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davepreston 19-11-09 07:49 PM

Re: imperial
 
could i have a 7/10th of your finest bitter please
its just wrong
pint for the gentleman fruit based drink for the lady
gggggggeeeeerrrrrmmans

the_lone_wolf 19-11-09 07:53 PM

Re: imperial
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by davepreston (Post 2099919)
could i have a 7/10th of your finest bitter please
its just wrong
pint for the gentleman fruit based drink for the lady
gggggggeeeeerrrrrmmans

Yeah but in Ireland they still accept potatoes as currency...

;)

davepreston 19-11-09 07:54 PM

Re: imperial
 
of course we do dumbass how else do you think we make the potchein

Sean_C 19-11-09 07:56 PM

Re: imperial
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by davepreston (Post 2099931)
of course we do dumbass how else do you think we make the potchein

20 year old bottle of that up in the loft I'm very tempted to liberate... Mmmmm.

Bri w 19-11-09 08:46 PM

Re: imperial
 
I'm one of the uneducated confused.

Back in the mists of time I was taught in both SI units and imperial.

It gets worse.... If I'm working in big lumps, e.g. a 6ft 7inch piece of wood. Or small lumps, e.g. 8mm spanner.

I have even been known to ask for a bit of wood, 3ft 4mm...

To help with conversions. 2 1/4 lbs of jam weigh about a kilogram, or a litre of water is a pint and 3/4.

Sid Squid 19-11-09 08:48 PM

Re: imperial
 
Imperial measurements make sense to me as they're on a human scale, despite working on metric vehicles for many years and being entirely comfortable with that, (I very rarely pick up the wrong spanner - I have carefully calibrated eyes :)), I always revert back to proper measurements when I can, and I never 'think' in metric.
When I ride abroad and read road signs I only feel like know how far away somewhere is when I've done a quick conversion in my head.

dyzio 19-11-09 09:04 PM

Re: imperial
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by svdemon (Post 2099865)
I always wondered why we measure fuel consumption in MPG but buy it in litres?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero (Post 2099901)
I measure my fuel consumption in miles per litre travelled. Its about 10 mile/l

UK uses mpg's, EU land uses litres/100km

Specialone 19-11-09 09:06 PM

Re: imperial
 
I was taught both, working on any type of construction site when i left school everybody used imperial, but i was taught mainly metric, but learned imperial as well.
It gets more complicated when you start getting into precision measurements in imperial, thats when i have to think a bit more.

0.004 = 1mm (4 thousands of an inch to 1mm)

Phil

jambo 19-11-09 09:10 PM

Re: imperial
 
Being educated in England over during the 80's & 90's I work in:

millimetres, centimeters, meters, kilometres and miles per hour.
millilitres, centilitres, litres, and pints.

The fact is that when we move from academic, to practical circumstances, people like to use the most familiar units. I've become quite happy and fairly inconsistent in using either system as needed.

Jambo

AndyBrad 19-11-09 09:13 PM

Re: imperial
 
i work with valves and 98% of the stuff we do is imperial.


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