The More You Know ★
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- utopian0
369 Theory of Tesla
- mort_5
- I never touch this stuffsarahfailin
- Always wondered why I get a little chatty after a Nutella sandwich.mort_
- I've never had it. Never will. I don't even really know what it is.CyBrainX
- lol at ants and sandRamanisky2
- lolGuyFawkes
- it's delicious, cybrain ... it's hazelnut and chocolate and sugar and it's greatmonospaced
- is aiight...jagara
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- utellaKrassy
- just treat yourself to some proper gianduia, that's all Nutella is pretending to be...MrT
- face_melter2
Cara Delevingne uses a mini-scooter to get between her bedroom and kitchen because she finds the floors of her house “too hard” to walk on.
- Soft floors are litGnash
- Someone should tell her house slippers are a thing.Akagiyama
- There was a time in childhood where you didn’t know who anyone was, celebrities, famous people, friends would name-drop someone and it would bug you that you_niko
- ...didn’t know who they were talking about, then you started absorbing more media, books, magazines, tv and you knew more and more, then the internet_niko
- ...came along and all of a sudden you were cerebro you knew every single person that exists and has ever existed. Now as we get older we pine for the_niko
- ...days of blissful ignorance, I mean do I really need to know who this cara twat is or any other cara twat out there? :)_niko
- cant she just use her eyebrows to deaden the sound loltrooperbill
- sarahfailin0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£s…
£sd (occasionally written Lsd, spoken as "pounds, shillings and pence" or pronounced /ɛl.ɛsˈdiː/ ell-ess-DEE) is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once common throughout the British Empire. The abbreviation originates from the Latin currency denominations librae, solidi, and denarii.[1] In the United Kingdom, these were referred to as pounds, shillings, and pence (pence being the plural of penny).
Under this system, there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings, or 240 pence, in a pound.
The penny was subdivided into 4 farthings until 31 December 1960, when they ceased to be legal tender in the UK, and until 31 July 1969 there were also halfpennies ("ha'pennies") in circulation. The perceived advantage of such a system was its use in some aspects of mental arithmetic, as it afforded many factors and hence fractions of a pound such as tenths, eighths, sixths and even sevenths and ninths if the guinea (worth 21 shillings) was used.
(Notice board displaying the entry prices for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, around 1946)There were several ways to represent amounts of money in writing and speech, with no formal convention; for example:
£2. 3s. 6d. (two pounds, three shillings and sixpence), spoken, unless there was cause to be punctilious, "two pound(s), three and six". Whether "pound" or "pounds" was used depended upon the speaker, varying with class, region and context.
1/– (one shilling), colloquially "a bob"; the slash sign derives from the older style of a long s for "solidus", which is also one name for the sign itself; the '–' is used in place of '0', meaning "zero pence").
11d. (elevenpence)
1+1⁄2d (a penny halfpenny, three halfpence). As spoken, the lf in halfpenny and halfpence was always silent; they were pronounced "hayp'ny" /ˈheɪpni/[11] and "haypence" /ˈheɪpəns/[11][12] – hence the occasional spellings ha'penny and ha'pence).
3d (three pence), with reference to the above, this became thruppence, commonly referred to as a "threepenny bit".
6d (six pence) known as a "tanner" or half a shilling.2/– (two shillings, or one florin, colloquially "two-bob bit")
2/6 (two shillings and six pence, usually said as "two and six" or a "half-crown"; the value could also be spoken as "half a crown", but the coin was always a half-crown)
4/3 ("four and threepence", the latter word pronounced "thruppence" /ˈθrʌpəns/, "threppence" /ˈθrɛpəns/, "throopence" with -oo- as in "foot" /ˈθrʊpəns/, or "four-and-three")
5/– (five shillings, one crown, "five bob", a dollar)
£1.10s.– (one pound, ten shillings; one pound ten, "thirty bob")
£1/19/11+3⁄4d. (one pound, nineteen shillings and elevenpence three farthings: a psychological price, one farthing under £2)
£14. 8s. 2d. (fourteen pounds, eight shillings and twopence – pronounced "tuppence" /ˈtʌpəns/ – in columns of figures. Commonly read "fourteen pound(s) eight and two")
- Nairn3
- "dicki"Akagiyama
- It would've been a Loch, surely? They're called that in Scotchland.Brabo_Brabo
- There is actually one lake in Scotland at least - the Lake of Menteith. Nomenclature aside, you write for your context and from your experienceNairn
- utopian0
Why does ultraviolet light cause color to fade?
Because of photodegradation.It is all about the chemical makeup of an object. The technical term for color fading is photodegradation. There are light absorbing color bodies called chromophores that are present in dyes. The colors we see are based upon these chemical bonds and the amount of light that is absorbed in a particular wavelength.
Ultraviolet rays are one of the causes of fading because they can break down chemical bonds and fade the color in an object. Other major contributors to fading include visible light and solar heat.
Some objects may be more prone to this bleaching effect, such as dyed textiles and watercolors. Other objects may reflect the light more, which makes them less prone to fade.
- utopian1
- You too can develop a physical dependency to prescribed psychoactive drugs, contract pneumonia, and fly to Russia, act a total cunt, all at the same time!kingsteven
- I'm pretty sure being addicted to jellies like a fucking Bellshill ned makes you the absolute opposite of efficient.face_melter
- I like him. He really strikes a raw nerve in jessies (cf. the posts above this)Brabo_Brabo
- scarabin0
Every Seminole indian born becomes a multimillionaire when they turn 18
https://moneyinc.com/richest-nat…
Also, they own the Hard Rock brand, i didn’t know that
- Ramanisky27
- my head just swiveled off my neck.utopian
- The rest of the world: *face palm*grafician
- Or, y'know, metric.Nairn
- ... To make the perfect Tea of LifeAQUTE
- From an American here. Thank you!HijoDMaite
- 1 teaspoon = 1/3 cupmonNom
- 1 tea spoon + 5 table spoons = 1/3 cup
So easydrgs - Australian edition, the tablespoon is 4 teaspoons. WHY?MrT
- 1 trombone = 1/3 tronglang
2/3 chariot = 19 bricks (angry)face_melter - In Canada, they have the Imperial Gallon. Which is 5 quarts.boobs
- But wait, there's more.
They use volume for baking.palimpsest - USA: Cup.
Rest of World: tea spoon, desert spoon, table spoon, gram, kilogram, ml, L, pint, 1/2 pint.shapesalad - Fixed it for you.
USA: Cup
Rest of the world: 237 milliliters.palimpsest - This is why there are no good cooks in America. No good restaurants, cookbooks, famous chefs or a foodie industry.monospaced
- Right, and let's not forget aerospace.palimpsest
- Yes of course. Our ability to conduct any advanced science has been impossible because we don’t use metric.monospaced
- I don't agree. We excel in many domains despite not using the metric system. Our strength goes beyond measurements.palimpsest
- But sure, let's never switch to the metric system.CyBrainX