paddy Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Termites cut through wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarry Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 All the characters in captain Scarlet also had "real names". Scarlet's was Paul Metcalfe... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Scarlet_and_the_Mysterons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 And I never realised Clough was that good at football. I obviously knew about his managerial achievements but didn't realise he scored that many goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 1, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted October 1, 2008 Something I found out in the fire talk for student residences the other day... Aberystwyth, according to some firefighter fella, has the largest timber framed accomadation building in the UK, after the ones on the site burned down in a fire in 1998. I'll be amazed if thats true but there you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I'll be amazed if thats true but there you go. I wouldn't. How many timber framed accomodation buildings are there in the UK? Not a lot I would imagine, they sound like a death trap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwpzxjor1 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 The shortest sentence (that makes a vague bit of sense) that uses every letter in the alphabet is 'jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf_stewart Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Swindon Town is the only team in the football league not to contain any of the letters in Mackerel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwpzxjor1 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Swindon Town is the only team in the football league not to contain any of the letters in Mackerel. Brilliantly random. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSufferingVilla Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 The oldest player to ever score for Villa is Peter Schmeichel Pre Youtube online footy highlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted October 1, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted October 1, 2008 I wouldn't. How many timber framed accomodation buildings are there in the UK? Not a lot I would imagine, they sound like a death trap. Timber frames are actually safer than steel in a fire... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiganvillain Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I wouldn't. How many timber framed accomodation buildings are there in the UK? Not a lot I would imagine, they sound like a death trap. Timber frames are actually safer than steel in a fire... I think you'll find that in the last 30 or more years most houses built in Scotland are Timber Frame. For some reason England sticks to all brick / block. Anyway - uselesss info - All Polar Bears are left handed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artetasgirl Posted October 1, 2008 Visiting Supporter Share Posted October 1, 2008 The oldest player to ever score for Villa is Peter Schmeichel Pre Youtube online footy highlights. Oh my. I remember that match, he nearly scored again as well Thank the lord we still won 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 1, 2008 Moderator Share Posted October 1, 2008 Anyway - uselesss info - All Polar Bears are left handed I've never seen one sign their name OR catch a ball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted October 1, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted October 1, 2008 Swindon Town is the only team in the football league not to contain any of the letters in Mackerel. St Johnston is the only team in the British isles to contain the letter 'J'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted October 1, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted October 1, 2008 The oldest player to ever score for Villa is Peter Schmeichel Pre Youtube online footy highlights. Oh my. I remember that match, he nearly scored again as well Thank the lord we still won 8) I was about to write "we didn't win!" But then I realised who was posting... *shakes fist* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Robbie Keane now holds the record that David Blaine previously held for being the bloke who spent the longest amount of time in the box doing absolutely **** all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 wheeey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I wouldn't. How many timber framed accomodation buildings are there in the UK? Not a lot I would imagine, they sound like a death trap. Timber frames are actually safer than steel in a fire... Fair enough. Any idea why? The name Ethiopia is derived from the Greek meaning "The land of the sunburned faces" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 1, 2008 Moderator Share Posted October 1, 2008 Some bloke in England made a car out of wood a few years back and the insurance company wouldn't insure it for fire. He argued that all (non-vandal) car fires are started from an electrical short carried through the metal. Someone should've told him that might change if vandals saw a wooden car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted October 2, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted October 2, 2008 Fair enough. Any idea why? Per the University of Manchester: Although timber is classified as combustible material, a properly designed timber structure has been recognised as performing very well in fire. Light timber construction is normally protected from fire by fire resistant cladding materials, while heavy timber construction has good inherent fire resistance because a char layer is formed that retards the heat penetration. When heavy timber members are exposed to a fire, the temperature of the fire exposed surface of the members is close to fire temperature. When the outer layer of wood reaches its burning point (about 300°C), the wood ignites and burns rapidly. The burned wood becomes a layer of char which loses all strength but retains a role as an insulating layer preventing excessive temperature rise in the core. The low conductivity of char will cause a steep thermal gradient across the char layer. Underneath the char layer, there is a layer of heated wood with a temperature of above 200°C, which is known as the pyrolysis zone. This part of wood is undergoing irreversible chemical decomposition caused solely by a rise in temperature, accompanied by loss of weight and discolouration. The inner core wood is slightly temperature affected with some loss of strength and stiffness properties, mainly due to the moisture evaporation in the wood. The charring rate is more or less constant and depends on the density and moisture content of the wood and heat exposure. Figure 1 shows the typical cross section of a timber beam subjected to fire (Buchanan 2001; Purkiss 1996). The fire performance of timber is dependent on the charring rate and the loss in strength and modulus of elasticity. Strength and stiffness properties depend on temperature and moisture content. Steel meanwhile starts dramatically losing strength at around 300 degC (and loses nearly all strength by 800 degC... something the 9/11 truthers miss when they bleat about jet fuel not burning at a high enough temperature to melt steel...) I did a double-take when my step-father (an adult student in Building Materials and Wood Technology at the University of Massachusetts) told me that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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