random stuff

[Jeremy]

I think it's mainly due to the fact that it's only a thin piece, therefore high surface area, so the heat dissipates quickly. That's got to be much more relevant than the specific heat capacity, right?

[Annette Curtain]

Those weird shrink-at-the-edges but wobbly bodied thingy trays

Recycled Daleks, no ?

EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE

[El Pibe]

from the frankly marvellous National Office of Importance

[KidKruger]

That's hilarious !!

My Dad's a hovercraft pilot, I'll send that pic to him, ha ha !

[El Pibe]

Makes you feel small doesn't it!!

 

[Salsaboy]

I can see my house in it.

[StraferJack]

some great pictures of old London pubs

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/10/02/the-pubs-of-old-london/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SpitalfieldsLife+%28Spitalfields+Life%29

[????]

Brilliant SJ. A reasonable number of them still there too....or at least when I last looked.

[StraferJack]

Aye - obviously ye olde cheshire cheese looks pretty much exactly the same from that angle but a place like the Anchor will have seen some changes

[El Pibe]

Great stuff. Been to the grapes a couple of times, ye olde mitre too.

I love some of them that look like an old speakeasy or something.

[LondonLogCo]

Random stuff:

Just overheard a conversation between 2 builders.

"Jimmy's asked if you can bring him that 50 shades of Grey book on your next visit"

"Wassatt then"

"They can't get dirty mags anymore on the lifer wing, so that's the book they all read now"

[Jeremy]

Ten years ago, someone crashed into the back of my car on Purley Way. Despite giving me his name and number, and having a few good natured phone calls, he soon disappeared off the radar, and the insurance company couldn't get in touch with him.

A few years later, I realised that this was the man who had crashed into my car:

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

[steveo]

He probably deserved punishment for messing up your car but 20 years for knocking up some MDMA seems a bit strong

[Huguenot]

Never underestimate the consequences of being annoying.

[Ted Max]

Got drunk, bought 69% of global market in crude oil futures.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/49197769

[Ted Max]

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[Ted Max]

FFS. A new low. Lower even than the one previously reached with twop tips about how to get on a plane.

[El Pibe]

What a brilliant story Ted.

[????]

Fook me. And all I do when I am pissed on the Internet is fall out with a few mates from the EDF.

[El Pibe]

Riots and ragtime

and waaaaay before the like of Lady Gaga *spits* "there was a clause in the insurance contract stipulating that she must never wash the dishes."

and just for interest, that corner today

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=82+Railton+Road,+London&hl=en&ll=51.457871,-0.10819&spn=0.007327,0.014033&sll=51.528642,-0.101599&sspn=0.468191,0.898132&oq=82+railton&hnear=82+Railton+Rd,+London+Borough+of+Lambeth,+London+SE24,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.457963,-0.108315&panoid=jIHhLPjE4zSWBpMkvL37Rg&cbp=12,182.41,,0,7.98tonk-woman-winifred-atwell-and-the-railton-road-in-brixton/

and this quote could put the cat among the pigeons in the class thread

"Whether the Queen?s spirits needed lifting as well we don?t know but Winifred performed later at a private performance for the Queen and Princess Margaret at Buckingham Palace where she played Roll Out the Barrel and other Royal favourites."

[Jeremy]

Croaky-voiced 80s pop star Paul Young was doing a book signing in the foyer of our office building today. Nobody was interested, and the poor guy looked bored and rather embarrassed.

The last guy to do a book signing in our building was Italian TV chef Gino D'Acampo. Back in the 90s, Gino D'Acampo served two years in prison after burgling Paul Young's house.

[El Pibe]

coooool, lightning in super duper slow motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1mB5rM8WHU

"It starts with a branching bundle of charge?the ?leader??descending from the cloud. This is what you see in the first part of the video. It spreads downward at speeds of tens to hundreds of kilometers per second, covering the few kilometers to the ground in a few dozen milliseconds.

The leader carries comparatively little current?on the order of 200 amps. That?s still enough to kill you, but it?s nothing compared to what happens next. Once the leader makes contact with the ground, the cloud and the ground equalize with a massive discharge of more like 20,000 amps. This is the blinding flash you see. It races back up the channel at a significant fraction of the speed of light, covering the distance in under a millisecond?all within a single frame of that video.

(Technical detail: while it?s called a ?return stroke?, charge is still flowing downward. However, the discharge appears to propagate upward. This effect similar to how when a traffic light turns green, the cars in front start moving, then the cars in back, so the movement appears to spread backward.)"

[El Pibe]

Just when I think this screwed up world can't surprise me, I read this (in someone else's linky) about cambodia's ersatz orphan industry.

http://www.movetocambodia.com/working-in-cambodia/volunteering-in-cambodia/

[the-e-dealer]

Anybody else had their car damaged by a celebrity?

[Jeremy]

Just a regular guy taking his dog out for a walk, right?

Wrong.

Very wrong.

The dog is more than just this man's best friend.