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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 |
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of course we do dumbass how else do you think we make the potchein
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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i work with valves and 98% of the stuff we do is imperial.
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