Leisurely Scribbles (part 5) (Part 1)

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1/Most people fail to realise that ‘a litre’ is a measure of volume. Because most liquids are measured by volume,a large majority of otherwise apparently sentient people choose to think it applies to liquids and ONLY liquids. Not so-a litre is a measurement of volume,regardless of the chemical composition or solidity of materials relating to that volumetric measurement.
2/The main reason for compost to be sold by volume rather than weight is that the moisture content will have a significant effect on the weight,but to a lesser extent affect the volume. It lets you know how many pots of a given volume you can fill,rather than how heavy they’re going to be.

Oh-and the GROSS weight of a ship will include NOT just the ship = cargo tonnage…but will include the weights of the crew,fuel,supplies,tools and incidental equipment or items that may be along for a one-off ride,or may be personal items belonging to crew-members. ALL these ‘external’ considerations MUST be included in the GROSS weight assignable to any vessel. DISPLACEMENT-as some insist ‘gross weight’ refers to,is a completely different field-and equasion-as it relies NOT JUST on the full amount of displaced water being uniform in density and salinity,but also in density AND toxicity…as both of these have an effect on the amount of water a 1,000-ton ship will displace. For instance;approaching Hong Kong harbour,a 24,000-ton vessel will be displacing circa 2,000 tons more water-ie; riding lower in the sea,than the same vessel at the same weight,entering the Gulf of Mexico…which is filled with circulating toxins,salinity erupting from it’s bed,an ‘oil density’ factor due to drilling - so,that same vessel at the same weight and speed,with be circa 4’ lower in the water as it enters the Gulf…“Cargo=400 tons…right,close the hatches” doesn’t cut it. The GROSS allowable weight of a vessel in saline water,allowing a full 2-metre clearance between the hull and the sea-bottom [because waves can be unpredictable] is ALWAYS less than the hull has been designed to be safe at…usually 25 tons less. PLUS,differences in water cleanliness,density,oil-factors…and even the temperature of the water per-se,all combine to ensure that any ‘given’ weight-and-displacement of a vessel has it’s variants,according to clime,temperature,salinity and cleanliness of the water.
Oh…[sorry,nearly forgot]…and the volume of a sphere is simple and very basic mathematics,bro. Just,in effect,Pi x r to the required formulaic.
so,[scuze me,all you bored peeps];
Vsphere if r = 2 inches
Vsphere = 4/3 × pi × r3
Vsphere = 4/3 × 3.14 × 23
Vsphere = 4/3 × 3.14 × 8
Vsphere = 4/3 × 25.12
Vsphere = 4/3 × 25.12/1
Vsphere = (4 × 25.12)/(3 × 1)
Vsphere = (100.48)/3
Vsphere = 33.49 inches3 …so all you’ve done really,is equate pi to a simple formula…i.e; V = (4/3) × pi × r3…[or/plus, you can use pi = 3.14]

So,now to answer the incoming flak -
1/no,I don’t use that fkn Google thing. Sod Google…
2/Yes,both my braincells work-though not often in sync.
3/I have no idea how I hold 3 degrees in wildly differing fields,as all I’ve ever been is curious,NOT wildly,‘John Nash’ style intelligent.Put it down to karma.
4/Fuktiffino!
Right…as you were,gentlemen…and that noo bird,natch…

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Juno wot? Hmm?

I just read that. Yeah-I wrote it…and I just read back my own thoughts-and realised just how far from this physical plane my bloody brain actually goes,once it engages with a subject it finds interesting … and realised why I have 13 guitars,4 harmonicas,two organs [yes,yes…sigh…],one drumset-and zero friends…BOLLOX!

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did yu say yuz av 2 orgins - theyze must be ya bollox heh - I’d get em cut off if I woz yuz then yud probably have more friends???

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What does SENTIENT mean Puggyboy//? It’s new to me.
It is being bandied about in parliament atmo.

JOHN NASH, a beautiful mind, loved the film, loathed Russell Crowe.

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Egg Heads… read and weep.

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Wow! full marks to yiz lads, especially the Pug fella.:wink:
I’m afraid all that water drowned me and the Goldfish several posts ago.
I have water on the brain you see, and that’s what happens when your brain is denser than the water, it sinks and you drown, or so a fella from Wexford was telling me.:smiley:

The Happy Goldfish (before he drowned):wink:
By Dip McGills

There once was a happy Goldfish with gills all shiny and bright
He spent all his time swimming round in circles, much to his owners delight
He was bought for seven and sixpence at the local pet shop
Carried home carefully in a plastic bag, never spilling a drop
As he swam in his bowl he sang a happy fishy song
But no one could hear it, cos the acoustics were all wrong
Then his owner decided to introduce a Goldfish mate
To make him feel randy and get him in the mating state
But he wasn’t having any of it, she only got in his way
Folks don’t understand that some fish are happy just because they’re gay. :slight_smile:

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My Goldfish died prematurely, Bowl Trouble.

