Biggles' Mess

[Pete B]

I'm following that thread, too and I don't envy the mods there one bit...... I think they're caving under the weight of nutters posting their theories.....

Wherever those poor souls are, it's between a rock and a hard place....

Pete

[John Olsen 1]

Ok, well, on a less sad note...the February RCME has just arrived here in the land of the long white cloud (NZ) and I notice a review of a Staufenbiel Dornier Do 27. Did anyone else notice the registration of this plane?

I know it is always bad to explain a joke, but for those unfamiliar with German animals, ente is German for duck...so the registration of this plane is effectively D-Duck. I presume this would have been inherited from the full size example.

John

[John Privett]

I remember seeing the registration D-ENTE. But as my German is limited to "eine bierre bitte" or at a push, "zwei bierre bitte" (and I don't guarantee the spelling is anywhere near correct!) I failed totally to get the "Donald Duck" connection! I did vaguely think of it as being a tooth though!

And it is indeed "inherited" from a full-size example.

[Wingman]

A Zebra striped duck? Hmmmm must be a German variety

[Chris Bott - Moderator]

The original D-ENTE featured heavily in German wildlife documentaries by Bernhard Grzimek. It also starred in his 1959 film "Serengeti Shall Not Die"

Although it didn't always fare very well.

More recently a replica has been produced see more details here.

The model BTW is proving to be a good solid no nonsense performer that's a delight to fly in good conditions, but also handles a wind pretty well.

[Daithi O Buitigh]

I would have thought that a plane with 'ENTE' would be a canard

[john stones 1 - Moderator]

I have come in here Cymas

you're not getting me in bother for being off topic

never mind Lou who?

lets be having a link put on

I would do it myself but I can't

[cymaz]

Ok look at the face and it's like a JR 11x

[Pete B]

All part of the service, John.....but comments about the lyrics get modded - capiche?

Pete

[john stones 1 - Moderator]

well I did ask

off to play a CD now

cheers Pete

Edited By john stones 1 on 24/03/2014 17:23:36

[Mike Etheridge 1]

I was made redundant in 1991 as was everyone from Lewisham Architects. I left on the same day as the chap singing on the video and we organised and shared a leaving party. He hoped to become a successful singer and was assisted on the song by a well know artist who has appeared in the news this week.

MJE

 

Edited By Mike Etheridge 1 on 25/03/2014 10:45:34

Edited By Steve Hargreaves - Moderator on 25/03/2014 20:51:28

[john stones 1 - Moderator]

That's interesting Mike

I don't know how to view the youtube info you put on though

[Steve Hargreaves - Moderator]

I've embeded that video correctly for you Mike....

You might like to read this tutorial before you post another video....

[john stones 1 - Moderator]

ah the lovely Kate

didn't know any of that Mike , not heard the song either

thanks Mike, you too Steve

[Daithi O Buitigh]

Bureaucracy goes bananas

On asking for a hamburger in a fast food joint "We aren't alowed to call them 'hamburgers' as there is no ham in them" A certain German city on the shores of the North Sea will, in future, be referred to as 'Beefburg' or just 'Burg'

On a jar of peanut butter 'Warning - contains peanuts' I( would like to think it did - but it doesn't have any butter in it)

On asking for a 'pound' of something, being told "We aren't allowed to sell by the pound - just the kilo'. Strange, the French, who invented the system, call a half kilo a 'livre' and the Germans call it a 'Pfunt' (both mean 'a pound'

[Colin Leighfield]

Mike, I enjoyed listening to that, it's nice to read that Kate might be making some kind of come-back.

Daithi, I couldn't agree with you more. The basic principle of Europe coming together is a good thing, but it's become overlaid with centralising power politics and staggering bureaucracy which make it frightening. The whole hamburger thing is utter nonsense. The hamburger is named after Hamburg and I guess that the "Ham" bit derives from "Heim", or home, hamlet etc. , otherwise it would have been called Schinkenburg! The word butter in peanut butter clearly relates to it's consistency and it is used for other things that aren't dairy products anyway.

