St George's Day 2020

[Wizzel]

As tomorrow is St George's Day, the Government will be suspending the 2 metre social distancing rule for 24 hours;  instead, people will be required to remain 6 feet 6 3/4 inches apart.  Additionally, the advice to "Stay Home" is to be replaced with the rather more English sounding "Stay At Home". HoHoHo (sorry MSea, had to be done).

Happy 23rd of April everyone - enjoy the day and keep well :-)

[Bigkev]

Hi Wizzel,
Glad to see you have put a spin on St.George's Day.

For the 'older' ones amongst us, it is nice to see correct imperial measurements as to how far apart we should be, I expect a lot of our members, will now observe the requisite distance now they can understand what 2 metre's actually is...…
I hope that this St. George's Day will be the rousing day, to beat the pandemic, and we can all pull together and go forward,...together!! 

Hope you all have a good, safe day.
 
Bigkev

[chriswil42]

Good imperial units!

[zak]

12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
22 yards = 1 chain
10 chains = 1 furlong
8 furlongs = 1 mile
so 1760 yds = 1 mile
and 5280 ft = 1 mile

I think I had this drummed into me at junior school.
Now onto weights?

[MSea]

What are these strange names you are messing about with -- I thought they went out in the 1850's  so if you learnt them at school ,what age does that make you ??
Sorry Zak could not resist that one - hohoho - and yes I will pay for that later, 

[zak]

What are these strange names you are messing about with -- I thought they went out in the 1850's  so if you learnt them at school ,what age does that make you ??
Sorry Zak could not resist that one - hohoho - and yes I will pay for that later,

Not as old as you!

[MSea]

Very good -- one to you

[Wizzel]

What are these strange names you are messing about with -- I thought they went out in the 1850's  so if you learnt them at school ,what age does that make you ??
Sorry Zak could not resist that one - hohoho - and yes I will pay for that later,

Just add the word "nautical" before each unit of measure and you'll soon understand them - or should that be "get the measure of them"?

[Haddock]

We worked in cubits when I was a lad.
Haddock.

[Biggles]

Thanks for the laughs chaps.
Fair cheered me up reading your comments!

Biggles

[Wizzel]

There's more comments than modelling gets done on the site Biggles, that's for sure.  Tis a fair tonic and that's a fact.

[MSea]

Its like a club meeting without having to put your trousers on -- sorry to bring the level down -- but in these strange times we all need to laugh ( not because I have no trousers on) and cheer each other up, as well as getting some excellent models made.

[meremodeller]

Now all these measurements have to be converted to appropriate scales. Not so easy in 1/35 but easy for Msea as he doesn’t appear to work in any set scale!!!

[Bigkev]

Its like a club meeting without having to put your trousers on -- sorry to bring the level down -- but in these strange times we all need to laugh ( not because I have no trousers on) and cheer each other up, as well as getting some excellent models made.

Ronseal Advert,

It does what it says on the tin.

It is there for us all, to make us feel normal and part of life in general, if you make something, great, if not ,but you partake in the banter then that's great too....
Cheers,
Bigkev

PS. Going to bed now, I'm getting a bit carried away, but my sentiments are true.

[chriswil42]

You've already mentioned the nautical mile but how about the Irish mile (not a joke), and the pole and perch.
At least we are still drinking pints!

Chris