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General => News => Topic started by: Georgie on September 06, 2006, 20:17:59
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...what ever that is! ;) Seriously though, thanks for the change Dan, much better than the old system. ;D
G x
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It just means you are a square Georgie! And so am I!
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Wonderful example of our chaotic national attitude towards measurements -- imperial acres and metric hectares ;) ;D
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Thought it was about time for a change, took me weeks to think up a scheme representing more (that makes no sense, but I've had a glass of wine so I'm excused!)
Cheers
Dan
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Love it, Dan ;D
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i actually liked being a God. it doesn't happen every day lmao
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How long before I become a Hide or a Carrucate?
;D
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yes but who is the house?
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I want to be a field or even a meadow.
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I think I'd like to be a path ::)
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I want to be a tomato :P
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I can only assume that Dan has had more than one glass of wine otherwise he'd have ditched all these mad, off-topic posts! ;) ;D :P
G x
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ahem....Hectares House anyone? Yes?
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doo bi doo bi doo diddly da bi da..... sorry, just singing the theme tune. Hectare/God - give me hectare any time!
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Hic
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You're just a silly old drunk Hectacre.
;D
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You're just a silly old drunk Hectacre.
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oooo, bet Dan'll have a headacre termorrer.....spect we'll have to tiptoe round the site ::)
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Good thing we changed, I had no idea what a YaBB God was. ??? Or if I ever wanted to be one...
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Um, isn't a half-acre larger than a hectare???
moonbells
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A hectare is 10 000 square metres, equal to 2.471 acres.
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A hectare is 10 000 square metres, equal to 2.471 acres.
Phew!
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:o Enough to make your eyes water :o
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It is nice to see recognition of both imperial and metric systems ... well I think so anyway. :D
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It is nice to see recognition of both imperial and metric systems ... well I think so anyway. :D
Hi Curry,
Yes, I suppose metric has to get a look in somewhere, but by rights, all you top-rankers should be square miles! ;)
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A hectare is 10 000 square metres, equal to 2.471 acres.
Thanks!
That's weird. I read something the other day that had them the other way round, and I very carefully read it thinking about the new designations here.
They obviously got it wrong - now all I have to do is remember which site it was so I can email them!!!
moonbells
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You could give 'em a righ good hectaring mb ;D
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I have a plot approx 38ft by 98ft whats that then?
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3 724 square feet, which roughly equates to a lot of digging. To be precise, 0.085 acre, or 13.68 perch.
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my head hurts
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Now isn't that a coincidence ... :D
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my head hurts
LOLOL (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/21.gif)
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3 724 square feet, which roughly equates to a lot of digging. To be precise, 0.085 acre, or 13.68 perch.
OK so how do i add that to my profile?
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I think I'd like to be a path ::)
I need a path through my long grass, pehaps you would like to come and lie down in it ;D
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Funny I just noticed I'm a quarter acre and I started that old Wurzle song .. "Combined Harvester" when I remember that actually says 40 acres, oh well I got a long way to go yet ::) ;D
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..which for some reason put me in mind of that old corny song, Lucille, and the commonly misheard second line of the chorus:
' You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille'
'With four hundred children and a crop in the field.'
;D
G x
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But why do the poor hectares have to be defined on the basis of measurements which Napoleon and his scientists (being French) got wrong in the first place. The metre was supposed to be 1/10^7 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator going via Paris. As neither old Boney nor any of his scientists had ever been to the north Pole or had any but the vaguest idea where it was the whole thing was a b-lls up anyway and the metre is NOT 1/10^7 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator via Paris
But that`s what the Eu insists we must do - base all our future measurements on a french b-lls up.
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That's because Boney conquered Europe.
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And who conquered Boney!
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He forgot that Russia is more than just the European bit!
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Didn`t hear of any Russians (European or otherwise) at Waterloo. But then they didn`t fight him anyway - just set the place on fire, ran away and hid until he ran out of supplies and went home again. No Stalingrad in those days.
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But Waterloo wouldn't have happened if Napoleon hadn't squandered the best part of his army in Russia. His great mistake was to get embroiled in major wars at both ends of his empire at once. Even with his armies badly weakened, he almost pulled it off.
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I'm on 99 posts & want to see what happens when I get to 100.!!!!!!!
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Ooooooooooooooh another star & a half an acre. How many to the next promotion? Like working at McDonald's - maybe not. ::)
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Can I be a size 12 please?
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But why do the poor hectares have to be defined on the basis of measurements which Napoleon and his scientists (being French) got wrong in the first place.
To be fair, they got it amazingly accurate by the standards of the time - the distance from equator to pole was supposed to be 10 000km and it's actually 10 002km.
The good old anglo-saxon mile comes from the roman army's 'mille passum' (thousand steps) - it was supposed to be a thousand double-steps for the legionnaires. I think an acre was related to the area of land which a single ox could plough in a day?
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That's right, and talking of early measurements, a guy called Eratosthenes measured the diameter of the Earth some time in the Second Century BC, and got to within about 1% of the true value. So much for the idea that the ancients thought the Earth was flat!