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From: Adrian Tuddenham on 18 Mar 2010 09:19 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > `Proper'? Now then, now then, the Imperial system is `proper'. > > Having used it for real, in a commercial environment, I know that the > Imperial system is a Mickey Mouse system unfit for anything practical. > > Ounces x16= Pounds x28= quarter x4= hundredweight (112 lb, what the > hell...?) x20= ton. It made sense to unschooled traders who could see how to divide things by multiples of two or three, but couldn't do formal decimal arithmetic. It wasn't arrived at by chance. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk
From: Elliott Roper on 18 Mar 2010 09:56 In article <1jfjrgx.s5krqxv3joxsN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > > > >I know about the are, but have never seen it > > > used. > > > > A single plot, 10m*10m is called an 'is' > > Oh you little beaut, you. > > Tell Mary she's too good for you. But then you both know that... sshhh! -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: T i m on 18 Mar 2010 10:58 On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:57:29 +0000, adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) wrote: >Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >[...] >> Okay, let's talk about it from that point of view. >> >> BBC Alba - the Scots Gaelic language channel that hardly anyone wants at >> all - costs 29.4p per hour. > >Just listen to BBC Radio 4 and note the percentage of air time when you >hear a Scots accent - not just the presenters but their interviewees. > >I have nothing against the Scottish accents, in fact I rather like them, >but not time after time after time in every programme. Indeed. ;-) When camping at Fort William about the only light music station we could get was presented by a Scottish guy and sounded (from the actual presentation style and the content) like it had come out of the 30's. ;-) H u g e pauses between the end of one track and his commentary then another h u g e pause between that and he next one. Mind you, it would have been in keeping with the general pace of things up there and what we hoped was going to be the style of our holiday ... had we not been trying to avoid the midges that is. ;-( Cheers, T i m
From: Adrian Tuddenham on 18 Mar 2010 11:57 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:57:29 +0000, > adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) wrote: > > >Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > >[...] > >> Okay, let's talk about it from that point of view. > >> > >> BBC Alba - the Scots Gaelic language channel that hardly anyone wants at > >> all - costs 29.4p per hour. > > > >Just listen to BBC Radio 4 and note the percentage of air time when you > >hear a Scots accent - not just the presenters but their interviewees. > > > >I have nothing against the Scottish accents, in fact I rather like them, > >but not time after time after time in every programme. > > Indeed. ;-) > > When camping at Fort William about the only light music station we > could get was presented by a Scottish guy and sounded (from the actual > presentation style and the content) like it had come out of the 30's. > ;-) > > H u g e pauses between the end of one track and his commentary then > another h u g e pause between that and he next one. That is a very good style if you want to hear the music and think about it. Also each piece should be back-announced, so that anyone who didn't catch the title at the start, but liked the music, is told what it was. It is a great pity that most music presenters these days seem to think that their voice is what the listener has tuned-in to hear and the music is merely a background to be spoken over. If the music is worth hearing, it is worth hearing 'in the clear' for its entirety. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk
From: Graeme on 18 Mar 2010 13:46
In message <1jfk44e.1lz0ep64icu9eN%adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) wrote: [snip] > > It is a great pity that most music presenters these days seem to think > that their voice is what the listener has tuned-in to hear and the music > is merely a background to be spoken over. If the music is worth > hearing, it is worth hearing 'in the clear' for its entirety. > > Aren't�presenters encouraged to speak over the music to stop people taping the tracks off-air? -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/> |