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I didn't think it was illegal in the UK - I eat a pastry in my car on the way to work in the mornings, have done it for years. Again - I didn't think drinking coffee was illegal either - I mean... they put coffee cup holders in cars for this very purpose, no? :-/ The bloke in the car described in the OP just sounds like a dick. It does happen to drivers. I get a little road ragey myself when people cut me up or drive slowly in the overtaking lane whilst the other lanes are clear.... people are human though.... once you stop and think the rage goes or you can forgive those that rage against you. When it comes to road rage - someone told me once that the best way to combat it in yourself is, if you find yourself angry at someone else's bad driving, to imagine that it is your nan driving the car (or someone else's nan maybe)... you then suddenly forgive them their ineptitude - they are only human.... and so are the ragey arseholes too. People get snappy behind a wheel.

Lemmon juice? It is clear - you write it and it is clear when dry. You can heat it and the paper discolours and the writing becomes visible again. Won't work on your skin though I wouldn't have thought.

What is the application you are after? This might determine what can and can't be used. Clock reactions spring to mind. Although I am not sure what you want the liquid for. The iodine one goes from clear to black after a predictable amount of time. I think there are other similar reactions based on the same chemistry where the balance of the reaction is kept in check by another chemical - once it gets used up it changes colour. Maybe there is a clock reaction that goes clear or something - idk - you'd have to look it up. The iodine one is the reverse of what you want - starting clear and going deep purple/black. We make a paint that is white... but dries clear. This is just because the emulsion is white whilst dispersed but is clear as a dried polymer film once it has coalesced. Sorry - I know that doesn't help - as I said - might be easier if we knew what your application/need was.

Ah! I made it in 1992.... I no longer have it I am afraid, sorry. It was a three tiered board made from Perspex with red and blue squares. I coloured in the squares with marker pen so the board was still transparent but had coloured squares. It was a little fiddly to get at the pieces on the bottom and the middle layers - the size was only about 12x 8 inches each board. It had 4 vertical supports that I super glued into place, made from the same material as the boards. The game took a couple of hours to play. Cutting the pieces to size was easy - assembling it so it held together was a little tricky but I got there in the end with it. It fell apart after a year or 2 and I never got around to sticking back together as it took up less space in storage whilst collapsed. After 20 years or so it got thrown out during a house move and clear out. I should have kept it.

But this would work easily/well as a computer game though. I do! I watched a youtube vid of a guy playing a 4 way chess match once - was interesting.... therefore I like the 3 way game you mentioned.... and the chimps too - I fancy my chances in a game of chess against any of them! I once built myself a 3D Dragon Chess board out of Perspex. My friend, who had shown me the rules and the board design was quite impressed that I had built the thing and we played a game using paper tokens as the pieces. P.

It also reminds me of other chess variations that are purely out there for fun (Chess is a well established game with World Championships etc), they will never topple chess as stand alone game - it has been around a long time and is renowned for being an excellent well respected game. Variants such as Dragon Chess, Quantum Chess, Space Chess and computer games like the one where your pieces can either move or fire laser weapons at the opponents pieces (can't remember what that was called now - star chess or something).

Quite so! - lol. - so who's buying the beers?

Your on! I reckon it would be a slow accent for sure - but in a low enough gear it would be easy - just time consuming. I would argue that it could be EASIER than the bike because on the bike there is a minimum speed required for you to stay on the bike and balance... there will be no minimum speed on the treadmill - you could be sprinting on the mill and the whole device could be crawling up the hill at 2 mph. You can't get the gears that low on a bike because you'd fall off of it at such low speeds. Admittedly - I think you would look pretty rubbish going up hill at 2 mph whilst running hard on the mill.... you might as well just sprint up the hill.... but maybe you can't run on the pavement due to shin splints or bad knees or something so have to use the treadmill but still want to go outside for your run.. who knows why someone might use it.

I think it is pretty cool... I like the splitting and combining of pieces to evolve them into different pieces. Personally though I feel that chess is complex enough anyway - I am not sure it will catch on or how practical it would be to be taking apart and reassembling lego pieces throughout the game. Maybe as a computer game it could work - but what do I know?

With the right gear ratio you could do it - same as a bicycle. Especially if it had 4 wheels - so you could stay on it at slow speeds without it toppling over. When I used to cycle everywhere my bike was only ever in 2 gears - top gear EVERYWHERE, then bottom gear for steep hills when I could no longer pedal in a high gear.

- That's the sort of thing I was getting at... maybe a 4 wheeler with a roof that can be detached in the sun.

They were all the rage in the 1970s / early 80s!... and yes, they were shit.

Surely not - you'd only need to power the electronic display. The battery for that can charge from an alternator on the mill. You don't need any power for the resistance of the treadmill, you can make it harder through gearing and elevation.

