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= January 26 =
== What gun is this? ==


= January 3 =
of some type due to the banana magazine, but can anyone tell what model of Kalashnikov? ] (]) 09:09, 26 January 2015 (UTC)


== British weather website ==
: Not too sure about the model but the picture seems to be from ]. Obviously there is the possibility someone used ] to make it look more bad-ass and there is no such gun at all. Will hunt some more...] (]) 12:43, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
:: See if you can find it here. I did a brief scan but found nada. http://payday.wikia.com/Weapons_%28Payday_2%29 Note: there are custom mods in the game so I'm guessing it's not a real rifle. ] (]) 12:55, 26 January 2015 (UTC)


Is there any British weather website which has daily data for stations in the United Kingdom? The starlingroot.ddns.net is not working anymore, it worked a few months ago. The "Historic station data" page on MetOffice's website has only monthly data, and the MetOffice WOW - Weather Observations Website has only hourly data. And is there any English-language website having weather observations for different cities and countries in Europe, similar to e.g. Infoclimat? --] (]) 13:16, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
: The ] seems based on an ], but seems a little off along the bottom. The ] seems to be based on an ] or ]. The gas block and front sight I'm not recognising off the bat... but as 196.213.35.146 points out this is basically a ] gun meant to look cool and/or scary. ] (]) 13:00, 26 January 2015 (UTC)


:You might find windfinder.com useful. Although primarily aimed at coastal leisure activities, it also covers inland areas. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ] (]) 03:07, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
== what is the meaning of swarajit (in bengali)? ==
:wunderground.com used to have this. IDK about now. ] (]) 18:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
{{anchor|maning}}


= January 4 =
Moved to the language desk, . ] (]) 20:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)


== Why do pants tear? == == Goal number one ==
{{hat|close trolling by blocked user}}
{{anchor|okay this is really annoying and I'm going to need the finest minds to help}}
I TORE my pants! Yes I did! They always tear in the butt area by the central hem that runs by the crotch.


How do you forgive and forget? <small>(not sure if that's off-topic for the reference desk. if it is, sorry in advance.)</small> ]<sup><small>TM</small></sup> <small>(])</small> 05:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
So my question is, why do pants do this. OK they were a cheap pair, but are they just made to self destruct or what. Or does cotton just have a limited life where after so many washed or so many creases the material goes super thin and just tears ultra easily. This problem also happens with jeans, too. Eventually.
:By deciding to. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 06:05, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
::One can decide to forget, but will it work? &nbsp;--] 09:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
: is an essay on the topic, by a practitioner of ], that you may (or may not) find helpful. More advice: , and (written from a Christian perspective) . &nbsp;--] 09:32, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
:(], in that I have no published sources for this, though I was taught it by others): Forgiving does not necessarily mean forgetting - it also doesn't necessarily mean condoning. It means not carrying ill will. In my experience, once I see the cost (to me) of bearing the resentment, and how illusory are the apparent benefits of doing so, it is easy to choose to let it go. ] (]) 14:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)


Shall we forgive the OP for forgetting that we don't offer advice?] (]) 17:38, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Are there any types of pants that don't fail like this? <small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 23:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:{{small|I'd suggest searching the web. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 17:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)}}
:The injunction does not apply to all advice, but is aimed specifically at giving <u>medical</u> or <u>legal</u> advice. &nbsp;--] 23:14, 4 January 2025 (UTC)


:Not only do we have the finest minds, but the information is ''absolutely free''! {{tq|Are there any types of pants that don't fail like this?}} Yes. Non-cheap pants. You get what you pay for. Or, you could buy cheap pants in one size larger. &#8213;]&nbsp;] 23:20, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
:Oh, you're the anal-oral irrigation guy. After a quick look at your "contributions", you're beginning to look a lot like a troll. &#8213;]&nbsp;] 23:26, 26 January 2015 (UTC)


::<poem> NonStopGo
Actually, even my $50 pairs go the same way after just a couple of years. Really sad to see them go...so price isn't everything it seems. <small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 6:34 pm, Today (UTC−5)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


One of the reasons I hurt myself quite so much last May was to make sure
:The OP has been sent to the laundry for a week. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 00:47, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
that I stopped for long enough to arrive at this particular point. For only
through understanding can we see how to forgive both ourselves and other
people. In forgiveness there is love ; and although we can accept forgiveness
from others, true forgiveness comes solely from within. And only if we
love ourselves can we hope to achieve that shining state of grace which
is our true birthright and to find, finally, the gate which leads out of this
vale of tears : and opens for ever into the realms of eternal light.


7th July 2005
*renamed to actual topic and closed ] (]) 01:30, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
</poem>


] (]) 05:42, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
*Whether or not the OP is a troll, I've thought about this problem myself. The most likely area to tear, in my experience, isn't at the seam, where the fabric is doubled up, but just outside the seam. The problem is that all the stresses the seam is designed to resist just move over right next to the seam, where the fabric is the standard thickness, causing a tear. This is rather similar to the problem with wires breaking off right after they leave the plug. The solution there is to gradually reduce the thickness from the plug down to the wire. Perhaps something similar could be done with pants, so there's no sharp edge to the seam. This would require a different manufacturing process, though.


== Westminster Coroner's Court ==
*I also agree with the earlier poster that looser pants reduce stresses, too, making this kind of tear less likely. ] (]) 03:56, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
**I actually had a pair of khakis separate at the central (or tukas) seam two weeks ago when I was wearing a thick base layer. They were fancy trousers handmade in NJ (in retrospect, this was a poor choice on my part). Must have been a combination of weak threads (the fabric is very tough) and the fact that I was wearing light khakis with a darker shirt—a style faux-pas. ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 7 Shevat 5775 07:15, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


I'm trying to research a sudden death that occurred in the London Borough of Merton. Please help me find information about ], also known as "Inner West London Coroner's Court". They appear to have no website, and publish no court listings. They claim that coroners records are closed to public access for 75 years.
{{hab}}


But other coroners courts in the UK, for example "London Inner South Coroner’s Court", and say that inquests are public and anyone can attend.
= January 27 =


Why is there are difference? Why is "London Inner South Coroner’s Court" open to the public, but "Inner West London Coroner's Court" is not? Surely all coroners courts operate under the same laws?
== Where can I buy a postcard of the Greek town ] online? ==


Thank you ] (]) 06:48, 27 January 2015 (UTC) Thanks for your help ] (]) 12:41, 4 January 2025 (UTC)


:As you can see from coroners' courts are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. I can assure you, however, that inquests held by the Westminster coroner are as public as inquests held by any other coroner. ] (]) 14:56, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
: Well, a google search turns up no local businesses with an online presence - but that's no real surprise. A little greek village like that isn't likely to be heavily online - and besides, who buys postcards online? The whole point is to send them to friends while you're staying there! I did a Google Maps search for "Gift Shop" in the town - and the nearest gift shop that Google knows about seems to be in Delphi, which is just a couple of miles away to the north-east. Delphi is a massive tourist trap - with a decent museum and related gift shop. It should be possible to get a postcard of Delphi from there.


== Where can I find unmarried men list in Science/Maths? ==
: But if you absolutely need it to be from Kirra, you may have difficulties. I did a Google street view virtual drive along the main streets of the town, and there was really only one shop that looked like it might sell stuff like that (it's on Epar.Od. Iteas-Distomou at the end of the Metamorfoseos pier). The Google Maps photo of it shows a stand full of that look like guide books and calendars - but you can't really see any postcards. However, my bet is that if they don't have it, it doesn't exist!


Like ], ], ], ].
: Since Delphi is the reason most tourists would be visiting Kirra, I strongly suspect that if they have postcards, then they'd be of Delphi...because that's what most people went there to see.


I want to ] ] due to his ], ] as he have ] and ] who has ] out of wedlock. ] (]) 14:08, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
: If a postcard of Delphi is "good enough" then I suggest you get in touch with the gift shop at the ]...I'm sure they can help.


:Do you have any reason to suppose that such a list exists, @]? ] (]) 14:27, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
: There are plenty of online stores that'll sell you postcards of just about anywhere: http://www.zazzle.com/delphi_greece_postcards-239562864219744677 ...for example. But these are not authentically postcards printed locally - they are just online services that collect photographs and print them on-demand. Since (I suppose) the entire point here is that the postcard should be '''from''' that town, that may not suffice for your needs. But you could find any number of photos of Kirra online and have one of those print-on-demand services print you a postcard from that picture...so I guess this boils down to "Why do you need a postcard from there?"...the answer to which would better inform our search.
::Just to encourage ] ] (]) 14:30, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
:::So, you've come here to ask people how to remove from a list that doesn't exist, some names that would probably belong only the list if it existed, because you have some private meaning of "unmarried"? ] (]) 12:56, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
:::If some men don't (appear to) have sexual relationships with women, they're not necessarily demonstrating celibacy - they might be otherwise inclined. ] (]) 11:37, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::: <small>Possibly worth noting here that the more traditional meaning of "celibacy" doesn't necessarily exclude sex, just marriage. That could have been the meaning HarryOrange was using. --] (]) 07:14, 12 January 2025 (UTC) </small>
: Why did you pipe the correctly-spelled "Isaac" Newton to the incorrectly-spelled "Issac" Newton? -- ] </sup></span>]] 18:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
::And do the same strange thing to Nikola Tesla? ] (]) 23:03, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
:::I forget to include ] , ] ] (]) 06:13, 12 January 2025 (UTC)


== Champagne explosion ==
: ] (]) 14:35, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


I had an unopened bottle of cheap champagne (Barefoot Ros&eacute; if that matters) left over from NYE, and about 10 minutes ago the thing spontaneously exploded. It had been just sitting there at room temperature. No serious damage but there is champange and broken glass all over the place now, and I'm in the process of cleaning it up. Are these explosions a usual occasional occurrence? I'm used to champagne bottles being thicker than regular wine bottles for obvious reasons, but this one seems on the thin side in retrospect, maybe as an economy measure. Could that be? I'm surprised it doesn't happen on store shelves if it happens at home. Thanks. ] (]) 18:39, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
:The reason is because Callisto in Xena Warrior Princess is from there and I'm going to a Xena Conventrion in four weeks and I wanna show people a postcard of the real Kirra. ] (]) 21:24, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


