Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Beer and Ice Cream Diet

As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.

For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg. F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized. Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.

Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal. This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.

Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.

Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.

Happy eating!

School of Physics, University of Sydney

Warning - If you receive an email saying two free Arsenal tickets attached, on no account open it. It DOES contain two free Arsenal tickets.

Am I right to be worried.

Over the last few days I have read several articles re lack of housing coupled with reports of population figures for the UK.

We continue to hear/read that there is a lack of housing. Then we read that 25% of births in the UK are born to the 10% of residents none UK born.

So within the next 30 to 40 years the population of our country is expected to double with white residents becoming the minority, with Islam becoming the main religion.

I have nothing against good Muslims or in fact any other religion that believes in good (I am an atheist) but as we know, there are many Muslims who believe that none Muslims should be persecuted and killed.

So by about 2040 2050, we will live in a country that is even more over populated than it is now, with most areas covered in concrete, with any white indigenous British being the minority group.
Civil unrest will be common, as the only way to stop it will be draconian measures, both very frightening scenarios.
When will we call a halt, or are we destined to grow our population none stop.
The UK will start to resemble one big city similar to those you see on Sci-Fi movies, where to only way to build is up.

As a 63 year old, I am very concerned, not so much for myself, but for my children and grandchildren.

So stop building, and start dramatically reducing immigration, only allowing the very few who can contribute far more than they take out to enter the country.

If anyone can see a different future and give good arguments to counter my views, I would be very interested.

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Hi Mnamreh,

Great idea, as I suppose that as I am 63 it would mean I am not included as they would be too late.
But seriously, can you see any better future than my scenario?

Think you are perfectly correct, my friend and I stood a car boot at a place called Lydiate outside Aughton in Lancashire - we were astounded at the many foreign speaking people and were hard pushed to spot an English person for some few hours (apart from the stall holders). It has been the topic of conversation between our families and friends for a week. So much so we will not be doing another one. Enoch Powell had it right. I can remember as a child my Father relating to same some 50 years ago and by goodness how right he was. It does not help us and is definitely frightening for our future generations.

You have a very solid point, Greek.

My best experience on this kind of topic, was when my wife and I went to pay in some cheques at the Lloyds TSB branch in the middle of Northampton.

The Polish customer base is now so big that there are now several Polish speaking staff and up on the walls, there are about 8-10 notices in Polish too. We also estimated that in the lines to the cashiers, that there were easily 100 Polish people too.

I must say that I admire them all because of the diversity of their excellent 'family', educational and work ethics. I do think they are rescuing the whole place and that we wouldn't get anything done without them. Even the travelling hairdresser and also the carer to one of my neighbours are Polish.

Not many Asians though, so do you fancy a move?

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Greekman, mnamreh - excellent posts.

Shear Luck or wot? Read this 'Top 10' eye-catching story.....

Gardener's Eye Impaled By Pruning Shears
1:37pm UK, Tuesday August 30, 2011

Lulu Sinclair, Sky News Online

An 86-year-old American man is recovering after being accidentally impaled through his eye socket by pruning shears.



Leroy Luetscher, from Tuscon, Arizona, dropped his shears while working in the garden.

They landed blade side down in the ground but, when Mr Luetscher went to pick them up, he lost his balance and fell face down on the handle.

The handle - measuring around 10 inches - penetrated his eye socket underneath the eye and went down into his neck.

Mr Luetscher was rushed to University Medical Centre for treatment where surgeons carried out a complicated operation to remove the shears and save his eye.

"You wouldnt believe your eyes," said surgeon Julie Wynne.

"Half of the pruning shears was sticking out and the other half was in his head."

"You just wonder how the handle of the pruning shears got there."

Fellow surgeon Lynn Polonski said: "The handle was actually resting on the external carotid artery in his neck.

"With the help of Dr Wynne and Dr Kay Goshima, we decided we could safely remove the pruning shears. We are so happy that Mr Luetscher did not lose his eye or any vital structures."

Mr Luetscher knows he is lucky to be alive. "I am so grateful to the doctors and staff at UMC."

