The Retirement Thread

[Deleted member 1258]

I watched a film called the girl in the spiders web. Really good film it was.

I've just had a look online and book marked it for another day

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've never been called a miscreant before! 😂

I'll have to look that up and see what it means.

 

[ColinJ]

I watched a film called the girl in the spiders web. Really good film it was.

I thought the original Scandinavian 'The Girl..' trilogy starring Noomi Rapace was better though.

 

[classic33]

I know about the abbreviations. I have to look up metric conversions because I struggle with Celsius.

Divide by five, times by nine and add thirty-two. For your Fahrenheit figure.

 

[welsh dragon]

I thought the original Scandinavian 'The Girl..' trilogy starring Noomi Rapace was better though.

Never watched that.

 

[screenman]

My parents used to change up the traveller's cheques every few days to get currency.
I can remember Dad looking at the advertised exchange rates every time we passed a bureau to see what today's rate was.

That is what we did.

 

[screenman]

You ever get to the evening and think what a great day I just had, well I have that feeling right now.

 

[12boy]

WOW! Wish I could grow carrots like that. I had 44 years in professional horticulture!!!!

Do you get a problem with carrot fly??

Our carrots can't fly....sorry. we aren't blessed with carrot flies. Actually, since I've been working lots of organic matter into the garden to ameliorate the gumbo clay they've done a lot better. All that came out of a 1ft x 25 ft strip.

 

[Paulus]

You ever get to the evening and think what a great day I just had, well I have that feeling right now.

Same here. The weather was favourable for walking so we were out for about 5 hours. The dog is now very tired.
So is MrsP.

 

[Dirk]

Divide by five, times by nine and add thirty-two. For your Fahrenheit figure.

Double it and add 30.
That gets you near enough.

 

[classic33]

Double it and add 30.
That gets you near enough.

Does that work if you reverse the process?

 

[BoldonLad]

Does that work if you reverse the process?

In Fahrenheit Scale 32 = Freezing point of water (ie 0C = 32F), and, 212F is boiling point of water (ie 100C = 212F). All at sea level.

So, 212 - 30 = 182; 182/2 = 91 so, it is a reasonably close approximation (correct answer is 100).

OMG, I have just regressed to school days!

Have to go and have a lie-down now, have not used my brain that much in years

PS Easiest way is to ask Google

 

[Dirk]

In Fahrenheit Scale 32 = Freezing point of water (ie 0C = 32F), and, 212F is boiling point of water (ie 100C = 212F). All at sea level.

So, 212 - 30 = 182; 182/2 = 91 so, it is a reasonably close approximation (correct answer is 100).

OMG, I have just regressed to school days!

Have to go and have a lie-down now, have not used my brain that much in years

PS Easiest way is to ask Google

Its more accurate in the area in which we normally operate ie 5 - 30 deg C.
Eg.
5C × 2 = 10 .........add 30 and you get 40F which is 1° out.
10C × 2 = 20...... add 30 and you get 50F which is spot on.
25C x 2 = 50.......add 30 and you get 80F which is only 3° out.

Accurate enough for everyday use.

 

[BoldonLad]

Its more accurate in the area in which we normally operate ie 5 - 30 deg C.
Eg.
5C × 2 = 10 .........add 30 and ypou get 40F which is 1° out.
10C × 2 = 20...... add 30 and you get 50F which is spot on.
25C x 2 = 50.......add 30 and you get 80F which is only 3° out.

Accurate enough for everyday use.

Yes, agreed.

Also, perhaps, it is more accurate going from C to F, rather than F to C (which is what I was answering).

No idea why this would be so, if that is the case.

I should have done more examples, but, my head was hurting

 

[Paulus]

Same here. The weather was favourable for walking so we were out for about 5 hours. The dog is now very tired.
So is MrsP.

One of the bits of wildlife we found was this lovely coloured mushroom. I have tried to identify it but so far with no luck.