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[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:03:38 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 24/07/2023 00:25, rbowman wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 23:33:55 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 04:59:57 +0100, Ralph Mowery <rmowery42@charter.net
wrote:

In article <op.18inm7bemvhs6z@ryzen>, CK1@nospam.com says...

You and your silly guages. You still use that American Wire Guage
crap, where the higher number is smaller!

For shotguns it is logical. The gage is how many balls of the diameter
of the barrel will weigh a pound.

That is illogical. It means you use a higher number to describe a
smaller barrel.

It would appear to be another strange measurement we inherited from oyur lot:

http://www.boxallandedmiston.co.uk/shotgun-anatomy/bore-size-gauge-or-possibly-calibre-although-thats-slightly-different/

Never mind that: the East Pondians talk in terms of litres per 100kmh,
which is weird and the smaller it is the better it is.

Bullshit, try writing that again. You put a speed instead of a distance, and got the units the wrong sides of the per. We may well quote km per litre somewhere, but I never do, since for some reason our road signs are still in miles. Miles per litre would be best for the UK, since the signs are miles and the pumps litres. But we only have mpg and lpkm (presumably).

> WE buy petrol and diesel in litres but still quote economy in mpg.

You buy litres in America?

 

[rbowman]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:12:24 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

WE buy petrol and diesel in litres but still quote economy in mpg.

You buy litres in America?

Only for beverages... When I used to go to Canada and buy gas by the liter
between that and trying to do the currency conversion I always figured I
was getting screwed. Back when they did Imperial gallons it was like
getting a bonus.

 

[rbowman]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:10:32 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Why do yanks think mac and cheese is considerably shorter than macaroni
cheese?

Are you familiar with the concept of syllables?

 

[rbowman]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:07:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Anyway, who weighs themselves to check weight? Just look at your
stomach, easy.

After a weigh-in at the doctor\'s she looked at me and said \"Do you have
any concrete hidden in your pants?\"

 

[rbowman]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:06:41 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:46:32 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:

On 24/07/2023 05:53, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:30:51 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com
wrote:

As I\'ve never heard of anyone calling a quart of milk a 2-pint
bottle. I suppose it works when describing a 2 pint warrior; a quart
warrior just isn\'t the same.

You dislike saying 2 pints instead of 1 quart, but you\'ll say 140
pounds instead of 14 stone. Why not go the whole hog and measure
people in ounces?

140 pounds is 10 stone.

But Americans aren\'t bright enough to use the larger denomination. 140
pounds is an easy one. Try dividing other numbers by 14 in your head.

Says the person who multiplies 14 by 14 and gets 140.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sat, 27 May 2023 21:42:26 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sat, 27 May 2023 20:42:57 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

On 27/05/2023 16:50, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-05-27, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

We never had food rationing.

During WWII we did. Our rationing ended long before the UK\'s.

Do you mean when Americans only had 15 different kinds of ice cream
flavours?

Dark days.

I was at Safeway last week and wanted to get some vanilla ice cream.
There wasn\'t any. There were about 20 weird flavors, mango and banana
and worse. I got dulce de leche, as close as they had.

Try to buy plain potato chips. They are hard to find.

I just found my supermarket with no oranges! Apparently, it\'s too hot to pick them in Spain. Dafuq? Surely those fields must be watered, so just use that water to spray any overheated workers.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 28 May 2023 18:00:13 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 28 May 2023 11:55:19 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

On 27/05/2023 21:42, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 27 May 2023 20:42:57 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 16:50, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-05-27, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

We never had food rationing.

During WWII we did. Our rationing ended long before the UK\'s.

Do you mean when Americans only had 15 different kinds of ice cream
flavours?

Dark days.

That used to be a dig at the lack of onerous rationing in the US in WW2.

Back then, there were three ice cream flavors.

I\'ve only ever had chocolate, vanilla (which I always thought meant plain, but I think that\'s \"manilla\"), and strawberry. My sister ate mint which I detested.

I was at Safeway last week and wanted to get some vanilla ice cream.
There wasn\'t any. There were about 20 weird flavors, mango and banana
and worse. I got dulce de leche, as close as they had.

Try to buy plain potato chips. They are hard to find.

Do you mean ready salted, or do you have the ones with the salt in a
little bag?

Plain means salted to me. Not bbq, not cheese flavor, not Flaming Hot,
just potatoes and salt.

