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19-11-09, 06:51 PM
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Evel Knievel
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why does everyone still use them?
at school they teach nothing but metric and yet i leave and go into work and i have to learn imperial, i have learnt all inches 16ths, 8ths ect ect but wonder why all suppliers use them even though where not meant to? 
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19-11-09, 06:56 PM
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Da Cake Boss
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Re: imperial
we're allowed to use imperial again, after the EU watchemacallit over-ruled it a year or two back.
Must have been the thought of all them old ladies handbags hitting them cause they couldn't buy a pound of flesh
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19-11-09, 06:57 PM
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Re: imperial
I always wondered why we measure fuel consumption in MPG but buy it in litres?
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19-11-09, 07:02 PM
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Re: imperial
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19-11-09, 07:09 PM
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Re: imperial
I use imperial a lot. A foot can be divided by 3,4 or 6 very conveniently unlike those foreign centimetres. I can picture an acre, furlong and chain in my mind easier than metric stuff.
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19-11-09, 07:15 PM
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Re: imperial
SI units FTW...
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19-11-09, 07:35 PM
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Re: imperial
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19-11-09, 07:45 PM
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Re: imperial
Because we won the war. Next question.
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19-11-09, 07:46 PM
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Re: imperial
Some of us are still working to drawings drawn in the 1950's. The oldest drawing I've worked to personally was drawn in the 1920's. Imperial measurements will be here for a long time yet.
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