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Old 02-12-18, 08:00 PM   #21
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Mine too, they need to understand brought and bought are very different words!

Someone once told me they went to Ikea and brought a chest of draws. WTF?
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Old 02-12-18, 11:42 PM   #22
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not as bad as someone saying i was learned something new today.

see you at the back of four o'clock... no just tell me what fukin time you will be there.

suppose i cant complain too much being scottish.. lol. dont know if its true but i was told that the best queens english (apart from the queen) was spoken in some remote place or island in scotland.
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Old 05-12-18, 07:31 AM   #23
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we adopted 1000 million as a billion in 1975 and it's etc. for et cetera not ect, other than that, you're accurate



Good morning all.




We've adopted a lot of things over the years, to comply with the rest of the world.



If you were 6 foot tall before 1963, you would be 10.2 millionths of an inch taller after 1963, because that's when we standardised the old imperial inch to be exactly 25.4 mm......How's that for a piece of useless piffle?



Oh, & I still think of a billion as a million times a million, but I'm old too!




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Old 05-12-18, 09:14 AM   #24
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You damn colonials inventing your own units of measure!
Many years ago I worked for a truck manufacturer and had to perform "Type Approval" testing.


One of these being rollover testing of fuel tanks, where we would need to brim it with diesel, roll the tank and measure the fuel loss over time. yes boring and I used to give it juniors, but still had to write the report.


It was a time when we would submit both SI and imperial units. No problem I had a new fancy calculator with built in conversions. Imagine my surprise when my report was rejected.


Doh, the fancy calculator built by those clever Japanese chaps with the Litre<->Gallon functions only went and used those dodgy US gallons and not a proper Imperial one. Back to looking up the conversion factor in my book of useless information and using the fancy calculator as a calculator.
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Old 05-12-18, 09:54 AM   #25
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You damn colonials inventing your own units of measure!



Doh, the fancy calculator built by those clever Japanese chaps with the Litre<->Gallon functions only went and used those dodgy US gallons and not a proper Imperial one. Back to looking up the conversion factor in my book of useless information and using the fancy calculator as a calculator.
Those bloody colonials really pushed it when they started inventing their own screw thread forms!.....Joseph Whitworth must be turning in his grave!



Look up! You mean you didn't remember that 1 imperial gallon equals 4.54609 litres? BAH!
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Joseph Whitworth must be turning in his grave!


This surely must win the quote of the year award. (Assuming he is only turning at a 55° angle!)
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This surely must win the quote of the year award. (Assuming he is only turning at a 55° angle!)



Well spotted fellow well educated chap!
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You damn colonials inventing your own units of measure!
Not sure they did. The most common form of British unit deviations are us redefining the standard after whatever colony split off. Therefore they're actually just using an archaic standard. Happens a lot in languages too.
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suppose i cant complain too much being scottish.. lol. dont know if its true but i was told that the best queens english (apart from the queen) was spoken in some remote place or island in scotland.
I heard that, thought it was Inverness
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This surely must win the quote of the year award. (Assuming he is only turning at a 55° angle!)

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