Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[Toshiba Boy]

Auto-correct nightmares.....

 

[Accy cyclist]

I might've posted about this before, so if I have please excuse my memory problem. While listening to the radio tonight the name Max Headroom was mentioned. For any who don't know who he was/is... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom I watched this character's tv show in the 1980's, but it wasn't till the early 2000's when I realised the meaning of his name, as I looked up and saw this sign when leaving a car park.

 

[ColinJ]

I use the Microsoft SwiftKey screen keyboard on my phone and tablet. After many years of use, I have now discovered an easy way to move the text cursor about... Press and hold the spacebar, then drag the cursor to exactly where you want it.

 

[ColinJ]

And I then discovered that I had disabled that option on the phone... I have now enabled it, since it makes cursor control much easier on the phone's small screen.

 

[Sharky]

Differences between whole, semi skimmed and skimmed milk.

Always assumed that the skimmed variants contained less fat content than whole milk.

We always use semi skimmed.

But I didn't realise that the calcium content was highest in the skimmed milk and the semi content was higher than the whole milk.

 

[Jameshow]

Differences between whole, semi skimmed and skimmed milk.

Always assumed that the skimmed variants contained less fat content than whole milk.

We always use semi skimmed.

But I didn't realise that the calcium content was highest in the skimmed milk and the semi content was higher than the whole milk.

I guess the calcium isn't I the fat so remove the fat and the calcium level goes up?

 

[Sharky]

I guess the calcium isn't I the fat so remove the fat and the calcium level goes up?

Yep, the ratio of water increases and the calcium is in the water. So for bones issues, better to drink skimmed milk!

 

[Kingfisher101]

I'm usually the only man in my daytime gym classes. 50 years after women's liberation it's still the men who go out to work and the women who stay at home.

A lot of them might be retired or work flexibly from home or do shifts etc.

 

[Reynard]

So for bones issues, better to drink skimmed milk!

Aaaaah, theory...

In practice, skimmed milk is vile. Semi-skimmed is tolerable at best.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Differences between whole, semi skimmed and skimmed milk.

Always assumed that the skimmed variants contained less fat content than whole milk.

We always use semi skimmed.

But I didn't realise that the calcium content was highest in the skimmed milk and the semi content was higher than the whole milk.

I was told to go on a "pre diabetes" course a while ago
turned out to be pointless because by the time I got on one my levels had been re-measured and were below the problem level - FOUR times - but they didn;t think to tell me


anyway - back to the point - turns out that skimmed milk has slightly more sugar per litre than full fat
for the same reason as the calcium I presume!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That black holes have a maximum spin rate and that the one at the centre of the Milky Way is between 86% and 94% of max.

 

[richardfm]

Aaaaah, theory...

In practice, skimmed milk is vile. Semi-skimmed is tolerable at best.

My Aunt, who was a farmer in Devon who produced proper full fat milk, called semi or skimmed "white water".

 

[Alex321]

Aaaaah, theory...

In practice, skimmed milk is vile. Semi-skimmed is tolerable at best.

We actually prefer skimmed milk in drinks (Tea & coffee for my wife, tea for me as I have my coffee black), and I will use it when making a cheese sauce, but for use on cereal, or just as a drink, it has to be whole milk.

 

[Reynard]

We actually prefer skimmed milk in drinks (Tea & coffee for my wife, tea for me as I have my coffee black), and I will use it when making a cheese sauce, but for use on cereal, or just as a drink, it has to be whole milk.

I will occasionally buy semi-skimmed if it's super cheap on sticker, as you say for cooking with, or for the parental's breakfast cereal, but not for tea, as it just tastes funny in tea.

Besides, the cat looks at me funny if I serve her anything else BUT full cream milk...

 

[Alex321]

I will occasionally buy semi-skimmed if it's super cheap on sticker, as you say for cooking with, or for the parental's breakfast cereal, but not for tea, as it just tastes funny in tea.

It's what you are used to. To me, tea tastes really odd with full cream milk.

Besides, the cat looks at me funny if I serve her anything else BUT full cream milk...

None of our cats were actually all that keen on milk. And we have owned (or been owned by) seven over the last 40 years.