A Call For Humor!

[Ken Tajalli]

Umm Kulthum - Alf Leila We Leila​

This is not funny.
As much as I may enjoy the legendary Umm Kulthum, but really? on a joke site?
Any way, this must be really old. She died in 75.

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[Canuck57]

 

[jp4573]

This is not funny.
As much as I may enjoy the legendary Umm Kulthum, but really? on a joke site?
Any way, this must be really old. She died in 75.

You misunderstood to me.
I did not want to offend anybody and I respect Umm Kulthum.
Just to show that songs larger than ten minutes existed since long time ago.

 

[Ken Tajalli]

You misunderstood to me.
I did not want to offend anybody and I respect Umm Kulthum.
Just to show that songs larger than ten minutes existed since long time ago.

Never heard of Pink Floyd?
Or Jethrotull? (try thick as a brick)
or ......
BTW, I didn't mean you disrespected anyone, just that the joke was lost on me, perhaps others.

 

[Anthony LoFi]

Its OK Ken, I think most threaders here don't perceive that at all.
But thumbs up to you and JP for acknowledging no intention was implied.

When you think of all the forum members who reside in just about every country, are young and old, speak a myriad of the worlds languages, its a wonder the English language used here can be understood.
Especially with all its dialects and colloquialisms, I wonder how we do it.

This is the fun thread, we don't get into the dissing other members here, just try and give the viewer a belly laugh.
It reminds me of the old Readers Digest motto "Laughter is the best medicine."

 

[EERecordist]

 

[EERecordist]

High end audio marketing is sub par.

If you want to see what high end marketing is, Montblanc hired a film director, made a short film, and erected a pop up shop open for 7 months by appointment on Rodeo Drive. The film was directed by Wes Anderson, who designed a fountain pen as part of the project.

Video: https://www.montblanc.com/en-us/discover/campaign/wes-anderson
Pop up shop:https://www.montblanc.com/en-us/discover/campaign/montblanc-chalet-pop-up-rodeo-drive

Article on the campaign: https://www.voguebusiness.com/story...rson-to-direct-its-ad-he-offered-a-pen-design

 

[SCR]

 

[Bleib]

 

[somebodyelse]

And in the UK it's a different assortment, plus transatlantic variations in the size of the measures that have the same name like pints and cups.

 

[Salt]

So that is what SI was made for.
See the outcome ...

 

[Canuck57]

 

[Peterinvan]

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In Canada we still by 2x4 lumber, butter is still sold by the pound... so is fruit. No one seems bothered. Except plumbers trying to join new metric copper pipe to old 1/2".
That's why we call ourselves a bi-lingual country.

 

[Salt]

What are knots?
The nautic ones are *2-10%, the airspeed ones are *2-20%, or 1.8 and 1.6 to multiplicate, respectively, into Km/h.
Precision???

 

[Blumlein 88]

What are knots?
The nautic ones are *2-10%, the airspeed ones are *2-20%, or 1.8 and 1.6 to multiplicate, respectively, into Km/h.
Precision???

To my knowledge airspeed and nautical knots are the same. 1.151 times statute or land miles. 1.85 times knots for km/h. 1.61 times mph for km/h.

 

[anome]

plus transatlantic variations in the size of the measures

Same thing in CA, back in '75 we decided the whole confusion of differences with imperial / US was not enough so threw metric into the mix.

 

[Waxx]

We can solve that very easely, use a logic mathematic system in stead of an early mediavial like the imperial system. But some are hardheaded in that and choose not to use the international standard of SI and it's metric ancestors, maybe because they were set up by a french institute BIPM (Bureau international des poids et mesures) in the late 19th century,...

But anway, in my country the metric system rules, and i'm very happy about that. We in continental Europe had also our own medieval system, and almost every region had, and they all did differ a bit. That's why the SI standards were made, to have an universal system that was everywhere the same.

 

[Salt]

To my knowledge airspeed and nautical knots are the same. 1.151 times statute or land miles. 1.85 times knots for km/h. 1.61 times mph for km/h.

So is now, was not in the 80th of the last century of the last millenium.
Understand what SI means?

 

[Salt]

We can solve that very easely, use a logic mathematic system in stead of an early mediavial like the imperial system. But some are hardheaded in that and choose not to use the international standard of SI and it's metric ancestors, maybe because they were set up by a french institute BIPM (Bureau international des poids et mesures) in the late 19th century,...

But anway, in my country the metric system rules, and i'm very happy about that. We in continental Europe had also our own medieval system, and almost every region had, and they all did differ a bit. That's why the SI standards were made, to have an universal system that was everywhere the same.

Nevertheless everything concerning water transport is "inched", at least in DE.