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By *olliPine OP Couple
over a year ago
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What unit of measurement do you prefer?
I think by having both in use it is causing far too much confusion.
For me the metric system would be an easier option - so much easier to work with 10's, Particularly for the younger generation.
Maybe this is why cock size is so hard to fathom? I mean let's be honest here, how many of those 8/9"+ cocks have been a 'little' disappointing when you've seen it in the flesh?
Maybe it's because inches are not such an easy unit for measurement?
A single unit system may be better, abolish the imperial units and stick to metric - I'm sure it will make measuring cock size, parallel parking, fitting carpets, joinery etc much easier.
Which would you go for?
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I use both in equal measure (see what I did there  ).
I often use imperial when I'm baking because a lot of the recipes I use are too old to be in metric. When I'm sewing I use metric. When measuring cocks I use the "oh scale"
Oh dear.
Oh?
Oh ok.
Oh my God!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've grown up as most have with both. For me I prefer the metric system for measuring. But on the flip side I would rather use lbs and oz's for weighing......Maybe I'm just mixed up. Lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I have no clue when it comes to measurements.
I know I’m 5’6 in height but if someone said for example, walk 50 yards down the road, I’d have no idea how far 50 yards was 
No wonder I had to take my Maths O Level three times before I passed it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As an engineer I use metric most of the time but sadly have to mix imperial measurements too as I deal with a lot of American companies so I mix and match.
I do like the “oh” scale though although trying to explain that one at work may be a bit tricky!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I use both in equal measure (see what I did there ).
I often use imperial when I'm baking because a lot of the recipes I use are too old to be in metric. When I'm sewing I use metric. When measuring cocks I use the "oh scale"
Oh dear.
Oh?
Oh ok.
Made me chuckle 
Oh my God! "
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Yes I agree metric should become the standard norm. But the cost of replacing the road signs would be exorbitant so it won't happen any time soon. At least until the last generation that was taught on the Imperial standard passes away. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I use metric at work....because that's how it's done. However my brain tends to work in imperial.
Example if someone says they are 6'2" and 18 stone...,I know they're a big lad.
1.81m and 98kg doesn't seem to equate in the same way.
Boobs for example.... 38DD .... I can visualise that! 98cm..... wtf? |
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"I use both in equal measure (see what I did there ).
I often use imperial when I'm baking because a lot of the recipes I use are too old to be in metric. When I'm sewing I use metric. When measuring cocks I use the "oh scale"
Oh dear.
Oh?
Oh ok.
Oh my God! "
This made me smile.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How many have the word British habit of using fahrenheit in summer and celsius in winter?"
Wow that sentence was a crazy crash
I'll try again
How many of us have the weird British habit of using fahrenheit in summer and celsius in winter? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Saying "I walked Kilometres today" doesn't have the same ring to it as "I walked miles today"
I tend to mix my measurements depending on what I'm buying or doing.
Some recipes use cups for quantities too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"How many have the word British habit of using fahrenheit in summer and celsius in winter?
Wow that sentence was a crazy crash
I'll try again
How many of us have the weird British habit of using fahrenheit in summer and celsius in winter?"
Don't the weather forecasters do this too? |
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"Saying "I walked Kilometres today" doesn't have the same ring to it as "I walked miles today"
I tend to mix my measurements depending on what I'm buying or doing.
Some recipes use cups for quantities too."
I get mad when a recipe uses cups because I have no idea of the equivalent and I'm too damn lazy to find out. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Saying "I walked Kilometres today" doesn't have the same ring to it as "I walked miles today"
I tend to mix my measurements depending on what I'm buying or doing.
Some recipes use cups for quantities too.
I get mad when a recipe uses cups because I have no idea of the equivalent and I'm too damn lazy to find out. "
Depends whether it's US or UK cups... |
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I use metric and imperial depending on the situation and don't get confused (usually).
Imperial for people's height, size and weight plus for room sizes, clothing and distance.
