Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Being fat doesn't make you bulletproof.

I'll get back to you on the other two later.

Oh contraire Ms Smarty Pants.

Apparently, it you discount the vulnerability of things like arms, legs, heads, genitalia etc, a 60cm layer of fat would suffice.

A 6ft man with a 60cm layer of fat would weigh ~ 650kg or 102 stone.

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You can't say someone's bulletproof except for their head, legs etc. Either they are or they're not. It's a bit like your roof being waterproof Sparta from a few bloody great holes

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You can't say someone's bulletproof except for their head, legs etc. Either they are or they're not. It's a bit like your roof being waterproof Sparta from a few bloody great holes

With respect Gatters, I appear to have done just that.

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I love hearing about how words or phrases came into being.


According to tinternet, the term "The whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 calibre machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb


Seems fair enough to me.

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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that she burns.


Surely this one can't be true.

How many gallons would that be to cross the Atlantic?

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What are pluggins?

Are they safe to download, are they power hungry, are they always running in the background when your not using them and are they easy to get rid of?

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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that she burns.


Surely this one can't be true.

How many gallons would that be to cross the Atlantic?

I might have messed up but I think the fuel tank would have to be 200,000 cubic yards, so thats 100 yards long by 20 yards wide, 10 yards high - thats quite big.

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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that she burns.


Surely this one can't be true.

How many gallons would that be to cross the Atlantic?

I might have messed up but I think the fuel tank would have to be 200,000 cubic yards, so thats 100 yards long by 20 yards wide, 10 yards high - thats quite big.

How did you get into cubic yards, and how many gallons would fit into 200,000 of them?

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What are pluggins?

Are they safe to download, are they power hungry, are they always running in the background when your not using them and are they easy to get rid of?

In what context? For your browser?

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You can't say someone's bulletproof except for their head, legs etc. Either they are or they're not. It's a bit like your roof being waterproof Sparta from a few bloody great holes

I reckon Mitch must be more or less bulletproof by now.

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What are pluggins?

Are they safe to download, are they power hungry, are they always running in the background when your not using them and are they easy to get rid of?

In what context? For your browser?

I just tried to look at an on line flight sim and it said "Click here to install plug-in"

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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that she burns.


Surely this one can't be true.

How many gallons would that be to cross the Atlantic?

I might have messed up but I think the fuel tank would have to be 200,000 cubic yards, so thats 100 yards long by 20 yards wide, 10 yards high - thats quite big.

How did you get into cubic yards, and how many gallons would fit into 200,000 of them?

http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume-conversion.htm

started with 3200 miles, changed that to yards then multiplied by 6 to get to 33,792,000 gallons.  This meant nothing to me so I converted into cubic yards. 

Oil floats on water, so if the Titanic had that much oil in it, surely it wouldn't have sunk?

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Is that number over 33 million gallons? If so then they couldn't afford to cross the Atlantic, even if their diesel was 25p a gallon.

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No birds
No bees
No leaves on the trees
No wonder
November


Time to break out the bird feeders and groan our way through another winter of juvenile tit jokes chaps. (And chapettes).