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[Rod Speed]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:40:58 +1100, NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

\"Rod Speed\" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Why is it that all the nice food is fattening and all the good food
(eg vegetables) tastes vile?

Roast potatoes aren\'t vile and neither are tomatoes.

Roast veg (carrots, parsnips - and potatoes) are lovely. As are raw
carrots or celery as a snack, though less so in combination with
anything savoury.

It\'s boiled/steamed broccoli, beans, carrots, cauliflower (*), etc which
have such a strong \"green veg\" taste that they completely swamp
everything else.

I don\'t get that effect at all.

I\'ve never really liked cooked veg, and after my heart attack my sense
of taste changed so veg tasted stronger and savoury meat etc was less
strong than before.

Never got that effect with my heart attack.

Think of the sound of birdsong: perfectly audible... until someone
starts using a pneumatic drill ;-)

I eat my veg - but I get it out of the way first so it doesn\'t ruin the
enjoyable part of my meal.

(*) I think it\'s leaf/stem veg that I don\'t like, and root veg that I do.

 

[Peeler]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:57:04 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>

--
Website (from 2007) dedicated to the 89-year-old senile Australian
cretin\'s pathological trolling:
https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/rod-speed-faq.2973853/

 

[NY]

\"Rod Speed\" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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It\'s boiled/steamed broccoli, beans, carrots, cauliflower (*), etc which
have such a strong \"green veg\" taste that they completely swamp
everything else.

I don\'t get that effect at all.

I\'ve never really liked cooked veg, and after my heart attack my sense
of taste changed so veg tasted stronger and savoury meat etc was less
strong than before.

Never got that effect with my heart attack.

It wasn\'t so much the heart attack itself as the cardiac arrest that went
with it: the brain being a bit starved of oxygen as my wife and the
ambulance crew struggled with CPR for over an hour to get my heart to beat
unaided (*). And then the effect of the drug-induced coma while I recovered
in intensive care: I was originally taken to York where my heart was \"jump
started\" but I then had to be taken to Leeds where they had a special ICU
designed to lower the body temperature for a period of time to aid recovery.

All in all, it\'s a minor miracle than I\'m still here.


(*) Apparently they were eventually advised to bring me in to Casualty even
though I wasn\'t stabilised (normal paramedic advice is \"stay and play\"
rather than \"scoop and run\"). That was after I\'ve been pumped with the
ambulance\'s entire supply of adrenaline, plus some more that was brought by
a backup ambulance.

 

[SteveW]

On 03/04/2023 03:57, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 18:32:36 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:


That reminds me, we had no nigger teachers. I think they would have
been beaten up. When I worked at a school 10 years later, nobody even
thought about making fun of the black English teacher. He was even
brave enough to use his colour as an analogy for why someone in the
class shouldn\'t be calling some one else a poofter.

We had one black teacher in the high school I went to. Oddly he taught
Latin. The was some tension with the black students but he was just
another teacher as far as we were concerned and definitely not a nigger.

Our secondary school was fairly small by today\'s standards (about 500
pupils, including 6th form). We had no black teachers and few black or
Asian pupils. The pupils of all races all got on fine and were good
friends. Possibly because there were so few BAME pupils, there was no
grouping together and no hang-ups ... everyone was just part of the
same, single group.

We did have one black supply teacher for a few weeks. He was weird. He
once covered for an absent teacher by walking into a class, writing
\"SILENCE\" on the blackboard and sitting down. He never spoke for the
full period and then just stood up and walked out!

 

[alan_m]

On 01/04/2023 15:33, John Larkin wrote:

Dem dumb yanks kept England from starving in WWII, and mostly still
do. The Brits seem to have never figured out how to grow things. Or,
for that matter, how to cook them.

Especially when we asked for corn and you didn\'t send us wheat but
instead you sent us some yellow bubbly stuff

I don\'t think you can be that proud of your food having inflicted
McDonald\'s and Kentucky Fried Crap on us.


--
mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

 

[whit3rd]

On Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 10:32:52 AM UTC-7, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:24:59 -0000, NY <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

As a child I used Fahrenheit indoors and Centigrade outdoors. Having 0 where the ground froze was easier.

but even they adapted very quickly to Celsius when newspapers and TV weather forecasts
changed.

