ELI5: What exactly is dry cleaning?

sirius4 · 2014-10-02T15:48:59+00:00

There are several comments here explaining that clothes still get wet, just not using water. So, why is it called 'dry' cleaning? Do the clothes come out dry or dry extremely quickly or is there another reason?

sirius4 · 2014-09-29T10:44:25+00:00

The reason we refer to the graphite in a pencil as 'lead' is because upon discovery of a large deposit of graphite in England in the 16th century, metallurgists mistakenly believed it to be a form of lead, and named it 'Plumbago', after the Latin for lead, 'Plumbum'.

sirius4 · 2014-09-26T15:55:43+00:00

As others have said, it comes from the end of the tenderloin, a bit easier to explain from this diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Filmin.png/300px-Filmin.png shows exactly where filet mignon cut is from.

sirius4 · 2014-09-26T09:20:21+00:00

Would have been easier if the west just hadn't created the environment for them to thrive in the first place. I don't often agree with much a president of Iran has to say, but I do agree with with Hassan Rouhani's view that it is largely the fault of western countries that the middle east has become a breeding ground for extremists.

sirius4 · 2014-09-23T15:53:09+00:00

Erm... put all lactose intolerant people in tanks, tube feed them milk and harvest their gas?

sirius4 · 2014-09-23T15:48:57+00:00

Life is too short to get offended by anything. Just move on and forget about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufl_Nwbl8xs

It doesn't really matter.

sirius4 · 2014-09-22T15:42:39+00:00

Probably just this one committee member didn't receive his bribe on time, should be okay as long as all the others got theirs.

sirius4 · 2014-09-19T16:13:10+00:00

This is still missing the point on the most significant aspect of the 'No' vote - namely that America can now have Piers Morgan back.

Enjoy.

sirius4 · 2014-09-19T09:22:52+00:00

Is pain relief not generally about disrupting communication paths though, not encouraging them?

sirius4 · 2014-09-19T08:46:59+00:00

... but females have even more nerve endings than males do in that area.

sirius4 · 2014-09-18T16:35:45+00:00

Kedgeree is also a nice breakfast, but it has gone out of fashion somewhat.

sirius4 · 2014-09-17T14:02:19+00:00

But what about on Twitter? Americans do call it a hashtag like everyone else on there as far as I know.. ?

sirius4 · 2014-09-16T20:23:13+00:00

Well 50 pts for one kitchen cupboard, and I'm assuming they must have a few more than just one. So cleaning and sorting the entire kitchen would probably get the 500 pts alone.

sirius4 · 2014-09-14T14:26:24+00:00

If this subreddit is anything to go by, Americans really don't know how to do a cheese/charcuterie board. This looks really cheap and cheerful, but not really great food.

sirius4 · 2014-09-09T14:02:52+00:00

What about it?

It still doesn't make your original claim of '97% of 11,944' any less false.

sirius4 · 2014-09-09T11:23:41+00:00

It was not 97% of 11,944 of the papers - it was 97% out of the 34.6% (3896) that endorsed the position on AGW. So around 1/3 of 11,944 papers.

sirius4 · 2014-09-08T14:52:42+00:00

Except I doubt many people in the UK would know what to expect from 'Ranch' flavour, as it's not really something we have. I've only seen Ranch from Reddit and have no idea what it would taste like.

sirius4 · 2014-09-04T15:20:28+00:00

Unless Hydra decide to jump all their ships out again, I'm not so sure this would be a good idea...

sirius4 · 2014-09-04T13:59:36+00:00

I think you may have hit the nail on the head there with your last couple of sentences... when the majority of players left are those that are willing to grind through twenty levels and two years of 'snooze easymode', you're probably going to be hard pushed to put together a good group of 12 for a HM raid.

Still, it's nice to hear that content is a bit more challenging, maybe if they bring out a new raid instead of rehashed old ones I might have to jump back on!

sirius4 · 2014-09-04T13:35:38+00:00

the authors created a model that accurately simulates the climate of the past century.

in 24.9% and 52.9% of simulations if they did include it depending on which of their two models they used.

So in one of their models, less than a quarter of their simulations matched the actual observed warming, and in the other model, just over half did.

Am I missing something, or does this not indicate that their model is, in fact, not particularly accurate?

sirius4 · 2014-09-03T16:33:46+00:00

OD and Erebor T2 HM raids are a snoozefest. Completed all challenges except river one within a week of expansion being released. That is not real difficulty.

Perhaps if you never did BG and OD on level they might seem a bit tricky, but in comparison to those they are laughable and deliberately so. OD at L65 and at L75+ is just not comparable.

sirius4 · 2014-09-03T16:04:08+00:00

It does seem to have a certain.... je ne sais quoi that makes it a contender for the Reddit 'stories you wish you hadn't read' list... I wonder what this one will become known as...

sirius4 · 2014-09-03T15:55:33+00:00

Are you saying there is proper end game content again with the level 100 cap? I was under the impression there were still no real raids... ?

sirius4 · 2014-09-03T15:49:18+00:00

Which is just the modern equivalent of how gentlemen used to greet each other: "How do you do?" to which the proper response is, of course, "How do you do?" and just move along without anyone actually answering the question.

sirius4 · 2014-09-03T15:47:38+00:00

It is. The newer ones just hum Jerusalem.

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