Metric for buying household goods, general sizing and food shopping.
This might explain why the three piece we got turned out to be too big to easily fit in the living room though
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I like to drink pints, not half-lives.
Snow should be in inches.
Imperial measures are derived from objects.
An inch is the top part of your thumb. A foot is based on a foot. Cubits, spans, fathoms, furlongs, miles etc. Most have stories to why they came to be.
This makes them easy to visualise.
Metric is created logically to be easy to combine with other measures.
I can use both happily.
(and now for the bonus terrible joke
'My penis is twelve inches,
But I don't use it as a rule') |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Saying "I walked Kilometres today" doesn't have the same ring to it as "I walked miles today"
I tend to mix my measurements depending on what I'm buying or doing.
Some recipes use cups for quantities too.
I get mad when a recipe uses cups because I have no idea of the equivalent and I'm too damn lazy to find out.
Depends whether it's US or UK cups..."
I don't mind what country we are talking about as long as the cups involved contain a hot beverage or a nice pair of boobs
I can bake too |
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A market trader was told he should put both metric and Imperial weights on his produce, and he declined, so the council said they would take him to court.
He went round his town taking pictures of roadsigns with distances in yards and miles, and sent them to the council.
They didn't prosecute him lol. |
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If I'm measuring something to be cut or to fit a certain spot then I use metric. If I'm giving someone a rough size guide verbally then I'll use imperial.
8 feet is easier to visualise than 2440mm |
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"Saying "I walked Kilometres today" doesn't have the same ring to it as "I walked miles today"
I tend to mix my measurements depending on what I'm buying or doing.
Some recipes use cups for quantities too.
I get mad when a recipe uses cups because I have no idea of the equivalent and I'm too damn lazy to find out.
Depends whether it's US or UK cups..."
I've got no chance then! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Imperial every time for us, want none of that Doo dad crap.
Besides, metric is crap in songs!.
Imagine this....
12.8 kilometers high by the Byrds.
Or
I can see for kilometres by the Who.
Or
I'm gonna be (804 kilometres)
By the Proclaimers.
Nah!.
Doesn't have the same ring to it. |
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"As we are coming out of the EU, we should srick to Imperial!!!
Err... it's got nothing to do with the EU. Apart from the USA, Liberia and Myanmar everybody in the world uses the metric system."
The Uk still use to use imperiel and in many cases still does until the EU started kicking up a fuss, so as I said Imperial as we are coming out of the the EU...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Plumbers still use both. Always have.
Wood yours still sell 8ft sheets of wood and 2x4s. (Just examples). We never let go of our ways, just like driving on the left, we are stubborn. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I use both in equal measure (see what I did there ).
I often use imperial when I'm baking because a lot of the recipes I use are too old to be in metric. When I'm sewing I use metric. When measuring cocks I use the "oh scale"
Oh dear.
Oh?
Oh ok.
Oh my God! "
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By *ilk_TreMan
over a year ago
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Here's a strange one. When checking the weather I like to use Celsius for the temperature and mph for the wind speed. Good luck with finding an app where I can do that without having to change the settings all the time! |
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"As we are coming out of the EU, we should srick to Imperial!!!
Err... it's got nothing to do with the EU. Apart from the USA, Liberia and Myanmar everybody in the world uses the metric system.
The Uk still use to use imperiel and in many cases still does until the EU started kicking up a fuss, so as I said Imperial as we are coming out of the the EU... "
Ha ha ha ha. That's just plain wrong The UK government endorsed the metric system in 1965 before the EEC even existed. We've been gradually moving towards Standardisation ever since. You and I are of similar age and we were taught the metric system at school. I guess the old fashioned imperial system will hang around for another 50 years or so until our generation passes on. |
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"Plumbers still use both. Always have.
Wood yours still sell 8ft sheets of wood and 2x4s. (Just examples). We never let go of our ways, just like driving on the left, we are stubborn. "
Actually your point about driving on the left fits this thread. Because when a future government does bite the bullet and spend a fortune converting the road network to metric, that would be an ideal time for us to switching to driving on the right like the vast majority of the world |
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"Plumbers still use both. Always have.
