Things you have discover that nobody else seems aware of

[Gentile]

If you can eat a fried egg sandwich without losing any of the yolk in the process then good luck to you. They are known as egg banjo's for a reason...

If, however, you are one of those types who look down on the humble fired egg sandwich as a thing to be derided and avoided then all I have to say is

Nowt wrong with a piece and fried egg with brown sauce, you sloppy git!

[EternalOptimist]

Lamb chops , yum yum.

The day before you have your lamb chops, get a sandwich bag, a clove of garlic, a hot chille, some pepper and some salt.

sprinkle the salt and pepper on the chop, then, using the bag as a glove, gently rub the garlic and the pepper into the chop, till it wears down.

place the chops in the bag in the fridge.

fry or grill the next day for the tastiest lamb chops ever



the same works for pork chops, except you have to use pork instead of lamb

[DaveB]

Nowt wrong with a piece and fried egg with brown sauce, you sloppy git!

Red

[MyUserName]

Longbow arrows rarely went through plate armour depsite their modern reputation. An eye witness at Agincoury mentioned how the French armour was proof against English arrows. The archers did kill hundreds of knights but they did this with knives when the French had surrendered because the English knights refused to do it.

William Wallace did not wear a kilt or woad.

Most swords to virtually no damage to a man wearing maille and padding unless you thrust and they are almost useless against plate. I have fought at full power and took many many hits without so much as being hurt let alone stopped.

[NickFitz]

I have also discovered that if you don't know whether your remote control is working or not, you can check by pointing your mobile phone's camera at it, looking at the end of the controller through it, and pressing a few buttons. If the controller is working, there's be a visible light coming from the LED as you press the buttons: your camera detects the UV light being emitted by the controller and turns it into visible light.

I've additionally learned that 99/100 blokes will try this surprising phenomenon out immediately after hearing about it, and be surprised that it actually works.

It's infrared light. The CCD sensors in digital cameras are sensitive into the infrared.

[xoggoth]

Re traffic lights being motion rather than light sensitive, I suspect it is the same thing in practice. Flash a light at a motion sensor and it perceives it as motion, does on my very cheap Chinese motion sensitive CCTV system anyway.

[BoredBloke]

Re traffic lights being motion rather than light sensitive, I suspect it is the same thing in practice. Flash a light at a motion sensor and it perceives it as motion, does on my very cheap Chinese motion sensitive CCTV system anyway.

I think it's just something people think. That is, they pull up/slow down and the light is on red. They flash their lights, but in reality the sensor has already picked up that the car is there or approaching and is in the process of changing the lights. But the driver assumes that it's the flash that has triggered this.

What bugs me is when you see drivers creeping towards lights in the hope that they will change before they get there when you know that the thing to trigger the change is a sensor or an induction thing in the road. Meaning that until you are a certain distance from the lights it won't know you are there and so won't change.

[Halo Jones]

With temporary traffic lights I usually find that stopping one car length back from where you should tricks the set into thinking there is more cars waiting than there really is

Which could leave you waiting around as some sensors only have short range & aim for the first vehicle: I have been stuck behind a driver who did this until I got out & asked him to move forward, after which the lights changed

Most swords to virtually no damage to a man wearing maille and padding unless you thrust and they are almost useless against plate. I have fought at full power and took many many hits without so much as being hurt let alone stopped.

Back then a fair few sword edges were blunt, thus swords were used as an impact & thrusting weapon (there was a whole style of fighting based on the two handed sword being used in this manner) swing a big lump of metal at someone (even in plate) & you can knock them down & stab them through the eye slits (chivalric sword fights are a renaissance myth, the medieval ages were grim, bloody & downright nasty)

[Scoobos]

I wish I had something to add, but a great thread - some really good stuff in here from some!

[BoredBloke]

I wish I had something to add, but a great thread - some really good stuff in here from some!

I knew Scoobos had nothing to add. Even he has only just learnt that!