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This Forum, what is it? a few posts recently reminded me of what we have here.


A collection of Electricians, Electrical Engineers, Consultants, Supply side Engineers, Inspectors. Armed to the teeth with qualifications, experience  and reasoning.

Would give Shroedinger and his cat a good run for their money - makes the chicken/egg question look simple (actually the chicken/egg question is simple but that`s another matter).

You could not get guidance like this fom any scheme or body. It is brill. You even get building regs and advice, carpentry and electronics/radio thrown in too plus a host of other subjects. And a weekend quiz too. Ohh and a few comedians and some quirky quips.


To sum it up. Sheer Brilliance
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    I am a mere house badger and came in at the end of the old forum, but i have found myself welcomed, and challenged... both intellectually and personality wise... (but never in a hostile way) by the regulars. I think the forum definitely needs to be more popular both amongst those at the pit face, and those making the rules, and those in the middle, using the rules to design things that we have to build and work to...


    I have learned a lot about the ideas behind the regulations from regulars here... and have tried to impart the same enthusiasm amongst my colleagues.
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    Ah but, MH, you are now one of the regulars. Mine's a Hole Hearted please. ?
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    Did someone mention house badger.....


    I’ll have a pint of doombar
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    Lisa Miles:




    John Peckham:

    I am not sure about chicken and eggs and the 3 great un-answered questions such as how does the man who drives the snow plow get to work in the morning, how much does a London cab driver really earn and but how do you know the light in the fridge goes out when the door is shut ( I could probably answer that one by the use of one of my stable of clamp meters).





    The snow plough man walks to work. Snowflake ?

    No idea how much a London cab driver earns but I can ask a neighbour of mine next time I see him as he is a London cabbie... ?

    Yes the fridge light does go out. I have GoPro footage to prove it.... ?


    Oh and the chicken and egg thing then it's definitely the egg as that would have borne the first mutated embryo that would then become the first chicken. ? ? ?


     

     




    But was that egg a Hen's egg?


    Surely there must have been numerous "newly-mutated" chickens born at a similar time? What did their eggs look like? I guess the answer is that it's not as simple as just one mutation caused the lizard to become a chicken, but a slow movement of an evolutionary branch towards chickens and its close relatives?


    But again, at what point did the hen's egg come into existence ... before the chicken, or afterwards?

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    Well Graham I am an"Egg Firsty" meeself but I would just call it an egg (A lizard type thingy laid it) not a hens egg (because that would need a chikeney/heney type thingy to lay it). Darwinism at its simplest for me (more complicated and it goes right over my head) .


    Once upon a time there were only lizards.

    Some of them started to become chickenl-like but still retained their lizardship.

    Then more chicken-like but still retaining lizardship.

    Then one day attaing chickenship and losing lizardship but  still being lizard-like.

    Then eventually becomming completely chicken-like and not lizard like at all.

    Naturally this took a year or two to occour though.


    The most difficult question in the world to answer is "what is The most difficult question in the world to answer?"

    and the answer to that question is .............. The question what is The most difficult question in the world to answer

    So, the answer is the question itself and knowing that makes it easy therefore it ceases to be The most difficult question in the world to answer.


    Shroedinger and that blooming cat does not lookquite as difficult now.
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    Chicken and egg?: it is surprising how many think, that a cockerel is required for a chicken to lay eggs.


    Jaymack
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    Throughout the whole animal kingdom including man then the female is probably more important than the male.

    Take heart though us chaps.

    A chicken/hen may lay an egg without a cockrill being involved but a cockrill was involved for the egg layer to exist in the first place.

    We all have our place in the order of things.

    Some treat men more important than women and others treat them vice versa.

    Some treat humans more important than other species and again vice versa.

    In reality we all move forward together or conversely stumble into extinction together.

    Am I more important than an ape, a hedgehog, a dog or a worm? No not really in the scheme of things!


    Now I find myself wondering which animal laid the egg that a lizard hatched from!

    ?
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    Ebee


    You want to stop thinking and get out a bit more mate! I find a nice glass of red puts my thinking function in to standby mode.
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    To sum up what eebee seems to be saying, twas not the hen nor the egg that came first, but the Cockerel.........Go on that Cockerel.......


    Have I summed it up correctly? (sorry eebee I have deliberately and completely misinterpreted what you were saying)


    Kind Regards


    Tatty ;-)

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    Sorry Tatty no,

    `twas a lizard that laid an egg and a chicken hatched out


    Mr Kenyon complicated it by stating a hens egg rather than just an egg.

    Mr Peckham accused me of thinking. I have not had a rational thought since 1976 (`twas a Thursday afternnon in March that year , not sure of the exact date or even what the thought actually was)

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