BS: simple stuff we might not know

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Jan 18 - 03:18 AM

satellite dishes point South East (just been and checked)

did you check the satellite it was receiving from? Geostationary satellites hover over the equator. Hence the southish rule. Just like following the sun in the south - predicated on time of day.

markup and profit margin

And reducing that to markup and profit only confuses the issue. Profit margin is before costs. Profit is eaten by expenses.

and what is that rhyme that ends "..... if green is seen, take a chance & go between" ?

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Jan 18 - 03:13 AM

I still remember when, as a child, I realised that the river Tems that I'd heard about and the river Thames that I'd read about were the same waterway. Clang.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: DaveRo
Date: 09 Jan 18 - 02:11 AM

Depends if, when modelling, you have the bows towards you. It's why mariners don't use left and right for the sides of a ship.

"If all three lights you see ahead, turn to Starboard, show your Red."

Americans may know "Red right returning" for the color of channel buoys - but it doesn't work in Europe.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 07:32 PM

kendall I care having modeled ships. Today they can dock on either side. The red light goes on the right. right?

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 03:25 PM

Similar to Branson's not knowing gross from net, many people don't know the difference between markup and profit margin.

If you buy something for $1.00 and sell it for $2.00, you're marking it up 100%, but you're not making 100% profit. You're making 50% profit. 50% of the $2.00 that goes into the cash register is profit, 50% is cost. The only way to make 100% profit is to pay nothing for what you're selling.

If you want to make 25% profit on an item, you don't mark it up 25%. That will only give you 20% profit. You mark it up 33.33%.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: kendall
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 02:57 PM

The port side of a ship(Left) is so called because that is the side that connects with the pier. The starboard side, (right) is called starboard because that is where the "Steer boards" were attached. that was before the days of the rudder. the "Larboard side is so called because larboard, or Lee board is the opposite side of the ship..
Now you know.do you care?

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 06:17 AM

Thanks Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Michael
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 05:35 AM

In Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire, North England. Northern Hemisphere, satellite dishes point South East (just been and checked).

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Jan 18 - 04:34 AM

learned the difference between gross and net.
anyone told him about tare? And the gross in a net is 0, because it all falls through the little holes!

satellite dishes will be pointing south. Gotcha, I won't forget (in the Northern hemisphere). A friend used to say her satellite dish was pointing to Swindon. No amount of explanation would convince her about a mythical parabolic focus pointing up in the sky. Satellite was not clue enough. But she was right about Swindon, it is south of Cirencester.

hand sewing, put the leading end of the thread into the eye of the needle
I cut the thread first, so which is the leading edge? If I didn't the trailing edge isn't! Anyway I use one of those wire threaders. It is easier.

When checking tyre pressures at a service station: remove all caps first then start the pump. That way you are likely to get all tyres checked before the machine times-out. Particularly if you tow a caravan - it is a long way round and you can't always see the dial.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Jan 18 - 08:02 PM

But not in the southern hemisphere.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 07 Jan 18 - 07:59 PM

If you are in a town on a gloomy day and need to head north(\south\west\east)
the satellite dishes will be pointing south.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 18 - 07:34 PM

the cosmic 9th

Did you know the archeological remains of the Zep Tepi are twice as old as the early Egyptians.

At its heart TV is a hypnosis machine that people watch from hypnosis furniture. Russian Television plans to capture 10% of American audiences for the 2020 elections.

By placing your tongue against your front teeth you will enhance dexterity and fine motor control.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: leeneia
Date: 07 Jan 18 - 05:39 PM

Simple stuff we might not know?

When hand sewing, put the leading end of the thread into the eye of the needle. There will be less tangling, possibly none.

You can make this mistake-proof by threading the needle before the length you will use is even cut.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: DMcG
Date: 07 Jan 18 - 04:50 PM

How little we notice things that don't don't directly affect us.


For example, my left handed daughter tells me that when people attach a pen to a 'sign up' sheet with a string, it is almost always too short for left handlers.


Until my wife developed an arthritic hip, I was embarrassingly ignorant of how difficult many buildings can be to enter. Even if they have a ramp for wheelchairs - which may still don't - it is often very much further to walk if ou are on foot. Getting on and off trains can be difficult, and if there is a ramp it is usually far too steep. And so on.


And I was positively ancient when I realised how different art galleries are if you are colour blind.

Subject: RE: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 18 - 04:31 PM

Above the line, in the music section,
is a thread on singer Betty Carter,
and one post goes into some detail about Miles Davis and Irene Davis-Oliver,
the mother of Davis's three older children.

I beg your indulgence while I post, on this thread,
a sort of epilogue, non-music post, related to the one above the line.

In 2015, the story was carried by news syndicates of the death, and planned memorial/interment, of a middle-aged man named Muhammad Abdullah Davis,
whose birthname was Miles Dewey Davis IV.
The news agency which entered this story for the others to select,
included the statements released by those who managed the legacy and legalities of Miles Davis, as stipulated in Davis's will after his death.

The news story did not disclose, one way or another, if any effort was attempted to communicate with Gregory Davis, full-blood brother to the deceased, for a statement of any sort.
Of course Miles Davis, the father, had died first, and those who followed the news of the famous musician's passing
and its aftermath,
knew how Davis had cut both Gregory Davis and Miles IV / Muhammad Abdullah Davis
out of his will,
and how the inheritance and legacy questions were only settled
after the survivors picked sides, lawyered up, and negotiated a compromise beyond the terms of the musician's will.

Betty Carter, with her own extended family and her own two adult sons, was still alive --
though nearing the end of her life --
when Miles Davis died and the legal wrangling and estrangements became public and newsworthy.
While Irene Davis-Oliver, whose three children were divided into two opposing sides by the death of their father,
spoke briefly but forthrightly of her support for her two sons
(her daughter was included in the will),
Betty Carter was discreetly quiet as regards the press.

What Betty Carter could have pointed out was that
she took in the three children, when they were really young,
and their mother, at Miles Davis's request,
while he embarked on his boxing matches, as it were, with heroin.
Gregory Davis, in the book of memoirs published after his father's death,
has described Betty Carter as a surrogate/alternate mother to him and to his family.

By 2015, and the death of the second son -- known in childhood as "Squeaky" -- of Miles Davis,
Betty Carter herself had been dead for over ten years.
Irene Davis-Oliver, the mother, is still alive by all accounts I can find,
and living with Alzheimer's disease on the West Coast,
where her daughter Cheryl and the other relatives chosen by Miles Davis
to manage his estate planning and his legacy,
have relocated (this includes a son from a later relationship, and a nephew).

In the meantime,
while imagining the reunion of son with father
beyond the threshold of that portal to the plane of existence,
in which physical bodily arms are not required in order to embrace each other,
I cannot help but imagine
the soul known in life by her professional name, Betty Carter,
welcoming Miles Davis's son as though he were her own.
Thanks for listening.

Subject: BS: simple stuff we might not know
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 18 - 01:23 PM

Things hidden in plain sight that we should know before we die.
(too big a thread title but more honest)

Sir Richard Branson only recently learned the difference between gross and net. We assume people know the basics and its impossible to know what that might be. It might be called BIG trivia.

For example there might be someone out there who has heard Beethoven's 9th but never knew the words in it that were about "our brothers above the canopy of stars". It sounds cosmic and is.

Or that Pete Seeger was good friends with Eleanor Roosevelt.