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Post by silverdragon on Dec 6, 2013 14:37:43 GMT
Associated MYTH.... Old Opticians tale. Now I have thought hard and long about this, and it just ISNT true for me... But its one my optician put in for request..
He says that you do not blink when watching a screen. Games consuls are apparently most to blame?...
How to test. Film a bunch of people who have not been told what exactly the filming is for, playing games, watching television, and using computers, each in turn... say for 10 mins each... Count the blink rate for each person and compare to either "At rest" having a conversation with someone, or against the three activities, to see which one gets the lowest blink rate?....
I have noticed I DO blink.... But then again, I do not play intricate games when you cant blink or you would miss something?... Even the racing games I play are, for me, relaxing.... Trust me on this one, keeping tons of highly explosive liquid fuel in the tanker of a 44 ton vehicle is a lot harder than navigating any video game race car round a track.... for a start, you dont have learner drivers trying to play bumper-tag with you?...
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Post by the light works on Dec 6, 2013 14:43:22 GMT
Did they do it with extreme diet cereals?... Just askin', 'cos one of my friends says something he tried actually tasted like cardboard?... I am living proof. I have "Long sight", and I am perfectly fine at distance work, but, if I try close work, my eyes start to hurt. Therefore, I now HAVE to wear glasses for short distance work.... I do some work on Computers still, pays some of the bills, but I am finding it harder and harder to do close screen work... I have a compromise, a large full HD Television screen at distance with remote keyboard/mouse (Looooong leads...) to help, but still, I am needing glasses more and more for anything closer than arms length. Now its arm-and-a-half's length.... I can only blame the hours I have spent staring at a screen and doing close distance work for the degeneration of my eyesight... Maybe that and age. Aint none of us gettin' any younger?... right, I blame the fact that I have spent 30 years staring at a computer screen for the fact that "my arms are getting shorter" I went to essentially wearing glasses full time about a year ago - which is about 35 years later than my parents or brother got away without.
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Post by the light works on Dec 6, 2013 14:55:55 GMT
Associated MYTH.... Old Opticians tale. Now I have thought hard and long about this, and it just ISNT true for me... But its one my optician put in for request.. He says that you do not blink when watching a screen. Games consuls are apparently most to blame?... How to test. Film a bunch of people who have not been told what exactly the filming is for, playing games, watching television, and using computers, each in turn... say for 10 mins each... Count the blink rate for each person and compare to either "At rest" having a conversation with someone, or against the three activities, to see which one gets the lowest blink rate?.... I have noticed I DO blink.... But then again, I do not play intricate games when you cant blink or you would miss something?... Even the racing games I play are, for me, relaxing.... Trust me on this one, keeping tons of highly explosive liquid fuel in the tanker of a 44 ton vehicle is a lot harder than navigating any video game race car round a track.... for a start, you dont have learner drivers trying to play bumper-tag with you?... the writeups I have read say that when you are focusing on something you blink less, but don't stop completely. They implied it is not a problem for most people, but people who tend to have dry eyes anyway (such as people who wear contacts) end up needing lubricating eyedrops for comfort.
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Dec 19, 2013 3:20:50 GMT
(From the first link Former provided) I wonder if there might not be something to this. It is easier to recall memories if they are associated with something else, and certainly smells can bring back memories. So why would touch not bring back memories? Or at least make it easier to recall information needed for the test? I remember hearing from my Grandmother (Biological Fathers Mother) as a child that eating peppermints while studying helped you to retain more information/learn better. I tried to use it as an excuse to suck mints while studying & doing exams but my parent wouldn't let me saying the sugar would ruin my teeth. But I've always wondered if it was true or if it was just another Old Wife's Tale.
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Post by the light works on Dec 19, 2013 15:00:05 GMT
(From the first link Former provided) I wonder if there might not be something to this. It is easier to recall memories if they are associated with something else, and certainly smells can bring back memories. So why would touch not bring back memories? Or at least make it easier to recall information needed for the test? I remember hearing from my Grandmother (Biological Fathers Mother) as a child that eating peppermints while studying helped you to retain more information/learn better. I tried to use it as an excuse to suck mints while studying & doing exams but my parent wouldn't let me saying the sugar would ruin my teeth. But I've always wondered if it was true or if it was just another Old Wife's Tale. on a broader spectrum, many people have a ritual they do to improve their performance. this can range from "lucky socks" to elaborate ceremonies.
