RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2023 4 minutes ago, kevinlms said: But think about the birds, where will they stand and watch the goings on of humans? I'm sure we've had this one before... 2 3 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2023 3 hours ago, Hroth said: At least they aren't connected to a water supply, most dogs aren't big enough to pee in the slot of a letterbox and the way things are going, telephone poles might be a disappearing feature of the landscape too... 3 hours ago, Reorte said: Telephone poles aren't going anywhere, they'll just be supporting fibre optic runs instead of copper wires. Where my friend lives in South Benfleet the electric supply wires are supported on wooden poles. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2023 3 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: the electric supply wires are supported on wooden poles. That's the usual rough-and-ready way it's done in the US, isn't it? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted November 27, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2023 5 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Where my friend lives in South Benfleet the electric supply wires are supported on wooden poles. Must be very rural... 🙂 2 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: That's the usual rough-and-ready way it's done in the US, isn't it? I refer my esteemed colleague to my previous response! 🤪 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 I was at an an athletics meeting and saw a guy carrying a long pole. I asked him "are you a pole vaulter?". He responded "no, I'm German, but how did you know my name was Walter?". 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 5 hours ago, kevinlms said: But think about the birds, where will they stand and watch the goings on of humans? On the roof of the weed-farm house, of course. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted November 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2023 2 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Where my friend lives in South Benfleet the electric supply wires are supported on wooden poles. That's how my supply arrives. It's the usual way outside towns. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Hroth Posted November 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 28, 2023 7 minutes ago, jbqfc said: Looks like Santa gave Frosty a knuckle sandwich for Christmas! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 Erwin Schrödinger's grandparents at home. 2 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 28, 2023 8 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said: There's nothing quantum in all this. Grandpa is attempting to assert Berkelean subjective idealism (if you can't see it, is it still a mess?), which Grandma refutes by an appeal to Cartesian realism (I hunger, therefore I am). 2 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 3 hours ago, Compound2632 said: There's nothing quantum in all this. Erwin Schrödinger's grandparents still live in a Newtonian world. But are occassionally partial to Maxwell's Field Equations. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 and also partial to fig Newtons.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post RFS Posted November 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 28, 2023 6 2 1 3 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 10 minutes ago, RFS said: Fast train whistles..... illustrated edition. 1 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 27 minutes ago, RFS said: Mr Doppler contemplates whether to get a Shift on. And how big his interference cross-section would be if he walked instead of ran across. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted November 28, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 28, 2023 39 minutes ago, RFS said: Someone's due a very big speeding ticket! 1 2 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Buhar Posted November 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2023 11 hours ago, Reorte said: Someone's due a very big speeding ticket! Surely only relatively big. Alan 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2023 6 minutes ago, Buhar said: Surely only relatively big. Massive, at that speed. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold LimboBrit Posted November 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2023 12 hours ago, RFS said: My garage is a few centimeters too short to get the car in. I tried driving in at great speed to see if it would fit. It didn't end well! 2 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted November 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, LimboBrit said: My garage is a few centimeters too short to get the car in. I tried driving in at great speed to see if it would fit. It didn't end well! Well yes of course. From your inertial frame, it was the garage that appeared shorter, not the car. Edited November 29, 2023 by Compound2632 2 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2023 1 hour ago, LimboBrit said: My garage is a few centimeters too short to get the car in. I tried driving in at great speed to see if it would fit. It didn't end well! 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: Well yes of course. From your inertial frame, it was the garage that appeared shorter, not the car. The car is now shorter.😁 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted November 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2023 1 minute ago, PhilJ W said: The car is now shorter.😁 Whilst the garage has a considerable extension into open space..... 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 I would advise caution driving too fast into the garage - the force of the collision might create local black holes at the points of impact, potentially consuming the entire car... PBM 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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