Author Topic: Europe is a country (Read 26370 times)

QS-Nalle · « **Reply #60 on:** December 06, 2007, 02:44:11 PM »

Lets agree on one thing though,

Stupid people suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guitar playing RULES!!!!!! :D :D :D

maverickf1jockey · « **Reply #61 on:** December 06, 2007, 04:20:27 PM »

Quote from: MacBeth

Quote from: maverickf1jockey
sorry to shitee on you two but the boiling and freezing points of water are not always the same. The measurement is of distilled water and under controlled conditions. Impurities in the water and environmental factors can all affect these processes.

Well, its clear, that you can get different results by changing the environmental facs, but there is a quite common answer that they teach you at school. Which is, talking in °celsius, 0 for freezing 100 for boiling. And its not "depends on how high you turn up the oven" or things similar.

that isn't what I said. The boiling and melting points of distilled water are as taught in basic primary school science lessons ('yay; another chance to look at some water' method of teaching.) But variables such as impurities and air pressure change this. This is why you can use salt to de-ice your drive in winter and in the chill of space your blood would literally boil out of you (if you didn't explode first; hence the pressurised suits).

WezV · « **Reply #62 on:** December 06, 2007, 04:36:06 PM »

hmmm - reminds me of all those secondary school science lessons i have helped out in with the special eduational needs kids. hard classes to control but always very excited to get the chance to boil some water, we must have literally timed how long it took water to boil a few hundred times!!!

badgermark · « **Reply #63 on:** December 06, 2007, 04:58:15 PM »

In comes the scientist. Ultra pure water turns to ice at around -40˚C. Boiling is all about pressure. So altitude affects boiling points greatly. But yes it is around 100˚C at sea level, and 68˚C ontop of Everest.

Out of curiosity, at STP (standard temp and pressure) room temperature is taken to be 25˚C, that's really warm! A hot room is usually ~23˚C, for this pasty Scottish person anyway...

apmaman · « **Reply #64 on:** December 07, 2007, 04:58:16 AM »

When i was in the duty free in Pensacola airport. The wifie at the counter asked where I was going. I said "Edingburgh, its in Scotland" She then said "oh its summer over there isnt it?"

Yeah.... Scotland, has its summer during december.... :lol:

Peter Antal · « **Reply #65 on:** December 08, 2007, 07:31:41 PM »

Here's the best one. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkHFk2hV28

The 'who to bomb' part with the fake maps is quite scary, though.

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #66 on:** December 09, 2007, 05:53:55 PM »

I saw an article in a backpacking mag in Australia about the questions Australians get asked by US tourists. A few that I remember were, 'Do you have supermarkets in Australia?' 'Can you get fresh milk in Australia?' 'Does the Sydney Harbour Bridge go to New Zealand? And one I got asked personally by what has to be the thickest woman I've ever met in a backpackers on Christmas Day, Melbourne was, 'Do English people get suntans?'

Anyway, yes thick people drive us all mad but the scary thing is the amount of them, or as the reasons that have been posted, Big Brother, Celeb pleb culture, X $%&#ter is the limit of their awareness. I even find that some people, think playing the guitar as a hobby as 'weird' :? Or choosing not to breed and add to the population as 'weird' Let's face it fellas we're devolving as a species on the whole. I know Primary teachers in London and their telling me that gang culture is now creeping into 8-10 year olds and are assaulting teachers.

Anyway I don't want to rant in here! :roll:

Did anyone see the Dimbleby Lecture last week on TV by Dr. J Craig Ventor?
It was a great talk and you can read it here. Its basically about our future.

I'm glad I was born when I was!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/12_december/05/dimbleby.shtml

http://www.jcvi.org/

Kilby · « **Reply #67 on:** December 09, 2007, 09:04:11 PM »

Some local moron (chav) attempted to chat up my daughter on Friday night, by showing her a video of him headbutting the shutters of a shop. Needless to say she was more than a little unimpressed.

On a slightly more serious note,

I was once told by a member of Easyjet check in staff that as a foregn national that I was legally required to carry a passport with me at all times.

Apparently Northern Ireland no longer part of the UK and is a foregn country !