:I does happen.<sup></sup> Sometimes a cause can be identified. When a bottle of champagne is stored in a freezer, or a fridge whose temperature setting is too low, the contents may freeze, causing it to expand. This can lead to minute cracks in the glass, weakening its strength. Thawed in a relatively warm environment, the pressure of the gas can then result in fracture. Another potential cause is premature bottling, when fermentation has not run its fill course ands the wine still contains yeast and sugar. (Almost all wine sold as "champagne" in the US, also when labelled "Brut", contains residual sugar to accommodate the local taste.) When warmed up, fermentation resumes and pressure increases. Finally, a small fraction of bottles is damaged in handling or comes with production defects, not detectable through visual inspection. &nbsp;--] 22:42, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
== Who is the most decorated editor \ admin on all of Misplaced Pages ==
::Thanks. No idea about refrigeration before I bought it, but I got it off the shelf at a big supermarket, carried it home, and it sat in the exact same place in the room for several days before going kablooie. All I can think of is that carrying it home might have bumped it around or something. Oh well, no big deal in the scheme of things. ] (]) 01:20, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
::The traditional method of making ] requires freezing it in the bottle, so I suppose most bottles are designed to handle that – although freezing from the bottom up is safer than top-down, as it creates no plug of ice between the liquid and the gas. If not using the traditional method, or if the wine doesn't come from the Champagne region, many countries (including all of the EU) forbid selling it under the name Champagne. The US however hasn't got that restriction.
::Wines freeze around -5°C, so accidental freezing in a fridge set too cold seems unlikely. ] (]) 11:15, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
:::In this case the bottle had not been opened, but the cold liquid carbonated contents of a closed bottle may freeze upon opening due to cooling by ] of the CO<sub>2</sub>. &nbsp;--] 13:57, 5 January 2025 (UTC)


Once upon a time ] used to come in ] glass bottles, and I read somewhere that this would happen from time to time with the larger sizes. And indeed, sometime around 1980 a large bottle of Coca-Cola, probably 1.5 liters, exploded while sitting in my cupboard. --] (]) 02:51, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
I've noticed many editors have very ornate and elaborate user pages. Full of accolades, barn stars and medals. Some even speak of or are commended by others of great deeds and achievements. Others speak of illustrious careers in academia or even being members of Mensa.


== Organizations ==
So my question is, who is the most decorated and universally revered wiki user below Jimmy, of course. I vote for semanticmantis. <small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 19:00, 27 January 2015 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


Are there any international organizations headquartered in Australia, similar to UN and World Bank are headquartered in the US? --] (]) 22:04, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
:Ha! You're joking, right? I like to help people find info here, but most of my edits to article space are minor, and I have very few awards (I do have an academic career, but I almost never mention it here unless it is directly relevant to a question ;)
:We have a ]. &nbsp;--] 23:05, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
:As to your question, see ], which links to a few lists of editors who have many successful "good article" nominations or many "did you know" entries , and a few other lists of Wikepedians who are ranked in different categories. ] (]) 20:55, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
:Isn't this more or less ]? ]|] 09:55, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
::An international organization is a completely different thing from a multinational company. --] 11:38, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
:::yes but both questions are easily answered with even the most cursory research and 40bus here seems to have a habit of asking research questions. ] (]) 17:37, 7 January 2025 (UTC)


= January 6 =
::Is there any record of ] awarded? <font face="Century Gothic">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;→&nbsp;]&nbsp;]&nbsp;]&nbsp;]</font> 21:37, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
:::Not that I could find. There might be a way to get a list of pages that use each template, or just scrape user pages directly, but that would be a decent amount of work. I suppose doing so would earn you a few barnstars :) ] (]) 17:48, 28 January 2015 (UTC)


==Replacement for my My Yahoo page==
: Our OP votes for SemanticMantis - who is undoubtedly a wonderful person and a valued contributor...but sadly not even close to the most decorated. I count 1 actual barnstar and two other awards, 120 pages edited, and with 4 years of service and 4,300 edits, is entitled to the "Yeoman Editor"/"Grognard Extraordinaire" award level. That's not even close!
Not sure this is the correct venue, but here goes.


Yahoo have shut down all personal My Yahoo pages. For those who don't use Yahoo, your My Yahoo page was sort of your own personal webpage, where you could have various modules that interested you displayed (e.g. cartoons, horoscopes, travel, finance etc). Yahoo have closed My Yahoo down. A big feature of my personal My Yahoo page was that it had loads of links to my favourite websites. This loss is the one that is hurting most.
: It's certainly tough to find any kind of exact award count since many people don't bother to collect them anyplace - and edit count totals are easily inflated by people who run automated edit scripts ("bots").


Any suggestions as to a replacement? ] (]) 10:15, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
: ] shows that to get into the top 5,000 most prolific, you're looking at needing at least 13,000 edits to your name. Clearly that level of commitment would be very hard for a relative newcomer to achieve. However, since the totals on that list include bot edits, we have no idea who the most active person from that list actually is. One data point I know is that I've never used a bot and I'm the 2,076th most prolific with 28,000 edits, so we know that you're going to need at least a few tens of thousands of 'real' edits to make "most prolific (excluding bots)". The most prolific editor (including bots) is ] who has performed over 1.4 million edits - but for sure that has to be overwhelmingly due to bots. A large fraction of what he does is things like recategorizing articles and refactoring links, removing double-redirects - which are easy to automate with scripts and such. One click of a mouse can get you 1000 edits if it entails renaming a category that contains 1000 articles.
:MSN.com does that pretty well. --] 10:25, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::Could you explain in more detail how one can go about to create a personalized web space using ]? &nbsp;--] 12:29, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::: would be a start. That link is for UK users, presumably you can customize it to your own country. --] 13:38, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:Perhaps one of the content curation tools listed , some of which are free, will serve your purposes. I have no knowledge of any of these tools beyond what you find there. &nbsp;--] 12:34, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:No modules, but there is ]. Actually, I may misunderstand: perhaps you seek a kind of home page which is online but available to you only, mainly for collecting bookmarks. ]&nbsp;] 13:53, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::For those answering, while it appears to be a question asking how to make a basic list of links, it is not. Yahoo's links page was created by selecting modules through a GUI and then customizing the settings. For example, I could select the comics GUI and then select which comics I want to show up in my links. I don't need to know any of the URLs. I just place a check next to the comics I like. For finance, I add the module with a click and then type in the ticket symbols for the stocks I care about. It automatically creates a daily stock thumbnail with links to news articles about those stocks. So, it is true that there are many available options to create a list of links, there are not as many options to create a custom content page for multiple areas of personal interest. ] (]) 15:35, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::The IP is correct, but as I said above, I can live without horoscopes, comics etc. The ability of easily store links to favourite websites is the biggest loss. {{re|Card_Zero}} - it doesn't have to be for me only. I think that using a subpage of my user space will fall foul of ] #5, even though many (but not all) of the websites are used in Misplaced Pages research. ] (]) 15:39, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
::::Does it have to be a website in that case? Why not browser bookmarks? In fact, I believe these days some browsers will let you select bookmarks for a "start page" or "start screen" that is displayed when you open a new window/tab. And if they don't, you can probably find a browser extension that will do that. -- ] (]) 17:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)


== Major traffic fatality incident, Denmark, 2019 ==
: In case you're interested, Jimbo Wales has only around 11.000 edits to his name - he's not even on the top 5,000 list...but his contributions are measured differently from mere mortal men.


In 2019, Denmark had a minor spike in traffic fatalities. I feel that the spike is most likely the result of a single accident with multiple fatalities. However, I cannot find any news about multiple-fatality accidents in Denmark in 2019. Everything that I find is related to train accidents, which I do not think Denmark includes in "traffic fatality" counts. Can anyone find a list of accidents or news about a single large-scale accident that might skew the yearly count for 2019? ] (]) 15:25, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
: Edit counts are easily inflated...and asking how many edits you've ever had deleted is perhaps as important as the number you've added! Does fixing a trivial typo in an obscure article count the same as adding an entire paragraph to a major article after having fought for months to get warring parties to agree on what it should say? Who can say what the 'value' of an edit is?
:First of all, where are you seeing this spike and is it a reliable source? ]|] 09:55, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
::And is it even statistically significant? With unrelated events happening by chance, there will always be fluctuations in number of events by time period. Spikes will occur every now and then, entirely by chance. &nbsp;--] 13:05, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:::I found (pdf) which seems to go into this matter in great detail. I don't read Danish, but I ran it though Google Translate. The table on page 28 shows that there were 199 traffic-related fatalities in Denmark in 2019, which is more than the two previous years but less than some earlier years. So I agree with the above posters that there is not enough here to constitute a spike. The document doesn't list individual accidents, btw. --] 14:24, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
::::The mean number of fatalities of the 10-year sample given in this Danish report is 194.9, while its ] is 27.3. This means that the 2019 value deviates from the mean by 0.15&nbsp;], which is more remarkable by how little the deviation is. &nbsp;--] 23:54, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:I saw this before and perhaps you are trying to recreate it. In 2019, traffic fatalities in Denmark increased 20%. But, they were so low that it was a small bump to make that 20% jump. The reason it matters is because the increase was used as the basis to use government funding for more bicycle lanes and improving intersections. But, the increase was not statistically significant and didn't mean anything, so it should not have been used as justification for any changes. Now, from memory, it was a multi-car, weather-related accident in January that added more than 10 fatalities to the yearly count. That was overshadowed by a train accident due to the same snowstorm which killed 8 (I remember it was 8 because most new articles listed 6, but some stated that a few days later, two more bodies were found). So, my gut feeling is that you are intending to show that this "20% spike" in traffic fatalities is really a data artifact created by a single large-scale accident and not representative of general driver behavior in Denmark. Unfortunately, I do not know how to search Danish news. But, if my memory is correct, you can use the date of the well documented train accident in Denmark in 2019 to get the date of the multi-car accident and then, hopefully, find that as well. I doubt you will find it in any English-based news repository. You will have to search Danish repositories. ] (]) 16:17, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
::Yes. That is what I am doing. I found multiple overblown newspaper headlines like "Biggest increase in traffic fatalities in five years! Your mind will be blown when you see the numbers!" and I am using that to demonstrate that while it is technically true that there was a 20% increase in fatalities, the proper context around that increase is that it is negligible and the result of a single event that could have happened on any other year. Basically, it is a presentation on applying context to data and how it is often done improperly. Now that I know there was a multi-vehicle traffic accident at the same time as the train accident I keep finding, I decided to read those articles and many of them comment on the car accident as well as the train accident, but I didn't read through the articles to notice previously. ] (]) 13:15, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:::According to the document linked by @], there were 199 deaths in 2019, compared to 171 the year before. That's a 16% increase, not 20%. On the other hand, it's an extra 28 people - so more than the result of a single incident. It just looks like random variation in a decade (the 2010's) that saw about 200 people killed every year on Denmark's roads. This decade it's been more like 150 a year, so if they spent a lot of money in 2019 it was worth it. You can further eamine annual figures and . ] (]) 13:23, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
::::What's 'this decade'? There tends to be some controversy especially with 2020 and 2021 figures since reduced traffic due to COVID-19 whether from lockdowns or just changes in behaviour e.g. with more working from home are often cited as reasons for reduced fatalities the. ] (]) 10:34, 10 January 2025 (UTC)


