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Hehe awww guys . Thanks all! I hope everyone else had a good day too .

At this stage, nobody in a developed country such as your own actually needs to worry. So far it is only people in Mexico who have been dying from this, and the reason for that is unknown. Coinfection with a local disease or poorer healthcare have been suggested. Even if you do catch it (very unlikely) you are also very unlikely to die from it.

I installed windows 7 on a new partition so I could have all of the benefits but few of the risks. I liked it, for the first few weeks. Then, microsoft released an update which caused problems with 'tdx.sys', some sort of network stack. The problem was.. BSOD every few minutes when using a Samba share. This wouldnt be a problem for the average user.. who dont have Samba shares, but for corporate users and people like me who do.. it was disasterous. I need my samba to access the internet because of the stupid way my university has set up their network. Ive been using XP again for a couple of months now.

Ive never tried nutella on pancakes.. I tend to buy it and then eat it with a spoon from the jar..

Well, it's that time of year again when some of us will be redecorating the ceiling and then a little while later.. the floor. What do you eat them with? I have them with golden syrup and lemon juice, rolled up into a tubular package and sliced .

I think its because things get misinterpreted and misunderstandings happen. Currently arguing with my other half (as in, right now on msn ). I dont know if it'll last the week.

I dont get it. Surely you'd pay in the cheque and then wait til the money arrived before doing anything. Of course it isnt going to. You wouldnt give any money to another person if a stranger promised to reward you in person until you had the money, so why would you do it for a cheque? From what i've read though, your cheque system is much more open to fraud than mine. (like cheque kiting)

Cooking is my favourite and bathroom the least. Dusting pah - you cant tell the difference between a quarter of an inch of dust and half an inch!

Ah and to look at some of your other ideas. Water is resistant to being heated because it can hold a lot of energy so it takes a lot of energy to heat, that is probably what got you that idea . To illlustrate the example: it takes 4.2 joules to raise 1 g of water by 1 degree, so if you want to boil 2 litres (I will put this in a term the 'international' audience can understand later ), starting at 25 degrees C and ending at 100, that will be 2000g of water you want to raise by 75 at a price of 4.2 per gram. 2000x75x4.2 = 630000 J! or 150000 calories. Thats 13.3% of your recommended (UK) daily allowance of energy you can eat. Its about 40g of fruit and nut dairy milk chocolate . If you boiled a whole ocean (we'll overlook the ecological impact) my explanation above would still be the case, it would just be losing a lot more high energy molecules and the average would still drop too far without any heating to replace them. Possibly it would stay heated a little longer because there is more of it to insulate the rest, but high energy molecules would still be escaping from the surface . What type of cooker do you have? If it is electric, then the reason the pot does that when you just turn off the heat is because the electric heat does not vanish instantly - turn on a ring, leave it to heat up, turn it off and hold your hand over it. It should still be hot. This means that the ring is still helping to produce the high energy water molecules that cause the water to boil. Though this time it has a limited supply of energy, which is why it does not last forever and only prolongs the boiling a little while. If it is a gas or other 'instant off' type heat.. I am not entirely sure. Perhaps the metal you are standing the pan on is heated a little (though this would be a very minor effect I think). I think the most likely explanation is that by not touching and moving the pan, you are not 'disturbing' the 'not quite high enough' energy water molecules and arent therefore knocking *just* enough energy into them to make them decide to move and thus arent contributing towards the drop towards average.

Your only other idea is correct. The water will be *Exactly* at the boiling point, so when no more energy is being supplied to make Energy Loss = Energy Gain (energy loss from steam, heat, etc and energy gain from the heating) it instantly has no more energy to stay at a rolling boil. Thats the simple explanation. To get a bit more complicated we need to look at what is actually happening when we boil water. Have you ever noticed that a rolling boil is not an 'on/off' process? It arrives there gradually doesnt it? The process of heating is the process of adding more energy to the molecules of whatever you are heating, in this case water. The steam coming from the water is actually the water molecules with the highest energy because they have the energy to 'escape' the water more easily. Ok, so think about the water now you know that there are different levels of molecule energy within it - its a 'bell-curve' - most water molecules will be at a certain average point. When the heat is still being applied, the escaping high energy molecules are being replaced at the same rate they are being lost if it is at a rolling boil. But if the heat is removed, the high energy molecules are still escaping, and they are not being replaced. So the highest energy molecules have been lost, and there are less molecules at an extremely high energy - this leaves the molecules at 'average' and 'low' energies, this isnt enough to keep the water boiling. Partly because the vigorous boiling you see is caused by the high energy molecules escaping from the bottom of the pan and disturbing the water, and partly because the temperature has dropped towards the previous average enough to take it away from the boiling point. Pressure is also an important issue, but only in the context of what ive just explained above - a substance boils when its 'vapour pressure' equals atmospheric pressure. Vapour pressure is just a chemical term meaning how much pressure the substance exerts on it's environment, it goes up when that substance is heated. So from this you can see that if atmospheric pressure goes down, so does boiling point. Keeping the lid on the pan probably lowers the pressure slightly, because it is holding in 'low pressure' (low density) steam and keeping high pressure atmosphere out, but the most important effect is mitigating the loss of those highly energetic molecules I was talking about earlier - its harder for them to escape if the air above them is crowded with other escapees. I hope this is ok .

