In for pictures also. This has got me intrigued. I don't have the slitest clue on what the heck it is, but i so need to see it. :D
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In for pictures also. This has got me intrigued. I don't have the slitest clue on what the heck it is, but i so need to see it. :D
Well things are not too good over here........... teabags will understand when I say "bad light stopped play" (cricketing term folks).............. the two cheapo digital cameras that I have will not work:( We have a high pressure system moving in so it should be cold and bright shortly.
@ArPaNET
I went into my library.............. OK this house is moderately large by UK standards, so I do have a room with loads of fitted shelves and a few thousand books :) One of them is a mathematics book dated around 1886....... it has a chapter on "decimal fractions"...... so this insidious invasion of our birthright has been going on for some time?
I blame the French........... hey, the definition of a meter is a platinum bar held at 20 Celsius in some Parisian bank vault?
@JPnyc
I am old enough to remember when you wanted Imperial stuff you were asked if you wanted AF (associated fine) or Whitworth :shocked:
I have never done this before, so can someone point me to a site that will host pictures? I promise to only post a few illegal ones;)
My prize winning cacti...............
I missed out on a great opportunity during our alleged "summer" when I was passing the Police Station and there was this "Community against drugs" van outside........... there was a flower bed next to it full of "moon flowers" (papaver somulensis?)
Kind of ironic, I thought..............
we never had that here. There was only one system of measure. Although I remember them teaching the metric system very early on in school.
Photobucket is one of the more popular image hosting sites. I can't be of much help since I just put them on my server space.
you don't know what a trellis is?Quote:
Originally Posted by t34b4g5
Well...it's kinda like air-traffic control...the universal language for the air is english...you can't have pilots knowing every language at every airport they are assigned...so it was recognized that the air needed one language...english.
The language of math is the same...to ensure that products are compatible, interchangeable, etc...they need to have universal sizes...
if, for instance, Canada had adopted the metric system and everyone else in the world adopted the standard imperial system...
you'd think we were nuts now wouldn't you? You'd think we must be out of our friggin' mind to adopt a system no one else in the whole world wants...or uses...
right. ;)
My main beef is that the majority of buildings in the British Isles were built to Imperial measurements, so repair and renovation using metric products is relatively inefficient.
Anyways, to go slightly off topic:
Have you noticed that in all the westerns, the stage coaches are right hand drive.............. so what happened there? :D
LOL how did we get to stagecoaches from there? That gave me whiplash. Must be my hangover. Giants won and we may have overdone the celebration a touch.
Not to hijack the thread, it was on such a steady course, after all.
JPnyc, good thing you got the celebrating out of the way cause the giants will go no further.
As far as the English/Americans being nutty Eg, want ot make something of it? HUH? Do ya?
thank God because there isn't much worse in this world than a Monday morning hangover.
A bowl of menudo and a corona would fix that right up. ;) :thumbsup: