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The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees
The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share
The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
Now, to pay our share
Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore East to Yuendemu
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty-five degrees
The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
Ah, to pay our share
The time has come (''Ow!'')
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent, now
To pay our share
The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
We're gonna give it back
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit :
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
Yes, but why would you need to convert anything if it's in proper Celsius already? 😉
To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit :
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
Or just ask Siri or Alexa! ;-p
Saw them in concert over 20 years ago and to this day is still one of the best shows I've ever seen!
Congratulations!
To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit :
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
Fun fact: elsewhere on this album (Bullroarer), a Fahrenheit temperature is mentioned (110). I guess people were still thinking in both systems.
To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit :
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
WOW! thank you! that's always confounded me.
Yes! In 2018 I got arrested for protesting a proposed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, that would have allowed a huge increase in Alberta tar sands bitumen being pipelined to Vancouver and tankered to Asia.
I was found guilty, but was allowed to make a statement to the Supreme Court of BC. My statement included the following lyrics:
From Midnight Oil:
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
From Leonard Cohen:
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied.
(While I was repeating these words, I have to admit I quite enjoyed looking the judge in the eye, and really laying it on )
From John Lennon:
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
So did you go down or was the poetry enough to sway the judge? Hope so but kinda doubt it!
(I ain't saying the song is bad, just can't take it anymore)
Just saw them in Vancouver on their farewell tour. They still put on a great show.
Agreed! My son and I saw them 2 weeks ago yesterday, at Roadrunner in Boston MA. My fourth (or maybe fifth?) time to see Midnight Oil in concert, and my son's first and only Oils concert.
Holy moly.
Is 45C considered in the "normal range" where you live in Australia ?
These maths still work reasonably when you're in the single digit temps, and if you're careful with it, at the negative Celsius temps below freezing.
We tend to experience those conditions, occasionally, here in the Great White North.
It beats the slightly quicker, but less accurate method I typically heard growing up, which was ...
"Take the temp in Celsius, double it and add 30."
Temp in C * 1.8 + 32
Found this dandruff at 52°48'42.6"N 7°10'35.0"E
To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit :
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
Holy moly.
Is 45C considered in the "normal range" where you live in Australia ?
These maths still work reasonably when you're in the single digit temps, and if you're careful with it, at the negative Celsius temps below freezing.
We tend to experience those conditions, occasionally, here in the Great White North.
It beats the slightly quicker, but less accurate method I typically heard growing up, which was ...
"Take the temp in Celsius, double it and add 30."
Yes! In 2018 I got arrested for protesting a proposed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, that would have allowed a huge increase in Alberta tar sands bitumen being pipelined to Vancouver and tankered to Asia.
I was found guilty, but was allowed to make a statement to the Supreme Court of BC. My statement included the following lyrics:
From Midnight Oil:
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
From Leonard Cohen:
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied.
(While I was repeating these words, I have to admit I quite enjoyed looking the judge in the eye, and really laying it on )
From John Lennon:
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
Who knew we would get science with midnight oil? Oh America why are we so stubborn we can't go to metric. Even the UK is edging that way and they invented the "Imperial system."
Yeah, imagine that; a system based on the number 10. Must make people's heads hurt.
No need to convert. Just think metric.
Nah, I don't think so. Not for temperature anyway.
Metric you have zero for freezing and 100 for boiling. Fahrenheit you have 32 for freezing and 212 for boiling.
Fahrenheit is a much finer scale of measurement. You know the average human body temp is 98.6 F or 37C...
Now if your temperature goes up 2 degrees C, you have a pretty bad fever at 102.2 F
F = 2C - 2C/10 + 32 [*1]
F = (20C - 2C)/10 + 32
F = 18C/10 + 32
F = 9C/5 + 32
QED.
[*1] Instead of subtracting the 10's digit, you need to divide by 10 and subtract that, retaining any decimal. It's not quite the same as your method, but works for backyard applications.
Who knew we would get science with midnight oil? Oh America why are we so stubborn we can't go to metric. Even the UK is edging that way and they invented the "Imperial system."
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
F = 2C - 2C/10 + 32 [*1]
F = (20C - 2C)/10 + 32
F = 18C/10 + 32
F = 9C/5 + 32
QED.
