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Nicky 'n' Steve

Nicky 'n' Steve Report 24 Apr 2015 19:28

....all I am is a calculator. :-(

Dermot

Dermot Report 24 Apr 2015 20:33

I cannot figure out this thread!

Nicky 'n' Steve

Nicky 'n' Steve Report 24 Apr 2015 20:39

We had a discussion on our shopping trip about the relative prices of onions and which worked out the most expensive. It involved doing a sum. Which I did.

And of course when we got home and I moaned about it, she says..... you're most use to me as a calculator, thats why I took you shopping.... lol

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figure out....

very good!

~S~

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 24 Apr 2015 21:06

she's certainly got your number :-D :-D

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 24 Apr 2015 23:08

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Dermot

Dermot Report 25 Apr 2015 08:17

We were strongly encouraged to learn our 'sums' at school. The only calculators to hand were our fingers.

Nicky 'n' Steve

Nicky 'n' Steve Report 25 Apr 2015 08:34

Our generation was the one where everything seemed to be changing at school. When I did my GCSE Maths exam there was actually a paper we sat where calculators were banned and another one where they were permitted. Also we grew up having to learn metric and imperial measures - although we had been a metric nation officially for almost 20 years by the time I did my GCSEs, plenty of (older) people were only familiar with imperial measurements.

How many of you could tell me there are 28 ounces in a gram, a little over two and a half centimetres in an inch, 39 inches in a metre, a pint and three quarters in a litre, etc etc etc without googling it?! :-D

wisechild

wisechild Report 25 Apr 2015 14:47

Do you mean 28 grams in an ounce?
28 ounces is getting on for 2 lbs. A gram is considerably less. :-S :-S

jax

jax Report 25 Apr 2015 16:07

I have a rough idea about metric measures but use imperial if I can

How much do you know about "old money " without googling it

Researching:
Nothing much

Nicky 'n' Steve

Nicky 'n' Steve Report 25 Apr 2015 16:09

well done wisechild you spotted the deliberate mistake :-D

Graham

Graham Report 25 Apr 2015 16:27

One thing I remember learning at school was that grammes are NOT a unit of weight. A kilogram bag of sugar weighs about 2.2 lbs whilst on the Earth's surface; but take that same bag of sugar to the Moon and it will only weigh about 4 ounces. Yet it will still be a Kg, because it's still the same ammount of sugar.

A man in space is weightless; but not bodyless.