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Re: Rant away.....

Postby kaneg » Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:11 pm

No, I don't know Ali why, enlighten me ... :?












this has nothing to do with the "good old days girl" 8)














but I suppose you might read it as such :oops:
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby Smitty » Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:16 pm

esie wrote:
kaneg wrote:..............

So, the reason guys measure themselves in inches is because they REALLY don't know how much 8 inches is? :D


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20cms is MUCH more impressive.......... :twisted:
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby Ali600+150 » Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:17 pm

kaneg wrote:No, I don't know Ali why, enlighten me ... :?

this has nothing to do with the "good old days girl" 8)

but I suppose you might read it as such :oops:


LOL then how about a YELLOW card? Will ya take that?? :lol: :lol:
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby kaneg » Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:18 pm

maybe a light yellow one :cry:
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby Poyda » Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:00 pm

i agree Pete, the imperial system should be made illegal. I mean how big is an 8 pound baby. How heavy is it to pick up. If you said 3.5kg then i'd know it weighed as much as 3.5 litres of water. I have never understood weighing babies in a scale they will never understand.
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby Ratmick » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:46 pm

My mum has a cook book that she bought from before I was born, it was put out by a flour company in the UK called Be-Ro. Everything is in pounds and ounces, which is fine as this was 1963-4 but the oven settings are either crap like 'hot' or 'moderate' or 'gas mark 3', no numbers, not even the old fahrenheit. She loves the book, it has good-old fashioned stuff like proper scone recipes etc, but wtf is with the heat settings? And while we're at it why did they start a heat scale that starts at 32 where water freezes and 212 where water boils? WTF where they thinking? They may as well have used degrees Kelvin.

You can still see remnant crap like that all over the place. My dad makes his own wine in demi-johns. I presume they are an old measurement, no idea what they are (a half-john, like a demi-god?). I could look them up on Wikipedia, but honestly there is only so much useless shit my head will handle.

I live near a road called Three-Chain Road. I know for a fact that the road is approx 30-40km long, so Chains are either remarkably long or they were a bit loose with the road naming. Actually, I made that last bit up, I believe a chain is something odd like 22 yards and is also the length of something like a cricket wicket. So I could also get by calling the road 3-Wicket Road or 'The 66 Yard Road That Lasts 35 kilometres'...but I'm guessing the road signs would be prohibitively long :lol:.

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Re: Rant away.....

Postby seiko1 » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:06 am

Poyda wrote:i agree Pete, the imperial system should be made illegal. I mean how big is an 8 pound baby. How heavy is it to pick up. If you said 3.5kg then i'd know it weighed as much as 3.5 litres of water. I have never understood weighing babies in a scale they will never understand.

Well you do know than :shock:
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby aardvark » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:25 am

Ratmick wrote:I live near a road called Three-Chain Road.

My inlaws live on Three Chain Rd. No chains there!

Poyda wrote:I mean how big is an 8 pound baby.

Bigger than a 7 pound baby. I can easily visualise the size of babies when the birth weight is goven in pounds, but struggle when its in kilos.
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby kaneg » Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:19 am

8lb 13oz.

....... so what's that in kg Jase? ;)
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby Sulli » Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:29 pm

So what's cheaper getting booked in MPH or KPH :?:
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby photomike666 » Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:37 pm

Sulli wrote:So what's cheaper getting booked in MPH or KPH :?:


But I was doing 100 officer - oh, the signs mean Kph? Why didn't someone say....
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby Blurr » Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:53 pm

I hate PUSH BIKE RIDERS

enough said :twisted:
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby Nosferatu » Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:07 pm

Blurr wrote:I hate PUSH BIKE RIDERS


+1. I nearly hit a group of them (i think a group is called a wank? or maybe a latte?) this morning in thick fog. the fuckers take up the whole road like they own it, and they always choose to ride on the best windy bits. :x they should make it law that motorbike riders are allowed to kick them whenever we go past :twisted:
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby 6maniac » Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:35 pm

Maybe we should use the horn when passing ...... only as a warning, of course ! :twisted:
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Re: Rant away.....

Postby seiko1 » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:01 pm

Nosferatu wrote:
Blurr wrote:I hate PUSH BIKE RIDERS


+1. I nearly hit a group of them (i think a group is called a wank? or maybe a latte?) this morning in thick fog. the fuckers take up the whole road like they own it, and they always choose to ride on the best windy bits. :x they should make it law that motorbike riders are allowed to kick them whenever we go past :twisted:

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They get a 6 foot wide lane and the wankers sit right on the line :?
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