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By *hyllyphylly OP   Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please "

Yeahhh and pounds , shillings and pence.....

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By *icelymarkedplusoneCouple
over a year ago

cardiff

I refused to go metric in the first place!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please "

Does it matter? Men can't measure properly in inches anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My 7 and 15/16ths cock would love that....it sort of rolls off the tongue.

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By *hyllyphylly OP   Man
over a year ago

Bradford


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

Does it matter? Men can't measure properly in inches anyway."

Me and my 16 inches resent that remark

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My 7 and 15/16ths cock would love that....it sort of rolls off the tongue."
ohh what a whopper !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We can now have imperial mints

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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago

denton

most people work in metric now,the younger generation wouldnt take to it, but we still have imperial mph, road signs in yards

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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago

Chippenham Malmesbury area


"My 7 and 15/16ths cock would love that....it sort of rolls off the tongue."

Mine sounds better in centimetres - 18cm oh yeh!!!!!

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

"

I dunno, give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile

I always found it interesting how you buy fuel in litres, but your car does miles per gallon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

Does it matter? Men can't measure properly in inches anyway."

Women have the same problem when it comes to reversing into parking spaces.

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

Yeahhh and pounds , shillings and pence..... "

Let's get slavery back in too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It took Callaghan and Wilson 20 seconds to make the decision to decimalise our money.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

Yeahhh and pounds , shillings and pence.....

Let's get slavery back in too."

It's still here.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No way i work in mm it makes everything sound bigger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well I can work in both, does that make bi? Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

Yeahhh and pounds , shillings and pence.....

Let's get slavery back in too."

You live in the right place, Bristol became extremely rich on the back of slavery.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

would be good. i'm sick of using gogle convertor for everything on ebay.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

Yeahhh and pounds , shillings and pence.....

Let's get slavery back in too.

You live in the right place, Bristol became extremely rich on the back of slavery."

Along with many other British cities.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please "

Yeah lol, I like inches....!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

Yeahhh and pounds , shillings and pence.....

Let's get slavery back in too."
already here with tory zero hr contracts!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some years ago I changed to measuring things in centimetres.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

I dunno, give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile

I always found it interesting how you buy fuel in litres, but your car does miles per gallon "
and operate the pedals with imperial sized shoes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

Yeahhh and pounds , shillings and pence..... "
still have a tin full o thrupenny bits!

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

Yeahhh and pounds , shillings and pence.....

Let's get slavery back in too. already here with tory zero hr contracts!"

Trust me that is nothing like slavery.

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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago

denton

clothes are chest size inches, bras in inches, shoes still 9 not 42,

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

I think we should bring in metric time.

10 time periods per day, 10 days per week, 100 days per season and 10 seasons per year.

The problem would obviously be that the year would not equate to astronomical reality. Therefore we could realign the earth to the metric reality with a few strategic nuclear explosions that would slow our orbit slightly.

My kids object on the basis that they consider me as senile, but then again, the wisdom of the older generation should be taken as the way forward.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Imperial is ok if your going to buy some potatoes but if your doing any kind of science or engineering then fuck right off. Metric SI units all the way!

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury


"Imperial is ok if your going to buy some potatoes but if your doing any kind of science or engineering then fuck right off. Metric SI units all the way!

"

I seem to remember that one of the NASA/European Mars probes crashed into the surface of Mars due to a misunderstanding with the calculations relating to weight and velocity. ...the US elements usediimperial and the European elements used metric

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

It does annoy me that TV shows etc seem to state everything in metric measurements, including distance. We clearly still use miles etc in the UK.

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"It does annoy me that TV shows etc seem to state everything in metric measurements, including distance. We clearly still use miles etc in the UK."

Metric has been in since the last century, it is not new and it won't go away.

This moaning will stop when all the old folks who hate change die off and no one remembers the arbitrary imperial system which was based on nothing tabgible and had no commonality.

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By *dinMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

this country has never really gone metric - do you ever hear guys talk about cock size in centimetres?

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

Metric is easier in day to day life. Just saying.

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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago

Gosport


"this country has never really gone metric - do you ever hear guys talk about cock size in centimetres? "

How about ~2x10^9 Å (asumming special characters show here).

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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago

Gosport


"this country has never really gone metric - do you ever hear guys talk about cock size in centimetres?

How about ~2x10^9 Å (asumming special characters show here)."

Please note thats not accurate as I have never bothered to measure. I'll gladly leave that obsession to others.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please "

you mean join back with USA

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"It does annoy me that TV shows etc seem to state everything in metric measurements, including distance. We clearly still use miles etc in the UK.

Metric has been in since the last century, it is not new and it won't go away.

This moaning will stop when all the old folks who hate change die off and no one remembers the arbitrary imperial system which was based on nothing tabgible and had no commonality."

