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[MakeeLearn]

Warspite and Valiant


Warspite - while being towed by United States Navy tugs she broke all tow lines and drifted sideways through the Straits of Messina

[LargeSlowTarget]

That looks like a BSH.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy




I hereby invalidate this vote, as it contains TWO guesses. [:-]

Forum 'guess that .....' decorum dictates only one vote per post. [:'(]

A pox on thee, heathen savage. May the Bluebird of Happiness find the top of your head repeatedly.

Did you notice that my next post (which was my second guess) was the Prince of Wales? But, as I didn't put two guesses in the same post, I think that passed muster. [;)]

Circumstances prevented me from making a 2nd post, so I economized.
Do you have any idea just how much Carbon Dioxide your 2nd post released into the atmosphere? Consider yourself chastised (or Chastained, if you like Jessica).

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

That looks like a BSH.

Could you enlighten me? Is she a British Super Hottie?

Sincerely,

Clueless in the USA

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

Warspite and Valiant


Warspite - while being towed by United States Navy tugs she broke all tow lines and drifted sideways through the Straits of Messina

Which one is Warspite and which one is Valiant? Oh, never mind. I'll investigate! [:D]

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

That looks like a BSH.

Could you enlighten me? Is she a British Super Hottie?

Sincerely,

Clueless in the USA

The British Standard Handful, or BSH, is a measurement of breast size. It is a pure measure of volume; issues of shape and form must be considered separately.

One BSH is defined as the amount of breast that could be held by Henry VIII's right hand. In the same way that the average foot is less than a foot in length, the 'British Standard' handful is noticeably larger than the standard British hand. This is not necessarily a bad thing — after all, being short changed is more disappointing than receiving slightly more than anticipated.

The BSH is a far more convenient unit for real world use than its metric equivalent, the cubic metre. Just as it is far easier to ask for a pint of beer than 0.568 litres, one BSH is a much more manageable quantity than 3.1*10-4m3 or 310cm3. This is one of the reasons that the imperial system remains more popular for measuring breasts (the other being that physicists have little to no use for this unit).

In its pure form, the BSH refers to the size of an unrestrained, unsupported breast in its natural state. However, with the appropriate qualifiers it can also be used in refer to apparent size after enhancements (for example, via a padded bra).

In the United States, the Britney is the more popular unit. Unfortunately, the value of the Britney fluctuates depending upon season and outfit. Nor is there a standard Britney locked in a hermetically sealed vault in Paris — this is very much a unit which can be adapted to suit the occasion rather than an objective measure.

Source : https://everything2.com/title/British+Standard+Handful

[pws1225]

An enlightening discussion on units of measurement. [8D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
one BSH is a much more manageable quantity than 3.1*10-4m3 or 310cm3.

I think you'll find the unit in question for 1.0 (or 3.1)*10^-4 m is *not* a cm, but a dmm. 1.0 (or 3.1)*10^-2 m is a cm.

As you were. [:)]

[Chickenboy]

By the way, is an *American* explaining and correcting a Frenchman living in Germany about the metric system?

In Steve McQueen from Sand Pebbles voice: "What the Hell is goin' on around here?"

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
one BSH is a much more manageable quantity than 3.1*10-4m3 or 310cm3.

I think you'll find the unit in question for 1.0 (or 3.1)*10^-4 m is *not* a cm, but a dmm. 1.0 (or 3.1)*10^-2 m is a cm.

As you were. [:)]

I think due to the nature of the dimensions in question the matter calls not for calculations, but for close inspection!

[geofflambert]

This actually seems to me to be some rather interesting music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FySi6xXkNqo

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1

No peeking now. From the picture below, name the two sisters that served in one of the navies in WWII

warspite1

I'll leave this overnight before posting a clue (in the unlikely event that that proves necessary).

warspite1

Well the clue was a little obscure, but then name this ship or aircraft is normally answered within minutes on this forum. Pleasing to see I have stumped the brain-boxes here [:)]

So a little help as the picture of this strait doesn't help - although this clue is pretty obscure too [:D]

Clue: 2 The answer may lie within one of these tracks...

