Bored facts that you have found out while in lock down

[Julia9054]

4.5 is the correct setting for crumpets, not toast.
The correct setting for toast is 3.5

 

[ColinJ]

I was watching an important educational video of a guy in Siberia emptying a pan of boiling water from his balcony, 9 floors up in a block of flats. (The water froze before it hit the ground!)

He said that the air temperature was "minus 41". Some smart arse in the comments told us that we needed to be told whether that was -41F or -41C. An even bigger smart arse told us that we did NOT need to know because -41F happens to be the same as -41C!

PS Sorry, It wasn't -40 it was -41!

The video...

 

[Teamfixed]

+61deg C or +16 deg F is the health and safety minimum temperature at work.

 

[ColinJ]

+61deg C or +16 deg F is the health and safety minimum temperature at work.

Do they specify the type of work?

That makes sense for office work, but I used to do pretty heavy manual labouring in a factory and I generated my own heat! In the summer I sometimes had to strip off to shorts to avoid getting too hot. In the winter I was happy in jeans and tee-shirt even once when the factory heating system packed up in a cold spell.

 

[Teamfixed]

I was h&s rep in school a while back, so that was the guidance for that. When the heating broke I was mercilessly hunted down to get my thermometer out. So no, you can freeze ya bearings off

 

[rockyroller]

our cats don't move all day

 

[rockyroller]

it is possible to run an errand at the grocery store with your pants on inside out w/o anyone mentioning it

 

[Teamfixed]

it is possible to run an errand at the grocery store with your pants on inside out w/o anyone mentioning it

They probably mistake them for a type of mask?
Edit: misread this... I thought you said wearing them on the outside!

 

[rockyroller]

They probably mistake them for a type of mask?

lol they weren't pulled up that high!

 

[Teamfixed]

Health and safety would have much to say about that

 

[ColinJ]

it is possible to run an errand at the grocery store with your pants on inside out w/o anyone mentioning it

I have an ongoing dread of going to the shops in the winter without my trousers (pants) on!

I wear long johns in the winter and if it were a milder day it would be possible to forget to add the trousers... (Do you call long-legged undergarments 'long johns' in the USA?)

 

[rockyroller]

(Do you call long-legged undergarments 'long johns' in the USA?)

yes! but in cycling circles, it's the "base layer"

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Vaccine comes from vaccinus which was coined by Jenner when he used cowpox to produce a vaccine against Smallpox. The first vaccine.

With Vacca being Latin for cow. Vaccine as in from the cow.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Index catalogue shops went out of business in 2005.

That's what happens when you make me redundant (I used to work for their parent company - did some work on a few of their computer systems!!!
They didn't implement my suggestions)

 

[Chromatic]

+61deg C or +16 deg F is the health and safety minimum temperature at work.