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Please tell me that Karen and Karen post with the cut out masks isn't real. Please!!!

Victor

Deleted User wrote: »

Please tell me that Karen and Karen post with the cut out masks isn't real. Please!!!

Unfortunately there have been multiple instances of such sea lawyering.

New Home

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

bottom right pic, we're going to build a fence, and we're going to get the Martians to pay for it...

https://www.businessinsider.com/curiosity-rover-drilling-on-mars-2014-5?r=US&IR=T
On Tuesday, the six-wheeled robot did a test drill, making a hole about half an inch wide and nearly an inch deep,


Edit: top right, there was hardly a post there either, and I presume someones planting a hedge on the left...?

Not aliens. Moles.

Capt'n Midnight

GinSoaked wrote: »

So one US inch is 25.4mm (same as its always been :pac:)

Skipping a lot of history, Henry the eight decided to standardise the to the distance from his nose to his thumb.


America was discovered shortly afterwards.


Skipping a lot of history ... in 1834 the UK parliament burnt down destroying the original yardsticks. So they tried to recreate it by comparing other yardsticks but they varied so they ended up with a mix from the Ordinance Survey and the Royal Astronomical Society ones. Finally they sent a copy of the new standard to the USA in about 1855.

Also some of the standard lengths were kept on rollers so they could expand freely but they sagged so the length changed.

And turns out the whole time those standard yards were shrinking by one part per million every twenty years due to the gradual release of strain incurred during the fabrication process.

And then in 1959 they settled on a yard defined as precisely 0.9144 of a meter.


So one US inch is 25.4mm (same as its always been :pac:)

Capt'n Midnight

Victor wrote: »

Unfortunately there have been multiple instances of such sea lawyering.

https://sluggerotoole.com/2020/06/05/with-the-r-number-across-the-uk-and-ireland-less-than-one-what-lessons-can-be-learned-from-the-united-states-on-re-opening-safely/

Mellor

Deleted User wrote: »

Cheap Chinese spanner could easily be 0.2mm out, or it was "persuaded" to fit!

A 7/16"spanner is bigger than 7/16"
Even a perfectly made one is oversized by 0.1-0.2mm to allow them to fit on an off quickly. It was exactly the same as the bolt head it would be a nightmare to use quickly.

Mellor

Mellor wrote: »

A 7/16"spanner is bigger than 7/16"
Even a perfectly made one is oversized by 0.1-0.2mm to allow them to fit on an off quickly. It was exactly the same as the bolt head it would be a nightmare to use quickly.

True, they don't need to have an engineering fit.

GinSoaked

Mellor wrote: »

A 7/16"spanner is bigger than 7/16"
Even a perfectly made one is oversized by 0.1-0.2mm to allow them to fit on an off quickly. It was exactly the same as the bolt head it would be a nightmare to use quickly.

How do you know all spanners are made oversized and not all nuts are made undersize?

TheIrishGrover

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

https://sluggerotoole.com/2020/06/05/with-the-r-number-across-the-uk-and-ireland-less-than-one-what-lessons-can-be-learned-from-the-united-states-on-re-opening-safely/

Can you imagine how they are going to lose their sh*t when countries start lifting restrictions for countries who are getting their outbreaks under control and the US hasn't?

They'll throw their toys out of the pram.

Mellor

GinSoaked wrote: »

How do you know all spanners are made oversized and not all nuts are made undersize?

Nuts and bolts are made to tolerances too. Fractions of a mm under for the same reasons

Capt'n Midnight

Mellor wrote: »

Nuts and bolts are made to tolerances too. Fractions of a mm under for the same reasons

what are the dimensions of a bit of 2 by 4 ?

GinSoaked

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

what are the dimensions of a bit of 2 by 4 ?

A lot less than 2 by 4 because 2 by 4 is a nominal size.

Say you were cutting down a 4x4 that was actually 4 inches by 4 inches then the result would be a nominal 2x4 because you have lost some wood with the saw cut.

It boils down to someone has to pay for the sawdust produced every time a piece of timber is cut down to size. So you are paying for the timber size you would get if all saw cuts were of zero thickness.

....... errors and other explanations accepted

cdeb

If only we had a thread for things which you thought people didn't know.

I bet you didn't know that...the "I bet you didn't know that" thread started off with the stat on the dimensions of a 4x2 :cool:

SolvableKnave

And I thought a 2x4 referred to the thickness and width of the plank.

And maybe that's what all this talk is about and I'm just as confused as ever

GinSoaked

SolvableKnave wrote: »

And I thought a 2x4 referred to the thickness and width of the plank.

And maybe that's what all this talk is about and I'm just as confused as ever

But it is only very rarely the actual size of the timber. 2x4 will normally be between 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" and 1- 7/8" x 3-7/8".

Even if it was 2x4 when saw it will dry out in storage and be less than 2x4.

2x4 is a nominal measurement and the definition of nominal is "existing in name only".

GinSoaked

GinSoaked wrote: »

But it is only very rarely the actual size of the timber. 2x4 will normally be between 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" and 1- 7/8" x 3-7/8".

Even if it was 2x4 when saw it will dry out in storage and be less than 2x4.

2x4 is a nominal measurement and the definition of nominal is "existing in name only".

Sounds like political promises! :P

GinSoaked

Deleted User wrote: »

Sounds like political promises! :P

Made by male politicians as the lengths are also nominal.

Clareman

Bootup wrote: »

Life is also the longest thing you'll ever do

Ficheall

s1ippy wrote: »

They really take ages to reply.

I know the letter is bollocks, but isn't the class of 2019 the one that graduates in 2019, so starting in 2015 would be reasonable?

Gloomtastic!

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113761164&postcount=5004

The umbrella is a touch of genius

Gloomtastic!

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113761164&postcount=5004

The umbrella is a touch of genius

Kissing cousins perhaps.

knucklehead6

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113768950&postcount=5014

It’s happened. 1800ladlad has managed to post something visible on iOS.

It’s either a great day or we are all well and truly f...ed

The Princess Bride

knucklehead6 wrote: »

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113768950&postcount=5014

It’s happened. 1800ladlad has managed to post something visible on iOS.

It’s either a great day or we are all well and truly f...ed

The irony, they post something visible to say they can't see the door!:D

maudgonner

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113776760&postcount=5025


*Superfluous apostrophe, surely?

New Home

Maybe they used an Oxford comma incorrectly.

Charlie-Bravo

Capt'n Midnight

astrofluff wrote: »

https://i.imgur.com/Q9iI5Z3.gif

You have to,

It's a triple dare.

GinSoaked

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Anyone got anymore info on this old photo? Its all over the web but can't find anything much about it. Looks fake to me. Not that I'm bothered that fakery is actually supporting Literally every other science

Its the guys fingertips that seem all wrong with that much weight with the weight behind him I don't see how that hold would support anything.

There again that could be the joke and I've missed it altogether

Edit> or is it three guys, two wagon wheels and a length of drain pipe?

New Home

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Capt'n Midnight

New Home wrote: »

Caption: "Capt'n Midnight, circa June 2020"

Not true

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Me exercising during lockdown.