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rbowman
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On Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:18:24 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/11701
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/11701
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rbowman
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 09:52:40 +0100, NY wrote:
Good luck finding a 688 thousandths open end wrench in a SAE set.
\"rbowman\" <bowman@montana.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 21:26:55 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-04-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:23:25 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I note from watching many car mechanic you tube videos that even
proper US made cars are moving to metric screws. And things like a
\"12.5mm wrench\" are mire likely than a \'half inch\'
I have tools in both systems. Even my 1986 Ford pickup throws in a
little metric every now and then. The forks, carb, and other bits on
the Harley are Japanese and hence metric. Only the Toyota car and
Suzuki bikes have no surprises.
When working under car a female significant other can copy better
with metric sizes than \'Give me the damn 13/16\"
Your female significant other, perhaps. I\'m quite comfortable with
fractions.
I\'m certain she can work with fractions in a normal context but 20 or
21 works better when you\'re hunting through a set of open ends than
looking for the one between 12/16ths and 14/16ths.
Better to quote the sizes in thousands of an inch rather than fractions:
688 thous means a lot more to me than 11/16 inch.
Good luck finding a 688 thousandths open end wrench in a SAE set.
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John Larkin
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On Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:35:12 +1000, \"Rod Speed\"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
The US benefits from mass levels of constructive chaos. It\'s like
evolution, random mutation and selection. Many of the driving forces
of modern civilization were invented by amateurs in the USA.
Great inventions in fact happen *from* the above lamented lack of
culture and ideology.
Exactly. Lunatics bring down establishments.
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 02:36:07 +1000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 03/04/2023 17:09, John Larkin wrote:
On 3 Apr 2023 02:30:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:46:56 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
To imagine America, just think of any other country 50 years ago.
They
evolve slowly over there.
At least America is evolving. The UK has been devolving since they lost
that war they thought they won. How\'s that true Scotsman, Humza Yousaf,
doing? Bad enough to have one named after a fish. What was the matter
with
Forbes? Upset the poofters?
England was the cultural and technical driving force of the world, a
long time ago. The US has taken over those roles.
The class structure of many countries drives the best and brightest
individuals to the US.
Utter bollocks.
Fraid not.
There are 10 times as many acres per head of habitable land in the USA
as in Europe, and ten time as as many resources under it.
The miracles is that middle class americans are not ten times as rich
as Europeans, a tribute to the rapacity of its leaders.
That wasnt the reason that Britain invented the industrial revolution.
Like any other country,Such success as the US has us *despite* it\'s
(lack of) culture religion ethnicity and political, ideology.
Thats very arguable indeed given the way the US took over
industrially and later
The US benefits from mass levels of constructive chaos. It\'s like
evolution, random mutation and selection. Many of the driving forces
of modern civilization were invented by amateurs in the USA.
Great inventions in fact happen *from* the above lamented lack of
culture and ideology.
with everything from credit cards,
clothes, cars, aircraft, microsoft, google, facebook etc etc etc.
Exactly. Lunatics bring down establishments.
J
John Larkin
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 08:19:30 +0100, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:
That sounds, well, novel. Or repulsive.
We poor provincials have to make do with chicken-apple sausage and
anduille.
wrote:
On 05/04/2023 00:01, Sam Plusnet wrote:
On 03-Apr-23 22:12, Scott Lurndal wrote:
\"Real\" Scotsmen also eat Haggis. \'nuf said.
But only when they are in season.
No-one has ever managed to successfully farm haggis, they only thrive in
the wild.
I doubt if any American has seen or even tasted real Haggis as the USA
ban the import. Instead they get some artificial factory produced
substitute made from minced sheep offal and oatmeal.
Here in England we get Faggots. Much the same as the factory produced
Haggis above but made with pig offal instead of sheep offal.
That sounds, well, novel. Or repulsive.
We poor provincials have to make do with chicken-apple sausage and
anduille.
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Peeler
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On 5 Apr 2023 14:15:42 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
Oh, my! Senility sure seems to create a lot of problems that need to be
\"discussed\" endlessly by the senilely afflicted. LMAO
--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
Better to quote the sizes in thousands of an inch rather than fractions:
688 thous means a lot more to me than 11/16 inch.
Good luck finding a 688 thousandths open end wrench in a SAE set.
