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At least you got to the car and under cover!
I used to hate hail when I was on a motorbike - it was cold, slippery, noisy and damn painful - and that's with "normal" hail, not golf ball / cricket ball sizes like you got. The biggest known is the size of a football: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8870000/newsid_8879100/8879199.stm[^] and wieghed a kilo - imagine if that had hit you! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: it was cold, slippery, noisy and damn painful
A bit like shagging Jane Torville?
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I loved this from teh link ...
Quote: This hailstone measured 20.5cm wide and weighed in at almost 1kg - about the same as a large tub of butter!
Or about the same weight as something else which weighs a kilogram!
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Nah - a tub of butter weighs a special kilo! 
It's a bit like lengths and areas: why is it always "an area the size of Wales" when no one has a good mental picture of how big Wales actually is?
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OriginalGriff wrote: how big Whales actually isare
Because nobody ever ...
OMG[^]
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I have bookmarked that page as it might be useful in the future, although my current list of bookmarks is the size of Wales so it might be hard to find.
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Obligatory XKCD reference[^]
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From the link: 3 L = 2 Liter bottle? 
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If in doubt o not sure what an XKCD is all about, there is http://www.explainxkcd.com/[^] - but it does take the fun out of it!
The explanation for the link page: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=526:_Converting_to_Metric[^] says:
"3 L - Two-liter bottle: Refers to a bottle which contains two liters (in the US usually soda) but itself occupies almost three liters (eg. when submerged)."
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That "explanation" reeks of desperation. The CO2 pocket at the top of an un-openned bottle is tiny as is the volume of the plastic it's made of. If you're buying pop by the case I suppose the volume of the case might be ~3* numberOfBottles liters; but only because of the overhead from squaring a circle and the taper on the ends.
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I'd agree - though I'd want to inspect US bottles first - I had assumed it was the volume occupied by the bottle rather than the bottle volume as when submerged.
I don't have one here to measure, but a 1L water bottle I do have is around 8cm diameter by 31cm - giving an "overall" volume of close to two litres (1984cm3) for the space it occupies.
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My missus recently joined weight watchers. According to their portion guide;
A chicken breast is about the size of a computer mouse - or about the size of a chicken breast?
A 6 inch piece of French bread comes up to the neck of a 500ml bottle of water - or is about 6 inches long?
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ChrisElston wrote: A chicken breast is about the size of a computer mouse
But which type:
Small?[^]
Medium?[^] (don't look - not if you are squeamish, or eating, anyway)
or Large?[^]
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ChrisElston wrote: weight watchers
A quick joke is called for...
Q. Why don't lesbians go to weight watchers?
A. It's pretty hard to eat Jenny Craig when you've got Estee Lauder on your face.
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We get black crickets here once in a while, but I have never seen one with balls as big as that. 
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They're the silent ones - they're incapable of rubbing their legs together with balls that size 
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Still, I would imagine they would be quite noisy when jumping. Or rather, when landing. 
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Clearly Oz crickets are a different species - and like everything else in Oz they are out to kill you!
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Yeah... I always thought it would be great to visit Australia, except for all the critters trying to kill you, but this cricket business might be the final straw. 
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Terry Pratchett wrote:
HMM…Death picked up a book at random and read the cover.
DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, he read.
His gaze moved down the spine.
VOLUME 29c, he added.
OH. PART THREE, I SEE.
He glanced up at the listening shelves.
POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?
They waited.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT—
"No, wait, master. Here it comes."
Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up and caught the single sheet of paper.
He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side.
"May I?" said Albert.
Death handed him the paper.
"'Some of the sheep'" Albert read aloud.
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 "Some...".
Soren Madsen
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Hmmmm. Wonder why you remembered that particular piece of prose, OG?
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:InnocentWhistleSmiley:
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You ain't kidding!
I like the top 30 deadly Aussie animals[^] list.
The stone fish is my favourite. It's toxin isn't deadly in its own right, but it is so painful that the pain itself can kill you!
And notice that a frigging ANT makes it in the top 30!
The iirukandji[^] only comes in ant number 3 - and it is flamin' tiny (see the linked pic) almost invisible in the water, but can still kill you!
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Terry Pratchett wrote:
The creature waved a paw vaguely.
"All this," it said. "You could call it a bloody multidimensional knuckle of localized phase space, or maybe you could just call it the song."
Rincewind shrugged.
"I don't mind putting my hand up to killing a few spiders,” he said. “But it was me or them. I mean some of those come at you at head height—"
"You changed history."
"Oh, come on, a few spiders don't make that much difference, some of them were using their webs as trampolines, it was a case of 'boing' and next moment—"
"No, not history from now on, history that’s already happened." said the kangaroo
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