Random Thoughts

He’d be over one hundred and ten years old now. That as was 40 years ago and the old buffer looked at least 70 then.

So pushing up the daisies is my guess.

 

The actor that played him died in 2001 at the age of 95, so you're basically correct on all counts.

 

Gave up on fly fishing to concentrate on his fruit jams business.

 

I get why an apple falls from a tree, but how does gravity pull and keep "air" close to the planet ?

 

So if gravity can’t exert a force on an element of this nature why doesn’t air just drift away? What happens at the very edge of our atmosphere ? Is there a narrow boundary between “atmosphere” and “space” or is it broad and gradual ?

 

Air is matter, anything with mass can be affected by gravity (I won't go into space-time curvature and light here), the force of gravity holds the atmosphere to the earth and only other forces can remove it. The earth is able to hold on to its atmosphere because the magnetic field deflects solar wind. Mars once used to have a thick atmosphere but once its core solidified the magnetic field ceased to be, then over hundreds of millions of years solar wind has slowly stripped the atmosphere.

The earth does lose some atmosphere, high energy light molecules of hydrogen or helium mostly but it also gains some back when free molecules in space enter the upper atmosphere too.

 

I still call it Poores-side and Sportsman-side when picking people up from the station. Those who know... (and those who don't end up on the wrong side)

 

Yeah. Must be like buying a physical porno mag for auld lang synne

 

I call it 2 syllable 'poo-res'

 

Retired to devote more time to whatever it is that he likes to do with his spare time. Model railways probably.

 

This doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about apples to dispute it.

 

In some shops it's like that but by in large the bookies are spending money on them. There are approximately 8000 betting shops in the UK, it's slightly below the maximum of about 10k before the credit crunch in 2008.
The projects I work on for UK, Ireland and Sri Lanka are based solely on getting more content into shops, for my European clients it's more kiosk based.
Look at any high street these days, it's dying, look at how many general shopping stores, they are the minority.

 

Doesn’t work with bramleys. Newton never worked out why.
Just eating apples perhaps?

 

I'm afraid this isn't correct.

The atmosphere is composed of gases, and gases are subject to gravity just like everything else.

Gravity is (almost) wholly responsible for keeping the Earth's atmosphere in place.

 

Just learned that Elvis Costello and his dad did the vocals on this early 70s advert (that the actor mimes to). Who knew ?

 

I fancy Charlotte from Traitors.

 

Go and talk to her.

 

¡English ought to adopt the ¿ and ¡ symbols at the start of written sentences and do away with those at the end.

A punctuation mark at the start of a sentence makes much more sense when you're reading. ¿Doesn't it.

You know the question or exclamation is following. ¡Useful. ¿What does it serve to know at the end. ¡It's no use now. ¡I've already read it.

 

Strictly speaking, keeping money you find on the street amounts to theft.

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/28/when...-to-keep-money-you-find-on-the-floor-6479579/

 

I find it strange that only Spanish adopted these punctuation symbols. Talking of punctuation, the interrobang was suggested as a new one in the 1960s, it never took off, but it looks like a superimposed question mark and exclamation mark to denote a rhetorical question or a question asked in disbelief. The person who suggested it also included an inverted interrobang for Spanish.
‽

 

I thought that was fairly common knowledge.

 

There is always a torrential downpour during any graveside funeral scene in a film or TV show.

 

Where in my post did I suggest you did?

 

The actor Julian Chagrin came from St Albans .

 

As we’re doing random thoughts here, but keeping on the theme, did you know the Theft Act also outlaws reward posters where the poster says no questions will be asked (or similar)?

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/23

 

***** Reward Offered ****​

I lost £50 the other day, between a bookies and a cash point

*** £5 reward if returned, no questions asked ***​

 

Can you think of anyone you have ever met that has eaten in an Aberdeen Angus Steakhouse?

 

The only people I know who have are my aunt, uncle and cousins when they came down from the north east for a weekend in London in the 1980s. My cousin said that the steak smelt of cowpat.

 

My brother in always from the Midlands did once. We laughed at him.

Do they exist outside of the west end? Like Peep Shows and walk up brothels?

 

Huh?