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Post by User Unavailable on Dec 23, 2013 5:48:12 GMT
Okay, with cakes being made for the holidays, I recalled this wives tale from my childhood. I heard my mother, grandmother and other relatives say to us kids many times, "Don't run or jump in the house while I'm baking a cake! You'll make it fall!" So can jumping or running the house make a cake fall? I'm not the only one who has heard this. google produces a lot of results for people asking the same question. Though Google does give answers to why cakes fall,. More why cakes fall.Though none definitively answer if jumping or running in the house (or kitchen) will cause a cake to fall or not. Testing should be done in a home or several "homes"* with varying construction of flooring types, with kids (or adults) running or jumping in the house or kitchen. Though I think typical raised foundation type house with floor joists and wood floors would be the best test flooring as this would be more common from back in the day, than say homes built on a concrete slab and with tile flooring. Super sizing could be Jack Hammers or Tamping Machines in the Kitchen while a cake is being baked. Edit: or even super size up to a pile driving machine. (Of course you could even set off an explosion (not large enough to destroy the stove) and see if that made the cake fall, but do we really need explosions in everything tested?) * For testing and filming purposes the "kitchen" or "home" could be as simple as a floor structure built up on blocks with a stove on it, or as elaborate as the build team wanted to build it.
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Post by OziRiS on Dec 24, 2013 0:47:11 GMT
Interesting, how the guy who wrote the directions in your first link actually talks about his mom saying the same thing when he was a kid. Never heard of this, but it sounds pretty doable and if a lot of people have heard of it, that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for with this thread. Myths heard so many times that nobody really questions them anymore. Nice work
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Post by the light works on Dec 24, 2013 2:54:10 GMT
I have never been on the receiving end of the warning, but I have seen somewhere that this is a carryover from before they had reliable leavening agents. This would imply that it was true in the past, but may not be true any more.
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Post by User Unavailable on Dec 24, 2013 5:51:32 GMT
Interesting, how the guy who wrote the directions in your first link actually talks about his mom saying the same thing when he was a kid. Never heard of this, but it sounds pretty doable and if a lot of people have heard of it, that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for with this thread. Myths heard so many times that nobody really questions them anymore. Nice work I gather from reading google posts that this "wives tale" is/was one typically told in the Southern parts of the United States. Though it could be wider spread. My wife was baking a cake yesterday and that memory from my childhood popped into my head. So I was like, "Okay, how could the MB test this?"
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Post by Cybermortis on Dec 24, 2013 16:47:19 GMT
Nice idea, and no its not unique to the Southern US as I recall being told the same thing when I was a kid.
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Post by the light works on Dec 24, 2013 16:55:07 GMT
Nice idea, and no its not unique to the Southern US as I recall being told the same thing when I was a kid. It was prominent in the play Brighton Beach Memoirs - which was set in the northeast (as opposed to England) in a Jewish family.
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Dec 26, 2013 7:36:44 GMT
Okay, with cakes being made for the holidays, I recalled this wives tale from my childhood. I heard my mother, grandmother and other relatives say to us kids many times, "Don't run or jump in the house while I'm baking a cake! You'll make it fall!" So can jumping or running the house make a cake fall? I'm not the only one who has heard this. google produces a lot of results for people asking the same question. Though Google does give answers to why cakes fall,. More why cakes fall.Though none definitively answer if jumping or running in the house (or kitchen) will cause a cake to fall or not. Testing should be done in a home or several "homes"* with varying construction of flooring types, with kids (or adults) running or jumping in the house or kitchen. Though I think typical raised foundation type house with floor joists and wood floors would be the best test flooring as this would be more common from back in the day, than say homes built on a concrete slab and with tile flooring. Super sizing could be Jack Hammers or Tamping Machines in the Kitchen while a cake is being baked. Edit: or even super size up to a pile driving machine. (Of course you could even set off an explosion (not large enough to destroy the stove) and see if that made the cake fall, but do we really need explosions in everything tested?) * For testing and filming purposes the "kitchen" or "home" could be as simple as a floor structure built up on blocks with a stove on it, or as elaborate as the build team wanted to build it. Well I bake a lot & I've NEVER had a cake or the bread fall due to people (or animals) running/moving around while it's baking. But in my experience when it comes to soufflé's its a definite yes, movement DOES make them fall.
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 15, 2014 11:59:40 GMT
Eating an hour before Swimming ...
Old wives?... True, Fact?... also true, and there is a reason.
If you tell a kid he cannot swim for an hour after eating, he will get used to that, and not "Rush" his food to get back to swimming.... Kinda makes sense in a few ways.
I refuse to try. I have done exactly the same thing in preparation, and had them Work, Fail, work, fail... I now believe it up to chance if they do work or not, so I dont do them on purpose, because I cant exactly say I like them even if they do work anyway?....
Cakes. Its the knowing of "what is right"... I have a basic equal flour sugar butter and one egg to every 2 ounce of flour recipe that works absolutely every time.... as long as you dont cream hell out of the mix after you add the flour, because that need gentle folding in only?....
If you get the Oven temp right, pre-heated, the cake is done when it Smells right.... Tap the base of the tin, if it sound the right kind of hollow, its done... Stick a skewer in it if you need to, but I can tell by the smell and sound.
Fruit cake?... a heavy fruit cake still starts to smell a certain way when its done. I have various methods of fruit cake, but they all depend on the fruit....
Other forms of cake "batter".. some use oil instead of Butter, or other fats... some use Water.... I dont know why I need those methods. If you want a sponge type cake from me, I will do it my way, because I know it works.
