sidcow Posted September 2, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 2, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/may/12/blowing-wind-cities-poor-east-ends Blowing in the wind: why do so many cities have poor east ends? Quote The question is so obvious that you could easily forget to ask it: why do cities so often have a poor east side? To be clear, the mystery is not why every city has its leafy and its grubby sections – it costs money to live in nice places and to avoid nasty ones, which tends to group people into them by wealth. The mystery is why the poor groups always end up in the east. Quote One theory is that it’s all about air pollution. In the middle latitudes where most of the world’s cities can be found, the prevailing winds are westerlies, which means they blow to the east. Crudely, it has long been thought that they might take smoke and odours with them, and now a new study by Stephan Heblich, Alex Trew and Yanos Zylberberg for the Spatial Economics Research Centre suggests this theory might be right. Quote “This anecdotal discussion about pollution in the centre of cities and smoke drifting to the east is something that we have been documenting very precisely,” Zylberberg tells me. “Basically what we’ve been seeing in the past, because of pollution and wind patterns, is rich people escaping the eastern parts of town, because they were very polluted.” Quote “Past pollution explains up to 20% of the observed neighbourhood segregation whether captured by the shares of blue collar workers and employees, house prices or official deprivation indices,” the paper says. It concluded that no British cities have wind patterns which ought to create a polluted west. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted September 2, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 2, 2021 On 28/08/2021 at 06:29, rjw63 said: Why people are still obsessed with Gresford. Why are some people obsessed with the fact that others remain obsessed with Gresford? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted September 2, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 2, 2021 6 hours ago, sidcow said: Yeah, North and East tend to be more working class = more football clubs than South and West which tended to be more middle class. Why? The prevailing wind in the UK moves from West to East / slightly diagonally North so smells and chimney smoke tend to drift those ways, therefore richer people tended to live South and West where the air was fresher. Where is the tennis club and Cricket ground? South West mate. Explains a lot about Yorkshire and Northumberland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted September 2, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 2, 2021 On 27/08/2021 at 17:37, chrisp65 said: You’d have thought by now the club’s would have worked out they could be flogging a first kit, an away kit, a third kit, and the Captain’s version of all off them with pultts and a ssh. FTFY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post robby b Posted September 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2021 (edited) I don't think there's a 'things you've wondered recently thread' so I'll post this here: yesterday I wondered if stegasauruses ever slept on their backs. Or would it have been too awkward and uncomfortable? Edited September 2, 2021 by robby b 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Sometimes I wonder how large the "W" section of the Chinese telephone directory is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 3, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 3, 2021 1 minute ago, PussEKatt said: Sometimes I wonder how large the "W" section of the Chinese telephone directory is. Any guess would be completely Wong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted September 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 3, 2021 14 hours ago, robby b said: I don't think there's a 'things you've wondered recently thread' so I'll post this here: yesterday I wondered if stegasauruses ever slept on their backs. Or would it have been too awkward and uncomfortable? Yes 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Honestly, when I set out, I never thought I would find a picture of an upside down Stegosaurus. God bless the internet. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 3, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 3, 2021 9 minutes ago, Xela said: Honestly, when I set out, I never thought I would find a picture of an upside down Stegosaurus. God bless the internet. I thought that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 3, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 3, 2021 Why do Walkers include Cheese and Onion in their "meaty" selection of crisps, but not Beef? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 3, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 3, 2021 20 minutes ago, sidcow said: Why do Walkers include Cheese and Onion in their "meaty" selection of crisps, but not Beef? If only there was a Toblerone eater on this forum that may or may not have business connects with a certain crisp manufacturer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sid4ever Posted September 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 3, 2021 2 hours ago, bickster said: If only there was a Toblerone eater on this forum that may or may not have business connects with a certain crisp manufacturer He's too busy driving his lad to the new church. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 10 hours ago, sidcow said: Why do Walkers include Cheese and Onion in their "meaty" selection of crisps, but not Beef? To be honest I don’t know but if I was to take a guess , It’s the most popular flavour so they might add it to the multipack to boost sales fairly sure they discontinued Beef flavour so probably why they aren’t included . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 4, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 4, 2021 9 hours ago, tonyh29 said: To be honest I don’t know but if I was to take a guess , It’s the most popular flavour so they might add it to the multipack to boost sales fairly sure they discontinued Beef flavour so probably why they aren’t included . Wow, they do seem to have discontinued them. You could buy them recently, what a travesty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted September 4, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 4, 2021 Why do hotels provide shower gel etc but never toothpaste? I’ve got a “shoe sponge” here but no toothpaste. What’s that about? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted September 4, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 4, 2021 Got this shoe brush thingy. No toothpaste (I do have my own toothpaste). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 4, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 4, 2021 2 hours ago, fightoffyour said: Got this shoe brush thingy. No toothpaste (I do have my own toothpaste). Look more like a clothes brush to me. I assume it's not yours to keep so they don't need to replace one for each guest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sharkyvilla Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 4 hours ago, fightoffyour said: Why do hotels provide shower gel etc but never toothpaste? I’ve got a “shoe sponge” here but no toothpaste. What’s that about? I stayed in a hotel that had mint flavour shower gel and citrus flavour toothpaste which seemed bizarre to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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