Mundane News

[Reynard]

I need to go retrieve a load of laundry. It should be done by now.

Then I am very much in need of chocolate.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Can i offer up Novak's win to the Mundane News pantheon of mundanity? By some bizarre twist in the space-time continuum a top-flight tennis player makes a dull winners speech. Do they all aspire to absolute banality?

 

[Gravity Aided]

I never knew that, very clever.

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Hygrometer
In school, since I had long curly hair, everybody was after a strand of my hair in science class when we made hygrometers.

 

[Ratchet Cat]

It's really windy here. I have used my turbo trainer.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I was thinking about a diablo sandwich for lunch.

 

[classic33]

I was thinking about a diablo sandwich for lunch.

Better the devil you know...

 

[MikeG]

...... I'm guessing @MikeG has laminated two different woods which will expand and contract at different rates to produce the curve.....

Almost. It's the same wood (parana pine), but with grain directions running at 90 degrees. So there is a very thin long-grain strip, with lots of cross-grain pieces glued to it. Wood expands and contracts across its width, but not along its length, and so this behaves exactly like a bi-metallic strip.

 

[EltonFrog]

There ain’t ‘arf some clever bastards on this site, ain’t there?

 

[Grant Fondo]

There ain’t ‘arf some clever bastards on this site, ain’t there?

I wouldn't go that far

 

[Salty seadog]

There ain’t ‘arf some clever bastards on this site, ain’t there?

 

[Andy in Germany]

Almost. It's the same wood (parana pine), but with grain directions running at 90 degrees. So there is a very thin long-grain strip, with lots of cross-grain pieces glued to it. Wood expands and contracts across its width, but not along its length, and so this behaves exactly like a bi-metallic strip.

I was wondering how you made it only twist on one plane instead of turning into a pretzel, that makes sense.

My carpentry tutor spent hours torturing us with whole pages of tables giving warping percentages for all the common hard and softwoods in all three directions, and a set of formulas which theoretically meant we could calculate to tenth of a millimetre how much wood would twist in a certain direction for a certain temperature and humidity. We did at least two examples a week for two and a half years and every test had at least two questions on the matter.

Before anyone asks, no. I couldn't do it now: on the day after the exam I quite happily forgot the lot.

I since asked a British cabinet maker of some repute how they calculate twist. He said "Softwoods 10%, Hardwoods 5%. Done."

 

[postman]

I was on the lookout for a pair of jeans,just for around the house.My older pair look a bit worn and one or two marks on the knees from cleaning the kitchen floor.so on Thursday i was in Sainsbugs,they do TU clothing.So i see a pair my colour,looking closer they seem distressed,so i put my arm around them no i did not that was a little crappy joke.I thought if i got the two marks out of my pair and washed them again they would look like these.so with a bit of elbow grease and rubbing and a wash i have a pair of distressed jeans,saving some money,next job is to slash great bits out of them,then hey ho Postie is a fashion icon.What do you say to that then.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I was on the lookout for a pair of jeans,just for around the house.My older pair look a bit worn and one or two marks on the knees from cleaning the kitchen floor.so on Thursday i was in Sainsbugs,they do TU clothing.So i see a pair my colour,looking closer they seem distressed,so i put my arm around them no i did not that was a little crappy joke.I thought if i got the two marks out of my pair and washed them again they would look like these.so with a bit of elbow grease and rubbing and a wash i have a pair of distressed jeans,saving some money,next job is to slash great bits out of them,then hey ho Postie is a fashion icon.What do you say to that then.

All I know is that worsted is often bested.

 

[Salty seadog]

I'm half an hour into a power cut here. It started when I was in the bath. That was an interesting extraction from the bubbles.

 

[Katherine]

I was on the lookout for a pair of jeans,just for around the house.My older pair look a bit worn and one or two marks on the knees from cleaning the kitchen floor.so on Thursday i was in Sainsbugs,they do TU clothing.So i see a pair my colour,looking closer they seem distressed,so i put my arm around them no i did not that was a little crappy joke.I thought if i got the two marks out of my pair and washed them again they would look like these.so with a bit of elbow grease and rubbing and a wash i have a pair of distressed jeans,saving some money,next job is to slash great bits out of them,then hey ho Postie is a fashion icon.What do you say to that then.

Well done