Botham walking again

Hopefully this makes sense to someone.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-3251677/Sir-Ian-Botham-set-latest-epic-adventure-England-cricket-icon-walks-South-Africa-charity.html

taipan wrote:Hopefully this makes sense to someone.

What do you mean?

A look at an atlas might help you.

he'll be doing a bit of flying or driving in between the walking

... so he's only actually walking 100 km of the total distance? That's how it reads to me.

miles

sorry, forgot they were still imperial

lardbucket wrote:sorry, forgot they were still imperial

England?

By this logic his John o'Groats to Land's End effort was about 5 miles of actual walking.

I think he actually walked the whole way, there.

It would appear he is doing 8 short walks in Saffieland, totalling 100 miles.

Are you still imperial devotees with length measurement or is that because it's a British story? If you're still into miles, fathoms and leagues, do you still do pounds and stones, or are you into kg?

I know he did. Was being facetious.

Yep, so walking across SA is erroneous.

SA converted fully in 1971. Only use Imperial when playing bowls.

taipan wrote:I know he did. Was being facetious.

Yep, so walking across SA is erroneous.

SA converted fully in 1971. Only use Imperial when playing bowls.

Aye, the headline is misleading.

What is the rough distance from the Zim border to Cape Town, and from Durban to the west coast, taips ? The projection on most maps tends to distort the actual size of countries like SA compared with say Great Britain. I'm sure its far bigger than it looks.

Growler wrote:

taipan wrote:I know he did. Was being facetious.

Yep, so walking across SA is erroneous.

SA converted fully in 1971. Only use Imperial when playing bowls.

Aye, the headline is misleading.

What is the rough distance from the Zim border to Cape Town, and from Durban to the west coast, taips ? The projection on most maps tends to distort the actual size of countries like SA compared with say Great Britain. I'm sure its far bigger than it looks.

Not sure will have a look. I know Joburg/Cape Town is just shy of 1000 miles.

1199 miles Beit Bridge to Cape Town.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_road_(South_Africa)

1646 km Durban to Cape Town

Ta mate. In comparison, Lands End - John O'Groats is 830 miles or so. East-west it's about 350 miles from Lowestoft to St Davids, which is one of the widest point of mainland Britain.

A quick look tells me that SA, at 471,445 sq miles is the 24th largest country by area, over 5 times larger than UK (78th largest) at just 93,628 sq miles. That's the reality, but as I said - on a map it looks only just over twice the size.

Yeah, very misleading, what a qunt. Hopefully he won't make any money with such flagrant dishonesty.

vilkrang wrote:Yeah, very misleading, what a qunt. Hopefully he won't make any money with such flagrant dishonesty.

He's walked more than any of us for charity, shithead.

NSR, methinks.

Brass Monkey wrote:

vilkrang wrote:Yeah, very misleading, what a qunt. Hopefully he won't make any money with such flagrant dishonesty.

He's walked more than any of us for charity, shithead.

F*cking hell, I know you're old but you aren't completely senile yet, surely?

He can walk all he wants just don't tweet any pics please.

vilkrang wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:

vilkrang wrote:Yeah, very misleading, what a qunt. Hopefully he won't make any money with such flagrant dishonesty.

He's walked more than any of us for charity, shithead.

F*cking hell, I know you're old but you aren't completely senile yet, surely?

Not gonna lie, I've got about three years of brainage left before I'm a doddery old f*ckface.

100 miles in 8 stages is an epic?
talk about cheapening the language

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:100 miles in 8 stages is an epic?  
talk about cheapening the language

Cheaping FFS. Heve you nefer larn anythink here?