December 30, 20169 yr All I'm seeing is this: 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.
December 30, 20169 yr 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. Rainman.
December 31, 20169 yr 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.
December 31, 20169 yr Yeah, but sometimes its better to move on. Rather have a modern anaesthetic than chloroform if having a tooth out. Its easier for spanners etc too.
December 31, 20169 yr 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. Edited December 31, 20169 yr by e2e4
January 1, 20179 yr Looks like a post from e24e2 or whatever he's calledNah I can just about work that out
January 1, 20179 yr 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 Edited January 1, 20179 yr by Gonk
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