Discussion:
Dihydrogen Monoxide
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EcoActiv
2006-12-22 12:13:56 UTC
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This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your opportunity
to sign a petition and make your protest.

ACT NOW!!

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html

More info here:-

http://www.dhmo.org/
Will Chapman
2006-12-22 13:42:06 UTC
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Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your opportunity
to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
I really feel obliged to point out that there are very
high concentrations of dihydrogen oxide in beer (but less
in whisky). So by signing this petition you might increase
the chances of you becoming an alcoholic or at least being
a lot thirstier.

Cheers

Will Chapman
nb I thought it was December not April.
Post by EcoActiv
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
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PC Paul
2006-12-22 18:43:20 UTC
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Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your
opportunity to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
That's nothing. Hydroxyl Acid is just as widespread and is actually really
nasty, but pretty much unregulated.
Allan Jones
2006-12-22 19:05:01 UTC
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Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your opportunity
to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
More interesting reading here. Much of it appears to be about a liquid that
is very similar to this.

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/anmlies.html

Allan
Billy H
2006-12-23 16:04:15 UTC
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Post by Allan Jones
Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your
opportunity to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
More interesting reading here. Much of it appears to be about a liquid
that is very similar to this.
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/anmlies.html
I heard this stuff causes a huge change to dry things. Not an irreversible
change but a change none the less. One form of protection is a thing with a
telescopic handle and a branching network of thin rods that have some
material spread over them.

The Indians do a dance to bring it and the navvies curse it when it falls
form the sky. Noah was lucky for he saw it coming.


On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
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Billy H
Mike Stevens
2006-12-23 16:30:22 UTC
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Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
A Hindu gentleman called Peram bu Lator.
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Billy H
2006-12-23 18:06:48 UTC
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Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
A Hindu gentleman called Peram bu Lator.
I'm enlightened, thanks ;o)

P.S. check this out...

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SaveOurWaterways/
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Billy H
Keith W
2006-12-23 19:39:56 UTC
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Post by Mike Stevens
Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
A Hindu gentleman called Peram bu Lator.
Although his brother - See Ewe - always maintained that he stole the idea
from him!

Keith
8-)
Adrian Stott
2006-12-26 12:20:59 UTC
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Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
Isn't that something to do with The Archers?

Adrian


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Billy H
2006-12-28 17:46:17 UTC
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Post by Adrian Stott
Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
Isn't that something to do with The Archers?
Possibly, but I'm thinking that would be more in the class of 'four wheel
drive' perambulators.

Or do you know something I don't?

Did BBC Radio 4 invent the perambulator?
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Billy H
Adrian Stott
2006-12-29 12:40:03 UTC
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Post by Billy H
Post by Adrian Stott
Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
Isn't that something to do with The Archers?
Possibly, but I'm thinking that would be more in the class of 'four wheel
drive' perambulators.
Well, I guess if I were going to cross a river drily without a boat, I
might want 4-wheel drive.
Post by Billy H
Or do you know something I don't?
<restrains self>
Post by Billy H
Did BBC Radio 4 invent the perambulator?
Ah, saving the difficult one for the end, I see.

Hmm. That might make it the father of the ambulator.

Adrian


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Canaldrifter
2006-12-29 14:11:44 UTC
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Post by Adrian Stott
Post by Billy H
Post by Adrian Stott
Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
Isn't that something to do with The Archers?
Possibly, but I'm thinking that would be more in the class of 'four wheel
drive' perambulators.
Well, I guess if I were going to cross a river drily without a boat, I
might want 4-wheel drive.
Post by Billy H
Or do you know something I don't?
<restrains self>
Post by Billy H
Did BBC Radio 4 invent the perambulator?
Ah, saving the difficult one for the end, I see.
Hmm. That might make it the father of the ambulator.
... and the grandfather of the postambulator??

Tony H
Jim Hawkins
2006-12-31 18:33:41 UTC
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Post by Canaldrifter
Post by Adrian Stott
Post by Billy H
Post by Adrian Stott
Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
Isn't that something to do with The Archers?
Possibly, but I'm thinking that would be more in the class of 'four wheel
drive' perambulators.
Well, I guess if I were going to cross a river drily without a boat, I
might want 4-wheel drive.
Post by Billy H
Or do you know something I don't?
<restrains self>
Post by Billy H
Did BBC Radio 4 invent the perambulator?
Ah, saving the difficult one for the end, I see.
Hmm. That might make it the father of the ambulator.
... and the grandfather of the postambulator??
Tony H
While on the subject of ambulation, why are ambulances so called ?
Since they intended to avoid people having to walk, should they not
be called 'anambulances' or 'antiambulances' ?