[*1] Instead of subtracting the 10's digit, you need to divide by 10 and subtract that, retaining any decimal. It's not quite the same as your method, but works for backyard applications.
To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit :
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
It's close, and it does work "for temps in the normal range" -- mostly. However, "subtract the first digit" is a bit of a problem: there are places/contexts where a temperature above 50 C is not uncommon. The first digit, once that value is doubled, is "1", not the required "10". So, a little imprecise in the prescriptive details. Also, the recipe doesn't take into account the sign of the intermediate result i.e. the result after doubling the value of the temperature to be converted.
Nevertheless, the recipe is close enough to the mathematically-accurate conversion that you might as well just go whole-hog. The beauty of doing so is that you need only be able to do addition, subtraction, and know how to multiply and divide by 2 and 10. Children can do that.
Therefore:
- double the initial temperature, in Celsuis;
- keeping that first intermediate result in mind, subtract from it one-tenth of itself;
- to that second intermediate result, add 32.
It might be useful to practice with a few common temperatures, and the most profitable exercise, I think, is to begin with temperature values that are multiples of 5, as these generally produce first intermediate results that are susceptible to the subsequent mental arithmetic.
Photographic solutions are/were usually used at 20 C (as this is widely considered to be room temperature, at least in the western world). 20, doubled, becomes 40, one-tenth of which is 4, which, when subtracted from 40, leaves 36, to which you add 32 to get 68 -- which is room temperature for Fahrenheitists.
Water boils at 100 C: 100, doubled, becomes 200, one-tenth of which is 20, which, when subtracted from the first intermediate results of 200, leaves 180, to which you add 32 to get 212 -- the very bizarre temperature on the Fahrenheit scale that everyone recognizes as the temperature at which water... boils.
As a puzzle, try it with -40 C, remembering to respect the sign of the first intermediate result in deriving the one-tenth value to be subtracted...
For bonus points, offer your results and explain how they are possible.
Maybe............maybe not.
Curious take. I've been on a Jared Diamond reading kick for a couple months and my take is you're half right. Settled during wet cycle and drying naturally to begin with yes, but Diamond certainly supports that we've hit Fast Forward into climate crisis beyond any natural cycles.
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
Cool shortcut! I expect the generation of always-connected people would prefer to use their i-device instead of their brain, but cool nonetheless.
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
No need to convert. Just think metric.
After watching the Aussie show "Rake" (which I HIGHLY recommend) I'm not sure how impressive that is....still a cool tune …. Long Live RP!!
My rating is 8 - Most Excellent
Were not in 2018 anymore.
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
or just convert it with ur phone.. like a normal person in the year 2018
To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit :
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
Learn something from RP everyday. Thanks, seriously.
Because you're a dickhead?
To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit :
Take the Celsius no. eg. 45 degrees
Double it. = 90
Subtract the first digit. eg 90-9=81
Add 32. eg 81+32= 113 degrees Fahrenheit
This equation is always correct for temps in the normal range.
An old bloke from my neighbourhood taught me this back in the 70's when Australia changed over to metric units.
Yes it was. Saw them years ago at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, and that was very good also.
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Agree - insofar as Midnight Oil albums go, this isn't up there with the best. Surprisingly, I go back to their debut self-titled more than any other. Good longboard surf hardcore punk stuff. Saw them a handful of times in the early nineties, and by that time they were onto Beds Are Burning, but at least they still played older stuff in their shows.
I hear "Spy Hunter" in the bass line, which made me like this more than normally; 7 rating for now.
*EDIT* How'd I miss all that cow bell too? Gosh I want to rate this lower and can't....it's got a groove to it that I like. Proud 7!
Ha ha, Henry Mancini deserves a writer's credit on this song!
It does indicate the likelihood of a greater familiarity with their output.
Besides, this song really is teufelsdreck.
Not really, but you're convinced you're right so i shant waste my time.
Your absolutley correct,saw them 2 months ago in Vancouver BC and they were still strong with their messages, not to mention the great music they played...
It does indicate the likelihood of a greater familiarity with their output.
Besides, this song really is teufelsdreck.
