Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Weather's worsening:

EU GLOSSARY OF ENGLISH/GERMAN MOTORING TERMS

ACCIDENT - Der bludimessen
BONNET - Pullenob und knucklechopper
BREATHALYSER - Die puffintem fur pistenarsen
CLUTCH - Die kuplink mit sclippen und schaken
CYCLIST - Der pedalpushink pilloken
ESTATE CAR - Der bagerroom fur shaggininauto
EXHAUST - Spitzenpoppen bangentuben
FOOTBRAKE - Der edbangeronvindschreen stoppenquick
GEAR LEVER - Biggensticken fur kangaroojumpen
HEADLIGHTS - Das dippendontdazzelubastad
HIGHWAY CODE - Der wipen fur arsen
INDICATORS - Die plinken tickentocken
JUGGERNAUT - Der fukkengretten trukken
LEARNER - Die twaten mit elplatz
NEAR ACCIDENT - Der fukken nearen schittenselfen
PARKING METER - Der tennerpinscher und klockenwerr
PUNCTURE - Die phlatt mit bludyfukken
SEATBELTS - Der klunkenklicker frauleintrapper
SKID - Der bannanan waltzen
SPEEDOMETER - Das Egoboozta mit Digitsundneedle
TYRES - Flattenfahrts
WINDSCREEN WIPER - Der flippenflappen muckenschpredder
FIRE ENGINE - Der Trumptonwagen

Cynic, no idea - just heard it from the Austrian hotel owner's English wife. Didn't go into details.

and of course, why should it be romanians who stole it? ..... did they leave their passports to prove the point? ..... no cctv in the hotel?

Oh please - don't let some facts spoil my prejudice :-) I'm well aware there are huge holes in my 'hearsay' comment.

From the cctv :-

nah! he's the austrian strudel-eating champion

he is a she! :-)

it's the steroids that do it!

Greene King bought Ridley's which is not a million miles from Adnams.

Plenty of choice nowadays
As of the end Nov. there were more than 1000 microbreweries in the UK
and rising. There are more than 30 in London,5 of them in Hackney .
So much so that JDW are featuring many of them all over London in
the next two months.
edit.
We are of on the big fish swallowing the smaller again.
Molson Coors swallowed Sharps recently and Franciscan Well in Ireland
(maybe connected to Sharps) was swallowed by a big Co.

cwt?

you're too young! ...... oz, lb, st, cwt, ton ...... thus 16 ounce = 1 pound; 14 pounds = 1 stone; 8 stone = 1 hundredweight; 20 hundredweight = 1ton

we could then get into bushels, but that is dangerous ground ...... however, a bushel of corn (i think different with other grains) weighs 56 lbs = 4 stone

Sounds better to say my weight is a hundred weight and three quarters.:-))

but of course 1 ton should never be confused with wonton or even wanton!

Come on do the job, you have mised half the info. :-))

1 bushel of wheat or soybeans = 60 pounds (77.2 Kg./hl.)

1 bu corn = 56 lbs

1 bu barley = 48 lbs

36.74 bushels of wheat = 1 metric ton

33.33 bushels of wheat = 1 short ton

• The metric ton of 2204.6 pounds is the weight unit most widely used in reporting international trade statistics.

• The short ton of 2000 pounds is domestically used in the United States, as well as in some other countries.

• 1 bushel of wheat will make about 73 loaves of white bread, 1 lb. each.

• 2.3 bushels of wheat will make 100 pounds of white flour (72% extraction).

when real people were using bushels, soybeans had never been heard of!
nor for that matter had the metric tonne (please note!) nor the short ton (a nasty american imposter aka illegal immigrant!).

in the good old days, if you spoke of a bushel, you meant a bushel of corn - i.e. 56 lbs and thus half cwt!

Then we are talking about the American size bushel , now thats a different story. :-))

A bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush!! Sorry you were talking about bushels - gin and antiobiotics have impaired my vision haha!! Nice weekend all.

So giving you a test, what weighs more a bushel of wheat, barley or oats. No looking up the answer. :-))