Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1626022 times)

Basil · « **Reply #4625 on:** 31 March, 2014, 03:21:41 pm »

Quote from: CommuteTooFar on 31 March, 2014, 12:23:48 pm

Saturday night I noticed someone has stolen an hour. It will probable take the government ~~six~~ seven months to replace it.

FTFY

Ruth · « **Reply #4626 on:** 01 April, 2014, 11:04:44 am »

Oh, bugger, I forgot to put the bin out again, and the lorry's just gone past.

Basil · « **Reply #4627 on:** 01 April, 2014, 11:20:31 am »

The Mercian's got a poorly BB and needs to go to the bike hospital, so I've been commuting on the Galaxy for a while.
So set off this morning........ Luckily only rode <2 miles before remembering that today is the day the Mercian is booked in at the (Not very)LBS. Bugger!
Ride home again and change bikes.

mcshroom · « **Reply #4628 on:** 01 April, 2014, 11:51:34 pm »

Slave Traders - why are you now sending me emails about IT jobs? I'm a Chemical Engineer, not a 'PHP developer'. In fact my highest qualification in IT is a Key Skills Level 3 ICT* and my smidgin of PHP knowledge is self taught and not exactly fluent. Go away and stop clogging up my inbox.

*This was a qualification so good that marks were actually awarded for turning the computer on!

Kim · « **Reply #4629 on:** 02 April, 2014, 12:01:34 am »

Quote from: mcshroom on 01 April, 2014, 11:51:34 pm

Slave Traders - why are you now sending me emails about IT jobs? I'm a Chemical Engineer, not a 'PHP developer'. In fact my highest qualification in IT is a Key Skills Level 3 ICT* and my smidgin of PHP knowledge is self taught and not exactly fluent.

Sounds like you're fully qualified for a PHP dev job, then.

Pingu · « **Reply #4630 on:** 02 April, 2014, 12:25:03 pm »

Dear Auntie Beeb,

The mile is not a unit of area.

Kthxbai

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #4631 on:** 02 April, 2014, 05:49:13 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 02 April, 2014, 12:25:03 pm

Dear Auntie Beeb,

The mile is not a unit of area.

Kthxbai

Course not. It's a football pitchTM

Ruth · « **Reply #4632 on:** 02 April, 2014, 05:49:57 pm »

No it isn't. It's the size of Wales.

Basil · « **Reply #4633 on:** 02 April, 2014, 06:01:46 pm »

How many Olympic swimming pools to the mile?

mcshroom · « **Reply #4634 on:** 02 April, 2014, 06:23:08 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 02 April, 2014, 06:01:46 pm

How many Olympic swimming pools to the mile?

3 hours

epa611 · « **Reply #4635 on:** 02 April, 2014, 08:24:08 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 02 April, 2014, 06:01:46 pm

How many Olympic swimming pools to the mile?

32

Vince · « **Reply #4636 on:** 02 April, 2014, 08:28:49 pm »

Quote from: epa611 on 02 April, 2014, 08:24:08 pm

Quote from: Basil on 02 April, 2014, 06:01:46 pm
How many Olympic swimming pools to the mile?

32

Metric or imperial Olympic swimming pools?

Dibdib · « **Reply #4637 on:** 02 April, 2014, 08:30:15 pm »

Metric, obviously. Imperial swimming pools are non-migratory, aren't they?

Pingu · « **Reply #4638 on:** 02 April, 2014, 08:35:40 pm »

What's the air speed velocity of an unladen swimming pool?

Basil · « **Reply #4639 on:** 02 April, 2014, 08:39:38 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 02 April, 2014, 08:35:40 pm

What's the air speed velocity of an unladen swimming pool?

About two and a half football pitches.

mcshroom · « **Reply #4640 on:** 02 April, 2014, 08:43:08 pm »

... per double decker bus

Basil · « **Reply #4641 on:** 02 April, 2014, 08:45:25 pm »

Actually , and I think I may have mentioned this before., my favourite unit of measurement is the MilliHelen.
A MilliHelen being the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

Kim · « **Reply #4642 on:** 02 April, 2014, 08:46:07 pm »

I assume the one-bar electric fire is ineligible as a unit, on account of being SI derived?

Dibdib · « **Reply #4643 on:** 02 April, 2014, 08:51:46 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 02 April, 2014, 08:35:40 pm

What's the air speed velocity of an unladen swimming pool?

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Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4644 on:** 02 April, 2014, 09:13:15 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 02 April, 2014, 08:46:07 pm

I assume the one-bar electric fire is ineligible as a unit, on account of being SI derived?

The Imperial equivalent being the 14.5 psi voltage conflagration.

David Martin · « **Reply #4645 on:** 02 April, 2014, 09:17:09 pm »

My favourite unit is the micro century, which is the length of a Dundee University lecture. This allows time at each end for room interchange.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #4646 on:** 03 April, 2014, 06:16:06 pm »

Not just Dundee, but I'd never spotted the micro-century bit before.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #4647 on:** 03 April, 2014, 06:45:38 pm »

Then there is the lecture century; whereby a one hour lecture appears to drag on interminably, or at least to feel a century long. Scandinavian linguistics springs to mind. Or the eminent Dean of School's enlightening summary of Faeroese literature.

David Martin · « **Reply #4648 on:** 03 April, 2014, 07:55:20 pm »

A saga of truly epic proportions..

Littlesox · « **Reply #4649 on:** 03 April, 2014, 08:04:48 pm »

Somebody at work showed me some you tube footage of a motorcyclist with a headcam losing control of his motorbike on a corner and narrowly missing an oncoming car. The footage ends as he dissapears off down an embankment half-way down the Cat & Fiddle.

Thankfully he is OK but I think his trusty steed is a bit worse for wear.

Probably one of the eejits that screamed past me last Sunday as I panted and wheezed my way from Macclesfield to Buxton.

Numty.

Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1626022 times)

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