Its also rather lethal when I go for a Chocolate variety, if I do a ganache type coating, cream, flavoured fillings, its going to be sticky by design, its NOT a diet option, so live with it.
Bread?... I have a bread maker thats an all-in-one.... Reason is that I barely have the time to do bread, and this one does everything to perfection, so why worry?....
It can do Dough without cooking, so I can set it off to do the heavy mixing and rising, then it will beep to tell me when to take the dough and make rolls... I can be doing something else whilst it gets on with that bit. Its very useful.
I would say Experienced chefs know what they are doing, as in, I would expect an Experienced chef to make a right hash of parking a 60ft trailer in a 3ft gap, so why then should I expect a novice chef like me to make perfect Quasants or Soffles?... I can make good honest British grub that fills a hungry man. If you want expensive show food for an exhibition, go to that stiff posh french expensive place down the road.... they will quite happily empty your wallet for you.
I am experimenting with making Bagels... Mmmmmmmmmm.... Lovely...... I cant get them exactly "Kosher" just now, they taste close, but not close enough?... I must go see Ike, find out what I do wrong.
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Post by the light works on Jan 15, 2014 15:52:57 GMT
how is the half hour rule going to stop a kid from bolting his food? he will still bolt his food to get the clock started quicker.
no, people actually believed the stomach would claim all the blood flow for digestion; leading to cramps, while they now know it simply puts digestion on hold, if activity demands the blood flow.
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 18, 2014 10:00:22 GMT
Young kids dont have that thought process.... Once you get them that young, they stay got, as it then become "traditional" You then train them NOT to bolt the food. By the time it gets to the kids having the right thought processes, they know better, dont bolt food anyway, and it actually doesnt matter as much...
The stomach cramps were from kids who bolt food to the extent they bolt too quickly and end up making themselves sick by the speed they ingest food...
I suppose thats is a myth there to be tested that you can actually get cramps from eating way way way too fast.....
I also suppose partially confirmed by some of those extreme stupid eating challenges "The most pies eaten in 30 mins" type thing...
I can hold with the first person to eat maybe half a dozen doughnuts, but to eat continuous for half an hour?... got to be inviting trouble...
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Post by the light works on Jan 18, 2014 14:33:10 GMT
Young kids dont have that thought process.... Once you get them that young, they stay got, as it then become "traditional" You then train them NOT to bolt the food. By the time it gets to the kids having the right thought processes, they know better, dont bolt food anyway, and it actually doesnt matter as much... The stomach cramps were from kids who bolt food to the extent they bolt too quickly and end up making themselves sick by the speed they ingest food... I suppose thats is a myth there to be tested that you can actually get cramps from eating way way way too fast..... I also suppose partially confirmed by some of those extreme stupid eating challenges "The most pies eaten in 30 mins" type thing... I can hold with the first person to eat maybe half a dozen doughnuts, but to eat continuous for half an hour?... got to be inviting trouble... here, all the official competitive eating competitions are portion specific, or very limited time. (this is set within the last couple decades, and is due to the problems involved with overconsumption) but usually the problems I have seen arise from eating too much too fast is typically that the offender then uneats whatever it was they overdid.
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 21, 2014 0:47:48 GMT
Young kids dont have that thought process.... Once you get them that young, they stay got, as it then become "traditional" You then train them NOT to bolt the food. By the time it gets to the kids having the right thought processes, they know better, dont bolt food anyway, and it actually doesnt matter as much... If it the kids eating too fast really is a problem leading to cramps (and I'm not entirely convinced that it is), wouldn't it just be a matter of the parents telling the kids that if they shove their food down too fast they won't get to go in the water at all, so they might as well take it slow? That's what I'd do.
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Jan 21, 2014 2:45:26 GMT
Young kids dont have that thought process.... Once you get them that young, they stay got, as it then become "traditional" You then train them NOT to bolt the food. By the time it gets to the kids having the right thought processes, they know better, dont bolt food anyway, and it actually doesnt matter as much... If it the kids eating too fast really is a problem leading to cramps (and I'm not entirely convinced that it is), wouldn't it just be a matter of the parents telling the kids that if they shove their food down too fast they won't get to go in the water at all, so they might as well take it slow? That's what I'd do. This myth's origin may have come from a kid bolting down their food too quickly to get back in the pool to play. I've been thinking about this myth maybe & the only logical thing I can see behind it is that somewhere in the past a kid rushed their food to get back into the water. & because they ate too fast they were sick & the myth started to snow ball from there. The 'cramps' the myth refers to could have been stomach cramps that may have made the kid ill & as a result of their rushed eating they were ill in the pool.
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Post by Cybermortis on Jan 25, 2017 15:23:26 GMT
*Behold the power of the Mods...bringing the dead back to life!*
What about ways to clean blood out of clothing? Anyone know any?
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Post by the light works on Jan 25, 2017 16:38:33 GMT
*Behold the power of the Mods...bringing the dead back to life!* What about ways to clean blood out of clothing? Anyone know any? DO NOT use hot water. it will set the stain. I've had pretty good luck wetting the blood spot and scrubbing it with salt.
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