andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> >>> I want to know 
> >>> whether it's t-shirt, long sleeve, or sweater weather. :-)
> > 
> >> If it's <0, it's pretty much no-t-shirt -weather ;).
> > 
> >   Except in northern Finland.
> > 
> I assume that this is a joke along the lines of:
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~simona/temperaturi.html

  That's inaccurate. It gets much warmer than 15 degrees in summer here.
Sometimes *way* too much.

  As for the t-shirt, you are not going to be in one when the temperature
is -1 degrees for long periods of time, but something like 5 minutes may
be just ok. It can actually be quite refreshing.

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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> If it's <0, it's pretty much no-t-shirt -weather ;).

http://www.dennydavis.net/poemfiles/trvl2.htm
Scroll down to "Multiple Locations."

> But actually for knowing that you don't want to know the temperature, 
> you'll want to know the wind index (which is what the air feels like and 
> is calculated from temperature and wind speed). +15C is warm for 
> t-shirt, if the sun shines and there's no wind, +20C is freaking cold, 
> if the sun doesn't shine on you and there's one hell of a wind.

I froze my butt off in San Francisco last weekend. It was 65F (call it 
18C) except it was windy and humid enough to almost be foggy. So, yeah, 
I know. :-)

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Warp wrote:
> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
>>>>> I want to know 
>>>>> whether it's t-shirt, long sleeve, or sweater weather. :-)
>>>> If it's <0, it's pretty much no-t-shirt -weather ;).
>>>   Except in northern Finland.
>>>
>> I assume that this is a joke along the lines of:
>> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~simona/temperaturi.html
> 
>   That's inaccurate. It gets much warmer than 15 degrees in summer here.
> Sometimes *way* too much.
> 
>   As for the t-shirt, you are not going to be in one when the temperature
> is -1 degrees for long periods of time, but something like 5 minutes may
> be just ok. It can actually be quite refreshing.
> 
I agree. Anyway the joke was of course that at this moment the 
eurovision contest is broadcasted and we are not watching, apparently.

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On Sat, 24 May 2008 20:21:04 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:26:36 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 24 May 2008 16:36:07 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You might. Probably my mistake, I should also have mentioned that we 
>>>>> almost always abbreviate kilogram to kilo.
>>>> As do we in the UK
>>> So, how would you call a device to measure kilos?
>> 
>> Scales, kitchen scales for up to 1.5 kilos, bathroom scales for
>> people. Vehicles are weighed on a weighbridge. Sometime scales are
>> called a balance if they are very accurate.
>
>Well, IMHO they should be called kilometers. ;)

Of course they should ;)
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     Stephen

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On 24 May 2008 14:55:15 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
wrote:

>Kilo = abbreviation of kilogram (as Andrel said), but the funnier part is 
>if you read "meter" not as a distance, but rather a device for measuring 
>something (think water meter or gas meter).

Oh! The shame needing an American to explain English what will Phil C
think of me :-)
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     Stephen

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On Sat, 24 May 2008 21:04:31 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

>
>I still am not sure if Stephen really did not understand that, that he 
>pretended not to, or that it was just a very bad joke.

No I did not understand. It was lost on me. I read Kilometer as
Kilometre but as an excuse I am dyslectic and easily confused.
And it is a good joke.
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     Stephen

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On Sat, 24 May 2008 13:27:50 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:

>I froze my butt off in San Francisco last weekend. It was 65F (call it 
>18C) except it was windy and humid enough to almost be foggy. So, yeah, 
>I know. :-)


was cold.
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     Stephen

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On Sat, 24 May 2008 21:18:05 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

>
>I am afraid I got that one. BTW I had never seen the expression vulgar 
>fraction before. If I look at wikipedia I would assume from the context 
>that improper fraction may be what you intended.

Right I got it wrong but it has been many years since I thought of it.

Ten four, out. :-)
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     Stephen

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On Sat, 24 May 2008 11:21:59 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:

>I never saw one that was that complex, except an architectural ruler. 
>Maybe I don't do the sort of work that sort of ruler helps with.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect's_scale

Lordy, I remember those but what I described was a ruler we bought for
school.
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     Stephen

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On Sat, 24 May 2008 22:01:40 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 24 May 2008 14:55:15 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
>>Kilo = abbreviation of kilogram (as Andrel said), but the funnier part
>>is if you read "meter" not as a distance, but rather a device for
>>measuring something (think water meter or gas meter).
> 
> Oh! The shame needing an American to explain English what will Phil C
> think of me :-)

;-)  Some Americans actually do speak English, though - I find myself 
actually having to correct my spelling often because I tend to use 
British spelling conventions rather than American.  When I send out a 
newsletter, I often have to read it a second time to 'Americanise' the 
spellings just to avoid having half my audience tell me I can't spell. ;-)

Jim

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