Wood yours still sell 8ft sheets of wood and 2x4s. (Just examples). We never let go of our ways, just like driving on the left, we are stubborn.
Actually your point about driving on the left fits this thread. Because when a future government does bite the bullet and spend a fortune converting the road network to metric, that would be an ideal time for us to switching to driving on the right like the vast majority of the world "
I do wonder if you assertion is quite right there, a lot of the world do drive on our side so why change? |
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Must admit it did make me smile the last time I was in the carpet shop. Carpets all lined up,some measured in feet,others in metres and even more in yards. Quite a few young couples scratching their heads. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well I'm units friendly, inches or cm. In fact on one job I used km per inch as a scale! The one I'm struggling with on here is the "sky remote". A lot of guys use them in cock pics. |
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"Plumbers still use both. Always have.
Wood yours still sell 8ft sheets of wood and 2x4s. (Just examples). We never let go of our ways, just like driving on the left, we are stubborn.
Actually your point about driving on the left fits this thread. Because when a future government does bite the bullet and spend a fortune converting the road network to metric, that would be an ideal time for us to switching to driving on the right like the vast majority of the world
I do wonder if you assertion is quite right there, a lot of the world do drive on our side so why change? "
Only some Ex-british colonies. India, South Africa and Australia I would say are the biggest ones population wise. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Plumbers still use both. Always have.
Wood yours still sell 8ft sheets of wood and 2x4s. (Just examples). We never let go of our ways, just like driving on the left, we are stubborn.
Actually your point about driving on the left fits this thread. Because when a future government does bite the bullet and spend a fortune converting the road network to metric, that would be an ideal time for us to switching to driving on the right like the vast majority of the world
I do wonder if you assertion is quite right there, a lot of the world do drive on our side so why change?
Only some Ex-british colonies. India, South Africa and Australia I would say are the biggest ones population wise. "
It stems back to riding horses apparently, and passing in the left, your weapon is in your right hand in case of attack.
But just like the older generation who refuse to let go, (banking cheque/inches etc). We refuse to adopt a new or argumentative, a better way of doing something.
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By (user no longer on site)
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My father was involved in a study of changing the sides of the road to drive on many years ago.
I think it was Norway that dud this most recently, in the sixties I believe.
Back then there was way less cars on the road in Norway, and not such a big infrastructure but the logistics were immense.
Such as repositioning signs, altering slip roads on and off etc.
There were of course a multitude of accidents due to people forgetting when they swapped sides.
Amplify that by the amount of right hand drive cars on the UK roads and the cost of altering and repositioning the road signs and altering all the slip road etc.
Then the invariable cost of the carnage that will ensue with people forgetting and the difficulty in overtaking with the driver on thewrong side and the study was quietly buried. |
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"As we are coming out of the EU, we should srick to Imperial!!!
Err... it's got nothing to do with the EU. Apart from the USA, Liberia and Myanmar everybody in the world uses the metric system.
The Uk still use to use imperiel and in many cases still does until the EU started kicking up a fuss, so as I said Imperial as we are coming out of the the EU...
Ha ha ha ha. That's just plain wrong The UK government endorsed the metric system in 1965 before the EEC even existed. We've been gradually moving towards Standardisation ever since. You and I are of similar age and we were taught the metric system at school. I guess the old fashioned imperial system will hang around for another 50 years or so until our generation passes on."
I knew that we had the metric system but thought it was the EU that insisted we use metric in shops not the UK...
I will continue to use mph and convert litres into gallons to work out how economical my car isn't... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Every time my builder talks about millimetres or metres I have to say sorry what’s that in English.
I wasn’t taught metric at school and it still doesn’t mean too much to me. If someone says something is 50 miles away I know exactly how far that is if I’m given that in kilometres I haven’t got a scooby |
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