Someone pointed out to me at the weekend
that the handrails on the tube are the same colour as the line they run on. I had never noticed this before.

Oh, and it's called bluray because the wavelength of the laser that is used to read the disc is in blue spectrum. Although I suspect there's at least a few nerds on here that know that already..
(berk, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:07, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I did not know that former one either.

(NoeI «:::P:::» «:::E:::» «:::R:::» «:::V:::» «:::E:::», Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:12, Reply)

My memory of the underground last week is a bit sketchy, except on the Sunday morning when, delayed at Brixton station, I managed to concern everyone on my carriage to lolling at the top of my snort at I, Partridge.

(NoeI «:::P:::» «:::E:::» «:::R:::» «:::V:::» «:::E:::», Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:13, Reply)

I thought blueray was a sad stingray.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:13, Reply)

Yeah', it uses a blue lazer, which has a smaller wavelength than red (used for DVDs and I think CDs), so you could fit more bumps onto the surfice.
The reason it's "Bluray" and not "Blueray" or "Blue Ray" is because the last two can not be trademark'd.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:18, Reply)

Or the trademarks already existed, one of the two.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:19, Reply)

It's like we're finishing each other's facts off, it's destined, we're going to be one of those cute cupples that _everybody_ hates.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:20, Reply)

you and yourself?
that's quite some self-involvement, there
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:23, Reply)

and it sounds funkier

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:20, Reply)

Christ, that tube one's a boring fact. I wouldn't like to sit next to them at a dinner party.
I have another laser-related fact, though. If you have a top-loading CD player that's skipping, don't bother wiping the CD. Instead, take a scrap of bog roll, preferably unused, wrap it around your index finger, touch it onto lens of the laser and gently turn your finger clockwise a few times.

The lens jiggles slightly loose on them and throws the laser off. Or, it could just be dust. Clean the lens, anyway.
( Kroney, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:08, Reply)

Preferably unused?
preferably? Christ man, I know your meme and all but I really can't see how smearing a shitty tissue on the innards of my CD player is going to stop the disc skipping.
(berk, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:11, Reply)

On DVDs and the like it produces an effect not dissimilar
to the old Vaseline on the camera lens trick. Instant soft focus!
( Kroney, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:13, Reply)

Can't you and your bog eye
simply achieve that same effect by watching the dvd with your glasses off?
(berk, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 19:16, Reply)