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we all ticked along nicely with the old weights and measures, dont know why we had to change ... well, partially change, we are neither one or the other at the mo... some metric and some still imperial |
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By *obbygggMan
over a year ago
Birmingham |
Depends on your age I think. Young people are taught metric and when the older generations die out so will the imperial system. Still can't get my head round 20 degrees being hot though.70 seems a lot warmer. |
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"My favourite is the way they are mixed in the construction industry
'get me an 8x4 sheet of 12mm ply'
'three metres of 3x3 trunking'
etc"
similar in the pub game .. "i'll have a 175ml glass of wine and a pint of lager |
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By *odareyouMan
over a year ago
not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds) |
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More to the point, how many can readily convert from one to t'other?
ha ha ... nope, cant even tell the difference between ml & cl ... in fact, why the 2 different liquid measurements ??"
They re both parts of a litre, m = thousandth, c = hundredth |
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More to the point, how many can readily convert from one to t'other?
ha ha ... nope, cant even tell the difference between ml & cl ... in fact, why the 2 different liquid measurements ??"
They are the same effectively as the SI standard for liquid volume is the litre and millilitres and centilitres are simply fractions of this, one thousandth and onehundredth respectively |
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More to the point, how many can readily convert from one to t'other?
ha ha ... nope, cant even tell the difference between ml & cl ... in fact, why the 2 different liquid measurements ??
They re both parts of a litre, m = thousandth, c = hundredth"
but the point is... buy a bottle of something, and some label it in ml and some in cl, even though the bottle sizes are the same |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My favourite is the way they are mixed in the construction industry
'get me an 8x4 sheet of 12mm ply'
'three metres of 3x3 trunking'
etc
similar in the pub game .. "i'll have a 175ml glass of wine and a pint of lager"
And two packets of crisps, PLEASE.
That's binary for you. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"So if someone has a 36 d bust we understand . But in metric what is 36 inches and they have not worked out how to convert the d .. lol
Or have they ?."
It's around 90cm (off the top of my head) |
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"So if someone has a 36 d bust we understand . But in metric what is 36 inches and they have not worked out how to convert the d .. lol
Or have they ?.
It's around 90cm (off the top of my head)"
so .... you got a 36D head then ??  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"So if someone has a 36 d bust we understand . But in metric what is 36 inches and they have not worked out how to convert the d .. lol
Or have they ?.
It's around 90cm (off the top of my head)"
That's interesting actually. I'd have expressed it as around 910mm or 0.91m, i'd never have used cm at all. So, multiple ways of expression in the metric world.
Can anyone honestly say they've ever described a woman as "having a yard of tits?" |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
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Bi, fortunately.
Some measurements are better in Imperial, some are better in metric.
How often do you hear of someone having a 18cm cock?
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I`m also in that strange transition state too! I have to use metric a lot when I`m at w*rk and when I`m doing DIY I tend to use metric if I need to find the centre of something but otherwise I still use Imperial. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The best i've ever worked with (sort of) was the guy who asked what a certain length was, say 1115mm. We'd open his tape, place his thumb and finger there and off he'd go. |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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"I've always worked in thou's and inches but having 3 kids at school I've had to convert to metric."
Be an interesting cock measurement. I'm surprised nobody had used it 7" and a few thou's |
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It's bloody worse when trying to buy shoes from European and American suppliers (although I'm not sure that has anything to do with imperial/metric). Really gets on my tits (or is that nipples in metric). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've always worked in thou's and inches but having 3 kids at school I've had to convert to metric.
Be an interesting cock measurement. I'm surprised nobody had used it 7" and a few thou's"
Stop bragging about the number of women you've had.
Who do you think you are, John Holmes? |
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"What's your preference?
Inches or centimetres
Grammes or ounces
Centigrade or Fahrenheit"
It has to be Imperial, can you imagine some of the thick blokes on the site trying to work out how long their Johnson's are in centimetres.
Lol
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By *JyorksMan
over a year ago
leeds |
Not fussed , in my job I need to be able to work in all of them . The number of customers I get that give me measurements in both metric and imperial is unbelievable , half of the time they don't even know what unit they are using lol . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Metric all the way!!
The craziest of the lot though, would have to be aviation fuel;
Litres
US Gallons
Imperial Gallons
How confusing is that - when you're fueling up to fly fro A to reach B!!