== Neurodiverse dating site ==
: It's tough to figure out the most barnstars - and because many people don't bother to record them, you'd have to trawl back through talk page edit histories to find them. Again, I can tell you that the answer must be a more than my paltry total of 23...I'd bet it's in he hundreds...but that's a guess.


Is there website that shows with neurodiverse person goes well with which other neurodiverse, e.g. ADHD with Autism, Autism with HPI, HPI with dylexsia etc? --Donmust90-- ] (]) 15:55, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
: Then there are a bunch of other weird and wonderful accolades to consider. For example, ] is one where some guy is maintaining a list of (at most 366) Wikipedians whom he considers to be 'awesome'...there are still plenty of slots open - but Feb 16th is definitely taken! :-)


:For any combination of forms of neurodiversity, some persons will go well with each other, while others will not. This depends mainly on other factors, in particular the ] and personal ] of each. &nbsp;--] 12:57, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
: Other accolades are counted by some people - including number of articles created, number of "Did You Know" entries created, number of Featured Articles and so forth.
::Still I would expect a weak correlation, which may or may not be better than none. ] (]) 21:58, 14 January 2025 (UTC)


= January 8 =
: Personally, I think that "number of featured articles" is a pretty good accolade - but even then, you don't generally create a featured article single-handedly...it's a team effort. So attributing the honors is tough. But most of the other stuff is vague, hard to track, very, very variable. Some people give away barnstars for the most trivial things - others give just a slice of a barnstar after outstandingly hard work...and most never bother to thank anyone. There are other "awards" that are given ironically or even disparagingly.


== Anthropology Misplaced Pages page ==
: In the end, I think we mostly know who the good guys are...and there isn't a way to nail down who is the best of them...which is probably a good thing!


Does anyone know why the Misplaced Pages page for "Anthropology" jumped to 6 million views on Dec. 25, 2024?https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2024-12-18&end=2025-01-07&pages=Anthropology
: ] (]) 21:35, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
] (]) 23:28, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
::{{Ping|82.19.76.217}} As pointed out above, there is no single method for awarding someone else: you can thank users for edits, give them WikiLove, award barnstars, promote featured or good content, participate in the WikiCup or links to disambiguation page competitions, and a few of us even have a holiday named after us. {{Ping|SteveBaker}}: I have never used a bot but have used many semi-automated tools, gadgets, and scripts. —]<span style="color:red">❤]☮]☺]☯</span> 21:41, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Koavf}} Really? Wow! You must have the worst case of repetitive strain injury in history! Well, hats off to you for your many ('''many''') excellent contributions. This place needs more people like you....and the world needs more places like this. Being by far the biggest contributor to by far he largest repository of knowledge in human history ought to put you up there with Aristotle, Newton, and a select number of others like them...well, we could hope - right? :-) Thank you! ] (]) 05:35, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
::::{{Ping|SteveBaker}} Something like that. Thanks, Steve. —]<span style="color:red">❤]☮]☺]☯</span> 05:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)


:Probably just a glitch. Such things happen all the time. ]|] 09:54, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
== Weather emergency bungling ==
::Previously, a spike for views of a particular page was due to some device or other (a digital assistant?) suggesting searching for the topic as part of its default demo or a tour of its features. Obviously I can't remember any specifics but it was along those lines. So a reasonable theory is that a lot of people got a device for Christmas that did something similar, although "try asking about anthropology" seems an unlikely way to show off a new phone's AI gimmicks, but maybe. Perhaps the spike was a side-effect of whatever the gadget really said. ]&nbsp;] 11:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)


:<small>Clearly, this is a result of extraterrestrial aliens abusing this article as a source for humanoid porn. ] and relatives are depicted in full frontal nudity which may excite the libidinous erectiles in our solar system, the Milky Way or the Andromeda Nebula.</small> --] (]) 18:42, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
So, as anyone living in and around the City (in this case, New York as it should always be in the context of the US except for LA in Cali and Chicago in its immediate area) knows that the so-called blizzard fell flat and wasn't all that much worse than most every week of last winter. The difference was that last winter I don't think there were states of emergency declared whereas this year there was all manner of panic, people were quite rude with one another trying to get supplies, and the NY and CT governors banned travel. This morning everyone awoke and saw that this blizzard was a lemon (if such a term can be applied here).
::<small> Who are you to call us humanoid porn addicts, Earthling? Besides, we were only doing research. Yeah, that's it. ] (]) 21:56, 13 January 2025 (UTC)</small>
So now I'm wondering, what other instances do we have of panic over giant weather events where government officials shut everything down and wound up with egg on their collect faces? I do recall one instance in the last decade where the City shut down all the schools ahead of another "massive snowstorm" and there was barely a flurry. ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 7 Shevat 5775 20:25, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
:::<small>Pssst I've got polaroid snaps of nude bare-naked skeletons. What do you have to swap? ] (]) 17:17, 14 January 2025 (UTC)</small>


= January 11 =
::<small>If "people were quite rude with one another", isn't that just business-as-usual for NYC ? :-) ] (]) 01:20, 28 January 2015 (UTC) </small>
:::<small>People in NY are usually quite nice outside the cesspool of Midtown. The rudeness was actually experienced in Greenwich (where people have money, but not necessarily class). ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 8 Shevat 5775 01:55, 28 January 2015 (UTC)</small>


== Young adult novel series called Blitzkrieg ==
:It's not clear to me this was a "bungle" - see e.g. ] or the adage ]. I for one am happy to not be hearing stories of people dying while stranded in a blizzard. ] also comes in to play, and my understanding is that the officials in question would rather risk the costs of shutting down "unnecessarily" than risk piles of bodies that would have likely turned up in the case of no warnings/closures and a harsh storm coming to fruition. ] (]) 21:04, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
::Essentially two days of business lost in the Northeast because of the reaction to a storm not all that much worse than those in prior years where they didn't shut down everything and nothing rally happened (except when things went further south to places like Atlanta where people had to sleep in their cars overnight in some cases). Usually as a result of these things New York, at least, is very wary of declaring emergencies again (that big snowstorm I mentioned made it so there were no more snow days in NY for many years after). Anyway, that doesn't quite answer my question. ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 7 Shevat 5775 21:13, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
:::Look, if I see a big heavy object flying at your head, and I yell "Duck", and you duck, and then later we re-analyze the video tape and find out that if you ''hadn't'' ducked, the object would have missed your skull anyways, you'd not get mad at me for telling you to duck. Based on the best available data, the precautions were reasonable and prudent. 2-3 feet of snow is a shitload of snow, and if it ''had'' fallen as predicted, no one would be bitching and moaning, in fact, the same people who are saying what you are saying now would have blamed the city for not doing ''enough'' to prepare. For the record, most of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and Eastern Connecticut is getting what was predicted for New York, and they are quite thankful for the travel ban. It's working to keep cars off the road, allowing plows to do their work, and it is cutting down on accidents and other problems. So, the travel ban works. Complaining because you got lucky doesn't mean it wasn't prudent to take reasonable precautions. --]] 21:21, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


Does anybody remember who was the author of a novel series, aimed at middle and high school students called Blitzkrieg? It was about a high school football team and I think it was or were published in the 1970s or 1980s. --Donmust90-- ] (]) 00:49, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
:::No, I didn't really answer your question, sorry. I saw it as a bit of a loaded question, so I thought I'd address the issue that it's not really objectively clear that anything was messed up or bungled, that's more a matter of opinion. I'll also point out that even though the storm wasn't all that bad in NYC, it seems pretty rough in other areas - ''almost 3' of snow, coastal flooding, and hurricane-force winds'' in parts of Mass . -- I'd want things shut down for that, and no place in Mass. is very far from NYC. I'll stop challenging your assumption now, hopefully others can answer your specific question :) ] (]) 21:26, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
:The series was actually called ''Blitz'' and was written by Paul Nichols (about whom we don't seem to have an article). There are some examples . --] 07:46, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
::::No worries, and in your defence, it was rather loaded (I normally try to avoid those) There's no question that Boston being shut down is necessary. A family member sent me video of people snowboarding and skiing down Beacon Hill around buried cars. New York (and apparently Greenwich, CT) are very well-equipped for storms like this and far worse. So even if you have snow falling continuously, the accumulation on the roads is never all that much as it gets salted and plowed rather quickly and throughout the night (in fact, a town snow plow was running through a neighbour's driveway at 4 AM).
::"Paul Nichols" is the pen name of Robert Hawks (b. 1961).<sup></sup> More about him . He has also published under his own name,<sup></sup> as well as young-adult horror under the pen name "M. T. Coffin" :).<sup></sup> In any case, neither the author nor the books appear to meet Misplaced Pages's notability criteria. &nbsp;--] 09:42, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
::::When we headed out this morning, all the roads had been thoroughly plowed, but every business was closed (likely because people thought they were getting a day off and decided to take it anwyay. What I said only applies to New York and her surroundings though. I do rememeber the famous DC Snowpocalypse of 2010 when DC, being wholly unprepared, had to be shut down completely. What a vacation! ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 7 Shevat 5775 21:40, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


