discussion Afternoon All......

[Mini Me]

Double Diamond and Whatney's come to mind.......but I could be miles off

 

[rtfoe]

Sounds like you guys are from the bronze age...I remember reading such currency in the Everyday Classics in Primary school...before I forget, er welcome Paul..we'll get to plastic modelling topics soon. :tears-of-joy: :smiling6:

Cheers,
Richard

 

[Dave Ward]

2 lighters = 1 sipper, 2 sippers = 1 gulper, 2 gulpers = 1 grounder
Arcane piece of useless knowledge!
Dave

 

[Tim Marlow]

OK Dave, now do Drams, scruples and grains…..I had to learn them in my first job in a yarn dye house as they had not gone metric and all the recipes were in imperial, including temperatures

 

[Andy the Sheep]

OK Dave, now do Drams, scruples and grains…..I had to learn them in my first job in a yarn dye house as they had not gone metric and all the recipes were in imperial, including temperatures

Old secondary school souvenirs: I attended a commercial school for foreign trade so we had to learn the imperial measures (lenght, weigth, volume both dry and liquid, even those in use for precious metals and stones) ...and their use so that we were able to manage the shipping of any goods to any corner of the globe (which, I later discovered, has no corners... :rolling: :thinking::surprised. I liked it, but now it's alla lying quietly under the dense blanket of fog shrouding my memory.:face-with-head-bandage:

 

[Airborne01]

2 lighters = 1 sipper, 2 sippers = 1 gulper, 2 gulpers = 1 grounder
Arcane piece of useless knowledge!
Dave

Should have known you'd recall this Dave!
Steve

 

[Dave Ward]

Can't remember where I picked that up! Never was in the Royal Navy, so must have been in a book!
Dave

 

[Airborne01]

Can't remember where I picked that up! Never was in the Royal Navy, so must have been in a book!
Dave

Possibly! There was a book called 'Jackspeak' issued by the Lambs Navy Rum company - lost my copy unfortunately!

 

[Tim Marlow]

Old secondary school souvenirs: I attended a commercial school for foreign trade so we had to learn the imperial measures (lenght, weigth, volume both dry and liquid, even those in use for precious metals and stones) ...and their use so that we were able to manage the shipping of any goods to any corner of the globe (which, I later discovered, has no corners... :rolling: :thinking::surprised. I liked it, but now it's alla lying quietly under the dense blanket of fog shrouding my memory.:face-with-head-bandage:

Just for you then Andy…apothecary weight system…
One ounce is eight Drams, one dram is three scruples, and one scruple is twenty grains….mind you the system I was taught wasn’t “pure” because we then used sixteen ounces to the pound, instead of the twelve it should have been for the pure apothecary system.

 

[boatman]

Double Diamond and Whatney's come to mind.......but I could be miles off

Double Diamond AN Whatney' RED BARREL an a Manns brown what i used to drinks
chris

 

[Tim Marlow]

In the same glass Chris? Seriously, I always like Manns brown, it was my go to pint for a few years….

 

[Airborne01]

In the same glass Chris? Seriously, I always like Manns brown, it was my go to pint for a few years….

Brown and Mild, with a later foray into Light and Bitter were amongst my earlier experiments in frontal-lobe destruction! :face-with-head-bandage:
Steve

 

[boatman]

Brown and Mild, with a later foray into Light and Bitter were amongst my earlier experiments in frontal-lobe destruction! :face-with-head-bandage:
Steve

WELL Tim when i had the manns brown ready to pour down my neck the girls in the pub used to say a mann for a man an then laugh their heads off but it was a nice drop of beer

 

[Mickc1440]

Hi Paul welcome to the forum, collect your meds from matron and go back to your desk :smiling:

 

[RonGlass]

Cracking intro Paul, far to young to remember woolies what ever that is :thinking::upside:

That's okay Bob, Heck, I can't understand half of what any of you guys are saying on these forums whatwith all of that Brit slang y'all use

 

[Airborne01]

That's okay Bob, Heck, I can't understand half of what any of you guys are saying on these forums whatwith all of that Brit slang y'all use

For a minimal fee I'll gladly provide a translation service Ron - shall we say two gob-stoppers and a pair of Black Jacks ...

 

[RonGlass]

For a minimal fee I'll gladly provide a translation service Ron - shall we say two gob-stoppers and a pair of Black Jacks ...

How about I throw in an Astro Pop for good measure Steve ?:hungry:

 

[Airborne01]

How about I throw in an Astro Pop for good measure Steve ?:hungry:

SOLD to the man in the floral waistcoat!

 

[Guest]

Paul having seen and read what we are like are you still sure you want to join us ? As you can see we are completely mad as a box of frogs . :smiling3::smiling3::smiling3::smiling3::smiling3:

 

[boatman]

Paul having seen and read what we are like are you still sure you want to join us ? As you can see we are completely mad as a box of frogs . :smiling3::smiling3::smiling3::smiling3::smiling3:

YEA ITS GREAT ENIT LOL
chris b