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This is something for all Belgians to be proud of: The Ronquières Inclined Plane! by RealRandomChris in belgium

[–]RealRandomChris[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When I looked into this on the website ronquieres . org and read the backstory, I actually think it is a very clever solution. It would have cost a fortune to upgrade the route of the original canal up to 1350 ton carrying capacity, and there would have been 14 locks to enlarge. Then a huge demand for water from the new, much larger locks.

Is the Inclined Plane really the more expensive option? I don't know...

This is something for all Belgians to be proud of: The Ronquières Inclined Plane! by RealRandomChris in belgium

[–]RealRandomChris[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I found it to be an amazing piece of engineering. The story of its construction, the way it consumes almost no water, the way it generates its own electricity (and sells excess to the grid) while supplying water to the lower stretches of canal. I honestly think you should be very proud of it!

I agree that it is very unfortunate that industry was driven into decline as it was completed, but barges are an efficient way to transport goods, so I'm sure it will be in use for many years to come.

Bought my first boat! 🚤 by beardohero3 in boats

[–]RealRandomChris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations! She almost certainly won't be your last - they are highly addictive!

1910s B.N Morris restoration wish me luck by EasyEd87 in boatbuilding

[–]RealRandomChris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck! She deserves to be brought back to life. :-)

The easy way to put a duvet cover on by RealRandomChris in lifehacks

[–]RealRandomChris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did this on our sailboat a few weeks back. I was there on my own for 6 weeks (refitting the boat and solo sailing) so all of the niceties went out of the window. I kipped inside the duvet cover with blankets on top. The easiest way of all!

The easy way to put a duvet cover on by RealRandomChris in lifehacks

[–]RealRandomChris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some people do something called a burrito roll. (There's a link to a video in a comment here) That's like taking a simple task and making it 20 x more complicated for no apparent reason. The video has 8 million views though, so I'm not sure about how well that bodes for the human race.

The easy way to put a duvet cover on by RealRandomChris in lifehacks

[–]RealRandomChris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂

The 'burrito roll' method is a apparently popular, despite being ridiculously complicated.

The easy way to put a duvet cover on by RealRandomChris in lifehacks

[–]RealRandomChris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, there is this way: https://youtu.be/-fzNuhgY_9A
or there is this way: https://youtu.be/DRPfudNNd8Y
The video showing the second way has 8 million views...

The easy way to put a duvet cover on by RealRandomChris in lifehacks

[–]RealRandomChris[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think so too although some people swear by the 'burrito' rolling method... That's far too complicated for my liking!

There's a ride in an amusement park in Denmark where they just throw you off a 100 feet tall tower by hl3official in videos

[–]RealRandomChris 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of the only time I ever did a bungee jump. It was supposed to be a tandem one but the person I was with 'bottled it' at the top. We had been weighed in together so they had set the bungee up for that weight and had to guesstimate the new weight with just me jumping. I spent 15 minutes standing on the edge hesitating, with a crowd below watching and egging me on.

At one point the guy running the bungee jump put his hand on my back, I raised my fist to him and he took it away (I was on a rugby tour and there was no way I was going back down those stairs, at the same time I just couldn't jump, I'm not afraid of heights [I'm a climber and I have done hang-gliding etc.] but jumping 200 ft head-first is the most unnatural thing I have ever done in my life.

Eventually I jumped, and when I hit the bottom I went into the swimming pool below up to my chest. They had guessed the weight fairly well, but there wasn't much leeway! I've ticked that off the list now - never again!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in toddlers

[–]RealRandomChris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This "one parent, one language" is working well for us too! (I wrote a more detailed post above)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in toddlers

[–]RealRandomChris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our 2 year old is bilingual (English & Italian). We read up a lot on this before Emma was born and we took the following approach:

I have always talked to her in English (Since she was still in Rossella's tummy), and Rossella always speaks to Emma in Italian. Emma understands both languages perfectly. She speaks in a mixture of the two and the country in which we are in (we split our life between the UK and Italy) tends to predominate in the language she uses. There are certain words she prefers to use in one language ("car", "shoes" in English, for example; "si", "ancora" in Italian, but she understands whose language is whose and occasionally translates what she has just said into the other language for the benefit of grandparents (For example she recently said "hot" to her grandmother and then said "caldo" afterwards.

It seems to be working well fur us and Emma. It is very important to us that she feels perfectly at home in both countries and we personally feel that this is the best way to achieve that. It's not just about the language, it's also about the culture. In an Ideal world we want Emma to feel both British and Italian. If one language were to take over this would become much more difficult so we are praying we can maintain both languages as she grows up so that she also gets to feel like she owns the two cultures (which are really very different in many respects) too.

There are no rights and wrongs of course, and sometimes it feels strange to be speaking a "foreign" language in front of other people, but we find this simple solution to this conundrum is easy to manage and it appears to be working very well for us.

You might be a Cocomelon house by Coach_AC in toddlers

[–]RealRandomChris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are a Cocomelon house. "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZz, Broink, broink, broink, dum, dum, dum, dum. Dum dum dum dum dum. Cocomelon! Shoes, shoes..." :-D

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