Everybody needs a hobby

[XFool]

In pictures: First Scottish Tree Hugging Championships

BBC News

The inaugural Scottish Tree Hugging Championships were held at the weekend.

"Events in the competition at Ardtornish, on Lochaber's Morvern peninsula, included hugging as many trees in one minute and freestyle - the most inventive way of hugging a tree"

[Rhyd6]

Did Snorvey take part and if so which one is he????

R6

[SimonS]

I'm actually quite normal compared to that lot.

Bog Snorkelling Triathlon
In this variant of bog snorkelling, a participant is required to snorkel in a 60 yard, i.e. 110-meter bog course, ride a bike to cover a distance of 12 miles (31 kilometres) and then run on a track of 8 miles.

There is a World Championship!

[bungeejumper]

In this variant of bog snorkelling, a participant is required to snorkel in a 60 yard, i.e. 110-meter bog course, ride a bike to cover a distance of 12 miles (31 kilometres) and then run on a track of 8 miles.

8 miles! That's 143 kilometers, isn't it? Or does one of us need a new battery in our pocket calculator?

BJ

[GrahamPlatt]

Ha! The mile has metric roots:

“In Latin 1,000 paces is mille passus, and this eventually came to be known in English as a mile.”

So it really is an “imperial measure” just not an English empire.

[SimonS]

In this variant of bog snorkelling, a participant is required to snorkel in a 60 yard, i.e. 110-meter bog course, ride a bike to cover a distance of 12 miles (31 kilometres) and then run on a track of 8 miles.

8 miles! That's 143 kilometers, isn't it? Or does one of us need a new battery in our pocket calculator?

BJ

Both of us? 8 miles is 12.8 km not 143 but 12 miles is 19.31 not 31 km.
I am sorru but too much mud on my mask at the time. Lemonfooling while bog-snorkelling.

[Dod101]

In this variant of bog snorkelling, a participant is required to snorkel in a 60 yard, i.e. 110-meter bog course, ride a bike to cover a distance of 12 miles (31 kilometres) and then run on a track of 8 miles.

8 miles! That's 143 kilometers, isn't it? Or does one of us need a new battery in our pocket calculator?

BJ

Both of us? 8 miles is 12.8 km not 143 but 12 miles is 19.31 not 31 km.
I am sorru but too much mud on my mask at the time. Lemonfooling while bog-snorkelling.

You can get a quick check on miles to kilometres by knowing that a kilometre is roughly 5/8ths of a mile. No need for calculators.

Dod

[XFool]

Ha! The mile has metric roots:

“In Latin 1,000 paces is mille passus, and this eventually came to be known in English as a mile.”

So it really is an “imperial measure” just not an English empire.

Big lads, those Centurians!

[pje16]

Big lads, those Centurians!

I thought so as well
I guess Hollywood is to blame
but
https://realonomics.net/how-tall-were-t ... nt-romans/

[DrFfybes]

Ha! The mile has metric roots:

“In Latin 1,000 paces is mille passus, and this eventually came to be known in English as a mile.”

So it really is an “imperial measure” just not an English empire.

Big lads, those Centurians!

I suspect they only counted one leg.

[XFool]

Ha! The mile has metric roots:

“In Latin 1,000 paces is mille passus, and this eventually came to be known in English as a mile.”

So it really is an “imperial measure” just not an English empire.

Big lads, those Centurians!

I suspect they only counted one leg.

This is turning into Monty Python...

[malkymoo]

Ha! The mile has metric roots:

“In Latin 1,000 paces is mille passus, and this eventually came to be known in English as a mile.”

So it really is an “imperial measure” just not an English empire.

Big lads, those Centurians!

I suspect they only counted one leg.

True, the Roman passus was a double pace, from one heel touching the ground to the same heel touching the ground.

[redsturgeon]

Dexter, sinister, dexter, sinister...

[kiloran]

Dexter, sinister, dexter, sinister...

Right, left, right, left...... doesn't sound right

--kiloran

[redsturgeon]

Dexter, sinister, dexter, sinister...

Right, left, right, left...... doesn't sound right

--kiloran

Ha, ha, you're dexter! I was just quoting it how I remembered it from Up Pompeii (I think)

John

[pje16]

Titter ye not

[garfsuncle]

Dexter, sinister, dexter, sinister...

Right, left, right, left...... doesn't sound right

--kiloran

As I remember (and the old memory’s been fading for at least 30 years!) it sounded more like

Ef, [grunt], ef, [grunt]…(and the ‘f’ in ‘ef’ was little more than an afterthought).

Alan

[UncleEbenezer]

Dexter, sinister, dexter, sinister...

Right, left, right, left...... doesn't sound right

--kiloran

Right, left, right, left, there's none of the enemy left, right?
fx: chaos

[Lootman]

My Latin master was named Dexter

You were lucky. Our Classics master was Mister "Hooker" Holmes.

His nickname was derived from the fact that he very evidently liked young boys, which he would demonstrate by regularly smacking our bottoms in the school swimming pool changing room, which he conveniently got to administer.

These days he would be locked up but back then it was just considered amusingly eccentric.

[redsturgeon]

My Latin master was named Dexter he had a brother, also a classics scholar who wrote a few murder mysteries on the side he was perhaps the sinister Dexter.

John