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How to Celebrate Mardi Gras During Covid: Turn Your House Into a Parade Float

In New Orleans, traditional parades are canceled this year, so people are creating ‘house floats’ and throwing beads at their neighbors; ‘I’ve always wished for a locals’ Mardi Gras’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-cel ... 1611343321

Ice cubes apparently don't melt when you microwave them - at least, not any faster than they would otherwise.

https://www.thekitchn.com/rice-microwave-ice-cube-trick-23128601

Charlie O. wrote:Ice cubes apparently don't melt when you microwave them - at least, not any faster than they would otherwise.

https://www.thekitchn.com/rice-microwave-ice-cube-trick-23128601

I don't get it. How does the rice steam if it's not getting any water from the ice cube? Sublimation?
What is the point of the ice cube if nothing happens to it?

I want answers Mr O!

Samoan wrote:

Minnie the Minx wrote:Frogs live in the Alps. They hibernate during winter and then in Spring they jump down the mountain snow to melted ponds where they partake in a huge orgy!

There was such a shortfall in female frogs one year over here, the males were trying to cop off with the toes of those green Hunter wellington boots that their owners had left outdoors

Ach , we've all done it.

Rorschach wrote:

Charlie O. wrote:Ice cubes apparently don't melt when you microwave them - at least, not any faster than they would otherwise.

https://www.thekitchn.com/rice-microwave-ice-cube-trick-23128601

I don't get it. How does the rice steam if it's not getting any water from the ice cube? Sublimation?
What is the point of the ice cube if nothing happens to it?

I want answers Mr O!

Mr O is currently unavailable - will I do?

I think the answer is that the microwave lifts the temperature so quickly that the ice does not melt so much as vaporize, ie turn into water vapour, which is water droplets suspended in steam, and then into steam itself.

Rayge wrote:
Mr O is currently unavailable - will I do?

I think the answer is that the microwave lifts the temperature so quickly that the ice does not melt so much as vaporise, ie turn into water vapour, which is water droplets suspended in steam, and then into steam itself.

Of course you'll do, Ray!

If the ice turns directly into vapour then that is sublimation, as I'd suggested. I'm surprised that can happen in a domestic microwave but I'm no physicist.
It also means that the ice cube will shrink and the explanation given in the article is tosh.

I think I'll have to investigate further...

Rorschach wrote:

Rayge wrote:
Mr O is currently unavailable - will I do?

I think the answer is that the microwave lifts the temperature so quickly that the ice does not melt so much as vaporise, ie turn into water vapour, which is water droplets suspended in steam, and then into steam itself.

Of course you'll do, Ray!

If the ice turns directly into vapour then that is sublimation, as I'd suggested. I'm surprised that can happen in a domestic microwave but I'm no physicist.
It also means that the ice cube will shrink and the explanation given in the article is tosh.

I think I'll have to investigate further...

Do let me know what you find out...

That there is a word suspire that means either to sigh or utter with a sigh...to yearn....or to breathe.

Rayge wrote:Do let me know what you find out...

I will, but these things are so complicated. For example, people can't seem to even agree on the differences between steam and water vapour.

My brother knows his physics and I should ask him. However, he's not good at explaining to non-physicsts and is always rude to me for not getting it first time. So he can fuck off.

Rorschach wrote:

Rayge wrote:Do let me know what you find out...

I will, but these things are so complicated. For example, people can't seem to even agree on the differences between steam and water vapour.

My brother knows his physics and I should ask him. However, he's not good at explaining to non-physicsts and is always rude to me for not getting it first time. So he can fuck off.

It certainly sounds like he needs to sharpen up his inter-social skills, I agree.

Poison ivy is a member of the cashew and pistachio family (Anacardiaceae).

Were they in the Cramps as well?

No, but they're frequently mistaken for these guys:

There’s not a single word that rhymes with ‘wasp’

Minnie the Minx wrote:There’s not a single word that rhymes with ‘wasp’

If you're trying to work it into a poem, you could break up the word "hospital"...

Charlie O. wrote:

Minnie the Minx wrote:There’s not a single word that rhymes with ‘wasp’

If you're trying to work it into a poem...

Minnie the Minx wrote:There’s not a single word that rhymes with ‘wasp’

I know what that wasp'll do
He'll sing some rock, and some gospel too.

Rorschach wrote:

Minnie the Minx wrote:There’s not a single word that rhymes with ‘wasp’

I know what that wasp'll do
He'll sing some rock, and some gospel too.

If you get stung by that wasp it'll
Result in a trip to the hospital

Madness keyboard player, Mike Garson was born in Edinburgh.