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I may have “Cracked” that one before.

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That may have been the straw that broke the Camels Back.

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do solitary goldfish swim clockwise or anti thingy?I once sat and watched me goldfish swimming around and got dizzy spells - was I mispelling deliberately or in a trance.

however when you put them in a rectangular tank they cant swim at all until you add the water ?

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Too deep for me Gummy, (shakes head) way too deep for me.

How about using a spherical home for GOLDIE your pet goldfish.

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Of course, all the theory and practical applications of science and enginerding can be reduced mathematically to a simple, single universal unit of measurement.

This was used extensively by the enginerding departments where I used to work. It didn’t matter whether someone was referring to vibration levels, flow, mass, thrust, capacitance, rotational or linear velocity, the simple single unit of everything was used.

Firkins per fortnight.

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I use pen and paper, computing, not a “Bit” of it here, not going to “byte” off more than I can Chew, especially “Processed Peas”.

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Ya chewing off already more than you can byte spittie [excuse the pun!] and what this is doing is slowing down ya hard drive and even ya floppy disc is showing a lot of wear and tear – may I suggest that you put down ya pen and stop stickin those little square papers on ya pc screen – it’s clouding ya image especially the one stuck over ya microphone outlet and camera – put down the pen and give the quill back to the duck!
This should fix up ya floppy disc and turn you into a hard driver again!!

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Quote Fruitcake
“The engine crew were from Bavaria and didn’t think much of the local beer, so they brought their own"
An awful bunch of blokes, they wouldn’t let me buy any beer for them. I even told them I would claim it back on expenses but they still wouldn’t let me buy any. I’m sure you feel my pain”

Horrible fellows aren’t they and a tight situation for you Fruity getting all the free drinks. very embarrassing ain’t it, and yes I feel your pain, your money is just no good, terrible feeling.
Yeh jammy arab, the devil looks after his own.:lol:

I was madly in love with a first cousin of mine when I was 15, she was a beautiful looking girl, long jet black hair and smiling blue eyes, it broke my heart when the whole family moved to Canada back in the early 60’s. I believe she’s a retired teacher now.

Enough pining for lost love, looking at an old film the other night called ’The Bat’ with Vincent Price, some good old films to be had on youtube, I find the black and white films easier on me oul eyes these days, I believe Peter Lorre was the same in his older years, he preferred black and white films, said they were easier on his owl eyes, anyway most of them have been remastered to look crisp and clear, a nice little film to watch. Two old ladies rent a big old house just outside an old hick town not knowing that a fortune in stolen bonds are hidden there. One of the women is bitten by a bat, but it was not a bat it was a rabbit, that’s what she said it was, her words to the doctor were ‘I’ve been bitten by a bat and I think it’s rabbit’ took me a while to figure out the bat was rabid as in ray-bid, not ra-bit. Come to think of it it could have been a very quick bat, a rapid bat, ah forget it, she didn’t die anyway.:slight_smile:

Twy this tongue twister.
Wodger wabbit was wunning down the woad with the woad wunner when a wabid wabbit wan out from behind a twee bwanch. :slight_smile:

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I was madly in love with a first cousin of mine when I was 15, she was a beautiful looking girl, long jet black hair and smiling blue eyes, it broke my heart when the whole family moved to Canada back in the early 60’s. I believe she’s a retired teacher now.

see how lucky u were retired teachers just can’t stop disciplining!

but you have now sunk to a new low - asking us to try out tongue twisters - see what 'appens when ya lock up ya shed to soon before xmas - nothing to do but tongue twisters

did ya hear the joke about the Irish man who went into a bar and sees an attractive woman sitting by herself and asks, “May I buy you a cocktail?”
“No thank you,” she replies, “Alcohol is bad for my legs.”
“Sorry to hear that. Do they swell?”
“No, they spread.”

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:lol: Old margarine legs, I remember her.
How do you know, maybe I could be one of dem freaks who love dominating women, gluttons for punishment.:lol:

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One is such a lonely number.

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One is only as lonely as one wishes - Buddha often would recount that being in a ‘lonely’ state brought on heightened meditation. At oneness with the universe then means you are one of a million other souls.

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I was told that when becoming Affiliated, at the local Woking Mans Club.