On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:10:48 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 01/01/2015 01:00, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:19:46 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>>>> That's one way of breaking the fire triangle. Burn off all the
>>>>> oxygen.
>>>>> It's a bit extreme but interesting to see from a distance.
>>>>
>>>> It works more effectively with explosives, so I hear.  That's how
>>>> they put out some of the big oil fires in Kuwait after the first gulf
>>>> war, IIRC.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> IIRC the shock wave has more to do with it than the depletion of
>>> oxygen.
>>> When using explosives. Might be wrong, though.
>>
>> I seem to recall that the purpose was to evacuate the oxygen - so it's
>> a combination of the shockwave pushing oxygen out and oxygen being used
>> up,
>> probably. :)
>>
>>
> Looks spectacular, doesn't it?

Yeah. :)

> Bye the bye, have you heard of Craig Brown? A British satirist.
> About 4 or 5 minutes into this is his methodology for dealing with
> fires. John Humphrys (RL bad ass Radio and TV journalist) interviewing
> Hamlet prince of Denmark, is cleverly done.
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b7qs7

I haven't, but now I've grabbed this, so I'll have a listen. :)

>>> I Don't know about that being much better. If you believe Margaret
>>> Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
>>
>> I've been to Vancouver, and it did have a different feel in that
>> regard. Probably headed back up there in January for a few days, too.
>>
> You're on the French side, are you not?
> Bring back some funny stories about their Language Police.

That's the eastern end - Quebec, mainly (I've got a friend who lives in 
Montreal), but I do recall seeing signs on the roads in French & English 
when I drove up last year.

>>> You would say that wouldn't you? :-P
>>
>> But of course. :)
>>
>>> RIP Mandy Rice-Davies. :-(
>>
>> I'm not sure I follow that connection.
>>
>>
> It is a phrase that has past into the language. Mandy Rice-Davies, who
> just died recently, said it in political sex scandal from the early
> 1960s.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-
Davies#.22He_would.2C_wouldn.27t_he.3F.22
> 
> Her name also lives on in Hamish Imlach's song to the tune of tupenny
> rice.
> 
> Half a pound for Mandy Rice Half a pound for Keeler That the way the
> money goes,
> Ten bob to…

Ah, I see now.  Always learning. :)

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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