Contents:
1. Margarine "idea" and why it is daft empty nonsense
1a) Their (absurd) projective geometry idea
1b) Their daft margarine idea
1c) Calculation to compensate for the fact that a margarine lid is very slightly bigger than a margarine tub.
2. Not half the size
3. Putting ruler parallel to bottom edge and then putting it perpendicular
to the right hand side. It just comes down to GCSE maths!
4. Explaining the bit of GCSE maths needed
5. I'd already disproved the margarine "idea" on the 2nd day all those years ago!
6. The Clover margarine and not stork margarine farce
1. Their daft, empty mararine "idea":
1a) Their (absurd) projective geometry "idea"....text file
1b) The daft margarine "idea"....text file
Termnology: I refer to the lid as the lid and the container part the tub....(JPG file).
1c) Calculation to compensate for the fact that a margarine lid is very slightly bigger than a margarine tub:
It is very easy (if you are good at maths) to do a calculation to compensate for the fact that a margarine tub is very
slightly smaller than a margarine lid, and it makes next to no difference! In other words, the "margarine idea"
is daft, empty nonsense that isn't supposed to work!!!!
Here is the pdf file that gives the detailed explanation and calcuation:
(pdf file)
Click on the two following jpg files below to see summary of the calculations:
Compensation calcuation for the width (click on to view): JPG.
Compensation calcuation for the length (click on to view): JPG.
2. Not half the size:
Tried their daft mararine "idea" and it failed miserably....text file
(Fig A) Not half the size: JPG.
3. Putting ruler parallel to bottom edge and then perpendicular
to the right hand side. It just comes down to GCSE maths!:
Putting ruler parallel to bottom edge and then perpendicular to the right hand side....text file
(Fig B) Drawing of the distorted diamond shape on the right from the above photo (FIG A): JPG.
(Fig C) Doctor originally put the ruler parallel to the bottom edge: JPG.
(Fig D) Doctor then put the ruler perpendicular to the right hand edge: JPG.
(Fig E) Doctor also meaured the perpendicular to the right hand edge
down at the more narrow end. This corresponds to the smallest
distance from the left hand side to the right hand side: JPG.
Even this absolutely smallest distance is miles away from half the width of
the reference rectangle!!!!
4. Explaining the bit of GCSE maths needed:
See FIG F. When a pair of parallel lines meet a line the corresponding angles (shown in red) are equal. This is a basic fact from GCSE maths.
This explains why putting the ruler parallel to the bottom edge results in the ruler not being perpenndicular to the right hand edge when
it comes to the distorted diamond shape on the right in FIG A (remember, the bottom edge meets that right hand side at 70 degrees!).
(Fig F) When a pair of parallel lines meet a line, the corresponding angles are equal: JPG.
Say you have a point above a horizonal line (see FIG G). What is the shortest distance from the point to the line? See next comment....
(Fig G) A point and a (horizontal) line: JPG.
....ANSWER, see FIG H. The shortest distance from the point to this (horizontal) line is given by the segment that drops down vertically
and meets the line at right angles as any other segment (the red lines) goes out to the side. The segment that meets the line at a right
angle is called "the perpendicular".
(Fig G) The perpendicular is the shortest distance from a point to a line: JPG.
We can rotate FIG G and obviously "the perpendicular" remains the shortest distance from the point to a line.
(Fig H) This is just FIG G rotated. The perpendicular remains the shortest distance from a point to a line: JPG.
5. I'd already disproved the margarine "idea" on the 2nd day all those years ago!
I'd already disproved the margarine "idea" on the 2nd day all those years ago!: text file
(Fig I) Indicating the smaller, elevated rectangle of the inside of the lid by outlining it and filling it in with a grid in second photo: JPG.
6. The Clover and not Stork farce
The Clover margarine not Stork margarine farce....text file
A while back I took a photo of a Maragarine tub. It was obviously a photo of
a Clover margarine tub:
(Fig J) Clover: JPG.
but this bizarre group wanted to believe it was a Stork
margarine tub!
Below, the photo on the left is the original photo, and the photo on the right
is of a Strok margarine tub:
(Fig K)
The group wanted to say the photo on the left is the same type of margarine tub!!
They want to say they are both a "Stork" maragrine!!
No!! The one on the left is a "Clover" and the one on the right is "Stork".
One is yellow and one is white!
Also, "Clover" has a curved bottom edge, and not straight. "Stork" has a
straight bottom edge (see Fig L).
Also, The tab is on the right with Clover but the tab is on the left with Stork (see Fig M).
(Fig L)
The bottom edge is curved: jpg file. The bottom edge is not straight: jpg file
(Fig M)
The tab is on the right with Clover: jpg file. The tab is on the left with Stork: jpg file
Can people read what it says in the photo below?
If it were white they wouldn't be able to see my hidden message!: jpg file.
Obviously the original photo is that of a Clover margarine tub! And yet the group
continued to maintain that is a Stork margarine tub.