I read somewhere that one of the reasons the (essentially uneducated) Thomas Edison hated Nikola Tesla (who was a very well educated man) was that Edison simply could not understand how AC voltage could possibly deliver power to a load. How could it, when every "push" was followed by a matching "pull"? Surely any power delivered during the "push" would be removed during the "pull"? 😀
Ironically, it was Tesla who later lost his grip on reality sufficiently to ignore the inverse square law*, and make repeated (and inevitably futile) efforts to supply free power to everyone on the planet...power which was never free in the first place, because it was in being paid for by Tesla's financial backers!
*Actually radiation from a dipole (radio waves) doesn't quite follow the inverse square law, but at sufficiently large distances from the antenna, it's close enough for our purposes here. Also ironically, Edison's groundless suspicion about AC power is actually correct when we're talking about purely reactive loads - but Edison did not have the education to be capable of understanding such things as resistive and reactive loads.
-Gnobuddy
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annihilated!
Haha I missed that in linked a cover of the original by Liverpudlian band Carcass. (Its been removed from YT, various covers exist, from Mexico and the US I think)
It's on the album Symphonies of Sickness I work somewhere heavily associated with both Edison and Westinghouse...without Tesla we would be somewhere different or further behind than we are now. Nevertheless, the genius often loses the plot - and Tesla certainly did. Arguably Edison began with a number of loose screws, Tesla lost them over time!
It has always seemed to me that Tesla = poor but intellectual, Edison = rich entrepreneur, comparatively a savage.
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Never heard of that. Ullage was generally served to dogs in ash trays when I were younger.
Never seen that. No idea where you used to go drinking but my experience has been rim fill for southern beers and line fill for northern beers with a head on them. I like a handle, sadly hard to find unless you take your own.
Again not my experience. Northerners will spurn a pub that doesn't give a good head on the beer. But good Euro lagers will hold a head an inch or more above the glass
Special Brew was originally called elephant beer and then deemed too strong for euro tastes so reformulated and Special brew came about. Made in Northampton. I grew up with the smell of mashing barley blowing over the town.
I hear tennents super mixed with diamond white as a snakebite will wipe out a hardened wino!
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Here are your UK pint rights:
- You're entitled to a pint filled to the brim, or the line if your glass has one.
- You should get at least 95% liquid.
- If you don't want up to 5% to be head, you can ask for a top-up.
Bill,
From my little experience in European travel, I can attest that the Dutch at least, tend to pour a half pint, or more like a 200ml glass, half full, with a good 1" or more head, and then level off to the top of the glass. But the bar wenches have nice glass cleaning technique! You have to make special request for a big beer if you want a pint. Perhaps this is to do with their proximity to the Belgians or Germans?
Jeez Diamon White...I havent seen that stuff in years! The preserve of park benchers a decade or more ago!
From my little experience in European travel, I can attest that the Dutch at least, tend to pour a half pint, or more like a 200ml glass, half full, with a good 1" or more head, and then level off to the top of the glass. But the bar wenches have nice glass cleaning technique! You have to make special request for a big beer if you want a pint. Perhaps this is to do with their proximity to the Belgians or Germans?
Jeez Diamon White...I havent seen that stuff in years! The preserve of park benchers a decade or more ago!
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If a dash of blackcurrant cordial was added to an equal mix of lager and cider, it was known as a "Snakebite & Black". The kickstarter of choice for the ladies in the Glasgow area during the 70s, when I was deejaying in pubs, was 'Cider & Babycham'.
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I spent most my teens drinking snake bite and black in the mosh pit! Surrounded by Goths, drinking the same and swaying about to Type O Negative
After a couple of years spent discovering that it smelled the same when regurgitated, I grew out of that!
After a couple of years spent discovering that it smelled the same when regurgitated, I grew out of that!
I've been to pubs in Germany (one wonderfully called the beer academy) where the lagers took as long to pour as a good guiness. I was advised to order the next round whilst starting on the current one.
I'll be honest I like pubs where the barrel is behind the bar and delivered by gravity when in UK. But these are few and far between.
Reading beer festival would have been next weekend 🙁
I'll be honest I like pubs where the barrel is behind the bar and delivered by gravity when in UK. But these are few and far between.
Reading beer festival would have been next weekend 🙁
All the concerts here were straight edge, unfortunately I was already over 30 so I was considered a poser or worse.
I've known girls who used to drink that. But worse was 'Guiness and Black'.
Getting flashbacks now to the days of lager and lime and lager tops being ordered in pubs.
Oh this was my local hang out Rock pub, not a concert.
Never went to a festival, and most the concerts I went to were in SU bars, big venues If I recall, either didnt serve or it wssnt worth losing your place for!
Guinness ad black is sacrilege! And I'm not even irish!
Never went to a festival, and most the concerts I went to were in SU bars, big venues If I recall, either didnt serve or it wssnt worth losing your place for!
Guinness ad black is sacrilege! And I'm not even irish!
Still get punters ordering lager tops up here.
(A lager top is a large splash of lemonade by the way.)
What a waste of good beer!
(A lager top is a large splash of lemonade by the way.)
What a waste of good beer!
One of the girls who drank Guiness and black was prop for the university womens rugby team. You did not dare tell her she was wrong!
As a southerner living in Manchester (by way of Anglesey!) I would ask for my beer with no head. Some would get angry, some would get confused (loosen or remove the aerator, dummy!) and some knew their job. But worse are "baristas" who can't make a cappuccino without adding chocolate. Even when asked not to.