Well for such an odd topic this has been very informative . Given that since about the middle of the 16th century the british isles have been heavily involved in colonialism.. the original 'true british' food probably isnt particularly interesting since there was never any need to develop any. But I suspect that the 16th century peasants food from your country is not all that interesting either . We eat food from around the world as a matter of routine. I used to bash the egg against something, but I found that I wanted more control and precision! So at first I used the spoon to make the hole, then moved on to doing all the work with it . Interesting how for such a basic task there is a big disparity in the way it is done.

Sorry, Im not sure that makes sense. You dont use sites like that because.. you wont post nude pics of yourself and arent impressionable? I dont think you can generalise about social networking, not everybody who uses it is a predator/teen/immature. .

When I peel a hard-boiled egg, I smash a small hole in the wider end with a spoon, and then put the spoon through the hole i made and under the shell, enabling me to just pull the shell off and leave the egg intact. Im curious, I am alone among my friends in using this technique, which I believe to be faster and less damaging on the eggs. So I put it to you, dear readers - who uses the same technique? (I think the poll choices cover all the possible options)

Some things Ive learnt: Paying bills, while novel, is in no way fun. Dont have a relationship with people who have major issues. If you do, dont hold unrealistic expectations - you probably cant 'cure' them. Be proactive at everything. Try not to let your higher education institute screw you over somehow - theyre a company, not a schooling establishment in the sense youre probably used to. If you want something done properly, you have to do it yourself. Trying to cut through university red tape is no more fun than paying bills. Those are mostly negative though.. hmm.. Learning that I can live on my own and mostly off my own means has been an eye opener for me. It feels damn good. Other people can be worth investing your heart into.

Happy birthday 'Versatile' Tim . (my nickname for him, for those who dont go to chat often ;p).

I think there is a more simple explanation than some sort of primal urge to create. Boredom is a major force that drives almost every aspect of our lives or rather; escaping from boredom by doing something is. People get bored easily. QED. Its good that they do, though, because it helps more people elevate themselves above base boredom! So thanks!

I hate it when people gravedig threads (only kidding Vic ) I hate it when people blame you for something you are not responsible for. I hate that I know that sometimes I consider double standards acceptable. I hate it when you know who they should be blaming but theyre too blind to see it! I hate it that im the only one being blamed when there are at least 3 others

I am a big fan of groan-worthy puns, so on Sunday, I created a facebook event to invite people to my flat for a party. I called it '2D Party (a flat party)'. What are the worst puns you have graced the world with?

As best as I can guess, a literal translation would be 'In wine, truth' or something like that . As for what to do. Hm. Get drunk with him again, have a drunken conversation with him about what happened and make sure you remember it. Also because it was a three way kiss it might have just been novelty value.. easier to do something like that when its less personal ;p.

As a post grad doing a PhD you do get a smallish salary, about

He has been away all this time?

What I remember from a news article I read.. is that the program analyses punctuation. The theory being that women will emphasise their sentences more with ?!?! splashing than men will. How true that is I dont know, though. It may work better when analysing conversation rather than a piece of text.

Well I dont know much about american football. But Benji your typing there was just incredible. Thanks for the giggles!

Washing up liquid and warm water for most things, dilute bleach if I want a bit of kick! If its something tough like a deep fat fryer theres usually a bespoke solution like bringing water and washing powder to the boil in it. That was very fun. Worked amzingly well, too. . For mould cleaning you need to use a fungicidal agent like has already been mentioned and tackle the cause of the growth. That might be poor ventilation, dampness or anything else.

Ah yes, to clarify I wasnt asking for help or anything, just curious about what everybody thought about it. Telling the story of yourself is a different case, I mean inserting yourself into a fictional setting in a cameo role .