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Originally Posted by Professor Peach
The most pointless thread in ages! Good job aTOMic! I'm thoroughly enjoying it!  |
Why, thank you sir! I'm pretty fascinated by all the responses, and the quality of the photos as well!
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Originally Posted by David's8
There you go Tom, Audidothat's from Somerset where they drink cider (the alchoholic apple juice - not American cider) which probably accounts for the fact that he was lying on his side when taking that photo.
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LOL
They call it "Hard Cider" here and it's sold in about 25 varieties/brands. Haven't found the "
Dicken's" brand yet, LMAO. I enjoy it especially in the winter, when the beer craving sort of subsides... I tried to pick a favorite last year - tried almost all of them at $6-9 (£4-7) a six-pack (of 12 oz bottles) and have forgotten which it was; great investment there!
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Originally Posted by David's8
John's garage is a thing of beauty.  |
Wow, I'll say... even without seeing inside! What a neat place, in every sense of the word (except "a dram sans ice"). The hedges, the cobblestone drive, the gates. John's quite the photog, especially the frost pics! Were those taken with your phone or a "real" camera?
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Originally Posted by tonupkid
It was a foggy start on Nov 6th for me
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Pardon my ignorance, but where is that bizarre cityscape? Great photo!
Right now it's 51F (10.5C) at 2:30 PM, overcast, and I should be outside clearing fallen tree limbs and/or working on a car. I
have been enjoying shooting squirrels from my bathroom window, as you can tell I'm quite the outdoorsman...
Strange that UK uses the Imperial system except for temperature.
FWIW, We learned the metric system quite thoroughly in
1976 in public school in New York State. I think in cm, mL, grams; but that's probably due to my slight medical background... plus my laziness - it is so much easier!
I recently had a class here in Tennessee with a bunch of hope-to-be nurses just out of (mostly very rural) high school(s) - supposedly the 50 brightest from the pool of 1000+ applicants - and
about 3/4 of them had no idea how many mm in a meter, grams in a kilogram, or mL in a litre! (spelled it that way just for you guys).
Even the instructors didn't know that 1cc = 1mL = 1g of H2O... really scary.
My kids go to Catholic school, and they both were taught the above in 5th grade or so (thank God - literally)