Topic for going off topic

[BashfulAnthony]

It's just coming up to 09.23.

[Ricky Spanish]

someone just coughed.

should I be worried?

[Rhiannon]

Depends on the state of their pelvic floor.

[Brownie]

Your grandson sounds great floo.  Well done to the family!

[BashfulAnthony]

On George Best's birth certificate, his actual name is, Ronald Samuel Best.

[King Oberon]

Since this is a topic for going off topic I saw this guy on TV the other day...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_MacDonald_%28economist%29

Disappointed he didn't got here!

http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/corporate_careers/training_and_development/hamburger_university.html

 

[SweetPea]

I hope you don't mind me indulging in a bit of pride at my Grandson's first blog entry. He is ten and home schooled.

Hi all, this is T's first ever blog entry. He, like myself, is Dyslexic and usually hates writing. However, he really got into this and has worked super hard and allowed me to help him edit it too. It would encourage him greatly, if anyone does have a few moments to read through and leave some encouraging feedback! Thanks x (My daughter, his Mum)


Diary of a home ed kid


Hello world!
 Posted on May 12, 2015
In my science, I have been learning about this dude Sir Isaac Newton, who from being plonked on the head with an apple discovered all these laws of physics. Well, I tried plonking an apple on my head to see if I could understand all this science stuff better. All I got for my trouble was slightly concussed! Anyway, I致e had to work mega hard to understand his laws of motion. One of the experiments in my textbook was to demonstrate his second law, that objects of a greater mass require a greater force to get them into motion. You had to put the egg on top off the toilet roll tube and the toilet roll tube had to be on top of the pan and the pan was on top of the glass. Then you had to knock the pan. The energy was transferred from the pan into the toilet roll tube which knocked them out of the way. The egg, which has more mass, resisted, staying in the same place until acted upon by gravity and dropped into the glass below. All very well I thought, but I had a better experiment in mind. I tried to get my mum up out of bed on a Saturday morning. This defiantly proved two of Newtons laws. The law of inertia states that something prefers to stay at rest unless acted on by a force and that the second law says that the greater the mass of an object the more force is required to get it into motion. Seriously, getting my mum up on a weekend is no easy task, it required me take all the covers off her, prod her and when that failed I had to use the magic force, the bribe of a coffee, that worked like a charm.

The third law we studied is really weird and wacky. Get this, if I fall over accidently knocking the wall, the wall seeks its revenge. It actually pushes you back with the same of amount force! I kid you not. How bonkers is that? What's even more mad, is the fact that that wall is mostly made of empty space which bends, like a rubber band, when you fall into it. Oh and due to the fact that all atoms have electrons, whizzing at speed, the wall is actually moving too! Ok, so, due to its mass, you don稚 feel the wall hit you back, but the fact is it does. The law states, that for every action there is and equal and opposite reaction. But, wait a minute, I mean if I was to hit my brother, yes there would defiantly be a reaction but I知 betting the force he uses to hit me back wouldn稚 be equal. Given how much bigger he is than me, I知 not so dumb as to try it and find out!

Back to the law of inertia. Once an object is in motion, will stay moving at the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by a force. Ok, so whilst on earth, I know friction an gravity put a stop to most things all too quickly. Now where's the fun in that? Imagine otherwise, throwing the tennis ball for my dogs, Willow and Pippin, they would be chasing that ball for ever! Still if my dogs were launched with their ball into space, that's exactly what would happen, well until either hit by a passing comet or sucked in by the gravity of some planet, forced to orbit it for ever. On second thoughts, its a good job planet earth does have gravity!

Floo, I love this.... please congratulate your grandson, for me, on a wonderful blog.

Original, descriptive text. 'T', I rather hope one of our resident physicists  comments on your endeavours.

By the way..... I think your mum is very clever to manage any kind of a lie-in at weekends.

We don't have any 'stars', unfortunately, on this forum, so two  will have to do.

Take care, and keep blogging.


Ooops! Edited for spelling!

 

Thanks SP.   Sadly our daughter has various health problems which necessitates quite a lot of bed rest. Her two lads, 13 and 10, who are both home schooled look after her so very well, whilst their Dad is at work.

Sorry to hear that, Floo, but it sounds as though your grandsons are doing a sterling job. I know a family in a similar position.... the mother has MS; the children have been running the household, alongside their father, from a very young age.

[SweetPea]

KO, I can't open the second link.


Floo, this thread appears to be turning into our 'Facebook' page!

