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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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Mistoffelees

15:07 / 18.07.06

I was afraid, it might be something like that, paranoidwriter, but as long as it does not happen again, I won´t start anything. The marks are still visible but look well healed.

Thanks for your thoughts!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:21 / 18.07.06

Olulabelle

16:59 / 18.07.06

The website garlic-central.com has an interesting discussion on that.

Personally, I can't get over the fact there's a whole website dedicated to garlic. How much does that rock?

Thanks for all the bus/dog info everyone, I'm going to have a go and see. I shall report back on the status of dog travel in Birmingham.

■

19:10 / 18.07.06

A young seagull has taken up residence in the courtyard at the back of my house. It's been there about a week and although it flaps its wings occasionally it just won't fly. It doesn't look ill or anything but it just wanders around spending most of its time doing a rather pathetic call and reponse routine with a couple of adult birds that come and go but never land. I've never seen it being fed but some helpful (but probably misguided) person has left it a bowl of water which it camps out next to during the day. I think the best thing to do would be just to leave it, but the little fella looks so lost. I'm sure it's not the sort of thing the SSPCA or RSPB will care too much about (it's not ill or in distress), so any ideas if I should do anything or just treat it as a rather pathetic neighbour.

Dead Megatron

19:33 / 18.07.06

If you have flea problems, eat lots of garlic. Apparently it gets into your blood and they don't like it (you can get garlic pills for dogs too, whether travelling by bus or not!). I've often wondered whether this is connected the whole "vampires not liking garlic" thing.

Yeah, bugs hate garlic. It works with mosquitos just as well. Probably, if I remember my ecology and evolutional genetics classes from way back in the mid-90s, plants develop such scents over the millenia to keep insects and other "predators" from eating them up. Eucalypt works the same way, but you don't want to eat that, unless you're a real life koalla.

Unfortunally, most people dislike people who smell like garlic just as much as bugs do, so you have to weight in the cost-benefit ratio.

Olulabelle

20:15 / 18.07.06

Cube, I think you should phone the RSPB. They will be interested if you say the bird hasn't flown away for a week. Please call.

■

20:18 / 18.07.06

Will do tomorrow. Good to know that it's not just me who finds it odd.

■

11:25 / 19.07.06

Nice SPCA woman who was coincidentally in the next close over tells me it's nothing to worry about, and that if it hadn't been fed it would look terrible and not be able to walk. And to confirm that, it's now buggered off somewhere. Feel better now.

Yay!

Can any Latin scholars provide a translation of tempus edax rectum, please? It's a slogan which has been used in obvious reference to Ovid's tempus edax rerum, which is usually translated as "Time, the devourer of all things".

Quantum

12:48 / 19.07.06

cube, is that behind my house in Brighton by the Eagle? The exact same thing is happening there.

Spaniel

12:51 / 19.07.06

You live by The Eagle? Poor you.

Although the Basket Makers is nearby and that is gud.

Jub

13:11 / 19.07.06

DDP - is this a Laibach thing?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

13:25 / 19.07.06

Everything is a Laibach thing!

Um, sorry, yes, it is indeed.

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:55 / 19.07.06

It's pig-latin - doesn't really mean anything. timor is "fear", edax "gnawer" and "rectum" means something like "moral uprightness", but I imagine they are just making a gag about arses.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

14:50 / 19.07.06

I'm absolutely certain it's all about the collective Weltarsch (drifting slightly into cod-German), though if "rectum" means something like "moral uprightness" in this context (it's in relation to their album WAT, usually interpreted as standing for We Are Time), could they perhaps be trying to say "Time, devourer/gnawer of moral uprightness"?

Jub

15:21 / 19.07.06

maybe - but I think Haus is right - it's a bum joke.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

15:38 / 19.07.06

It will be a bum joke for sure, but knowing Laibach, one with multiple ambiguous meanings.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

15:41 / 19.07.06

One such being perhaps "Time, biting (at your) arse"?

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:42 / 19.07.06

could they perhaps be trying to say "Time, devourer/gnawer of moral uprightness"?

It's nominative or accusative rather than genitive, so not _really_, no. or rather, they coould be trying to say that, but failing. That's perfectly possible, but it's not the first association I'd have if I looked at the word rectum.