Self charging from the treadmill? Surely that would be pointless? You are on it the whole time so why would you need to remotely control it? I like my idea of making mobile with tracks though - it isn't as stupid as it sounds - like a bicycle but with running power rather than cycling power - you could gear it up for higher speeds that couldn't be reached by running alone.

Na! Put wheels on the bottom of it so as you run you can power the wheels from the treadmill to rotate and propel you forwards. That way you can take it outside and do your treadmill workout as you take a ride around the park. Put some tracks on it for cross country terrain. Wonderful idea. You'd need to rig those handles to give it steering capability and you away.

approximately. lets say on average, 2 pies a week x 52 weeks for about 30 adult years - = 3120... so very close. (not including mince pies a xmas - the figure would be uncountable).

Has anybody else noticed that a real edible pie, when you look at it from the top, is round like a circle!... Pie = pi? It can't be a coincidence- It's blowing my mind. I mean, I was thinking the other day - I must have eaten a few thousand pies in my time.

I bought one of those for work. I thought it might be a bit rubbish as it was only about £160.00 - but it is pretty good for what it is and does. I didn't really need to get a high end one for what I needed it for but it makes a good microscope for the price with photo ability in case one is ever needed. I was surprised by it - it isn't bad at all for taking basic pictures of samples. The photo functionality is pretty good compared to what microscopy pictures used to cost a decade or 2 ago.

I would argue that you do not know what might be round the corner. You have 1 chance at life. It is an incredible opportunity just to even exist and be aware of it, whatever the pain you have to go through. I would urge them to try something new - they say 'time heals all wounds'.... although it might not be true you can only hope. If someone makes that decision to end themselves I think it is a shame and a waste of the chance for future joy/pleasure/whatever or the chance to pass on your wisdom to someone else. Look to what you can do for the world rather than what it can do for you. Be a part of something greater than your self. Anyway - what do I know? - just my opinion... It is very sad that people hit the lows that make them feel this way imo. We need more unconditional agape love in the world. If I had a prayer for the world - more Agape in all our hearts please.

Is this a homework question?

Not being able to explain or comprehend where the scratches came from shouldn't lead you to conclude that some supernatural event happened in your dream. It is more likely that you picked the scratches up somewhere without noticing (Walking through grass or bumping into something at work or play). Later, in the night, you started to feel it in your sleep and scratched it yourself with your stumpy finger nubs which could have opened the scratches further or broken off the scabbing - causing the bleeding. You awake, remembering your dream, which was bought on by the sensation of the scratching the scratches on the leg. That - or something else entirely different happened that caused scratches on your legs. Or, maybe Freddy Krueger is real after all! You may never figure out what caused it - that doesn't mean you should jump to supernatural conclusions. Is it possible for a human to flap his arms like wings and fly up to the sun, have a picnic and return unharmed?

Impregnate it with metal ion salts maybe? Put some in and try it out - but I reckon the wick might need dipping as well. Even then it won't be perfect.

That sounds lovely! I'm sure we'd have nice afternoon chatting and putting the world to rights. I bet polar bears can really handle their drink though? I'm a bit of a lightweight these days. It wouldn't be a problem in the UK if you are black or gay. (are you? - not that I care either way. ) I think maybe the US is still a bit behind the UK and the EU when it comes to not seeing skin colour..... although a lot people still hold prejudices in private. I have been shouted at for being white in a London before though... and a Pakistani bloke hit me for being white once in a town near London, but that was a long time back and you have to think what that person might have been through to drive him to hate me because of my skin colour.... maybe he was just an arsehole...... or maybe he'd been called a 'Fucking Paki bastard' so many times he just flipped and lashed out (at a 16 year old skinny boy who was half his size - brave lad). I learnt that I could take a punch that day though - I was still standing after it, even though I saw stars and went a bit wobbly. I also learnt later that he had hit about 10 other young white kids the same day on his crusade against whites.... as I said - Something must have happened to him to hate us that much.

Why should anyone have to hide anything? Neither are illegal. The comparison is the struggle both groups have had to be recognised as normal legal human beings. Both groups have faced prejudices of varying and different levels - often with real threat to the individuals. Why not compare them? I suppose their troubles have been very different... you never went to prison for being black. People don't beat you up ridicule you for being black. I guess we can't appreciate what levels of violence and oppression some individuals have been subjected to for being black or gay as I am neither.

But people used to beaten for being homosexual. It was illegal and people went to prison... or more commonly were just beaten up and spat on. If you let them start refusing people because of gayness then you are on a slope back to 'the good old days' when you could call a nigger a nigger, shoot him for looking at your daughter in a funny way. Laugh at a homo and get him arrested or just beat him up. Rape your wife without any legal repercussions.. Oh - lets make America/the UK great again eh? We all miss the good old days.