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Without going into too much detail, I once attended an accident where a car had left the road, ploughing into a bar type fence.
The angle of the crash caused a broken piece of fence about 4"x4" to enter the front of the car and then the upper intestine area of the male driver about a third of the way from the outer edge of his waist area, going completely through in-bedding itself in the drivers seat.
The victim was taken to hospital still seated in the drivers seat after the seat was cut out of the car.
To save the patient they had to open him up from the side, sort of creating a hinge effect. They then bent him over sideways opening a gap so that they could remove the wooded rail.
The could not just pull the rail out as it would have caused such colossal damage it would have been fatal, IE re damaging the area that it had damaged on the way in.
Its the same as pulling a knife out, it does more damage than the initial entry wound.
If I had not seen about this first hand (the accident, not the operation of course), I would not have believed it possible.
I know he lived to walk again, and he was still alive 3 years later.
He could still be alive today, although I don't know.

That was about 10 years ago.

There was a training video made of the accident scene, recovery and operation.
I witnessed many accident hardened colleagues who turned a funny shade of pale.

Please Greekman do not let me go into the ins and outs of Policing I could write a book. You just mentioned hardened colleagues who turned a funny share of pale I have experienced Bobbys vommiting over the sight of blue bottles.

3 monkies - Go on fill your boots,please enlighten us on the ins and outs of Policing! You sound like a hardened mortician? do tell.....

There is nothing hard about me CC probably seen too much and would certainly not be putting it in writing. Good Night.

I once had a morning appointment broken at a potential customer's home. However, the guy did come to the door and explain how he had been up all night and had just forgotten to ring me to postpone because he was still asleep and then how now, he just didn't feel like discussing business at all." He kindly asked if I could come back the following day at the same time. Thus, with the signs of some business so strongly favourable and so obviously forthcoming, I duly agreed to reappoint as he suggested.

The following day arrived - and so did I.

My customer went on to explain how he was a Traffic Cop and had, during the previous night, attended the scene of an accident where an articulated lorry had backed out onto a main road at Outlane, which is just outside Huddersfield on the A62 and in between Huddersfield and Rochdale, and had been consequently hit by a car coming along the main road.

Apparently, a couple had beeen driving along in a car at about 2am and had not seen the lorry, which was 'sideways on to the road' when the collision happened.

The driver of the car and his passenger too, both ended up with 'decapitations' as they smashed into and went under the unlit trailer of the artic'.

Not only had the cop had to deal with the accident and take all the measurements and particulars and deal with the clearing up and the rest of it, but he had also had to go on to Rochdale to knock on the door of the house where the lady passenger's home was and tell her, now widower husband, of the circumstances of the accident and of the death of his, obviously unfaithful, lady wife.

Next he had to go back to Huddersfield and tell the driver's wife of the circumstances of the accident and of the death of her obviously unfaithful husband.

Apparently, the widow had absolutely no idea of the infidelity of her husband and so my client had to give her 'double dose of bad news', just like he had done back in Rochdale.

What an absolutely terrible night's work for a traffic cop, eh?

Oh, and yes, I did get the order from him, as I suspected I would. The indications had been so strong, that he really needed what I was selling him.

I often wondered afterwards, as to whether I got my order because I had been so shocked and sympathetic to his story and the horrible requirements of his job?

How your fridge works (so that you can better understand how to mend it when it goes wrong)

This is the brave new world of the EU!!!



Pythagorean theorem: ...........................................24 words.

Lord's prayer:....................................................... 66 words.

Archimedes' Principle: ........................................... 67 words.

10 Commandments: ............................................ 179 words.

Gettysburg address: ............................................ 286 words.

US Declaration of Independence : .................... 1,300 words.

US Constitution with all 27 Amendments: .......... 7,818 words.

EU regulations on the sale of cabbage:....... 26,911 words.


SORT OF PUTS THINGS INTO PROPER PERSPECTIVE, DOESN'T IT?

Execline.

Thats all well and good, but nowhere does it explain how to check if the switch that puts the light out when you shut the door is working correctly.
Its obviously easy to check if it comes on when you open the door, but how do you check if it goes out when you shut it.

Skinny,

Perhaps the EU could help with the above query re fridge light problem.
I wonder how many words they would need.

Greek.

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