From: Brett Parker On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:38:05AM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:
From: Brett Parker Sent: 03 February 2005 08:10 On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:44:16PM +0000, Paul wrote:
Speak for yourself - I'm living the American Dream for a month... Glorious sunshine, temperatures up in the 70's...
Paul, I know you in merka, but can you speak in an english tongue and use celcius instead of fahrenheit, 70 celcius is "rather warm" so I'm assuming you're in fahrenheit and mean 21.1C ;)
Speak for yourself Brett, as far as I'm concerned
fahrenheit is English and celcius/centigrade is "foreign muck". 70's works for me! :o)
It's Swedish [1], admittedly, but given that Fahrenheit[2] is a German invention, they're both foreign... Get with the programme, damn you ;)
Well? English is a (sort of) German dialect and our current sovereign's family also originally hails from that part of the world. So traditionally we English have always had a penchant for things German, anyway it was good enough for my grandparents, it's good enough for me. :o)
Notwithstanding that my German acquaintances all use SI units (e.g. metres, litres, Celsius, etc.).
Apparently we're supposed to work in SI units, next to go on the list is Miles, but hey, that can wait for a bit, there's far too many signs to change for that ;)
Yeah, depressing isn't it?
<nostalgia-alert>If you ask me the rot set in when we dispensed with good old shillings and pence.</nostalgia-alert>
Regards,
Keith ____________ ABSURDITY, n. - A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:05:20AM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:
Well? English is a (sort of) German dialect and our current sovereign's family also originally hails from that part of the world. So traditionally we English have always had a penchant for things German, anyway it was good enough for my grandparents, it's good enough for me. :o)
Heh, ah well, fair enough ;)
Notwithstanding that my German acquaintances all use SI units (e.g. metres, litres, Celsius, etc.).
And Euros! Don't forget the Euros!
Apparently we're supposed to work in SI units, next to go on the list is Miles, but hey, that can wait for a bit, there's far too many signs to change for that ;)
Yeah, depressing isn't it?
Nah, depressing would be to claim that SI units are more accurate than the imperial counterparts, which is blatently untrue. (*winks* at quinophex).
<nostalgia-alert>If you ask me the rot set in when we dispensed with good old shillings and pence.</nostalgia-alert>
I missed that bit, see, being a mere youngster... I remember half pence pieces though, they where fun :)
Cheers,
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:23:56AM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
Nah, depressing would be to claim that SI units are more accurate than the imperial counterparts, which is blatently untrue. (*winks* at quinophex).
I never claimed that, I said inches vs. cm :)
Given that inches have varied in size from place to place in the past and that an American survey inch is defined to be 25.400050800101600... mm vs. the standard inch which is measured as 25.4mm (they defined the standard inch using metric....) and the measurement was only standardised in 1958 (apparently) I stand by my original claim :p
If you want to be really sad you can read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inches which details all of it :)
Adam
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<nostalgia-alert>If you ask me the rot set in when we dispensed with good old shillings and pence.</nostalgia-alert>
I missed that bit, see, being a mere youngster... I remember half pence pieces though, they where fun :)
Yoofertoday! I remember when groats were legal tender...
I remember purchasing two OXO cubes for 5 farthings :(
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:05:20AM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:
Well? English is a (sort of) German dialect and our current sovereign's family also originally hails from that part of the world. So traditionally we English have always had a penchant for things German, anyway it was good enough for my grandparents, it's good enough for me. :o)
Heh, ah well, fair enough ;)
Notwithstanding that my German acquaintances all use SI units (e.g. metres, litres, Celsius, etc.).
And Euros! Don't forget the Euros!
Apparently we're supposed to work in SI units, next to go on the list is Miles, but hey, that can wait for a bit, there's far too many signs to change for that ;)
Yeah, depressing isn't it?
Nah, depressing would be to claim that SI units are more accurate than the imperial counterparts, which is blatently untrue. (*winks* at quinophex).
<nostalgia-alert>If you ask me the rot set in when we dispensed with good old shillings and pence.</nostalgia-alert>
I missed that bit, see, being a mere youngster... I remember half pence pieces though, they where fun :)
Cheers,
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Yeah, depressing isn't it?
<nostalgia-alert>If you ask me the rot set in when we dispensed with good old shillings and pence.</nostalgia-alert>
What I want to know is, what on earth happened to ells, bushels, pennyweights and cubits?
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