& of course its been the reason for many air
crashes!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Metric all the way!!
The craziest of the lot though, would have to be aviation fuel;
Litres
US Gallons
Imperial Gallons
How confusing is that - when you're fueling up to fly fro A to reach B!!
& of course its been the reason for many air
crashes!!"
Even crazier still. Isn't jet fuel sold to the big airlines sold in pounds?
ie 25,000 Lbs
Metric, up yours!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Metric all the way!!
The craziest of the lot though, would have to be aviation fuel;
Litres
US Gallons
Imperial Gallons
How confusing is that - when you're fueling up to fly fro A to reach B!!
& of course its been the reason for many air
crashes!!
Even crazier still. Isn't jet fuel sold to the big airlines sold in pounds?
ie 25,000 Lbs
Metric, up yours!
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Lolz ......most countries just went 100% metric & no problems - but we're so damn backward! |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Metric all the way!!
The craziest of the lot though, would have to be aviation fuel;
Litres
US Gallons
Imperial Gallons
How confusing is that - when you're fueling up to fly fro A to reach B!!
& of course its been the reason for many air
crashes!!
Even crazier still. Isn't jet fuel sold to the big airlines sold in pounds?
ie 25,000 Lbs
Metric, up yours!
Lolz ......most countries just went 100% metric & no problems - but we're so damn backward!"
It's like decimalised currency. They should wait till all the old folk are dead. |
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"Metric all the way!!
The craziest of the lot though, would have to be aviation fuel;
Litres
US Gallons
Imperial Gallons
How confusing is that - when you're fueling up to fly fro A to reach B!!
& of course its been the reason for many air
crashes!!
Even crazier still. Isn't jet fuel sold to the big airlines sold in pounds?
ie 25,000 Lbs
Metric, up yours!
Lolz ......most countries just went 100% metric & no problems - but we're so damn backward!
It's like decimalised currency. They should wait till all the old folk are dead."
aha.. but the flaw in this idea is that while waiting for the old folk to die... those that are younger and still using the old methods are getting older.
so the old folk never die out ..... i think lol |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Should driving on the right side of the road be considerd as metric?  "
We could try it the way they did in Eire.
Buses and trucks changed sides one Sunday, to see if it would work, and cars, vans and everything else the following Sunday. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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OK, when did you last read on here that anyone has shed/wants to shed a few kg's?
Hardly ever, virtually always stated as lbs/stones. I dare say, even those who are "metrified" do it.
Mind you 10lb sounds more impressive than 4.2 kilos. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Should driving on the right side of the road be considerd as metric?
We could try it the way they did in Eire.
Buses and trucks changed sides one Sunday, to see if it would work, and cars, vans and everything else the following Sunday."
How did it work out?
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OK, when did you last read on here that anyone has shed/wants to shed a few kg's?
Hardly ever, virtually always stated as lbs/stones. I dare say, even those who are "metrified" do it.
Mind you 10lb sounds more impressive than 4.2 kilos."
its like people who jog/cycle for their health ... they do like 13km instead of 8 miles because it sounds further
(btw, had to use an online converter for this post lol) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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OK, when did you last read on here that anyone has shed/wants to shed a few kg's?
Hardly ever, virtually always stated as lbs/stones. I dare say, even those who are "metrified" do it.
Mind you 10lb sounds more impressive than 4.2 kilos.
its like people who jog/cycle for their health ... they do like 13km instead of 8 miles because it sounds further
(btw, had to use an online converter for this post lol)"
Me too, i used to be Catholic. |
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OK, when did you last read on here that anyone has shed/wants to shed a few kg's?
Hardly ever, virtually always stated as lbs/stones. I dare say, even those who are "metrified" do it.
Mind you 10lb sounds more impressive than 4.2 kilos.
its like people who jog/cycle for their health ... they do like 13km instead of 8 miles because it sounds further
(btw, had to use an online converter for this post lol)
Me too, i used to be Catholic. "
well i'm an agnostic dyslexic insomniac .. i lie awake alnight wondering if there really is a dog |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I spent most of my life in the metric world, and am still struggling with miles, gallons etc.
But for some reason I gauge cocks in inches  "
Yes but centimetres makes them sound so much bigger |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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"What's your preference?