= January 17 =
:There's an old expression: "Better safe than sorry." ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 23:10, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
::You know the mayor said the exact same thing. Our Scottish clan has ]. This kind of thing can also lead to a ] scenario in the future which would likely lead to disaster. No one going to answer my question? :( ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 8 Shevat 5775 00:03, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
:::There was ] all those people thought the world was ending, so threw away their stuff. The apocalypse is weather, and those who preach it are as good as any government official, as far as the flock's concerned.
:::But yeah, this is is the fishiest thing I've ever seen from secular weathermen. ] ] 00:46, ], ] (UTC)
::::Fantastic list, and I think you're referring to the 2011 instance, right? I think even remember reading about that story now. Though it's not a government reaction. ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 8 Shevat 5775 01:55, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

:::::I was aiming to not single any one forecast out. The essence of them is undying. So long as there are old cryptic writings and troubling current events, there will be those who follow their leader in tossing earthly goods and waiting on a hill. Or murdering their families. Or just yelling "Wake up!" at strangers in public forums. That said, they all generally remind me of ]. Not a government official, but still an authority figure. ] ] 21:37, ], ] (UTC)

::::::This is true, but still I know there's other cases where city or regional governments have made big mistakes along these lines. Has to have been a few in London. ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 11 Shevat 5775 21:02, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
:::::::If ] counts as weather, there are a megashit-ton of unused, government-issued (or at least promoted) ]s from the ]. That time and money could have gone somewhere useful. Of course, they still could come in handy. Can't call it a mistake till the bombs are gone. ''Seems'' like hysteria, though. ] ] 21:32, ], ] (UTC)

:Hurricanes are always a hit-or-miss proposition. By the time you know for sure where it will hit, it's too late for a full evacuation, so you just have to evacuate early on, if it might hit your city. ] (]) 01:22, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
::Hurricanes you can't do much about except sandbag, board, and evacuate. With snowstorms you can bring out those sweet heavy duty rigs. The thing you don't want happening is that people become so accustomed to drills and false alarms that they do nothing when a real emergency strikes. The tsunami that hit Hawai'i in 1946 is a good example as people had gotten used to the warnings being nothing and also thought it was an April Fool's joke as this was on 1 April. Over 160 people died as a result. <br>
::A less serious example is the lack of snow days in NYC because the government was so embarrassed by not having a storm show up that even on days of extreme snow storms, there were no cancellations, this may have predated even the great President's Day Blizzard of 2003 (during which I recall being at school and there being over a foot and a half of snow) and several other such days. On the people side of things, just think of kids and adults ignoring fire drills which are prompted by the same alarm as a real fire (instead of just training people in evacuation techniques without the alarm, but also making sure they've heard it before).] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 8 Shevat 5775

:<small>When I lived in/near Los Angeles, I never heard it called "the City". San Francisco is, tho. —] (]) 08:16, 28 January 2015 (UTC)</small>
::<small>I was being generous to LA people in case they got angry. ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 8 Shevat 5775 21:44, 28 January 2015 (UTC)</small>
:::<small>Usually "the City" means the city closest to you. When I say I am going to the city, I mean ]. <font face="Century Gothic">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;→&nbsp;]&nbsp;]&nbsp;]&nbsp;]</font> 20:47, 31 January 2015 (UTC)</small>
::::<small>Actually, there was a study done—which I sadly can't find— that showed a good portion of the country considering "The City" to refer specifically to New York. I could also point you to a satirical article by The Onion which rips apart Boston. All that said, please do not interfere with our self-importance, unwarranted or otherwise.... ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 11 Shevat 5775 21:02, 31 January 2015 (UTC)</small>

== I noticed a huge roadkill fox. And a squirrel. They were missing eyeballs. ==

The rest of the corpse was virtually untouched.

And I was wondering, why do crows, corvids, in fact all manner of scavenging birds pick out and eat the eyeballs first. Thats who I saw dunnit. Sure, they are easy to access but surely the nutritional content must be virtually nill. Wouldn't it pay off better for the scavengers to go for the choice cuts first, and not the offal.

In fact, I think a lot of animals do this. <small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 20:44, 27 January 2015 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:Not every animal is fortunate enough to have sharp teeth or strong jaws for choice cuts. A crow would look with them, to boot. They take what soft bits they can get. ] ] 20:57, ], ] (UTC)
::Yep. Also keep in mind that crows are ] ]s, not ] scavengers. If there were ]s around, they would have broken the skin and feasted on flesh. Then the ] eventually eat what was left by the rest. ] (])
:::Furthermore, a good knock on the head can pop the eyes out of their sockets, making the shiny white contrast even more apparent. Sort of like how you can pass people on the street without a second glance, except for the guy who's "eyeballing" you. what's normal and what's not in a face. If the tongue's hanging out of a slack jaw, that's even more reason to peck. ] ] 22:27, ], ] (UTC)
::::Also, bear in mind, the eyes are full of liquid, so in addition to a soft and tasty snack, they get a bit of light refreshment. <small>By the way, in Japan, it is common courtesy for the host of a meal to offer the eyes of a fish to the guest.</small> <span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml"><font face="MV Boli" color="blue">] (])</font></span> 10:13, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
:::::There's been a superstition throughout history that eating a body part gives you its attributes. Hearts give you courage, brains make you smart, eyes help you see further. I'd like to think modern bird brains are beyond that, but media pressure may be driving some toward the ] ] 21:52, ], ] (UTC)

::::::<small> And don't forget, that '']'' for stupidity was coined before ornithologists and cognitive scientists became aware of what the ] is capable of! ---] ] 21:56, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

:::::::Crows and ravens are well known for attacking the eyes of live lambs and incapacitated sheep - was the first of many references that I found. ] (]) 23:09, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
::::::::That seems more to do with ] than a regular ]. If they were dying from heatstroke, would we blame the flies? ] ] 23:20, ], ] (UTC)
:::::::::Seeing is believing - . ] (]) 02:03, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::I believe I saw one of four ravens peck a lamb's ass a couple of times. It might have been two. Hardly terrifying, especially by standards. That saintly white momma sheep was about as aggresive, but nobody went blind. ] ] 05:06, ], ] (UTC)
::::::::::::Why did a lamb have a donkey? <span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml"><font face="MV Boli" color="blue">] (])</font></span> 06:23, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::::Backup. ] ] 11:21, ], ] (UTC)
:::::::::::::<small>In the "got your back" sense, not ] ] 11:25, ], ] (UTC) </small>

==Would someone know where I could buy a online statue of the nymph ]?==
Which brings me to the reason of how this question is related to my question up top about Kirra Greece, :The reason is because Callisto in Xena Warrior Princess is from there and I'm going to a Xena Conventrion in four weeks and I wanna show people a postcard of the real Kirra and a statue of the real Callisto. ] (]) 21:46, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

:Come, on Venustar84, you know how to google. Search for "kallisto/callisto statue reproduction/sale" and see what you find. (A hint, there's plenty.) This is not the sort of research you need us for. (Good luck, in any case.) ] (]) 01:27, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

:Also, neither representation is really of the ''real'' Callisto. ] ] 21:55, ], ] (UTC)

= January 28 =

== Nosebleeds ==

Is it only children that get nosebleeds 'apparently' for no reason? I haven't had a spontaneous nosebleed since I was a child, and I've never seen an adult have one . Is there a reason for this? <span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml"><font face="MV Boli" color="blue">] (])</font></span> 10:05, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

:I can't recall ever having one except after getting socked in the nose. Awhile back I took my 85-yr-old mom to the ER with a bad one, resulting from high BP and low humidity. Beyond that, I have nothing to contribute except this: ]. &#8213;]&nbsp;] 10:12, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

::Thanks. That link almost answers my question. <span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml"><font face="MV Boli" color="blue">] (])</font></span> 10:21, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

:{{ec}} According to they are "Common in kids ages 3 to 10 years" and says the ages are 2 to 10 which suggests that the occurrences drop off after 10 years of age. But then the second source says that they're also common in adults from 50 to 80. The second source goes on to say that they're more common amongst those on blood thinners or those with high blood pressure which many people in that 50 to 80 range deal with. <span style="font-family:monospace;">]</span>|] 10:23, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

::That's actually what I was thinking. Thanks! My father is on blood thinners and has high BP, causing him to be anaemic, essentially, and occasionally he breaks out in subcutaneous heamorrhages, as well as the occasional nosebleed. Thanks! <span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml"><font face="MV Boli" color="blue">] (])</font></span> 10:37, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

{{Resolved}}

OR, perhaps, but I get two or three "spontaneous" nosebleeds a year and am neither a child, nor 50+ nor on any blood thinning medication and my BP is usually noticeably low. Lol. My take is that the human body is wonderfully complex and inconsistent and we'll only ever get generalisations about this kind of thing at best. <small>Now, I'm off to ].</small> --] (]) 10:44, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

:<small> You should stop banging your face against trees, mate :) </small> <span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml"><font face="MV Boli" color="blue">] (])</font></span> 11:00, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

:I think young children get nosebleeds for several reasons. They have thinner blood vessels, are more likely to "rough house" and they pick their noses often. ] (]) 19:22, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

:Cocaine users often get nosebleeds, and are rarely children. ] ] 21:59, ], ] (UTC)

:: But on the other hand say that nose picking causes nosebleeds and did you ever see a young kid that didn't pick their nose. ] (]) 08:25, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

:::<small>Classic British joke. Q. What's the difference between ]s and ]? A. Kids won't eat Brussells sprouts. Like all great jokes, it's the truth behind it that makes it funny. And I think ] my all-time favourite Misplaced Pages article title. --] (]) 09:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)</small>

::::<small>You may think that's the funniest article title, but it snot. ] (]) 13:12, 29 January 2015 (UTC) </small>
:::::<small>I haven't read that article, so I don't know if what I am going to say is in it, but I did once read that eating snot was a natural way for children to boost their immune system, as they are taking in the unwanted germs and bacteria in small quantities, and the immune system can learn how to deal with them. This is off-topic a little, but still interesting. </small> <span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml"><font face="MV Boli" color="blue">] (])</font></span> 19:06, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

== Why doesn't Ukraine default on its Russian debt? ==

Article on the issue of Russian debt default:

Ukraine wants to avoid a default because it would have consequences. But why is that the case? If Ukraine defaulted on Russian debt citing the invasion by Russia and continued to pay other creditors, would the international debt market view Ukraine as more risky? If the default was viewed as just retaliation against the Russian invasion, why would it raise interest rates or have some other adverse consequence for Ukraine?

