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Post by TANGODANCER » Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:33 pm

Saw an ad for a watch in a magazine. It said " Accurate to one second in 138,000,000 years". I wondered....Who's going to check? :shock: :shock:
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:18 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:33 pm
Saw an ad for a watch in a magazine. It said " Accurate to one second in 138,000,000 years". I wondered....Who's going to check? :shock: :shock:
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not attacking what you are saying.
But.
There are ways of checking these things. I'll give you a hypothetical.
Let's say you have a new watch mechanism and you set it going.
Unless it's really awful it should tick tock along until you need to rewind it. At that point you can check it's accuracy. It will have either lost time or not against a better standard.
Let's say it's kept up.
Manufacture ten of them, and again repeat the accuracy. Do they all keep time to the same standard, and is that standard as good as the best you know?
By extension of the process above you can determine timing accuracies into the millions of years...
Now, whether or not you REQUIRE a timepiece to be that accurate, well... :conf:
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Post by TANGODANCER » Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:14 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:18 pm
TANGODANCER wrote:
Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:33 pm
Saw an ad for a watch in a magazine. It said " Accurate to one second in 138,000,000 years". I wondered....Who's going to check? :shock: :shock:
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not attacking what you are saying.
But.
There are ways of checking these things. I'll give you a hypothetical.
Let's say you have a new watch mechanism and you set it going.
Unless it's really awful it should tick tock along until you need to rewind it. At that point you can check it's accuracy. It will have either lost time or not against a better standard.
Let's say it's kept up.
Manufacture ten of them, and again repeat the accuracy. Do they all keep time to the same standard, and is that standard as good as the best you know?
By extension of the process above you can determine timing accuracies into the millions of years...
Now, whether or not you REQUIRE a timepiece to be that accurate, well...
Gee, I think I was joking, mines a Timex...it's pretty good really. :wink:
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:18 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:14 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:18 pm
TANGODANCER wrote:
Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:33 pm
Saw an ad for a watch in a magazine. It said " Accurate to one second in 138,000,000 years". I wondered....Who's going to check? :shock: :shock:
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not attacking what you are saying.
But.
There are ways of checking these things. I'll give you a hypothetical.
Let's say you have a new watch mechanism and you set it going.
Unless it's really awful it should tick tock along until you need to rewind it. At that point you can check it's accuracy. It will have either lost time or not against a better standard.
Let's say it's kept up.
Manufacture ten of them, and again repeat the accuracy. Do they all keep time to the same standard, and is that standard as good as the best you know?
By extension of the process above you can determine timing accuracies into the millions of years...
Now, whether or not you REQUIRE a timepiece to be that accurate, well...
Gee, I think I was joking, mines a Timex...it's pretty good really. :wink:
I was merely pointing out how it is done. Not why. :wink:
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Post by Enoch » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:29 pm

BBC news article with a sheep farmer forecasting his impending ruin.

"During 2017 the UK imported 80,200 tonnes of sheep meat".

"During 2017 the UK exported 89,200 tonnes of sheep meat".

Just think how much we could reduce co2 emissions. Kids could get on with their schoolwork!

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:21 pm

Enoch wrote:
Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:29 pm
BBC news article with a sheep farmer forecasting his impending ruin.

"During 2017 the UK imported 80,200 tonnes of sheep meat".

"During 2017 the UK exported 89,200 tonnes of sheep meat".

Just think how much we could reduce co2 emissions. Kids could get on with their schoolwork!
It's more complicated.
We eat the edible bits and export the inedible bits. Those abroad who eat the inedible bits pretend to export what they call edible bits.
In the end it depends where you buy the sheep meat from as to whether you actually get sheep meat or sawdust and diesel product in a tasty twenty minute oven ready lamb jalfrezi from Aldi. I make sure I know, personally, the animals I eat. It costs more - not in fuel, CO2 footprints, or the Earth- merely in money. Worth every penny in my mind.
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Post by Enoch » Tue Apr 09, 2019 3:36 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:21 pm
Enoch wrote:
Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:29 pm
BBC news article with a sheep farmer forecasting his impending ruin.

"During 2017 the UK imported 80,200 tonnes of sheep meat".

"During 2017 the UK exported 89,200 tonnes of sheep meat".