[Brownie]

You were quite right floo.  You have to keep your fluid levels up, lots of water.  You will wee even if you don't drink a lot of water and it can damage your kidneys if you don't flush the toxins out.  You know all that but tell him other people have said the same!   Bless his heart.  Good luck!

[SusanDoris]

Gonnagle, if you are reading, this is for you! My reader is well through 'Raising Steam' and we are both enjoying it very much. It's a pity she can't do the accents for the voices which, if I was able to read it myself, I would automatically do!, but that doesn't detract from the story.

[Follower of Jesus]

Gonnagle, if you are reading, this is for you! My reader is well through 'Raising Steam' and we are both enjoying it very much. It's a pity she can't do the accents for the voices which, if I was able to read it myself, I would automatically do!, but that doesn't detract from the story.

Didn't like Raising Steam that much. Too many things on one story and too many things reliant on a good knowledge of previous books for my liking

[Gonnagle]

Dear Susan,

Gonnagle, if you are reading, this is for you! My reader is well through 'Raising Steam' and we are both enjoying it very much. It's a pity she can't do the accents for the voices which, if I was able to read it myself, I would automatically do!, but that doesn't detract from the story.

I know exactly what you are talking about, eh lass we had real coal for tea, Pratchett really does conjure up wee men in flat caps and whippets, what's that wee guy who had programmes on the telly about blowing up huge chimney stacks.

I don't know about the female of the species but when it comes to anything about steam engines us guys become children again, I honestly think if the great man had just written about the history of Steam engines and threw in his wonderful humour it would still have been a great book.

Gonnagle.

[SusanDoris]

Thank you, gonnagle.  In some ways, hearing it in instalments means that we both get more out of it than we would if we just read it straight through.
There's another book published more recently, whose name I cannot remember, but a friend gave it to me. Have you read it?

[Gonnagle]

Dear Susan,

There's another book published more recently, whose name I cannot remember

More recently!! no sorry, unless it is one of those Long Earth things which were not my cup of tea.

Gonnagle.

[SusanDoris]

I'll find the title and post it asap.

[BashfulAnthony]

I'm going to cut my toe nails this evening!

[SusanDoris]

About 10 minutes ago, I was on Solent Radio!! There was an item about the Touch Tours run by Southampton Art Gallery. I was interviewed briefly.

[Ricky Spanish]

Is it available on catch up?

I'd love to avoid it.

[SusanDoris]

Is it available on catch up?

I'd love to avoid it.

Probably! It was on the Katie Martin show on BBC Radio Solent between 3:0 and 3:3 this afternoo . The item was about 3:10 and came directly after Randy Crawford singing.

[SweetPea]

Is it available on catch up?

I'd love to avoid it.

Probably! It was on the Katie Martin show on BBC Radio Solent between 3:0 and 3:3 this afternoo . The item was about 3:10 and came directly after Randy Crawford singing.

Take no notice of Thrud, Susan..... he's just being mean.   If I can find it, I'll have a listen. Very cool....

Can someone sort this page out, thanks.

[Ricky Spanish]

Aren't you fascinated by that social titbit Rose?

[Ricky Spanish]

It's Floo's fault SP, she broke it with this post: http://www.religionethics.co.uk/index.php?topic=10183.msg520566#msg520566

The mods should sort it out like they do with long URLs.

[Sassy]

My gran would have been 121 on April 30th.

How old are you? My gran would have only been 105 in September.

88.

Thou shalt not tell lies...
If 121 then your mother could only be 100 if born when gran 21.
Which makes your gran 33 when you were born so how old was your mother?

[Sassy]

My computer has just predicted that there will be no General Election in 2020 as IS will obtain nuclear weapons before then and annihilate the world!

It is weird because the general feeling is the end is on it's way.
King James Bible
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

King James Bible
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:




One thing that would certainly sttop the light and darken everywhere for a long time would be the dust after nuclear explosions in mass on the earth. What could drag a third of stars from the sky or kill mass amounts of people?

The last days could well be on the way...

[Sassy]

It's Floo's fault SP, she broke it with this post: http://www.religionethics.co.uk/index.php?topic=10183.msg520566#msg520566

The mods should sort it out like they do with long URLs.

Crud the Barbarian... sounds about Right....

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=
Crud
One of the most useful words used for 'Crap'. Kids use it so the high-strung parents won't throw a fit.


20 WORDS RELATED TO CRUD
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