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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

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All I'm seeing is this:

 

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 Honestly, it promoted better mental arithmetic. A bit like those folk down the bookies who can hardly read but could tells you what a 15/4 return would give you on a winner you backed with a £1.40 stake within a few seconds.

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Furlongs, yards, feet and inches. Fathoms and pounds/ounces.

All a bit daft really.

 

Sacrilege. This is the empires way FFS.

 

Absolutely nowt wrong with firkins, chains and furlongs.

 

Remoaners still whingeing.

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if you were gonna "realign measurements" from imperial now, there's no way you'd use base ten..  if you were being all "imperial is too hard to understand, makes no sense" you'd use 8 or sixteen or summat.

 

and theyre all based on some weird 'yardstick'

 

" The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole. In 1799, it was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar (the actual bar used was changed in 1889 and 1927) "

 

dunno why they'd pick a curve/circle in the first place, Seeing as Pi is hard work anyway. and gravity probably warps the earth. 

 

And there's this-

 

" The International Prototype Kilogram was commissioned by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) under the authority of the Metre Convention (1875), and in the custody of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) who hold it on behalf of the CGPM. After the International Prototype Kilogram had been found to vary in mass over time relative to its reproductions, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) recommended in 2005 that the kilogram be redefined in terms of a fundamental constant of nature."

 

wtf

 

Give them an inch and the same sorts will be pushing for metric time before the year next year is out.

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All crumpets have been declared Biz by the WWays collective.

 

They have sold 19 million of the big ones since thier launch. Warbys are very happy

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