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I had to think what you meant about B Matthews
It seems to be very popular. Is it not just like McDonald's stuff, but to be cooked at home ?
Someone said that the supermarket Bailey's was nice drizzled over ice cream
Bit too sweet and creamy for my taste though.What have you got agin the German supermarkets ? I like their fruit and veg
and their big jars of olives and they sell local produce too. Hear ? I meant to comment on this; Lidl's are apparantly under fire for 'heartlessly' selling reindeer steaks, before Christmas
Carnivore that you are, I thought you'd approve
How come Ikea can do it and no one complains there though ?
The endless mindnumbing, "so here it is, Merry Christmas", really grates on me. I feel heart sorry for those working in shops who have to listen to it day in day out for weeks on end
Merry Christmas, right enough 
Don't know about the rest of you, but at this time of year my pantry is stuffed anyway. It's my default setting for late Autumn/ Winter after all the Summer produce has been dealt with. Besides, after the last couple of Winters, I'd rather not have to shop when the roads and paths become like ice rinks.
cheers,
M
I don't mind the German spuermarkets - except when elderley neighbour ladies purchase "seasonal delights".
I was once presented with a glass of cheap arsed fake creme de menthe.
It was a pint.
and it was warm.
I still wake screaming in the night.
As for the late B. Matthews (may he be roasted in his own juices), when the wind is from the North East I can smell his damn turkey sheds. From a quarter of a mile away (no joke). I wouldn't eat that factory farmed filth if I still had a live rat to scoff. Or a two week dead one that drowned in a sewer come to that.
Quite happy to chow down on Rudolph though
I was once presented with a glass of cheap arsed fake creme de menthe.
It was a pint.
and it was warm.
I still wake screaming in the night.
As for the late B. Matthews (may he be roasted in his own juices), when the wind is from the North East I can smell his damn turkey sheds. From a quarter of a mile away (no joke). I wouldn't eat that factory farmed filth if I still had a live rat to scoff. Or a two week dead one that drowned in a sewer come to that.
Quite happy to chow down on Rudolph though
Oh that would scunner you of it for life :cringe:
Ah, I kind of feel the same way about the ScotchFrost factory about a km away from us. It's only when the wind is in one, thankfully rare, position, but the whiff of stale frying is absolutely stomach churningly vile when walking down the main road.
How can they make food smell so bad ?
It did seem to be one of those, "Think of the children!", complaints, I thought. No real reasoning thought behind it.
M
Ah, I kind of feel the same way about the ScotchFrost factory about a km away from us. It's only when the wind is in one, thankfully rare, position, but the whiff of stale frying is absolutely stomach churningly vile when walking down the main road.
How can they make food smell so bad ?
It did seem to be one of those, "Think of the children!", complaints, I thought. No real reasoning thought behind it.
M
can I just point out that all comets have 2 tails when they approach the Sun? one made of matter blown off them by solar radiation and another left in their wake? not rare at all
we're talking about a race of people (mayans) who used base 20 for all of their calculations and made everything fit neatly, including their astronomical calculations, their perception of time etc (The Maya name for a day was k'in. Twenty k'ins are known as a winla or uinal. Eighteen winals make 1 tun. Twenty tuns are a k'atun and twenty k'atuns make a b'ak'tun.) lot of 20's there. This means that they didn't measure anything, they just said 20 of everything and made it fit (there are only 360 days in the Mayan calendar, whereas there are definitely 365.25 days in a solar year. we make this fit by adding a day every 4 years). so these people altered time, space, nature etc to fit the number of wiggly appendages they had.
I also will not take advice on what date it is from people who sacrificed each other to keep 'the gods' happy, call me old fashioned if you will.
we're talking about a race of people (mayans) who used base 20 for all of their calculations and made everything fit neatly, including their astronomical calculations, their perception of time etc (The Maya name for a day was k'in. Twenty k'ins are known as a winla or uinal. Eighteen winals make 1 tun. Twenty tuns are a k'atun and twenty k'atuns make a b'ak'tun.) lot of 20's there. This means that they didn't measure anything, they just said 20 of everything and made it fit (there are only 360 days in the Mayan calendar, whereas there are definitely 365.25 days in a solar year. we make this fit by adding a day every 4 years). so these people altered time, space, nature etc to fit the number of wiggly appendages they had.
I also will not take advice on what date it is from people who sacrificed each other to keep 'the gods' happy, call me old fashioned if you will.
Surely not
As they approach the sun their wake is behind them, as is the matter pushed off by solar wind.
Having orbited the sun, their wake would be behind them, but the solar wind would push matter in front of them....no?
Both point away from the sun but there are two. Ion tail out the back and solar wind driven debris off the side.
I use 10 as a basis for all mine. I would use 20 but it would mean taking my shoes and socks off...
Actually 365.25 isn't completely accurate either. There's 365 days, 11 hours, and I forget exactly how many minutes in a solar year. Therefore our 1 day correction every four years is an overcorrection and has to be skipped every so often (IIRC it's about once a century that we skip leap year) And even that doesn't put us totally accurate.
both ways but depending on where it is in its orbit, solar wind at ejection from the sun is super high speed but as it moves away it will slow, a comets speed will increase after it passes the sun, so there will be a curve if you like.
sorry didnt write that very well. it will move both ways depending on trajectory to or from the sun but when the solar wind weakens enough the comet will effectively revert back to tail behind. eventualy on head back out into deep space the tail disappears as the comet cools.
plenty on wiki to read. im not an expert but its stuff that interests me
plenty on wiki to read. im not an expert but its stuff that interests me
Yep I get it happens both ways - what I meant was the more the comet approaches a collision course with the sun, the less difference between solar wind and wake?
yes definitely, in fact if the comet passed through the coronal mass ejection the tail can be disconnected completely. bit like going to the comet car wash (technical boffin term )
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