Water softener

[Mr Sandman]

Magnetic ones...do they really make a difference?

Steve

[Si]

In message , Mr Sandman writes

That's been done to death here but not recently. The majority opinion is that they achieve nowt and are a waste of money and time fitting them but there are a few people who insist that they're wonderfully effective.

If you have a problem with scaling then fit an ion-exchange water softener as that's proven technology.

[Andy Hall]

Yes.

To your credit card statement for next month.

Nothing more.

By the following month, you will have forgotten about it and won't be bothered to take the thing back.

It's a good marketing ploy. The proponents go to the same school of marketing as the National Lottery marketing department.

[Huge]

A small number of people really do win the lottery. No-one gets a working magnetic water softener.

[Andy Hall]

A frog is sitting on a lily leaf in the centre of a pond and wishes to reach the edge by making leaps across the water. However, there's a catch. For each leap, he can jump half of the remaining distance to the edge.

Will he ever make it?

[Huge]

And the relevance of Zeno's Paradox is ... ?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Only to your wallet.

[graham]

Give you an opportunity to show that you are a smart-arse?

[Ian_m]

Interesting web site of water-related pseudoscience.

just get an ion-exchange one at least they work.

[Andy Hall]

That is there really all that much difference between paying tax for the gullible vs. buying a magnetic water thingy.

To any reasonable approximation, the chances of success with either are very close to one another.

[Ed Sirett]

Yes.

[Si]

In message , Andy Hall writes

Sod Zeno's Paradox, I want to know what "it?" is!

[dennis]

What paradox? The answer is yes.. at some point the frog can step onto the edge without doing a half jump. The only "funny" is why people think frogs can only jump.

[dennis]

Lets see.. 1:54 for the lottery vs. 1:infinity for the magnetic whatsit. I believe that any reasonable person would think you are wrong.

[Andy Hall]

Perhaps I should have included the word "worthwhile".

Besides, why would any right minded person voluntarily pay extra tax?

[Huge]

[Andy Hall]

question is, assuming that the frog can make one jump per second, how long will it be before he reaches the edge of the pond?

[Mark]

Strange thing luck and the Lottery I don't normally do senseless gambling but..... Last year I had to attend a funeral, on the way home the wife phoned and asked me to stop off get some stamps Standing at the shop counter and looking at the lottery sign I was thinking when your numbers up you've had it. ;(

So I bought a ticket, random machine chosen numbers, put it in my pocket and forgot about it last month 172 days later the wife said she was going to get my black suit cleaned and in the pocket was the lottery ticket. Yes it was a winner !

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[Andy Hall]

Imagine my surprise when ........

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mark" saying something like:

A tenner doesn't go far these days.