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I'm suggesting that his past-tense gran probably did.
I'm suggesting that his past-tense gran probably did.
I'm guessing that he's not significantly older than me, maybe even younger - infant mortality wasn't an issue for my grandparents' generation. My parents don't tell tales of their siblings lost in toddler-hood.
If my gran was alive today she'd probably be over 100. Off the top of my head I recall seeing a lot of infant graves dated around the turn of C19. Penicillin being widespread wasn't until WWII time wasn't it?
🤷♂️ I could be wrong, just thinking out loud really.
Today I learned that typing can count as thinking "out loud".
Possibly just sharing thoughts that you haven't really validated in your mind before sharing 🙂
Silly but it also reminds me of a sign in our school library "No Children Aloud"
Today I learned that typing can count as thinking "out loud".
You'd understand if you heard my keyboard.
My grandparents on one side were both one of 14. They would be 110 if alive today. The other side were one of 6 and one of three
My parents were both one of three
I and both sets of cousins are sets of two.
I have two kids, my sister has none, one cousin has two kids and the other two cousins have none.
I guess my grandparents generation got enough food to survive ( there was a lot of vegetable soup chat when asked about growing up), medicine but no contraception.
I do wonder at what point teachers are going to start getting made redundant on mass. But then so many people leave the job in the first few years.
...that blue zones (Okinawa, Sardinia), where people are believed to live longer (over 100) due to their diet is more likely due to deaths not being reported so that families can continue to collect social security payments..
Today I Learned...
... that the line in The Kinks classic referencing Cherry Cola was originally Coca-Cola (and I believe is exactly this on the album version). It was changed for the single because the BBC wouldn't allow advertising and their mention of Coke was considered product placement.
Continuing the fizzy drinks theme - I always thought that squeezing a half-finished bottle of carbonated drink created pressure preserving the fizz, but apparently the pressure causes the gas to be drawn out of the fluid, flattening the drink more quickly. I haven't tested this in laboratory conditions but the person who enlightened me knows his chemistry.
I don't really drink fizzy drinks often, mostly tonic water.
I learned today that you can open and navigate .stl files in Apple Preview. Downloaded some 3d models of tree pollen from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases 'NIH 3D' website (something that the Trump/RFK administration seemingly hasn't found and deleted yet) - clicked on the file expecting something like sketchup or Meshlab to open it and Preview opened it instead and lets me spin the models around and fly through them
I also learned to can take the stone out of an avocado without doing a Meryl Streep and stabbing yourself in the hand
Continuing the fizzy drinks theme - I always thought that squeezing a half-finished bottle of carbonated drink created pressure preserving the fizz, but apparently the pressure causes the gas to be drawn out of the fluid, flattening the drink more quickly. I haven't tested this in laboratory conditions but the person who enlightened me knows his chemistry
You are correct but squeezing the air out of the bottle just gives more volume the gas to escape into as it expands back to the original shape. If you get a fizz keeper and pressurise the bottle it'll remain fizzy longer.
Bottles of tonic water don't last long enough to get flat in this house. 🍸🍸
I had a fizz keeper. Anecdotally, it seemed to make carbonated drinks go flat faster.
...that the actress (Jenette Goldstein) who played John Connor's foster mum in T2 also played Vasquez in aliens.