So such stupidity is not limited to Americans and the chav community. Lets say that the exchange ened up with me being removed from Stanstead, by 2 equally unintellegent members of Sleazyjet staff

Thank christ the Met officers where sleeping or it may have been another foiled terrorist plot

indysmith · « **Reply #68 on:** December 09, 2007, 09:13:33 PM »

Quote from: Kilby

Lets say that the exchange ened up with me being removed from Stanstead, by 2 equally unintellegent members of Sleazyjet staff

Thank christ the Met officers where sleeping or it may have been another foiled terrorist plot

oh my god, lol. What happenned?
Lets be honest - the EasyJet staff member was blatantly a chav at work...

Kilby · « **Reply #69 on:** December 09, 2007, 10:24:26 PM »

Quote from: indysmith

oh my god, lol. What happenned?
Lets be honest - the EasyJet staff member was blatantly a chav at work...

Heh,
work sent me up to Glasgow (from London) and I didn't have a passport with me, and they refused to accept my NI driving license (it's a full UK license, but it was one of the photo ID ones (NI had them long before England, Wales & Scotland).

Anyway I was told my ID was invalid, and I couldn't have my ticket :( not only that she also stated that it was illegal for me to board a plane (or ineed travel) in the UK without a passport !

After pointing out to her that infact there was no legal obligation and that it was simplay an Easyjet policy she started to get unpleasent and stated that a foreign national must have a passport with them at all times !

Anyway after arguing with her for several minutes (and guessing I wasn't getting onto the plane) I asked if she had her passport with her. She was rather confused about this question, and asked why. at which point I informed her that she must be from Stupidland and that she really ought to return and lead her home country back into the dark ages.

At that point 2 of her coworkers ran behind the partition sniggering (at her I hope). A few minutes a copule of (supposidly male) Oompa-Loompas (see note for non UK readers) turned up and removed me from the airport.

Anyway my boss wasn't pleased, when I arrived into Canary Wharf instead of the Glasgow offive

* Theyre known as Oompa-Loompas cos the Sleasyjet company colour is orange, and in addition they suffer from the worst permatans known.

indysmith · « **Reply #70 on:** December 09, 2007, 11:00:09 PM »

I'd have been pretty pissed off too. I don't understand why they didn't let you on :/ Ridiculous rules

Kilby · « **Reply #71 on:** December 09, 2007, 11:06:44 PM »

Quote from: indysmith

I'd have been pretty pissed off too. I don't understand why they didn't let you on :/ Ridiculous rules

It could have been worse if the Met had turned up :x

Although it stinks when you read about dumb people (footballers, reality TV contestants and chavs), it's worse when theyre given a little bit of power.

Anyway I'm still laughing about my daughters admirer ;)

sambo · « **Reply #72 on:** December 10, 2007, 01:41:02 PM »

Hahaha what did your daughter actually say Rob?

"Yeah that's pretty good... but maybe if you did it a bit harder I would be more impressed"...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ted · « **Reply #73 on:** December 10, 2007, 03:38:18 PM »

Quote from: Kilby

Quote from: indysmith

oh my god, lol. What happenned?
Lets be honest - the EasyJet staff member was blatantly a chav at work...

Heh,
work sent me up to Glasgow (from London) and I didn't have a passport with me, and they refused to accept my NI driving license (it's a full UK license, but it was one of the photo ID ones (NI had them long before England, Wales & Scotland).

Anyway I was told my ID was invalid, and I couldn't have my ticket :( not only that she also stated that it was illegal for me to board a plane (or ineed travel) in the UK without a passport !

After pointing out to her that infact there was no legal obligation and that it was simplay an Easyjet policy she started to get unpleasent and stated that a foreign national must have a passport with them at all times !

Anyway after arguing with her for several minutes (and guessing I wasn't getting onto the plane) I asked if she had her passport with her. She was rather confused about this question, and asked why. at which point I informed her that she must be from Stupidland and that she really ought to return and lead her home country back into the dark ages.

At that point 2 of her coworkers ran behind the partition sniggering (at her I hope). A few minutes a copule of (supposidly male) Oompa-Loompas (see note for non UK readers) turned up and removed me from the airport.

Anyway my boss wasn't pleased, when I arrived into Canary Wharf instead of the Glasgow offive

* Theyre known as Oompa-Loompas cos the Sleasyjet company colour is orange, and in addition they suffer from the worst permatans known.

Class let us know when that particular episode of AIRPORT airs on ITV...now I'd like to see that on TV... :lol: :lol:

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #74 on:** December 10, 2007, 05:55:44 PM »

Weird! :? Easyjet let a friend of mine on a flight to Cornwall this year with an Australian driving license.
They are a bunch of orange numptys, I agree!