We call that \"ready salted\" in the UK. I\'m not aware of unsalted crisps. CRISPS. Chips are what yanks call fries. Is there no end to their ignorance?

Before they found a way to flavour \"crisps\" (as we call them) all our
crisps were plain, with salt in a little screw of blue paper so you
could add as much or little as you liked. Now you can get plain with the
salt in a little blue bag.

I\'ve never seen that here, separate salt. Would anyone like unsalted
chips? Seems unlikely.

\"Salt\'n\'shake\" they\'re called in the UK, I forget the manufacturer. My mum sent me to school with them in primary school, so I would not eat salt which she thought was bad for me. Of course I ignored her and used the salt. Without salt plain crisps taste like cardboard.

One advantage of separate salt would be that the salt is hygroscopic
so makes the chips age faster once the bag is open. But stashing them
in a ziploc fixes that, or just eating all of them at once.

I wonder if the chips are packaged in nitrogen or something to keep
them fresher.

Pringles have it worked out. A solid tube to stop crushing.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 28 May 2023 19:36:53 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

On 28/05/2023 18:00, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2023 11:55:19 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 21:42, John Larkin wrote:

Try to buy plain potato chips. They are hard to find.

Do you mean ready salted, or do you have the ones with the salt in a
little bag?

Plain means salted to me. Not bbq, not cheese flavor, not Flaming Hot,
just potatoes and salt.

Before they found a way to flavour \"crisps\" (as we call them) all our
crisps were plain, with salt in a little screw of blue paper so you
could add as much or little as you liked. Now you can get plain with the
salt in a little blue bag.

I\'ve never seen that here, separate salt. Would anyone like unsalted
chips? Seems unlikely.

Probably not. The point is there wasn\'t a way to make them salty until
they found a way to coat the chips/crisps, in the late 60s in the UK I
think. Salt doesn\'t dissolve in cooking oil. Then they introduced the
flavours like cheese and onion.

You must have had the same problem in the US, unless people carried salt
cellars around with them.

Dafuq? How can they not know how to put salt on something? You sprinkle it on and shake it about, like you do with the blue packet ones.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:36:49 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:06:41 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:46:32 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:

On 24/07/2023 05:53, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:30:51 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com
wrote:

As I\'ve never heard of anyone calling a quart of milk a 2-pint
bottle. I suppose it works when describing a 2 pint warrior; a quart
warrior just isn\'t the same.

You dislike saying 2 pints instead of 1 quart, but you\'ll say 140
pounds instead of 14 stone. Why not go the whole hog and measure
people in ounces?

140 pounds is 10 stone.

But Americans aren\'t bright enough to use the larger denomination. 140
pounds is an easy one. Try dividing other numbers by 14 in your head.

Says the person who multiplies 14 by 14 and gets 140.

I didn\'t. I divided 140 by 14 and got 10.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:30:59 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:12:24 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

WE buy petrol and diesel in litres but still quote economy in mpg.

You buy litres in America?

Only for beverages... When I used to go to Canada and buy gas by the liter
between that and trying to do the currency conversion I always figured I
was getting screwed. Back when they did Imperial gallons it was like
getting a bonus.

Weird, we buy petrol/diesel in litres and beer in pints.

What amazes me is how you let your shops advertise prices on the shelves without the sales tax. Since you all pay it, why not include it? It\'s actually making you more aware of how much money the government is stealing from you.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:31:55 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:10:32 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Why do yanks think mac and cheese is considerably shorter than macaroni
cheese?

Are you familiar with the concept of syllables?

I said considerably. You also need to take account of how the syllables flow together quickly. Macaroni is similar to Macarena, go listen to that song and how fast it\'s sung.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:34:51 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:07:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Anyway, who weighs themselves to check weight? Just look at your
stomach, easy.

After a weigh-in at the doctor\'s she looked at me and said \"Do you have
any concrete hidden in your pants?\"

Are you Homer Simpson? Have you seen the episode where his flab keeps bouncing, like a car with no dampers on the suspension?

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 24/07/2023 15:46, Max Demian wrote:

On 24/07/2023 05:53, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:30:51 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

As I\'ve never heard of anyone calling a quart of milk a 2-pint bottle. I
suppose it works when describing a 2 pint warrior; a quart warrior just
isn\'t the same.

You dislike saying 2 pints instead of 1 quart, but you\'ll say 140
pounds instead of 14 stone.  Why not go the whole hog and measure
people in ounces?

