Things I Like.

[toml]

Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps

(TV form and pub form)

 

[Manator]

Cobol

 

[kerching]

New tools

New kitchen knives

Making profiteroles ( yeah, I know......but I am fricking good at it )

Being with my family, especially granddaughters

Seeing a skateboarder or BMXer fall off....just makes me chuckle, sorry

Customer saying something like...."brilliant!....how the fuff did you manage to do that"

Exceeding the customers expectations

Bacon, roast chicken, McCoys crisps

Walkers chicken and rosemary crisps

Gold chocolate bars

Salad cream

Weekends

Tax refunds

 

[kerching]

Now your showing your age msl1:

CP/M............or however you used to write it!

 

[sprocketflup]

New tools

New kitchen knives

Making profiteroles ( yeah, I know......but I am fricking good at it )

Being with my family, especially granddaughters

Seeing a skateboarder or BMXer fall off....just makes me chuckle, sorry

Customer saying something like...."brilliant!....how the fuff did you manage to do that"

Exceeding the customers expectations

Bacon, roast chicken, McCoys crisps

Walkers chicken and rosemary crisps

Gold chocolate bars

Salad cream

Weekends

Tax refunds

Few weeks back driving down the hill into Okehampton, a 'yoof' slouching along with his trousers at half mast, I see the bus pull up at the bottom of the hill, so does he and starts to run for it......... get a mental picture if you will.......it was twenty times more funny than that, I nearly crashed me van :slap

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Tax refunds normally  mean you didn't do as well as  expected 

 

[Andy™]

Tax refunds normally  mean you didn't do as well as  expected 

or a slightly dodgy accountant

 

[misssweden]

Over the years various people have tried to explain to me the logic (which I'm still not certain that there is one) behind imperial measurements and old money. It still baffles me, so I most definately like metric units and a currency that uses decimals!

 

[batty]

I use what ever is nearest on the tape measure.

 

[kerching]

I use what ever is nearest on the tape measure.

Yep, thats why they have both measurements on the same side, also makes for a handy conversion chart as well

just saying

 

[steptoe]

I use both,

I'll say something like 3feet 2" 4mm,!!!!  :|

 

[kerching]

I use both,

I'll say something like 3feet 2" 4mm,!!!!  :|

I was going to put exactly the same, then I thought better of it and decided not too!

My plasterer has a good system    he has 'big' and 'small' as sub measurements....

so we can have    'a big 56 1/2       or a small           63'.....works for him

just saying

 

[steptoe]

I was going to put exactly the same, then I thought better of it and decided not too!

My plasterer has a good system    he has 'big' and 'small' as sub measurements....

so we can have    'a big 56 1/2       or a small           63'.....works for him

just saying

yep,

I know it, depends on what side of the mark/line it falls on, or how accurate it needs to be,

if its a measurement for a backboard [for instance] it could be a BIG 26&1/2",

but, if the gap is a BIG 26&1/2" then the board would be a small 26&1/2"

 

[NozSpark]

It all depends on which side of the line you want to cut

 

[kerching]

It all depends on which side of the line you want to cut

Ah well, this is where the dimensional nomenclature has another dynamic, as amongst my colleagues we also have 'tight'. And. "Slack"......but not in a Savilery sort of way

I believe within the jewellery worl d there is also a measure called "good"......so a ring ( gauged in letters ) could

be. J. Or J and a half....or J and a half good.

Just measuring

 

[Evans Electric]

I find that anything smaller than 4mm  is referenced to against Gnat's private parts .

 

[kerching]

I find that anything smaller than 4mm  is referenced to against Gnat's private parts .

Anything less than 1mm is classed as a nadgers

Anything less than 0.1mm is classed as a "ghee hair"

......there is an official measurement of an "Iota". And also. "Hairs-breadth".....trust me!.....google it!

Just saying

 

[Evans Electric]

Over the years various people have tried to explain to me the logic (which I'm still not certain that there is one) behind imperial measurements and old money. It still baffles me, so I most definately like metric units and a currency that uses decimals!

Its quite simple , Miss Norway , and is as follows :-

An inch is the King's thumb from the middle joint to the end.    ( = 25mm)

A foot was the King's foot .     ( 300mm)

A yard was the King's stride  = to 3 x King's feet.  

There are 1760 yds in a mile , obviously.

There are 8 furlongs in a mile  ( I think)

The money however is simple :-

2 Farthings = 1 halfpenny  ( pronounced hay-penny)

2 Halfpennies =  1 Penny    ( Hence 4 farthings = 1 penny)

6 Pennies  = Sixpence  or a Tanner     ( So 2 x Tanners = a Bob) 

12 Pennies = 1 Shilling (or Bob)

4 Threepenny bits =  1 shilling    ( Pronounced Thre'pn'ey Bits ((  also rhyming slang ))

2 Bob (Shillings) =  1 Florin  ( or a 2 Bob piece)    (  10 Florins = 1 Pound )

30 pennies = a Half crown  ( or Half a Dollar)  (( expressed as 2/6d))

5 Bob  =  1 Dollar    ( expressed as 5/- )

2 Half crowns =  5 Bob.

10 Bob = 1/2 a Quid    ( or a Ten Shilling note ((  10 Bob note))

20 shillings = 1 Pound ( Quid)  ( 240 pennies = 1 pound)  ( Obviously )

1 Guinea   =  21 shillings  ( 1 pound 1shilling) :C

Got it ?? 

Just remembered :-

A Grand    =  £1000

Monkey    =   £500

Pony          = £25

Score        =  £20

A Nicker    =  £1 

Ton           = £100

Skin Diver  =  Fiver = £5 

 

[kerching]

And do you know why it was based on 12?

Hold out your right hand, palm up

Touch tip of little finger with thumb.....this is 1

Touch middle joint of little finger with thumb....this is 2

Touch lower joint of little finger with thumb....this is 3

Repeat over all fingers gives you 12

One hand = 5 digits=60

2 hands thus equals 120

2 hands 2 feet = 240

SIMPLES,!.........not a lot of people know that!

Lose a finger or thumb though and you are Barrymored

Just saying

 

[Evans Electric]

Nice one Kerch.

 You'd think, even centuries ago , that someone would have thought working in 10,s might be easier.

I guess the same happened with the spelling of some of our words .  I believe the Founding Fathers of the USA , once free of the British, sat down and simplified the spelling of some of the more curious English words , hence the difference today.