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Originally posted by Keren-Happuch:
How long is it reasonable to expect a duvet case to last? ![[Confused]](confused.gif) Our set has been in use less than 8 years and it seems to be disintegrating. The company's website goes on about "quality that lasts a lifetime", which suggests something longer to me.
When I visit my parents, the duvet cover I use is one I used as a child, and might even go back before that. Even the one I've been using to save on heating downstairs dates back to when I started uni which is 11 years ago now.
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Thanks for the filter advice Rosamundi/Jengie Jon - the filters have arrived by post and are perfect ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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We have 2 duvet covers which were wedding presents - they're not used continually (yes, we change our duvet covers occasionally!) but they're still going strong. We're celebrating our silver wedding anniversary next year.
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Do you mean the casing of the actual duvet, or a removable cover?
If the former, my first duvet lasted 25 years as well.
8 years seems a poor show; I'd contact the company to complain.
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Keren-Happuch
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Originally posted by Tree Bee:
Do you mean the casing of the actual duvet, or a removable cover?
If the former, my first duvet lasted 25 years as well.
8 years seems a poor show; I'd contact the company to complain.
I mean the removable cover. The pillow cases are also wearing out. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Duvet covers do wear thin after a while and the pattern fades - part of that is due to whatever they put in detergents these days as much as daily wear and tear and the spin cycles of washing machines.
(From personal observation, things don't seem to last half as long when put in a washing machine as they used to in the days when I washed everything out by hand and hung it on the line in the garden to dry.)
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Is it true that if you don't close you eyes when you sneeze, they will pop out, or is that just an old wives' tale?
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Its an old wives tale. One theory is that we close our eyes when we sneeze to prevent the debris which has just come out (at a fair rate of knots) from entering our eyes - although I would have thought that the direction of the nostril and the speed of the expelled air argues against this. It is in fact possible to sneeze with your eyes open -- some people train themselves to do it and some can do it naturally. I don't know of anyone who has popped their eyes while sneezing with their eyes open.
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We still regularly use a duvet cover we got for a wedding present 35 years ago, and sometimes one we inherited from my mother-in-law which is probably older. That one is very thin and faded now, and the seams have had to be re-sewn in places. Its matching sheet has worn through, though.
I guess that fabrics back then were more robust, but frequency of laundering, along with water temperature and harshness of the detergent must have some effect in the long term .
Oh, and I line-dry, which is probably kinder, judging by the lint I've seen collect in people's dryers.
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I should be able to do this without asking but I am failing hopelessly.
I am a maths graduate, with a second degree in statistics and an active statistician but it is over twenty years since I was at University and Chaos was then something "cool" people looked at in their final year project or you used to get pretty posters for you bedroom
I have kept half an eye on it since but I would like to read a decent overview. Can anyone recommend one for a numerate but out of practice mathematician?
Jengie
[Just to boggle the mathematicians among you further my brain is programmed for pure mathematics and applied is definitely less preferred]
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Keren-Happuch
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I'm trying to solve a puzzle and failing miserably. It's intended for children but in German, so as a lot of the others have been trick questions, I suspect I may be missing something in the phrasing. Can anybody help? I'll put the question in German and English!
"Was wiegt eine 60 km/h schnelle Torte, wenn es um zwölf Uhr mittags 26 Grad warm ist?"
"What does a 60 km/hr cake weigh if it's 26 degrees (C) at 12 noon?"
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I'm guessing that "schnelle Torte" is a culinary term and there may be some pun I haven't got.
(I just googled for "schnelle Torte" and found a recipe which Google helpfully translated from the German, and I must share this with you:
Quick Cake
1 pc Cake Soil
250 ml Whipped Cream
Jam to taste
Any kind of fruit
Preparation: The soil cake with jam rake. Two-thirds cut fruit and cake on the floor, the rest very small cut and set aside. The cream (whipped) up the chopped fruit under stress and on the ground distributing cake.
Presumably, at 60 km per hour...)
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For some reason, this reminds me of going into a cafe somewhere in the Rheinhessen for Kaffe und Kuechen, and pointing to a cake in the window as the one we would like to sample.
'Ah' cried the waitress 'but it is not here!'
It transpired that it was an artificial cake. But it left me with the suspicion that there is an alternate-reality cake metaphysic going on in German culture, which the above recipe confirms.
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Dormouse
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I don't think this counts as a Homework question...
