The Good News Only - thread...

[BoldonLad]

In @icowden's example the flow of beer follows the flow of current, not of electrons.

Oh come on lads, this is getting REALLY complicated, I was struggling with one flow, now, you are telling me there are TWO!!!

 

[icowden]

Shall I chuck a spanner in the box of tricks and say that the electron flow is negative to positive and not the other way around as is widely presumed?

Yep - I was just *waiting* for that one.

 

[Mr Celine]

Oh come on lads, this is getting REALLY complicated, I was struggling with one flow, now, you are telling me there are TWO!!!

Just try comprehending three phase transmission circuits. Three flows of beer and no return!

 

[Pinno718]

Good point! I was pondering the implication of AC vs DC, but, I must admit, your point is perhaps more concerning. 😂

Try it.
20,000 volts dc, 5 amps = kinky
12v ac @90amps = no need for Veet

 

[BoldonLad]

Try it.
20,000 volts dc, 5 amps = kinky
12v ac @90amps = no need for Veet

Oh Vicar! 😂, thank you for sharing your experience 😂

 

[Ian H]

Hmmmm..... imagine you have an unlimited source of beer. It comes from a straw. When you don't suck from the straw, no beer, no leakage. AT the same time you have catheter that takes out your urine and sends it back to the beer factory to make more beer. So if you are not connected to both the beer straw and the catheter nothing happens. If you are not drinking beer, then nothing happens.

Once you are drinking beer, beer flows both in and out...

It strikes that you could just connect the straw and the catheter, and cut out all brewing malarky.

 

[Pinno718]

It strikes that you could just connect the straw and the catheter, and cut out all brewing malarky.

That's the sort of entrepreneurial spirit that this country was built on.

 

[BoldonLad]

That's the sort of entrepreneurial spirit that this country was built on.

Isn't spirit distilled? 😊

 

[C R]

It strikes that you could just connect the straw and the catheter, and cut out all brewing malarky.

That's called a short circuit.

 

[icowden]

It strikes that you could just connect the straw and the catheter, and cut out all brewing malarky.

But then the device - @BoldonLad - doesn't get drunk. You've just created a short circuit.

 

[BoldonLad]

But then the device - @BoldonLad - doesn't get drunk. You've just created a short circuit.

I can assure you, I have not been drunk since the last time I said "never again" 😂

 

[Pinno718]

But then the device - @BoldonLad - doesn't get drunk. You've just created a short circuit.

Think of a intravenous drip full of fine spirit; like a capacitor to keep the flow regulated. We'll get him banjaxed.

 

[briantrumpet]

"No more black snot!" is good news. I remember back in the 80's spending a couple of days in London, and being absolutely fascinated/appalled when I blew my nose and looked at what had come out.

 

[Pross]

"No more black snot!" is good news. I remember back in the 80's spending a couple of days in London, and being absolutely fascinated/appalled when I blew my nose and looked at what had come out.

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Yeah but they've stopped all those people needing to use their old diesel cars to move a fridge across London or to take their kids off to Uni without paying an extortionate fee #waronmotorists

 

[briantrumpet]

The immediate worry about funding running out for the BBC World Service is over, with a three-year settlement.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/18/bbc-world-service-extra-funding-foreign-office

And Lisa Nandy is suggesting that the BBC Charter shouldn't be renegotiated every ten years.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...-bbc-permanent-charter-political-interference