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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #550 on: 01 July, 2015, 06:02:49 pm »
That in 1896 the average wage of a Manchester bricklayer was 10d a day. 
And the sentence for a Manchester thief  convicted of pickpocketing £36 at a football match* was 7 years imprisonment.

*Gainsborough Trinity v Newton Heath.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #551 on: 01 July, 2015, 06:07:35 pm »
That in 1896 the average wage of a Manchester bricklayer was 10d a day. 
And the sentence for a Manchester thief  convicted of pickpocketing £36 at a football match* was 7 years imprisonment.

*Gainsborough Trinity v Newton Heath.

http://www.measuringworth.com/

In 2011, the relative worth of £36 0s 0d from 1896 is:

£3,420.00   using the retail price index
£3,630.00   using the GDP deflator
£13,700.00   using the average earnings
£23,300.00   using the per capita GDP
£37,200.00   using the share of GDP

I learned today that if you are expecting an email from a Russian source, you really need to check your spam box

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #552 on: 01 July, 2015, 09:00:44 pm »
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I learned today that if you are expecting an email from a Russian source, you really need to check your spam box

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« Reply #553 on: 01 July, 2015, 10:18:30 pm »
Thing I learned on Sunday, but forgot about until another thread reminded me:  How difficult it is to get a heavily loaded bike moving up a steep hill with flat pedals.  If you haven't attempted it since before you discovered foot retention, it's surprising.

Obviously if you're a regular user of flats in all conditions, then it's just normal and ordinary and just part of the way bikes work, but I only usually use them for short trips without much in the way of  a) hills  or  b) stuff,  so the bike's up to speed by the time the starting foot reaches BDC.

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« Reply #554 on: 01 July, 2015, 11:36:51 pm »
That in 1896 the average wage of a Manchester bricklayer was 10d a day. 
And the sentence for a Manchester thief  convicted of pickpocketing £36 at a football match* was 7 years imprisonment.

*Gainsborough Trinity v Newton Heath.

http://www.measuringworth.com/

In 2011, the relative worth of £36 0s 0d from 1896 is:

£3,420.00   using the retail price index
£3,630.00   using the GDP deflator
£13,700.00   using the average earnings
£23,300.00   using the per capita GDP
£37,200.00   using the share of GDP

And compared with the price of the "average house"?

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« Reply #555 on: 03 July, 2015, 01:38:09 pm »
If I had gone to bed at a reasonable hour last night instead of staying up to watch the last 2/3 of The Fugitive on ITV4, even though I have already seen it loads of times and own the DVD, I would not be so tired today.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #556 on: 03 July, 2015, 02:04:11 pm »
SE London has some waterways and off-road routes worth exploring.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

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« Reply #557 on: 04 July, 2015, 09:24:27 pm »
That in various Italian kingdoms in the 1840s the very word "railway" was banned, due to fears it would cause moral corruption of society and political revolution.
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« Reply #558 on: 06 July, 2015, 03:11:57 pm »
Nautical terminology distinguishes between collisions (two moving objects into one another) and allisions (moving object into stationary object).

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« Reply #559 on: 06 July, 2015, 03:14:41 pm »
I have learned that freshly baked bread out the oven has less calories than normal bread, because it evaporates.

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« Reply #560 on: 06 July, 2015, 08:47:29 pm »
That all the bridges on the Lancaster canal are individually numbered, with lovely cast iron number plates affixed.  All 200 or so of 'em.  To a geek with OCD and a camera this represents a challenge, an opportunity, and an enormous time-sink.

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« Reply #561 on: 06 July, 2015, 08:52:19 pm »
That all the bridges on the Lancaster canal are individually numbered, with lovely cast iron number plates affixed.  All 200 or so of 'em.  To a geek with OCD and a camera this represents a challenge, an opportunity, and an enormous time-sink.

*strongly approves of this learning*

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« Reply #562 on: 06 July, 2015, 08:55:34 pm »
^^^ Wot 'er sed ^^^
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« Reply #563 on: 06 July, 2015, 09:22:32 pm »
Bill, have you spotted this guy's flickr feed?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/suspensionstayed/sets/

I love the wee digital display he carries.

https://flic.kr/p/pefrJx

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« Reply #564 on: 06 July, 2015, 09:23:49 pm »
*strongly approves of this learning*

Mmm.  Well, I could go as far down as the Lune Aqueduct (#107), I s'pose.  But I'm not going south of the River Lune, not at this time, not for anyone guv.

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« Reply #565 on: 06 July, 2015, 09:27:10 pm »
Bill, have you spotted this guy's flickr feed?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/suspensionstayed/sets/

Wow.  I'm out-geeked, out-bridged and, er, over here.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #566 on: 06 July, 2015, 09:37:25 pm »
Mind, I bet he hasn't got a dewatered canal bridge  :P

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« Reply #567 on: 06 July, 2015, 09:43:25 pm »
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe.  Does this suggest that all the bridges on the whole national  network are similarly numbered?
I think you may have a bit of a job on, matey.   :)
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« Reply #568 on: 06 July, 2015, 09:46:04 pm »
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe.

A lot of them certainly do.  Which raises the question: Why haven't they been nicked for scrap?

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« Reply #569 on: 06 July, 2015, 10:19:15 pm »
Cos the pikeys can't get a flatbed tranny down a towpath . . . ?
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

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« Reply #570 on: 06 July, 2015, 10:24:42 pm »
BTW the bridges on the Macclesfield Canal are similarly numbered. As are the ones on the Middlewood Way, a disused railway which follows a lower contour but a similar line.

The bridges from Marple on the canal rise in number as you approach Macc, the ones on the track decrease in the same direction.

Confused? you will be . . .
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« Reply #571 on: 06 July, 2015, 10:28:18 pm »
Cos the pikeys can't get a flatbed tranny down a towpath . . . ?

Pity.  They could have nicked the anti-cycling barriers while they were at it.

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« Reply #572 on: 06 July, 2015, 10:31:49 pm »
Cos the pikeys can't get a flatbed tranny down a towpath . . . ?

Pity.  They could have nicked the anti-cycling barriers while they were at it.

That's what happens to them around Darlo ;D

I assume this is the cause of their disappearance, rather than the council having seen the light, cos if that was the case, they'd all be gone. It's also worth noting that the terrible motorbikes are usually being pushed by lads who move over for cyclists and pedestrians, so it hardly feels like a harbinger of social breakdown.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #573 on: 06 July, 2015, 10:48:12 pm »
Nautical terminology distinguishes between collisions (two moving objects into one another) and allisions (moving object into stationary object).

What about 'In collision with'?  :demon:

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« Reply #574 on: 07 July, 2015, 10:04:55 am »
Bill, as far as I am aware, all bridges on all the canals in the Birmingham network have number plates on them as you describe.  Does this suggest that all the bridges on the whole national  network are similarly numbered?

They are indeed; 'tis common among canalistas to refer to locations on the system by bridge number.  What happens when one is removed or a new one built is another matter entirely.
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