Jim Hawkins
Ron Jones
2006-12-31 20:04:58 UTC
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Post by Canaldrifter
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:46:17 -0000, "Billy H"
Post by Billy H
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:04:15 -0000, "Billy H"
Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the
perambulator?
Isn't that something to do with The Archers?
Possibly, but I'm thinking that would be more in the class of 'four wheel
drive' perambulators.
Well, I guess if I were going to cross a river drily without a
boat, I might want 4-wheel drive.
Post by Billy H
Or do you know something I don't?
<restrains self>
Post by Billy H
Did BBC Radio 4 invent the perambulator?
Ah, saving the difficult one for the end, I see.
Hmm. That might make it the father of the ambulator.
... and the grandfather of the postambulator??
Tony H
While on the subject of ambulation, why are ambulances so called ?
Since they intended to avoid people having to walk, should they not
be called 'anambulances' or 'antiambulances' ?
The old Wiki says "Perhaps the first ambulances, in the sense of a vehicle
built for and dedicated to the transport of injured or ill persons to a
treatment center, were the ambulance volantes designed by Dominique Jean
Larrey (1766-1842), Napoleon Bonaparte's chief physician"
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Don Aitken
2006-12-31 22:21:22 UTC
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Post by Ron Jones
Post by Jim Hawkins
While on the subject of ambulation, why are ambulances so called ?
Since they intended to avoid people having to walk, should they not
be called 'anambulances' or 'antiambulances' ?
The old Wiki says "Perhaps the first ambulances, in the sense of a vehicle
built for and dedicated to the transport of injured or ill persons to a
treatment center, were the ambulance volantes designed by Dominique Jean
Larrey (1766-1842), Napoleon Bonaparte's chief physician"
I think the original meaning of "ambulance" was a military medical
unit which went to the patients, rather than treating them at a fixed
place. The name was then transferred to the vehicles from which they
operated. Presumably, before they had vehicles, they ambulated.
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Don Aitken
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Canaldrifter
2007-01-01 14:17:03 UTC
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Post by Don Aitken
Post by Ron Jones
Post by Jim Hawkins
While on the subject of ambulation, why are ambulances so called ?
Since they intended to avoid people having to walk, should they not
be called 'anambulances' or 'antiambulances' ?
The old Wiki says "Perhaps the first ambulances, in the sense of a vehicle
built for and dedicated to the transport of injured or ill persons to a
treatment center, were the ambulance volantes designed by Dominique Jean
Larrey (1766-1842), Napoleon Bonaparte's chief physician"
I think the original meaning of "ambulance" was a military medical
unit which went to the patients, rather than treating them at a fixed
place. The name was then transferred to the vehicles from which they
operated. Presumably, before they had vehicles, they ambulated.
--
Don Aitken
Mail to the From: address is not read.
To email me, substitute "clara.co.uk" for "freeuk.com"
Cody's 'Flying Cathedral' biplane was converted into an aerial
ambulance for use in WW1. It carried surgeons into the front line, so
yes, I can see the medical 'ambulant' connection.

The aircraft had previously been used as the first ever sea-plane. It
was float tested on Eelmore Flash, on the Basingstoke Canal, just at
the end of what is now Farnborough airfield runway.

A picture exists, with Sam Cody standing on a wing.

Just thought you'd like to know that.....

Tony H
(with Basy hat on)
Billy H
2007-01-01 15:27:24 UTC
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Post by Jim Hawkins
Post by Canaldrifter
Post by Adrian Stott
Post by Billy H
Post by Adrian Stott
Post by Billy H
On a totally different note, I wonder who invented the perambulator?
Isn't that something to do with The Archers?
Possibly, but I'm thinking that would be more in the class of 'four wheel
drive' perambulators.
Well, I guess if I were going to cross a river drily without a boat, I
might want 4-wheel drive.
Post by Billy H
Or do you know something I don't?
<restrains self>
Post by Billy H
Did BBC Radio 4 invent the perambulator?
Ah, saving the difficult one for the end, I see.
Hmm. That might make it the father of the ambulator.
... and the grandfather of the postambulator??
Tony H
While on the subject of ambulation, why are ambulances so called ?
Since they intended to avoid people having to walk, should they not
be called 'anambulances' or 'antiambulances' ?
Jim Hawkins
Isn't the meaning of the Latin root of 'ambulance' somewhere close to
'movement' or 'to move' so an ambulance is something that 'moves' someone,
regardless of the mode, by foot, by ship by horse and cart etc..

Please excuse me I've got a fuzzy head, New Year's day and all, so my
expression may be a bit more hard toi understand than it normally is. I
assure you I am English, at least the label said I was last time I looked.


Happy New Year all ;o) may the flowers of spring make your whole year smell
of roses.
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I Am Not A Lawyer.
Nonetheless,
I do not mind sending you a reciept if you put a cheque in the post...
Brimstone
2007-01-01 15:37:38 UTC
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Post by Billy H
Isn't the meaning of the Latin root of 'ambulance' somewhere close to
'movement' or 'to move' so an ambulance is something that 'moves'
someone, regardless of the mode, by foot, by ship by horse and cart
etc..
Here's some info.

http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/102/?letter=A&spage=6
Billy H
2007-01-01 15:58:55 UTC
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Post by Brimstone
Post by Billy H
Isn't the meaning of the Latin root of 'ambulance' somewhere close to
'movement' or 'to move' so an ambulance is something that 'moves'
someone, regardless of the mode, by foot, by ship by horse and cart
etc..
Here's some info.
http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/102/?letter=A&spage=6
ahhh, so it is to walk then, I was stretching my memory back to the *sparse* Latin I did study all those years ago.