[LargeSlowTarget]

I was merely quoting. My relationship with anything mathematic is a long-standing aversion dating back to school days, and I am convinced the aversion is mutual. Maths has always been too abstract and aloof for me. Why bother with formulae when the important question is the size of Henry VIII's hands? That man has been married six times and had an uncountable number of mistresses, so he is an authority on the subject. Like witpqs, I prefer an empirical approach.

[geofflambert]

OK, so how did you figure out that I kept my brain in a box? I tried keeping it in a Ziploc baggie and a leftover microwave plastic perma-pouch but you've zeroed in on my most favorite hiding place, a cardboard box. Now I admit that a fair amount of my neural tissue gets stuck to that cardboard whenever I have to retrieve my brain to make important decisions like where to deploy my Alfs but it is not missed. Who would keen over some gray matter that might well have ordered some subs to patrol the straits of Baluchistan?

[geofflambert]

Why bother with formulae? You've beem studying Latin when you should have been learning trigonometrics. Shame on you!

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1

No peeking now. From the picture below, name the two sisters that served in one of the navies in WWII

warspite1

I'll leave this overnight before posting a clue (in the unlikely event that that proves necessary).

warspite1

Well the clue was a little obscure, but then name this ship or aircraft is normally answered within minutes on this forum. Pleasing to see I have stumped the brain-boxes here [:)]

So a little help as the picture of this strait doesn't help - although this clue is pretty obscure too [:D]

Clue: 2 The answer may lie within one of these tracks...

Scylla and Charybdis - Royal Navy Dido class cruisers.

Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1


warspite1

I'll leave this overnight before posting a clue (in the unlikely event that that proves necessary).

warspite1

Well the clue was a little obscure, but then name this ship or aircraft is normally answered within minutes on this forum. Pleasing to see I have stumped the brain-boxes here [:)]

So a little help as the picture of this strait doesn't help - although this clue is pretty obscure too [:D]

Clue: 2 The answer may lie within one of these tracks...

Scylla and Charybdis - Royal Navy Dido class cruisers.

Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland.

warspite1

...is the correct answer [:)]

[Zorch]

Both WWII Scylla and Charybdis had interesting careers.

Scylla, launched in 1940, served in Arctic convoys and on patrols in the Bay of Biscay. She was badly damaged by a mine in June 1944 and never repaired.

Charybdis was launched in 1941 and was an escort on several Malta convoys. She was sunk in the Channel in October 1943 by 2 torpedoes, with heavy loss of life in a night action.

They were intended to have a uniform armament of 5.25" guns, but wartime priorities gave them a mix of 4", 4.5", and 5.25" guns. They were considered good AA platforms.

[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I'd like to address a misconception about woodpeckers. The myth is, and it is a myth, that when woodpeckers make that tapping sound on trees that echoes for hundreds of yards that they are hunting for grubs hiding in the bark of trees. This is entirely incorrect. Woodpeckers make that sound as a territorial call and they are certainly not hunting when they make it. I have heard and many others as well that they sometimes find some tin or other metal, flanges or actual roofing material and bang on that. It's not that they are stupid and thinking the tin might hold some hiding beetle larvae, but rather they know this metal and the sounds that can be produced with it will penetrate greater distances than the rapping on wood that is typical for woodpeckers. Do not underestimate them, if you hear one rapping on tin you should know that you are experiencing a particularly clever woodpecker.

Yeah, right. That particular 'clever bird' damn near got his beak shot off. Right outside my window waking me up is a sure fire method to seeking ones' own self destruction. I did give him enough chance before hand and he finally must have gotten tired of me shooing him off.

[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

Sister battleships Littorio & Vittorio Veneto

Nice lines.[:)]