tonyh29 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 (edited) 27 minutes ago, It's Your Round said: When I first joined this site, I thought I'd stumbled on some cult-like saying that I'd never seen before. Even had me searching Urban Dictionary. It took a while before I realised it was the filter. It was a relief though to find I'm not completely out of touch with the kids. I read my kids a bedtime story once and it contained the sentence "clearing in the woods " luckily for me I didn't replace it with the word clearing in the woods as I read it edit - second use of citw courtesy of swear filter Edited June 17, 2016 by tonyh29 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 It rhymes with @ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Just now, V01 said: It rhymes with @ Ah, I see, cheers. I always assumed it was the word word removed, as rocket polisher was pretty easy to guess. Now I feel a clearing in the woods for not realising clearing in the woods was clearing in the woods because it does make sense now I think about it* *at least in the 70's anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted June 17, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17, 2016 Being honest, I assumed most people just typed out the words "clearing in the woods" etc anyway. As I just did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted June 17, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2016 3 hours ago, useless said: I just remembered hearing a while back now, that it was technically an option to post yourself, if you wanted to go somewhere. You'd just go to the post office, tell them where you wanted to be delivered and they'd sit you with the rest mail on it's way to that destination (you wouldn't actually have to sit in a postbox and wait for someone to pick you up). A friend of mine has a nutty brother who went to a curry house on the way home from a night out and ordered a take away. When it was ready he asked if they did deliveries. When they said yes he asked them to deliver it to his home address and take him with it and they agreed. It became his usual way of getting home for years. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 17, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted June 17, 2016 3 hours ago, dAVe80 said: I was thinking earlier today, and wondering why we wait for people to die, to say how we really feel about them? I was reading a post from a facebook friend, and in it he was talking about someone he knew who had died, and saying such nice and warm things about him. It made me wonder if he'd ever said what he thought about him, to him when he was alive? I tried to think back to when I've been in similar circumstances, and if I ever told those people what I thought about them. I can't recall ever doing so. Maybe it's part of the grieving process. Maybe it's therapeutic for the bereaved, to say it after they've died. I suppose it would be a bit weird if your mate came up and told you what they liked about you, even more so if they posted it on a public forum or social media. See that Cyanide and Wotsit cartoon in the Funny Pics thread. We're blokes. Worse, we're British (Isles) blokes. We don't do that shit, I've just got in from a running club do that was partly in honour of our former men's team captain, who was there in his Steven Hawking wheelchair - he has MND, and is going downhill fast (yeah, yeah, I know). Some nice speeches, and a guest book in which we wrote our memories and good wishes. We may as well have said to him YOU'RE NEARLY DEAD, AREN'T YOU? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Yeah, I totally see what you're saying, and 100% agree. It would be totally weird to actually do it, but other than being repressed, British men, what is stopping us from saying to our mates and loved ones, that we think they're not rocket polishers? A playful punch in the arm, and buying them a pint will have to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post blandy Posted June 18, 2016 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted June 18, 2016 16 hours ago, useless said: Is it possible to post yourself somewhere. Only if you're mail 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 53 minutes ago, blandy said: Only if you're mail 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 18, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 18, 2016 Who actually phones 118 118. Literally the last thing I would consider doing is phoning them for a number. I mean who hasn't got Google readily available. OK I know there are some people who. Don't have a smart phone or tablet or computer but they really are a massive minority group yet 118 118 has one of the largest advertising budgets known to man when I am amazed they even exist. Am I missing something? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 Who are these cocksuckers at 8 on a Sunday Morning with their **** hedge trimmers out. **** off/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 (edited) If I was to somehow hover above the ground in the same position for a period of time, when I land would I land in the same place that I took off from. Edited June 20, 2016 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 5 hours ago, useless said: If I was to somehow hover above the ground in the same position for a period of time, when I land would I land in the same place that I took off from. No. It's actually quite a dangerous thing to do if you go too far up too quickly. It's the speed of ascent and the total distance from the earth's fragile yet beautiful outer skin that you have to be wary of. Space time schizz innit. I jumped for joy when Villa won the Champions League in 2021. Now I'm back here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted June 20, 2016 Administrator Share Posted June 20, 2016 5 hours ago, useless said: If I was to somehow hover above the ground in the same position for a period of time, when I land would I land in the same place that I took off from. "Hover" implies that you stay over the same ground. So yes. Your frame of reference here is yourself, so if you discount forces external to the described system, the only thing that can change is the nature of the "place" where you land. Due to many things (atomic decay, quantum fluctuations, other entropy) that can never be the exactly the same (and neither are you). If your context excludes those changes then you land in the same place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I had floating about 12 feet from the ground in mind, so still in the earth's atmopshere. I guess another question might be, if I was to keep jumping up and down on the spot for a long time, would I eventually start landing in a different place because the earth is spinning beneath me, whilst I'm in the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted June 20, 2016 Administrator Share Posted June 20, 2016 3 minutes ago, useless said: I had floating about 12 feet from the ground in mind, so still in the earth's atmopshere. I guess another question might be, if I was to keep jumping up and down on the spot for a long time, would I eventually start landing in a different place because the earth is spinning beneath me, whilst I'm in the air. No. In the described frame, the error bars around your jump accuracy would put the movement of the earth way down into the noise level. Even if you could guarantee that you could jump perfectly accurately, you are effectively in a closed system where the atmosphere is moving with the surface of the earth and therefore would move you with it when you jump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 ' you are effectively in a closed system where the atmosphere is moving with the surface of the earth and therefore would move you with it when you jump.' That's basically what I was wondering but didn't really know how to word. Seems obvious now, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 20, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted June 20, 2016 It's a classic thought experiment that crops up in loads of basic physics books. A lorry has perches in the back with a load of budgies sitting on them. The lorry is driving at 60mph - what happens if they all decide to take off from their perches and hover for a while? Do they all get slammed to the back of the truck as it hurtles along? (The answer is no). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 20, 2016 Moderator Share Posted June 20, 2016 On 17/06/2016 at 21:33, tonyh29 said: edit - second use of citw courtesy of swear filter Yeah I think with that one it's less 'swear' filter and more 'humourous word' filter. As there are far more offensive words that don't get filtered, and it was more a moment of mirth from one of the guys 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 (edited) Another year older today. Just 3 more until I hit 40. I do wonder what I will be doing at 40. Will I be single? Still doing the same job? Still living in Sutton? I hope not but more than likely I will be as I was asking the same questions last year and the year before. I wonder if I will ever be brave enough to make a huge change in my life. Edited June 20, 2016 by Xela 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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