A stupid question

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (CliffS) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:04:26 GMT

Jonathan, Sydney has always been one of the world's most photogenic cities. That said, I can remember the eastern view from Greenwich Point at 0730 on a workday in the 1970s. Waiting for the company launch to pick us up & take us to our workplace on Cockatoo Island, we'd look at the sulphurous yellow-green cloud concealing the lower half of the Bridge and think: My God - people are actually breathing that stuff. The introduction of unleaded petrol shortly afterwards...

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (JBG) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:22:52 GMT

You are right Cliff. The cooler temperatures definately make sleeping easier but this is mid Autumn weather. I honestly can't recall sleeping with a Doona ( and one that is OK in winter as well ) in February. My mother was English and she really did not like the hot summers. She would have been most comfortable this summer.

On the other hand, the rain has been most welcome. Sydney greens up very nicely with summer rain and becomes almost sub-topical. My banana tree has lots of...

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (seasick) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:33:38 GMT

22 Celcius = @72 Fahrenheit = @295 Kelvin

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (CliffS) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:38:39 GMT

JNiemczyk wrote:

JBG wrote:
Rainy, windy and a max of 22 degrees in Sydney in February!! Jonathan
If that's Celsius I'm not that sorry for you, mate!

Jan, we couldn't survive European winters. February in Oz is meant to be a sizzler: Jonathan is describing his disappointment at the low temps in Sydney...

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (JNiemczyk) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:21:51 GMT

JBG wrote:
Rainy, windy and a max of 22 degrees in Sydney in February!! Jonathan

If that's Celsius I'm not that sorry for you, mate!

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (CliffS) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:41:42 GMT

JBG wrote:
I looked. It appears to my untrained eye to be a lightish anthracite grey with no blue in it. That describes the sky at the time as well so optically it was not optimum. Damned gerbil wormening. Rainy, windy and a max of 22 degrees in Sydney in February!! Jonathan

Move to Darwin, mate - it'll still be wet, but nowhere near as cold. (You have to drink your beer quicker, though - don't want it...

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (JBG) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:43:44 GMT

I looked. It appears to my untrained eye to be a lightish anthracite grey with no blue in it. That describes the sky at the time as well so optically it was not optimum. Damned gerbil wormening. Rainy, windy and a max of 22 degrees in Sydney in February!! Jonathan

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (CliffS) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:29:23 GMT

JBG wrote:
Back to the original post, the Bridge looks to be a light shade of anthracite grey. Should I toddle up one lunchtime and have a closer look ( I work in the opposite side of the Sydney CBD but its 20 mins walk, at most ).

Jonathan

The reply to my enquiry to RTA, the agency responsible for Sydney Harbour Bridge maintenance, was that the official name for the Bridge's paint scheme is...

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (JBG) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:21:08 GMT

Back to the original post, the Bridge looks to be a light shade of anthracite grey. Should I toddle up one lunchtime and have a closer look ( I work in the opposite side of the Sydney CBD but its 20 mins walk, at most ).

Jonathan

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (bager1968) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:43:29 GMT

http://www.marine-family.org/rank/rank.htm

USMC

Private.....................E-1
Private First Class....E-2
Lance Corporal........E-3
Corporal..................E-4
Sergeant...................E-5

Staff Sergeant...........E-6
Gunnery Sgt..............E-7
Master Sgt................E-8*
Master Gunnery Sgt..E-9**

*for technical rates,...

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (drunknsubmrnr) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:05:10 GMT

In the CF, Cpl/LS is a "gimme" after 48 months of service. Sometimes 30 months or less for advanced promotion. In any case, they're more skilled labour than supervisors.

Kevin

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (Dave AAA) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:57:42 GMT

A Corporal is essentially a senior private with some advanced individual training. Master Corporal is the same as the old pre-Unification Corporal. It's the equivalent of a US E-5 grade. A MCPL used to be a section commander, but since the later seventies has been a section 2i/c. Sergeants are now section commanders but used to be platoon 2i/c. Warrant Officers (old Staff Sergeant) are now Platoon 2i/c as well still as being Company Quartermaster Sergeants and Company Ops...

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (JNiemczyk) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:34:14 GMT

I have noticed that there does not seem to be a lance-corporal rank in the CF, though the rank insignia does seem to be worn by a 'Trained Private'. Does Master Corporal maybe have the same relationship to Corporal in the CF that Corporal does to Lance-Corporal in the other Commonwealth armies?

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (bager1968) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:24:08 GMT

Additionally, weren't Sergeants supposed to do what little supervision of the Corporals might be needed?

I know I was when the USMC made me a Sgt in Nov. 1985 (until I got out in June 1988).

What are your senior enlisted doing that you need another rank in there?

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (CliffS) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:44:55 GMT

drunknsubmrnr wrote:
...The Army wanted somebody to supervise the Corporals, so they got the Master Corporal appointment. That carried over to the Air Force and Navy as well.

Kevin

You Canucks must be special. I've absolutely no intention of criticising your hierarchy, but - I could not for the life of me see an extra line in the enlisted order, gain acceptance in either the British...

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (drunknsubmrnr) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:57:15 GMT

MS is an appointment...your date of seniority is when you made LS, not MS although MS normally supervise LS. It makes things a bit touchy when you get a long service killick (LS) promoted to MS and he's suddenly senior to the "whiz kid" that was just writing his PER's.

The RCN always had a "Master Seaman" around, but he was the senior killick in the mess. It wasn't official, he was just the guy that represented the JR's to the Coxn and Captain....

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (CliffS) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:56:09 GMT

drunknsubmrnr wrote:
Not any longer. The Navy got most of the rank system back shortly after unification.

The weird parts are that Lt and Capt in the Navy are Lt(N) and Capt(N) to distinguish their august selves from their lower ranking Army/Air Force counterparts. There's also a Master Seaman appointment between the LS and PO2 rank.

Kevin

That's good to hear. I recall,...

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (seasick) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:42:09 GMT

I heard once that Haze Gray was a popular color in the Long Beach area.

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (drunknsubmrnr) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:57:03 GMT

Not any longer. The Navy got most of the rank system back shortly after unification.

The weird parts are that Lt and Capt in the Navy are Lt(N) and Capt(N) to distinguish their august selves from their lower ranking Army/Air Force counterparts. There's also a Master Seaman appointment between the LS and PO2 rank.

Kevin

Re: A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (CliffS) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:08:05 GMT

drunknsubmrnr wrote:
The CF term for an article that's been .....err....appropriated without official authority is a "rabbit". The legend is you could tell a Chiefs house because it's ears twitched when you went by.

Kevin

Kevin - I thought all Canadian ranks were standardized, e.g: CPO = WOII. Have they reverted to the old rank system, or is this just local usage?
...

A stupid question

feeds@yuku.com (robertf2) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:51:52 GMT

I have often heard that the colour of the Sydney harbour bridge is "battleship grey".

Given that:

The bridge was completed in the early 1930's and that AFAIK it has been the same colour ever since
To me it is a very dark grey, with a slight blue/purple tint, even almost black in some light.

I'm wondering if it would be the dark grey colour known variously as AP507A a.ka. home fleet grey?