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[james]

In message , Brian Gaff writes

Naw. Some can whinge about jeopardy posting, though. JF

[james]

In message , Brian Gaff writes

Same thing that happened to logical, chronological posting! JF

[Owain]

That one's atmospheric pressure.

Same thing can happen to hot water cylinders :-)

Owain

[Derek Geldard]

[Usenet Nutter]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:20:32 +0100, Java Jive wrote: snipped >>

Ah yes.That was Panorama with Mr Dimblebum Snr.

[Derek Geldard]

Simples.

Our local coffee bar uses steam from the espresso machine to collapse pop bottles before they are put in the bin for collection by a quite expensive waste service that charges by volume.

I was away training on D-Day and the quite old & poorly educated ladies in the canteen had no problems with decimal currency (Been trained you see) whereas the graduate engineers in the queue just boggled when their time came to pay.

Derek

[Zimmy]

Like where?

Z

[Zimmy]

...and meaningful relevant contributions to a thread.

Z

[Max Demian]

[Peter Duncanson]

It can! I saw the results in an office kitchen when the plumbed-in hot water boiler (substitute for a kettle) had been emptied of hot water to make many cups of coffee and tea in the space of a few minutes. The cold tap was turned on to refill it. The lid was an airtight fit -- Bang! -- one crumpled boiler! The tea lady who had been innocently using it was almost as damaged, mentally, as the boiler. She recovered but the boiler didn't.

[Peter Duncanson]

I realised after I posted that one big difference between the Fox (American) commercial and the BBC one described is that the Fox one had a voiceover giving instructions and an old lady, and her wires, becoming confused. There was no one else on screen. It was open to viewers of all ages to think "I'd be just as confused as her".

[Peter Duncanson]

I wonder if Time Team would like to do a dig there?

[Peter Duncanson]

James, Brian Gaff is blind. His style of posting is dictated by practical considerations.

[Terry Casey]

Why do flour mills explode?

Connect a funnel to a (longish) length of tubing. Block the bottom of the funnel with a loose plug of tissue and pour flour into the funnel. Place a lighted candle on the top of a wall or similar, a couple of inches from the edge. Hold funnel against wall and place 7lb biscuit tin or similar over both candle and funnel, so that funnel is held in place btween tin and wall. Blow sharply down tubing. The tin may travel some considerable distance, so stand well clear!

EXPLAIN

[Peter Duncanson]

The same reason that explosions occurred in some cotton mills.

>Connect a funnel to a (longish) length of tubing.

[tony sayer]

[dennis]

Brian is blind and uses a screen reader of some sort.

Bottom posting is a problem when used with a screen reader as it is difficult to find the content. It may seem logical to bottom post but that doesn't make it correct once you understand all the implications.

[dennis]

See, I said people don't understand HiFi.

Headphones, even 99p ones, are usually more HiFi than even the best speakers. However mp3 is poor, very poor.

[Java Jive]

Good concise explanation. Probably better than I could have said it.

5/5

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[dennis]

Just as well the thing didn't have a big heater in the bottom or the opposite could have happened as the water boiled rapidly. Which reminds me of the c*ck-up the mythbusters made with the steam cannon myth. How they came to the idea that, plugging a cannon and filling it with water, then heating it to make steam was the same as heating it till it was really hot and then chucking the water in, I will never understand. One would do little, the other would work as a cannon needless to say they choose the wrong one.