How was your gig last night?

[Geek99]

19 minutes ago, jezzaboy said:

Get you about the trainers @LozzI96 For years I have worn Adidas Sambas but after being on my feet for 2 hours plus at Bonfest, I have invested in a pair of Nike Air as my feet were killing me. This getting old lark is not what it`s cracked up to be! 

I thought I’d be older and wiser, I feel slightly short-changed but then 1 out of 2 isn’t bad. 

[Lozz196]

52 minutes ago, jezzaboy said:

Get you about the trainers @LozzI96 For years I have worn Adidas Sambas but after being on my feet for 2 hours plus at Bonfest, I have invested in a pair of Nike Air as my feet were killing me. This getting old lark is not what it`s cracked up to be! 

Yeah not fun at all, just as you get your brain sorted as to really knowing yourself and your life bits start stopping working or falling off, bah 😠

[Jack]

4 hours ago, mikebass456 said:

Rude.

Indeed, sorry. I do have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about the metric system. 

 

3 hours ago, Geek99 said:

You’re better, objectively, than jaco… I mean God? 

Certainly better than one of those! 

 

3 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I got this update on a clay tablet, written with a copper stylus. For basschat that’s pretty advanced, none of this scratching into rocks nonsense which is just so last-millennium 

Ahhhhhhh, the iPhone 4?

 

3 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I was the giant in one previous band of hobbits, towering above them all in my 175cm majesty (0.0086992 furlongs, or in more modern units, 5.671323e-17 parsecs).

Seems a perfectly sensible height to me. 

 

3 hours ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

What's the weight of the singer (in Kilderkins) please?

I asked him how much he weighed but then I think that's volume? I'll submerge him in the bath... 

[tauzero]

2 minutes ago, Jack said:

I do have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about the metric system. 

 

Me too. The UK has been officially metric for over 60 years, it's about time people started moving out of the 19th century.

[StingRayBoy42]

12 minutes ago, Jack said:

I'll submerge him in the bath... 

 

I've worked with a few singers I'd like to do that to!

[Geek99]

24 minutes ago, Jack said:

 

 

I asked him how much he weighed but then I think that's volume? I'll submerge him in the bath... 

Don’t hold him under. …
unless he is a guitarist 

[Geek99]

22 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Me too. The UK has been officially metric for over 60 years, it's about time people started moving out of the 19th century.

I’m fortunate that I can visualise both equally well

[Lozz196]

48 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Me too. The UK has been officially metric for over 60 years, it's about time people started moving out of the 19th century.

For me certain things are ok in metric others not, but it’s not only metric. If someone says someone is 18 stone I can visualise their size, change that to the equivalent in pounds and I’m nowhere, both are imperial. Swap to sending an item via a courier and I’m good with kilos, pounds and ounces, well I’m lost. But basses, well they’re pounds and ounces. 

[Stub Mandrel]

51 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Me too. The UK has been officially metric for over 60 years, it's about time people started moving out of the 19th century.

 

Highlights from the UK Metric Association's Timeline:

 

In 1969 the Government announced that speed limits would go metric in 1973.

 

1980 The UK Metrication Board is abolished. The Government says that “metrication has now been extensively adopted in manufacturing industry and also in retail trade, where most packaged goods sold in prescribed quantities are now sold in metric sizes, so there is now very limited scope for the Board’s activities …” The metric transition stalls.

 

1989 The EEC agrees to a postponement of the completion of the UK metric changeover.

 

1999 Supermarkets, butchers, fishmongers, grocers, greengrocers and corner shops complete their preparations for the switch to weighing and pricing in metric.

 

2014 UKMA publishes a report entitled “Still a mess“, covering the results of an opinion survey carried out at its request in 2013 by YouGov.

[peteb]

21 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

For me certain things are ok in metric others not, but it’s not only metric. If someone says someone is 18 stone I can visualise their size, change that to the equivalent in pounds and I’m nowhere, both are imperial. Swap to sending an item via a courier and I’m good with kilos, pounds and ounces, well I’m lost. But basses, well they’re pounds and ounces. 

 

I'm the same, and it makes absolutely no sense? Long distances and a person's height have to be miles / feet and inches, but otherwise smaller distances have to be metric, temperatures should be in fahrenheit for weather, but otherwise in degrees centigrade and weight must be in kilograms, except for a human being, when I can only compute stones / lbs. Dunno if it's my age, but I'm caught halfway between imperial and metric, even thought I know that metric obviously makes more sense and is a better system! 

 

[Jackroadkill]

The metric system is quite possibly the most beautiful and useful of humankind's creations.  The Imperial "system" was fine before accurate measurement was an option but is now as archaic and useful as Betamax.

[Lozz196]

Following on from both my earlier post and @petebs post, weather - hot and it’s Fahrenheit, cold and it’s Centigrade.

 

I suppose I’m just an honorary member of The Don’t Know Party.

[tauzero]

3 minutes ago, peteb said:

temperatures should be in fahrenheit for weather, but otherwise in degrees centigrade

 

Temperature always in celsius for me. I can't grasp fahrenheit at all plus it has no logic to it.

[Chienmortbb]

I left School in June 1968, aged 17. In September I joined EMI on an engineering apprenticeship and an immediately went into the training school, one year of off the job training.

 

June 1968, aged 17. In September I joined EMI on an engineering apprenticeship and a immediately went into the training school, one year of off the job training.

 

From the moment I entered the training school, I never used imperial measurements. The engineering industry in the UK had already adopted the SI, more commonly known as metric system. I did not find it difficult and even at 73 can still easily do mental calculations to convert from the imperial system that I learned at school to the SI system that I used every day at work. 

