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by Annachie » Sat Mar 07, 2020 10:27 pm | |
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I'm pretty sure Australia went metric before I was born. But I still tell people that something is a couple of miles down the road.
For that matter every tape measure in the house has both metric and imperial. (OK, looks like it was a year or two after) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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by n7axw » Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:55 am | |
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What drives me crazy is when someone tells me that some place is 30 minutes away. I want to ask, with me driving???
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by Daryl » Mon Mar 09, 2020 2:29 am | |
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Best is "If I was going there, I wouldn't start from here".
Visited Ireland a few years back, signs like "Fifty kilometres an hour for the next five miles" abounded.
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by isaac_newton » Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:36 pm | |
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Groan - don't. I'm a physicist myself, but had to suffer under the old Imperial system at school... shudders. I still experience life in my head in a mixture of units - Fahrenheit for day temperatures, but Centigrade for any calculations etc. I found myself ordering some two by four timber 2.4m in length ... sigh. [2 inches by 4 inches, or about 50mm by 100mm] Why anyone would want to inflict that rubbish on their children is beyond me, and yet some do. |
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by TFLYTSNBN » Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:19 pm | |
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The US is shipping a lot of raw logs to Japan because American sawmills refused to saw lumber to exact metric dimensions.
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