That's not entirely accurate, for example, an Anglo-Saxon unit of length was the barleycorn. After 1066, 1 inch was equal to 3 barleycorns, which continued to be its legal definition for several centuries, with the barleycorn being the base unit.[10] One of the earliest such definitions is that of 1324, where the legal definition of the inch was set out in a statute of Edward II of England, defining it as "three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end, lengthwise". So the inch was based on something tangible (the barley corn) and on something common (the barley corn). Now if you want something intangible, then look at the metre. Since 1983, the metre has been defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of

1/

299792458

of a second". A millimetre,

1

/

1000

of a metre, is therefore the distance travelled by light in

1

/

299792458000

of a second.

What fun learning is!

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Thanks Wiki!

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I thought it was interesting

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

'k

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

I'm not sure I agree with these new fangled measurements.

We should go back to silver marks, groats and trial by ordeal

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"I'm not sure I agree with these new fangled measurements.

We should go back to silver marks, groats and trial by ordeal "

Oh, you metric tease, you!

WHERES MY ADELE PHOTO FROM GLASTO??

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"I'm not sure I agree with these new fangled measurements.

We should go back to silver marks, groats and trial by ordeal

Oh, you metric tease, you!

WHERES MY ADELE PHOTO FROM GLASTO?? "

You didn't ask for one?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think we should use hand potatoes from length

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm not sure I agree with these new fangled measurements.

We should go back to silver marks, groats and trial by ordeal

Oh, you metric tease, you!

WHERES MY ADELE PHOTO FROM GLASTO??

You didn't ask for one?"

It does help if you ask. In fairness.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Furlongs and chains.

Bring back Queen Victoria

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

And workhouses

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

[Removed by poster at 28/06/16 21:04:04]

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

I know feet, inches etc. and luckily was taught about this 'crazy' system they used in Europe.

So I can do both. Can't do kilometers though

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

It's not crazy, it's logical

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

SI units all the way

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"It's not crazy, it's logical "

Did you not see the apostrophes?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"SI units all the way "

I'm not sure parsecs are helpful

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

The SI people never did come up with a decimal unit for time

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

15/64 reamer makes a snug fit for a 6mm dowel

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent


"The SI people never did come up with a decimal unit for time"

In fairness the need for a leap year shows how difficult it would be. Didn't the French try in the C17 for a brief while

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"SI units all the way

I'm not sure parsecs are helpful "

Not in the equations I use anyway

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

We are a truly f*cked up country when it comes to measurements! I`m fast approaching the age of 60 and was taught in Imperial. My preferences are for parts of both systems! I prefer the metric system if something has to be divided up into equal parts but if I`ve got my railway hat on I`m talking miles and chains (no, that`s not the latest BDSM craze!) although the London Underground has ALWAYS been measured using the metric system ( ) My car`s fuel consumption is in Miles Per Gallon even though the fuel tank hold 80 litres. Again, when it comes to weight and length, metric is best because it`s easier to work out but trailers and lorry beds are Imperial, so are roofing and plywood sheets. Beer and cider are pints although wine and spirits can be metric! Distance when driving will ALWAYS be in miles!

Funny lot of buggers aren`t we?!!!

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I'm ok with anything but length/distance in miles only please - even cocks.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I though cm meant inches

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

My meter man came to read my meter .. it's still only one meter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I thought it was interesting "
it was mate, thanks

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"It does annoy me that TV shows etc seem to state everything in metric measurements, including distance. We clearly still use miles etc in the UK.

Metric has been in since the last century, it is not new and it won't go away.

This moaning will stop when all the old folks who hate change die off and no one remembers the arbitrary imperial system which was based on nothing tabgible and had no commonality.

That's not entirely accurate, for example, an Anglo-Saxon unit of length was the barleycorn. After 1066, 1 inch was equal to 3 barleycorns, which continued to be its legal definition for several centuries, with the barleycorn being the base unit.[10] One of the earliest such definitions is that of 1324, where the legal definition of the inch was set out in a statute of Edward II of England, defining it as "three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end, lengthwise". So the inch was based on something tangible (the barley corn) and on something common (the barley corn). Now if you want something intangible, then look at the metre. Since 1983, the metre has been defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of

1/

299792458

of a second". A millimetre,

1

/

1000

of a metre, is therefore the distance travelled by light in

1

/

299792458000

of a second.

What fun learning is! "

You just proved my point.

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"The SI people never did come up with a decimal unit for time"

Does not mean the rest of it is incorrect.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's not just European nations that use metric.

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol


"It's not just European nations that use metric."

Agreed, almost all of the world uses metric. It simply makes more sense.

It is quite a humourous indictment of the demographic of this forum that there are so many metric martyrs still banging on about change because they are either too lazy or too stupid to use a system which is clearly easier, more transparent and straightforward than the arbitrary system containing bushels, firkins, chains, cubits, barleycorns, long tonnes, short tonnes, imperial tonnes (three different versions of the same bloody thing, and there are more), fathoms, leagues, furlongs, miles, nautical miles etc.