I remember them quoting both when I was a child, now they just quote Centigrade. And why do people say Celsius? He\'s not alive anymore, lets use the meaningful name. Centi as in 100.

The use of capital letters for units in the SI is only for units named after persons.
So, capital C has to be Celsius (and lowercase \'c\' for a unit might be calorie).
Also, lowercase \'c\' indicates 1/100, for 100 the SI usage is \'hecto\' not \'centi\'.

 

[Cindy Hamilton]

[\"Followup-To:\" header set to alt.home.repair.]
On 2023-04-03, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

On 01/04/2023 13:17, Ian Jackson wrote:

Now that we\'re free from the oppressive jackboot dictatorship of the EU,
can we now not revert to the traditional cycles per second (c/s, or
simply \'cycles\', etc)?

We used units such as Hertz long before the UK ever joined the EEC.

I note on some American videos that they refer to units as either metric
or \"English\" units (rather than Imperial units).

It would appear that the proper name for the non-metric system of units
used in the U.S. is the U.S. Customary System of Units. Outside of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology, I doubt anybody calls
it that. \"English\" is so much shorter.

--
Cindy Hamilton

 

[Peeler]

On 3 Apr 2023 02:22:49 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

A mens\' clothing store tends to buy more than one shirt at a time. She
worked for Cluett & Peabody who made Arrow shirts. The brand still exists
but now they\'re made in Bangladesh or some shithole.

Anyway, they were dress shirts with each style available in a variety of
collar sizes and sleeve lengths. When Harry\'s Haberdashery orders 5 dozen
shirts they don\'t get to pick an choose; they get a selection of sizes in
a normal distribution. That leads to a lot of base 12 arithmetic.

Today, the normal distribution seems to consist of XL, XLL, and XLLL sizes
with sleeves suitable for alligators.

It\'s like I said: You keep talking and gossiping like woman, you totally
fucked up senile Yankietard! LOL

--
Yet another thrilling story from the resident senile gossip\'s thrilling
life:
\"Around here you have to be careful to lock your car toward the end of
summer or somebody will leave a grocery sack full of zucchini in it.\"

 

[Peeler]

On 3 Apr 2023 02:30:14 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

At least America is evolving. The UK has been devolving since they lost
that war they thought they won. How\'s that true Scotsman, Humza Yousaf,
doing? Bad enough to have one named after a fish. What was the matter with
Forbes? Upset the poofters?

Oh, keep your idiotic senile SHIT out of these newsgroups finally, you
typical idiotic Yankee hayseed and Trumper!

--
More of the resident senile bigmouth\'s idiotic \"cool\" blather:
\"For reasons I can\'t recall I painted a spare bedroom in purple. It may
have had something to do with copious quantities of cheap Scotch.\"
MID: <k89lchF8b4pU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Peeler]

On 3 Apr 2023 02:57:46 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

We had one black teacher in the high school I went to. Oddly he taught
Latin. The was some tension with the black students but he was just
another teacher as far as we were concerned and definitely not a nigger.

I just keep wondering who taught you to become that obnoxious grandiloquent
bigmouth that you now are, lowbrowwman? Any clue?

--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>

 

[NY]

\"Fredxx\" <fredxx@spam.uk> wrote in message
news:u0cj1o$2jntp$1@dont-email.me...

On 02/04/2023 19:44, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:12:36 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:24:59 +0000, NY wrote:

At least Celsius makes the freezing and boiling point of the
earth\'s most common liquid nice round numbers 0 and 100.

I suppose you get used to it and it doesn\'t make all that much
difference
in everyday life but the compression throws me.

For that we use lb/sq inch. Something still used in the UK for car tyres
for example. I use it for scuba, although most use BAR which is also
imperial.

You claims are more like an infant child with an IQ of 90 or less.

Bar is a metric unit. If you were truly versed in SCUBA diving in water
rather than your arm chair you would know this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(unit)

I don\'t think there\'s a metric pressure used.

Very true, you don\'t think.

The SI unit is Pascal(Pa):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(unit)

Bar is used more often as it is a quantity people can equate to and is
close to an atmosphere.

