Things you've always wanted to know......

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and taste
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Can you cook the elastic band that holds the chicken's legs together?
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Of course you can, it might melt and ruin the chicken though....... :thup:
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Thanks Delia I mean Delbert
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vietnammer wrote:Can you cook the elastic band that holds the chicken's legs together?

Can't remember whether it was Jen or my Mam but one of them cooked a chicken with the giblets still in its plastic bag . :)
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^^ We have all done that once..
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vietnammer wrote:Can you cook the elastic band that holds the chicken's legs together?
Why it's hardly going to run away
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Womens cricket - do they wear boxes to protect their lady garden? I know if you accidentally hit them there it hurts a little bit, but nothing like us obviously, as that pain feels like the world is ending.
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Clacton-ammer wrote:Womens cricket - do they wear boxes to protect their lady garden? I know if you accidentally hit them there it hurts a little bit, but nothing like us obviously, as that pain feels like the world is ending.

A shin pad? or maybe a quim pad :D
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Clacton-ammer wrote:Womens cricket - do they wear boxes to protect their lady garden? I know if you accidentally hit them there it hurts a little bit, but nothing like us obviously, as that pain feels like the world is ending.
David Gower was asked this very question, he replied; "Yes, we call them manhole covers".
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:lol:
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why don't birds die when they perch on high voltage wires ?
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because they are not grounded. You would be fine hanging off of one too as long as you do not touch any conductor that is touching the floor.
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So if I was to jump & balance with both feet down on a railway 3rd rail, I should be OK for that same reason? Birds often perch on them as well. Not like I'm going to try it though.
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rigoberts song wrote:why don't birds die when they perch on high voltage wires ?
Electricity takes the path of least resistance.

The wire has very little resistance, probably 0.0001 ohm. You are approximately 10,000 ohms, assuming you are dry. However, if you are close to or in contact with earth, or something else in contact with earth, the electricity will flow through you as electricity will always try to flow to earth where it can, as the mass is so large the charge can dissipate.
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rigoberts song wrote:why don't birds die when they perch on high voltage wires ?

We've got a pole on our croft with some transformer attached - one day in the garden I found a seagull's wing cut right off - something must have carried the body away but this whole wing was there cut off at the joint - must have flapped its wings and touched a live bit .

Looked like it'd been lasered off .
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Clacton-ammer wrote:Womens cricket - do they wear boxes to protect their lady garden?
No, but they wear one on each chesticle. Them bouncers could wreak havoc, er, so to speak..
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rigoberts song wrote:why don't birds die when they perch on high voltage wires ?
Whatever you do, NEVER touch the wire with one leg while touching the ground with the other leg.
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Samba wrote:Whatever you do, NEVER touch the wire with one leg while touching the ground with the other leg.
Don’t listen to him!
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Dover KUMB fan wrote:So if I was to jump & balance with both feet down on a railway 3rd rail, I should be OK for that same reason? Birds often perch on them as well.
Yes, you would be ok so long as nothing of you was touching anything else.
Still extremely not advisable though, as if you're as clumsy as me, you would wobble & put one foot down on the ground, thereby shuffling off this mortal coil.
If the voltage running through something is high enough (wouldn't usually be the case in a third rail), you can be killed by 'arcing', before you've even got near enough to touch the thing.
It's why climbing up electricity pylons is so dangerous.
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