[Racer X 69]

I've been thinking (scary I know) maybe we need a secret handshake, or hand sign, so if we ever run into each other on the street we will know.
Maybe something like this:

Just hold up your camera brother, I'll know ye.

[savoche]

Just hold up your camera brother, I'll know ye.

Well, yes, but not all with our make of camera are on the thread. Or even this forum. One of the very few I've seen with a Pentax around here was at a concert with his K-5 and DA21 - filming the performance. I instantly knew he was not a PFer, or else he would have known he did the impossible

Oh, sorry, gear talk...

Hail bacon!

[robtcorl]

One of the very few I've seen with a Pentax around here was at a concert with his K-5 and DA21 - filming the performance

They have a film model k5 in Norway?

[tim60]

Today I went driving with Mrs Tim to the south west suburbs of London. A40, M40, M25, A3 and some streets. Weather was nice. Got 54 miles per gallon.


We went ot buy stuff. Found a good east Asian grocery store, Chinese, Japanese and Korean stuff. Cheaper than the others we had found by enough it was worth going all that way. Also, found a good Korean restaurant at KT3 4NT (google map that postcode and you can work it out). And, just for Australians the street number is 96, but Abigail was not there.


We had BBQ but it is not what others of you name BBQ in this thread.

[tim60]

Someone liked my last contribution.

Could have been an American having their understanding of the diversity of definitions of BBQ expanded.
Could have been an Australian with the reference to Number 96.
Or an English person thankful for practical advice.
Whilst we were in the big supermarket we found a couple who had travelled about 40 miles to get there saying it was the cheapest similar place they had found. Another week we will try a different place, a Chinese one, in the north of London, near the A40. About 20 miles each way. Not too far from Wembly and Tottenham and near the south end of the M1.

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A news story this morning was the waste of food here caused by supermarkets. The problem they were discussing included the 'perfect' stuff in supermarkets. I grew fruit at my previous house. They were all different. Shops want to support online shopping and things like that, and have pre-packed sets of fruit and veg, at standard prices and all that, so the result is there is a lot of wastage of stuff the farmers grow that does not fit the spec.

I really want every wing Racer makers to be within tolerance of the specs, but my apples can be various shapes and sizes without loss to me. Why apply Racer's boss's standards to apples?

[rod_grant]

Why apply Racer's boss's standards to apples?

...makes sense.

Similarly, it would be ludicrous to fit four different sized tyres (tires for our septic friends!) to a motor car (automobile for our septic friends) and there would be lots of other examples; but apples??
Apples are a natural product - they don't grow to absolute, predetermined, millimetre (millimeter to our septic friends) perfect specifications.
Let them be sold au naturel (minus any grubs, of course)

[JimJohnson]

...makes sense.

Similarly, it would be ludicrous to fit four different sized tyres (tires for our septic friends!) to a motor car (automobile for our septic friends) and there would be lots of other examples; but apples??
Apples are a natural product - they don't grow to absolute, predetermined, millimetre (millimeter to our septic friends) perfect specifications.
Let them be sold au naturel (minus any grubs, of course)

Why "septic"?

sep·tic
ˈseptik/Submit
adjective
1.
(chiefly of a wound or a part of the body) infected with bacteria.
synonyms: infected, festering, suppurating, pus-filled, putrid, putrefying, poisoned, diseased; purulent
"a septic finger"
2.
denoting a drainage system incorporating a septic tank.

[robtcorl]

Let them be sold au naturel (minus any grubs, of course)

The only thing worse than finding a worm in your apple is finding half of one.

[BigMackCam]

Why "septic"?
...2.
denoting a drainage system incorporating a septic tank.

Cockney rhyming slang. Septic tank = Yank

[rod_grant]

Why "septic"?

Hi Jim, "septic" = short for "septic tamk" = yank. Meant in a very friendly way (by me at least!!)

Compare with "pom" = englishman - Only derogatory when prefixed by whinging, as in whinging pom.

EDIT I should have read Mike's post first!!

(Mike is a pom. I haven't noticed him whinge though.)

[BigMackCam]

(Mike is a pom. I haven't noticed him whinge though.)

Trust me, I have my moments

[robtcorl]

"pom"

The only poms I know are pom poms.

[JimJohnson]

Cockney rhyming slang. Septic tank = Yank

Hi Jim, "septic" = short for "septic tamk" = yank. Meant in a very friendly way (by me at least!!)

Compare with "pom" = englishman - Only derogatory when prefixed by whinging, as in whinging pom.

EDIT I should have read Mike's post first!!

(Mike is a pom. I haven't noticed him whinge though.)

Got it! And my question was inquiry as opposed to complaint. Our daughter is a linguist and certified translator - her curiosity about languages has rubbed off. We 'septics' hardly have a common tongue ... here is an interesting series if you have the time:

“Do you speak American?” from PBS (2005), about one hour per episode…

Episode 1

You Tube

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Episode 2

You Tube

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Episode 3

You Tube

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[tim60]

The only poms I know are pom poms.

I know lots and none of them look like that.

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...makes sense.

Similarly, it would be ludicrous to fit four different sized tyres (tires for our septic friends!) to a motor car (automobile for our septic friends) and there would be lots of other examples; but apples??
Apples are a natural product - they don't grow to absolute, predetermined, millimetre (millimeter to our septic friends) perfect specifications.
Let them be sold au naturel (minus any grubs, of course)

I think you mean inches for those from the place across an ocean from both of us.


And I think there is so much perversion of the agricultural sector caused by supermarkets wanting to treat fruit and veg just like manufactured machine parts - every one looks the same, feels the same, and they all have a shelf life long enough to ship them around the country from the farm to the depot and then back again to the supermarket after leaving them for several days or more in a pile at the depot. Most of the natural shelf life is used up by the shop keeping the stuff before the customers ever see it.

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Cockney rhyming slang. Septic tank = Yank

And I think the origin of pom is not that much different.


When I was young I read an English model train magazine which had an article. It was about a steam locomotive nicknamed the pom-pom because it sounded like the pom-pom cannon, QF 1-pounder pom-pom - Wikipedia. The cannon was nicknamed because of the sound it made on firing. And the soldiers who used them, Englishmen, became known as poms.


The name was onomatopoeic of the sound of something, pretty much the same mechanism as the cockney rhyming slang.

[Racer X 69]

Cockney rhyming slang. Septic tank = Yank

Remember who kicked your ass in 1776.