Yes, atmospheric pressure is roughly 1 bar. My weather station software
quotes pressures in mb (millibars) with figures that range from about 970 to
1050 mb. The gauge can changed to display hPa (hectopascals) which are
numerically identical (1 mb = 1 hPa), kPa (figures range from 97 to 105) or
inHg (figures ranging from 28 to 31.5). Surprisingly it doesn\'t offer mmHg.
I believe that the standard for international aviation is inHg (because it
was influenced by the Americans); similarly aviation altitudes are expressed
in feet, though I have heard a pilot announce to his passengers that we
would be flying at 5000 metres - this was in an internal short-hop flight
from Amsterdam (NL) to Paderborn (DE).

 

[charles]

In article <k8veanFk1r7U1@mid.individual.net>, alan_m
<junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

On 01/04/2023 13:17, Ian Jackson wrote:

Now that we\'re free from the oppressive jackboot dictatorship of the
EU, can we now not revert to the traditional cycles per second (c/s,
or simply \'cycles\', etc)?

We used units such as Hertz long before the UK ever joined the EEC.

Indeed - 1962 for me, when I started work

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England - sent from my RISC OS 4té
\"I\'d rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom\" Thomas Carlyle

 

[NY]

\"charles\" <charles@candehope.me.uk> wrote in message
news:5a8f398474charles@candehope.me.uk...

In article <k8veanFk1r7U1@mid.individual.net>, alan_m
junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
On 01/04/2023 13:17, Ian Jackson wrote:

Now that we\'re free from the oppressive jackboot dictatorship of the
EU, can we now not revert to the traditional cycles per second (c/s,
or simply \'cycles\', etc)?

We used units such as Hertz long before the UK ever joined the EEC.

Indeed - 1962 for me, when I started work

My parents\' portable radio, a Grundig Yacht Boy, which they got in the
mid-to-late 1960s, was calibrated in kHz and MHz rather than kc/s and Mc/s
(or even wavelengths in metres).
https://www.petervis.com/manuals/yacht-boy-210/yacht-boy-210.html (actually
the SW band was also marked in metres in the sense of \"41 m band\" etc).

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 08:47:59 +0100, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:

On 01/04/2023 15:33, John Larkin wrote:

Dem dumb yanks kept England from starving in WWII, and mostly still
do. The Brits seem to have never figured out how to grow things. Or,
for that matter, how to cook them.

Especially when we asked for corn and you didn\'t send us wheat but
instead you sent us some yellow bubbly stuff

Grits? Grits is wonderful.

I don\'t think you can be that proud of your food having inflicted
McDonald\'s and Kentucky Fried Crap on us.

It\'s popular in the Olde Country because it so much better than what
you had.

Popeyes is much better chicken.

 

[rbowman]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 08:47:59 +0100, alan_m wrote:

On 01/04/2023 15:33, John Larkin wrote:

Dem dumb yanks kept England from starving in WWII, and mostly still do.
The Brits seem to have never figured out how to grow things. Or,
for that matter, how to cook them.

Especially when we asked for corn and you didn\'t send us wheat but
instead you sent us some yellow bubbly stuff

Yes, and it was dent corn. (dent corn is a high starch variant chiefly
used for fodder, or ethanol production these days.)

 

[rbowman]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 13:00:34 +0100, NY wrote:

My parents\' portable radio, a Grundig Yacht Boy, which they got in the
mid-to-late 1960s, was calibrated in kHz and MHz rather than kc/s and
Mc/s (or even wavelengths in metres).
https://www.petervis.com/manuals/yacht-boy-210/yacht-boy-210.html
(actually the SW band was also marked in metres in the sense of \"41 m
band\" etc).

afaik things like the 40 m ham band that was assigned in 1924 in the US
has always been called the 40 m band. A specific frequency will be given
as 7.010 MHz but I\'ve never heard it called the 7 MHz band.

otoh 2 m is often referred to as 144 MHz and 440 MHz is rarely referred to
as 70 centimeters.

Why be consistent?

 

[John Larkin]

On 3 Apr 2023 02:30:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:46:56 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

To imagine America, just think of any other country 50 years ago. They
evolve slowly over there.

At least America is evolving. The UK has been devolving since they lost
that war they thought they won. How\'s that true Scotsman, Humza Yousaf,
doing? Bad enough to have one named after a fish. What was the matter with
Forbes? Upset the poofters?

England was the cultural and technical driving force of the world, a
long time ago. The US has taken over those roles.

