goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
cynic
- 18 Jan 2013 13:13
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nah! he's the austrian strudel-eating champion
skinny
- 18 Jan 2013 13:15
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he is a she! :-)
cynic
- 18 Jan 2013 13:16
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it's the steroids that do it!
Isaacs
- 18 Jan 2013 15:57
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Greene King bought Ridley's which is not a million miles from Adnams.
tyketto
- 18 Jan 2013 16:31
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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.
chuckles
- 18 Jan 2013 17:15
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cwt?
cynic
- 18 Jan 2013 17:24
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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
dreamcatcher
- 18 Jan 2013 17:29
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Sounds better to say my weight is a hundred weight and three quarters.:-))
cynic
- 18 Jan 2013 17:30
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but of course 1 ton should never be confused with wonton or even wanton!
dreamcatcher
- 18 Jan 2013 17:34
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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).
cynic
- 18 Jan 2013 17:38
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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!
dreamcatcher
- 18 Jan 2013 17:40
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Then we are talking about the American size bushel , now thats a different story. :-))
3 monkies
- 18 Jan 2013 17:40
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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.
dreamcatcher
- 18 Jan 2013 17:41
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So giving you a test, what weighs more a bushel of wheat, barley or oats. No looking up the answer. :-))
cynic
- 18 Jan 2013 17:42
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i don't think we should be talking about birds and bushes here - we'll get banned
dreamcatcher
- 18 Jan 2013 17:42
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Thats ok 3m, lol
dreamcatcher
- 18 Jan 2013 17:43
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I bet you liked a trim bush.
cynic
- 18 Jan 2013 17:43
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without cheating, i'ld hazard a guess at wheat
dreamcatcher
- 18 Jan 2013 17:44
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That reminds me who put that pussy wagon on the I lost my house thread. I would never do a thing like that. :-))
dreamcatcher
- 18 Jan 2013 17:45
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Your right, then barley than oats.