] (]) 19:13, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

:Russia might use that as an excuse to invade all of Ukraine and "take what is theirs". ] (]) 19:19, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
::Indeed, if Ukraine does have to lose any more territory, the leaders apparently just want to shave off some of the more Russian areas, not lose the whole country (though those same areas have a good deal of Ukraine's industry). That's what I got from discussions with Kievan friends anyway. ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 8 Shevat 5775 21:26, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

: Ukraine may default on its debt anyway, precipitating a bailout. And as the EU has underwritten about $2B of that debt, that's going to add come from the European government debt market. ''Business Insider'' tends to being rather excitable (one might say linkbaitey), and in this case they're saying what Russia ''could'' do, not what anyone thinks they're likely to do (despite what they may ''say''). With a pro-western government in place, that bailout would surely come from the IMF and the EU (per the Bloomberg article). And Russian's #1 geopolitical concern about Ukraine is whether the country is aligned to them or to the EU (e.g. ]). Economically, it's in the interest of neither country to escalate a trade war between them. Ukraine is heavily dependent on Russian gas , but Russia is dependent on Ukraine both as a major customer of that gas, and for transit to western European countries (as most of its pipeline network, and 80% of its capacity, runs through Ukraine ). ] notes the recent unhappy history between the two countries; a great chunk of that debt is for gas. In the longer term, unease about Russia's using gas supply for political leverage is driving expansion of alternate supplies to Western and Central Europe, especially the ] - which erodes Russia's strength in the European market (diminishing both its economic and political bargaining power). Russia's in serious economic trouble, and really would like that debt paid down; Ukraine is too (worse), and is heavily dependent on a country it's almost at war with. -- ]'''ᚠ'''] 23:05, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

== Cleggmania ==

In UK politics, What is 'Cleggmania' and does it still exist? --] (]) 19:46, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
:Very first hit on Google: . And no, it most definitely doesn't exist any more, the opposite in fact. ] (]) 22:39, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
::Agreed, see from July 2014. See also our ] article. ] (]) 23:03, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
:::I have added a brief note to our article, so it should appear on any future searches. ] (]) 01:40, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
::::In case you're wondering why, it's a combination of the formation of a coalition government with the ] and the fact that student tuition was hiked as a result of the coalition government. (Ask any UK student especially international ones like I was...) Students made up a large portion of the LibDem's voter base, you see. ] &#124; <sup>]</sup> 9 Shevat 5775 03:08, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::::Added to the fact that the LibDems had promised in their manifesto NOT to raise tuition fees (of course, the LibDems didn't actually win the election, so those promises aren't binding). Also, the LibDems have by necessity been associated with other aspects of the Conservatives' austerity programme, which is never popular. ] (]) 10:35, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
::::::It wasn't a manifesto promise conditional on winning the election. Nick Clegg signed the ], the text of which is “I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative.". He then voted for the government's plans to increase fees. I think it's worth noting that, as a member of the ], Nick Clegg has to vote with the government or resign; he can't be in the government and oppose it, because of ]. ] (]) 11:16, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::::::I stand corrected. ] (]) 17:59, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

== Why does.... ==

Semen smell like fish. There's definitely a fishy odor about it. Seems odd that there should be any smell at all as the prostate gland and gonads are a sterile area? <small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 20:01, 28 January 2015 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:Mine doesn't, but Google suggests it's common. Answers range from fishy diets to ] changes to not washing properly to ]. ] ] 22:06, ], ] (UTC)
::I don't know about you two, but I have never actually taken the liberty of smelling my own (or anyone else's) semen (I'm not really into that kind of thing), so I wouldn't know. Girls have never remarked on the smell, either. As for taste, apparently, what you eat can affect it, so this may be relevant. <span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml"><font face="MV Boli" color="blue">] (])</font></span> 08:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::I've tried my own. If that makes me gayer than giving myself a handjob, so be it. And if trying it a few times to know if it gets better and worse (it does) makes me a scientist, I guess I'm a scientist. Like ] ] 08:50, ], ] (UTC)
:::<small>Not to be confused with ] ] 08:52, ], ] (UTC) </small>
::::A scientist would keep detailed records. Have you? &#8213;]&nbsp;] 08:54, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::::I'm not or anything. ] ] 08:56, ], ] (UTC)

:::Speaking of science, here are some ] ] 08:55, ], ] (UTC)
{{hat|unrelated to answering the question--]] 03:50, 31 January 2015 (UTC)}}
Hahaha. You guys got trolled. And inedible fessed up to being a cum sniffer.

Signed - The individual you keep trying to block.
:All good. Now someone who's truly concerned may find this in the archives and consult their doctor. Or eat a pineapple. Or masturbate thinking about mermaids. You've contributed to the sum of human knowledge. That's why ''I've'' never tried to block you. It's only a confession if you're ashamed of it. ] ] 12:29, ], ] (UTC)
::Right on. I say I'm untrollable here. If my good faith answer to an odd question makes someone snicker, why should I care? If I'm not interested in a question, I don't post replies. It's pretty simple, actually. BTW, if our OP is still reading, it's ''very'' wrong to think that something ] should have no ]. Sulphur, alcohol, even urine - all have scents when sterile. Also, a tip on trolling - if you have to say "haha you got trolled", then ''it didn't work'' - it's like saying "now laugh" at the end of a joke ;) ] (]) 16:13, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
::::A clean fish also smells fishy. But Googling "fish smell" gets me nothing about why. Only dirty vaginas. Trying Verbatim finds that is also important for ] stank. ] ] 10:34, ], ] (UTC) ] ] 10:31, ], ] (UTC)
:::And the best thing we have learned (besides the fact that diet can cause changes in taste - but not smell - of semen, is that the OP is a w@nker and produces semen that stinks of fish. I hope someday he will find a lady that can accept that, because I know it will be difficult. Despite my handsome looks and my bank account (and semen that doesn't stink of fish), it can sometimes be even difficult for me..... Good luck, and get a life. <span style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml"><font face="MV Boli" color="blue">] (])</font></span> 04:22, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

:::You've also indirectly contributed the most important fact in ] history. Your helpfulness has been permanently noted. ] ] 10:52, ], ] (UTC)
{{hab}}

= January 29 =

== Mystery Object ==

What is the thing on the left? --] 08:04, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:] and a ], I'd say. ] ] 08:19, ], ] (UTC)
:: I like the melon baller but I'm not sure about the spork. Those aren't fork tines at the top end, they don't stick out. They're like grooves or ridges, it's a corrugated effect. --] 08:51, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::"Melon spoon" gets similar Google Images. Not sure why you'd need a baller ''and'' a spoon, but then, I'd use a fork. ] ] 09:11, ], ] (UTC)
::::I believe that it produces fluted curls of melon, rather than balls (sorry, I couldn't find a picture). There's a similar widget for butter - see ]. ] (]) 10:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::::There's also the If anyone ever needed one. ] ] 12:32, ], ] (UTC)

== What's the point of a nine thousand year lease? ==

I'm currently sorting out my late mother's estate, and have been looking through the deeds of her house. The parcel of land the house was built on was leased to the man who built it in 1932, for a period of nine thousand five hundred years, with an annual ground rent of £10. Every time the house has been sold, the lease has been assigned to the new owner. The ground rent has not increased in that time (£10 a year would have been a significant sum of money in 1932, but is a peppercorn now), and I've found no record of my mum ever paying it, or even who it would be paid to after all this time. But why on earth would anyone find it necessary to set a lease length of nine and a half thousand years? --] (]) 11:48, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:I'm no lawyer, but I think I've heard that sometimes some kind of ] prevents freehold sales of land. --] (]) 12:09, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

:If you don't pay the nickel each month (or whatever the lease says), the landlord (or his grandkid) can repossess the land, which, conveniently enough, now has a house (or large brewery) on it. And now we're talking future dollars. At least that's how I understand things work in Baltimore, per ]. Here's the UK legislation on Lots of rules about needing notice, seems unlikely you'll be swooped down upon. ] ] 12:26, ], ] (UTC)

:The land was effectively sold sans "freehold rights". In some places, the ''right to vote'' was restricted to freeholders. All I can think of quickly <g>. ] (]) 12:35, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

::Don't think that was relevant in 1932. A landowner collecting £10 a year ground rent in 1932 was assuring himself of some income. If the lease is long enough he can collect it indefinitely, and so can his children (unless they've failed to account for inflation). But does anybody really need to guarantee that income for nine thousand years? Surely a few hundred would be more than enough. --] (]) 13:39, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::Enough for the current generation. No harm in doing something nice for the descendants you'll never meet. They're still family.
:::And there are still many breakthroughs to be made regarding immortality. Wouldn't you feel a bit stupid if you thawed out (or whatever) just to find you'd lost prime land (or all your land) through shortsightedness? Better to err on the side of caution, if someone's willing to sign. ] ] 10:25, ], ] (UTC)
:::It's sort of like how social media data agreements give firms dibs on anything you upload "irrevocably" and "perpetually". They ''probably'' won't need it forever, but maybe. ] ] 10:29, ], ] (UTC)


