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| lordedmond:
naw thats indy car racing in the states F1 is a M25 simulation long queues and no overtaking Stuart |
| ScroungerLee:
At least a "ten foot pole" as in "I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole" is a pole or stick ten feet long. They were originally used by loggers to quickly estimate the sizes of logs as they were floated down a river. Lee |
| andyf:
We must not forget the measuring system so beloved of UK newspapers: Length: London omnibuses, as in "As long as three London buses" Area (large): Wales, as in "Three times the size of Wales" Area (small): Football (soccer) pitches, as in "An area twice the size of a football pitch". An elastic unit, as football pitches can vary in area, within certain limits Volume (large): The Albert Hall, as in "enough to fill the Albert Hall three times over" Volume (small): Olympic swimming pools "as big as five Olympic pools" Small diameter: a human hair, though this is used only in the singular and as a maximum, as in "half the thickness of a human hair". Andy |
| Deko:
Whatever i come to measure i have found that it is ALLWAYS twice as long as half of it. :palm: :loco: Cheers Dek. |
| AndyB:
--- Quote from: Jonny on November 09, 2012, 09:52:39 AM ---I remember the old 50 bob note --- End quote --- Sorry Jonny, it was a ten bob note, a big brown thing! Half a quid. For those not so blessed; a pound was 20 shillings, a shilling was 12 pennies, and a penny was two ha'pennies or four farthings; 240 pennies to a pound! :Doh: For the posh, a guinea was one pound and one shilling. We only went to metric money in 1971, no wonder I failed my 11Plus that year:lol: Saying that, I tried a test just now and only got 11/15, and I have got a degree in English and History! :lol: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7773974.stm Andy |
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