140 pounds is 10 stone.

Kinsey Doesn\'t Do Sums.
--
Gun Control: The law that ensures that only criminals have guns.

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 24/07/2023 17:39, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:46:32 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

On 24/07/2023 05:53, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:30:51 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

As I\'ve never heard of anyone calling a quart of milk a 2-pint bottle.
I suppose it works when describing a 2 pint warrior; a quart warrior
just isn\'t the same.

You dislike saying 2 pints instead of 1 quart, but you\'ll say 140
pounds instead of 14 stone.  Why not go the whole hog and measure
people in ounces?

140 pounds is 10 stone.

Minor detail... Are British bathroom scales calibrated in stones.

Mine is. Stones and kg.


--
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the
gospel of envy.

Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

 

[Ian Jackson]

In message <op.18mi88z9mvhs6z@ryzen>, Commander Kinsey <CK1@nospam.com>
writes

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:30:59 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:12:24 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

WE buy petrol and diesel in litres but still quote economy in mpg.

You buy litres in America?

Only for beverages... When I used to go to Canada and buy gas by the liter
between that and trying to do the currency conversion I always figured I
was getting screwed. Back when they did Imperial gallons it was like
getting a bonus.

Weird, we buy petrol/diesel in litres and beer in pints.

Draught pub beer is indeed dispensed in imperial pints and half-pints.
However, almost all bottled beer is in half-litres (500ml) or a third of
a litre (330ml). It\'s a rare (and joyous) occasion when you find a real
imperial pint (568ml). On an exceptionally rare occasion you might find
a larger bottle - presumably 650ml, which I see is called a \'Bomber\'.

What amazes me is how you let your shops advertise prices on the
shelves without the sales tax. Since you all pay it, why not include
it?

Indeed.

It\'s actually making you more aware of how much money the government
is stealing from you.

Or it\'s the shops letting you know what the \'real\' price is.
--
Ian
Aims and ambitions are neither attainments nor achievements

 

[Peeler]

On 25 Jul 2023 03:34:51 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

After a weigh-in at the doctor\'s she looked at me and said \"Do you have
any concrete hidden in your pants?\"

So you are pony-tailed, bearded, bigmouthed, fat and didn\'t serve in the
army (YOU told us all that). What a nice picture of a self-infatuated,
self-admiring typical senile Yankee bigmouth and braggart!

--
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>

 

[Peeler]

On 25 Jul 2023 03:36:49 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:


> Says the person who multiplies 14 by 14 and gets 140.

Says the senile bigmouth who can\'t get enough of taking the troll\'s dumbest
baits, just so he can open his big mouth time and again.

--
Yet another thrilling story from the resident senile gossip\'s thrilling
life:
\"Around here you have to be careful to lock your car toward the end of
summer or somebody will leave a grocery sack full of zucchini in it.\"

 

[Peeler]

On 25 Jul 2023 03:30:59 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

You buy litres in America?

Only for beverages... When I used to go to Canada and buy gas by the liter
between that and trying to do the currency conversion I always figured I
was getting screwed. Back when they did Imperial gallons it was like
getting a bonus.

Yes, and again it becomes obvious what an exciting person you are, you
self-infatuated and self-admiring sick senile gossip! LOL

--
Gossiping \"lowbrowwoman\" about herself:
\"Usenet is my blog... I don\'t give a damn if anyone ever reads my posts
but they are useful in marshaling [sic] my thoughts.\"
MID: <iteioiF60jmU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Peeler]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:40:07 +0100, Idiot Jackass, the notorious,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, driveled again:


> Or it\'s the shops letting you know what the \'real\' price is.

I find it my job to let you know what an idiotic troll-feeding tool you are,
Idiot Jackass!

 

[Peeler]

On 25 Jul 2023 03:31:55 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Why do yanks think mac and cheese is considerably shorter than macaroni
cheese?

Are you familiar with the concept of syllables?

The wanker is very familiar with getting you retarded troll-feeding senile
assholes under his filthy thumb time and again, you pathological senile
gossip, chatterbox and bigmouth.

--
More typical idiotic senile gossip by lowbrowwoman:
\"It\'s been years since I\'ve been in a fast food burger joint but I used
to like Wendy\'s because they had a salad bar and baked potatoes.\"
MID: <ivdi4gF8btlU1@mid.individual.net>