If a hole is defined as an absence of matter, the term can only be applied where we are certain that matter should be.
I submit that the straw is simply a continuous curved surface and that no matter ever existed or was intended to exist within the confines of the aforementioned continuous curved surface.
Therefore, there is no hole, there never was a hole. A straw has no hole.
How many holes does a colander have then?
But you talk about "where matter should be" - and there shouldn't be matter where the holes are in the colander!
... Why has quarantine got me like so
Schoolboy error, PaddyP17.
There used to be matter there … and that has subsequently been removed in order to produce the colander. Hence we have a hole (or several holes, in fact).
I'm surprised that you missed this point. It's fairly obvious really … but I forgive you.
Except a plastic colander, being moulded, never had matter there.
From which we conclude that there are no holes in a plastic colander.
It's not difficult, is it?
Just clarifying colanders can have holes and no holes.
Correct. Entirely based on the method of manufacture.
The inner part of a chip pan would be another good example of the holeless basket. Shopping trolley ... shark cage. There must be others.
Nestlé’s Consumer Services team receives hundreds of calls a year about Polo. Favourite question is what the factory does with the middle of the Polos. The answer is that there never is a middle, each Polo is made with a hole in it.
The pressure Polo is put under when formed is 75 kilonewtons, which is equivalent to the weight of two elephants jumping on it.
Based on my proposed definition (that the term 'hole' can only be applied where we are certain that matter should be), it would appear that there is no hole in a Polo mint.
It looks like Rowntrees, and subsequently Nestlé, have been fooling us for years.
Outrageous. I will never suck the toroidal confection again.
Worse still, Polo once sold little little circular discs of mints matter and called them Holes.
Nestlé’s Consumer Services team receives hundreds of calls a year about Polo. Favourite question is what the factory does with the middle of the Polos. The answer is that there never is a middle, each Polo is made with a hole in it.
The pressure Polo is put under when formed is 75 kilonewtons, which is equivalent to the weight of two elephants jumping on it.
Based on my proposed definition (that the term 'hole' can only be applied where we are certain that matter should be), it would appear that there is no hole in a Polo mint.
It looks like Rowntrees, and subsequently Nestlé, have been fooling us for years.
Outrageous. I will never suck the toroidal confection again.
Worse still, Polo once sold little little circular discs of mints matter and called them Holes.
Then is a pipe the same? How long does it have to be before you may consider it has two?
There will never be two. Just like Highlander, there can only be one. Even if you said “There’s a hole at each end”, it would be the two ends of the same hole. Assuming it is a hole, of course.
If a hole is defined as an absence of matter, the term can only be applied where we are certain that matter should be.
I submit that the straw is simply a continuous curved surface and that no matter ever existed or was intended to exist within the confines of the aforementioned continuous curved surface.
Therefore, there is no hole, there never was a hole. A straw has no hole.
How many holes does a colander have then?
But you talk about "where matter should be" - and there shouldn't be matter where the holes are in the colander!
... Why has quarantine got me like so
Schoolboy error, PaddyP17.
There used to be matter there … and that has subsequently been removed in order to produce the colander. Hence we have a hole (or several holes, in fact).
I'm surprised that you missed this point. It's fairly obvious really … but I forgive you.
Except a plastic colander, being moulded, never had matter there.
From which we conclude that there are no holes in a plastic colander.
It's not difficult, is it?
Just clarifying colanders can have holes and no holes.
Correct. Entirely based on the method of manufacture.
The inner part of a chip pan would be another good example of the holeless basket. Shopping trolley ... shark cage. There must be others.
This is the basis for Schroedingers Colander. It like the cat one. You put a colander in a box, but until some opens the box to find out what it’s made of, you don’t know whether it has holes or not.
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire And though the holes were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
If a hole is defined as an absence of matter, the term can only be applied where we are certain that matter should be.
I submit that the straw is simply a continuous curved surface and that no matter ever existed or was intended to exist within the confines of the aforementioned continuous curved surface.
Therefore, there is no hole, there never was a hole. A straw has no hole.
How many holes does a colander have then?
But you talk about "where matter should be" - and there shouldn't be matter where the holes are in the colander!
... Why has quarantine got me like so
Schoolboy error, PaddyP17.
There used to be matter there … and that has subsequently been removed in order to produce the colander. Hence we have a hole (or several holes, in fact).
I'm surprised that you missed this point. It's fairly obvious really … but I forgive you.
Except a plastic colander, being moulded, never had matter there.
From which we conclude that there are no holes in a plastic colander.
It's not difficult, is it?
Just clarifying colanders can have holes and no holes.
Correct. Entirely based on the method of manufacture.
The inner part of a chip pan would be another good example of the holeless basket. Shopping trolley ... shark cage. There must be others.
This is the basis for Schroedingers Colander. It like the cat one. You put a colander in a box, but until some opens the box to find out what it’s made of, you don’t know whether it has holes or not.
This is a magnificent concept, SomervilleAddick. You may also have captured the thrill and excitement of receiving a colander for Christmas.
Imagine … you know that you're getting a colander (perhaps because of a careless remark by a loved one, or because you have been hinting for weeks), but you don't know whether it will be a man's metal colander (hence, complete with holes) or some pathetic, plastic wannabe colander (probably made in China) with … well … gaps and apertures, I suppose you would call them.
If a hole is defined as an absence of matter, the term can only be applied where we are certain that matter should be.
I submit that the straw is simply a continuous curved surface and that no matter ever existed or was intended to exist within the confines of the aforementioned continuous curved surface.
Therefore, there is no hole, there never was a hole. A straw has no hole.
How many holes does a colander have then?
None and I’ve checked and then double-checked all the way from January to December.
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The inner part of a chip pan would be another good example of the holeless basket. Shopping trolley ... shark cage. There must be others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETBkUl5k1uI
An arsehole is not an arsehole? Unless his surname is Southall or Duchatelet obviously.
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
Imagine … you know that you're getting a colander (perhaps because of a careless remark by a loved one, or because you have been hinting for weeks), but you don't know whether it will be a man's metal colander (hence, complete with holes) or some pathetic, plastic wannabe colander (probably made in China) with … well … gaps and apertures, I suppose you would call them.