patronising digital advert

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:03:38 +0100, Java Jive
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Another was to get an old can, not one that contained anything highly
flammable, something like olive oil would do. Put a centimetre or two
of water in the tin, and boil it until steam is coming out of the top.
Then turn off the gas, and quickly, using oven gloves, replace the lid
making sure it's tight. Stand back and wait. After a while, the can
crumples.

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Simples.

Our local coffee bar uses steam from the espresso machine to collapse
pop bottles before they are put in the bin for collection by a quite
expensive waste service that charges by volume.

I do remember a letter to one of the papers years ago asking why they
didn't wait until the old people had died off before introducing
decimalisation

:-)


I was away training on D-Day and the quite old & poorly educated
ladies in the canteen had no problems with decimal currency (Been
trained you see) whereas the graduate engineers in the queue just
boggled when their time came to pay.

Derek

"Steve Terry" wrote in message
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"Andy Champ" wrote in message
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Mark Carver wrote:
tony sayer wrote:
It seems that in modern Britain, whilst racism is almost a capital
offence, ageism is officially condoned.

Totally agree!. Don't they -ever- think that one day they'll be old
to?..

You don't when you're in your twenties, and that's the root problem.

One of two roots. The other is - why are people that age in charge of
the ad. campaign anyway?
Andy


Gov ministers love giving contracts to quangos run or chaired by
their friends / relatives / children.

Every party since the war has claimed it will reduce quangos when they get
into office, then when they do they realise it's an easy and legal way to
funnel
large quantities of taxpayers money to friends and relatives.

As we don't have any anti-racketeering laws in the UK, our contractual
law is a farce and would be illegal in more civilised countries

Like where?

Z

....and meaningful relevant contributions to a thread.

Z

"james" wrote in message
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In message , Brian Gaff
writes

Whatever happened to dignity and tolerence?

Same thing that happened to logical, chronological posting! JF

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On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:16:24 +0100, geoff wrote:

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And *WHAT* were your thoughts on 'oldies' when you were in your teens,
twenties, thirties - and possibly forties when you were showing them
how to
use that new fangled invention called the video recorder - or even
early
mobile phones? ;-)

Actually, in my day it was hifi, but, while they needed some advice on
what technical specifications (remember them?) constituted hifi, none
of my parents had any difficulty at all in using such things.

I would have thought that setting up a hi-fi turntable and understanding the
need for a different input for a magnetic cartridge would have flummoxed
most people in the 70s.

HiFi is something the youth of today fail to understand.
They wouldn't buy mp3 players if they knew anything about HiFi.

Run of the mill audio is much better quality (wrt bass, treble and noise)
than was common in the past, at least electrically. A cheapy MP3 player
connected via the headphone socket to a hi-fi amp and speakers is almost as
good as CD.

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Max Demian

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 02:20:42 -0700 (PDT), Owain
wrote:

On 1 Sep, 00:03, Java Jive wrote:
Another was to get an old can, not one that contained anything highly
flammable, something like olive oil would do. *Put a centimetre or two
of water in the tin, and boil it until steam is coming out of the top.
Then turn off the gas, and quickly, using oven gloves, replace the lid
making sure it's tight. *Stand back and wait. *After a while, the can
crumples.

That one's atmospheric pressure.

Same thing can happen to hot water cylinders :-)

It can! I saw the results in an office kitchen when the plumbed-in hot
water boiler (substitute for a kettle) had been emptied of hot water to
make many cups of coffee and tea in the space of a few minutes. The cold
tap was turned on to refill it. The lid was an airtight fit -- Bang! --
one crumpled boiler! The tea lady who had been innocently using it was
almost as damaged, mentally, as the boiler. She recovered but the boiler
didn't.

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On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 00:26:37 +0100, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


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On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:06:19 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

I saw it before it was pulled. It is both humorous and informative.
The humour outweighs any hint of patronisation.

No, that's not possible in today's world. Suppose the film featured a black
person who was depicted as characteristically lazy and stupid, but was very
funny? That wouldn't be allowed would it?

I realised after I posted that one big difference between the Fox
(American) commercial and the BBC one described is that the Fox one had
a voiceover giving instructions and an old lady, and her wires, becoming
confused. There was no one else on screen. It was open to viewers of all
ages to think "I'd be just as confused as her".

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On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:20:32 +0100, Java Jive
wrote:

Years ago, I used to live in the Gloucester area, and Glyn Worsnip (I
think that was the name) used to write a weekly column in the local
rag.

There is a church in Westgate St missing the top of its spire. IIRC,
what actually happened is that after the war it was deemed unsafe (war
damage?), so the top 10 to 15 feet were removed and replaced by a cap.
What to do with the bit that had been removed? It was re-erected in a
bit of park round the back of the cathedral, near a supermarket
entrance, about a quarter to half a mile away from the original
church.

So, for April Fool's Day, Glyn Worsnip invented this cock 'n' bull
story that actually there was a complete church underneath the park,
with just its spire still showing above the surface. Laughter all
round ... Soon long forgotten in the wider scheme of things.

However, many years later, again around April 1st, he related that
recently he had happened to walk by the spire, and overheard one old
dear telling another about the buried church!

I wonder if Time Team would like to do a dig there?

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On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:09:42 +0100, james
wrote:

In message , Brian Gaff
writes

Whatever happened to dignity and tolerence?

Same thing that happened to logical, chronological posting! JF

James,
Brian Gaff is blind. His style of posting is dictated by practical
considerations.

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In article ,
lid says...


My stepfather used to teach me science through, say, explaining why
popcorn popped.

EXPLAIN

A favourite trick was to get an old-fashioned tin with a replacable
lid, like a syrup or treacle tin, and punch one hole with a nail
through each of the base and the lid. You then:
1) Remove the lid
2) Seal the hole in the base of the tin with a finger
3) Turn it upside down
4) Fill it with gas from the cooker (gas is lighter than air, so it
goes up into the tin). Er, turn the gas off once you smell gas! That
means it's full!
5) Replace the lid
6) Seal the hole in the lid with another finger (so you're now
sealing both)
7) Turn it the right way up
8) Run out into the garden and place it on something like a brick
9) Light the gas at the lid hole, and stand well back.
After a few seconds the lid goes about 15 feet in the air.

EXPLAIN

Another was to get an old can, not one that contained anything highly
flammable, something like olive oil would do. Put a centimetre or two
of water in the tin, and boil it until steam is coming out of the top.
Then turn off the gas, and quickly, using oven gloves, replace the lid
making sure it's tight. Stand back and wait. After a while, the can
crumples.

EXPLAIN


Why do flour mills explode?


Connect a funnel to a (longish) length of tubing.
Block the bottom of the funnel with a loose plug of tissue and pour
flour into the funnel.
Place a lighted candle on the top of a wall or similar, a couple of
inches from the edge.
Hold funnel against wall and place 7lb biscuit tin or similar over both
candle and funnel, so that funnel is held in place btween tin and wall.
Blow sharply down tubing.
The tin may travel some considerable distance, so stand well clear!


EXPLAIN

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Terry

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:05:53 +0100, Terry Casey
wrote:



Why do flour mills explode?

The same reason that explosions occurred in some cotton mills.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion

Connect a funnel to a (longish) length of tubing.
Block the bottom of the funnel with a loose plug of tissue and pour
flour into the funnel.
Place a lighted candle on the top of a wall or similar, a couple of
inches from the edge.
Hold funnel against wall and place 7lb biscuit tin or similar over both
candle and funnel, so that funnel is held in place btween tin and wall.
Blow sharply down tubing.
The tin may travel some considerable distance, so stand well clear!


EXPLAIN

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