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      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    I think Portillo is a Latin word meaning Pompous A s s.  (printed like this, since the alternative name for a donkey is considered indecent on RP)
    Valvegear
    Agree VG on the pomposity but at least there is usually so little rail component, much of which is contrived simply to link the places he visits, it doesn't matter from the rail perspective. At least there are no artificial 'massive, catastrophic, disasterous' incidents of track faults, brake failures etc etc included which just make the people and the industry look incompetent and stupid.

    As for the donkey bit that is just childish.
    Posted: 05 May 2022 10:16

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      Lockspike Chief Commissioner

    Saw a news story showing the imminent installation of a new steel truss bridge in Birmingham, UK.
    It was reported as weighing 2700 Mini Coopers ... Rolling Eyes

    Are they all Coopers these days; are there any 'ordinary' minis?
    Not that any of them are actually Coopers.
    Posted: 05 May 2022 12:38

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      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    There is some cruise boat or other currently under construction which will be six metres longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower.

    I found this most informative! (NOT). Rolling Eyes

    American doco of course. Are the Yanks really that stupid?
    Posted: 05 May 2022 21:41

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      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: In exile
    There is some cruise boat or other currently under construction which will be six metres longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower.

    I found this most informative! (NOT). Rolling Eyes

    American doco of course. Are the Yanks really that stupid?
    YM-Mundrabilla
    Do the Yanks even know what a metre is?
    Posted: 06 May 2022 08:14
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    There is some cruise boat or other currently under construction which will be six metres longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower.

    I found this most informative! (NOT). Rolling Eyes

    American doco of course. Are the Yanks really that stupid?
    Do the Yanks even know what a metre is?
    Graham4405
    The use of metres and Eiffel Towers struck me as odd at the time.
    I would have expected yards/feet and Statues of Liberty. Smile
    Posted: 06 May 2022 09:58
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    Another two new 'units of measurement'. In this case relating to wind turbines:
    • Diameter of the blades/sails (whatever) is measured to be the 'same as the London Eye'.
    • Speed of rotation is not measured in RPM (revs per minute) but rather as MPH (miles per hour).
    Both measurements are equally uninformative.
    Posted: 08 May 2022 23:15

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      GrahamH Chief Commissioner

    Location: At a terminal on the www.
    Recently my wife and 2 or 3 daughters were discussing the sizes of stoves and ovens over social media. Their units of measurement was a mobile phone length...
    Posted: 14 May 2022 12:36
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: In exile
    Recently my wife and 2 or 3 daughters were discussing the sizes of stoves and ovens over social media. Their units of measurement was a mobile phone length...
    GrahamH

    Which one? Laughing
    Posted: 14 May 2022 15:46

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      doyle Chief Commissioner

    Women just know stuff.. Duh.. I bet they knew exactly what the measurements were

    Im not frightened of anything i have a wife and 5 daughters although my son gets worried at times
    Posted: 14 May 2022 18:50
      GrahamH Chief Commissioner

    Location: At a terminal on the www.
    Women just know stuff.. Duh.. I bet they knew exactly what the measurements were

    Im not frightened of anything i have a wife and 5 daughters although my son gets worried at times
    doyle
    I only have four...
    Posted: 14 May 2022 20:40
      GrahamH Chief Commissioner

    Location: At a terminal on the www.
    Recently my wife and 2 or 3 daughters were discussing the sizes of stoves and ovens over social media. Their units of measurement was a mobile phone length...

    Which one? Laughing
    Graham4405
    Each used her own phone...
    Posted: 14 May 2022 20:45
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    Women and measurement? ? ?
    My mother could not teach me to make scones, simply because she never measured anything properly and therefore couldn't tell me quantities. This, of course, was anathema to someone like me with training in chemistry. I never learnt, and she never got it wrong.
    Posted: 14 May 2022 20:54

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      SinickleBird Assistant Commissioner

    Location: Qantas Club at Mudgee International Airport
    NSW Government has a new road safety campaign, telling us that some trains can take up to 14 Rugby fields to stop. League or Union?

