Things you only found out today

[leicsmac]

16 minutes ago, jgtuk said:

Begs the question - why aren’t we stopping production of plastics (looking at you, fossil fuel industry 👀)

 

8 minutes ago, Xen said:

Money. The answer is always money.

 

Which is ironic now that most notes are made of plastic themselves.

Yep, money through convenience to the end user.

 

So we either need a marketable alternate that fits the uses plastics play in our lives, or do without them, with all the consequences for quality of life that entails.

[goose2010]

36 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

 

Yep, money through convenience to the end user.

 

So we either need a marketable alternate that fits the uses plastics play in our lives, or do without them, with all the consequences for quality of life that entails.

Exactly, plastic is light and cheap. Even with these new taxes coming in soon because of its weight plastic is still going to be used as companies wont invest in alternatives. 

 

I think i have eluded to it before but i work for a packaging supplier and one of my projects currently is plastic take out. 

 

One example i have worked on recently  plastic collation trays used in supermarkets for yogurt pots. They are single use and could easily be wiped out by a paper based solution. The big boys (muller etc.) wont move as they cost about twice as much and no one is applying pressure for them to move. Until the retailers force them to they wont, the retailers wont force them until they have to because it costs more about 5-10% more. So that easy solution could be fixed if people just took a small hit on their bottom line, but they wont. 

 

In one retailer last year 8 million of these were used and thrown away! so times that by all the retailers, all the yogurt lines that use the plastic trays and in the UK alone you are looking at probably 50-60 million of these trays.... 

 

 

Edited 13 May 2025 by goose2010

[StanSP]

There's a tiny island on the border of Spain and France, near Bilbao, called Pheasant Island. 

 

Spain administrate it for 6 months of the year. France do the other 6 months. 

 

No one lives there. 

[boots60]

15 minutes ago, StanSP said:

There's a tiny island on the border of Spain and France, near Bilbao, called Pheasant Island. 

 

Spain administrate it for 6 months of the year. France do the other 6 months. 

 

No one lives there. 

Has Donald added it to his tariff list?

[StanSP]

Just now, boots60 said:

Has Donald added it to his tariff list?

Hahaha well played

 

[Parafox]

Lynx have released a body spray to make your bollox and arse smell attractive.

Don't people wash anymore?

[Kp1984]

Not sure where to put this but you know your all smiling Coventry are not going to Wembley 

[Izzy]

How incredible ChatGPT is when it comes to changing images.

 

I've pretty much resisted AI to this point but took the plunge today and signed up for £20 a month.

 

Spent all evening uploading pictures of rooms of the old fashioned house we're about to buy and asking ChatGPT to update each room to a more modern style.

 

Unbelievable results but surely this will put the likes of kitchen planners and interior designers out of work?

[shen]

6 hours ago, StanSP said:

There's a tiny island on the border of Spain and France, near Bilbao, called Pheasant Island. 

 

Spain administrate it for 6 months of the year. France do the other 6 months. 

 

No one lives there. 

Spain's borders are weird. Only found out about Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera the other day as well

[Raj]

8 hours ago, Izzy said:

How incredible ChatGPT is when it comes to changing images.

 

I've pretty much resisted AI to this point but took the plunge today and signed up for £20 a month.

 

Spent all evening uploading pictures of rooms of the old fashioned house we're about to buy and asking ChatGPT to update each room to a more modern style.

 

Unbelievable results but surely this will put the likes of kitchen planners and interior designers out of work?

I still havent got into AI and ChatGT but listening to others most jobs will be redundant in another 10 years.

Thats my im telling my kids to get a skill rather than a job which will be automated in a few years.

Worrying in a way unless you chose the right path

[Free Falling Foxes]

9 hours ago, Parafox said:

Lynx have released a body spray to make your bollox and arse smell attractive.

Don't people wash anymore?

I must be getting old, I couldn't believe what I was watching when I saw the ad on TV. People literally sniffing others in said area.

 

[Parafox]

11 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I must be getting old, I couldn't believe what I was watching when I saw the ad on TV. People literally sniffing others in said area.

 

 

I look forward to the female version being advertised.

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, no, I don't. 

[Izzy]

The first three letters of Sweden and Denmark spell Sweden

The remaining letters spell Denmark

 

 

[Parafox]

44 minutes ago, Izzy said:

The first three letters of Sweden and Denmark spell Sweden

The remaining letters spell Denmark

 

 

Are you watching Eurovision?

[Izzy]

6 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Are you watching Eurovision?

I thought it was tomorrow night?

 

I read the Sweden/Denmark thing on Facebook

[Parafox]

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

I thought it was tomorrow night?

 

I read the Sweden/Denmark thing on Facebook

 It is tomorrow night.

 

I don't know why, but it just seemed amusing that you mentioned Sweden and Denmark on the eve of Eurovision. 

[FoyleFox]

Talking of plastic, I found out on Sunday the chairs at the KP are more robust than they look and capable of taking the skin off your shins, causing heavy bruising, when exuberantly celebrating a 200th goal for Vardy.

 

And, following the above incident, getting bloodstains out of clothes is more difficult than in TV crime drama.

[Beliall]

we need a replacement for Vardy and theres no thread. i know his locker isnt even cold yet but where the **** are all the goals going to come from now?

[Suzie the Fox]

Found this out today which i thought was quite interesting. 

 

1st 3 letters of Sweden and Denmark = Sweden

2nd 3 letters of Sweden and Denmark = Denmark. 

 

 

No doubt everyone else already knew this, but i didnt lol. 

[Izzy]

On 16/05/2025 at 20:05, Izzy said:

The first three letters of Sweden and Denmark spell Sweden

The remaining letters spell Denmark

 

Just now, Suzie the Fox said:

Found this out today which i thought was quite interesting. 

 

1st 3 letters of Sweden and Denmark = Sweden

2nd 3 letters of Sweden and Denmark = Denmark. 

 

No doubt everyone else already knew this, but i didnt lol. 

4 posts up 

[NAKC20]

4 minutes ago, Suzie the Fox said:

Found this out today which i thought was quite interesting. 

 

1st 3 letters of Sweden and Denmark = Sweden

2nd 3 letters of Sweden and Denmark = Denmark. 

 

 

No doubt everyone else already knew this, but i didnt lol. 

 

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

 

4 posts up 

Thats why everyone else knew it 🤣

[Zear0]

29 minutes ago, Izzy said:

 

4 posts up 

Suzie told it better

[ajthefox]

On 13/05/2025 at 08:59, goose2010 said:

every piece of plastic that has ever been made is still on the Earth!

Surely we sent some into space on rockets? 

[Free Falling Foxes]

20 minutes ago, ajthefox said:

Surely we sent some into space on rockets? 

Speaking of plastic and rockets; I've only just discovered that NASA have information on their website regarding making plastic pop bottle rockets. Loads of stuff on YouTube too, of course. However, the NASA site also has a plastic bottle flight simulator

You can use it to calculate weight coefficients, drag, thrust, different fuel (water) and so on.

Edited 22 May 2025 by Free Falling Foxes

[Stadt]

Tim Vine and Jeremy Vine are brothers