stan_the_man
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Absolutely brilliant video. Imperial system is ballzzzzz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omh8Ito-05M
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Ben G
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6 and an 7 eighths and 7 and a quarter is surely 3 eigths?
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ed
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Imperial measurements can fuck off. They are the bane of my life and drive me absolutely fucking insane 
And to think that Americans have the cheek of calling Imperial English
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oceansoul
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Imperial measurements can fuck off. They are the bane of my life and drive me absolutely fucking insane
And to think that Americans have the cheek of calling Imperial English
You dont read your speedo in MPH then 
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ed
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What are you talking about, I'm saying that imperial units are annoying, not that I don't use them. I have to use them if I were to find them annoying 
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ed
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Plus there's not much wrong with MPH because it's very rare that you have to deduce anything much from it. It's inches of mercury, imperial gallons, US gallons, inches, feet, pounds, imperial tonnes, stone e.t.c... that are the problem.
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ed
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Add fahrenheit onto that list too.
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Cosmo
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Cup is the most annoying US unit of measure, as its never the same as will depend on the type of item you are measuring!
How backward is that shit 
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sand-eel
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fucking quarts as well
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sand-eel
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Suppose in the uk, we use a lot of metric shit as well.
feet
pint
thou
etc
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Twiggy
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My god, i had to knock that off after 1min!!!
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
Suppose in the uk, we use a lot of metric shit as well.
feet
pint
thou
etc
We dont/shouldnt really.
Most milk in supermarkets will be sold in ml not pints, and you tend to have to buy meters of stuff now not in feet.
Cant even go and order some 2 by 2 now, its 60mm by 60mm or whatever it is.
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sand-eel
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In day to day stuff I would say, like that guy over there is 6 foot and has a boat that is 20 foot long, lets play golf with him see how many yards his drive is then have a pint after, he needs his engine bored out 20 thou too, some say he has a 2 inch cock.
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Cosmo
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Yeah but you cant buy many/any things that arent metric any more. Of course you'll always get the things like a person giving their height, etc. in it as its force of habit.
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ed
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One of the lathes I use has an imperial compound slide and the tail stock is in metric. Also, some of the bolts on it are metric and some are imperial. I don't know where it came from, but it fails at life.
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oceansoul
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Thats why this country is great  we can use 2 systems of measurement and most people dont even realise it haha Its annoying when abroad and in a Subway shop and they look funny at you when you ask for a 6" sub haha
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ed
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We don't though. It's just old people fucking it up for everyone else
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GSi Ghost
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I heard it mentioned on local radio the other day "there are less and less people able to use the imperial measurement system, most kids nowadays are only able to use metric"
what a stupid comment I thought.
the end
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mattk
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because Ive been taught my trade by old fellas I work in feet and inches
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oceansoul
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
We don't though. It's just old people fucking it up for everyone else
I ment things like using pints for drinks and miles per hour for speeds but litres for most other measures, and meters for distances.
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Cavey
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and using metres for distance as well, crazy english, as well as meters for recording results
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ed
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The only time you use pint for a drink is when you order a drink like beer or a soft drink in a pub or restaurant. All other drinks are sold in CL's, ML's or L's. Miles and MPH are used simply because the conversion to KM and KMH would be enormous and wouldn't actually serve any purpose.
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bubble
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
Suppose in the uk, we use a lot of metric shit as well.
feet
pint
thou
etc
We dont/shouldnt really.
Most milk in supermarkets will be sold in ml not pints, and you tend to have to buy meters of stuff now not in feet.
Cant even go and order some 2 by 2 now, its 60mm by 60mm or whatever it is.
we order still 4x2 and 2x2 now, never seen mm measurements down builders yard.
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Cosmo
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Last time I went down when i was building one of my tank stands I asked for 2x3 and he corrected me. Same when the Liverpool shop was getting done (diff person).
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ed
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You should get timber in mm measurements, it's always marked in mm. Certain sizes you can ask for inches and they'll give it to you without any bother, but certain sizes don't exist anymore which is why old people often say metric is a con because you can't get massive floorboards anymore.
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