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ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| escargot1 wrote: | Just that. And the balaclava.
Not even a sock. |
Lies! I was also wearing my Masonic garters. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17709 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 3 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 07-01-2012 18:30 Post subject: |
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| The Ambassador is spoiling us! |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 12-01-2012 01:17 Post subject: |
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Vid at link.
| Quote: | Students break record by folding toilet paper 13 times
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/01/paper-folding-limits-pushed.html
15:01 11 January 2012
It may look like a prank but these mathematics students from St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts aren't toilet papering the famed infinite corridor at MIT. Using intricate choreography and brute force, they're breaking a paper-folding record by completing 13 folds, a challenge that students at the school have been tackling for seven years with the help of teacher James Tanton.
Based on the thickness of a sheet of paper, a formula can be used to calculate the minimum length needed to fold it a given number of times. Paper roughly doubles in size with each fold and the sides become more rounded, making it harder and harder to bend. Wrinkles also have a significant impact, making the formula difficult to follow in practice. In addition, no single roll is long enough to fold thirteen times, requiring the group to tape together numerous rolls of industrial toilet paper 1.2 kilometers long.
To achieve the feat, the students first arranged and taped 64 layers of paper into the physical structure of the sixth fold. When you fold paper, the layers on the end form a pattern of peaks and valleys, so the configuration mimicked these layers to accommodate the 16 kilometers of paper inside. The students then proceeded to physically fold the stack. The final result was a 1.5-metre wide and 76-centimetre high wad comprising 8192 layers of paper.
Although no official rules govern the record, the students decided that the folds must be in one direction and that the complete structure should be freestanding.
Until 2002, it was thought that paper could only be folded a maximum of seven times. High school student Britney Gallivan dispelled the popular myth by resolving the mathematics and successfully folding a single roll of toilet paper twelve times in a record-breaking feat.
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 29-01-2012 11:40 Post subject: |
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Need a place to spend a penny? There's a app for that
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:54 AM on 29th January 2012
Have you ever been out and wondered where the nearest toilet is? Well you might not have to wonder for much longer.
A new smartphone app which shows you where the closest lavatory is by using government information has won the top prize in a new competition.
Developed by three students from the University of Amsterdam hoge nood, which means 'desperate need' is able to tell the difference between public and semi-public toilets.
A public toilet is a stand-alone facility that is available to everyone and a semi-public is a place that is generally open to the public such as a department store or a pub.
The app is currently only available in the Netherlands but it is hoped it will soon be rolled out to other Western countries and will no doubt prove popular with tourists.
The competition was set up to design apps using free information provided by the government.
Maxime Verhagen, Economic affairs minister, said he hoped this would encourage people in the country to make as much use of free government information as possible.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093195/Ever-wondered-nearest-public-toilet-Now-using-new-smartphone-app.html#ixzz1kqIB2Gn0 |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 480 |
| Posted: 29-01-2012 12:18 Post subject: |
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| That app is needed by those with IBS. The sooner it's rolled out europe wise, the better. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5543 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 29-01-2012 16:17 Post subject: |
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"A public toilet is a stand-alone facility . . . "
If you are lucky! More often a hideous troll appears, whistling Strangers in the Night!
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 23-02-2012 09:04 Post subject: |
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A bit of a WTF!
Human faeces blamed for tapeworm 'riddled' bullock
A Cornish farmer has claimed to have lost up to £1,000 in income after one of his "prized bullocks" was found to be infected by human tapeworm.
Beef farmer Robert Trezise said a west Cornwall abattoir found the animal to be unfit for human consumption.
He said people using his fields as an "impromptu toilet" could have been the cause.
He claimed the abattoir told him the only possible way it could have been infected was by "eating human faeces".
Mr Trezise said: "I got a phone call from the auctioneer saying the abattoir had told them one of the animals had been put in the bin because it was riddled with human tapeworm.
"I just worry for the next lot that the same thing is going to happen."
Lostwithiel vet Nicky Paull said in her 30 year working life it was the "first time" she had ever come across such a thing.
"It used to be more common over 100 years ago when perhaps hygiene wasn't as good and perhaps when farmers and their livestock lived in much closer proximity," Ms Paull said.
"Nowadays one wouldn't expect to see this at all.
"On the whole cattle are fairly fastidious with what they are eating and you wouldn't expect them to normally eat human faeces.
"One has to accept that if you have footpaths across your land, someone, perhaps even a small child may be caught short."
Ms Paull said it was important that the abattoir spotted it and was able to "take it out of the human food chain".
"I don't think we need to get in a panic about it. This isn't going to be a massive outbreak."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17128515 |
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| drbates Great Old One Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Total posts: 453 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-02-2012 21:57 Post subject: |
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| JamesWhitehead wrote: | "A public toilet is a stand-alone facility . . . "
If you are lucky! More often a hideous troll appears, whistling Strangers in the Night!
