or scraps, now apparently thanks to European law.
Where's that European Human Rights Law when you really need it eh? eh?
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Quote: Lazzard @ February 20 2013, 9:59 AM GMTMy dad used to call them 'bits' - but I think they were bits of batter that had fallen off the fish and crisped up in the oil/grease.
Yup. Loved that grease.
You forgot the Turnips. There was definitely turnips as well as the other Veg.
Rabbits came whole, hanging on a hook at the butchers & you had to skin them yourself.
ONLY PLAIN CRISPS??
I could not have coped.
Quote: Lazzard @ February 20 2013, 9:59 AM GMTMy dad used to call them 'bits' - but I think they were bits of batter that had fallen off the fish and crisped up in the oil/grease.
Quote: sootyj @ February 20 2013, 12:29 PM GMTAnd here is the elance job of the day.
We are looking for a writer to come up with a step by step guide to getting the guy to pop the question... WILL YOU MARRY ME? This book can be structured however you want BUT must be valuable and proven to work! You can gather the information though personal experience OR it can be though conversations you have had with people OR really good advice you have read on the internet, JUST NO COPY AND PASTING. This book should teach female readers how to... Take a guy from date 1 to an engagement in just 6 months. There should be 5 or 7 steps to this and it should be spelled out in a easy-to-read format.
I am so tempted to apply for this.
Can I commit to 18000-25000 words of trying to seem sincere though? I'm already sniggering at 'proven to work'..
Quote: AJGO @ February 20 2013, 4:20 PM GMTI am so tempted to apply for this.
Can I commit to 18000-25000 words of trying to seem sincere though? I'm already sniggering at 'proven to work'..
Only married writers need apply ?
Quote: billwill @ February 20 2013, 6:01 PM GMTOnly married writers need apply ?
I see where you're going with this, Mr billwill, but as flattered as I am, I'm already involved with someone. Sorry.
Ha.
Quote: AJGO @ February 20 2013, 4:20 PM GMTI am so tempted to apply for this.
Can I commit to 18000-25000 words of trying to seem sincere though? I'm already sniggering at 'proven to work'..
I could write it in two words; you can't. Get a guy to propose in 6 months that is.
Quote: AJGO @ February 20 2013, 4:20 PM GMTI am so tempted to apply for this.
Can I commit to 18000-25000 words of trying to seem sincere though? I'm already sniggering at 'proven to work'..
Jimmy Seville on elance
Quote: keewik @ February 20 2013, 3:14 PM GMT
Absolutely not
Batter bits as they are known round here are God's gift !
I like watching drag racing on tele and I heard an amazing statement the other day.
If an F1 car at 200mph crossed the start line in the lane next to a top fuel dragster and the dragster started at the exact same moment, it would beat the F1 car to the quarter mile post !
Quote: Oldrocker @ February 22 2013, 12:00 AM GMTI like watching drag racing on tele and I heard an amazing statement the other day.
If an F1 car at 200mph crossed the start line in the lane next to a top fuel dragster and the dragster started at the exact same moment, it would beat the F1 car to the quarter mile post !
Hmmm, possibly so, except that apparently Top Fuel drag racers no longer race for a quarter mile (1320 feet) they only race for 1000 feet and do it in about 3.8 seconds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel
200 miles per hour is 3600/200 seconds per mile =18 seconds. So a quarter mile takes 4.5 seconds at 200 MPH.
So 1000 feet would take 3.4 seconds. So over a 1000 foot race the F1 car would win by about 0.4 seconds.
Anyway at the 1000 foot mark the dragster is doing 330 MPH (10.91 secs/mile), so if it coasted, the extra 320 feet to the quarter mile mark would take 0.66 seconds so total time 3.8+0.66 = 4.46 second, slightly slower than the F1 car.
So to confirm your tale, the dragster has to keep accelerating and not coast after the 1000 foot mark.