Inches or centimetres
Grammes or ounces
Centigrade or Fahrenheit"
I can work easily in either inches or cm and it's often fairly random which I choose. For, say, dressmaking it would always be metric. I think of and quote people's heights in imperial. If I need to measure a room I could use either. I can convert between the two easily.
I can work in grams/ounces or stones/lbs/kg. I can roughly convert between the two in my head. I usually think of people's weight in imperial. I can use either for cooking.
For temperatures I am ok with centigrade or the Kelvin scale. I don't understand Fahrenheit at all. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I spent most of my life in the metric world, and am still struggling with miles, gallons etc.
But for some reason I gauge cocks in inches
Yes but centimetres makes them sound so much bigger "
Only to men |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember an argument on tv a while ago between a pro metric guy and pro imperial guy.
In mid argument the pro imperial guy asked the other how tall he was and the metric bloke answered without thinking "five foot ten "
And that was that .
What I don't understand is why the usage of mm for barrier heights , it's not as though we also use fraction of inches for the same . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What's your preference?
Inches or centimetres
Grammes or ounces
Centigrade or Fahrenheit"
Length in inches (if talking to someone over 40 years old)
Weight in grammes, as you can't use Avagadros number when your dealing in ounces.
Temperature is in Centigrade for winter and Fahrenheit for the summer. That way it sounds colder in the winter and hotter in the summer.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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More to the point, how many can readily convert from one to t'other?
easy there is 25.4 mm to an inch"
centigrade to fahrenheit is times 1.8 and add 32. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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body weight has to be in stones and pounds. but food weight has to be grams or kg
cock size - inches
distance - miles
but other sizes like the length of a pipe for example has to be meters
we use both
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bi, fortunately.
Some measurements are better in Imperial, some are better in metric.
How often do you hear of someone having a 18cm cock?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Im just glad we use metric for currency, im just old enough to been born imperial but my heart has always been rebel alliance.
Who wants to remember 240 pennies to a £ or 14 schillings to a Guinea. Florin, crown, halfcrown, thruppeny bit, sixpence, halfpenny |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Im just glad we use metric for currency, im just old enough to been born imperial but my heart has always been rebel alliance.
Who wants to remember 240 pennies to a £ or 14 schillings to a Guinea. Florin, crown, halfcrown, thruppeny bit, sixpence, halfpenny "
How many shillings in a Guinea?
21 when I was at school. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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More to the point, how many can readily convert from one to t'other?
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After doing an engineering course in college when I left school, I would say I can convert inches to cm/mm fairly easy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh FFS ! I am 47, Mrs is 43. We both were bought up in metric.
Simples.
No one younger than us should *need* imperial.
Oh, btw, UK nearly voted to go metric in 1898 ..."
We are both 47 and due to working on farms used imperial only .
Nice they nearly got the chance to vote back then, we have never been asked . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hello all,
I work in both fairly happily(Engineering).
John said "Why using the imperial system when the metric is so easy and logical???"
Up to a point but it is easier to make a significant mistake calculating say volume in metric than Imperial.
Alec |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
I prefer imperial, it means more to me. If someone were to say they weighed 70kg, then I'd have to think about just how much they weigh. But if they said 12 stone 4, then it is more obvious to me.
Last week a waitress asked me what I'd like to drink. Answer, a pint of . Her response, is that large or small?
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By *obbygggMan
over a year ago
Birmingham |
"My favourite is the way they are mixed in the construction industry
'get me an 8x4 sheet of 12mm ply'
'three metres of 3x3 trunking'
etc
similar in the pub game .. "i'll have a 175ml glass of wine and a pint of lager
And two packets of crisps, PLEASE.
That's binary for you. "
Must admit I've never heard anyone ask for 175ml glass of wine,they usually ask for a large glass.Might be a regional thing.If the price list says 175mlof wine and beer id listed in pints I'd guess they are right though.. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Hello all,
I work in both fairly happily(Engineering).
John said "Why using the imperial system when the metric is so easy and logical???"
Up to a point but it is easier to make a significant mistake calculating say volume in metric than Imperial.
Alec"
That's true. You're more likely to try to do a metric sum in your head and get the decimal point in the wrong place whereas in Imperial you're likely to use a machine to multiply by 16, 14 and so on.
Croupiers will continue to multiply by 17 in their heads. |
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