The Random thought thread

[spacesailor]

OME

'' Seriously, I had a crutch to help me deal with Life's problems. I called it my beloved wife. '' .

I'll second that !

But , when it's the wife who's down , I don't seem to help as much as ' SWMBO ' wants .

Even to ' house work ' I vacuum then wash floors. Only to have it all redone by ' SWMBO ' .

I really thought I was ' addicted ' to my childhood opiates from hospital . but now they say it's concussion . causing poor memory .

AHH '' you only die twice '' if a lucky sod. LoL

spacesailor

[gareth lacey]

My son (one half of twins ) left school and became an apprentice boilermaker, did a few years after he qualified in fly in fly out now studying to be a lawyer 1 more year to go , his job is a union rep on $150g a year plus car plus super plus plenty of leave , boilermakers in Brisbane are on 75 to 85 g a year , thats a big disparity in wages, tradies are still underpaid 

 

[old man emu]

But he could not have made it to union rep without the coalface experience. As well, he has gone through the stages of learning something to make a quid to get by on, to something giving him a better lifestyle, and then make the choice to use his maturity to tackle something in Higher Education. Sounds like he put a tiger in the tank of his get up and gogo mobile.

[gareth lacey]

Correct OME he always wanted to be a lawyer  but getting experience as a tradie gave hom leg up to the union, 10 years post apprenticeship gave him real experience, this what got him this job, he is now 33 years old and has a wife ,mortgage, 2 very young boys(i love my grandkids) and studying , has a lot more energy than i  LoL  , he is his own man , politics, and ideas as he should but we do have some heated debates , i am proud of what he has achieved (as well as his sibling Hannah) and when he gets his degree in law he wants to go into social justice law 

 

[red750]

Check out my post on Rec Flying regarding my trip to Moorabbin airport today.

[willedoo]

The world is getting too serious. I think it's time Dad's Army came back on TV.

[old man emu]

I'm watching Rumpole of the Bailey on YouTube

[old man emu]

Remember when we were kids? We didn't have iPads and mobile phones or the Internet to keep us entertained indoors. We had big backyards to play in, or streets free of racing motor cars so it was safe to play there if we had no backyard. We had unpolluted beaches where we spent every sunny day swimming and running in the sand. We lead a healthy, outdoors existence.

 

That healthy outdoor existence is killing us now with sun cancers and melanomas. 

[onetrack]

The sun wasn't anywhere near as hot then, as it is today, apparently.

[willedoo]

4 hours ago, old man emu said:

We lead a healthy, outdoors existence.

Should send this one to the grammar police thread. We led a healthy, outdoors existence.

[willedoo]

Or should it be spelling police. It reminds me of one unhealthy activity as a kid - melting lead and breathing the fumes. Luckily we didn't do it too often.

[old man emu]

43 minutes ago, willedoo said:

Should send this one to the grammar police thread. We led a healthy, outdoors existence.

Damn! I didn't get the preterite right. 

 

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, willedoo said:

 one unhealthy activity as a kid - melting lead and breathing the fumes. Luckily we didn't do it too often.

Me too. I used to wait until mum went out,  then borrow her antique engraved brass bowl to melt down scrap lead on the kitchen stove. I cast little ingots in old matchboxes. Then later I'd take them down to the scrappy to boost my pocket money.

 

My issue is when I ask a doctor what long term impacts it might have. Lead is deposited in bones. Doctors don't  know enough to say.

Edited November 16, 2023 by nomadpete

[pmccarthy]

I worked in a lead mine for ten years. Didn't wash before eating my sandwiches. Yet here I am! 

But I know that lead can lead to trouble.

Edited November 16, 2023 by pmccarthy

[onetrack]

I've sprayed thousands of litres of lead-based paint, melted down batteries into ingots, sniffed thousands of litres of leaded petrol, washed parts in petrol, played with litres and litres of mercury in gold recovery, handled tonnes and tonnes of potassium cyanide in gold treatment - yet here I am, still alive and kicking, and still with at least a couple of working brain cells left!!  

 

I'd guess that the reason I'm still here is because I did obey the majority of the safety and handling instructions. Although I did paddle bare-handed in a lot of leaded petrol. 

 

One of the things we did discover on our adventure through the industrial world was that using leaded petrol as a paint thinner produced a fabulous shine and durability on the paint!

Of course, we were using leaded industrial paint, so we probably doubled the lead content in the paint!! I'm guessing the leaded petrol was probably less toxic than some of the "proper" paint thinners - which contain a list of carcinogenic compounds that would make any doc shudder - Toluene, Xylene, MEK, Acetone, Turpentine, Benzene, Naptha, Ether, etc etc.

 

Edited November 16, 2023 by onetrack

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

But I know that lead can lead to trouble.

Especially the lead in your pencil.

[facthunter]

It affects your intelligence adversely.  Nev

[willedoo]

You have 100 kg potatoes, which are 99% water by weight. Then you leave them in the sun to dehydrate until they're 98% water. How much do they weigh now?

 

Answer: 50 kg.

[willedoo]

I copied and pasted that from an illiterate person. It should read 100 kg of potatoes.

[nomadpete]

5 hours ago, onetrack said:

yet here I am, still alive and kicking, and still with at least a couple of working brain cells left!!  

 

And we only have your word for that you are still sane.....

[pmccarthy]

Hang on a bit. You lost roughly 1kg of water so they now weigh about 99kg. That isn't exact, but I cant be bothered solving the equation.

[onetrack]

I reckon the answer must be they left the potatoes in a Townsville park to dehydrate, and someone stole 49kgs of them.

 

I've dehydrated a big pile of our grapes to make currants, and I can tell you this much - they lose a lot of weight in the dehydration process and end up a whole lot smaller!

[spenaroo]

so lets see,

 

100kg of potato

99% water, means we have 99 kg water, 1% other for 1 kg

1% other is constant it doesn't change.
so we are left with 99-1%, which equals 98.01

add the 1kg back in and we get 99.01kg of potatoes

[willedoo]

To start with 99% is water and 1% is solids. The solids remain constant during dehydration; only the water content reduces. 1% by weight of 100kg is 1 kg, so the solids weigh 1 kg and remain 1 kg after dehydration as well. If you dehydrate the potatoes until they are 98% water, that means the 1 kg of solids now make up 2% of total weight. If 2% of the weight equals 1 kg, then the total weight is 50 kg..

[Bruce Tuncks]

Darn, I get convinced too easily by the last argument I read. Could it be the lead in my brain? we used to melt it outside in a jam-tin and pour it into sand-molds made using plastic toy planes.