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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    And?
    The sheet thing was for non sailors
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Oh sheet
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    She was only the admirals daughter, but she had a naval full of discharged seamen.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,491
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Gunwhales is pronounced ‘gunnels’

    Yay it's NapD. I thought you'd been shot.

    Try this:

    Milngavie or Wemyss Bay.
    bompington wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Gunwhales is pronounced ‘gunnels’
    You didn't know that? You must have been living in a tunwhale.

    You're clever Bompy.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Pinno wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Gunwhales is pronounced ‘gunnels’

    Yay it's NapD. I thought you'd been shot.

    Try this:

    Milngavie or Wemyss Bay.
    bompington wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Gunwhales is pronounced ‘gunnels’
    You didn't know that? You must have been living in a tunwhale.

    You're clever Bompy.
    You're a clever gavie yourself Pinno ;-)
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    ...but nothing is quite what it semyss
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,491
    Alpha Centauri (the nearest star(s) outside of our solar system) is 4.37 light years away (in new money).
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Pinno wrote:
    Alpha Centauri (the nearest star(s) outside of our solar system) is 4.37 light years away (in new money).
    Not the nearest! Proxima Centauri is nearer - the clue's in the name...
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    bompington wrote:
    ...but nothing is quite what it semyss

    It is important know your Featherstonhaugh from your Cholmondeley.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Chris Bass wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    Spaceships will be equipped with radar and will be able to get you home from Neptune quicker than Thomas Cook can get you back from anywhere on the planet.

    Well neither thing exists so either option is pretty unlikely!

    Brad Pitt would deceive me? Thomas Cook would, I know.
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    I asked brad pitt about the whole space flight thing but he said that he didn't like talking about flight club - there are rules about it apparently
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    How to truly appreciate the difference between a million and a billion other than an extra three zeros.
    Convert to seconds.

    Million = 11.6 days

    Billion = 11574 days or 31.7 years!!
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Robert88 wrote:
    bompington wrote:
    ...but nothing is quite what it semyss

    It is important know your Featherstonhaugh from your Cholmondeley.
    For stonhaugh
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Mr Goo wrote:
    How to truly appreciate the difference between a million and a billion other than an extra three zeros.
    Convert to seconds.

    Million = 11.6 days

    Billion = 11574 days or 31.7 years!!

    I did something similar with how long brexit has been going on, it has been going on for over 9.1% of my entire life!
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,491
    bompington wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Alpha Centauri (the nearest star(s) outside of our solar system) is 4.37 light years away (in new money).
    Not the nearest! Proxima Centauri is nearer - the clue's in the name...

    Given our inability to travel long distances, it's immaterial.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    "Soccer" is not an americanism.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,698
    'Wastwater' in the Lake District should be pronounced 'Wostwater'. Well, that's wot it sez on Wikipedia.
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,497
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    "Soccer" is not an americanism.
    I always enjoy this fact. An attempt to contract Association Football in the same way Rugby Football was to "rugger". Never stops people trying to claim it's the Yanks wot dun it
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    How about rowlocks?
    Forecastle

    I've been sailing my entire life and that has really screwed with me.

    I always assumed it was a folk sail or something.
    The sheet isn't the sail, it's the rope.

    Sheet in! You lot haven't got a clew .... time to change tack and head up a different channel ...
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,698
    Tashman wrote:
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    "Soccer" is not an americanism.
    I always enjoy this fact. An attempt to contract Association Football in the same way Rugby Football was to "rugger". Never stops people trying to claim it's the Yanks wot dun it
    It was originally spelt 'socker'. First reference to 'soccer' in the OED is 1924.
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    briantrumpet wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    "Soccer" is not an americanism.
    I always enjoy this fact. An attempt to contract Association Football in the same way Rugby Football was to "rugger". Never stops people trying to claim it's the Yanks wot dun it
    It was originally spelt 'socker'. First reference to 'soccer' in the OED is 1924.
    It is a contraction of Association Football, as opposed to Rugby Football.
    It's not called football because the ball is played with the foot. Football games are called "football" because the games are played ON foot, as opposed to gentlemen's games that are on horseback.
  • Longshot
    Longshot Posts: 940
    Over 6M people attend Oktoberfest every year. I think most of the barged past me at some point this weekend.

    In 2017 over 7.5M litres of beer were drunk. Frankly, some people weren't trying enough.
    You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    At a conference the other week I learn't a new Engineering term from the Danes:
    Whore's measure: a cursury glance to size something up.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    briantrumpet wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    "Soccer" is not an americanism.
    I always enjoy this fact. An attempt to contract Association Football in the same way Rugby Football was to "rugger". Never stops people trying to claim it's the Yanks wot dun it
    It was originally spelt 'socker'. First reference to 'soccer' in the OED is 1924.
    It is a contraction of Association Football, as opposed to Rugby Football.
    It's not called football because the ball is played with the foot. Football games are called "football" because the games are played ON foot, as opposed to gentlemen's games that are on horseback.

    So golf is in fact football? How about snooker? You'd struggle to play either on horseback.

    Actually I might pitch that idea to Channel 4...
  • step83
    step83 Posts: 4,170
    The adhesive used in the works canteens coffee cups melts below the temperature the coffee is dispensed at. This does cause issues.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    keef66 wrote:
    So golf is in fact football? How about snooker?
    Table football.
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  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Step83 wrote:
    The adhesive used in the works canteens coffee cups melts below the temperature the coffee is dispensed at. This does cause issues.

    ..and no doubt needs tissues.
  • step83
    step83 Posts: 4,170
    Robert88 wrote:
    Step83 wrote:
    The adhesive used in the works canteens coffee cups melts below the temperature the coffee is dispensed at. This does cause issues.

    ..and no doubt needs tissues.

    Indeed, and apparently the company is eco friendly (I usually use my travel mug but left it at home).
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    Easty commuter
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    rjsterry wrote:
    keef66 wrote:
    So golf is in fact football? How about snooker?
    Table football.

    applause :D
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    I Mesut Ozil were to pay tax without avoid any (i very much assume he does avoid as much as he can! who wouldn't?!) then according to the Money Supermarket's tax/pay calculator

    Over the year he'll pay £8,175,000 income tax and £367,964 in National Insurance.

    Let's hope Arsenal don't or can't sell him - it is in the national interest!
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