The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread Question Thread!
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Ah, good show.
Emperor2
Capitalist Missionary
Can anyone direct me to some songs with a similar style and melody as the mojority of what is played in tthis one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZFiMo8TIc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZFiMo8TIc&NR=1
Julian Delphiki
Anton's key
Anyone got link of instructions how to iron trouser presses (not sure about correct word)?
Abaddon
Deity
How to iron a trouser press?
I think your doing it wrong
I think your doing it wrong
Enkidu Warrior
Ultramagnetic
Strictly speaking it should only be cod. While haddock has long been common in chippies, if you want to order it you ask for haddock and chips, not fish and chips. Now that we've eaten most of the cod in the sea a bit of pragmatism is doing away with all the strict speaking business though. Pollock is a common replacement for cod and if it isn't perfectly acceptable for fish and chips now it will be soon.
Mise
isle of lucy
Is it true that you can't tell which direction bass frequencies are coming from? If so, how come? Is it due to the shape of your ears?
Enkidu Warrior
Ultramagnetic
I must preface this by saying that I have absolutely no idea.
But, it occurs to me that when you hear bass, your whole body actually feels it, since it travels so well through walls and floors and bodies and the like. So you're hearing the waves vibrating through your body as much as you're hearing them through the air from the original source. You can't detect the source, because as far as your ears are concerned you are the source.
I studied physics but if for some reason the above speculation turns out to be right, the credit has to go to years going clubbing, not anything I picked up in a lecture.
Mise
isle of lucy
Hmm, well, bass certainly seems to "fill" the room. But I'm not sure if the way we here it is due to that "fullness", or if the feeling of "fullness" is due to the way we hear it. I figured the wavelength of low frequencies is around 5-10m, as opposed to a 50cm-1m of so for middle frequencies, so it bends round the whole body rather than just the ear. Again, total speculation.
Hitti-Litti
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You adults there, has any of you really needed algebra or electric chemistry in your life? I have a math test tomorrow and a chemistry test day after tomorrow. 
Mise
isle of lucy
Hells yeah... It might be a bit unfair to talk about algebra, being as I use it regularly in my job. But chemistry was useful just to know things like why things rust, what I shouldn't eat when I just wake up, why it's a good idea to wear gloves when cleaning the oven, why I shouldn't leave my guitar by the radiator, why putting salt in the water and leaving the lid on makes water boil faster... etc.You adults there, has any of you really needed algebra or electric chemistry in your life? I have a math test tomorrow and a chemistry test day after tomorrow.
Also, I use terms like "activation energy" (with accompanying graphs) to explain why subscription-based services should target hard-to-get customers.
EdwardTking
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When I was young (I'm 52) Brit, they'd offer me a choice of Cod or Plaice.
Now I am often offered Rock Salmon which isn't salmon at all, but the flesh
of the dogfish, wolffish or catfish. I've had halibut occasionally.
Yes, any quality white fish will suffice. But not oil rich fish.
To my mind freshness and the type and quality of the cooking oil are all far more important than the particular fish species.
jessiecat
Divine Monarch
I live in a fishing port in Cornwall which is also a major tourist town.
As you say, cod is always first choice in fish and chips, haddock is second.
Neither fish is common in these waters but pollack is plentiful. I have often
gone on fishing trips from our harbour and regularly caught pollack up to
10lbs. each. Pollack is better filletted and pan fried with butter and herbs.
My favourite fish done this way is mackerel, more flavour and full of very
healthy omega oils. The real delicacies caught around here are sea bass
or turbot which are the most expensive fish served in restaurants.
Enkidu Warrior
Ultramagnetic
Personally I've come to understand that cooking a fish is the worst thing you could possibly do to it.
jessiecat
Divine Monarch
The last and only time I ate it raw was when I ate a pound of frozen haddock
and washed it down with cheap Canadian port. Made a lovely red splash in the
snow when I threw it back up. Yes, I was very drunk.
Abaddon
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What do you think to all the chefs coming an making a mint in cornwall.. isnt there a Ramsey's/Olivers/etc springing up all over the place.
Doesnt it mean you can't afford Cornwall houses?
Doesnt it mean you can't afford Cornwall houses?
Julian Delphiki
Anton's key
How to iron a trouser press?
I think your doing it wrong
I guess it's the problem of finding correct term in English, trouser press means thing that you put clothes you iron, right?
What i'm after is how to iron those sharp things to pants and in Finnish those are called "prässi", which means "pressed" along other things.
jessiecat
Divine Monarch
Interesting question.
Where are you from, and how have you heard about the chefs anyway?
Celebrity chefs set up restaurants in Cornwall to take advantage of very
fresh seafood and the thousands of tourists who come here. The best
example of this is Rick Stein who has gourmet restaurants in Padstow,
Newlyn and St. Ives. Some people describe Padstow as "Padstein" because
of all the property he owns there and the effect on local property prices.
Stein has given a boost to my town, Looe, which has the second biggest
fishing fleet in Cornwall. Because they are all only day trawlers, their catch
is often in the London restaurants and European markets the same or the
next day. Rick Stein recommends our fish as the freshest in the U.K..
You are right about the property prices though, but it's not the chefs
who have caused this.
It's the thousands of well-off English tourists who buy cottages as holiday homes
and then only use them for a few weeks of the year. Because of this, prices are
just as high as London, there are fewer homes coming on the market, and the locals
esp. young couples with lower wages have no chance to get on the property ladder.
It is probably the main reason why the English are resented by the Cornish.
Not true. You have different ways of judging where a sound is coming from. The level difference is the difference in volume between ears, and the time difference is obvious. The distortion caused by the pinna is a little addition to that.
One is more effective at high frequencies, one at low frequencies, but I forget which way round. Although human sound pinpointing isn't very accurate in the best of circumstances, I've never seen anything to suggest that our ability to identify the location of bass is worse.
If it's true it might be to do with vibration, resonance and properties of bass sound in our environment, rather than human biology.
cthom
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for you or the fish?
the only time i eat cod is when i'm in an english chippie, so usually it's haddock.on the subject of food: shortcrust pastry for steak pie. should it be illegal? they are now selling this monstrosity in a harry ramsden outlet at glasgow airport. i ask for steak pie i expect normal puff pastry. like all normal folk
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