Another pointless thread

Sounds like a trip to A&E to me Mike.

I remember my wife falling down stairs and breaking hers, it was a Saturday night and she refused to go to A&E until the morning after.

The admissions nurse gave her grief for delaying and told her she should have known better in her profession.

My better half works for the NHS as a community physiotherapist!

Put it this way .. it's lucky the dog ran when it did.

Trying to work out how I am going to get to work tomorrow .. no way I will get a shoe on.

I think HG has suggested the right course of action, get it checked out by the professionals.

What colour is it Mike ?

A deep sort of plum colour is very indicative of a fractured toe - and there's not that much can be done for it either

They might give you some better pain killers though.

When I asked who the oldest member of our local camera club was, I was told, "Oh, we don't have one now, he died a while ago"

I broke my toe but only had it confirmed a year later when I checked out the odd shape of the toe. The doc said that the abnormal shape was known as a bunion and that there was nothing he could do now as it was too late.

Get it checked out Mike , I sometimes have problems buying footwear that does not rub on the bunion.

By the way you have my sympathy it hurts!!!

Dave

Dave

Depending on which toe is broken Mike they can brace it so it sets straight. You should get it looked at in any case. There can be a lot of internal bleeding with a break and it can get nasty.

Bunions can be corrected - either with or without surgery. Depending on te type of bunion, if non surgical options have failed,there are different types of operation available. All done under a local "ankle block" anaesthetic and from what I have heard definitely worth it if the bunion is painful or makes shoe buying nigh impossible.

Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical).

This works out to 967.7 visits per second.



This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000 of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.



Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks.



This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound.



For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.



The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element.



Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself.



On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them-Santa would need 360,000 of them.



This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).



600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance-this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each.



In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake.



The entire reindeer team would be vaporised within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.



Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's.



A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.

Merry Christmas!
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Santa doesn't use reindeer now except for display in shopping malls and photoshoots. He uses a sleigh powered by the Bad News Drive, and nothing travels faster than Bad News Now go and sit on the Naughty Step

Actually the answer is even more straightforward. Dr. Who is not, in fact, the last timelord. He merely pretends this is the case in order to protect Santa's identity, because of course Santa is also a timelord. Instead of looking like a Police box, his TARDIS looks like a sleigh drawn by reindeers. (The reindeers are not real, they're merely an extension of the TARDIS's disguise).

The use of a TARDIS of course solves every single one of the problems mentioned above. Santa can use its time-travelling capabilities so he can make his round in as leisurely a fashion as he sees fit. In fact, it's quite possible that when visiting each address he does several time hops without travelling in space, enabling him to deliver several years worth of christmas presents to each address in one go.

The spacial properties of the TARDIS naturally solve all of the weight and volume problems associated with Santa's mammoth load. In effect, he has access to unlimited storage space.

I'd have thought all of this was obvious, really. Ho ho ho.

And the Daleks are really Santa's Little Helpers

I have been practically forced into joining Facebook by my family. I resisted until Saturday, but the pressure just got to me.

I don't understand it, nor do I particularly want to tbh.

I am not interested in the fact that a nephew has had a cup of coffee after making mince pies, or that a niece's child had a fabulous report - they wouldn't post that it was a bad one would they?

I don't intend to tell the world anything - I don't do much that is of interest anyway. So do I stick at it or should I unFacebook myself?

Enable Facebook to send you an email alert only when someone messages you, and when it's a contact's birthday. (That is a handy feature). And then, apart from those occasions.... you never need go on there again!

I joined because it was a good way of keeping up with family stuff while my Godson/cousin was fighting cancer over the last few years. He himself was deeply into facebook, as most people under 20 years old are! Other than that I don't go on there really. It's amazing what people consider it appropriate to share with the world, especially people they actually know in real life.

Hi Gwyn.

Glad to see I am not the only one, that doesn’t understand or get the purpose of Facebook. I joined over twelve months ago, after being encouraged by members of the (Multiple Sclerosis Society), but I have never used it.

The MS Society have their web site with a forum, as does this site, the local radio stations, the BBC, etc,etc, you name it, all have their own web sites, so why the need for Facebook.

Nothing ever happens on my site, other than an Email message every two weeks from Facebook, asking why I have not used my site. :

Take care.