Oh, my! Senility sure seems to create a lot of problems that need to be
\"discussed\" endlessly by the senilely afflicted. LMAO
--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>
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Peeler
Guest
On 5 Apr 2023 13:54:43 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
> https://www.kyivpost.com/post/11701
What\'s that about now, bigmouthed Trumptard and Putin sympathizer?
--
Yet more of the so very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
\"My family loaded me into a \'51 Chevy and drove from NY to Seattle and
back in \'52. I\'m alive. The Chevy had a painted steel dashboard with two
little hand prints worn down to the primer because I liked to stand up
and lean on it to see where we were going.\"
MID: <j2kuc1F3ejsU1@mid.individual.net>
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
> https://www.kyivpost.com/post/11701
What\'s that about now, bigmouthed Trumptard and Putin sympathizer?
--
Yet more of the so very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
\"My family loaded me into a \'51 Chevy and drove from NY to Seattle and
back in \'52. I\'m alive. The Chevy had a painted steel dashboard with two
little hand prints worn down to the primer because I liked to stand up
and lean on it to see where we were going.\"
MID: <j2kuc1F3ejsU1@mid.individual.net>
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Scott Lurndal
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:
The garlic ice cream is actually quite tasty. And the aroma of the
festival is delicious by itself. It used to be a fun way to spend
a hot weekend.
Unfortunately, the gun nuts have closed it down, since they can no
longer get insurance after the last festival where some nut with an
assault rifle killed several of the guests.
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:36:00 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
Breaux Bridge LA used to have an annual cayenne pepper eating contest,
at the crawfish festival. Maybe still does.
https://gilroygarlicfestivalassociation.com/
I think they have garlic ice cream but I don\'t know about garlic custard.
The garlic ice cream is actually quite tasty. And the aroma of the
festival is delicious by itself. It used to be a fun way to spend
a hot weekend.
Unfortunately, the gun nuts have closed it down, since they can no
longer get insurance after the last festival where some nut with an
assault rifle killed several of the guests.
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alan_m
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On 05/04/2023 13:46, Ed P wrote:
17mm wrench? Try spanner.
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On 4/5/2023 4:52 AM, NY wrote:
\"rbowman\" <bowman@montana.com> wrote in message
I\'m certain she can work with fractions in a normal context but 20 or 21
works better when you\'re hunting through a set of open ends than looking
for the one between 12/16ths and 14/16ths.
Better to quote the sizes in thousands of an inch rather than
fractions: 688 thous means a lot more to me than 11/16 inch.
Depends on what you work with on a regular basis. Hand me the 17mm
wrench, please.
17mm wrench? Try spanner.
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alan_m
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On 05/04/2023 09:45, NY wrote:
Sprouts are OK if cooked correctly and not boiled or steamed to death
aka uk school dinner cooking method (hopefully things have improved over
the years in school canteens).
Spouts also benefit from being field to shop in a very short time span.
--
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\"John Larkin\" <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in message
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Enough garlic and bacon makes brussels sprouts almost edible.
My wife and I agree on one thing: that brussels sprouts are deeply
unpleasant (unfortunately, for me that extends to all boiled/steamed
veg).
Sprouts are OK if cooked correctly and not boiled or steamed to death
aka uk school dinner cooking method (hopefully things have improved over
the years in school canteens).
Spouts also benefit from being field to shop in a very short time span.
--
mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk
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Rod Speed
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On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:18:04 +1000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
Which ones do you believe those are ?
On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:09:56 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
I read a claim that, in 1900, people mostly married someone born within
15 miles of themselves. Now we have national and international
immigration diffusion gradients thus positive-feedback effects on
populations and genetics.
My wife was born across the river. It was a short walk. Do the positive
effects offset the negative?
Some countries aren\'t sending their best and
brightest.
Which ones do you believe those are ?
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Peeler
Guest
On Thu, 06 Apr 2023 02:44:20 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the sleepless trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
--
Richard addressing senile Rodent Speed:
\"Shit you\'re thick/pathetic excuse for a troll.\"
MID: <ogoa38$pul$1@news.mixmin.net>
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the sleepless trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
--
Richard addressing senile Rodent Speed:
\"Shit you\'re thick/pathetic excuse for a troll.\"
MID: <ogoa38$pul$1@news.mixmin.net>
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The Natural Philosopher
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On 05/04/2023 15:33, John Larkin wrote:
offal. a bit of liver and heart, yes, but mainly minced pork.