I teach English to a 14 year old and at the moment I am trying to encourage him to write in sentences that make sense. Each week I give him a fairly open story title for him to write about. I am running out of ideas... The ones I've given which I can remember have been:
My Exciting holiday (going to Provence & meeting friends)
The Lost Dog (It was unloved and ran away)
The Naughty Little Cat ( It bit dogs)
Treasure Island (I wait with bated breath for this one to arrive)
My brain is dead at the moment & I can't think of any vague, open but easily understood titles, that give opportunity for a glimmer of imagination (One can hope...)
Can my dear ShipMates help with possible titles?
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Is there a biological or evolutionary purpose/reason for pain in childbirth? If so, why is it only inflicted on the female of the species and not the male? (Or should I just console myself with the whole Eve and the serpent spiritual purpose?)
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If we're assuming a purely evolutionary point of view, we had a pay off between a very large brain and pain/danger in childbirth. Women's pelvises are simply too small for the size of brains we have.
Evolution has tried to compensate by such things as giving birth to relatively less developed children and giving them skulls that are not fused during early childhood allowing the skull to squeeze a little during birth. This in turn has meant that we have to look after our exceptionally vulnerable children for much longer. Hence why we normally only have one at a time. It's also been suggested that this might be a reason why humans often are monogomous, although there are plenty of cultures in antiquity and modern day in which monogamy is not the way that has developed.
There is also a theory floating around by Timothy Taylor that we are attracted to people with similar size of head to us in order to make childbirth easier.
Timothy Taylor's "Prehistory of Sex" is a good and easily readable book if you want some more of the current acedemic thinking. He's an expert in prehistoric sex, death, cannibalism, and arhcaeological theory...
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
I should be able to do this without asking but I am failing hopelessly.
I am a maths graduate, with a second degree in statistics and an active statistician but it is over twenty years since I was at University and Chaos was then something "cool" people looked at in their final year project or you used to get pretty posters for you bedroom
I have kept half an eye on it since but I would like to read a decent overview. Can anyone recommend one for a numerate but out of practice mathematician?
Jengie
[Just to boggle the mathematicians among you further my brain is programmed for pure mathematics and applied is definitely less preferred]
James Gleik's "Chaos" still seems to be the classic book on the subject event though it must have been written 20 years ago. It's well worth reading: more a history and overview of the subject than a detailed mathematical tome.
I think Chaos theory has rather gone out of fashion of late, superseded by complexity theory and other more specialist ideas. And fast computers have taken some of the difficulty and wow factor away.
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Jengie jon
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Thanks that is what I wanted to know. As I am talking to an audience unused to thinking in the way I do, I can bluff my way with my limited knowledge but I like to have some depth when I say these things.
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I've just seen what I think is a baby robin in my back garden. He looked just like the baby one on here . He was very fluffy and not very competent at flying or negotiating a bush close to a fence. I've also seen adult robins carrying food in their beaks around the garden. It's only the 31st of March. Is it possible that a baby robin has fledged already (I'm in Derby UK) or am I seeing things?
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I've read the Gleick book and enjoyed, but if you want something slightly more mathematically meaty (but still within the grasp of someone with A-level Maths) try, David Acheson's From Calculus to Chaos. This was a supplementary text for the first-year maths program at Oxford (the actual lectures covered only some of the topics, but in a lot more depth than Acheson goes into in the book).
I've used the stuff on discrete dynamics as a fun post-midterm topic in second semester college calc in the US, and I've also used some of his stuff on phase planes as a more interesting motivation for learning about parametric curves in multi-v calc.
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Jengie jon
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Thanks probably will get that one as well. I was doing masters level calculus when I finished my first degree (Scottish four year degree system, no I am not saying all my final years stuff was masters level just the calculus course I did) so should be up to reading that even with my lack of practice in recent years.
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I know none of you are immigration lawyers, etc., but I just want to check I've understood something.
I'll be in Mexico for six weeks this summer. I'm a British citizen with a valid passport and I've been reliably informed that I don't need a Mexican visa but do need a Tourist card (FMT form).
My impression is that this is something that will be passed out on the airplane (I'll be flying) and I just fill in and carry around. Is this impression correct?
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I teach English to a 14 year old and at the moment I am trying to encourage him to write in sentences that make sense. Each week I give him a fairly open story title for him to write about. I am running out of ideas...
One resource I use as an ESL teacher is http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/writing/makeover/archive.htm. These are topics designed for students to write about who are taking an English as a Second Language (ESL) exam, and are therefore quite free. There are a variety of tasks, I guess you would be able to use the story and maybe even the "discursive essay" titles.
