Bathroom Scales

[Dave2002]

anybody tried weighing a heavy bag on bathroom scales to see if its under the airline 23KG limit.

No me neither, that'd be daft....

Of course!

You could get away with up to 30 kG on some airlines!

[french frank]

....very pleased to see Bathroom Scales going into its second page....overkill?....

It's the point at which it will have to be selected as the forum 'Hot Topic' on the FoR3 homepage that I'm dreading

[eighthobstruction]

....I thought you were going to say ...."this is a tribute thread etc"....

[Tapiola]

....I thought you were going to say ...."this is a tribute thread etc"....

so would in excess of 20-stone be overspill?

[Roslynmuse]

I think the short-term memory of these scales is no myth; if I weigh myself and step off the scales and then step back on within a few seconds of the scales recovering and returning to zero (in the hope that the exercise will knock off a few grams), the second weigh-in will produce the same result but - crucially - far more quickly and with less effort and groaning (from both me and the scales) than first time around. Maybe it's a sort of 'homeopathic' memory?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's the point at which it will have to be selected as the forum 'Hot Topic' on the FoR3 homepage that I'm dreading

We could always start a "Bathroom Scales II" Thread.

[Beef Oven!]

I thought this was a thread about an 80s indie band.

[P. G. Tipps]

I am genuinely shocked to discover weighing scales were not invented by a Scotsman, but an over-achieving Englishman called Mr Richard Salter.

Do Scots have a superior diet and therefore didn't feel the need to invent such a thing?

[cloughie]

I thought this was a thread about an 80s indie band.

I thought it was about voice warm-ups for arias in the shower!

[cloughie]

I can never forgive the Beatles for persuading everyone that they were Liverpool music, rather than the RLPO.

Was Sir Charles a Beatle fan?

I can never forgive Englebert Humperdinck's dreadful 'Release Me' keeping the Beatles off No1.

[ahinton]

I am genuinely shocked to discover weighing scales were not invented by a Scotsman, but an over-achieving Englishman called Mr Richard Salter.

You'd have preferred them to have been dreamt up by a Robbie Saltire, then?

Do Scots have a superior diet and therefore didn't feel the need to invent such a thing?

I'll let you know when I've finished my typical daily breakfast of porage followed by a fry-up and finished with a deep fried Mars bar or three accompanied by a litre or so of Scottish real ale...

[cloughie]

You'd have preferred them to have been dreamt up by a Robbie Saltire, then?


I'll let you know when I've finished my typical daily breakfast of porage followed by a fry-up and finished with a deep fried Mars bar or three accompanied by a litre or so of Scottish real ale.??????

Surely a couple of pints of heavy!

[P. G. Tipps]

I'll let you know when I've finished my typical daily breakfast of porage followed by a fry-up and finished with a deep fried Mars bar or three accompanied by a litre or so of Scottish real ale...

Sounds positively delicious ... is that what keeps you going composing all these long works of yours, ahinton?

[mangerton]

I am genuinely shocked to discover weighing scales were not invented by a Scotsman, but an over-achieving Englishman called Mr Richard Salter.

Do Scots have a superior diet and therefore didn't feel the need to invent such a thing?

No, I suspect the reason is that until fairly recently, very few Scots had bathrooms in which to place the scales.

And of course, when baths were installed, they were seen as a very convenient storage place for coal.

[mangerton]

I'll let you know when I've finished my typical daily breakfast of porage followed by a fry-up and finished with a deep fried Mars bar or three accompanied by a litre or so of Scottish real ale...

That's just a light snack.

(Btw, it's "porridge". "Porage" is a well known brand of porridge oats. There should be no advertising on this forum. )

As a further aside, porridge used to be made from oatmeal, not rolled oats, and usually once a week. It was poured into a drawer in the kitchen dresser, and then sliced for daily consumption. Delicious!