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  • 26-04-2016 8:14am
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    Mint Aero
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    Perk up and start posting better threads. Ol Minty here hasn't much to reply to lately given the lacklustre quality threads being produced.

    And if I can't post replies to threads it further degenerates the forum. A vicious cycle of boredom has enveloped this place. I suggest we pool together in this and put our AH thinking hats on going forward.


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    Samaris
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    No.


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    blindside88
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    Yes


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    Samaris
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    Maybe.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    My next thread "is water really wet?" Is still going to better than yours :mad:


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    jimgoose
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    My next thread "is water really wet?" Is still going to better than yours :mad:

    Water isn't "wet" per sé, any more than steel or balsawood is "wet". This notion of wet is a very subjective class of a thing describing the way we feel when our skin comes into contact with this particular oxide of hydrogen. It is more accurate to say that we "get wet" when we come into contact with water, or are immersed in it. Water itself isn't wet - it just is, maaaaan. :cool:


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    everlast75
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    I would, but I don't facilitate people who talk about themselves in the 3rd person..


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    It is more accurate to say that we "get wet" when we come into contact with water, or are immersed in it.
    :eek:
    Whatever you're into though Jim!


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    Peregrine
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    blindside88 wrote: »
    Yes
    Samaris wrote: »
    No.
    Samaris wrote: »
    Maybe.

    I don't know. Can you repeat the question? You're not the boss of me now.


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    jacksie66
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    This post has been deleted.


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    Alf Veedersane
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    It is more accurate to say that we "get wet" when we come into contact with water, or are immersed in it.

    Kinda thing that might get you kicked out of a swimming pool though


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    jimgoose
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    :eek:
    Whatever you're into though Jim!

    We live to serve. Join us next week for a dissertation on the common misconception that gyroscopic precession has an influence on the balance of a pedal-bicycle. :D


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    jimgoose
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    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Kinda thing that might get you kicked out of a swimming pool though

    Strictly speaking you're more likely to be kicked out of the building housing the swimming pool. Actually kicking someone out of the pool would play havoc with their insurance.


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    The_Valeyard
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    Invisible threads are the strongest ties.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Apparently having sex in the water can cause injuries. There you go now. Don't say you don't learn anything from a mint aero thread


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    jimgoose
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Apparently having sex in the water can cause injuries. There you go now. Don't say you don't learn anything from a mint aero thread

    Water is a terrible lubricant. I'd say it's the same sort of thing that can befall modern common-rail injection systems when underground diesel tanks at forecourts leak.


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    FortySeven
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Apparently having sex in the water can cause injuries. There you go now. Don't say you don't learn anything from a mint aero thread

    I can speak from experience here. Not so, in fact I have had many more sexual injuries in bed than in swimming pools.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    That's a beautiful comparrison JG.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    FortySeven wrote: »
    I can speak from experience here. Not so, in fact I have had many more sexual injuries in bed than in swimming pools.


    My housemate was having sex in a hot tub and nearly tore it off himself. There was a lot of blood


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    Akrasia
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    Water isn't "wet" per sé, any more than steel or balsawood is "wet". This notion of wet is a very subjective class of a thing describing the way we feel when our skin comes into contact with this particular oxide of hydrogen. It is more accurate to say that we "get wet" when we come into contact with water, or are immersed in it. Water itself isn't wet - it just is, maaaaan. :cool:

    Wetness isn't a subjective class of feeling or emotion, it's the objective state of an object being covered with with or soaked in a liquid.

    Water is especially liable to become wet because of it's phase states temperature correlation with our natural and domestic environment

    Ice is not wet, but it turns to water when in contact with warm human skin or other sources of heat, water is a liquid, so anything it is in contact with is by definition wet, and water vapour is not wet, except that it tends to condense into liquid water when in contact with any surface or gas below 100 degrees C.

    While we might argue philosophically about how much liquid contact is required in order to describe something as wet, but scientifically there are various measurements that distinguish between relative wetness and dryness depending on what is being measured.


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    jimgoose
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    Akrasia wrote: »
    Wetness isn't a subjective class of feeling or emotion, it's the objective state of an object being covered with with or soaked in a liquid.

    Water is especially liable to become wet because of it's phase states temperature correlation with our natural and domestic environment

    Ice is not wet, but it turns to water when in contact with warm human skin or other sources of heat, water is a liquid, so anything it is in contact with is by definition wet, and water vapour is not wet, except that it tends to condense into liquid water when in contact with any surface or gas below 100 degrees C.

    While we might argue philosophically about how much liquid contact is required in order to describe something as wet, but scientifically there are various measurements that distinguish between relative wetness and dryness depending on what is being measured.

    Agreed. In short, it's a wishy-washy makey-uppey term that's about as much real use as "metal fatigue"! :D


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    FortySeven
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    My housemate was having sex in a hot tub and nearly tore it off himself. There was a lot of blood

    Bejebus! What was he having sex with? Please tell me it wasn't the tub.


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    jimgoose
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    FortySeven wrote: »
    Bejebus! What was he having sex with? Please tell me it wasn't the tub.

    Fuel-rail out of a Mercedes E220 CDI, I believe.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    FortySeven wrote: »
    Bejebus! What was he having sex with? Please tell me it wasn't the tub.


    A drunk teenager he met on tinder, who threw up on him because she was after skulking 2 bottles of wine, boiling in the hot tub, and the cherry on top was the blood.


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    tomwaterford
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    A drunk teenager he met on tinder, who threw up on him because she was after skulking 2 bottles of wine, boiling in the hot tub, and the cherry on top was the blood.

    Possibly both the funniest and grimmest thing I've read in a long time :pac:


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    #26
    jimgoose
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    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Possibly both the funniest and grimmest thing I've read in a long time :pac:

    Turn of phrase, wha'?? Lexie is a sort of girly Paddy Kavanagh for the new century! :D


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