It is one of those words that I've wondered on many times in the past...

My dictionary's etymology on the word 'Ambulance':


(C19: from French, based on (hopital) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ambulare to walk)

circumflex on the o in (hopital) and flat bar over second a in ambulare.


Doesn't make it much clearer.
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Billy H
David Long
2007-01-01 16:57:43 UTC
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Post by Billy H
 
Post by Brimstone
Post by Billy H
Isn't the meaning of the Latin root of 'ambulance' somewhere close to
'movement' or 'to move' so an ambulance  is something that 'moves'
someone, regardless of the mode, by foot, by ship by horse and cart
etc..
Here's some info.
http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/102/?letter=A&spage=6
 
ahhh, so it is to walk then,
Well, it is one meaning. But how many means of moving around are there?
Ambulo is a form of the verb ambio, which is formed from the preposition
amb (around, round about) and the intransitive verb ire (go, walk). So
it means simply to move around, or to and fro.
Post by Billy H
I was stretching my memory back to the *sparse*
Latin I did study all those years ago.
 
It's served you well. You're original thoughts were correct - it's the
mobility of the service which is significant. I suppose we've come full
circle now - with our ambulances carrying paramedics who have equipment
and expertise to deal with patients on site, rather than simply picking
them up and rushing them off to a hospital. We also have fast-response
paramedics in cars or on motor bikes who don't actually take anyone
anywhere, but their vehicles are still labelled as Ambulances.
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Billy H
2007-01-01 16:02:33 UTC
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Post by Brimstone
Post by Billy H
Isn't the meaning of the Latin root of 'ambulance' somewhere close to
'movement' or 'to move' so an ambulance is something that 'moves'
someone, regardless of the mode, by foot, by ship by horse and cart
etc..
Here's some info.
http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/102/?letter=A&spage=6
ahhh, so it is to walk then, I was stretching my memory back to the *sparse* Latin I did study all those years ago.

It is one of those words that I've wondered on many times in the past...

My dictionary's etymology on the word 'Ambulance':


(C19: from French, based on (hopital) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ambulare to walk)

circumflex on the o in (hopital) and flat bar over second a in ambulare.


Doesn't make it much clearer.

Perambulate has;

(C16: from Latin perambulare to traverse, from per- through + ambulare to walk)

So the perambulator is earlier than the ambulance.

Latin is funny in so far as the concepts are applied in a developing and dynamic language, much of modern day language uses concepts based on mechanisations later invented.


When was the first paint brush used???
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Billy H
Phil Kempster
2007-01-01 21:04:47 UTC
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Post by Billy H
Post by Brimstone
Post by Billy H
Isn't the meaning of the Latin root of 'ambulance' somewhere close to
'movement' or 'to move' so an ambulance is something that 'moves'
someone, regardless of the mode, by foot, by ship by horse and cart
etc..
Here's some info.
http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/102/?letter=A&spage=6
ahhh, so it is to walk then, I was stretching my memory back to the *sparse* Latin I did study all those years ago.
<snip>
Post by Billy H
When was the first paint brush used???
A very long time ago. It would have been a stalk with the end crushed
to separate the plant fibres. And probably they'd have painted with a
slurry of powdered rock!

Some of the artists in this country (Oz) still use brushes like that!

When could you first buy tins of paint?

When did the studio apprentice lose his job because the artist could
buy ready-made paints?

And what is the evolutionary advantage of being able to wink?
Phil

Bernardo Gui
2006-12-23 21:45:41 UTC
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Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your opportunity
to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
Sorry, I won't do anything to help the "green" open-toed-sandal-wearing
wankers like yourself.
Edward Hawkins
2006-12-24 08:39:29 UTC
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Post by Bernardo Gui
Sorry, I won't do anything to help the "green" open-toed-sandal-wearing
wankers like yourself.
You sad little man.

Merry Christmas
Edward
Jeroen Wenting
2006-12-24 11:13:45 UTC
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Post by Bernardo Gui
Sorry, I won't do anything to help the "green" open-toed-sandal-wearing
wankers like yourself.
They're quite comfortable wear, as long as you don't wear them with wool
socks.
Bernardo Gui
2006-12-26 13:14:57 UTC
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Post by EcoActiv
This substance is widely used in transport and many other polluting
industries, many people think it should be banned. Here's your opportunity
to sign a petition and make your protest.
ACT NOW!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/10201.html
More info here:-
http://www.dhmo.org/
Go fuck yourself.
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