The thread of learning something new every day
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@canefan said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Machpants said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@canefan said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I remember how black my snot got the first time I visited London and rode the tube for a few days. Not a huge leap to think some of it can get in further
My wife and family are in the air right now to the UK, I reminded them of the black snot from the last time in London, after the kids complained about Auckland's air pollution
Black snot = black lung = black blood?
Black lung was/is due to coal dust. But I assume it's a similar process breathing in all sorts of toxic particulates
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@Crucial said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I have never experienced anything you lot are talking about. Do you mean if you ride the tube everyday?
Yeah. The pony and caravan won’t have the same effect on you.
You don't know that though eh
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Could go in the extreme weather thread too...was wondering when I saw them keep referring to Cyclone Hale as ex-Tropical cyclone Hale....
Once a storm stops being a "Tropical Cyclone" the centre becomes less important (up in the tropics the centre is where the most severe weather is, but in the NZ area once they are ExtraTropical the severe weather spreads further out).
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Could go in the extreme weather thread too...was wondering when I saw them keep referring to Cyclone Hale as ex-Tropical cyclone Hale....
Once a storm stops being a "Tropical Cyclone" the centre becomes less important (up in the tropics the centre is where the most severe weather is, but in the NZ area once they are ExtraTropical the severe weather spreads further out).
What an awful summer we've had - at least the tanks are full. In fact they're overflowing most weeks
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Could go in the extreme weather thread too...was wondering when I saw them keep referring to Cyclone Hale as ex-Tropical cyclone Hale....
Once a storm stops being a "Tropical Cyclone" the centre becomes less important (up in the tropics the centre is where the most severe weather is, but in the NZ area once they are ExtraTropical the severe weather spreads further out).
Went on a pre-planned road trip up to Ruakaka and back down the coast to Omaha. Foiled by road closures due to slips and flooding despite the rain not appearing to be that hard. The roads north of the Brynderwyns leave a lot to be desired
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Could go in the extreme weather thread too...was wondering when I saw them keep referring to Cyclone Hale as ex-Tropical cyclone Hale....
Once a storm stops being a "Tropical Cyclone" the centre becomes less important (up in the tropics the centre is where the most severe weather is, but in the NZ area once they are ExtraTropical the severe weather spreads further out).
Yeah, I read or heard there's a shift in weather patterns somewhere in the transition into the temperate zone that shears the pressure and they stop being cyclones before they reach NZ. And I think the sea gets cooler so they lose power.
Although we still refer to them as cyclones rather than Ex-TCs, like Bola.
Not to say they can't pack a wallop. Australia Day floods 10 years ago was result of Ex-TC Oswald, which only ever got to Cat1.
And Ex-TC Ellie just drowned the Kimberley in northern WA.
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@canefan ha road's are shite up here, have been for so long, and the Brynderwyns is a constant money pit for road repairs, a bridge from the top heading south would.be costly but ultimately safer and less closures.
Tbf the rain yesterday wasn't that bad, problem is the rain we had for 5 days last week, and the rains we had before Xmas, the ground is waterlogged, so almost no water being absorbed.
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Brynderwyns is a constant money pit for road repairs, a bridge from the top heading south would.be costly but ultimately safer and less closures.
Thankfully they are putting that new two-lane road into Whangarei which will bypass this
Oh no, not in the Auckland region so the northern bit has been canned
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@Machpants holiday highway...#TMLabour
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I think this might be the best fit. Maybe we need a QI thread?
Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested
Cosa Nostra ‘godfather’ arrested at a private clinic in Palermo after going on run for 30 years
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@Tim paywalled unfortunately.
But is funny. I recall her story (of the plane crash and jungle survival) having been read to me and classmates at school.
Unfortunately I can't remember exactly which class/teacher it was. (School was anywhere from 40-50-ish years ago...)
Remember specifically being grossed out by the maggots. Still am.
Stumbled across the story reasonably recently and did a bit of googling.
Fascinating survival story.
A superficial dive down this recent rabbit hole brought up a new thing I learned today, being that the filmmaker that did the apparently authoritative doco on her also made the super surreal doco 'Grizzly Man'.
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@Tim said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@booboo Did you notice the archive.ph link below?
Err, no ...
