PC RANT

Danny Colyer said:

CBeebies is a channel, not a programme. Any idea which programme?

What's the story, wouldn't you like to know?

On 30/3/05 8:24 pm, in article [email hidden],

John Hearns said:

Danny Colyer said:

CBeebies is a channel, not a programme. Any idea which programme?

What's the story, wouldn't you like to know?

Not sure. I'll Mull it over for a while..

and then get my coat.

...d

In article <[email hidden]>,

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Get onto Roger Geffen at the CTC about this, they may well be able
to make something of it.

I have asked the BBC for a formal letter of cancellation. I will
either post it here or put it on my website. The reseracher did say
that she wouldn't be back in her office until Monday.

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A T (Sandy) Morton
on the Bicycle Island
In the Global Village
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wafflycat said:

My favourite recollection of grammar school chemistry was when one of
the lads in class set fire to the workbench during the experiment of
distillation of crude oil by managing to concoct a river of oil along
the top of the bench which connected to the bunsen burner flame :-)

Similar things happened in my comprehensive school. Indeed, I'm sure
the type of school has no relevance. I wonder then why wafflycat
included a reference to her grammar school?

Jesus, how small can you get? She made reference to a grammar school
because that's what she went to.

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MacClancy (') said:

wafflycat said:

"Michael MacClancy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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... and not because you're one of those snooty grammar school snobs?
;-)

I do believe you've been watching too much "Tricia", you read into
things what is not there.

Oh, I wouldn't agree with that. The word 'grammar' was there and I
assume
that it had a purpose. You could have referred to 'school chemistry'
or even 'secondary school chemistry', each of which would have been
more egalitarian than 'grammar school chemistry'.

Have you had that chip valued? It's the most remarkable example I think
I've ever seen.

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Danny Colyer said:

CBeebies is a channel, not a programme. Any idea which programme?

Original confirmation letter said "Tikkabilla"

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A T (Sandy) Morton
on the Bicycle Island
In the Global Village
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in message <[email hidden]>, David Martin

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"Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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One chemistry teacher wot I had decided to demonstrate the reaction
between
sodium (or was it potassium?) and water, by chucking a large lump of
the
former into a glass wossname of the latter. The resultant explosion
would have done the gas board proud, though happily no-one was
injured.

Sodium. AN inch cube in a fire bucket was quite sufficient (outside in
the car park with everyone standing well back) to demonstrate a
vigorous exothermic reaction.

The cubic millimetre of potassium in concentrated nitric acid was
enough to blow a hole in the bottom of the glass beaker it was in
(which was itself in a large perspex vessel of water), indicating the
oxidative effect of certain acids.

Why does nobody remember any chemistry except what went bang?

Well, it does tend to demonstrate why nobody learns any chemistry any
more.

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David Martin said:

On 30/3/05 6:49 pm, in article
[email hidden], "Tim Hall"

Quoted message said:

David Martin said:

On 30/3/05 6:08 pm, in article [email hidden],
"wafflycat"

Quoted message said:

I seem to have forgotten most of it now, but love watching
programs like Rough Science..

Kathy Sykes does it for me, too......

But shes a .....

...physicist!

..d

I'd go for her considering what the chemist looks like.
--
Mark MRSC

HND (BSc Chemistry dropout.)

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:45:10 +0100, Sandy Morton <[email hidden]>

wrote in message : said:

I was phoned this morning, day of the hire, by the researcher to say
that the person in London in carge of health and safety would not
allow children to cycle on the public roads.

Tossers. I presume they also refuse to allow children to travel by
private car?

Guy
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"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

Sandy Morton said:

Original confirmation letter said "Tikkabilla"

My daughter likes Tikkabilla. I haven't a clue what it is (she sees
it at teh child-minders).

regards, Ian SMith

David Martin said:

But shes a .....

....physicist!

