THE BRITISH THREAD II

Quite a lot of activity her during the night/earliest morning :wink:

Back now, with simple breakfast at home instead choosing from a huge buffet in the Russian Legacy to the Duke of Saxony-Eisenach-Weimar as during the last couple of days.

(Okay, it was only in that building, which was one part of our hotel there.)

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That sounds nice Walt, tell us some more.

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McTag wrote:

How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two

Smorgs doesn't get this joke. But she will.

Idea

Understanding it requires a suspension of disbelief to some extent, I admit.

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With my little understanding of the English language, I would have thought it would take two flies to screw on a light bulb, as it would be difficult to screw in 'cause then the bulb should be open.

But I'm only nitpicking...

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smorgs wrote:

I've been doing some research...

It takes (on average) nine minutes from making a cup of tea, to being able to neck it.

Taking into account the ambient temperature, the suface area of the vessel used and how much cold fluid is added (milk).

Do you think I's be able to get a grant to take my research further?

x

It's hard to believe I know, but some people put a teabag ALONG WITH THE MILK in the cup before pouring on the boiling water. So there's no chcnce of the teabags ever getting hot enough.
You can take the boy or girl out of the ghetto......

I have read that Everest expeditions (British ones of course) could not make a proper cuppa at high altitudes because the water boils at much lower temperature there.

So they had to go back down again, and never actually climbed the blasted thing until a Nepalese and a New Zealander did it in 1953.

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Trust a Frenchman to get a dirty joke.

They're obsessed, they are....

:wink:

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McTag wrote:

I have read that Everest expeditions (British ones of course) could not make a proper cuppa at high altitudes because the water boils at much lower temperature there.

This is because of Boils Law. And because its ****ing freezing on the top of mount everest. There ya go physics and geography lesson.

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Which reminds me of a joke.

Overheard at a nearby table dining al freezco in Manchester July 2006.

(Should be told with strong Manc accent)

Little polar bear

--Mummy am I really a polar bear?

--Yes darling of course

--Well are you a polar bear?

--Yes why do you ask?

--Well is Daddy a polar bear?

--Now look you are being silly. You are a polar bear I'm a polar bear daddy is a polar bear, now whats all this about being a polar bear?

--Because I'm ****ing freezing.

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How dare you denigrate the good peoples of Mancunia...

I'm shocked!

I am also knackered from being up in the early hours.

I still don't get the joke about the flies - could someone explain it to me?

x

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smorgs wrote:

I still don't get the joke about the flies - could someone explain it to me?

x

You mean there could be more flies to this party on the bulb? Shocked

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smorgs wrote:

How dare you denigrate the good peoples of Mancunia...

I'm shocked!

I am also knackered from being up in the early hours.

I still don't get the joke about the flies - could someone explain it to me?

x

ok. Actually its a bad joke because the flies cant be in the bulb itself, unless they were somehow trapped in the manufacturing process...or if they got in the bulb in would be broken and being under low pressure with inert gas it would not work so realiy it should be in the light fitting rather than in the bulb. And if it was a bayonet fitting, it wouldnt work either, the joke that its. So we have the hypothetical situation of two flies screwing in a light bulb. Clearly absurd, but there you have it. So how many does it take? Most insects reproduce sexually, the male impregnating the female which produces eggs. Although the life of an adult fly is almost exclusively oriented to reproduction, it is not inconcievable that an amorous dalliance might occur. With one other or maybe more flies.
So the answer is two. Hope this helps.

How many flies does it take to screw COMMA in a light bulb?

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Help-- you linguals.

What does--"die Welt...Vortsellung" mean? Quick.

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Die Welt - the world.

Vorstellung - Presentation, imagination, exhibition..

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Thanks. Fancy admitting being a lingual.

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spendius wrote:

Help-- you linguals.

What does--"die Welt...Vortsellung" mean? Quick.

Why did it have to be quick?

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spendius wrote:

What does--"die Welt...Vortsellung" mean?

Of course Francis is correct.

But those two words together don't really make any sense without a verb, some context.

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Walt-

I think it is the title of a book farmerman is supposed to have had to read for some course or other potting Schopenhauer into shrimp jars. Schopenhauer Made Easy type of thing.

The exchange is on the Baylor thread on S&M forum and concerns the famous Essay on Women.

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Mac wrote-

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Why did it have to be quick?

It was warm at the time over in that other place.

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Sado-Maso thread? And I'm still here Shocked

Oh, you seem to point to something a bit different, I suppose .... Sad

(Arthur Schopenhauer's magnum opus, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung ["The World as Will and Representation"] that is)

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farmerman certainly believes in that.

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