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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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grant

03:38 / 25.03.06

Technically, a mace is a club either covered in or made entirely out of metal. A morningstar is a mace with spikes. A flail is a mace that flails around on the end of a chain (actually, it's not an evolution of a mace, but an evolution of the same kind of farm equipment that became nunchaku in Japan).

Blake Head

15:40 / 25.03.06

Interesting... thanks! That's what I thought the mace/flail distinction was, but I thought the morningstar was on the other side of the divide. Your explanation (plus titled pitures) was a big help!

Jack Denfeld

01:06 / 26.03.06

Damn it I'm horrible with computer stuff. I just spent hours downloading this tv episode of poker, and now I can't play it. I get sound, but no picture. It says it's supposed to open with windows media player.

kwj-2005.wsop.33a

That's what the files called. Any help?

Smoothly

01:15 / 26.03.06

Is this the 2005 World Series Tournament Of Champions? Is it an avi file?

Dunno if this will help, but I find that the VLC Media Player handles files that WMP won't.

Jack Denfeld

01:18 / 26.03.06

Yeah, that's the one, with Phil Hellmouth and Matusow.

Jack Denfeld

01:18 / 26.03.06

Oh yeah, it as an Avi. Cool thanks.

All Acting Regiment

01:34 / 26.03.06

I think it was Sarah paton, yeah. Just a bit, well, worried about her really, the way her entries just tailed off..

illmatic

06:03 / 26.03.06

Negative numbers. If you can times a positve and a nagative number together, you get a negative (-4 x 4 = -16, say). But if you times -4 x -4 together, you get +16. How the fuck does that work? I understand why it should work, based on comparision with with the other example, but I don't understand why it does. Someone explain it too me. An example I can visualise would help.

paw

12:20 / 26.03.06

whats the best type of ear plug i should buy to prevent my ears getting damaged at loud nightclubs? also are there any places online that sell them? thanks

Saturn's nod

13:20 / 26.03.06

I use the Quies wax ones: available from this online store in the UK. Good for cinema, too.

unheimlich manoeuvre

19:22 / 26.03.06

Illmatic - An example I can visualise would help.

Wiki suggests.

Multiplication

Multiplication of a negative number by a positive number yields a negative result: (−2) × 3 = −6. Multiplication of two negative numbers yields a positive result: (−4) × (−3) = 12.

One way of understanding this is to regard multiplication by a positive number as repeated addition. Thus, 2 × 3 = 2 + 2 + 2 = 6 and so naturally (−2) × 3 = (−2) + (−2) + (−2) = −6.

Multiplication by a negative number can be regarded as repeated subtraction.
For instance, 3 × (−2) = − 3 − 3 = −6.
Notice that this keeps multiplication commutative: 3 × (−2) = (−2) × 3 = −6.
Applying the same interpretation of "multiplication by a negative number" for a value that is also negative, we have:
(−4) × (−3) = − (−4) − (−4) − (−4)
= 4 + 4 + 4
= 12

For some reason, to me, that dosn't seem to answer everything.

illmatic

19:46 / 26.03.06

That does help thanks, that's been annoying me since GCSE maths all those years ago. If someone else wants to expand or clarify (Lurid? Perfect Tommy), knock yourself out.

All Acting Regiment

15:06 / 27.03.06

So I've been planning to build up blisters across a large part of my skin surface, then remove it to get a "cast" of my ksin, sort of like what a snake might do.

Question is, how can I create the blisters, and is it safe?

Spaniel

15:25 / 27.03.06

Ooooooh, not nice, Legba.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:37 / 27.03.06

Hmmm. Thinking about cameras, and by extension lenses, has got me thinking that I maybe need a new pair of glasses. Question: Where, in the UK, do people get their glasses from? Is there any good reason beyond profound, murderous annoyance not to go to Specsavers?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:45 / 27.03.06

Legba Rex: Er, yuck, you horrible scabby kid! Might I suggest a layer of PVA glue as a reasonable alternative? Paint it on, let it dry, peel it off. Anything you do to create this layer of blisters is going to damage the skin. You could end up doing yourself a real injury.

paranoidwriter waves hello

17:48 / 27.03.06

Haus, have your tried 'David Clulow' on Old Compton Street? It's a relatively small opticians but there's loads of really nice frames. Expensive though.

17:58 / 27.03.06

Legba: Yes, it's safe, if by "safe" you mean "I would need to be hospitalized or I would die." You would dehydrate, suffocate, poison yourself, or get fatal infections. That's why they hospitalize burn victims, and people with burns over more than 70% of their bodies tend to have low survival rates. I do hope you were joking.

I second Mordant's suggestion of an alternative. Liquid latex is another option, if you're not allergic to it; if you are, see paragraph above.