I also found out years ago that German fraus when out shopping will often ask for "ein pfundt" of potatos. The reason for that I suppose that is that Imperial measurements were derived from practical experience, whereas metric is based on mathematical convenience and not reality. We all see the logic of it because it makes calculation simple, but in reality the apparent logic in using e.g. the freezing and boiling points of water as fixed references for 0 and 100 degrees C actually doesn't make real sense because they they vary consistently with atmospheric pressure. To make sense, absolute zero should be 0 and not -273. Metric will never change the fact that Pi equals 3.146 recurring and computers use binary anyway.

Sadly some of these things that sound silly actually are disastrous, I've spent a lot of time involved with European issues with the commission etc. attended meetings in the CEN offices etc and you realise that corruption, political manipulation and deceit are rife in Brussels and the degree to which deliberate mis-information is used to achieve political goals with no basis of democracy is dreadful. It's no wonder that so many people are disillusioned with what seemed to be a wonderful idea being totally mislead and used to try and control everything that we do. The hamburger is the tip of a very large ice-berg.

[Tony K]

That's a bit sexist Colin. May I point out that ex-pat British men have also been known to order "ein Pfund" of produce.

Did you know that when Mr. Celsius proposed his temperature scale, he fixed the boiling point of water at 0 degrees and the freezing point at 100 degrees.

He also proposed an atmospheric pressure at which his scale would be valid.

[Martyn K]

Posted by Colin Leighfield on 26/03/2014 06:57:49:

Metric will never change the fact that Pi equals 3.146 recurring and computers use binary anyway.

 

No it doesn't

pi=3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 34825 34211 70679 82148 08651 32823 06647 09384 46095 50582 23172 53594 08128 48111 74502 84102 70193 85211 05559 64462 29489 54930 38196 44288 10975 66593 34461 28475 64823 37867 83165 27120 19091 45648 56692 34603 48610 45432 66482 13393 60726 02491 41273 72458 70066 06315 58817 48815 20920 96282 92540 91715 36436 78925 90360 01133 05305 48820 46652 13841 46951 94151 16094 33057 27036 57595 91953 09218 61173 81932 61179 31051 18548 07446 23799 62749 56735 18857 52724 89122 79381 83011 94912 98336 73362 44065 66430 86021 39494 63952 24737 19070 21798 60943 70277 05392 17176 29317 67523 84674 81846 76694 05132 00056 81271 45263 56082 77857 71342 75778 96091 73637 17872 14684 40901 22495 34301 46549 58537 10507 92279 68925 89235 42019 95611 21290 21960 86403 44181 59813 62977 47713 09960 51870 72113 49999 99837 29780 49951 05973 17328 16096 31859 50244 59455 34690 83026 42522 30825 33446 85035 26193 11881 71010 00313 78387 52886 58753 32083 81420 61717 76691 47303 59825 34904 ..

to a few hundred places - it doesn't recur

 

The site complained when I posted pi to 10,000 places

Martyn

Edited By Martyn K on 26/03/2014 11:18:58

[Wingman]

LOL!

[ken anderson.]

I was trying to explain to my 4 year old granddaughter that this week end the clocks 'change' ...... she said--what you mean the numbers get put in different place's? .... ...

ken Anderson...ne....1..... 4 years old dept.

[Mike Etheridge 1]

Just stick with Pi is exactly 22 divided by 7 !

Thanks for the tutorial Steve. It would seem on Facebook you just add the video link address and somehow the video eventually appears.

MJE

[john stones 1 - Moderator]

You lot are complaining

I've just been told my names been changed to

6.35029318 kilo

john

[Colin Leighfield]

Thanks Tony K, you live and learn! Martyn has floored me as well, although I think he's demonatrated that there's nothing naturally metric about Pi!

And Ken, kid's have a specific wisdom that we have lost and should wonder at!

[Colin Leighfield]

Dear 6.35029318 kilo, does mean that we could also call you 0.00635029318 tonne? When trying to deal with problems like this you can't leave a 6.35029138 kilo unturned.

[john stones 1 - Moderator]

Posted by Colin Leighfield on 26/03/2014 15:23:45:

Dear 6.35029318 kilo, does mean that we could also call you 0.00635029318 tonne? When trying to deal with problems like this you can't leave a 6.35029138 kilo unturned.