Wool & Sheep

onebdzee

onebdzee

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garyt27 said:
:nerd: :nerd: :nerd: :shrug: If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
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Their mom's gave them the good sense to not stay out in the rain....so, they don't :shrug:

I got one for you.............

Where does the white go when the snow melts? :eyebrow:
 
garyt27

garyt27

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rice

onebdzee said:
Their mom's gave them the good sense to not stay out in the rain....so, they don't :shrug:

I got one for you.............

Where does the white go when the snow melts? :eyebrow:
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It goes to rice :coffee:
 
SamSpade

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garyt27 said:
:nerd: :nerd: :nerd: :shrug: If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
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A couple reasons, and it's really quite fascinating.

On the sheep, the fibers grow straight out from the skin and the fibers themselves have these overlapping scales. On the sheep, they all grow the same direction - so they generally don't tangle. In addition, the sheep's body produces lanolin which also tends to keep this from happening. When wool has been removed from the sheep, the fibers are all pointing in different directions. Wool actually doesn't "shrink" but rather, it felts. The scales, when exposed to friction and water come closer together and tend to interlock. If it was just yarn, this would tend to shorten the yarn, but in a fabric, it happens in all directions, so it gets denser - it appears to shrink. If you could undo all these locking velcro like things, you could stretch the wool back out, but it's pretty much impossible once it's happened.

There's also a matter of fiber tension - when wool is sheared and readied for use, it gets stretched and straightened out, unlike on the sheep, where it tends to curl. In warm water, this tendency reverses - which helps the felting process.

Wool manufacturers have been developing better and better "washable" wool which strips the scales off the wool chemically before it's used, to various degrees of success.
 
SamSpade

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onebdzee said:
If everyone lost 5 pounds would it throw the earth off its gravitational pull? :eyebrow:
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There's a lot of reasons why that doesn't make sense but for one thing, the five pounds doesn't just disappear - it's just not on *you*. The other reasons are of course, that the mass of the people on the earth is insignificant with respect to the mass of the earth itself. If everyone on the planet were to suddenly LEAVE, the difference in mass wouldn't even be measurable.
 
garyt27

garyt27

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onebdzee said:
Ok....If you're so smart.......answer this.....

If you choke a Smurf what color does it turn?
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sMURFS DON'T HAVE LUNGS, thats why they are already blue. Everyone knows that.
 
onebdzee

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garyt27 said:
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sMURFS DON'T HAVE LUNGS, thats why they are already blue. Everyone knows that.
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Smurfs do have lungs....if you listen real close you can hear them breath

How about this.....

If a fly had no wings is it a "walk"?
 
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czygvtwkr

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SamSpade said:
A couple reasons, and it's really quite fascinating.

On the sheep, the fibers grow straight out from the skin and the fibers themselves have these overlapping scales. On the sheep, they all grow the same direction - so they generally don't tangle. In addition, the sheep's body produces lanolin which also tends to keep this from happening. When wool has been removed from the sheep, the fibers are all pointing in different directions. Wool actually doesn't "shrink" but rather, it felts. The scales, when exposed to friction and water come closer together and tend to interlock. If it was just yarn, this would tend to shorten the yarn, but in a fabric, it happens in all directions, so it gets denser - it appears to shrink. If you could undo all these locking velcro like things, you could stretch the wool back out, but it's pretty much impossible once it's happened.

There's also a matter of fiber tension - when wool is sheared and readied for use, it gets stretched and straightened out, unlike on the sheep, where it tends to curl. In warm water, this tendency reverses - which helps the felting process.

Wool manufacturers have been developing better and better "washable" wool which strips the scales off the wool chemically before it's used, to various degrees of success.
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You sure know alot about sheep. Do you know the oversized boot trick?
 
onebdzee

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czygvtwkr said:
You sure know alot about sheep. Do you know the oversized boot trick?
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:killingme

OMG!....Me and my 16yr old mutt were talking about this tread last night and I had to "explain" the sheep thing to him....and before you ask(all you preverts) it was explained to me by a friend of mine from WV :lmao:
 
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