The only time I trie it sas as Andouillette, in France, I ate one
mouthful and gave up.
It tasted like eating someone else\'s shit.
Later I discovered that is essentially what it was.
--
In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act.
- George Orwell
I don\'t recall fag(g)ots as being made with offal. Certainly not ONLYOn Wed, 5 Apr 2023 08:19:30 +0100, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk
wrote:
On 05/04/2023 00:01, Sam Plusnet wrote:
On 03-Apr-23 22:12, Scott Lurndal wrote:
\"Real\" Scotsmen also eat Haggis. \'nuf said.
But only when they are in season.
No-one has ever managed to successfully farm haggis, they only thrive in
the wild.
I doubt if any American has seen or even tasted real Haggis as the USA
ban the import. Instead they get some artificial factory produced
substitute made from minced sheep offal and oatmeal.
Here in England we get Faggots. Much the same as the factory produced
Haggis above but made with pig offal instead of sheep offal.
That sounds, well, novel. Or repulsive.
offal. a bit of liver and heart, yes, but mainly minced pork.
Anduille?We poor provincials have to make do with chicken-apple sausage and
anduille.
The only time I trie it sas as Andouillette, in France, I ate one
mouthful and gave up.
It tasted like eating someone else\'s shit.
Later I discovered that is essentially what it was.
--
In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act.
- George Orwell
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rbowman
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On Thu, 06 Apr 2023 02:44:20 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:
Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Haiti...
Do you think those storming the southern border are all rocket scientists
in disguise? For the most part they didn\'t have the skills to make it at
home.
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:18:04 +1000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:09:56 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
I read a claim that, in 1900, people mostly married someone born
within 15 miles of themselves. Now we have national and international
immigration diffusion gradients thus positive-feedback effects on
populations and genetics.
My wife was born across the river. It was a short walk. Do the positive
effects offset the negative?
Some countries aren\'t sending their best and brightest.
Which ones do you believe those are ?
Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Haiti...
Do you think those storming the southern border are all rocket scientists
in disguise? For the most part they didn\'t have the skills to make it at
home.
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rbowman
Guest
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 16:51:44 +0100, alan_m wrote:
> 17mm wrench? Try spanner.
https://www.amazon.com/AutoWanderer-Tool-Adjustable-Universal-Adjustments/
dp/B09Y1WY3CS
Quite a different animal in the rest of the world.
> 17mm wrench? Try spanner.
https://www.amazon.com/AutoWanderer-Tool-Adjustable-Universal-Adjustments/
dp/B09Y1WY3CS
Quite a different animal in the rest of the world.
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Peeler
Guest
On 6 Apr 2023 04:35:10 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
Whereas you will be considered a bigmouth in any part of the world! ;-)
--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
https://www.amazon.com/AutoWanderer-Tool-Adjustable-Universal-Adjustments/
dp/B09Y1WY3CS
Quite a different animal in the rest of the world.
Whereas you will be considered a bigmouth in any part of the world! ;-)
--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>
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Peeler
Guest
On 6 Apr 2023 03:55:53 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
Well, on the positive side: most likely NONE of them is an abnormal
bigmouthed Yankietard like you!
--
More of the resident senile bigmouth\'s idiotic \"cool\" blather:
\"For reasons I can\'t recall I painted a spare bedroom in purple. It may
have had something to do with copious quantities of cheap Scotch.\"
MID: <k89lchF8b4pU1@mid.individual.net>
___________________________________________________________________
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Haiti...
Do you think those storming the southern border are all rocket scientists
in disguise? For the most part they didn\'t have the skills to make it at
home.
Well, on the positive side: most likely NONE of them is an abnormal
bigmouthed Yankietard like you!
--
More of the resident senile bigmouth\'s idiotic \"cool\" blather:
\"For reasons I can\'t recall I painted a spare bedroom in purple. It may
have had something to do with copious quantities of cheap Scotch.\"
MID: <k89lchF8b4pU1@mid.individual.net>
___________________________________________________________________
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NY
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\"alan_m\" <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote in message
news:k95jofFikvsU3@mid.individual.net...
I\'m one of those people who cannot distinguish by eye between one
spanner/wrench and other of very similar size (*), so I always have to look
at the number stamped on it. Especially with socket-spanners where they are
all lined up in ascending order in the box. And I find it easier to read \"17
mm\" than \"11/16 inch\". I suppose I prefer to use integers of a smaller unit
(millimetre) than fractions of a larger unit (inch).