:I'm not certain, but I think the following is probably relevant. Centuries ago, the legal mechanisms associated with real property became some cumbersome that the practice grew up of inventing a fictitious owner and a lease from that owner, so that the title (which was in practice to the freehold) could be treated in law as a lease: see ]. I believe it was the ] that changed this<ref>
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}}, section 4-024</ref>, but leases were not necessarily converted to freehold until much later: I own a property that was leased in 1707 for 500 years, and changed hands several times after 1852 before being converted by a ] into an estate of ] in 1919. My guess would be that the 9500 years was the remainder of a previous lease that dated to before 1852. --] (]) 17:42, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
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:::{{EC}} tries to explain the puzzle, but I'm not sure that I really understand the answer. It seems to hinge on the landlord and his/her descendants being able to keep some control of how the land is used. mentions the town of ] in Scotland, which "can boast (if that term be apt) 11 leases granted for '''a million years'''".
:::The article lists the disadvantages (presumably for the tenant, which may be advantages for the landlord!) of ultra-long leases as follows: ''(i) they tend to beget subleases which can become needlessly complex; (ii) they may be vulnerable to the landlord terminating them without the tenant’s consent for a breach of the terms of the lease – such as non-payment of rent; (iii) they may allow for an inappropriate degree of control by the landlord in relation to things like permitted uses of the property; and (iv) they may allow a landlord to extract a payment from the tenant in exchange for the landlord’s not insisting on particular conditions in the lease. Just as important perhaps as those practical reasons is the fact that ownership of land in Scotland was, until 2000, largely “feudal”: in other words land tenure was, essentially, hierarchical. That was swept away by the Abolition of Feudal Tenure (Scotland) Act 2000 "''. In other words, people just want to keep the land in the family for prestige purpose, even if they have no direct control over it.
:::The article goes on to say that ''"Since 2000 it has no longer been possible to grant any type of lease for more than 175 years"'' (in Scotland that is). ] (]) 17:49, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Depending on where it is, a ] may eventually kick in, typically after 120 years or so. ] (]) 02:45, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

== Could someone explain the math behind this musical concept ? ==

Someone once told me: "The circle of fifths - C increased by a fifth is G; G increased by a fifth is D; D increased by a fifth is A; A increased by a fifth is E; E increased by a fifth is B; B increased by a fifth is F#; F# inceased by a fifth is C#; C# increased by a fifth is G#; G# increased by a fifth is D#; D# increased by a fifth is A#; A# increased by a fifth is F; F increased by a fifth is C - produces the 12 notes of the octave."<br />

How is this expressed with math, how is this exactly found?<br />
PS: I already know the formula to 12 tone equal temperament. 440*2^(2/12). The fact that octave (on our 12tet) is 2x. <br />
Posting this here on miscellaneous because its a mix or math and music subject. ] (]) 14:50, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

:A ] is a frequency ratio of 3:2 This means that the frequency is increased by 50% going from C to G, and another 50% going from G to D and so on. The complete circle has twelve such increases. Now 1.5 to the power of 12 is 129.7463 so a complete circle of perfect fifths would represent an increase in frequency of almost 12,975%. An octave represents a doubling of the frequency, so seven octaves (from almost the lowest note to nearly the highest on a piano) represents an increase of 2 to the power of 7 which is 128 (i.e. 12,800%). A perfect circle of fifths would give slightly more than seven octaves (1.36% too much) so piano tuners slightly flatten the fifths to give perfect octaves. There is a much better explanation at ]. ] 14:10, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:{{ec}} Start with ] which explains some of the math involved. Technically speaking, the circle of fifths only works under systems of ] which adjust perfect ] so that the notes of the octave cycle back properly. You can read any of those articles, or follow links, to see how the math works. --]] 14:14, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:: I am reading those articles and still not finding or not understanding the math. Lets imagine we hade 3 tone equal temperament and instead of perfect fifith we have 1.618. What would be the note symbol order?] (]) 16:27, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::Sorry, your last question doesn't make any sense to me. The twelfth power of 1.5 ''is'' very close to the seventh power of 2, and if you divide each member of the finite series 1.5, 2.25, 3.375 ... by a suitable power of 2 to bring it within the range (in musical terms, move them to the fundamental octave) they are all reasonably close to the powers of 2 ^ (1/12), though some are closer than others. What is it you don't understand? --] (]) 17:50, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::: Its not miscalculation, the number 1.5 is used to make the 12 tone equal temperament (at least to select the note order number, what will have flat or not, how many letters without flats or sharps we will have...). I was just asking how the thing would work if we had 3 tones instead of 12 and 1.618 instead of 1.5. I made that expecting people to answer what the note order would be in this case, by showing how they calculated it to this alternate tuning I would be able to discover how it is done.
:::{{ec}}In the normal equal tempered scale, an octave is divided into twelve intervals, so each semitone represents a frequency ratio of the twelfth root of two (that's 1.0594630943593 or about a 6% increase in frequency). When you ask about a 3-tone equal temperament, do you mean just three notes in an octave? If so, then the ratio would be the cube root of two (about a 26% increase for each interval). Alternatively, do you mean tuning in ]s? That's four semitones, so the sequence would be C to E to G♯ to B♯. There is the same problem here of a mismatch because a perfect third is a ratio of 5:4 (a 25% increase) whereas the equal tempered third is almost 26%. ] 17:52, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
::::{{ec}}I am asking/mean the tuning: 3 tones equal temperament, that uses still use octave (2x), but instead of using 1.5 to do the maths, it use 1.618
::::<br />] (]) 18:01, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
::::I think the OP is wondering what the note symbols would be if we used slightly different systems? The answer is: the same systems. The 12 notes are still the same 12 notes (A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#), the distinction is the exact relationship between the 12 notes. Under any two intonation/temperament systems, the notes other than the root will be a tiny bit different from each other from one system to the other. --]] 17:57, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
::::::Where are you getting 1.618 (the ])? We have an article on ]. For tuning in fifths, you might like to read ]. ] 18:03, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
::::::I said 1.618 (with 3 tone equal temperament and octave), just as a different way to ask the question, since I was not able to find the math concept, on the said articles (or didnt understood them), I was expecting, that if people answered hwhat the symbols of 3 tones equal temperament with octave and 1.618 instead of 1.5 are, I would be able to find the math by myself (or people would post it while solving the problem). <small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 18:53, 29 January 2015 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
::::::: ... but why choose 1.618 ? It wouldn't sound tuneful, and you couldn't get an octave, so the tuning wouldn't work. Only simple ratios such as 2:1 , 3:2 , 5:4 etc are considered to be pleasant intervals in Western music, so early instruments were tuned this way. Perhaps if you study all the articles that people have linked above, you might grasp the maths of tuning, but come back and ask again if there are some bits that you don't understand. ] 19:19, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
:::::::I'm sorry, IP user, but I don't think anybody understands what you're asking. The trouble for me is that I haven't the slightest idea what you mean by "3 tones equal temperament" or what "symbols" you are talking about. I get that you're asking about a "dominant" ratio of 1.618 instead of 1.5, but I don't know why. I observe that the cube of 1.618 is somewhere near 4 (but not very close), so is that what you mean by a "3 tones equal temperament"? --] (]) 21:08, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

::: If there were a musical culture whose most important intervals are 1:2 and 5:8 (rather than 1:2 and 2:3), their tempered scale could indeed have three notes to the octave; log(8/5) is a bit more than two-thirds of log(2). If the notes were named (in order of pitch) P Q R, then the "circle of minor sixths" would go P R Q. —] (]) 00:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
:::: I wonder if the OP meant the ratio 1.681825665441... which would give an equal-tempered version of that scale. ] 12:30, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

While the OP does mention that {{genderneutral|ey}} understands the ratios, it seems to me that the original question is not actually about the frequency ratios, but about the fact that we get back to C after completing 12 steps. What matters in this case are only two facts:
# You have 12 steps, which you call C, C#, D, .... B.
# The next step, after B, gives you a C again. (You may say that this would be an octave above the original C, but since we want to use this for comparing keys, not notes, the octave doesn't matter. A key of C is a key of C, regardless the octave.) Mathematically, this circular behavior is expressed with the ]. Just use 0 for C, 1 for C#, and so on.
Now we can combine the two facts, and get what's called modulo 12. Conveniently, most of us have a device in our homes that does that operation every day - twice: A clock. A jump of a musical fifth corresponds to a clockwise move of the hour hand of 7 hours, or, which is the same thing, a counterclockwise move of 5 hours. You can easily try for yourself that if you repeat these jumps often enough, you will end up where you started. In this case, you have to do 12 such jumps. &mdash; ] 05:46, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

:Yes, I agree that's what the OP seems to be asking, but it is impossible to do this with a ratio of 1.618. The OP has never explained whether this is just a miscalculation, or some attempt to link music with the Golden ratio. ] 08:26, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

:: The ratios between individual notes don't matter for the question why we get back to C; they only distract from the underlying mathematics. You can use any ] and even some idiosyncratic system based on the golden ratio, and the above two facts still apply. &mdash; ] 20:36, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
:::That's not true. Try your clock analogy with a jump of <math>\pi</math> minutes. I agree that you can approximate the octave, but 1.618 doesn't get close within the range of human hearing. ] 11:15, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

*]'s "Big Bangs" series has an excellent 45 minute episode on Equal Temperament. Unfortunately the best link I can find is a very low--audio-quality version at youtube. If you can find this somewhere, it's well worth watching. ] (]) 22:41, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

:: Or you can read corresponding chapter in the . ] (]) 18:49, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

== 35 Battery Royal Artillery ==

Hello I am a former member of 35 Bty when it was with 25 Regiment. As you will be aware it is the 250th anniversary of the Bty this year. I am told it was formed from the 1stMadras Artillery and a re-organization was ordered in the February of 1765 Unfortunately I cannot find a date that the Bty was formed. Not being very good with computers and researching I was wondering if you could be of any assistance as myself and former 35 Bty members of 25 Regt would like to have a get together and celebrate the 250th Birthday.

