Workers have been sharing the ‘trade secrets’ that most people don’t understand – 19 eye-opening pieces of inside information
11.
‘The internet is balancing on a poorly stacked house of cards and could topple at any moment.’
-Relative-Tea3944
12.
‘Good quality fabric can last generations. Poor fabric quality will be gone in a few washes.’
-thermalcat
13.
‘In Cotswold morris dancing the Sherborne tradition basic step is 1, Hop, 3, 4 whereas for almost all other traditions it is 1, 2, 3, Hop’
-morris_man
14.
‘Almost all damage to roads is caused by trucks and buses.
‘Cars, even heavy SUVs, cause almost no damage by comparison.’
-Hillbert
15.
‘Every town over 10,000 population has a site or sites designated for mass casualty event body collection. There are firms that will go to your local Tesco at short notice, cut down all the lampposts and erect massive tents with mobile morgues (refrigerated containers) for this purpose.
‘Every police and council in England and Wales has a list of sensitive sites (some you probably wouldn’t guess and most are in plain site) which must be protected in the event of a terrorist attack apart from the obvious MOD stuff there is a surprising number of rather mundane utility company buildings and gas pipe junctions in the middle of nowhere.’
-James20985
16.
‘Both pilots (the captain and the first officer) are fully qualified to operate the type of aircraft they’re flying, and they typically take it in turns to fly each leg. The one who isn’t flying is the one on the radios talking to ATC, carrying out ancillary tasks and monitoring the pilot flying. If one pilot were to become incapacitated, the other can fly the aircraft single-handed to a safe landing.
‘The captain has overall authority and there are some approaches that have to be flown by the captain because they’re more challenging.
‘I’m just saying this because some people seem to think only the captain is the pilot and the other guy is a lowly copilot who doesn’t actually get to fly the plane themselves.
‘While we’re at it, the runway is the rectangular strip used for taking off and landing. If you’re not taking off or landing, you’re not on the runway. So when people (often journalists) say ‘they were sitting on the runway delayed for hours’, they are greatly misinformed.’
-PortPiscarilius
17.
‘Civil Service here. You don’t need to ask your solicitor (And therefore pay the fee) to get any information about your business/farm/personal details/etc. You can just call the office and get the information yourself.
‘They don’t get “more access” about your stuff than you do. I work on the farming side of it and the amount of solicitor’s offices asking us to send them information instead of the owners just calling us for it is wild. We can even post whatever information you need to your house or directly to your solicitor’s office fully free.’
-Moonlight1992xd
18.
‘Every railway station, including the Tube, has somewhere to put a dead body. If you’re unlucky it might be the cleaners’ mess room though :(‘
-FloydEGag
19.
‘Every aircraft flying will have a load of known and unknown defects. Known ones can be deferred depending upon what they are and fixed later. The unknown ones will normally get picked up during heavy maintenance.
‘Floor structure under galleys and toilets might only get looked at every 4 years and it isn’t uncommon to find plenty of corroded structure.
‘Current aircraft I’m working on has over 1000 defect cards that range from broken bits of cabin trim to cracked and corroded primary structure.’
-simiesky
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