Just think how much we could reduce co2 emissions. Kids could get on with their schoolwork!
It's more complicated.
We eat the edible bits and export the inedible bits. Those abroad who eat the inedible bits pretend to export what they call edible bits.
In the end it depends where you buy the sheep meat from as to whether you actually get sheep meat or sawdust and diesel product in a tasty twenty minute oven ready lamb jalfrezi from Aldi. I make sure I know, personally, the animals I eat. It costs more - not in fuel, CO2 footprints, or the Earth- merely in money. Worth every penny in my mind.
Folk that buy anything labeled 'meat' from anywhere other than a butcher, or a farm, are naive, or optimistic.

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Tue Apr 09, 2019 3:41 pm

Enoch wrote:
Tue Apr 09, 2019 3:36 pm
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:21 pm
Enoch wrote:
Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:29 pm
BBC news article with a sheep farmer forecasting his impending ruin.

"During 2017 the UK imported 80,200 tonnes of sheep meat".

"During 2017 the UK exported 89,200 tonnes of sheep meat".

Just think how much we could reduce co2 emissions. Kids could get on with their schoolwork!
It's more complicated.
We eat the edible bits and export the inedible bits. Those abroad who eat the inedible bits pretend to export what they call edible bits.
In the end it depends where you buy the sheep meat from as to whether you actually get sheep meat or sawdust and diesel product in a tasty twenty minute oven ready lamb jalfrezi from Aldi. I make sure I know, personally, the animals I eat. It costs more - not in fuel, CO2 footprints, or the Earth- merely in money. Worth every penny in my mind.
Folk that buy anything labeled 'meat' from anywhere other than a butcher, or a farm, are naive, or optimistic.
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:25 pm

No mention of what happens to his cat now... :conf:

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/e ... 04874.html
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Post by Prufrock » Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:37 pm

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Wed Apr 24, 2019 5:04 pm

Best headline of the week: Microsoft Paint avoids brush with death.
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:28 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
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Best headline of the week: Microsoft Paint avoids brush with death.
I take it that it's a slow headline week then?! :?
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Post by Dujon » Thu Apr 25, 2019 2:05 am

This one from my local Daily Telegraph:

"Zachary Guest was woken up by a police officer dressed only in his underwear and dangling from the shelf of a restaurant he broke into."

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Thu Apr 25, 2019 12:00 pm

Dujon wrote:
Thu Apr 25, 2019 2:05 am
This one from my local Daily Telegraph:

"Zachary Guest was woken up by a police officer dressed only in his underwear and dangling from the shelf of a restaurant he broke into."

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You have some outrageous police officers :lol:
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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Thu Apr 25, 2019 3:45 pm

Dujon wrote:
Thu Apr 25, 2019 2:05 am
This one from my local Daily Telegraph:

"Zachary Guest was woken up by a police officer dressed only in his underwear and dangling from the shelf of a restaurant he broke into."

:evil:
Even if one could figure out who was wearing underwear and dangling from a shelf, it still leaves questions. If Zachary was in underwear, how could he sleep dangling from a shelf? Alternatively he might have been awoken by an underpanted policeman tripping over a shelf in Zach's restaurant. I guess I'll never know.
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Post by Dujon » Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:50 am

Nor will I, Monty. Nevertheless there is a number of occasions from my youth that I cannot recall. I might add that none of them, as far as I can work out, involved dangling from shelves. :pissed:

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:28 pm

Headline: Is this a genuine Banksy?

Answer: who gives a fxck?
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:58 am

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:28 pm
Headline: Is this a genuine Banksy?

Answer: who gives a fxck?
Presumably the owner of the substrate.
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:51 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:58 am
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:28 pm
Headline: Is this a genuine Banksy?

Answer: who gives a fxck?
Presumably the owner of the substrate.
There is that.
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:58 pm

How about "Mother of all legal rows for transman and his baby"
There once was a woman. She took legal steps to become a man. Her female biology was retained but she got given a certificate that made her a him in law. Ten days after receiving his gender recognition certificate, the newly forged bloke went to a fertility clinic and got pregnant through a sperm donor.
The thing gave birth to a child. It was recorded on the birth certificate as the mother. It's going to court to get itself declared the father, which would make the child the first under British law without a mother.
Just get to fxck, eh, silly cxnt.
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