The There Are No Stupid Questions Thread

If the mind is the devils playground .Does that explain the swing set and monkey bars ?

What exactly is “evening”?

Let me expand on it: here in Brazil we have no concept of evening as native English speakers do. We only have terms for afternoon (tarde) and night (noite), and even during the sunset we still consider the time of day to be afternoon. On English study we are taught to say “good evening” when greeting people in the early hours of the night, such as between 7 and 11 PM when the sun has already set and there are no traces of its light in the sky (“good night” is taught strictly a farewell, not a greeting). Depending on the time of year and whether DST is in effect, some of us more or less jokingly say for example “sete da tarde” (seven in the afternoon) when the sun is still up in the sky during the summer, at a time that (at least for us) is pretty late and in any other time of year it’d be nighttime.

I’m guessing this has to do with latitude differences, as sunrise and sunset are universally shorter for us than for Europeans or US and Canada folks. The time between the sun touching the horizon and ambient light being too dim to do anything with ranges from 3 to 30 minutes; for the majority of our population it lasts between 15 and 20 minutes.

(On the other hand we have a time of day that has no easy English equivalent - madrugada, the set of hours between midnight and dawn. I’ve heard of this period in English being referred to as “late hours” or “witching hours”, but it’s most often purely considered night.)

Here we call that zero-dark-thirty.

Yep, that one too, or its twin “o’dark-thirty”.

Sadly that doesn’t answer the main question.

Wellp, “eve” (“evening”) was always considered “the night before”, presumably when people were still up and about.

“Christmas Eve”, “New Year’s Eve”, “All Hallow’s Eve” (Hallowe’en), etc., are well-known examples.

Midnight was when the day would change (ie, no longer Christmas Eve but Christmas Day), so that limits the “eve” part to before midnight, but when still dark.

Why only the nighttime before, and not include the afternoon or the whole day before? ’Cause it’d be called “Day Before Christmas”, then.

Just tell me when it is beer-thirty.

Funny you mention it, as I just knocked off some Warsteiner. My treat for today…

I’m about to grab a brew myself. Cheers.

:beer:

Would someone suggest a 12V car charger that is pro-rated for a 10A draw? :+1:

TIA

I have not heard the expression All Hallows’ Eve in many moons . I was beginning to think it faded into obscurity .

Oh, no. I’m keeping it alive, even if I have to do it all by myself.

Already cold as hell for Oct and several inches of snow on the ground here, doubt there would be hardly anyone out Trick or Treating regardless unless the weather takes a sudden turn.

Still teeshirt weather here, but I think I’ll put out a biohazard sign so no one’ll bug me.

Just gotta love the mothers who put spiderwebs and lipstick on their babies in carriages, then go trick-or-treating.

Like a baby with 3 teeth in its whole head is gonna eat candy. Yah, right. You know who’s gonna be engorging on “fun-size” candybars that night…

um…is keeppower the same as LG? cuz i got this as a free gift when i ordered ft03 off of BG, and it says keeppower, but also LG HG2

Here in NJ the governor sent out a complex set of rules he would like followed pertaining to the handing out of candy , going door to door , ect.

I hope it is cold enough for me to break out my gorilla suit . Last year it was too warm .

I thought north country folks were tuff, like polar bears.
Lutherans, correct?

No, LG makes the battery, Keeppower resells it. Keeppower resells several brands and sometimes adds protection circuits.

so these ones i linked are just straight up LG batteries? i dont need to worry about it being branded keeppower?

This picture, right?

It looks like an OEM LG battery. I don’t know what the connection to Keeppower is. Typically Keeppower will at least rewrap the cell with their name on it. It’s possible you have a fake HG2 cell. The only way to be sure you get genuine cells just to get it from a reputable source. In your case I would try to measure it’s capacity to see if it’s around 3000 mAh (drain only to 2.80v then recharge and should be around 2800 mAh) Try it in some lights. If it works well, keep using it. If you have a clamp style ammeter you can measure the amp draw on turbo and see if it matches what other people have measured. If it’s way less amperage, then it might be a weak fake. If it’s very similar amperage, then it might be legit.