Concensus required on foamy bits or lack thereoff, Vote Here!!!!!

[Genome]

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[Tim Auton]

[nothing but the subject line]

wtf has this got to do with electronics design?

Anyway, I like foamy bits.


Tim

 

[John Fields]

I can't vote there; I'd have to vote here...

 

[Mike]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 18:42:41 -0000, Genome wrote:

I tried to vote for one of those, but my vote came out as "Pat Buchanan,"
and before I could change it, Katherine Harris certified it.

-- Mike --

 

[Fred Abse]

[nothing but the subject line]

wtf has this got to do with electronics design?

Anyway, I like foamy bits.

My foamy bits were shot off in the war.

 

[Bill Sloman]

You need the Haffmans BV cling meter

http://www.haffmans.nl/

see under products, quality control instrumentation, for the foam
stability meter. When the idle burghers in Marketing get around to
up-date the web site, it will also include the cling meter, which
measures how much of that foam has stuck to the side of the glass
during the collapse.

Haffmans is making and selling the machine - my colleague was after me
yesterday for advice about what we'd planned to do about a calibration
glass with stable and predictable reflectivity - but not, as yet, on a
large scale.

If you do buy one, insist on a coloured version of the standard glass
- with a clear glass, some of the light gets coupled into the walls of
the glass, to come out at unexpected place, marginally degrading the
quality of the reflectance signal.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

[nothing but the subject line]

wtf has this got to do with electronics design?

Anyway, I like foamy bits.

My foamy bits were shot off in the war.

OUCH! ;-)

 

[Damien]

If you have a problem with foamy bits, you really should see a doctor.

 

[Winfield Hill]

Bill Sloman wrote...

You need the Haffmans BV cling meter
http://www.haffmans.nl/

ROFLOL.

Very funny, but then I can see you're serious, e.g., NIBEM-T
Foam Stability Tester, http://www.haffmans.nl/products/q_04.htm

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com

 

[Bill Sloman]

Bill Sloman wrote...

ROFLOL.

Very funny, but then I can see you're serious, e.g., NIBEM-T
Foam Stability Tester, http://www.haffmans.nl/products/q_04.htm

I didn't actually find out that Genome was fussed about the foamy bits
on a scouring pad until after I'd posted this.

The Haffmans foam measuring gear is really aimed at ephemeral foams,
rather than rigid foams.

But - granting Genome's posting history - it was not unreasonable to
assume that the foamy bits he was interested in were on the tops of
beers.

Australians do try to pour their beer with as little foam as possible,
because that maximises the volume of beer in the glass, but some foam
is unavoidable, and he doesn't sound like a bubble-bath sort of
person.

 

[Damien]

Australians do try to pour their beer with as little foam as possible,
because that maximises the volume of beer in the glass, but some foam
is unavoidable, and he doesn't sound like a bubble-bath sort of
person.

Too bloody right, mate! We're paying for BEER, not bloody foam!



Damien

 

[Winfield Hill]

Bill Sloman wrote...

Australians do try to pour their beer with as little foam as
possible, because that maximises the volume of beer in the glass...

We generally refrigerate the beer: the colder the better, which
greatly reduces the foaming action. Pouring into a ice-cold glass
helps as well - I keep beer glasses in the freezer for this purpose;
frosty beer truly has a better impact. 'Course I enjoy my Guinness
warm... even if www.guinness.com won't let me into their website,
presumably because they promote responsible drinking. Hah, Hah!!

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com

 

[Tony Williams]

........................................... 'Course I
enjoy my Guinness warm... even if www.guinness.com won't let me
into their website, presumably because they promote responsible
drinking. Hah, Hah!!

The foam on the top of a Guinness is so stable that you
can write on it with a felt-tip pen. Years ago in pubs,
if you had to go to the toilet, there was a brief fashion
to write on the foam something like. " MINE, I've spit in it".

It was only brief, because when they came back they soon
started to find the words "So have I" added on.

 

[Bill Sloman]

If you have a problem with foamy bits, you really should see a doctor.

Wouldn't work for me. I only foam at the mouth *after* I've been to
see my doctor (who isn't that bad, but does have irritating habits).

 

[Genome]

Well, it sounds like a few people around here don't wash the dishes....

As I asked....


Company A sells scouring pads for washing up.
Company B sells scouring pads for washing up.

Company A includes a foamy bit on the back of their scouring pads.
Company B does not.

Care to explain why company A is still in business?


Yeah, I know..... you've all got dishwashers. (mechanical or maniacal, I
quite enjoyed that one... it's called the wife)


Foam backed scouring pads do nothing more than produce alarming amounts of
soap suds. Thirty seconds after commencing the washing up the whole street
is full of it and the neigbours are complaining again.

Are we there yet?

Oh, and you do the greasy stuff last.

DNA

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Bill Sloman <[email protected]>
wrote (in <[email protected]>) about
'Concensus required on foamy bits or lack thereoff, Vote Here!!!!!', on
Mon, 10 Nov 2003:

I only foam at the mouth *after* I've been to see
my doctor (who isn't that bad, but does have irritating habits).

He's a monk who is into mortification?

 

[John Woodgate]

(in <KCLrb.332$W%[email protected]>) about 'Concensus
required on foamy bits or lack thereoff, Vote Here!!!!!', on Mon, 10 Nov
2003:

Foam backed scouring pads do nothing more than produce alarming amounts
of soap suds. Thirty seconds after commencing the washing up the whole
street is full of it and the neigbours are complaining again.

Stop using Fairy Liquid and switch to the homeopathic version - Tesco
Value Liquid. Diluted 100+ times compared with the Fairy stuff, but
perfectly adequate and you don't get tons of useless foam. Often on sale
at 14 p/litre. I used to dilute it again, 2:1, and it's still quite OK.

 

[Jeff]

Bill Sloman wrote...

We generally refrigerate the beer: the colder the better, which
greatly reduces the foaming action. Pouring into a ice-cold glass
helps as well - I keep beer glasses in the freezer for this purpose;
frosty beer truly has a better impact.

You need freezable mugs! Basically a mug with a liner inside, with the space
in-between filled with water that gets frozen when you put it in the
freezer. Lasts much longer then a chilled glass.

'Course I enjoy my Guinness
warm... even if www.guinness.com won't let me into their website,
presumably because they promote responsible drinking. Hah, Hah!!

Hey, as long as you don't spill it, drop it, leave behind a half a bottle of
beer or otherwise do any other wasteful thing to beer or alcohol (commonly
called beer or alcohol crimes), it's responsible drinking ;-)

 

[Keith R. Williams]

You need freezable mugs! Basically a mug with a liner inside, with the space
in-between filled with water that gets frozen when you put it in the
freezer. Lasts much longer then a chilled glass.


Hey, as long as you don't spill it, drop it, leave behind a half a bottle of
beer or otherwise do any other wasteful thing to beer or alcohol (commonly
called beer or alcohol crimes), it's responsible drinking ;-)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^'
alcohol abuse

 

[Genome]

Stop using Fairy Liquid and switch to the homeopathic version - Tesco
Value Liquid. Diluted 100+ times compared with the Fairy stuff, but
perfectly adequate and you don't get tons of useless foam. Often on sale
at 14 p/litre. I used to dilute it again, 2:1, and it's still quite OK.

You might have meant homeotrophic?

Obviously, although you 'think' it's OK, you don't have to wash it up again
after you have washed it up.

Surprisingly you can achieve the required dilution factor 'in the sink'.

DNA