Many Thanks

Tony Pearson ( 35 Bty 1971-1978) <small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 20:03, 29 January 2015 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:I had a good go at it, but couldn't get closer than the year. Perhaps you might try the ]; it seems to be fairly easy, see their page and click on "online contact form". You could also try the ]; see their page which has an email address for the librarian at the bottom of the page that you can click. Good luck. ] (]) 22:45, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

= January 30 =

== Locations listed in background of WWI VAD recruitment poster ==

Our ] article includes a WWI recruitment poster ]. (It's non-free, so I won't embed it here.) In the background of the poster there is a list of locations, presumably where service is needed. On the right I can make out Egypt, Mesopotamia, Holland, Switzerland, and Russia, and on the left France, Italy, Malta, Gibraltar, and then one that starts "Salon...". What is that last location? -- ] 13:54, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
:] spring to mind. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ] (]) 14:09, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
::Ah! And I see we have the article ], a redirect to and alternate name for ]. Thanks! -- ] 14:45, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

==Super Collapse 2==
Is there world record for highest scores in Super Collapse 2? If there are, can you tell me the world record for TRADITIONAL, RELAPSE, and STRATEGY? ] (]) 19:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

:I think what you want is ...but I don't see it broken out by those three modes. ] (]) 05:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

= January 31 =

== How do you set up an office at a new location? ==
{{hat|request for advice and speculation: seek professional assistance, please}}
A business sometimes needs to set up an office at a new location where it didn't have a presence before. It'll probably be someone in upper management who is given the task. I've never been involved in a project like that (and I'm not involved in one), but I imagine that quite a varied bit of expertise and local knowledge is involved. Among the tasks I can think of:
* finding a suitable office space at a good location
* finding providers for various supplies and services (telecom, cleaning, coffee, office supplies, ...; maybe banking, legal, & accounting as well)
* coming up with floor plan(s) for the office space, and hire contractors to build/modify the space according to the plans
* furnishing/equipping the office
* complying with applicable laws (permits, inspections, registrations, certifications, various filings)
* staffing the office by recruiting from the local labor market
On top of doing all these, the project probably needs to be done reasonably quickly.

If the company is large, I can imagine hiring all kinds of consultants to help with the project. But if the company is not very big, how can the executive tasked with the project know how to do all those things? Do business schools teach how to handle practical matters like the above? Is there a kind of consultants that specialize in this kind of projects? Am I imagining it to be more complicated than it really is? How is it usually done? -] (]) 14:29, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

:] is the appropriate discipline, and there are consultants which specialize in it. That being said, the tasks you list shouldn't really be beyond the competence of anyone in a management position, and a smaller move probably wouldn't justify getting in a specialist contractor to supervise it. ] (]) 16:36, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

:One shortcut is to rent an office that's more of a turn-key operation. That is, it's already provided with furniture, cubicles, utilities, security, etc. Then, instead of hiring all new staff, you can move some over from other offices. Some of those moves may be permanent, while others are only until the new office is up and running. This gets past the problem of trying to start an office with all new staff. In some cases, there may be enough laid-off employees from previous cut-backs to fully supply the new office from that pool. Presumably those employees would need less training. ] (]) 16:42, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
*Close, the request is either hypothetical trolling or a request for professional assistance; either way, we don't do it. ] (]) 22:31, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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January 3

British weather website

Is there any British weather website which has daily data for stations in the United Kingdom? The starlingroot.ddns.net is not working anymore, it worked a few months ago. The "Historic station data" page on MetOffice's website has only monthly data, and the MetOffice WOW - Weather Observations Website has only hourly data. And is there any English-language website having weather observations for different cities and countries in Europe, similar to e.g. Infoclimat? --40bus (talk) 13:16, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

You might find windfinder.com useful. Although primarily aimed at coastal leisure activities, it also covers inland areas. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.84.253 (talk) 03:07, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
wunderground.com used to have this. IDK about now. 2601:644:8581:75B0:0:0:0:DA2D (talk) 18:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

January 4

Goal number one

How do you forgive and forget? (not sure if that's off-topic for the reference desk. if it is, sorry in advance.) TWOrantula (enter the web) 05:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

By deciding to. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 06:05, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
One can decide to forget, but will it work?  --Lambiam 09:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Here is an essay on the topic, by a practitioner of mindfulness, that you may (or may not) find helpful. More advice: , and (written from a Christian perspective) .  --Lambiam 09:32, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
(OR, in that I have no published sources for this, though I was taught it by others): Forgiving does not necessarily mean forgetting - it also doesn't necessarily mean condoning. It means not carrying ill will. In my experience, once I see the cost (to me) of bearing the resentment, and how illusory are the apparent benefits of doing so, it is easy to choose to let it go. ColinFine (talk) 14:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Shall we forgive the OP for forgetting that we don't offer advice?DOR (ex-HK) (talk) 17:38, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

I'd suggest searching the web. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 17:47, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
The injunction does not apply to all advice, but is aimed specifically at giving medical or legal advice.  --Lambiam 23:14, 4 January 2025 (UTC)


                                      NonStopGo

One of the reasons I hurt myself quite so much last May was to make sure
that I stopped for long enough to arrive at this particular point. For only
through understanding can we see how to forgive both ourselves and other
people. In forgiveness there is love ; and although we can accept forgiveness
from others, true forgiveness comes solely from within. And only if we
love ourselves can we hope to achieve that shining state of grace which
is our true birthright and to find, finally, the gate which leads out of this
vale of tears : and opens for ever into the realms of eternal light.

7th July 2005

MinorProphet (talk) 05:42, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Westminster Coroner's Court

I'm trying to research a sudden death that occurred in the London Borough of Merton. Please help me find information about Westminster Coroner's Court, also known as "Inner West London Coroner's Court". They appear to have no website, and publish no court listings. They claim that coroners records are closed to public access for 75 years.

But other coroners courts in the UK, for example "London Inner South Coroner’s Court", publish their court listings and say that inquests are public and anyone can attend.

Why is there are difference? Why is "London Inner South Coroner’s Court" open to the public, but "Inner West London Coroner's Court" is not? Surely all coroners courts operate under the same laws?

Thanks for your help Cylopi (talk) 12:41, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

As you can see from coroners' courts are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. I can assure you, however, that inquests held by the Westminster coroner are as public as inquests held by any other coroner. 2A00:23D0:54D:2001:7843:31E3:192B:798 (talk) 14:56, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Where can I find unmarried men list in Science/Maths?

Like Brahmagupta, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Arthur Eddington.

I want to exclude Archimedes due to his unknown marital status, Leonardo da Vinci as he have romantic relations and Galileo Galilei who has 3 children out of wedlock. HarryOrange (talk) 14:08, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Do you have any reason to suppose that such a list exists, @HarryOrange? ColinFine (talk) 14:27, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Just to encourage celibacy HarryOrange (talk) 14:30, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
So, you've come here to ask people how to remove from a list that doesn't exist, some names that would probably belong only the list if it existed, because you have some private meaning of "unmarried"? ColinFine (talk) 12:56, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
If some men don't (appear to) have sexual relationships with women, they're not necessarily demonstrating celibacy - they might be otherwise inclined. Chuntuk (talk) 11:37, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Possibly worth noting here that the more traditional meaning of "celibacy" doesn't necessarily exclude sex, just marriage. That could have been the meaning HarryOrange was using. --Trovatore (talk) 07:14, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
Why did you pipe the correctly-spelled "Isaac" Newton to the incorrectly-spelled "Issac" Newton? -- Jack of Oz 18:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
And do the same strange thing to Nikola Tesla? Cullen328 (talk) 23:03, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
I forget to include Paul Erdos , Charles Proteus Steinmetz HarryOrange (talk) 06:13, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Champagne explosion

I had an unopened bottle of cheap champagne (Barefoot Rosé if that matters) left over from NYE, and about 10 minutes ago the thing spontaneously exploded. It had been just sitting there at room temperature. No serious damage but there is champange and broken glass all over the place now, and I'm in the process of cleaning it up. Are these explosions a usual occasional occurrence? I'm used to champagne bottles being thicker than regular wine bottles for obvious reasons, but this one seems on the thin side in retrospect, maybe as an economy measure. Could that be? I'm surprised it doesn't happen on store shelves if it happens at home. Thanks. 2601:644:8581:75B0:0:0:0:DA2D (talk) 18:39, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

I does happen. Sometimes a cause can be identified. When a bottle of champagne is stored in a freezer, or a fridge whose temperature setting is too low, the contents may freeze, causing it to expand. This can lead to minute cracks in the glass, weakening its strength. Thawed in a relatively warm environment, the pressure of the gas can then result in fracture. Another potential cause is premature bottling, when fermentation has not run its fill course ands the wine still contains yeast and sugar. (Almost all wine sold as "champagne" in the US, also when labelled "Brut", contains residual sugar to accommodate the local taste.) When warmed up, fermentation resumes and pressure increases. Finally, a small fraction of bottles is damaged in handling or comes with production defects, not detectable through visual inspection.  --Lambiam 22:42, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Thanks. No idea about refrigeration before I bought it, but I got it off the shelf at a big supermarket, carried it home, and it sat in the exact same place in the room for several days before going kablooie. All I can think of is that carrying it home might have bumped it around or something. Oh well, no big deal in the scheme of things. 2601:644:8581:75B0:0:0:0:DA2D (talk) 01:20, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
The traditional method of making Champagne requires freezing it in the bottle, so I suppose most bottles are designed to handle that – although freezing from the bottom up is safer than top-down, as it creates no plug of ice between the liquid and the gas. If not using the traditional method, or if the wine doesn't come from the Champagne region, many countries (including all of the EU) forbid selling it under the name Champagne. The US however hasn't got that restriction.
Wines freeze around -5°C, so accidental freezing in a fridge set too cold seems unlikely. PiusImpavidus (talk) 11:15, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
In this case the bottle had not been opened, but the cold liquid carbonated contents of a closed bottle may freeze upon opening due to cooling by adiabatic expansion of the CO2.  --Lambiam 13:57, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Once upon a time soda pop used to come in reusable glass bottles, and I read somewhere that this would happen from time to time with the larger sizes. And indeed, sometime around 1980 a large bottle of Coca-Cola, probably 1.5 liters, exploded while sitting in my cupboard. --142.112.149.206 (talk) 02:51, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Organizations

Are there any international organizations headquartered in Australia, similar to UN and World Bank are headquartered in the US? --40bus (talk) 22:04, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

We have a Category:International organisations based in Australia.  --Lambiam 23:05, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Isn't this more or less the same question that you asked a month ago? Shantavira| 09:55, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
An international organization is a completely different thing from a multinational company. --Viennese Waltz 11:38, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
yes but both questions are easily answered with even the most cursory research and 40bus here seems to have a habit of asking research questions. 208.121.35.65 (talk) 17:37, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

January 6

Replacement for my My Yahoo page

Not sure this is the correct venue, but here goes.