True story from my life and completely related to 45 C and otherwise completely unrelated to music.
While touring through Egypt, circa summer of 1991 (i.e. shortly after the 1st Gulf War) as a 16 year-old with my 60+ y/o Egyptian grandma, we spent most of July in Cairo, then Luxor, Aswan, then Alexandria, etc. It was in Upper Egypt (due to the Nile flowing from S to N, Upper Egypt is the south) between Aswan and Luxor where I learned a truth about governments; they lie.
The "rule" was that, when the temperature was given over the radio to the villagers/workers, it was never higher than 45 deg C (or 113 deg F, or 318.15 Kelvin) - the reasoning was that the workers would just stop working in those temps. I'm not sure why no one else had a thermometer to confirm, although the thermometer we had was on a key chain and stopped at 50 deg C, and one of those July days the damn thing burst. My guess is that the real temp was somewhere around 54 deg C, or just shy of 130 deg F. Of course, temps are different in the shade, or right above the ground vs in the air, etc., which is why the "hottest recorded temp record has been hard to confirm" - nonetheless it was FREAKING HOT and I now will always know what 45 C is in F.
....and it was a dry heat....and my Egyptian blood LOVED IT.
Long Live RP!
Playing Vancouver tonight.
I hear "Spy Hunter" in the bass line, which made me like this more than normally; 7 rating for now.
*EDIT* How'd I miss all that cow bell too? Gosh I want to rate this lower and can't....it's got a groove to it that I like. Proud 7!
wow nice post i may have to jaunt
up road to BC! What is that in Kelvin?
Add 273 to Celsius, I believe.
So, 318.
But I thought we defeated the Kelvan Empire.
A quickie non-technical translation is to double the degrees Celsius and add 28....not exact, but generally close.
What is that in Kelvin?
Upping your game would involve listening to fewer 'Oils songs'.
My brothers and I used to do that sideways look when my dad would say, "Now stop me if you've heard me tell this one before..." Groundhog Day wasn't in it. But I do like your version of the lyrics.
Might be nice to hear a different Midnight Oil song now and then, Mr. Bill.
If you haven't heard other Oils songs here, you haven't been listening enough. Time to up your game.
My ex-husband used to sing, "The time has come to say fizz beer".
I always thought it was "boil and dissolve".
in 2016 - ok
yeah!Bumping this for the metric-impaired among you....
A length, weight and temperature system based on the number 10 !!? Heresy! Blasphemy! How dare you, good Sir!
My brothers and I used to do that sideways look when my dad would say, "Now stop me if you've heard me tell this one before..." Groundhog Day wasn't in it. But I do like your version of the lyrics.
Might be nice to hear a different Midnight Oil song now and then, Mr. Bill.
My ex-husband used to sing, "The time has come to say fizz beer".
Or is it Martin Short?
. . . or Cate Blanchett?
And Katharine Hepburn on vocals.
Or is it Martin Short?
Bumping this for the metric-impaired among you....
My brothers and I used to do that sideways look when my dad would say, "Now stop me if you've heard me tell this one before..." Groundhog Day wasn't in it. But I do like your version of the lyrics.
Might be nice to hear a different Midnight Oil song now and then, Mr. Bill.
Tune's kind'a appropriate given the current state of immigration affairs here in the 'ol U.S.of A......."Let's give it back..." doesn't appear to be a Congressional option. Heh!
Highlow
American Net'Zen
Almost every time we make bacon at home, the heat and initial smoke, after the first few strips hit the pan, sets off my smoke/heat detector. This always prompts signing "How can we sleep while the bacon's burning".
My wife laughs. My teenagers look at me sideways, especially when they have friends over...
My brothers and I used to do that sideways look when my dad would say, "Now stop me if you've heard me tell this one before..." Groundhog Day wasn't in it. But I do like your version of the lyrics.
Might be nice to hear a different Midnight Oil song now and then, Mr. Bill.
Check this link, it's about the cottage of the album cover
Someone hasn't been payin' the rent for a while.
pop up the volume
Timely. Midnight Oil's past is our today tomorrow. I wish people would listen.
Whoever down voted the original comment is a colonizing POS.