    I can just imagine the conversation in some impatient dude’s car:

    “Yep, I reckon that train is 16 rugby fields away - you can get across before it comes through”.

    I don’t know of any rail line that runs through a rugby field. And I don’t understand distances that aren’t measured in MCGs. But I can recognize an idiot from an Eiffel Tower’s height away.
    Posted: 22 May 2022 13:48
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: In exile
    some trains can take up to 14 Rugby fields to stop. League or Union?
    SinickleBird
    Aren't they the same size?
    Posted: 22 May 2022 15:19
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    some trains can take up to 14 Rugby fields to stop. League or Union?
    Aren't they the same size?
    Graham4405
    Answers in fractions of MCGs, please or Olympic Swimming Pools which until now we all thought was a measure of volume.
    Item the other day measured an area in Olympic Swimming Pools!
    Something else recently weighed the same as 120 fully loaded jumbo jets.
    Posted: 22 May 2022 16:15

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      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    Something else recently weighed the same as 120 fully loaded jumbo jets.
    "YM-Mundrabilla"
    Would they be 747-200, 747-300, 747-400, 747-400ER, 747 Combi or 747SP (or some I have missed)?
    Posted: 22 May 2022 17:07
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    Something else recently weighed the same as 120 fully loaded jumbo jets.
    Would they be 747-200, 747-300, 747-400, 747-400ER, 747 Combi or 747SP (or some I have missed)?
    Valvegear
    747-100.
    Thankfully and correctly you have not included the A380.Smile
    Posted: 22 May 2022 18:52
      billybaxter Chief Commissioner

    Location: Bosnia Park, Fairfield
    Saw this in the renewal energy thread.
    'The farm, which would cover 12,000 hectares — equivalent to 12,000 rugby pitches..'
    Posted: 26 May 2022 06:51
      SinickleBird Assistant Commissioner

    Location: Qantas Club at Mudgee International Airport
    Feel free to correct me, but my understanding is that a rugby pitch is 100m long by 50m wide. Making 500 square metres in total.

    A hectare is 10,000 square metres.

    So converting hectares to rugby pitches at one-to-one is, to use the technical term, complete bullish!t.
    Posted: 26 May 2022 09:18
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    Feel free to correct me, but my understanding is that a rugby pitch is 100m long by 50m wide. Making 500 square metres in total.

    A hectare is 10,000 square metres.

    So converting hectares to rugby pitches at one-to-one is, to use the technical term, complete bullish!t.
    "SinickleBird"

    Unfortunately, you're out by  a factor of ten. 100 m x 50 m = 5,000 square metres. However, it doesn't alter your point; the comparison is still bullsh!t.
    Posted: 26 May 2022 10:01
      SinickleBird Assistant Commissioner

    Location: Qantas Club at Mudgee International Airport
    Thanks for the correction, VG.

    Finger’s don’t work well in this tiny iPhone screen.
    Posted: 26 May 2022 10:15
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    Couple of new ones on TV today:
    • Sugar in a lolly factory weighs the same as 'sixteen satellites in space'.
    • Something or bloody other is as long as 'xx Olympic Running Tracks'.
    • Plus an old one where some other thing weighs the same as 'xx fully grown African elephants'.
    Posted: 30 May 2022 18:43

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      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    Sugar in a lolly factory weighs the same as 'sixteen satellites in space'.
    The sugar may have the same mass as the satellites, but in zero gravity you can forget weight.
    Posted: 30 May 2022 19:16
      GrahamH Chief Commissioner

    Location: At a terminal on the www.
    Couple of new ones on TV today:
    • Sugar in a lolly factory weighs the same as 'sixteen satellites in space'.
    YM-Mundrabilla
    Would that be cubesats or ISSs?
    Posted: 30 May 2022 21:47
      WimbledonW Assistant Commissioner

    Location: Sydney
    Abbreviation for litre should be capital "L" since small "l" looks like a "1" Smile
    Posted: 31 May 2022 06:37

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