Jub

07:41 / 20.07.06

Why do you get little white flakes at the bottom of your glass when you drink iced water? Clearly it's got something to do with the ice but what? It looks a bit like limescale, and I'm a bit wary of drinking it. Have I just got a cheap and nasty ice cube rack?

nameinuse

10:01 / 20.07.06

Jub - you're right it's just limescale and therefore harmless - most things come out of solution when the water they're in freezes, including air, which is what makes those little bubbles that make ice cubes cloudy.

If you want to avoid this problem, try putting the water through a filter before you make the cubes (as it has a chance to sit, it also tends to be lower in disolved air, and make clearer cubes).

■

10:16 / 20.07.06

Or use water that's been boiled and left to cool.

Jub

12:41 / 21.07.06

Were would I find a photo of Neil Kinnock flicking the V's for the press after he'd fallen in the sea?

paranoidwriter waves hello

13:48 / 21.07.06

Jub, did he actually stick his fingers up at the press after he fell? I'm probably wrong, but my memory says he did that kind of uppercut-punch "fuck off" gesture instead. I had a look online and could only find this, but I reckon Private Eye would have a copy of the shot you're after somewhere; maybe you could Email them and they might be kind enough to send you a copy? Otherwise, I imagine you'd have to track it down through a news agency.

Madman in the ruins.

20:56 / 23.07.06

I'm looking for a film, My girlfreind saw it about 15 years ago. It was a soft core porn film, but the plot involved pirates.
Yeah I know its a long shot and its not the 2005 porn film pirtaes, I've checked.

paranoidwriter waves hello

11:03 / 25.07.06

Sorry John, I know nothing about porn films.

OK, so a cheque I've been waiting to arrive for two weeks has finally landed on my doormat. However,

1) The post mark on the envelope was dated 24th July (i.e. yesterday). Does that mean it was posted yesterday? I'd like to know, because I was told this was posted last week, which I suspect is an out and out lie.

2) The cheque itself is dated 29th July, and it's been so long since I've used a cheque I've forgotten if that means the expirey date, or the date from which the cheque is valid. i.e. does that mean I can't cash the cheque till the 29th?

Dead Megatron

11:17 / 25.07.06

Weel, Pw, I'm not sure how cheques work in your country, but in mine that date marks the day the cheque was filled out. The fact it has a future date (pre-date cheque, we call it), shows that the guy who wrote it really wishes you don't cash it before said date, But if you go to the bank with it, the cashier will have to cash it for you anyway (alhtough you risk the account to be without funds)

pear

11:18 / 25.07.06

The post mark is from when the letter was processed at a post office - It's dated from when they recieved it from post box collections and put it though their great big sorting machines. It could have taken a while to get there, but they're usually done the evening of the day the letter was posted (assuming it has been sent from a reasonably urban area - This is from hazy memories of an awful month spent temping at a sorting office, may well be out of date now)

Cheques are valid for 6 (? from memory, it might vary) months from when they are dated. If the sender has put a date in the future on it, it means that they don't want it cashed before then (i.e. the money to pay the cheque isn't in their account yet) I'm not sure whether banks are too strict on this sort of thing. I'm sure I've put these kinds of cheques through without a problem.

Sounds like the sender is mucking you about a bit

paranoidwriter waves hello

11:29 / 25.07.06

Cheers, pear and DM.

Yup, these people are definitely fucking me about. Bastards. Serves me right for doing copywriting for a fucking multinational, I suppose. Drop your standards and the next thing you know...

Jackie Susann

22:13 / 25.07.06

Can anyone point me at clear instructions for making one of those - I dunno what you call them - folded paper thingies you make in primary school where you, like, pick a number and flap it that many times, then pick a colour and flap it X number of times, then it gives you some sort of inane message?

Char Aina

22:21 / 25.07.06

you call'em fortune tellers.
a while back i googled my eyes off until i found that out, so i feel your pain.

is this any good to you?

Bubblegum Death

23:52 / 25.07.06

Why are ceilings usually textured?

stabbystabby

00:01 / 26.07.06

if you mean the bubble/drip style paint used on ceilings, it's just for show, i think. it's not cooler or insulating, and i can't think of any other purpose.

lekvar

00:32 / 26.07.06

I think that ceilings are usually textured to break up soundwaves. You know how sound travels forever in hospital corridors, cafeterias or other areas with lots of broad, flat surfaces? Imagine that in a smaller enclosed space like an office or your living room.

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