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Originally posted by Flausa:
Is there a biological or evolutionary purpose/reason for pain in childbirth? If so, why is it only inflicted on the female of the species and not the male? (Or should I just console myself with the whole Eve and the serpent spiritual purpose?)
The big heads are a reason, if not a purpose. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) Mine's two standard deviations off normal, so I can't wear hardly any hats (and my son is already wearing his father's). There's a reason he was C-section. (and I was a 24 hour labor...)
Me, I want to know: What the heck are hymens for? I can't think of a decent reason for them, either from a biblical or an evolutionary point of view. (and before someone tells me it's so men can know who's a virgin, I hasten to point out that this benefits the woman in no way).
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It's not really any good for that surely anyway? Too many ways it can break naturally.
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Me, I want to know: What the heck are hymens for? I can't think of a decent reason for them, either from a biblical or an evolutionary point of view. (and before someone tells me it's so men can know who's a virgin, I hasten to point out that this benefits the woman in no way).
If Cecil "The Straight Dope" Adams can't find an answer, there probably isn't one. As an aside, here's some interesting trivia: quote:
... retention of the hymen is not unique to humans. It occurs in horses, whales, moles, mole-rats, hyenas, and perhaps other animals. (In the great fin whale, in fact, the hymen is not completely destroyed until childbirth.) Why? We haven't got a clue.
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I was reading an old obituary of someone who died in 1914. It said that she had celebrated her silver wedding in 1905. I know that she was married in 1884. Did people used to celebrate silver wedding anniversaries after 21 years, as opposed to 25 years today, or had the newspaper simply got it wrong?
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Emma Louise
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Does anyone know where I could buy a silver puzzle ring (cheaply!). I've found them online but if I could see one in real life that would be even better. Anywhere in london? Do the mainstream shops sell them?!
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Here's a question for you. What does hair get greasy between washes? (This comes from my son who hates having his hair washed and really, really wants to be bald so he doesn't have to have it done any more.)
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Firenze
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Why not stop washing it?
I am given to understand (ie, I saw an item on the telly a few decades ago) that it is a bit revolting for about 3 weeks, and then the natural oils kick in and it's fine.
Unless your son regularly rubs stuff in it - mud, food, etc - or is actually verminous, why not?
Or just shave it off - very common practice in Africa, I believe.
I mean, the amount of washing of ourselves we do nowadays, it's not normal.
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I teach English to a 14 year old and at the moment I am trying to encourage him to write in sentences that make sense. Each week I give him a fairly open story title for him to write about. I am running out of ideas...
Here are some ideas:
The World Beyond the Door
The Secret Room
If It's Tuesday, Why Am I Flying?
A Day In the Life of Adam Underbed
Dirt Diving and Other Stupid Sports
Eye in the Gutter
Label, the Uninvited Boy
Charlie's Magnificent Chest Hair
Party of One
Following My Shadow
It Stinks, It's Greasy, It's Fun
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Keren-Happuch
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Originally posted by Keren-Happuch:
I'm trying to solve a puzzle and failing miserably. It's intended for children but in German, so as a lot of the others have been trick questions, I suspect I may be missing something in the phrasing. Can anybody help? I'll put the question in German and English!
"Was wiegt eine 60 km/h schnelle Torte, wenn es um zwölf Uhr mittags 26 Grad warm ist?"
"What does a 60 km/hr cake weigh if it's 26 degrees (C) at 12 noon?"
OK, the trick was that if you get all the other questions right you never get to this one and it's all nonsense. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) I liked the "schnelle Torte" recipe though.
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I’m trying to google something but it’s difficult when you have no idea what it’s called!
I know you can get a sort of secure storage box with a self-locking lid, that you keep outside your front door for the delivery of parcels that are too big to go through your letter box when you are not available to answer the door. The postman puts the package inside the box, the lid automatically locks when it is shut and you unlock it with a key. Any thoughts?
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Hippo box?
Actually I Googled parcel delivery box. It was the first one that came up.
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Can anyone tell me...
What is the description for time measurement?
So pounds and ounces = imperial measures,
Kilos, metres etc = metric.
What are seconds, minutes and hours?
Do they have a name?
Someone asked me today, and I was momentarily speechless, but it's something I feel I *should* know.
TG
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In origin the divisions of time measure are Babylonian as I recall. I don't think they bear that name though. The Egyptians made some contributions too...but other than calling it "Time" or "Time Measure" I can't say.
