marjon said:
Please let’s not invite that idiot over here:D

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He's already over here! That was a French lesson in my UK school. He got sent to watch me teach, to learn something about "classroom management". As he was sitting there I just couldn't resist! So many just don't know. (Give him his due his is, or was, a lifeboatman, if that is what they are called, for the RNLI)

Who remembers "A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter", "George the third said with a smile, there are 1760 yards in a mile", and many other nuggets of info.
 
Turktowner said:
Tomorrow night I fear I shall be chiding myself for not taking down me gazebo yesdi.
Yesdi tomorrow being today (right @Hippo ?) Although I should have taken it down yesdi, yesdi today bein yesdi an not today tomorrow.

Although in some bloody minded way I'm hoping my additional guys will prove their worth an I can poke two fingers up to Messrs Breezi, Windi and their Sister... Gale :)
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I was a bit of a sod! If I ever taught a girl with a certain name I used to call her "Hurricane",eventually someone would figure it out.
Her name would be Abigail.
But it could go on for a month or two!;)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter
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Would that be because a pint is 20 Fluid Ozs.?
It always amazed me in the US that their pint was 16Oz and their gallon was 8 US pints so less than an imperial gallon.
I suspect it was something to do with some English shyster conning the colonists that 16Ozs to the pound meant that there must be 16 fluid Ozs to the pint.
Short changing the poor folks. No wonder they rebelled. I would if every pint of beer was short by 20%. ;)
 
DanClarke said:
Would that be because a pint is 20 Fluid Ozs.?
It always amazed me in the US that their pint was 16Oz and their gallon was 8 US pints so less than an imperial gallon.
I suspect it was something to do with some English shyster conning the colonists that 16Ozs to the pound meant that there must be 16 fluid Ozs to the pint.
Short changing the poor folks. No wonder they rebelled. I would if every pint of beer was short by 20%. ;)
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Well a gallon weighs 10 lbs, a nice round figure!
But yes, actually it makes more logical sense that if there are 16 oz to the pound, there ought to be 16 fluid ounces to the pint. And this is what the Merkins went with. Hence their weights are the same (Although they lost "stones" on the way), as are their distances. But when they buy a pint of whisky, they buy 12.7 US fluid ounces which makes no fr iggin sense at all! 375 ml which happens to be half a bottle of wine size today.
If you want to drive yourself crazy have a look at this. This is what happens before standardization!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_measurements
Does make their cars do less to the gallon than ours though!
 
Turktowner said:
Tomorrow night I fear I shall be chiding myself for not taking down me gazebo yesdi.
Yesdi tomorrow being today (right @Hippo ?) Although I should have taken it down yesdi, yesdi today bein yesdi an not today tomorrow.

Although in some bloody minded way I'm hoping my additional guys will prove their worth an I can poke two fingers up to Messrs Breezi, Windi and their Sister... Gale :)
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Terday be terday
Morra be terday morra
Terday be yesterday morra
 
kevstar said:
Good after noon landy goers..

Pizzing of rain here not looking to let up anytime soon, awell the fire is on put on only fools n orses
on the box....
misses is out a walk to do her 10,000 steps il just sit on my ar$e until she comes back to make me
a fry up, luvly jubbly :D:D
We had a late night fish suppers with our neebs then a few drinks & then a few more still feel a bit
fuzzy spent a couple of hours watching our resident family of hedgehogs great wee things to watch. :)

Wots on for the rest of the day feck all im doing nowt.:cool:
Happy Sunday folks ;)

@Stanleysteamer
Hey buddy the D1 drove amazing sounds nice with the new exhaust on, I didnt notice any difference
in power although it is carrying a fair weight with the heavy duty steel bumpers/rack & all the gear on the
roof. It was a joy to drive with all new suspension/steering & ball joints ect ect massive difference
with the poly bushes & the uprated antiroll bars. V happy with how it drives. :D
Cheers enjoy yer wine btw ;)
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10,000o_O what a slacker
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She needs a job at our place :D
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Bobbs been to work again as the doris's car is playing up cos it's going on Thursday
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Bobb's been introduced to the replacement :p
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Who remembers "A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter",
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I remembers that. Left skool in 1970, everything was in imperial up to then. Next stage of ejumication was the start of SI units so had to learn a whole new system at night skool and day release. Started work on a BIG construction site which was imperial, working with the surveying instruments. All levels were taken in feet and tenths of feet, all distances were in feet, inches and fractions. And conversion tables between the decimal and fractions had to be used when converting measurements from drawings, depending on whether the measurement was up/down or lengthways. And most surveying instruments placed the image of what you were looking at upside down just to complicate matters. (I still have two levelling instruments, one with image correct and one inverted). Things got much simpler on the second job because it was metric, no conversions and all in metres n millipedes whether up down or sideways. And all new surveying instruments were the right way up. Nowadays you don't need to measure distances, just push buttons on the instrument key pad and it does it all, using GPS. A couple of blokes can now do in a couple of hours what it took my generation a couple of weeks to achieve.
 
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