Stub Mandrel Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 A mate tried to sell me an 8x10 earlier. I said 'I have a 2x12 that's probably louder than the 8x10." 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 15 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said: A mate tried to sell me an 8x10 earlier. I said 'I have a 2x12 that's probably louder than the 8x10." 🤣 Did you mention it was "probably" a tiny bit lighter too? 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Looks like the fridge era has come to an end. Still remember my Ampeg SVT rig at 120 kilos... 40 kilos for the head and 80 kilos for the 8x10". We were young and... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Hellzero said: Looks like the fridge era has come to an end. Still remember my Ampeg SVT rig at 120 kilos... 40 kilos for the head and 80 kilos for the 8x10". We were young and... Fridges still live on: now that's surely food for thought! 😁 Edited August 16, 2021 by Al Krow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 54 minutes ago, Hellzero said: Looks like the fridge era has come to an end. Still remember my Ampeg SVT rig at 120 kilos... 40 kilos for the head and 80 kilos for the 8x10". We were young and... I remember helping a band with their flightcased 810 up the 2 flights of stairs at the back of The 100 Club. I wasn’t young, and neither were the other 6 people also struggling with it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Lozz196 said: I remember helping a band with their flightcased 810 up the 2 flights of stairs at the back of The 100 Club. I wasn’t young, and neither were the other 6 people also struggling with it! At least we know if anyone walks off with a cab that size its not going to be a bass player 😁. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Lozz196 said: I remember helping a band with their flightcased 810 up the 2 flights of stairs at the back of The 100 Club. I wasn’t young, and neither were the other 6 people also struggling with it! I needed help to carry my 20kg 410 up and down those stairs!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chienmortbb Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 On 26/05/2021 at 17:24, Al Krow said: Nope. The shootout is really looking to compare two cabs of the same weight. That's a key selling point of the GR AT cabs, certainly for me. The GR 212 is 28 lbs. I'm sure it will perform well against any cab of that weight however that other cab has been configured. What are these lbs you speak of? So its just short of 13Kg. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, Chienmortbb said: What are these lbs you speak of? So its just short of 13Kg. 1kg = 2.2lbs 1" = 2.54cm 1 mile = 1.61km Oh and the Babylonians also invented a great system based on 6 rather than 10...check your watch some time. 12 hours in a waking day and the same again for night, a bit like 12" in a foot? Now why would anyone divide something by 12 instead of 10? As for 7 days in a week and months being a random 28 to 31 days in length...and, God forbid, that you might wander into your local and ask for a "pint"?! That's what I am speaking of. 😄 Edited August 17, 2021 by Al Krow 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 You also have the 28 system based on the moon, the 60 system based on minutes and seconds, the 365 system based on the sun which must be corrected every 2 years, the 5 system based on your fingers, the 12 system based on the months and the delirious royal system that has been abolished in 1999 after a whole century to adapt to the MKS system (apparently it didn't work at all ). From now on, I shall speaks in halfhands for weight, in peenuts for time based on the time between two pees and semilegs for distance, so it will be very clear. All these new measures won't be fixed, but will depend on my mood, the speed of the wind and the amount of rain per day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Al Krow said: Oh and the Babylonians also invented a great system based on 6 rather than 10...check your watch some time. I didn't know they all had 6 fingers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 59 minutes ago, Hellzero said: You also have the 28 system based on the moon, the 60 system based on minutes and seconds, the 365 system based on the sun which must be corrected every 2 FOUR years... Just correcting your correction 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 (edited) 25 minutes ago, chris_b said: I didn't know they all had 6 fingers. That's 'cos they didn't. But their sexagesimal based system (e.g. 6x10 mins in the hour) has taken the world be storm. Actually it was originally thought to be the bright idea of the Sumerians who passed it on to the Babylonians. Why was it such a good system? Its mathematical advantages for writing and calculating fractions. Edited August 17, 2021 by Al Krow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 22 minutes ago, Al Krow said: Just correcting your correction 😁 Plus 3 days every 10.000 years to be very precise. Bloody dyslexic mathematicians. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 5 hours ago, Hellzero said: Plus 3 days every 10.000 years to be very precise. Bloody dyslexic mathematicians. To be really precise, the length of a day is gradually getting longer, so years are 'getting longer', if you count days (although barely changing in terms of seconds). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunderwonder Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 On 17/08/2021 at 23:42, Al Krow said: Just correcting your correction 😁 Don't forget the leap seconds they add every now and then to keep the atomic clocks in sync with the sun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 5 hours ago, Downunderwonder said: Don't forget the leap seconds they add every now and then to keep the atomic clocks in sync with the sun. Right and the fact that time is stretchable too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chienmortbb Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 On 17/08/2021 at 09:57, Al Krow said: 1kg = 2.2lbs 1" = 2.54cm 1 mile = 1.61km Oh and the Babylonians also invented a great system based on 6 rather than 10...check your watch some time. 12 hours in a waking day and the same again for night, a bit like 12" in a foot? Now why would anyone divide something by 12 instead of 10? As for 7 days in a week and months being a random 28 to 31 days in length...and, God forbid, that you might wander into your local and ask for a "pint"?! That's what I am speaking of. 😄 The pint is the one Imperial measurement still in wide use in the uk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunderwonder Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 15 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said: The pint is the one Imperial measurement still in wide use in the uk. Bars get away with blue murder here on account of no official recognition of 'pint' any more. A pint can be any somewhat larger glass/mug/thimble they say is a 'pint'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Chienmortbb said: The pint is the one Imperial measurement still in wide use in the uk. I'm clearly part of a minority then in being comfortable with being told how much folks' basses weigh in lbs and also clearly deluded in thinking that our speed limits are still stated in mph, despite it apparently being an imperial measure which is not in "wide use in the UK" 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Al Krow said: I'm clearly part of a minority then in being comfortable with being told how much folks' basses weigh in lbs and also clearly deluded in thinking that our speed limits are still stated in mph, despite it apparently being an imperial measure which is not in "wide use in the UK" 😁 I'm sure my waist isn't 32cm... and I don't weigh 12kg 13g. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBass Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 13 hours ago, Downunderwonder said: Bars get away with blue murder here on account of no official recognition of 'pint' any more. A pint can be any somewhat larger glass/mug/thimble they say is a 'pint'. And governments get away with even more. Their taxes on beer make the stuff, which is 99% water, more expensive than petrol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunderwonder Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 28 minutes ago, BillyBass said: And governments get away with even more. Their taxes on beer make the stuff, which is 99% water, more expensive than petrol. You can keep your 1% beer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 8 hours ago, BillyBass said: Their taxes on beer make the stuff, which is 99% water A Carling drinker, eh? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chienmortbb Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 (edited) I forgot MPH lol, However if you go to the hospital they weigh you in Kg and g. You buy your food in grams and kilograms. Your beer is between 3 and 6% alcohol add a few other ingredient and the water content is between 90 and 95%. The cost of beer in pubs is high becuse of the greed of the goverment (the Beer Levy) and greedy breweries/pubcos. We still qoute the economy of cars in MPG yet buy our fuel in Litres. Four legs good, two legs bad. Sorry for derailing the thread. I'm off now.🤘 Edited August 21, 2021 by Chienmortbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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