Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you

rick_chasey

Pross said:

Currently having a couple of nights away in Lynmouth. There are two chip shops in the village. When we went out just after 6pm to get fish and chips the one had a huge queue so we went to try the other only to find it closed.

Why would you not be open in peak season at the time of day when your product is most likely to be in demand? It wasn't related to staff isolation as far as I could tell as it had been open at lunchtime. Best part of two hours later there's still a huge queue at the one that's open.

Seems a bizarre way to run a business in a seasonal village and when they've had lockdowns to contend with.

Staff shortages....!!!

Pross

rick_chasey said:

Pross said:

Currently having a couple of nights away in Lynmouth. There are two chip shops in the village. When we went out just after 6pm to get fish and chips the one had a huge queue so we went to try the other only to find it closed.

Why would you not be open in peak season at the time of day when your product is most likely to be in demand? It wasn't related to staff isolation as far as I could tell as it had been open at lunchtime. Best part of two hours later there's still a huge queue at the one that's open.

Seems a bizarre way to run a business in a seasonal village and when they've had lockdowns to contend with.

Staff shortages....!!!

It was open earlier in the day.

ballysmate

rjsterry said:

Henry IV (1399-1413) is supposed to be the first monarch since Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson to speak English as a first language.

The three lions on the shirt should more accurately be 3 leopards.

pblakeney

Was going to say that they were traditionally shut on a Monday as no Sunday catch but if it was open at lunch...🤔

pinno

fenster
fenêtre
finestra
fönster

...and us: Window.
Norwegian - vindu.
Danish: vindue

Curiously; Dutch - raam.

briantrumpet

pinno said:

fenster
fenêtre
finestra
fönster

...and us: Window.
Norwegian - vindu.
Danish: vindue

Curiously; Dutch - raam.

From the OED:

The Scandinavian borrowing superseded the earlier Old English ēagduru , lit. ‘eye-door’, and ēagþyrel , lit. ‘eyehole’ (see eyethirl n.). All three Germanic words probably originally denoted the opening in the gable of an early medieval wooden hall (compare eye n.1 9), which allowed smoke to escape and also admitted some daylight. Until the 16th cent., window also coexisted with fenester n., which is ultimately of Latin origin (having originally denoted an opening in the wall of a timber-framed or stone building of Mediterranean style); corresponding Latin borrowings have replaced the earlier words for ‘window’ in the other West Germanic languages and thence also in Swedish; compare also ( < early Scandinavian) Early Irish fuindeóc (see winnock n.) and ( < Latin) Welsh ffenestr (14th cent.).

elbowloh

rick_chasey said:

Pross said:

Currently having a couple of nights away in Lynmouth. There are two chip shops in the village. When we went out just after 6pm to get fish and chips the one had a huge queue so we went to try the other only to find it closed.

Why would you not be open in peak season at the time of day when your product is most likely to be in demand? It wasn't related to staff isolation as far as I could tell as it had been open at lunchtime. Best part of two hours later there's still a huge queue at the one that's open.

Seems a bizarre way to run a business in a seasonal village and when they've had lockdowns to contend with.

Staff shortages....!!!

Staff may have been available in the daytime, but not in the evening as they have to look after children etc

rjsterry

ballysmate said:

rjsterry said:

Henry IV (1399-1413) is supposed to be the first monarch since Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson to speak English as a first language.

The three lions on the shirt should more accurately be 3 leopards.

Can't remember if they are described as passant or guardant.

rjsterry

This Marble Arch Mound thing. £6 to climb a heap of scaffolding draped with plywood and dying turf to get a view of a roundabout.

veronese68

rjsterry said:

This Marble Arch Mound thing. £6 to climb a heap of scaffolding draped with plywood and dying turf to get a view of a roundabout.

Wow, that is funny. You even get to exit through a gift shop as is the way with all tourist attractions.

"On their way down, visitors will descend into the heart of the Mound, a hollowed-out space that will be used as a café, shop and exhibition space."

rjsterry

https://twitter.com/danbarker/status/1419787260107558918?s=19

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

veronese68

rjsterry said:

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

Wow! That really is quite a difference, although to be fair it seems more like what I'd expect. I was wondering if it was worth a ride by just to check it out, apparently not.

morstar

veronese68 said:

rjsterry said:

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

Wow! That really is quite a difference, although to be fair it seems more like what I'd expect. I was wondering if it was worth a ride by just to check it out, apparently not.

Oh my! Never even heard of it (must be an outcome of bbc no longer being in London).

Seems an odd concept.

kingstongraham

That's remarkable. I didn't know anything about it either.

Pross

pinno said:

fenster
fenêtre
finestra
fönster

...and us: Window.
Norwegian - vindu.
Danish: vindue

Curiously; Dutch - raam.

On the language thing, something I learned at breakfast this morning is that the word yacht comes from the Dutch word jacht meaning speedy craft or hunter (there was a model of a jacht presented to Charles II by the Dutch, apparently he is said to have used it to create the first yacht racing).

veronese68

kingstongraham said:

That's remarkable. I didn't know anything about it either.

Yes, news to me as well unitl I saw RJS' post, so it's not Morstar being an out of towner that he didn't hear. Did RJS hear about it through some architectural news possibly?

