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From Monday 15th July 2019 (July 2019)

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Markymark
Rolling News posted:
Markymark posted:
I obtained a council parking permit from the owner of an AirBnB in Cheltenham a couple of years ago.

That was weird, Expiry 00:00hrs May 10th , in reality meant it expired at 23:59:59 on May 11th !

I questioned it with the owner, he said, yep it's mad, but trust me I've sold on enough of them !,

I’m really confused now - why would it in reality expire nearly 2 days later?


You're not the only one confused! I can't even see any form of logic, how it ended up like that!
DV
dvboy
Markymark posted:
I obtained a council parking permit from the owner of an AirBnB in Cheltenham a couple of years ago.

That was weird, Expiry 00:00hrs May 10th , in reality meant it expired at 23:59:59 on May 11th !

I questioned it with the owner, he said, yep it's mad, but trust me I've sold on enough of them !,

That sounds to me like the AirBnB owner trying to recycle a used a permit.

Unless the 11th was a Sunday and permits weren't required at weekends.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Rolling News posted:
itsrobert posted:
Ne1L C posted:
Can I ask what these posts have got to do with TV presentation?

Nothing especially. But it's a conversation that developed from a screen-grab of a clock on the BBC News Channel.

Yes and in these socially distance times it keeps us sane to keep talking to each other as friends.


Sherry, old boy?
MA
Markymark
dvboy posted:
Markymark posted:
I obtained a council parking permit from the owner of an AirBnB in Cheltenham a couple of years ago.

That was weird, Expiry 00:00hrs May 10th , in reality meant it expired at 23:59:59 on May 11th !

I questioned it with the owner, he said, yep it's mad, but trust me I've sold on enough of them !,

That sounds to me like the AirBnB owner trying to recycle a used a permit.

Unless the 11th was a Sunday and permits weren't required at weekends.


It was over a May Bank Holiday weekend, so yes could have been related to that, or a scam, or both !

(It wasn't actually the 10/11th, that was just to illustrate the point)
BA
bilky asko
dvboy posted:
Rolling News posted:
I always get really confused when something goes out of date e.g. A chocolate bar goes out of date on 30th April. Does that mean 00:00 on 30th April or 23:59 on 30th April?

I doubt you'd notice a difference if you eat a chocolate bar at 23:59 on 30 April or 0:00 on 1 May.


Indeed, Best Before dates don't indicate whether a food is safe to eat or not, it is simply about quality. But the system is the same across all expiry dates, the item expires after the date printed. So the chocolate bar in the example would actually expire on 00:00:00 on 1st May.
HA
harshy Founding member
itsrobert posted:
Ne1L C posted:
Can I ask what these posts have got to do with TV presentation?

Nothing especially. But it's a conversation that developed from a screen-grab of a clock on the BBC News Channel.

I still think news channel should have the live bug with timezone for that country, it’s not needed for lives originating in the UK.

I dont understand why it’s on World News but not the news channel.
NL
Ne1L C
JamesWorldNews posted:
Rolling News posted:
itsrobert posted:
Nothing especially. But it's a conversation that developed from a screen-grab of a clock on the BBC News Channel.

Yes and in these socially distance times it keeps us sane to keep talking to each other as friends.


Sherry, old boy?


I'll have a pint ;-D
IS
Inspector Sands
itsrobert posted:

The one that always baffles me is how the Americans measure quantities in baking by cups. I mean, wtf? Is this actually standardised? Imagine the faff of having to have a set of cups to measure ingredients, rather than just using a scale! It's hardly precise either - by using a digital scale to weigh, say 150g, you can get a very accurate measurement. But a cupful could potentially have slightly more or less inside as it's purely visual!

The visual thing isn't really a problem with cups, you just fill them up, the problem with measuring dry ingredients by volume is that you don't know how much air is in the cup. Flour can be packed down, nuts or fruit can be different sizes etc
JA
james-2001
itsrobert posted:
The one that always baffles me is how the Americans measure quantities in baking by cups. I mean, wtf? Is this actually standardised? Imagine the faff of having to have a set of cups to measure ingredients, rather than just using a scale! It's hardly precise either - by using a digital scale to weigh, say 150g, you can get a very accurate measurement. But a cupful could potentially have slightly more or less inside as it's purely visual!


They use teaspoons and tablespoons as well... is it a level spoon, or a heaped spoon, or god knows what? Razz America is a law unto itself when it comes to measurements.

Reminds me of being in a hotel there a few years ago where the heating/air con setting was only in farenheit, not having the slightest clue about farenheit I made a random guess and set it to 60, then came back a few hours later to a freezing room...
Stuart and AndrewPSSP gave kudos
JA
james-2001
Ne1L C posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:
Rolling News posted:
Yes and in these socially distance times it keeps us sane to keep talking to each other as friends.


Sherry, old boy?


I'll have a pint ;-D


A US pint or an imperial pint? Razz
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all new Phil
Isn’t the cups measurement thing just a way of getting the right proportion of ingredients? Say you need twice as much of one ingredient to another, it doesn’t matter what size cup you use as either way it’s half a cup of one, a full cup of the other.
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bilky asko
all new Phil posted:
Isn’t the cups measurement thing just a way of getting the right proportion of ingredients? Say you need twice as much of one ingredient to another, it doesn’t matter what size cup you use as either way it’s half a cup of one, a full cup of the other.


Ideal for cooking in ratios, but not everything is best done that way.

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