The nature of a surface can affect heat absorption as well as light absorption.
I'm not saying it's at all relevant for cooking purposes, but there could be a difference, theoretically.
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The nature of a surface can affect heat absorption as well as light absorption.
I'm not saying it's at all relevant for cooking purposes, but there could be a difference, theoretically.
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In america and large parts of the world, being asian is being chinese, the rest are pakistani or indian or whatever. In B ritian the latter sets are lumped as asian, and chinese called chinese.
Americans see the word oriental as offensive, but we do not, although americans now also see the colour black as offensive, oddly enough, the rest of the world can still cope with using a colour to describe a person, when they are indeed that colour.
If we wanted to be specific we could call people west asian and east asian and it would split them up well.
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I dont see how the side if the foil cant effect certain types of cooking maybe not fan oven heat style but surely anything with an element, or active flame etc will be affected.
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Few months ago some supermarket had their cheap own make energy drink on sale, friend of mine was drinking two 1 litre bottles a night mixing it with a bit of vodka. This went on for about a week and then I had the following conversation with her.
Her: Got a doctors appointment booked this afternoon
Me: Nothing serious I hope
Her: Dont think so, not been sleeping the past few days, just dont feel tired when I go to bed, then I dont sleep and ofc tired the whole of the next day
Me: Probably the 2 litres of energy drink you are having before you go to bed
Her: Dont be silly
After the appointment
Her: Been given some sleeping tablets, doctor told me to lay off caffeine during the evenings but I only have a cup of coffee in the afternoon
Me: and the 2 lites of energy drink before you go to bed
her: *Sigh* its not that
Then had a couple of days of her saying tablets werent doing anything, was feeling tired after taking them but still couldnt sleep and felt worse in the morning. Couple days later and the energy drink is no longer on offer so she switches to cranberry juice with her vodka as that is on offer, suddenly as if by magic the sleeping tablets are working
Who says there's no excuse to hit a woman?
LOL that's amazing
The only thing that comes to mind is when I was 14 at School. I was forced to sit next to this girl in Geography who for whatever reason didn't like me.
Anyway, we were doing the 'standard' colouring in of Europe exercise and had different colours for different countries. The girl was just sat there looking very confused indeed. I asked if she wanted any help and she replied 'no, not from you, you're too stupid to help me'. Ouch!
She eventually raised he hand and asked the teacher infront of the whole class - "Miss, where's the UK?"
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LOL that's amazing
The only thing that comes to mind is when I was 14 at School. I was forced to sit next to this girl in Geography who for whatever reason didn't like me.
Anyway, we were doing the 'standard' colouring in of Europe exercise and had different colours for different countries. The girl was just sat there looking very confused indeed. I asked if she wanted any help and she replied 'no, not from you, you're too stupid to help me'. Ouch!
She eventually raised he hand and asked the teacher infront of the whole class - "Miss, where's the UK?"
Ah - a former friend I remember well.
When I was about 13 I asked her how to spell 'restaurant'. She looked at me like I was a sorry waste of human life and yelled "RESSSSST-TERRRRR-RAAAAAANT!!!!!"
...ok...I looked it up in the end. Worked a treat, I have never forgotten the spelling since.
A few others from my youth:
Friend: "Exactly how long is a year?"
Me: "365 and a quarter days."
Friend: "That's STUPID!! Why don't they just have an extra day every four years?"
Girl visits the Lake District.
Girl to guide: "Do they switch the waterfalls off at night?"
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Great thread, reminds me of my brother in law. We were climbing Mount Snowden and I asked him what the white coloured stones/rocks were called. I remember playing with them as a kid but couldn’t remember what it was called.
He was adamant it was fossilised snow!! Yes fossilised snow! An elderly group over heard us and broke out laughing, and one gentleman kindly told us it was called Quartz stone, which sounded about right. One thing for sure I knew 100% there is no such thing as fossilised snow.
Even now, even after googling it he still believes its fossilised snow.
He was adamant it was fossilised snow!! Yes fossilised snow! An elderly group over heard us and broke out laughing, and one gentleman kindly told us it was called Quartz stone, which sounded about right. One thing for sure I knew 100% there is no such thing as fossilised snow.
Even now, even after googling it he still believes its fossilised snow.
For some reason the other stories are just so dumb sounding they're hilarious. Like the year one, common sense thrown out the window.
Because you didn't make it funny! It's all in the delivery.
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Commenting! A question on Geography teaching.
A kid whose Dad I used to work for insisted that there was a Northern Ireland and a Southern Ireland.
I said yes, but what is the proper name for the south of Ireland?
He just insisted it was called Southern Ireland, and had never heard of the Republic of Ireland. All this he claimed to have learned from his year 7 Geography teacher in what is an Outstanding school.
Was she right? At all?
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