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Post by willien on Apr 1, 2023 18:53:49 GMT
We did cover this earlier. Even I said that water is a non-renewing resource so I do know the cycle.
Oops! I hope I didn't cause you to take umbrage, Kate.  I was simply referring to a news item (probably thirty or more years ago) in which someone - a journalist, I presume - appeared to be trying to accrue to some extra readership, by making eye-catching comments..... including the use of a slightly "Yuk!" component..... and, of course, making it all about London, for maximum impact. I certainly wasn't trying to impugn your reference to that notion. [end of grovelling apology.  ]and an instantly credible canarde due to how London water tastes - or at least tasted in 1971. |
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Post by kate on Apr 1, 2023 19:10:11 GMT
Oops! I hope I didn't cause you to take umbrage, Kate. I was simply referring to a news item (probably thirty or more years ago) in which someone - a journalist, I presume - appeared to be trying to accrue to some extra readership, by making eye-catching comments..... including the use of a slightly "Yuk!" component..... and, of course, making it all about London, for maximum impact. I certainly wasn't trying to impugn your reference to that notion. [end of grovelling apology. ]and an instantly credible canarde due to how London water tastes - or at least tasted in 1971. Same year I ended up in London - for the second time. I preferred it in 1964! |
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Post by peterba on Apr 1, 2023 19:23:03 GMT
Same year I ended up in London - for the second time. I preferred it in 1964!
You went back?! Didn't you learn your lesson the first time?  |
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Post by zou on Apr 1, 2023 19:32:08 GMT
Same year I ended up in London - for the second time. I preferred it in 1964!
You went back?! Didn't you learn your lesson the first time? Maybe she realised she'd left something valuable behind? |
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Post by Ivor E Tower on Apr 1, 2023 19:42:46 GMT
As to water having been drunk several times before, I think many of you are forgetting (despite events of the past few days) that there is a lot that falls from the sky as rain. I'm not sure that THAT lot has bene drunk before, but there is certainly a plentiful supply of it, as flooded roads, fields etc around these parts will testify :-(
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Post by peterba on Apr 1, 2023 20:06:00 GMT
You went back?! Didn't you learn your lesson the first time? Maybe she realised she'd left something valuable behind?
Sanity? |
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Post by kate on Apr 1, 2023 20:18:27 GMT
As to water having been drunk several times before, I think many of you are forgetting (despite events of the past few days) that there is a lot that falls from the sky as rain. I'm not sure that THAT lot has bene drunk before, but there is certainly a plentiful supply of it, as flooded roads, fields etc around these parts will testify :-( And how does it get up there in the sky? Hmm. It's a big closed circle, wherever you start. Fall from the sky, go into rivers and the water supply, gets drunk, gets returned, goes into the river and sea, wind picks up the moisture, forms clouds, rains and so on and so on. |
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Post by zou on Apr 1, 2023 20:21:44 GMT
Maybe she realised she'd left something valuable behind?
Sanity? It's a bit Catch 22 innit. Only sane thing to do would be to avoid London, but can only get one's sanity by going there... |
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Post by peterba on Apr 1, 2023 20:33:29 GMT
It's a bit Catch 22 innit. Only sane thing to do would be to avoid London, but can only get one's sanity by going there...
As in..... a demonstration of how not to do it. |
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Post by JohnY on Apr 1, 2023 20:58:01 GMT
I hope that no one is taking umbrage at a bit of mansplaining.Its so easy to do accidentality and so difficult to avoid. I have even been guilty of it myself, ever so slightly.
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Post by Kath on Apr 3, 2023 10:20:58 GMT
So I'm the only one that read the title of this thread and is now humming 'Cotton Eye Joe' then?
I remember visiting a museum somewhere (might even have been in London - can't remember trying the water) and there was a large exhibit featuring what was supposed to be a 'slice' of what was underground. It was made up if memory serves, which it might not, of layers of stuff including sand/mud/rocks/stones/foundations/root systems/bones/fossils (not necessarily in this order) and was topped with tarmac and litter. I just remember feeling quite sad that 'our' layer was probably going to be a load of single use plastic never rotting down and contributing anything positive.
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Post by willien on Apr 3, 2023 10:59:24 GMT
I hope that no one is taking umbrage at a bit of mansplaining.Its so easy to do accidentality and so difficult to avoid. I have even been guilty of it myself, ever so slightly. Top tip for dealing with a serial Mansplainer. Ask them "What's a ratchet?". Just as they have given up on relying on words and have managed to find a bit of paper and a pen say - "No, it's just a bit bigger than a mouse shit".
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Post by andy on Apr 3, 2023 11:05:11 GMT
As to water having been drunk several times before, I think many of you are forgetting (despite events of the past few days) that there is a lot that falls from the sky as rain. I'm not sure that THAT lot has bene drunk before, but there is certainly a plentiful supply of it, as flooded roads, fields etc around these parts will testify :-( And how does it get up there in the sky? Hmm. It's a big closed circle, wherever you start. Fall from the sky, go into rivers and the water supply, gets drunk, gets returned, goes into the river and sea, wind picks up the moisture, forms clouds, rains and so on and so on. Perhaps turning water into synthetic fuel to burn in cars doesn't fit that cycle and could result in there being less water on earth? The idea for synthetic fuel seems to be to get hydrogen from water and carbon dioxide out the air to make hydrocarbons with the same molecular structure as petrol or diesel. (For example Porsche newsroom.porsche.com/en/2023/sustainability/porsche-perspectives-sustainability-interview-karl-dums-31632.html) |
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Post by zou on Apr 3, 2023 17:20:05 GMT
And how does it get up there in the sky? Hmm. It's a big closed circle, wherever you start. Fall from the sky, go into rivers and the water supply, gets drunk, gets returned, goes into the river and sea, wind picks up the moisture, forms clouds, rains and so on and so on. Perhaps turning water into synthetic fuel to burn in cars doesn't fit that cycle and could result in there being less water on earth? The idea for synthetic fuel seems to be to get hydrogen from water and carbon dioxide out the air to make hydrocarbons with the same molecular structure as petrol or diesel. (For example Porsche newsroom.porsche.com/en/2023/sustainability/porsche-perspectives-sustainability-interview-karl-dums-31632.html) I'm sure that process won't need much energy, surely? |
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Post by footloose on Apr 3, 2023 17:23:57 GMT
This discussion was addressed by a certain Spike Milligan many decades ago ..
There are holes in the sky
Where the rain gets in
But they're ever so small
That's why the rain is thin.
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I was simply referring to a news item (probably thirty or more years ago) in which someone - a journalist, I presume - appeared to be trying to accrue to some extra readership, by making eye-catching comments..... including the use of a slightly "Yuk!" component..... and, of course, making it all about London, for maximum impact. I certainly wasn't trying to impugn your reference to that notion. [end of grovelling apology. 
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