Precisely WHY I’ve BEEN asking HOW they work!
All I’ve said is that the explanations given so far just don’t hold water.
I’ve never said that they don’t work.
That depends if you are referring to the GroundARAY or suppositories. Bollocks or Buttocks you might say.
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Sorry FZ, that shows a lack of understanding, the mass is irrelevant. The reason the earth works is not that it’s a mass, but that it’s (effectively… solar wind excepted) an isolated system that integrates all electrical activity within it to a net zero sum.
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And that’s the part of this that CAN’T work!
Even the whole mass of the earth doesn’t work that way (as explained earlier).
Don’t you mean “I can’t understand how that works”.
What a fantastic thread.
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The spirit of enquiry and experimentation is alive in this thread at least!
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Paraphrasing HH: If we want to find out whether it’s bollocks or not we’re just going to have to put it to the testicle
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If it is acting as the system ground, make sure there’s no possibility of a fault condition putting mains voltage on it when you do that…
Yes there’s no room for any cockups.
Am I alone in feeling so annoyed at these scaremongering ‘you may not get X,Y,Z for Christmas’ news items in the press?
Is it really that bloody important? No turkeys, oh dear. Buy chicken, fish, tofu, pork, frozen lamb, beef or avoid meat.
For heaven’s sake we’ve been tackling a pandemic for over 18 months and for once retailers (at least Iceland, Morrison’s) unusually giving workers an odd Bank Holiday off is great.
The lack of over-packaged frivolous Christmas ‘party nibbles’ or items we are too lazy to prepare ourselves (pigs in blankets - just buy sausages and bacon, hardly high cuisine) is actually quite appealing though I suspect it may be the non-festive stuff that will be at issue.
If I’m still around in December I’ll celebrate that and don’t really give a hoot about a potential lack of festive frippery.
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Spend Christmas in France.Christmas eve family meal, Christmas day off, return to work on Boxing day. Christmas is a joyously quite affair without the family for us brits.
I second this, bigger issues to worry about.
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Bah, humbug!
(Edit - not referring to you as Scrooge. It’s just that as soon as you described your Xmas I had a mental image of Alistair Sim as ES!)
I’ll be working 3 days out of 6 over the extended Christmas weekend 
Oh absolutely.
We did have my children and other halves the last Christmas before Covid struck, but it was all the better for the lack of commercial crud available in every shop. Christmas decorations in the village are half a Christmas tree tied to every other telegraph pole with some crepe style bunting.
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So is the UK just a complete chump with all the commercial Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Mothering Sunday, Father’s Day nonsense we seem to be increasingly obliged to be ‘involved with’? Observe any religious needs you have, but the blatant commercialism is awful.
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New thread in the Cell perhaps guys?
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The commercialisation of festivities is simply people trying to make money, just like Chord are doing with their GroundARAY. So that’s back on topic and let’s try to stay there.
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