The Lemon Fool

Posted: **July 1st, 2019, 7:42 pm**

PinkDalek wrote:Even so, bungeejumper made reference, I believe, to the day after New Year's Day. Is there more to tell or do many Grocer's celebrate New Year's Eve to such an extent that they are still suffering on 2 January? Unless his Grocer is based in Scotland, which would most likely explain the situation.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

--kiloran

Posted: **July 1st, 2019, 8:56 pm**

kiloran wrote:
PinkDalek wrote:Is there more to tell or do many Grocer's celebrate New Year's Eve to such an extent that they are still suffering on 2 January?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

--kiloran

I'm glad to note someone was paying attention. I'll leave it to you to decide whether or not the mistake was deliberate. :mrgreen:

Posted: **July 1st, 2019, 9:23 pm**

PinkDalek wrote:
AleisterCrowley wrote:The BBC seem to favour 'Isas', which looks awful

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48759591

Agreed but it is in their searchable style guide as Isa http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/academy/acad ... _2018.docx (as against ISAs https://www.gov.uk/individual-savings-accounts).

So why do they not call themselves 'The Bbc'?

- I could mention Nicholas Parsons and 'Just a Minute' here. But I won't. :lol:

Posted: **July 1st, 2019, 9:25 pm**

EssDeeAitch wrote:Reading a good article on the Investors Chronicle on housing the journalist stated ".......estimates that only a quarter of 27 year-olds now own their own property, compared with 43% in the early 2000's"

Really? A quarter compared to 43%? Why not 25% and 43%? I do understand that it is not difficult (or even a challenge) to mentally compute the scale of the difference by oh why mix up imperial and metric units?

When did vulgar fractions become "Imperial units", or percentages "Metric units"?

Posted: **July 1st, 2019, 9:58 pm**

XFool wrote:
PinkDalek wrote:
AleisterCrowley wrote:The BBC seem to favour 'Isas', which looks awful

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48759591

Agreed but it is in their searchable style guide as Isa http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/academy/acad ... _2018.docx (as against ISAs https://www.gov.uk/individual-savings-accounts).

So why do they not call themselves 'The Bbc'?

...

Someone pointed that out in the BBC (erm Bbc ) comments section.

Posted: **July 2nd, 2019, 5:01 am**

XFool wrote:
EssDeeAitch wrote:Reading a good article on the Investors Chronicle on housing the journalist stated ".......estimates that only a quarter of 27 year-olds now own their own property, compared with 43% in the early 2000's"

Really? A quarter compared to 43%? Why not 25% and 43%? I do understand that it is not difficult (or even a challenge) to mentally compute the scale of the difference by oh why mix up imperial and metric units?

When did vulgar fractions become "Imperial units", or percentages "Metric units"?

I certainly posted this in the correct forum

Posted: **July 2nd, 2019, 8:52 am**

In my early working years I quickly learned that the ancient skilled turner in the workshop would become abusive if I attempted to mention mm. I had to quickly learn that one mm translated to forty thou (or near enough).

Posted: **July 2nd, 2019, 10:34 am**

XFool wrote:When did vulgar fractions become "Imperial units", or percentages "Metric units"?

And when did perfectly respectable fractions become vulgar?

--kiloran

The Lemon Fool

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