 

Changing to the SI system and decimal currency was easy we all know how to count in tens, and I do wonder about the sense in teaching children in the third decade of the 21st-century there 12 times table. 
 

My good friend @Passinwindassured me some years ago that where he lived in northern Oregon there was no problem sourcing metric screw sizes. 

[peteb]

6 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Temperature always in celsius for me. I can't grasp fahrenheit at all plus it has no logic to it.

 

I completely agree (or at least to the extent that the logic for fahrenheit is somewhat convoluted). Celsius is a far superiour system. But I still think of weather in fahrenheit and all other measurements of temperature in centigrade! 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by peteb

[Chienmortbb]

5 minutes ago, peteb said:

 

I completely agree (or at least to the extent that the logic for fahrenheit is somewhat convoluted). Celsius is a far superiour system. But I still think of weather in fahrenheit and all other measurements of temperature in centigrade! 

 

Don’t mention Kelvin then.

[SimonK]

As a scientist I feel obliged to like metric more except for pints of beer and miles/hour. Thus said I was talking to a French chap about this last week who pointed out that given a litre of beer is quite a lot bigger that a pint (by almost three quarters), the Brits were missing a trick with our drinking habits!

[Dad3353]

25 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Temperature always in celsius for me. I can't grasp fahrenheit at all plus it has no logic to it.

 

19 minutes ago, peteb said:

I completely agree (or at least to the extent that the logic for fahrenheit is somewhat convoluted). Celsius is a far superiour system. But I still think of weather in fahrenheit and all other measurements of temperature in centigrade! 

 

There is, or rather 'was', 'logic' to it at its conception, given the means available at the time. The scale is based on an upper and lower reference temperature, divided up into one hundred degrees. The lower temperature was an easy-to-establish 'zero', the freezing point of water. The upper reference was just as easy, being the temperature of a normal, healthy human, taken at the time to be one hundred. The scale is therefore from 0 to 100, freezing water to body temperature. Not too shabby for the early 1700's, no..? OK, they got it a little wrong with the 100, but with what they had to work with back then, it wasn't bad at all. There was, indeed, a lot of 'logic' to it. 

[Dad3353]

28 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

...Changing to the SI system and decimal currency was easy we all know how to count in tens, and I do wonder about the sense in teaching children in the third decade of the 21st-century there 12 times table... 

 

We all know how to count in many other 'bases' than ten, but most folk don't know that they know it. How many weeks is 32 days..? Easy, you say, whilst working it out in base 7 in your head. How many years have passed in 27 months..? No problem, just work with base 12. There's not much 'magic' to base 10, we had no problem counting out pennies and shillings. It did make things easier for those inventing the pocket calculator, once they'd made the internal shift from the internal base 2, binary, forcing the poor thing to use a bastard figure (10...) when 8 or 16 would have been far easier for the machine. Still, anything for an easy life, eh..? Those unused brain cells will rot away if they're not exercised.

Maybe some grammar lessons have been skipped, too, eh..? Whose 12 times table..? 

[Jack]

8 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

 

There is, or rather 'was', 'logic' to it at its conception, given the means available at the time. The scale is based on an upper and lower reference temperature, divided up into one hundred degrees. The lower temperature was an easy-to-establish 'zero', the freezing point of water. The upper reference was just as easy, being the temperature of a normal, healthy human, taken at the time to be one hundred. The scale is therefore from 0 to 100, freezing water to body temperature. Not too shabby for the early 1700's, no..? OK, they got it a little wrong with the 100, but with what they had to work with back then, it wasn't bad at all. There was, indeed, a lot of 'logic' to it. 

No no no, we're not taking that and we're especially not taking that from a Frenchman. (Or are you just resident in France? Sorry for assuming your nationality) Anyway you guys invented the metric system, that's why it's si and not is! 

[Dad3353]

1 minute ago, Jack said:

No no no, we're not taking that and we're especially not taking that from a Frenchman. (Or are you just resident in France? Sorry for assuming your nationality) Anyway you guys invented the metric system, that's why it's si and not is! 

 

Tsk, tsk. Such racist undertones. Tsk, tsk. 

 

 

...

 

 

[Jack]

15 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Tsk, tsk. Such racist undertones. Tsk, tsk. 

 

 

...

 

 

Me? No. I have a shirt and everything. 

[Geek99]

@Jack @Dad3353 is an expat living in France 

[dmccombe7]

I started as an Instrument Apprentice in 76 and found myself using both imperial for older kit and metric for any new kit purchased.

In those days Instrumentation was more pneumatic control in psi with new or foreign kit coming in barg. 

Temperatures varied from Fahrenheit to Celsius to Kelvin

Pressures from psi to Barg to BarA (atmospheric)

Distance was a combination of imperial and metric

Weight was pounds / stones to Kg

Coming from an age where holidays abroad meant conversions to francs, drachma, Pesetas and eventually Euros. Happy days.

Dave

[Merton]

Being very boring and going back on topic (sorry 😆)

- last night was gig #3 of the Katy Hurt tour, at Hot Box in Essex. Wicked venue, great engineer, backline supplied by Ashdown. Sounded fantastic, we played well to a packed room who seemed to enjoy themselves.

Bass was my ACG RetroB (nothing else has had a chance since getting it tbh, it’s perfect for Katy’s music) and shoes were some new grey suede Chelsea boots to replace the black leather ones which hurt my feet in Bath.

 

Shirt was one of Gab’s (guitarist) because I left mine on the back of the door when I went to work first thing yesterday 😆

 

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