The Random thought thread

[willedoo]

The confusion happened when ome quoted Jerry (in relation to pmccarthy's post) and in the reply tacked on a second part about the methanol poisoning. Then Jerry quoted ome's total post (including the bit about Laos) when his answer was only in relation to the first part of the post (regarding pmccarthy's post). Then ome has quoted Jerry thinking Jerry's answer was in relation to the Laos poisoning and given a response to Jerry about the poisoning when Jerry was talking about pmccarthy's post. Situation normal for this forum. It would be boring otherwise.

[willedoo]

I guess the lesson is, if you are answering a particular part of someone's post, only quote the section that relates to your reply and not the entire post. It avoids different topics getting mixed up.

[red750]

Here's something really random.

 

Can you imagine a TV program, promoted as an Australian version, filmed in the UK with a Welsh comedian as host?

 

The show, Australian Wheel of Fortune, is hosted by Graham Norton, and aired on Channel 10.  The Australian bit is that all contestants are ex-pat Aussies living in the UK. Jerry, are you there?

[pmccarthy]

Way back when, if someone was a victim, a serious respectable photo of them was used in the press. Now they seem to seek out the other sort, but perhaps that is all to be found on social media. 
 

The Laos victim photos were not bad like that, but probably still lacking some of the respect that I would appreciate.

Edited November 25 by pmccarthy

[Jerry_Atrick]

24 minutes ago, red750 said:

Jerry, are you there?

I'm here, but not there (as in on the TV show).. I guess I am not that photogenic.

[red750]

Just watched the first episode. It was so-so. Graham Norton is no Pat Sajak, and the prizes are a lot less.  

[willedoo]

41 minutes ago, pmccarthy said:

Way back when, if someone was a victim, a serious respectable photo of them was used in the press. Now they seem to seek out the other sort, but perhaps that is all to be found on social media. 
 

The Laos victim photos were not bad like that, but probably still lacking some of the respect that I would appreciate.

I guess in the past the press would contact the family or police for a photograph. These days they would find it a lot easier to google the victim's facebook or instagram account and grab a photo from there. It poses a lot of ethical questions as those photos might be publicy downloadable but for the media to repost them publicly makes you think that ethically it should only be done with the family's consent.

 

Particularly as in the past family supplied photos would be vetted by the family and be reasonably formal photos. The bulk of younger people's FB and Instagram photos are of them partying with their mates.

[willedoo]

4 hours ago, facthunter said:

 A lot of money is made from using sexuality in Advertising etc. Barbie dolls etc.

I've never had the impression Barbie was promoted in a sexual manner. Her and Ken don't even have genitals.

[willedoo]

I think Elle Woods in Legally Blonde was like a human Barbie doll.

[red750]

She has no genitals?

[onetrack]

One of the reasons I don't post photos of my face or any identifying features, or what I'm doing, or where I live, on social media - is because it's simply giving vital information freely to criminals, anywhere in the world.

Even when I give personal details to companies, Govt Depts, and other organisations - and they solemnly declare that they have the best encrypted security going, and they treat my personal details with unparalleled care - it usually all ends up in the hands of scammers, crims and con-artists.

The media have a lot to answer for, stealing peoples photos off their social media, and broadcasting them globally in salacious and often untrue articles in their mastheads and subsidiaries.

[Marty_d]

11 hours ago, red750 said:

She has no genitals?

Not in US movies. It's only in French or Italian movies that the actors have genitals.

[facthunter]

The US President GRABS them by the genitals so they must have them.. Nev

[nomadpete]

My random thought/gripe of today.

 

The Guardian republished a letter from Bernie Sanders. It was written in 2022, before our beloved South Aftican Elon's recent bromance.

 

It is about billionaires (who rarely pay personal tax)  running profitable space businesses subsidised by the taxpayers.

 

Worth a read.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/22/jeff-bezos-space-elon-musk-billionaires-bernie-sanders

 

Should I start a new thread for  'I like Musk....'

[willedoo]

This is not a random thought but is a random topic. I've got a rat trapped in a 20 litre Bunnings bucket with the lid sealed on top. I'd say it's fairly air tight as it's one of those press fit type of lids that clip on. Rattus Rattus has been in there for about nine hours and things are fairly quiet in the bucket. My question is, how long would it take a pair of little rat lungs to use up the oxygen in a 20 litre bucket. The way I see it, eventually the O2 molecules would deplete to the point of making CO instead of CO2 and Rattus Rattus would pass out from carbon monoxide poisoning. I just need a safe timeline so I don't open the bucket and a mad rat leaps out at me.

[spacesailor]

If your ' bucket ' is not required . 

Leave it alone untill , a need arises for that bucket be emptied.

spacesailor

 

[facthunter]

He'll die of oxygen depletion. Not CO poisoning. Nev

[willedoo]

20 litres = 20,000 cc of air, but the oxygen content depletes with every breath. I think the CO poisoning is more prevalent where there's flame burning in a confined space. Some people over the years have run into trouble by having the gas stove flame burning for heating in winter in a sealed caravan with not enough ventilation.

[willedoo]

I must admit it's nice and quiet with an entrapped rat. It's been around for about a week trying to make a nest in the ceiling and making a racket and general nuisance of itself. It wouldn't take the bait on the trap which was peanut paste encircled with cotton thread to hook his teeth. It usually gets them but not this character. He got into a garbage bag and that's where he was caught, so now he's in the Bunnings bucket inside that garbage bag. I haven't had rats or mice for ages and thought there must be a carpet snake around, but if so the snake must be on holidays. Below my place is mainly canefields and they are a breeding ground for rats. When they harvest the cane, the rodents head up here into the hills and annoy everyone.

 

We sometimes get the small marsupial rats here. I have a live cage trap with 25mm x 10mm mesh and they get through that in a flash. If they can get their head through they're out. I've heard the stories of rodents being able to flatten out their bones to squeeze through small spaces. I've watched the marsupial rats escape the cage and they seem to be able to flatten their skull somehow as well.

[onetrack]

I watched a rat dive into a hole containing a confined space, in the bottom of a clay pot in the garden. I ensured he was still there, and inserted the garden hose into the hole while I held the pot horizontal, filling the confined space right up with water. I held the pot in that position for at least 5 mins and was convinced a drowned rat would fall out when I dropped the pot back down in a vertical position.

 

To my utter amazement, as the water poured out of the hole, a very wet, but still very alive, rat, came tearing out on the flood of water and ran away into some hidey hole in the garden!!

I reckon the bugger must have had a breathing apparatus to fit a rat, hidden in that pot!! They are the ultimate survivors - they reckon only rats and cockroaches will survive all-out nuclear war.

 

Edited November 26 by onetrack

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, onetrack said:

they reckon only rats and cockroaches will survive all-out nuclear war.

The way things are going, you might get to find out sooner rather than later

😞

 

[old man emu]

More chance of it dying from thirst than oxygen depletion if you leave it in there for a week or so.

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, old man emu said:

More chance of it dying from thirst than oxygen depletion if you leave it in there for a week or so.

You could be right. I heard him again at the 10 hour mark have a bit of a shuffle in the bucket, but for most of that time he's been dead quiet. I wonder if they have a survival mode where they slow their metabolism right down to conserve O2 and energy, a bit like how a bear hibernates.

[red750]

Here is an interesting little challenge which shows how the eye can be decieved.

 

There are 16 circles in this image. Once you see them, you can't unsee them.

 

[Marty_d]

Very clever.