Date: 2024-08-21 11:01 am (UTC)
simont: A picture of me in 2016 (Default)
From: [personal profile] simont
#3 mentions that the webs are "the size of a 10-inch pizza".

What a very silly way to say "10 inches across"!

Date: 2024-08-21 11:22 am (UTC)
calimac: (Default)
From: [personal profile] calimac
Maybe they then wrote "the size of a pizza" and the editor said "pizzas come in different sizes." Or maybe a ten-inch pizza isn't actually ten inches in diameter. Some things are like that. (A two-by-four isn't two by four, I'm told.)

Date: 2024-08-21 11:26 am (UTC)
simont: A picture of me in 2016 (Default)
From: [personal profile] simont
Hmmm. If I stretch really hard, I suppose I could just about imagine that saying "a 10 inch pizza" might clarify that the diameter is 10 inches (rather than any other dimension you might imagine, like the radius or the circumference), without having to use a fancy geometric term that will put off people who failed GCSE maths?

Date: 2024-08-21 11:49 am (UTC)
original_aj: (Default)
From: [personal profile] original_aj
2X4 refers to the rough cut size, before it's planed smooth I believe.

Well!

Date: 2024-08-21 03:01 pm (UTC)
lsanderson: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lsanderson
I should google it, but when my house was built (1907), a 2X4 was 2" by 4". As there were less forests to cut down later, it just shrunk. I suspect there's lottsa arguments why it's all bestest now.

Date: 2024-08-21 11:35 am (UTC)
rhythmaning: (cat)
From: [personal profile] rhythmaning
I think their measurements are kind of awry.

"They are usually about 8cm wide, longer than many rats, which generally measure 6-9cm long."

Comparing the width of spiders to the length of rats is just bizarre. And 9cm seems small for a rat!

(The RSPCA agrees: "Found throughout Britain, the brown rat is commonly associated with homes and gardens and grows to around 15-27 cm (with a 10-24 cm tail).")

Date: 2024-08-21 11:52 am (UTC)
original_aj: (Default)
From: [personal profile] original_aj
And is that body size or including the legs? Probably the latter or they would be really huge, but that means they mass considerably less than a rat.

Date: 2024-08-21 11:53 am (UTC)
original_aj: (Default)
From: [personal profile] original_aj
Maybe they got confused between mice and rats?

Date: 2024-08-21 12:29 pm (UTC)
fanf: (Default)
From: [personal profile] fanf

Is 10 inches supposed to be impressive? Our garden spiders have slung webs between the house and the fence across a gap of a couple of metres with an orb that’s maybe 50cm.

Weird to say a native species is “coming to the UK”.

Anyway, spiders are neat, and spider season is coming soon :-)

Date: 2024-08-21 11:23 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
1) Other people's vacation pictures are, traditionally, very boring.

So, it turns out, are other people's dreams.

Date: 2024-08-21 03:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nancylebov
1. Was really impressive. I recommend it.
Edited (wrong icon) Date: 2024-08-21 03:13 pm (UTC)

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