just this minute on the telly

On Granada Reports
"The lock holds a quarter of a megalitre of water. That's about two
hundred and fifty thousand litres."

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
On Granada Reports
"The lock holds a quarter of a megalitre of water. That's about two
hundred and fifty thousand litres."


Scoundrel - watching foreign TV indeed!


--
Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com

Woody wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
On Granada Reports
"The lock holds a quarter of a megalitre of water. That's about two
hundred and fifty thousand litres."


Scoundrel - watching foreign TV indeed!



I fell into the trap of watching ITV HD! I'm surprised YTV puts up with it.

Bill

On Friday, 20 February 2015 18:15:44 UTC, Bill Wright wrote:
On Granada Reports
"The lock holds a quarter of a megalitre of water. That's about two
hundred and fifty thousand litres."

There seems to be considerable online confusion where an Olympic-size swimming pool is anything between 1 and 2.5 megalitres. Perhaps there's a distinction between holding and using, allowing the water to be refreshed.

Owain

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
On Granada Reports
"The lock holds a quarter of a megalitre of water. That's about two
hundred and fifty thousand litres."

It may be tautology but at least it's numerically accurate and they didn't
gain or lose a factor of 10 between the two ways they said the same thing.
Could have been worse...

NY wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
On Granada Reports
"The lock holds a quarter of a megalitre of water. That's about two
hundred and fifty thousand litres."

It may be tautology but at least it's numerically accurate and they
didn't gain or lose a factor of 10 between the two ways they said the
same thing. Could have been worse...

It was the 'about' that amused me.

Bill

"Chris Hogg" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:57:34 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

NY wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
On Granada Reports
"The lock holds a quarter of a megalitre of water. That's about
two
hundred and fifty thousand litres."

It may be tautology but at least it's numerically accurate and
they
didn't gain or lose a factor of 10 between the two ways they said
the
same thing. Could have been worse...

It was the 'about' that amused me.

Bill

I get annoyed when I read something like 'it was about three feet
(0.914 metres) long'. Approximation followed by exactness. Mindless
conversion.



Its the same when reading news on the Red button pages - they ALWAYS
give the time as hh:mm GMT - as if we didn't know!


--
Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com

Chris Hogg wrote:

I get annoyed when I read something like 'it was about three feet
(0.914 metres) long'. Approximation followed by exactness. Mindless
conversion.


My old granny was a bit like that. She'd say, "A bird in the hand is
worth 2.0000000 birds in the bush," that sort of thing.

Sometime in the 1950s she heard about metric measurements and modified
all her adages accordingly. She'd say
"A miss is as good as a mile, or 1.609344km)."


Eventually she went completely metric. She used to say,
"You can leave that dirty bike outside in the 0.9144 metres."
"Doctor I've got a pain in my left 0.3048 metres."
"I'm sorry dear but I'm very deaf and I just can't 1.8288 out what
you're on about."
"I'll have a quick sit down but I can't stay 201.16800 metres."

Bill

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:15:26 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

On Granada Reports
"The lock holds a quarter of a megalitre of water. That's about two
hundred and fifty thousand litres."

or about six London buses

In message , Chris Hogg
writes
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:57:34 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

NY wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
On Granada Reports
"The lock holds a quarter of a megalitre of water. That's about two
hundred and fifty thousand litres."

It may be tautology but at least it's numerically accurate and they
didn't gain or lose a factor of 10 between the two ways they said the
same thing. Could have been worse...

It was the 'about' that amused me.

Bill

I get annoyed when I read something like 'it was about three feet
(0.914 metres) long'. Approximation followed by exactness. Mindless
conversion.

Even back in the 60s, I recall reading instructions that said something
like "Keep at least 1" (2.54cm) away from the wall".
--
Ian