Hiya Foxy, I’ve had my scales for several years, but only had to change the battery once.
So I wonder why yours keep running flat?
Bring back Broad Gauge, 2.13995 m (7ft 0 1⁄4 in) I say!
Despite being ten years older than my Lovely Cousin, she was brought up by her grandparents who always used imperial units. Thus, our bogroom scales are set to read stones and pounds, whatever they are.
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Despite being ten years older than my Lovely Cousin, she was brought up by her grandparents who always used imperial units. Thus, our bogroom scales are set to read stones and pounds, whatever they are.[/quote]
Bogroom scales - I like that!
I’m ancient too. We lived on a farm and my father was a farmer. All the weights were Imperial of course. We had a steelyard. Maybe some will have known what they were. They were used for measuring grain in stacks and similar. The sacks were balanced by weights, 56lb or fifty sixers usually. Of course we used the steelyard to measure our own weight so no bathroom required.
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Given the current crisis, turning the calculator upside down and typing SHELL or ESSO OIL, who could have known?
Come to Australia and experience them all
Victoria - Broad gauge - 1600mm
NSW - Standard gauge - 1435 mm
Queensland - Narrow gauge - 1067mm and 610mm
?? My calculator only has numbers
Don’t you have sines, cosines, and tangents?
I suppose that’s true. Metric or otherwise.
I found it catalogued in a museum (ties up with the fact that I bought it in 1980)
http://www.datamath.org/Related/Toshiba/SLC-8280.htm
And on a French ebay like site
I could be rich it’s worth at least $15
Wow. The drinks are on you then, Bruce? 
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We had a loft conversion done a few years ago, but there wasn’t room to get a shower or bath in it as well as a bedroom, so we ended up with just a toilet and “His and Her” sinks. Thus, it became the bogroom, or the “On Suet”.
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Suet? Why suet appas?
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It’s an attempt at a humorous malapropism.