Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

just as I had FINALLY figured out pounds/ shillings/ pence

I saw an old tin marketing sign last week that said something was 4d, and it brought back memories of pounds, shillings and pence, and the realization, much belated, that their abbreviations £ s d derive from Roman libra (= a pound), sesterces, and denarii.

You still have imperial measures in the US, and I imagine you have lots of oddities in it, like our old 'penny' being abbreviated with a d, rather than a p, because history embeds some things in a culture much more strongly than others.

 

[Perris]

I used to have a cherished Rand McNally road atlas (book form) which I used continually

On our trip to Chatsworth we realized that our road atlas is 16 years old, and were looking in garages when we stopped to fill up for a modern replacement (garages always used to have a selection of them), since there has been quite a bit of road building since it was printed. Didn't see one anywhere. And there was no pen and paper in the hotel rooms. That always used to be present. I wonder how many old companies have gone to the wall thanks to the digital revolution.

 

[ChaosMom]

On our trip to Chatsworth we realized that our road atlas is 16 years old, and were looking in garages when we stopped to fill up for a modern replacement (garages always used to have a selection of them), since there has been quite a bit of road building since it was printed. Didn't see one anywhere. And there was no pen and paper in the hotel rooms. That always used to be present. I wonder how many old companies have gone to the wall thanks to the digital revolution.

“Buggywhips ‘R’ Us”

 

[ChaosMom]

I saw an old tin marketing sign last week that said something was 4d, and it brought back memories of pounds, shillings and pence, and the realization, much belated, that their abbreviations £ s d derive from Roman libra (= a pound), sesterces, and denarii.

You still have imperial measures in the US, and I imagine you have lots of oddities in it, like our old 'penny' being abbreviated with a d, rather than a p, because history embeds some things in a culture much more strongly than others.

I find metric recipes bewildering, because US food measurements are nearly always by volume - cups, tablespoons, fluid ounces, and so forth, yet British recipes are generally by weight/mass - kilos, grams.

When they have been converted in either direction, I never know whether to believe the new measurements, because I don’t know if they took the density of the ingredient being measured into account. You can’t just go with any old direct conversion from volume to mass and back again! Did they re-weigh everything?!

 

[BDutch]

Probably a litle bit offtopic, but I do find it interesting that BYC automatically links the website of TSC also written as tractor supply whenever mentioned. Ofcourse it's a very popular place to get chicks from in the USA, but here in the Netherlands I can't even access the site . So why am I promoting something I can't even look at?

BYC gets paid for the link or when people click on the link (affiliate). Maintaining a website costs money. And this is one way to make money.

Interesting contribution to the tech discussion in this morning's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technol...refer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds

If you have Netflix, you may find this series interesting : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence_(TV_series)

Off-Topic tax

Ini mini and Black eating toasted baguette on the terrace. It helps Ini mini to keep her upper beak trimmed.

 

[Perris]

When they have been converted in either direction, I never know whether to believe the new measurements, because I don’t know if they took the density of the ingredient being measured into account. You can’t just go with any old direct conversion from volume to mass and back again! Did they re-weigh everything?!

I doubt it matters for most of us cooking, and volume measures are very imprecise anyway (level top? heaped? loosely packed? densely packed? etc.) We still use teaspoon/ tablespoon for small quantities though, the herbs and spices typically. Or the even more imprecise 'pinch' or 'splash'

 

[Perris]

If you have Netflix, you may find this series interesting

no we don't, but that series occupied the front pages of most of the papers here shortly after release, and even prompted questions in the Houses of Parliament.

What I think is interesting about the Guardian piece is the news that large numbers of youngsters - digital natives - are pulling back or want to pull back themselves. "nearly 70% feel worse after using social media"

 

[BDutch]

On our trip to Chatsworth we realized that our road atlas is 16 years old, and were looking in garages when we stopped to fill up for a modern replacement (garages always used to have a selection of them), since there has been quite a bit of road building since it was printed. Didn't see one anywhere. And there was no pen and paper in the hotel rooms. That always used to be present. I wonder how many old companies have gone to the wall thanks to the digital revolution.

Clever directors/SEO’s see things coming way before their income stops.
Eg. We have a large paper factory in the next village. It made newspaper paper for decades. They started to make cardboard when packed deliveries became more common. A very successful addition. Recently it stopped making newspaper paper completely.

 

[Perris]

Tax must be overdue on my a/c: here's Erddig just chillin' the other day

 

[ChaosMom]

…You still have imperial measures in the US, and I imagine you have lots of oddities in it

The abbreviation for fluid ounces is fl. oz., which is perfectly rational, but when I was in elementary school learning about this stuff, my brain seized on “floozies” as the appropriate pronunciation for fl. oz., and so I have thought of it ever since.

I had no idea what floozies were, but it seemed a mighty fine word.