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Thats what happens if you insist on going under BRIDGES  |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17709 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 3 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 09-03-2012 10:47 Post subject: |
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Loos handed over to campaigners in Llansannan
An article from the North Wales News, Nov 17 2010. The toilets have now been renovated and are in use. I've just seen them on the telly!
| Quote: | Loos handed over to campaigners in Llansannan
by Steve Stratford, Daily Post
A BLOCK of toilets saved from closure will be handed over to a community group to run for the first time in Conwy county.
Today a Conwy County Council representative will hand over keys to the public conveniences in Llansannan near Abergele.
The loos had been run by Conwy County Council which must make significant savings in coming years.
Cllr Sue Lloyd Williams said the transfer is the first case of its kind in the county.
She added: “The toilets were due to be closed but we formed Menter Bro Aled and have worked hard to keep them open.
“We feel the toilets are well used by tourists and if they had closed they would have been an empty shell slap bang in the middle of the square.”
Menter Bro Aled will run the WCs which will be cleaned by a local businesswoman.
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 12-03-2012 23:54 Post subject: |
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Scottish Wildlife Trust builds £50,000 loo on Handa
A public toilet is being built at a cost of £50,000 on a tiny isle that is uninhabited for six months of the year.
The loo on Handa off Scotland's north west coast is being constructed in such a way that it can withstand gale-force winds and be eco-friendly.
The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT), which manages the isle, said it was needed for about 6,000 birdwatchers who visit over spring and summer.
The island now has a small bothy and toilet for volunteers and SWT staff.
However, the facilities cannot cope with the annual influx of birdwatchers.
The foundations for the new toilet need to be two metres (7ft) deep to stop it from blowing into the Atlantic.
With no running water on the island, people who use it will sprinkle sawdust after a visit. It will be cleared out every two years.
Highland Council and the Scottish government have contributed towards its cost.
Handa has about 100,000 seabirds, including 250 pairs of puffins.
Great skua are another popular species with ornithologists, but are known to dive bomb people and attack other seabirds.
Handa lies three miles (4.8km) off Sutherland's coast and is about 763 acres (309 hectares) in size.
Rock climbing as a hobby and a sport is said to have started on the island. Three men from Lewis, in the Western Isles, ascended its Great Stac in 1876.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17338746 |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13303 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-03-2012 20:40 Post subject: |
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| It may not be used that much, but I bet you'd be grateful for it if you happened to visit. |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5719 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 13-03-2012 23:31 Post subject: |
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| Id use the ground, same as everyone else. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13303 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-03-2012 18:44 Post subject: |
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| Kondoru wrote: | | Id use the ground, same as everyone else. |
Even if you needed a number two? |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17657 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 27-03-2012 23:40 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Yorkshire Water criticises dog mess left hanging on trees
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17522300
The company asked owners to clean up after their dogs
Yorkshire Water has criticised "the senseless behaviour" of some owners who hang bags of dog mess from tree branches.
The company said the problem was particularly bad at four reservoirs - Eccup near Leeds, Fewston and Swinsty, Harrogate and Langsett in Barnsley.
It said it cost about £40,000 to clear up dog mess at its sites.
Geoff Lomas, from Yorkshire Water, asked owners to clean up after their pets and to use the bins provided.
'Incredibly sad'
The recreation and catchment manager said: "It's incredibly sad that despite our best efforts... people are having to spend more time watching where they're walking rather than actually enjoying their walk."
The company said it was only a "small minority" of dog owners who caused the problem.
In an effort to deter this behaviour Yorkshire Water organises visits to its sites by council wardens who are able to fine anyone not clearing up after their dog.
Matt Thompson, of Yorkshire Water, said: "We don't want dog mess anywhere near our reservoirs." |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-04-2012 09:39 Post subject: |
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Rolling Stones museum opens in small German town
Rolling Stones Museum includes controversial urinals in the shape of the group's famous 'tongue' logo.
12:02PM BST 27 Apr 2012
A German couple today opened a museum devoted to legendary British rock band, the Rolling Stones, complete with urinals in the shape of the group's famous 'tongue' logo.
The museum, in the small eastern German town of Luechow, will show "thousands of pieces" of memorabilia, including an original signed pool table the group took on tour, instruments, posters and a Stones pinball machine.
The Stones-mad couple, Birgit and Ulrich Schroeder, say the museum - in a town with a population of less than 10,000 - is the world's first devoted to the ageing rockers.
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The museum's famous urinals made headlines around the world after several local women complained they were degrading.
"It was the best publicity we could possibly have had," said Schroeder, confirming the toilets were still on display.
"People came from far away just to use the toilet." 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9231176/Rolling-Stones-museum-opens-in-small-German-town.html |
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