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Nosebagbadger {Ace} Started conversation Jul 15, 2011
Has returned from the land of the singing - my choir tour has finished
My legs have not yet recovered from the not quite sucessful navigating of my choir master - in the last 24 hours only 4 were spent sleeping, the rest flying, walking, coaching (the moving variety) and training (again, the moving variety)
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Vip Posted Jul 15, 2011
I toured the Czech Republic with my orchestra when I was still at school. Wonderful place to visit; murder to travel to if, like me, you can't sleep on coaches and you had to drive the whole way there.
I did get to watch the sun rise over the Alps though. That was pretty. Only two of us were awake, so we just watched in awed silence.
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Nosebagbadger {Ace} Posted Jul 15, 2011
On driving - two of our teachers drove there (and back) in a van since we had to get the instruments there.
Day and a half there, 18 hours straight to get back.
Top speed 92mph in Germany downhill on the Autobahn (slightly quicker with windows shut - thats how bored our teachers got)
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8584330 Posted Jul 15, 2011
>>> Top speed 92mph in Germany downhill on the Autobahn
I knew it! Miles per hour. You all only use metric when you think we're not looking.
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Vip Posted Jul 15, 2011
We use imperial for journeys in cars, and for measuring our weight (but using stones as well as pounds).
Pretty much the rest is metric though. Although some people still use Farenheit for hot weather. Not anyone my age or younger though.
Some people still use imperial for cooking, but it's going out of fashion.
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minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! Posted Jul 15, 2011
My mum likes giving me recipes in pounds and ounces, I have always measured my height in feet and inches, But I can convert most things reasonably easily.
5 fluid ounces is roughly equal to 120 ml or a third of a cup.
12 inches = 1 foot = 30 centimetres
etc etc.
mini
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Nosebagbadger {Ace} Posted Jul 15, 2011
Oh dear, i've started this war
I myself am height, fuel, speed and the occasional other thing. Otherwise i'm metric measuring
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8584330 Posted Jul 16, 2011
No, no, no. Anything but that. If there's a war I surrender immediately.
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