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Originally posted by Emma Louise:
Does anyone know where I could buy a silver puzzle ring (cheaply!). I've found them online but if I could see one in real life that would be even better. Anywhere in london? Do the mainstream shops sell them?!
Village Games, a shop in Camden Lock, specialises in puzzles and may have puzzle rings in stock (@ about £10).
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Originally posted by Emma Louise:
Does anyone know where I could buy a silver puzzle ring (cheaply!). I've found them online but if I could see one in real life that would be even better. Anywhere in london? Do the mainstream shops sell them?!
I have one, Emma. You are welcome to try it out. Pop over anytime!
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Okay, this has been puzzling me for years...Why is it that I often get a horrible headache after I drink white wine but not after I drink red?
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Can't answer your question Sheep, but welcome to the Ship. Have a good look around but don't venture too close to Hell's action or you might find yourself BBQ'd. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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quote:
Originally posted by Tea gnome:
Can anyone tell me...
What is the description for time measurement?
So pounds and ounces = imperial measures,
Kilos, metres etc = metric.
What are seconds, minutes and hours?
Do they have a name?
Someone asked me today, and I was momentarily speechless, but it's something I feel I *should* know.
TG
The folk here call it Anglo-Babylonian Time. I think I have also heard it described as Greenwich time (but not to be confused with GMT). I suppose the reason it hasn't got a name, is because no-one seriously uses another system, and there is no reason to differentiate.
The second is, of course, a bona fide SI unit.
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Sparrow
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Hippo box?
Actually I Googled parcel delivery box. It was the first one that came up.
Jengie
That's it! Thanks.
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Originally posted by Tea gnome:
Can anyone tell me...
What is the description for time measurement?
So pounds and ounces = imperial measures,
Kilos, metres etc = metric.
What are seconds, minutes and hours?
Do they have a name?
Someone asked me today, and I was momentarily speechless, but it's something I feel I *should* know.
TG
Since when after the French Revolution they introduced a Metric Calender (10 day week etc) i suppose teh old non-metric time could also be refered to as Imperial.
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Originally posted by sheep:
Okay, this has been puzzling me for years...Why is it that I often get a horrible headache after I drink white wine but not after I drink red?
You and me both - the only conclusion I've come to is that I react to something in white wine that isn't in red. I can drink normal quantities of red wine with normal effects, but a single glass of white wine can take me out for days. However, I am allergic - the list is long and boring - so it's not an unreasonable assumption for me.
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The Kat in the Hat
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I'm the opposite, can drink (almost) any amount of white wine with no problems, but red = sinus trouble almost immediately.
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Whereas my face and neck get blotchy red when I drink wine. Apparently it's a reaction that has something to do with enzymes... harmless except that I look like I'm schnockered when I'm not. And my family mocks me mercilessly. But it doesn't stop me from enjoying a glass or two. (I'm enjoying a nice Chardonnay at the moment.)
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Dormouse
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Originally posted by Seraphim:
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I teach English to a 14 year old and at the moment I am trying to encourage him to write in sentences that make sense. Each week I give him a fairly open story title for him to write about. I am running out of ideas...
Here are some ideas:
The World Beyond the Door
The Secret Room
If It's Tuesday, Why Am I Flying?
A Day In the Life of Adam Underbed
Dirt Diving and Other Stupid Sports
Eye in the Gutter
Label, the Uninvited Boy
Charlie's Magnificent Chest Hair
Party of One
Following My Shadow
It Stinks, It's Greasy, It's Fun
These are great fun,Seraphim, but unfortunately way beyond Bertrand. "The Treasure Island" produced a rather garbled effort that included at least two sentences without a verb of any sort. We spent 40 minutes trying to work outt what he had meant to say. Ho hum...on with the show!
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St. Gwladys
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I've posted on the "words and phrases you used to use..." thread that my dad used to call me "Macnabs", and I've wondered if it was some sort of catch phrase. Can anyone help?
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
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Originally posted by sheep:
Okay, this has been puzzling me for years...Why is it that I often get a horrible headache after I drink white wine but not after I drink red?
You and me both - the only conclusion I've come to is that I react to something in white wine that isn't in red. I can drink normal quantities of red wine with normal effects, but a single glass of white wine can take me out for days. However, I am allergic - the list is long and boring - so it's not an unreasonable assumption for me.
Some sub-standard wines are more easily detected than others: I suggest that a bad red wine is very obvious (and will therefore be relegated to the next meal in which it can be used) whereas a dodgy white may not get picked up so quickly. My eldest doesn't drink red wine and he has drunk some awful white wine.
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