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Offline kevin3

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Size matters to Ben.
« on: March 18, 2016, 13:04:54 PM »

 Surveyors with Ordnance Survey have discovered that the height of Ben Nevis is 1345 metres, not 1344 metres, as was thought for years.

  Couldn't wait to share this  earth shattering news with you.   :o :o                So size DOES matter after all. !!
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Re: Size matters to Ben.
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2016, 13:47:01 PM »
Quote from: kevin3 on March 18, 2016, 13:04:54 PM
So size DOES matter after all. !!

Only to a cartographer with a small nib.
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Re: Size matters to Ben.
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2016, 20:51:02 PM »
Isn't the real story that all that time ago, with limited technology, those guys got to within a metre of the actual height of something over 1000 metres high?
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Offline KKOB

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Re: Size matters to Ben.
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2016, 21:04:08 PM »
If it's 1345 metres above sea level, what sea level do they mean, because the level rises and drops with the tides ?
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Re: Size matters to Ben.
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2016, 21:07:44 PM »
And will all those munro buggers sorry baggers have to "re-climb" it  :)
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Re: Size matters to Ben.
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2016, 01:01:56 AM »


  I think the real story here is Ben. Thanks to this astounding discovery thousands more ascendants will go the extra metre.       :)
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Re: Size matters to Ben.
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2016, 06:08:05 AM »
Quote from: kevin3 on March 19, 2016, 01:01:56 AM


 thousands more ascendants will go the extra metre.         :)

That's stretching it a bit.
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Re: Size matters to Ben.
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2016, 09:39:36 AM »
I bet after all that measuring they were feeling a bit peaky
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« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2016, 11:05:30 AM »
Are you on the level ?
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Offline Lotty

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« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2016, 11:18:10 AM »
Slippery slope here. . .
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