Things you have recently learnt

Pross

I'm in the market for electric when I next change my car (although would still like to see the range increase as I semi-regularly drive up to 400 miles in a day). I don't particularly like the interior styling of a Tesla but feel the fact they aren't a traditional car manufacturer is their benefit as they've worked on how to create an electric car rather than how to adapt a traditional ICE car to run on electric. Unfortunately for them some of the bigger traditional manufacturers are now realising that is the direction to go so it may eat into that advantage but a lot of the big players are still very much in catch up mode e.g. finally starting to get into PHEV technology when they need to be going full electric to attract the company car market.

pinno

TheBigBean said:

Whilst I expect batteries to win the small car market, it is worth noting that Toyota has a hydrogen car, and hydrogen is coming soon.

10 years ago, Hydrogen 'cells' were estimated to cost in the £20k mark - that's before you add the chassis to put it in. So they are obviously improving the economy of the technology. Whether they could compete given the bias in electric car R&D on the long term remains to be seen.
Do the electricity producers have vested interest in the electric wave*?

*Trend, not an AC current.

First.Aspect

pinno said:

TheBigBean said:

Whilst I expect batteries to win the small car market, it is worth noting that Toyota has a hydrogen car, and hydrogen is coming soon.

10 years ago, Hydrogen 'cells' were estimated to cost in the £20k mark - that's before you add the chassis to put it in. So they are obviously improving the economy of the technology. Whether they could compete given the bias in electric car R&D on the long term remains to be seen.
Do the electricity producers have vested interest in the electric wave*?

*Trend, not an AC current.

There's quite a lot in common between a fuel cell and a battery. And a car would use the same motors etc. And both need copious amounts of electricity to start with.

pblakeney

Not so much learnt, as reminded.

rick_chasey

In cases of bad scurvy, your old wounds open up and anything that is formed of scar-tissue re opens or falls apart.

rick_chasey

pblakeney said:

Not so much learnt, as reminded.

You have clearly not had to hold a relationship with someone with narcissistic personality disorder, who use slights and offence as a weapon.

First.Aspect

What has any of this got to do with hydrogen fuel cells?

rick_chasey

Things i learned recently.

veronese68

rick_chasey said:

In cases of bad scurvy, your old wounds open up and anything that is formed of scar-tissue re opens or falls apart.

I'd better eat a tomato with lunch then

focuszing723

That must have been a nightmare in the days of bygone shipping when scurvy was a problem.

pblakeney

rick_chasey said:

pblakeney said:

Not so much learnt, as reminded.

You have clearly not had to hold a relationship with someone with narcissistic personality disorder, who use slights and offence as a weapon.

To quote the mystic master...
🎼Let it go, let it go...🎼 😉🤣

rick_chasey

pblakeney said:

rick_chasey said:

pblakeney said:

Not so much learnt, as reminded.

You have clearly not had to hold a relationship with someone with narcissistic personality disorder, who use slights and offence as a weapon.

To quote the mystic master...
🎼Let it go, let it go...🎼 😉🤣

If only. Alas they are a relative of my wife.

Pross

rick_chasey said:

pblakeney said:

rick_chasey said:

pblakeney said:

Not so much learnt, as reminded.

You have clearly not had to hold a relationship with someone with narcissistic personality disorder, who use slights and offence as a weapon.

To quote the mystic master...
🎼Let it go, let it go...🎼 😉🤣

If only. Alas they are a relative of my wife.

Beat them up and assert your authority.

pblakeney

rick_chasey said:

pblakeney said:

rick_chasey said:

pblakeney said:

Not so much learnt, as reminded.

You have clearly not had to hold a relationship with someone with narcissistic personality disorder, who use slights and offence as a weapon.

To quote the mystic master...
🎼Let it go, let it go...🎼 😉🤣

If only. Alas they are a relative of my wife.

A lesson for all prospective husbands and wives.
You are not only marrying your partner but all their relatives and friends.
Nobody gave me that little nugget beforehand either.

focuszing723

Just put it down to their own insecurity. I know it's easier said than done.

rick_chasey

focuszing723 said:

Just put it down to their own insecurity. I know it's easier said than done.

No it’s down to their personality disorder.

Rule #1 of having to deal with narcissists. Set your own boundaries
Rule #2 accept you will never change them so stick to rule #1

focuszing723

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi0l44GOYLk

Motor racing is still dangerous.

shortfall

focuszing723 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi0l44GOYLk

Motor racing is still dangerous.

Did you see the massive crash in Moto2 on the same day where that guy hit a crashed bike at full tilt and got thrown over the bars and into orbit? Proper scary!

focuszing723

No, I missed that, I stumbled on it. I haven't followed Moto GP for a while. I tend to just stick to the TT now (when there isn't a pandemic on:)

Damn, if it was me I would strongly think about resting on my well deserved millions.

rick_chasey

Various things in this chart

focuszing723

rick_chasey said:

Various things in this chart

That is good way visually show it.

focuszing723

Anise seed comes from a bush that is grown specifically for the seed; no other part of the plant is eaten. So, the difference between anise and fennel is actually pretty major. ... Fennel, with its milder licorice flavor, also has a slightly woody flavor and, thus, works well in marinara sauce and other savory dishes.

So there you go. Gawd the interwebs is lush.

pottssteve

chris_bass said:

Stevo 666 wrote:

orraloon wrote:

robert88 wrote:

That excess profits duty could be reduced by investing the profits in the business.

My dear chap, the taxable profit number is what you want it to be. Don't even need taxdodger666 to tell you that. Cash however is a real number.

Maybe it's not so recent, but how little most people know about tax


At least Robert88 is trying to educate himself about what tax was like in the last century.



I would agree with this - the amount of people I have spoken to who seem to be relatively well educated otherwise who are adamant that if they get a small pay rise that puts them into the next tax bracket their net pay will actually be lower is quite amazing!

You mean the number of people!

pottssteve

I learned how to adjust my front derailleur to stop chain rub. Thanks, Park Tool video!

Pross

That there are people who will respond quoting a post around a year after it was made

pottssteve

Pross said:

That there are people who will respond quoting a post around a year after it was made

I'm a really slow reader...

orraloon

That (an) Arab Strap, the Scottish band with the shall I say down to basics lyrics, is also a sexual device, indeed a C ring. Who knew? Not me obvs.

bompington

orraloon said:

That (an) Arab Strap, the Scottish band with the shall I say down to basics lyrics, is also a sexual device, indeed a C ring. Who knew? Not me obvs.

I'd always just assumed they were Dundee United fans.

Still, in the music world nothing would surprise me: I'm a bit of a closet ZZ top fan and I long ago just started assuming that more or less every lyric was a double entendre.

orraloon

Hey, don't be closet. Last week I had a YouTube binge of 80s ZZTop videos - Sharp Dressed Man, Legs et al. 'kin A. Took me back to those times... 👍

rjsterry

Floella Benjamin is 71 today.

You're welcome.