Jack Vincennes

17:59 / 27.03.06

Legba: learn to row. Once you've got a snake-like 'shedding' from your hands you can assess your enthusiasm for larger such projects.

18:02 / 27.03.06

Sorry, I read "large part of my skin" as "all of my skin" for some reason. So whether you'd be at a risk for death depends on how large, and what method you'd used.

Mourne Kransky

18:03 / 27.03.06

I've been happy with Specsavers for my last few pairs. Previously patronised smarter places and apart from paying twice the price, can't say I saw any advantage. Specsavers have always been good at small repairs and often haven't even charged me for the piddling stuff, unlike the posher places. Getting thinner, smaller varifocal lenses for my muddy old eyes can be mighty expensive too.

Haven't tried Clulow's but they do seem to have tasty frames on display, pw.

paranoidwriter waves hello

18:20 / 27.03.06

Tasty indeed. However, to clarify: I don't wear them myself, but I've a sibling who wears glasses and I've spent many bored hours in opticians trying to find a pair that would actually suit me. Never happened. That is, until last year when I found myself waiting in Clulow's while they repaired my (ex) boss' frames, and I found three pairs which (IMHO) actually improved my appearance (a miracle!). I could hardly believe my eyes (groan) and I was tempted to buy a pair with fake (?) lenses... Then I saw the price tags. Ouch. That's a lot of bags of chips, if you ask me.

Worth a look though. ( double-groan)

Mistoffelees

18:34 / 27.03.06

@Legba
There was some kind of fetish fashion a couple of years ago, where people were publishing photos of large pieces of skin, that they had lost. I can´t recall 100%, how they did it. I believe, they put something on the skin like a piece of cloth, and that cloth then was rubbed really fast for some time. Apparently it gave them quite a rush (but rash? I don´t know).

Blake Head

19:36 / 27.03.06

Hmmm. It's been over a year so I need a new pair badly. Think it was specsavers or optical I think it was optical express rather than specsavers but, basically, a faceless chain type of operation again. They were pretty good about putting lenses into frames I bought online though. If all I was thinking about was new specs then I'd probably just go there again, I actually _need_ thinned down lenses and they're expensive enough as it is. While I like the idea of a local / prestige optician's I've never thought I could justify it - are they really that much more expensive, and is it for eye tests or lenses/frames or both?

Mourne Kransky

07:30 / 28.03.06

In my experience, they're a lot more expensive, BH. Because I get varifocals and pay for the extra thin version, they cost the Earth anyway but I can afford them from Specsavers and get a second pair fairly cheap at the same time. Cost me over £400 for just one pair from the last posh place I used, with frames identical to those I've had from Specsavers. They saw me coming!

Ariadne

08:21 / 28.03.06

You could, however, buy the frames and then get the lenses from somewhere cheaper. I don't know about Specsavers but certainly Vision Express will do that.

Mourne Kransky

08:36 / 28.03.06

Another way you can save quite a bit is by taking the prescription abroad with you and having the lenses made there. Indian opticians, for instance, will do that happily for you, at a fraction of the UK cost.

They will also take all your old, broken or otherwise unwanted specs and recycle them to the local community.

All Acting Regiment

13:43 / 28.03.06

paranoidwriter waves hello

20:12 / 28.03.06

Can anyone recommend any London recruitment agencies for (ahem) creatives? I've seen loads online, but none where you can physically go into their premises with your CV. (I'm also very inexperienced with recruitment agencies, so...help?)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:16 / 28.03.06

Thinking of glasses, one lens of mine is still fucked from falling over at Lilly Nowhere's hair salon party in December, and it occurs to me it'll be ages before I can afford to replace the fucking things. Is it worth it/cost-effective to get a single lens made?

Mourne Kransky

21:39 / 28.03.06

Last time it happened to me, Stoatie, they wouldn't replace the lens because the presrciption was two years old and I had to have a new eye test, hence new prescription, hence new glasses. Apparently it's the law. The Specs Must Work Act 2005 or similar. Less than a year and they'll whip a new one in for you, no bother.

Of course, a back street optician would probably offer a new lens, that's near enough the right strength, for the cost of a blow job. And looks or sex appeal wouldn't really be an issue until one could see properly again, so sounds like a plan to me.

Shrug

21:46 / 28.03.06

What is it today for the uk and Ireland, lunar eclipse? new moon?

Shrug

23:00 / 28.03.06

And also, does the Barbannoy Thread have a corresponding but antithetical thread? Barbeplease, mebbe?

Barbelove, no less.

I've searched google, dictionary and wikipedia, and I cannae find anything which clears up the term "metonymic bridge" (which Haus dropped in here).

Haus (or anyone): could you post up a definition? A website would be even better, but I'm not overly optimistic given the search results.

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