Little Eye On The Provinces

[PeteB99]

In Liverpool most people aspire to not living in Kensington.

Leave it for the students, it'll toughen them up a bit,

[ian]

It made me what I am.

It was a step down from Tuebrook. But we got a gangster landlord so no one robbed us.

[rogerzilla]

If you'd offered Thatcher (spits) £200k for Scouseville she'd have bitten your hand off.

You wouldn't want that.  Rabies shots are really painful.

[andrewc]

Looks like the pretty fields you can see on Streetview are for the bulldozer.  https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/plans-huge-new-community-1700-20039813

[andrewc]

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/students-accused-contempt-disrespect-over-20837512


Awful behaviour, not like that nice Ian chap .....

[ian]

Our activities (or one of them) did get a write up in The Echo. I'm not sure if the statute of limitations still applies.

[Guy]

Mystery Derby car vandals turn out to be territorial crows

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-57495330

[rogerzilla]

Looks like the pretty fields you can see on Streetview are for the bulldozer.  https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/plans-huge-new-community-1700-20039813

If it's anything like Swindon, the "industrial park" or "employment land" will end up being used for housing too, as the developers plead lack of demand/poor business environment.  The fact that they can sell houses for millions more than offices or warehouses is purely coincidental.

[Jaded]

Add to that the fact that permitted development will allow change from retail to housing. Good bye shopping streets and hello fragmented money-pot street frontages.

[ian]

Wandering through Kent the other weekend, we saw lots of signs 'Save Capel' (Capel and Tudeley are small villages east of Tonbridge). It might be easy to reach for the nimby card, but basically the plan – after a google – seems to be to build 4000+ homes in a field with a laughable nod to sustainability, everyone knows that'll be usual local/express convenience store and cars, cars, cars as they drive everywhere. Mind you, our local council wants to similar on a more modest scale with a similarly serviced 'garden village' which might be more apt called a dormitory for drivers. It's all about our obeisance to developers.

[Look Around You]

https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/people/fears-crawley-drivers-could-be-distracted-by-rude-shape-mowed-into-roundabout-3280603?fbclid=IwAR1vb-O6edOCc6eBjvH7K22wZ7wYjS6cddYJSGuYlPYQoc3weJeeFCaFLD8

Anatomically incorrect.

[Tim Hall]

https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/people/fears-crawley-drivers-could-be-distracted-by-rude-shape-mowed-into-roundabout-3280603?fbclid=IwAR1vb-O6edOCc6eBjvH7K22wZ7wYjS6cddYJSGuYlPYQoc3weJeeFCaFLD8

Anatomically incorrect.

Fancy seeing you here...
Here's a better slightly snap:

[Guy]

That explains the strange hissing sound.

A mechanic "nearly had a heart attack" when he discovered a python under the bonnet of a van during an MOT.

The 1m-long (3ft 4in) snake, which had been missing for two weeks, belonged to the vehicle's owners, who were "relieved" their pet had been found.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-57567018

[Tim Hall]

That explains the strange hissing sound.

A mechanic "nearly had a heart attack" when he discovered a python under the bonnet of a van during an MOT.

The 1m-long (3ft 4in) snake, which had been missing for two weeks, belonged to the vehicle's owners, who were "relieved" their pet had been found.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-57567018

Dear The BBC. Since when was 1 metre 3 ft 4 in? Were all those natty metrication rhymes a waste of time? "A metre measurs three foot three, it's about the weight of a big jar of jam. " Or something.

[Kim]

natty metrication rhymes

This deserves a footnote for Young People And Americans...

[nuttycyclist]

We need a metrification unit to define young people.

I was born well post the date that google states BRITAIN abandoned IMPERIAL and adopted the metrification unit.     I still measure all DIY in feet and inches, refer to feet and inches in conversation, buy my beer by the pint in the pub, use the mileage signs on our roads, keep to the knot limit on rivers, etc.

It does my head in trying to calculate any distance or other measurement when people insist on using km.   First thing I always did on getting an audax routesheet was to correct it so that it could be followed.

[quixoticgeek]

We need a metrification unit to define young people.

I was born well post the date that google states BRITAIN abandoned IMPERIAL and adopted the metrification unit.     I still measure all DIY in feet and inches, refer to feet and inches in conversation, buy my beer by the pint in the pub, use the mileage signs on our roads, keep to the knot limit on rivers, etc.

It does my head in trying to calculate any distance or other measurement when people insist on using km.   First thing I always did on getting an audax routesheet was to correct it so that it could be followed.

You know, given the UK has been metric since before you were born, maybe now would be a good time for you to try to actually use the metric system instead, rather than the backward barleycorn derived barbarian units?

Just a thought.

J

[Kim]

No, even if you can think in metric, I think we're doomed to a hogdgepodge of domain-specific non-interchangeable units.  Stones, angstroms, miles per hour - they all work perfectly until you want to compare with something outside that domain.

I was genuinely wondering if I could get a ruler marked in mils yesterday.  It would make PCB layout related measurements easier, rather than converting back and forward with millimetres.

[nuttycyclist]

You know, given the UK has been metric since before you were born, maybe now would be a good time for you to try to actually use the metric system instead, rather than the backward barleycorn derived barbarian units?

Does that mean I can start driving at 130km/h on a motorway?    I haven't got the mental energy right now to try to convert the speed limit signs/highway code/speedo in my car, but I recall that when I went to that there europe it was the speed limit of a motorway when I left IMPERIAL and went METRIC

Now if you won't mind, a friend is talking about her new horse and how many hands it is, and my 30cm ruler won't reach up to its arse.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I never learnt any natty metrication rhymes, despite having been at school in the 1970s. AFAIR we had teachers who tried to use the metric system but had, obviously, spent all their lives using imperial. That was at primary school, at secondary school it was the 1980s and nobody even pretended to use metric.

Anyway, I expect the python was measured in feeterninches and then BBC-style-guided to the nearest metric equivalent. I'm rather glad it wasn't described as "1016mm (3ft 4in)".

[phantasmagoriana]

I got so fed up of trying to work out ounces and pounds (I'm in several online US-dominated backpacking groups, and their preferred units are meaningless to me) that I installed a Chrome extension to convert things to sane metric units. Much better.

[Kim]

I was genuinely wondering if I could get a ruler marked in mils yesterday.  It would make PCB layout related measurements easier, rather than converting back and forward with millimetres.

Turns out that if you shop around a bit, you can get rulers with both decimal and fractional divisions of an inch.

[Cudzoziemiec]

In the words of the immortal Little Richard:
I got a snake, three foot four,
She asked for a meter but I gave her more

And as Bruce Forsyth has been reminding us:
Nice 2 metre, 2 metre nice

[Tim Hall]

In the words of the immortal Little Richard:
I got a snake, three foot four,
She asked for a meter but I gave her more

And as Bruce Forsyth has been reminding us:
Nice 2 metre, 2 metre nice

My brother Billy
Had a ten foot willy
And he showed it to the girl next door.
She thought was a snake
So she hit it with a rake
Now it's only a metre three foot four.

The Chuckle Brothers had a large sheep, a bit over six feet in length
It was their two metre ewe.

[nuttycyclist]

...
The Chuckle Brothers had a large sheep, a bit over six feet in length
It was their two metre ewe.

It took me 30 seconds for that to register, then I got it.

It took me much longer trying to work out a metric unit to refer to half of a minute.   I gave up in the end.