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How many holes does a straw have?
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Correct. Entirely based on the method of manufacture.charltonkeston said:
Just clarifying colanders can have holes and no holes.Dave Rudd said:
From which we conclude that there are no holes in a plastic colander.charltonkeston said:
Except a plastic colander, being moulded, never had matter there.Dave Rudd said:
Schoolboy error, PaddyP17.PaddyP17 said:
But you talk about "where matter should be" - and there shouldn't be matter where the holes are in the colander!PaddyP17 said:
How many holes does a colander have then?Dave Rudd said: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.
... Why has quarantine got me like so
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.
It's not difficult, is it?
The inner part of a chip pan would be another good example of the holeless basket. Shopping trolley ... shark cage. There must be others.
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Worse still, Polo once sold little little circular discs of mints matter and called them Holes.Dave Rudd said:- 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETBkUl5k1uI
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I have never read anything about holes on the internet that turned out to be nothing about holes...2
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So, I hate to be the one ..
An arsehole is not an arsehole? Unless his surname is Southall or Duchatelet obviously.0 -
Then is a pipe the same? How long does it have to be before you may consider it has two?charltonkeston said:No holes in a straw, it’s a hollow cylinder.0 -
They were good, those. Like nicer Smints.Raith_C_Chattonell said:
Worse still, Polo once sold little little circular discs of mints matter and called them Holes.Dave Rudd said:- 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETBkUl5k1uI0 -
Im still concentrating on the coriander, trying to see the holes, let alone count ‘em0
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So is a pot hole counted as a hole...🤔0
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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.North Lower Neil said:
Then is a pipe the same? How long does it have to be before you may consider it has two?charltonkeston said:No holes in a straw, it’s a hollow cylinder.1 -
It all depends on how you define the word 'straw'.1
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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.Dave Rudd said:
Correct. Entirely based on the method of manufacture.charltonkeston said:
Just clarifying colanders can have holes and no holes.Dave Rudd said:
From which we conclude that there are no holes in a plastic colander.charltonkeston said:
Except a plastic colander, being moulded, never had matter there.Dave Rudd said:
Schoolboy error, PaddyP17.PaddyP17 said:
But you talk about "where matter should be" - and there shouldn't be matter where the holes are in the colander!PaddyP17 said:
How many holes does a colander have then?Dave Rudd said: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.
... Why has quarantine got me like so
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.
It's not difficult, is it?
The inner part of a chip pan would be another good example of the holeless basket. Shopping trolley ... shark cage. There must be others.6 -
NorthheathAddick said:So is a pot hole counted as a hole...🤔
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
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This is a magnificent concept, SomervilleAddick. You may also have captured the thrill and excitement of receiving a colander for Christmas.SomervilleAddick said:
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.Dave Rudd said:
Correct. Entirely based on the method of manufacture.charltonkeston said:
Just clarifying colanders can have holes and no holes.Dave Rudd said:
From which we conclude that there are no holes in a plastic colander.charltonkeston said:
Except a plastic colander, being moulded, never had matter there.Dave Rudd said:
Schoolboy error, PaddyP17.PaddyP17 said:
But you talk about "where matter should be" - and there shouldn't be matter where the holes are in the colander!PaddyP17 said:
How many holes does a colander have then?Dave Rudd said: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.
... Why has quarantine got me like so
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.
It's not difficult, is it?
The inner part of a chip pan would be another good example of the holeless basket. Shopping trolley ... shark cage. There must be others.
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.
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none............ it wouldn't be a straw if there wasn't any space in the middle.0
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None and I’ve checked and then double-checked all the way from January to December.PaddyP17 said:
How many holes does a colander have then?Dave Rudd said: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.1 -
Obviously a straw has no holes, it's a tube. A straw with a hole in it doesn't work. A tube with holes in it is a flute or recorder.0
