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04/04/24
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Originally posted by pintohoo:
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if we think that the usa is a particular kind of dumb - with it's own navigation systems on water, it's own mile, it's own gallon, and it's preferred betting odds system, which are as intuitive as zip - - etc etc go have a long and close look at England - they are going hard to outdo the yanks in being a 'special' kind of stupid they've got imperial and metric --------- uh huh - bad enough but, they take it much further - they 'mix em up' so, in markets you find pounds, shillings and pence per - pound - but, the produce next to it will be in 'kilos' now we're dealing with a population here where you go into a specialist engineering shop and some staff know what an inch is - and even a half inch, but hey - that quarter stuff or 6 mm. way way too far above the pay grade
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Aus has somoe good ones too Imagine Europeans coming to a country that been metricated over 40 years and having to deal in schooners pints and midis The male appendages ,television sets and some burgers and rolls in inches. Thechampion for me is water in olympic size swimming pools