Well, get physical then

Tony ;-)

David Hansen said:

There was an element of danger in the explosion, to myself and
others. Whether this danger was greater than the many other dangers
in the school is debatable. Had I done it deliberately it would have
been a very stupid thing to do. However in the chemistry club I
suspect we were individually sussed out by the teachers. People had
to do their own research and then present what they proposed to do
for approval. Some people were allowed to make small quantities of
explosives, sadly they did not explode when tested (probably
impure).

Yes, the theory was sound but the alleged Ammonium perchlorate didn't
explode at all chiz.

And my rockets never moved either, though they burnt quite well.

Colin McKenzie

Tim Hall said:

David Martin said:

On 30/3/05 6:08 pm, in article [email hidden], "wafflycat"

Quoted message said:

I seem to have forgotten most of it now, but love watching programs like
Rough Science..

Kathy Sykes does it for me, too......

Oooh yes.
And they were building rockets tonight (didn't get to see the end).
Dare I say it's not rocket science....

Whilst I (strongly) agree with the general sentiment on this thread, I
have to jump in with some corrections to vernon's post - which was no
doubt flippant in order to make his(valid) poin.. No doubt (proper)
legal folks could tidy this up, but it is nonetheless based on
extensive reading of a very thick law book

As preamble, there is no legal obligation to save the toddler, even if
you could do it with little inconvenience to yourself. (Unlike in
France apparently)

That said, if you try and save the aforesaid toddler, and then kill him
in the attempt, you would only be liable if he is in a worse state than
if you'd left him alone - however incompetent you had been in the
attempt. If you had made a reasonable-under-the-circumstances (ie given
it's an emergency and given a cool head you could have done better)
this would still be a good defence. It is also doubtful if the judge
would find against you on grounds of "policy" ie it being bad for the
greater good to discourage the Good Samaritan.

In all this it is important to note that English law is different (and
generally more sensible) than USA law on these sort of things.
Cheers
Hywel

Chris said:

We got a beaker similar to the one in use in the experiments, filled it
with hot water and liberal dry ice, then walked through the middle of
the lab holding it at arms length going "Miiissss.... should it be doing
this?"

Smile.

In the spirit of Now It Can Be Told:

I remember the year when I was a graduate student at Glasgow,
and there was a halloween party in the research student's club.
I 'liberated' a couple of thermoses of liquid nitrogen, to make
fog effects at the bar.

It was quite spectacular, but dry ice would have made better fog probably.

Thinking back on this, had some twit put their hand in it or something
I think the safety officer would have taken a dim view.

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Kathy Sykes does it for me, too......

Oooh yes.
And they were building rockets tonight (didn't get to see the end).
Dare I say it's not rocket science....

There's something deeply Freudian going on here ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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Thinking back on this, had some twit put their hand in it or something
I think the safety officer would have taken a dim view.

I expect he or she might have been shattered.

Cheers, helen s

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

"wafflycat" <wafflesATv21netDOTcoDOTuk>typed

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"Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

One chemistry teacher wot I had decided to demonstrate the reaction
between
sodium (or was it potassium?) and water, by chucking a large lump of the
former into a glass wossname of the latter. The resultant explosion would
have done the gas board proud, though happily no-one was injured.

Quoted message said:

Potassium. Yor kemistree teechur was mi kemistree teechur and i klame mi
five powndz.

Quoted message said:

Cheers, helen s

Both sodium and potassium were added to water in my skule. We stood
quite a distance away and only a small, pea-sized piece was cautiously
added.

Ah yes, but once I got to work in a lab, a young bloke called George
decided to put bits of Lithium in the water tank outside.

That had a kick.

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in message <[email hidden]>, Michael MacClancy
([email hidden]'😉 wrote:

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Quoted message said:

Similar things happened in my comprehensive school. Indeed, I'm sure
the type of school has no relevance. I wonder then why wafflycat
included a reference to her grammar school?

Jesus, how small can you get? She made reference to a grammar school
because that's what she went to.

My brother went to the local secondary modern and I still spoke to him, so I
can't be *that* snobby ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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Sandy Morton said:

Original confirmation letter said "Tikkabilla"

<drool>
Sarah Jane Honeywell [1].

My favourite CBeebies programme for that very reason :-)~

Thanks.

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