stride in his mission with flowers.
- One distressed daughter unit with mild whiplash.
- One pissed off me, because despite no fault finding, my 30+ year accident-free driving record was tarnished.
- One written off Micra.
- One written off Holden.
The approach to the rule in NZ remains ad hoc.
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Barefoot Friar
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Originally posted by mousethief:
I think part of the reason that food these days is so bland is the health-officionados telling us that we have to not use salt in anything, and minimize fat. Salt and fat bring out the flavors of other foods to a great extent. Use too much salt and all you taste is the salt. But if you use too little, then you don't taste the other flavors as much as you should.
Yeah that bugs me. I find that a small amount of kosher salt, added during cooking, is much more helpful than the larger amount of table salt added at the table. For starters, I use less salt that way. Second, it has time to fully dissolve into the food, which gives more flavor with less salt. Doesn't take much, but the results are fantastic.
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At symphony hall last night I saw this organ, what are the pipes that stick out horizontally in the middle like an exhaust ?
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Think²
They are Chamade trumpets, a powerful trumpet stop (or in this case two stops).
Chamade trumpets
They are listed in the Symphony Hall organ specification here:
Manual IV
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My most frequently used non stick saucepan, which I usually use for cooking vegetables, has developed a brownish residue on the inside. I am a bit reluctant to attack it with anything too abrasive in case I damage the surface. Can anyone recommend anything?
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Two thoughts for cleaning pans:
- boil some biological washing powder up in it - makes the house stink but it can work;
- make porridge in it - may well put you off porridge for a very long time, if not for ever, seeing how well it stain removes pans.
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Ariel
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A question for the Ship's train aficionados:
I quite often see freight trains passing through Oxford and have been wondering where they might start (Southampton?) and where they go. I know there's a depot just outside Birmingham, but there must be others between there and the south coast, and I haven't managed to find out anything on the internet.
Also I'd be interested to know what they carry in these mysterious, enigmatic containers that rarely give any clues. Surely there must be some kind of timetable that could tell you to expect the 7.32 from X to Y, butting down the railway tracks in the mad March days, carrying a cargo of Tyne coal, road rails, pig lead, etc etc...?
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Firenze
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Oft in the stilly night I hear very slow trains creaking past on what was formally a suburban passenger line, but is now only freight. It runs at the foot of the road, in a deep cutting, between the houses.
I believe it's the nuclear waste from Torness.
Any power stations in your vicinity?
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All freight trains run to timetables, although these are complicated - e.g. some trains only run on certain days, others only "as required" etc. For instance our local nuclear waste train to/from Sizewell only runs on Thursday mornings.
You can get hold of them on the website www.freightmaster.net but I'm afraid it is a subscription-only site. However, there are some demo. tables you can look at, to give you the idea.
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Yup, the Freightmaster.net site is a reasonable one, but about £80 for a subscription for a year. Cheaper if you only subscribe for a wee while. Whether the containers actually do contain what it says they should is debatable, of course. Generally you won't find many timetables that say "7.45am Reading to Birmingham 23 containers nuclear waste from AWE Aldermaston" for example ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) .
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Ariel
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Baptist Trainfan - thank you for the interesting and helpful info - this has filled in most of the gaps!
Firenze - Oxfordshire does have Didcot Power Station, but it's coal-powered and has its own rail line.
We get a variety of different freight trains in the area, which as often as not hold up the passenger trains I'm waiting for. Most are extremely long with a lot of containers in the colours of various shipping companies, jumbled up together. Some are enigmatic, dark-coloured railway carriages with no windows. Others are tankers of some sort labelled with warnings about inflammability. Then there are the obvious ones with railway equipment, replacement tracks, or new cars, etc, and if you pass through Didcot, you may see ones with Army tanks and jeeps, in camouflage colours.
I hadn't realized just how many different sorts of non-passenger train there were until I started commuting.
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The "enigmatic" carriages with no windows, if they are bright yellow, might be part of a train which surveys and checks the tracks. If they have flat roofs and grilles over the windows, they are part of a train used for looking after overhead power lines.
Or they could contain bits and pieces which go out with the breakdown train. Or they could simply be old carriages hooked onto an engine that's been repaired and needs testing before going back into service. Or they are stores vans which, like your garden shed, go nowhere.
But most likely they are "barrier" vehicles - many modern trains are permanently coupled together in sets and don't have ordinary couplings at the ends. Consequently, if they have to be towed by an ordinary locomotive (for maintenance or repair), they need a barrier vehicle in-between to "bridge the gap". It's like, when I was a boy, having a model coach with a Hornby coupling at one end and a Tri-ang one at the other!
In any case, they are almost certainly not revenue-earning vehicles, but used for the railway's own business. Mind you, back in the late 60s there were rather similar carriages (but smarter) that were used for carrying bullion - introduced after the Great Train Robbery I think!
This is now sounding seriously nerdy so I shall rest my case before being shifted to the SoF Railway Enthusiasts' thread!
PS We have rumbling freight trains at night too - to and from Felixstowe docks.
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Two thoughts for cleaning pans:
- boil some biological washing powder up in it - makes the house stink but it can work;
- make porridge in it - may well put you off porridge for a very long time, if not for ever, seeing how well it stain removes pans.
Thanks, I'll try (1). I don't need anything at all to put me off porridge - can't stand the stuff.
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That seems to have worked fairly well, though it will need a second soaking overnight to get rid of the worst bits. Thanks a lot!
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[...] if you pass through Didcot, you may see ones with Army tanks and jeeps, in camouflage colours.[/b]
They're not very well camouflaged if you can see them, innit. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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OK, bear with me:
You are engrossed in an activity involving studying a variety of patterns-- say, learning typing, or chess, or a spatially- complicated video game. Or even just going on an extensive drive.(most recent encounter of the following was my sis and neph recounting their shared experience the day after their mutual hours- long video-game binge.)
In moments of deep relaxation, or even just at odd waking moments throughout the day, you get a "vision" of the patterns, without calling them up. As if your brain is still working them out even though you're not currently occupied with them.
I have discussed this phenomena with a few people and while they all say they know what I'm talking about, and that it has happened to them, nobody knows if there is a word for it. Is there?
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Two thoughts for cleaning pans:
- boil some biological washing powder up in it - makes the house stink but it can work;
- make porridge in it - may well put you off porridge for a very long time, if not for ever, seeing how well it stain removes pans.
Thanks, I'll try (1). I don't need anything at all to put me off porridge - can't stand the stuff.
Bicarb is a good cleaning agent for saucepans I find.
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