BBC North West piece. Begins at 08:20
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... s-07112016
And the NE and Cumbria version. Begins at 14:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... s-07112016
Technical Talk
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Renegadenemo
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I'm only a plumber from Cannock...
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You never mentioned 'smoot' on the TV report this evening. Is that a measure of liquid between a slurp and a splash?Renegadenemo wrote:the remainder of that drum in the main tank with a smoot from the second drum
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Apart from not knowing about Apps I do not trust anything from Wikipedia unless there is corroboration from some serious source! 
May I suggest though that a volume of BBP liquid, especially kerosine as sniffed by Novie, should not be measured by a linear distance such as the 'smoot'.
I have just got used to this litre measurement and the BBP goes back to using gallons.
May I suggest though that a volume of BBP liquid, especially kerosine as sniffed by Novie, should not be measured by a linear distance such as the 'smoot'.
I have just got used to this litre measurement and the BBP goes back to using gallons.
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Why would anyone take the slightest interest in litres when we've had gallons all along? Malcolm - you're older than me, litres are for teenagers - sort yourself out!I have just got used to this litre measurement and the BBP goes back to using gallons.
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Is a gallon similar to a groat or a scrupel?
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It's equivalent to 2.8 ohms or 0.000064 of a fathom.........
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A groat is currency, surely? Now a firkin, there's a measurement!!!
We have a measurement based on the distance between a certain kings shoulder and the finger tip of his outstretched arm (the yard and Henry VIII) and a railway gauge based based on the width of a horses arse (the distance of early tracks being just wide enough to get a horse to be able to walk between the tracks and tow a wagon), so I am all for the smoot, the "tad" and the "gnats tadger"........................(57 year old teenager)
We have a measurement based on the distance between a certain kings shoulder and the finger tip of his outstretched arm (the yard and Henry VIII) and a railway gauge based based on the width of a horses arse (the distance of early tracks being just wide enough to get a horse to be able to walk between the tracks and tow a wagon), so I am all for the smoot, the "tad" and the "gnats tadger"........................(57 year old teenager)
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We say something is miles away - not kilometers. We say someone is 6ft tall not however many centimetres that is and we go down the pub for a pint, not a bunch of centilitres.
As I like to point out in the workshop - metric is for people who can't count past ten
As I like to point out in the workshop - metric is for people who can't count past ten
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What confuses me is when it's cold outside people use Celsius and when it's hot they use Fahrenheit.
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That's an easy one - a hundred sounds hot and minus-five doesn't seem so bad just as six feet is smaller than than one hundred and eighty two centimetres. Not to mention the ridiculous waste of syllables in every case.What confuses me is when it's cold outside people use Celsius and when it's hot they use Fahrenheit.
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