happy_renting Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 I am restoring a steam powered one. I'm waiting for the bolier certification, before I buy the coal! It will take an hour to get going, like my ex wife! It would have been quite valuable now, but he loaned the tooled leather pooning saddle attachment to a local Bishop and never got it back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 It would have been quite valuable now, but he loaned the tooled leather pooning saddle attachment to a local Bishop and never got it back. But it's almost Ostara, which means we at Gurt Clodney, will be driving the John Deere over to Felching Barton Priory, for the ritual stealing of the bell! Again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 The Bishop in turn loaned the Pooning Saddle to the local orphanage. He claimed the children gave it a 'splendid patina'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Is that an 'oop North' expression meaning 'oop North'? <blackpool>y'alraaaaaahhtlaahhhkluv</blackpool> "Hello" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 <blackpool>y'alraaaaaahhtlaahhhkluv</blackpool> "Hello" Hello pet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I still find it somewhat disconcerting being greeted as 'love' by burly bus drivers in Leeds. As in 'whereyagoinluv?' It's called 'grooming'. Play your cards right and they'll drive you straight to their home (usually a seedy back-to-back). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Back OT: We now can deduce that the Empire State Building is 4 football pitches long. Able to hold 19,224 standard 20ft-long containers, the Oscar is the world's biggest carrier ship, in terms of volume. Built by Daewoo in South Korea at a cost of $140m (£93m) and named after the eight-year-old son of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) president and chief executive Diego Aponte, she is 395.4m (1,297ft) long - a few metres greater than the height of New York's Empire State building, if the antenna on top is not taken into account. The BBC's mixing Imperial and Merkin units is most unprofessional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I still find it somewhat disconcerting being greeted as 'love' by burly bus drivers in Leeds. As in 'whereyagoinluv?'. It's strictly only for use when talking to the opposite sex in Blackpool, unlike some places in the midlands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 It's strictly only for use when talking to the opposite sex in Blackpool, unlike some places in the midlands. They do for men riding the pink bus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Banner Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Back OT: We now can deduce that the Empire State Building is 4 football pitches long. The BBC's mixing Imperial and Merkin units is most unprofessional. A useful post. I now have some idea of the size of a football pitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 A useful post. I now have some idea of the size of a football pitch.60m wide too. Just over half a football pitch wide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 60m wide too. Just over half a football pitch wide. No fractions, please. Express it in London Buses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northerner Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Express it in London Buses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Thats a very old, very big bus. More of a dinosaur, in fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Prof Monica Grady on radio 4 just now describing the Philae lander as a 'washing machine sized object'. Bigger than a microwave then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Prof Monica Grady on radio 4 just now describing the Philae lander as a 'washing machine sized object'. Bigger than a microwave then. 'Washing machine'; an excellent analogy, that even women can understand. Interesting to see how female scientists scale things. Microsatellites are about the size of a handbag, I understand. Even greater precision can be reached using shoe sizes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Prof Monica Grady on radio 4 just now describing the Philae lander as a 'washing machine sized object'. Bigger than a microwave then. Obviously I could microwave my trousers, but I find a washing machine more effective, if a little slower! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Obviously I could microwave my trousers, but I find a washing machine more effective, if a little slower! Microwaving wouldn't remove the stains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Microwaving wouldn't remove the stains. Is microwaving Staines a possibility? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Banner Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 Sky News excelled themselves today by quantifying the weight of reinforcement necessary for the new Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Eiffel Towers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Eiffel Towers are units of height! The fools! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Eiffel Towers per square inch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeholder Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 My favourite so far: Suckage: LovelaceNamed in honor of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician and pioneer of programmable computing, the Lovelace (Ll) is the unit of how much a computer program sucks. The unit has been coined by members of the system administrator profession who hold a basic tenet that software that does not suck does not exist. According to the usenet alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ,[48] one Lovelace is considered a rather large quantity. Similarly to other large units like the Farad and the Henry, SI prefixes are commonly used to denote practical quantities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 You sure that Lovelace isnt in relation to another one who enjoyed a bit of sucking ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgul Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 My favourite so far:Suckage: LovelaceNamed in honor of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician and pioneer of programmable computing, the Lovelace (Ll) is the unit of how much a computer program sucks. The unit has been coined by members of the system administrator profession who hold a basic tenet that software that does not suck does not exist. According to the usenet alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ,[48] one Lovelace is considered a rather large quantity. Similarly to other large units like the Farad and the Henry, SI prefixes are commonly used to denote practical quantities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement Hmm. Sounds a bit misogynistic - how come the lady programmer gets a unit where 1 Lovelace is completely suck. She might have been a good programmer. Perhaps it should have been a unit of non-suck, where 1 Lovelace is completely unsuck. [but I did hear the R4 documentary on Lovelace yesterday - she sounds like a candidate for 'batshit crazy' from 'one of the other threads', and I'm not entirely sure that she would have made non-suck code. Maybe the alt.sysadmin.recovery folk know more about the programming prowess of Lovelace than I do.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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