First.Aspect

I'm intrigued why anyone would imagine there is a market in 3D printed crocs for about £1500.

https://road.cc/content/tech-news/loreone-definitely-priciest-bike-shoe-youve-seen-285159

rjsterry

Pross said:

pinno said:

fenster
fenêtre
finestra
fönster

...and us: Window.
Norwegian - vindu.
Danish: vindue

Curiously; Dutch - raam.

On the language thing, something I learned at breakfast this morning is that the word yacht comes from the Dutch word jacht meaning speedy craft or hunter (there was a model of a jacht presented to Charles II by the Dutch, apparently he is said to have used it to create the first yacht racing).

Presumably related to the German jaeger.

pinno

veronese68 said:

rjsterry said:

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

Wow! That really is quite a difference, although to be fair it seems more like what I'd expect. I was wondering if it was worth a ride by just to check it out, apparently not.

Although, it will take time for the flora and fauna to establish itself.

rjsterry

pinno said:

veronese68 said:

rjsterry said:

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

Wow! That really is quite a difference, although to be fair it seems more like what I'd expect. I was wondering if it was worth a ride by just to check it out, apparently not.

Although, it will take time for the flora and fauna to establish itself.

It's just turf laid over plywood and trees in tubs. Nothing is going to establish itself, nor is it intended to. £2m, though.

kingstongraham

pinno said:

veronese68 said:

rjsterry said:

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

Wow! That really is quite a difference, although to be fair it seems more like what I'd expect. I was wondering if it was worth a ride by just to check it out, apparently not.

Although, it will take time for the flora and fauna to establish itself.

It's only there till the end of the year.

pinno

rjsterry said:

pinno said:

veronese68 said:

rjsterry said:

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

Wow! That really is quite a difference, although to be fair it seems more like what I'd expect. I was wondering if it was worth a ride by just to check it out, apparently not.

Although, it will take time for the flora and fauna to establish itself.

It's just turf laid over plywood and trees in tubs. Nothing is going to establish itself, nor is it intended to. £2m, though.

Why such expense for something temporary?
With the cost of ply nowadays, that must be... 10 sheets?

morstar

rjsterry said:

pinno said:

veronese68 said:

rjsterry said:

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

Wow! That really is quite a difference, although to be fair it seems more like what I'd expect. I was wondering if it was worth a ride by just to check it out, apparently not.

Although, it will take time for the flora and fauna to establish itself.

It's just turf laid over plywood and trees in tubs. Nothing is going to establish itself, nor is it intended to. £2m, though.

At £2m worth of scaffolding, it has Dido Harding’s name all over it.

rjsterry

There is a vast amount of scaffolding inside it as well. I think it's what happens when the sales pitch is better than the product.

Pross

rjsterry said:

Pross said:

pinno said:

fenster
fenêtre
finestra
fönster

...and us: Window.
Norwegian - vindu.
Danish: vindue

Curiously; Dutch - raam.

On the language thing, something I learned at breakfast this morning is that the word yacht comes from the Dutch word jacht meaning speedy craft or hunter (there was a model of a jacht presented to Charles II by the Dutch, apparently he is said to have used it to create the first yacht racing).

Presumably related to the German jaeger.

Maybe, that's what I was going to call my German Shepherd puppy originally.

Pross

morstar said:

rjsterry said:

pinno said:

veronese68 said:

rjsterry said:

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

Wow! That really is quite a difference, although to be fair it seems more like what I'd expect. I was wondering if it was worth a ride by just to check it out, apparently not.

Although, it will take time for the flora and fauna to establish itself.

It's just turf laid over plywood and trees in tubs. Nothing is going to establish itself, nor is it intended to. £2m, though.

At £2m worth of scaffolding, it has Dido Harding’s name all over it.

To be fair, with current inflation in construction £2 million feels about what you'd pay for a few weeks of scaffolding on your house!

ballysmate

pinno said:

rjsterry said:

pinno said:

veronese68 said:

rjsterry said:

Feels like there have been some significant compromises along the way.

Wow! That really is quite a difference, although to be fair it seems more like what I'd expect. I was wondering if it was worth a ride by just to check it out, apparently not.

Although, it will take time for the flora and fauna to establish itself.

It's just turf laid over plywood and trees in tubs. Nothing is going to establish itself, nor is it intended to. £2m, though.

Why such expense for something temporary?
With the cost of ply nowadays, that must be... 10 sheets?

Architect fees.

rjsterry

😁 They're a pretty well respected firm. On a public project like that I seriously doubt it, though. For something that is all about the landscaping, there is just such a big gap between the original visuals and what has been built. I'm not sure making it a temporary structure has helped either. Mind you, the London Eye was supposed to be temporary.

pinno

So was the Eiffel tower.
But this 'heap' (literally and metaphorically) doesn't really match those temporary constructions.
Does that the overpriced Dome still exist?

rjsterry

pinno said:

So was the Eiffel tower.
But this 'heap' (literally and metaphorically) doesn't really match those temporary constructions.
Does that the overpriced Dome still exist?

Yes, it's been The O2 for years. The dome wasn't supposed to be temporary and was remarkably cheap for the size of it. It was all the designed-by-committee stuff inside that was expensive.