The totally off-topic thread

[Austman]

Anyone good at year 8 science:
1) Conduction works well in solids because the particles are .................. (2 words)?
2) Two possible sources of heat are chemical reactions and ..................?

1) Close together?
2) Friction?

 

[Rox]

Anyone good at year 8 science:
1) Conduction works well in solids because the particles are .................. (2 words)?
2) Two possible sources of heat are chemical reactions and ..................?

1. Close together
2. Sunlight
??
Just guessing
I've forgotten more than I learnt from high school physics
I'm sure the correct answers are far more sophisticated.

 

[JessicaTam]

Anyone good at year 8 science:
1) Conduction works well in solids because the particles are .................. (2 words)?
2) Two possible sources of heat are chemical reactions and ..................?

1: Lined up?
2: definitely friction

 

[rogerkambah]

Today has seen my first visit to Patong Beach (I think we can cross this one off the bucket list). I encountered my first taste of Little Australia. I didn't like what I saw :O

Sadly I have to agree. Not all Australian's though - plenty of other 'first world' countries represented - Germans, Russians, British, Dutch etc.

 

[rogerkambah]

$40 for a 24 inch hotdog at the baseball matches at the SCG. Y/N?

I saw it on TV this afternoon. There is a saying - 'A Fool and his money are soon parted'. I think that sums it up.

 

[rogerkambah]

1) Close together?
2) Friction?

I'm with Austman, but its been a long 54 years since I was in year 8 so may be wrong (I think not). Don't know whether we had different learning strategies in those days or whether it was because info was beaten into us by frequent testing, humiliation, the ruler, cane or a well aimed chalky duster, but my children and grand children are often amazed by the data (some of it seemingly useless), that I can produce from my brain.

A recent instance was when I took 15yo grandson to the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Nowra. After pointing out and explaining the detail of quite a lot of the exhibits, he went home and told his mum he had no idea his g'pa knew so much about aviation (not much really).

(its not much like the FAA museum at Yeovilton).

 

[anat0l]

Anyone good at year 8 science:
1) Conduction works well in solids because the particles are .................. (2 words)?
2) Two possible sources of heat are chemical reactions and ..................?

1. "Close together" or "in contact".
2. "Friction" is fine enough as an answer; not sure if there is meant to be one answer or many other answers are possible.

Heat is a flow of energy between two bodies defined by a temperature difference. So sources of heat are, naturally, things that are simply hotter than the receiving environment.

 

[yo yo ma]

Thanks all... my daughter initially put "closer together" which was wrong as the answers were close together and friction.

 

[Bindibuys]

$40 for a 24 inch hotdog at the baseball matches at the SCG. Y/N?

was there today, $9.50 for 2 bottles of water was enough to scare me off purchasing anything else.

 

[erkpod]

I saw it on TV this afternoon. There is a saying - 'A Fool and his money are soon parted'. I think that sums it up.

For anyone who didn't see it, here's a photo on one that was posted on my FB wall during this discussion. I wasn't at the game but I heard people talking about it.

 

[cove]

Better check the sausage length seeing it didn't quite fill the bun.

 

[amaroo]

Yesterday, my butcher talked me into a lamb shoulder on the bone - I'm glad I took his advice

Ready to go. A little olive oil, garlic and rosemary




After 4 hours in the oven




After 30mins resting





Beautiful! BTW - Squealing Pig Sav Blanc during the cooking phase and John Duval Shiraz for the eating phase...

 

[tuapekastar]

OK so I'm a bit late with the names but what about Roger Rogerson and Leigh Leigh who sadly was a Newcastle murder victim.

Well I'm really late in relating how a chap had his name in the MEL white pages as THE cough. And that's true, I saw it, and he had to take Telstra to court to force them to list it. Not been in there for a number of years now.

 

[TomVexille]

Yesterday, my butcher talked me into a lamb shoulder on the bone - I'm glad I took his advice

Ready to go. A little olive oil, garlic and rosemary

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After 4 hours in the oven

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After 30mins resting


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Beautiful! BTW - Squealing Pig Sav Blanc during the cooking phase and John Duval Shiraz for the eating phase...

That looks good. I'll have to do something similar soon.

 

[amaroo]

That looks good. I'll have to do something similar soon.

I'm a BBQ (hooded BBQ) roasting kind of chap......man, have I been missing the better things in life. It's so bloody simple it's laughable. Garlic and rosemary in the pot, salt, pepper and a little oil on the lamb, garlic and rosemary on top....put on the lid and whack it in the oven. Oven should be pre-heated at the maximum heat and as soon as you put the lamb in put it down to 160C. 4 hours later - Bellissimo!

 

[rogerkambah]

was there today, $9.50 for 2 bottles of water was enough to scare me off purchasing anything else.

Especially at 'events', merchants price products as to what they believe the (captive) market is prepared to pay. Sadly there is a lot of profiteering throughout the world, based on what the market is prepared to (or has to) pay.

A Bridgestone tyre for my SUV is around $220. Same tyre in the US can be had for around $100. Plenty of SUVs in Aus use this size tyre (215/65 16)

 

[marki]

Especially at 'events', merchants price products as to what they believe the (captive) market is prepared to pay. Sadly there is a lot of profiteering throughout the world, based on what the market is prepared to (or has to) pay.

A Bridgestone tyre for my SUV is around $220. Same tyre in the US can be had for around $100. Plenty of SUVs in Aus use this size tyre (215/65 16)

Wait for a special and frequently the price gets closer to the US price. But you are right that's why we buy O/S using MYUS of Shipito as forwarding agents!

Cheers

 

[TomVexille]

I'm a BBQ (hooded BBQ) roasting kind of chap......man, have I been missing the better things in life. It's so bloody simple it's laughable. Garlic and rosemary in the pot, salt, pepper and a little oil on the lamb, garlic and rosemary on top....put on the lid and whack it in the oven. Oven should be pre-heated at the maximum heat and as soon as you put the lamb in put it down to 160C. 4 hours later - Bellissimo!

Sounds brilliant

 

[drron]

I see it was a meatatarian night.For us it was beef cheeks in the slow cooker with thyme,garlic,onions,beef stock and red wine.It was so tender and tasty.Washed down with a very smooth Redmans 1991 Coonawarra Claret.

 

[erkpod]

Especially at 'events', merchants price products as to what they believe the (captive) market is prepared to pay. Sadly there is a lot of profiteering throughout the world, based on what the market is prepared to (or has to) pay.

A Bridgestone tyre for my SUV is around $220. Same tyre in the US can be had for around $100. Plenty of SUVs in Aus use this size tyre (215/65 16)

There are many examples this lately.


I saw that often recently. For the same 600ml(ish) bottle of Pepsi in the US in a somewhere like a 7/11, it is around $1.50 - $3 USD. The other night in a 7/11 in western Sydney, it was $4.10 AUD.