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

[raleighnut]

They only had 40BHP in standard form. They must have had some tuning.

Nah aerodynanics made em quicker

 

[Chris S]

The 750cc Bonneville engine produced about 50BHP and it was lighter. I suppose they chose the Reliant engine for commercial reasons as much as anything else.

 

[ColinJ]

How to use an electric toothbrush!

I had been thinking recently that my Oral B has not been getting my teeth as clean as the hygienist does. My response was to press harder and scrub the head up and down like a conventional toothbrush. No joy!

Yesterday, this video popped up on YouTube...



I followed the instructions last night and... wow, squeaky clean teeth!

(His video on flossing is also worth watching.)

 

[presta]

A disadvantage of a pedestrianised town centre is that Google Streetview doesn't get updated any more.

 

[raleighnut]

A disadvantage of a pedestrianised town centre is that Google Streetview doesn't get updated any more.

At least you don't have to look at decimated city centres anymore, all the shops gone and charity shops/cafes everywhere. I had to go into town last week and an area of Leicester called 'The Lanes' which had small boutiques and a wholefood shop is all empty except for a new bar/cafe.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

At least you don't have to look at decimated city centres anymore, all the shops gone and charity shops/cafes everywhere. I had to go into town last week and an area of Leicester called 'The Lanes' which had small boutiques and a wholefood shop is all empty except for a new bar/cafe.

Wdines town centre seems to be surviving that trend to some extent

I reckon it is due to a brilliant move by the counsel in building an !out of town" type shopping centre on the back of the high street
with an alley way through from the big car park to the old town centre

so we get a massive car park and an M&S and a NEXT and a few others (including Halfords)
all right next to the town centre with its traditonal shops like Greggs and Heron Foods
and the LBS

on top of that is the old fashioned proper market - not that big but big enough

Brilliant move really

(based on everything else they do - it was possibly accidental - but whatever - it works!)

 

[Tenkaykev]

A disadvantage of a pedestrianised town centre is that Google Streetview doesn't get updated any more.

They used to have people on foot with a large backpack and a scanning camera on a pole. There's a small local play area with access via a path between houses which has been mapped this way.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The road where I bought a house about 13-15 years ago is still not on street view!!

have no idea why - the road that it joins - and is the main road through the estate - has been updated and the image looking down the road now shows the house that I bought when for many years it just showed it half built
but in the last year or so a new image appeared
but none of the actual road I lived in!
and it is just a public road - not private or anything!

 

[raleighnut]

The road where I bought a house about 13-15 years ago is still not on street view!!

have no idea why - the road that it joins - and is the main road through the estate - has been updated and the image looking down the road now shows the house that I bought when for many years it just showed it half built
but in the last year or so a new image appeared
but none of the actual road I lived in!
and it is just a public road - not private or anything!

They must be following their own 'sat-nav', for years now 'google' has given my location as Glenfields, there is no such place. I live on the edge of Glenfield, which is hardly unknown..............County Hall is just up the road (offices of Leicestershire County Council)

 

[Alex321]

A disadvantage of a pedestrianised town centre is that Google Streetview doesn't get updated any more.

Well Cardiff Queen Street, which has been pedestrianised for at least 40 years was last updated August 2024

 

[matticus]

They used to have people on foot with a large backpack and a scanning camera on a pole.

yup; I've seen a lot of hiking routes (mostly in the Alps etc, but some in the UK) done this way. Sometimes handy, sometimes it removes the sense of adventure!

 

[Dogtrousers]

The etymology of helicopter doesn't break it down into heli- and -copter. It breaks it down into helico- (spiral as in helix) and -pter (wing, as in pterodactyl)

The English word helicopter is adapted from the French word hélicoptère, coined by Gustave Ponton d'Amécourt in 1861, which originates from the Greek helix (ἕλιξ), genitive helikos (ἕλῐκος), "helix, spiral, whirl, convolution"[2] and pteron (πτερόν) "wing". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter

 

[wakemalcolm]

traditonal shops like Greggs and Heron Foods

🤣

 

[Dogtrousers]

Gustave de Ponton d'Amécourt was quite the coiner of words. In addition to "helicopter" he also came up with "aviation"

he also coined with Gabriel de La Landelle the word "aviation", "derived from the verb 'avier', synonymous with flying in the air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_de_Ponton_d'Amécourt

 

[matticus]

Gustave de Ponton d'Amécourt was quite the coiner of words. In addition to "helicopter" he also came up with "aviation"

he also coined with Gabriel de La Landelle the word "aviation", "derived from the verb 'avier', synonymous with flying in the air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_de_Ponton_d'Amécourt

Well his "helicopter" would be pretty useless without it!