FLY2 10,108 Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 She sought pastures new, as we all have done at some time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Sorry folks! I didn't mean to drag up the Brexit issue or any other politics. It is not just the UK. Same problems seem to exist in most of the Western world these days. Housing costs have gone way ahead of the general inflation rate, along with auto, and tuition costs. Wages just do not seem to have kept pace and neither were they the reason for the crazy price rises in the first place. Seems more like corporate greed to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 I bought my house 1981 for £8600, had it valued 1991 £37,500 next door sold 2 years back £115,000. These figures look good on paper but as we all know the only people to profit will be those left after we pop our clogs. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted August 27, 2016 Report Share Posted August 27, 2016 On 26/08/2016 at 9:08 AM, Jill Sparrow said: #17 House prices here can be ridiculous and are now way beyond most single purchasers, \snip\ I live in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland, where my stand alone house (Former railway station), nearest neighbour almost half a mile away, and two acres of land turned over to garden and park-like area are worth around £180k. If the same place was in the 'Home Counties or the South of England it would be worth millions! House prices in UK are nothing short of insane. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted August 27, 2016 Report Share Posted August 27, 2016 Why is rainforest always cut down in blocks "The size of Wales"?! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,296 Posted October 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 Just watching a documentary on favorite foods in Britain. Full of useless comparisons, the introduction was that last year Britain's consumed enough milk to fill the river Thames for one and a half miles? How stupid a comparison is that, at the source (disputed, but in Gloucestershire), it would not need much milk, but down near the barrage a whole lot more. Apparently Britain ate enough potatoes, boiled, chipped or baked, to fill Trafalgar Square to the height of Nelsons Column 25 times over? Britain also consumed cheese to the equivalent weight of 24 cruise liners (big ones or little ones?) Enough apples to fill up the entire Clifton Suspension Bridge surely they would all fall out of or off the bridge. To be fair they did later clarify the amounts in number of or in litres and kilos. Why do they fill documentaries with useless comparisons, do they really think it makes it easy to visualise? Or is it sensationalism aimed at making us stay watching? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,296 Posted December 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 The useless swimming pool comparison rears its head again. Apparently the South Australian grain harvest this year will be enough to fill 3500 Olympic sized swimming pools or 10.5 million tons. If you tell me the tonnage I don't need the useless comparison. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 Did you know that the country called Wales has an area the size of Wales? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,296 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 Just reading an article on my favourite "hate", useless packaging, and came across this packaging for a coconut in plastic foam mesh, cling wrapped with two stickers on the wrapping. It went on to say that since being invented the world had produced 8.3 billion tons of plastic, equivalent to the weight of a billion elephants. An elephant weighing 8.3 tonnes, I'd like to see that. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,419 Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 From the ' Boys own book of useless facts' (Google) Heaviest elephant weighed in at eleven tonnes Average bull elephant six and a half tonnes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,296 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 8 minutes ago, Brew said: From the ' Boys own book of useless facts' (Google) Heaviest elephant weighed in at eleven tonnes Average bull elephant six and a half tonnes Agreed, the average weight is around 6 tons but we are talking about useless comparisons and how many people knew that an elephant weighed that much? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,419 Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 So really two average elephants are equal to a double-decker bus! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,296 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 10 minutes ago, Brew said: So really two average elephants are equal to a double-decker bus! How do you get two elephants on a double decker bus ……. easy …….. one upstairs and one downstairs Well done Brew you have invented another comparison. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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