(*) My wife is just the opposite: she can\'t understand how anyone can\'t
remember what two similar spanners look like, having seen one and then the
other (ie not side-by-side), and then select the correct one by eye.
Likewise with judging the weight of thing: this potato is \"obviously\"
heavier than the other one, judging either by holding one and then the
other, or else by judging the size of them even though they are completely
different shapes.
news:k95jofFikvsU3@mid.individual.net...
On 05/04/2023 13:46, Ed P wrote:
On 4/5/2023 4:52 AM, NY wrote:
\"rbowman\" <bowman@montana.com> wrote in message
I\'m certain she can work with fractions in a normal context but 20 or
21
works better when you\'re hunting through a set of open ends than
looking
for the one between 12/16ths and 14/16ths.
Better to quote the sizes in thousands of an inch rather than fractions:
688 thous means a lot more to me than 11/16 inch.
Depends on what you work with on a regular basis. Hand me the 17mm
wrench, please.
I\'m one of those people who cannot distinguish by eye between one
spanner/wrench and other of very similar size (*), so I always have to look
at the number stamped on it. Especially with socket-spanners where they are
all lined up in ascending order in the box. And I find it easier to read \"17
mm\" than \"11/16 inch\". I suppose I prefer to use integers of a smaller unit
(millimetre) than fractions of a larger unit (inch).
(*) My wife is just the opposite: she can\'t understand how anyone can\'t
remember what two similar spanners look like, having seen one and then the
other (ie not side-by-side), and then select the correct one by eye.
Likewise with judging the weight of thing: this potato is \"obviously\"
heavier than the other one, judging either by holding one and then the
other, or else by judging the size of them even though they are completely
different shapes.
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NY
Guest
\"alan_m\" <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote in message
news:k95k8kFikvsU4@mid.individual.net...
I\'ve not yet found any way of cooking them which serves the fundamental aim
of destroying that horrible \"green\" flavour. Maybe I just don\'t like
chlorophyll in green veg. ;-)
news:k95k8kFikvsU4@mid.individual.net...
On 05/04/2023 09:45, NY wrote:
\"John Larkin\" <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote in message
news:6sgo2ipg52sudd8r4eqcteeir51f0l1e3c@4ax.com...
Enough garlic and bacon makes brussels sprouts almost edible.
My wife and I agree on one thing: that brussels sprouts are deeply
unpleasant (unfortunately, for me that extends to all boiled/steamed
veg).
Sprouts are OK if cooked correctly and not boiled or steamed to death aka
uk school dinner cooking method (hopefully things have improved over the
years in school canteens).
Spouts also benefit from being field to shop in a very short time span.
I\'ve not yet found any way of cooking them which serves the fundamental aim
of destroying that horrible \"green\" flavour. Maybe I just don\'t like
chlorophyll in green veg. ;-)
C
Commander Kinsey
Guest
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:19:27 -0000, soup <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
I use the number closest to what I\'m measuring on the tape.
On 15/03/2023 15:28, NY wrote:
I once worked with a guy who used the trendy pronunciation for lengths
of running races or distances along roads, and the scientific
pronunciation for units in scientific/engineering contexts.
I use something similar I use Imperial units (Miles, Feet etc) for
distances along roads peoples sizes etc, but Metric ( Centimetres
Millimetres etc) for scientific/engineering contexts .
I use the number closest to what I\'m measuring on the tape.
C
Commander Kinsey
Guest
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:12:10 -0000, SH <i.love@spam.me> wrote:
Dafuq? I always call it SI.
And CGS? People use centimetres? Do they not grasp the concept of whole units matching nicely?
On 20/03/2023 14:19, soup wrote:
On 15/03/2023 15:28, NY wrote:
I once worked with a guy who used the trendy pronunciation for lengths
of running races or distances along roads, and the scientific
pronunciation for units in scientific/engineering contexts.
I use something similar I use Imperial units (Miles, Feet etc) for
distances along roads peoples sizes etc, but Metric ( Centimetres
Millimetres etc) for scientific/engineering contexts .
What are Imperial units????
I was brought up in the MKS and CGS system....
Dafuq? I always call it SI.
And CGS? People use centimetres? Do they not grasp the concept of whole units matching nicely?