The class structure of many countries drives the best and brightest
individuals to the US. It\'s so big and there are so many different
places and cultures here, it\'s a good place for unusual people to come
and find a place to fit in. I have several very smart and very nice
neighbors with huge incomes and interesting accents.

I think that Putin actually wants the war objectors and draft dodgers
to leave Russia. He wants a country of dumb poor alcoholic patriots,
and he\'ll get it. We\'ll take the troublemakers.

Long term, diffusion of talent dominates progress.

I read a claim that, in 1900, people mostly married someone born
within 15 miles of themselves. Now we have national and international
immigration diffusion gradients thus positive-feedback effects on
populations and genetics.

 

[John Larkin]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 19:54:49 +0100, Fredxx <fredxx@spam.uk> wrote:

On 02/04/2023 19:44, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:12:36 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:24:59 +0000, NY wrote:

At least Celsius makes the freezing and boiling point of the
earth\'s most common liquid nice round numbers 0 and 100.

I suppose you get used to it and it doesn\'t make all that much difference
in everyday life but the compression throws me.

For that we use lb/sq inch.  Something still used in the UK for car
tyres for example.  I use it for scuba, although most use BAR which is
also imperial.

You claims are more like an infant child with an IQ of 90 or less.

Generating limp insults can be done with much less IQ than electronic
design.

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 08:42:50 +0100, SteveW <steve@walker-family.me.uk>
wrote:

On 03/04/2023 03:57, rbowman wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 18:32:36 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:


That reminds me, we had no nigger teachers. I think they would have
been beaten up. When I worked at a school 10 years later, nobody even
thought about making fun of the black English teacher. He was even
brave enough to use his colour as an analogy for why someone in the
class shouldn\'t be calling some one else a poofter.

We had one black teacher in the high school I went to. Oddly he taught
Latin. The was some tension with the black students but he was just
another teacher as far as we were concerned and definitely not a nigger.

Our secondary school was fairly small by today\'s standards (about 500
pupils, including 6th form). We had no black teachers and few black or
Asian pupils. The pupils of all races all got on fine and were good
friends. Possibly because there were so few BAME pupils, there was no
grouping together and no hang-ups ... everyone was just part of the
same, single group.

We did have one black supply teacher for a few weeks. He was weird. He
once covered for an absent teacher by walking into a class, writing
\"SILENCE\" on the blackboard and sitting down. He never spoke for the
full period and then just stood up and walked out!

We had one math teacher that let us do anything. Read comic books,
eat, flirt, do other class homework, anything non-violent and
reasonably quiet. He\'d mostly ignore us but once in a while he\'d get
up and sketch some math concept on the blackboard, talk for a few
minutes, and go back to his newspaper. We learned a lot.

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 03/04/2023 17:09, John Larkin wrote:

On 3 Apr 2023 02:30:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:46:56 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

To imagine America, just think of any other country 50 years ago. They
evolve slowly over there.

At least America is evolving. The UK has been devolving since they lost
that war they thought they won. How\'s that true Scotsman, Humza Yousaf,
doing? Bad enough to have one named after a fish. What was the matter with
Forbes? Upset the poofters?

England was the cultural and technical driving force of the world, a
long time ago. The US has taken over those roles.

The class structure of many countries drives the best and brightest
individuals to the US.

Utter bollocks. There are 10 times as many acres per head of habitable
land in the USA as in Europe, and ten time as as many resources under it.
The miracles is that middle class americans are not ten times as rich
as Europeans, a tribute to the rapacity of its leaders.
Like any other country,Such success as the US has us *despite* it\'s
(lack of) culture religion ethnicity and political, ideology.

It\'s so big and there are so many different

places and cultures here, it\'s a good place for unusual people to come
and find a place to fit in. I have several very smart and very nice
neighbors with huge incomes and interesting accents.

I think that Putin actually wants the war objectors and draft dodgers
to leave Russia. He wants a country of dumb poor alcoholic patriots,
and he\'ll get it. We\'ll take the troublemakers.

Long term, diffusion of talent dominates progress.

I read a claim that, in 1900, people mostly married someone born
within 15 miles of themselves. Now we have national and international
immigration diffusion gradients thus positive-feedback effects on
populations and genetics.

In pakistan, its rare to marry outside your own family

--
“A leader is best When people barely know he exists. Of a good leader,
who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say,
“We did this ourselves.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching