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Domènec escribió:

A acquaintance of mine is a pajero. Funny how my Collins Spanish/English
dictionary only refers to the derogatory meaning.

 

Champ escribió:

I used to be 6ft. So now I say I'm just under 6ft. Including to the
europeans - here they used to use feet, inches, pounds, ounces etc,. and
still use miles when referring to the sea or the coast, and inches for telly
screens.

 

Champ escribió:

And me. Down to less than 81 now! But in 10 days time...

 

Yep, but can't they see that 1.2mm?

Lidl's 12 euro caliper worked fine with a 0.05mm resolution.

 

On my course, I give the students a big book of NASA data in
(American) imperial units and tell them to work stuff out.

Oh, how I laugh.

 

Domènec escribió:

Can't get near my bike in the Summer. The "lata" has aircon though, so
that's ok.

 

We keep the aircon set at 30. 15 degree differential feels freezing when
we get in the house.

 

Yes. But if you are using knots in anger you are probably not travelling
at very many of them. Thus reducing the mathematical load on the old
bonce.

 

What you on about, sometimes we get as many as eight of the damn
things!

 

"Do I need petrol - yes/no" is mine.

 

Miles to reserve is mine. Then the sweating starts.

The answer is always yes.

 

Not an bad number for a smallish craft but if you can coax 2 more out of
it then the maths gets really easy.

 

And so does the action required - abandon ship, cos to get that speed
out of a cruising yacht you'd need full sail in a hurricane, and that
equates to "going dahn!".

 

Eh?

I've certainly seen 10+ knots in a Sigma 38 and it wasn't anywhere near
"abandon ship" territory.

 

He's grown used to these fickle Turkish winds in the summer.

 

No, I mean a genuine 10 knots, not a maximum on the log. But anyway,
the Sigma is a racing hull, not a cruiser, which is what I'm talking
about, think Bavaria, Sun Oddysey and the like.

Oh, and although I didn't say it, I was really thinking about ~35
footers, which is what we generally charter for the two of us - bigger
boats can, of course, cope with more wind and therefore higher speeds.

 

I think that F makes a lot more sense for human temperatures (by that
I mean, pretty much, the temperature of the inside of a house),
because a change of 1 degree C is not specific enough for that purpose
- takes a house from too cold to too warm. For every other usage, C
is much better, obviously.

 

I beg to differ.

 

Ace escribió:

Unlike in the case of a swimming pool of course. Early or late in the year,
one degree is the difference between getting in and not.

Oh, got to go - "Los Simpson" just started.

 

It's a sliding scale IMO. I mean, I will use it at 26C, but ideally it
should be 29 or so. But 25 would be right out, yeah.