Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[Electric_Andy]

I today discovered you can move a lit fire from one room to another using a saucepan!

I'd lit a fire in our dining room as a bit of luxury to accompany our sunday roast, then we later adjourned upstairs to the sitting room. I ummed and arr'd about lighting another but that seemed a waste since there was another still burning in an empty room and joked about brining the jot coals up. "I know you're joking but don't even think about it" then after a pause "you could use a saucepan" which I can confirm works fine.

This should not be taken as advice or good practice

my mum used to do that very often. scooping up coals with a coal shovel from the Rayburn in the kitchen, and dumping them in the lounge fireplace. she dropped some once and burnt the rug

 

[albion]

Seems, if you have a side hussle in addition to any more normal income, if the gross income is less than £1000 it does mot need to be included in tax returns.
Courtesy of a Great Britain news site doing a common storyline, this time telling us that the £1000 gross includes FiT income from solar.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

my mum used to do that very often. scooping up coals with a coal shovel from the Rayburn in the kitchen, and dumping them in the lounge fireplace. she dropped some once and burnt the rug

Was a house really a house back in the day if there wasn't at least one burn/scorch mark on the floor though? 😆

 

[albion]

The Doomsday Clock is usually updated late January.

 

[Chris S]

Jerry cans got their name because they were originally used by the German army to transport fuel.

Incidentally, the Allied copies leaked because they used rolled seams instead of welded ones.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I've just come across KMC xGlide chains while looking for an x10 to have in the spares box for my ebike...

Officially made for 9/10/11-speed bikes!

Oh, only CUES bikes, not universal Shimano HG cassettes...

 

[albion]

This is really for anyone still a little ignorant.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx3g1d57xpo

I was preaching D at work during Covid, having read more than enough science studies on it.
"They found that, for each 10 nmol/l increase in vitamin D, the hospital admission rate for respiratory tract infections fell by 4%.
Very low D gave 33% more admissions"

 

[Chris S]

Gaelic wasn't spoken in Scotland until it was bought there by Irish settlers 1,500 years ago.

 

[Profpointy]

This is really for anyone still a little ignorant.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx3g1d57xpo

I was preaching D at work during Covid, having read more than enough science studies on it.
"They found that, for each 10 nmol/l increase in vitamin D, the hospital admission rate for respiratory tract infections fell by 4%.
Very low D gave 33% more admissions"

Isn't vitamin D toxic if you have too much, that is taking excessive doses, rather than slightly more? This is why you mustn't eat polar bear liver. If so then the glib, "more is better" claim the BBC makes is potentially dangerous advice to food fad types

 

[Seevio]

This is really for anyone still a little ignorant.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx3g1d57xpo

I was preaching D at work during Covid, having read more than enough science studies on it.
"They found that, for each 10 nmol/l increase in vitamin D, the hospital admission rate for respiratory tract infections fell by 4%.
Very low D gave 33% more admissions"

Please "vitamin D" and not just "D" each time if you don't want your post to read very differently.

 

[albion]

"increase in vitamin D, "
God forbid I mentioned 'vaccines' or king of clowns.

What puzzles me on that D report, was, the damping of the disease progress exactly 30% ?
edit - AI states that 'studieS' suggest a cold lasts 36% less longer with severity reduced by 15%.
This was a COVID ERA National Institutes of Health recommendation so might not totally apply today.
'To reduce the risk of infection, it is recommended that people at risk of influenza and/or COVID-19 consider taking 10,000 IU/d of vitamin D3 for a few weeks to rapidly raise 25(OH)D concentrations, followed by 5000 IU/d'

 

[albion]

Something I was ignorant on was this. (Same US report of studies that recommended D during Covid.)
'other high-dose vitamin D studies, including the fact that high vitamin D doses of IU/d were found to treat and control such diseases as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, rickets, and tuberculosis in the 1930s and 1940s.'
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7231123/#B83-nutrients-12-00988

I put, as said a few times, my asthma allergies, now under good control, mainly down to good PM 2.5 control. Vitamin D is now a minor uspect in that health improvment. For those warning about the dangers of Vitamin D I can raise 10 fold, my own experience of NHS drugs I used for asthma control. However that might be irresponsible.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Was a house really a house back in the day if there wasn't at least one burn/scorch mark on the floor though? 😆

Carpet burns

 

[Pblakeney]

On my D. 😉

 

[albion]

Pardon my ignorance, but is D for dunce ?