Yahoo have shut down all personal My Yahoo pages. For those who don't use Yahoo, your My Yahoo page was sort of your own personal webpage, where you could have various modules that interested you displayed (e.g. cartoons, horoscopes, travel, finance etc). Yahoo have closed My Yahoo down. A big feature of my personal My Yahoo page was that it had loads of links to my favourite websites. This loss is the one that is hurting most.

Any suggestions as to a replacement? Mjroots (talk) 10:15, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

MSN.com does that pretty well. --Viennese Waltz 10:25, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Could you explain in more detail how one can go about to create a personalized web space using MSN.com?  --Lambiam 12:29, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
would be a start. That link is for UK users, presumably you can customize it to your own country. --Viennese Waltz 13:38, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Perhaps one of the content curation tools listed here, some of which are free, will serve your purposes. I have no knowledge of any of these tools beyond what you find there.  --Lambiam 12:34, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
No modules, but there is Neocities. Actually, I may misunderstand: perhaps you seek a kind of home page which is online but available to you only, mainly for collecting bookmarks.  Card Zero  (talk) 13:53, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
For those answering, while it appears to be a question asking how to make a basic list of links, it is not. Yahoo's links page was created by selecting modules through a GUI and then customizing the settings. For example, I could select the comics GUI and then select which comics I want to show up in my links. I don't need to know any of the URLs. I just place a check next to the comics I like. For finance, I add the module with a click and then type in the ticket symbols for the stocks I care about. It automatically creates a daily stock thumbnail with links to news articles about those stocks. So, it is true that there are many available options to create a list of links, there are not as many options to create a custom content page for multiple areas of personal interest. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 15:35, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
The IP is correct, but as I said above, I can live without horoscopes, comics etc. The ability of easily store links to favourite websites is the biggest loss. @Card Zero: - it doesn't have to be for me only. I think that using a subpage of my user space will fall foul of WP:NOTWEBHOST #5, even though many (but not all) of the websites are used in Misplaced Pages research. Mjroots (talk) 15:39, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Does it have to be a website in that case? Why not browser bookmarks? In fact, I believe these days some browsers will let you select bookmarks for a "start page" or "start screen" that is displayed when you open a new window/tab. And if they don't, you can probably find a browser extension that will do that. -- Avocado (talk) 17:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Major traffic fatality incident, Denmark, 2019

In 2019, Denmark had a minor spike in traffic fatalities. I feel that the spike is most likely the result of a single accident with multiple fatalities. However, I cannot find any news about multiple-fatality accidents in Denmark in 2019. Everything that I find is related to train accidents, which I do not think Denmark includes in "traffic fatality" counts. Can anyone find a list of accidents or news about a single large-scale accident that might skew the yearly count for 2019? 68.187.174.155 (talk) 15:25, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

First of all, where are you seeing this spike and is it a reliable source? Shantavira| 09:55, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
And is it even statistically significant? With unrelated events happening by chance, there will always be fluctuations in number of events by time period. Spikes will occur every now and then, entirely by chance.  --Lambiam 13:05, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
I found this document (pdf) which seems to go into this matter in great detail. I don't read Danish, but I ran it though Google Translate. The table on page 28 shows that there were 199 traffic-related fatalities in Denmark in 2019, which is more than the two previous years but less than some earlier years. So I agree with the above posters that there is not enough here to constitute a spike. The document doesn't list individual accidents, btw. --Viennese Waltz 14:24, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
The mean number of fatalities of the 10-year sample given in this Danish report is 194.9, while its estimated standard deviation is 27.3. This means that the 2019 value deviates from the mean by 0.15 sigma, which is more remarkable by how little the deviation is.  --Lambiam 23:54, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
I saw this before and perhaps you are trying to recreate it. In 2019, traffic fatalities in Denmark increased 20%. But, they were so low that it was a small bump to make that 20% jump. The reason it matters is because the increase was used as the basis to use government funding for more bicycle lanes and improving intersections. But, the increase was not statistically significant and didn't mean anything, so it should not have been used as justification for any changes. Now, from memory, it was a multi-car, weather-related accident in January that added more than 10 fatalities to the yearly count. That was overshadowed by a train accident due to the same snowstorm which killed 8 (I remember it was 8 because most new articles listed 6, but some stated that a few days later, two more bodies were found). So, my gut feeling is that you are intending to show that this "20% spike" in traffic fatalities is really a data artifact created by a single large-scale accident and not representative of general driver behavior in Denmark. Unfortunately, I do not know how to search Danish news. But, if my memory is correct, you can use the date of the well documented train accident in Denmark in 2019 to get the date of the multi-car accident and then, hopefully, find that as well. I doubt you will find it in any English-based news repository. You will have to search Danish repositories. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 16:17, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Yes. That is what I am doing. I found multiple overblown newspaper headlines like "Biggest increase in traffic fatalities in five years! Your mind will be blown when you see the numbers!" and I am using that to demonstrate that while it is technically true that there was a 20% increase in fatalities, the proper context around that increase is that it is negligible and the result of a single event that could have happened on any other year. Basically, it is a presentation on applying context to data and how it is often done improperly. Now that I know there was a multi-vehicle traffic accident at the same time as the train accident I keep finding, I decided to read those articles and many of them comment on the car accident as well as the train accident, but I didn't read through the articles to notice previously. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 13:15, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
According to the document linked by @Viennese Waltz, there were 199 deaths in 2019, compared to 171 the year before. That's a 16% increase, not 20%. On the other hand, it's an extra 28 people - so more than the result of a single incident. It just looks like random variation in a decade (the 2010's) that saw about 200 people killed every year on Denmark's roads. This decade it's been more like 150 a year, so if they spent a lot of money in 2019 it was worth it. You can further eamine annual figures here and here. Chuntuk (talk) 13:23, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
What's 'this decade'? There tends to be some controversy especially with 2020 and 2021 figures since reduced traffic due to COVID-19 whether from lockdowns or just changes in behaviour e.g. with more working from home are often cited as reasons for reduced fatalities the. Nil Einne (talk) 10:34, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Neurodiverse dating site

Is there website that shows with neurodiverse person goes well with which other neurodiverse, e.g. ADHD with Autism, Autism with HPI, HPI with dylexsia etc? --Donmust90-- Donmust90 (talk) 15:55, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

For any combination of forms of neurodiversity, some persons will go well with each other, while others will not. This depends mainly on other factors, in particular the personality and personal value system of each.  --Lambiam 12:57, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Still I would expect a weak correlation, which may or may not be better than none. —Tamfang (talk) 21:58, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

January 8

Anthropology Misplaced Pages page

Does anyone know why the Misplaced Pages page for "Anthropology" jumped to 6 million views on Dec. 25, 2024?https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2024-12-18&end=2025-01-07&pages=Anthropology 136.26.125.34 (talk) 23:28, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Probably just a glitch. Such things happen all the time. Shantavira| 09:54, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Previously, a spike for views of a particular page was due to some device or other (a digital assistant?) suggesting searching for the topic as part of its default demo or a tour of its features. Obviously I can't remember any specifics but it was along those lines. So a reasonable theory is that a lot of people got a device for Christmas that did something similar, although "try asking about anthropology" seems an unlikely way to show off a new phone's AI gimmicks, but maybe. Perhaps the spike was a side-effect of whatever the gadget really said.  Card Zero  (talk) 11:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Clearly, this is a result of extraterrestrial aliens abusing this article as a source for humanoid porn. Homo erectus and relatives are depicted in full frontal nudity which may excite the libidinous erectiles in our solar system, the Milky Way or the Andromeda Nebula. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 18:42, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Who are you to call us humanoid porn addicts, Earthling? Besides, we were only doing research. Yeah, that's it. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:56, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
Pssst I've got polaroid snaps of nude bare-naked skeletons. What do you have to swap? Philvoids (talk) 17:17, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

January 11

Young adult novel series called Blitzkrieg

Does anybody remember who was the author of a novel series, aimed at middle and high school students called Blitzkrieg? It was about a high school football team and I think it was or were published in the 1970s or 1980s. --Donmust90-- Donmust90 (talk) 00:49, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

The series was actually called Blitz and was written by Paul Nichols (about whom we don't seem to have an article). There are some examples here. --Viennese Waltz 07:46, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
"Paul Nichols" is the pen name of Robert Hawks (b. 1961). More about him here. He has also published under his own name, as well as young-adult horror under the pen name "M. T. Coffin" :). In any case, neither the author nor the books appear to meet Misplaced Pages's notability criteria.  --Lambiam 09:42, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

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