Virtually none of these totally unidentifiable things have any relationship with each other and unless you happen to have a chart, you cannot tell by a name which is bigger or smaller than which, it is a ridiculous system and the reason hardly anyone uses it apart from old idiots in a country which just shot itself in the foot and a country which thinks that giving all its citizens guns will solve a problem with gun violence should be clear to anyone who has an open mind.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

so much more understandable than the metric bollocks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you actually want to make something the right size with accuracy then metric all the way.

Otherwise it's imperial for me.

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

Metric is simpler to use as it's easier to work with decimals than fractions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's not just European nations that use metric.

Agreed, almost all of the world uses metric. It simply makes more sense.

It is quite a humourous indictment of the demographic of this forum that there are so many metric martyrs still banging on about change because they are either too lazy or too stupid to use a system which is clearly easier, more transparent and straightforward than the arbitrary system containing bushels, firkins, chains, cubits, barleycorns, long tonnes, short tonnes, imperial tonnes (three different versions of the same bloody thing, and there are more), fathoms, leagues, furlongs, miles, nautical miles etc.

Virtually none of these totally unidentifiable things have any relationship with each other and unless you happen to have a chart, you cannot tell by a name which is bigger or smaller than which, it is a ridiculous system and the reason hardly anyone uses it apart from old idiots in a country which just shot itself in the foot and a country which thinks that giving all its citizens guns will solve a problem with gun violence should be clear to anyone who has an open mind. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I though cm meant inches "

cm = cock-metres?

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!


"We are a truly f*cked up country when it comes to measurements! I`m fast approaching the age of 60 and was taught in Imperial. My preferences are for parts of both systems! I prefer the metric system if something has to be divided up into equal parts but if I`ve got my railway hat on I`m talking miles and chains (no, that`s not the latest BDSM craze!) although the London Underground has ALWAYS been measured using the metric system ( ) My car`s fuel consumption is in Miles Per Gallon even though the fuel tank hold 80 litres. Again, when it comes to weight and length, metric is best because it`s easier to work out but trailers and lorry beds are Imperial, so are roofing and plywood sheets. Beer and cider are pints although wine and spirits can be metric! Distance when driving will ALWAYS be in miles!

Funny lot of buggers aren`t we?!!! "

Correction! Wine and spirits are in bottles and half bottles!!

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By *am-RaiderMan
over a year ago

Corby


"Imperial is ok if your going to buy some potatoes but if your doing any kind of science or engineering then fuck right off. Metric SI units all the way!

"

Amen!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's not just European nations that use metric.

Agreed, almost all of the world uses metric. It simply makes more sense.

It is quite a humourous indictment of the demographic of this forum that there are so many metric martyrs still banging on about change because they are either too lazy or too stupid to use a system which is clearly easier, more transparent and straightforward than the arbitrary system containing bushels, firkins, chains, cubits, barleycorns, long tonnes, short tonnes, imperial tonnes (three different versions of the same bloody thing, and there are more), fathoms, leagues, furlongs, miles, nautical miles etc.

Virtually none of these totally unidentifiable things have any relationship with each other and unless you happen to have a chart, you cannot tell by a name which is bigger or smaller than which, it is a ridiculous system and the reason hardly anyone uses it apart from old idiots in a country which just shot itself in the foot and a country which thinks that giving all its citizens guns will solve a problem with gun violence should be clear to anyone who has an open mind. "

FFS.... Give you three barley corns and you take 8 furlongs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since we are leaving the EU, does that mean we can go back to imperial measurements?

Pretty please

you mean join back with USA "

Oh please not the USA I'd rather take nothing to do with them in any way shape or form.

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By *am-RaiderMan
over a year ago

Corby


"It does annoy me that TV shows etc seem to state everything in metric measurements, including distance. We clearly still use miles etc in the UK.

Metric has been in since the last century, it is not new and it won't go away.

This moaning will stop when all the old folks who hate change die off and no one remembers the arbitrary imperial system which was based on nothing tabgible and had no commonality.

That's not entirely accurate, for example, an Anglo-Saxon unit of length was the barleycorn. After 1066, 1 inch was equal to 3 barleycorns, which continued to be its legal definition for several centuries, with the barleycorn being the base unit.[10] One of the earliest such definitions is that of 1324, where the legal definition of the inch was set out in a statute of Edward II of England, defining it as "three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end, lengthwise". So the inch was based on something tangible (the barley corn) and on something common (the barley corn). Now if you want something intangible, then look at the metre. Since 1983, the metre has been defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of

1/

299792458

of a second". A millimetre,

1

/

1000

of a metre, is therefore the distance travelled by light in

1

/

299792458000

of a second.

What fun learning is! "

Well the point is that three barley seeds can never be a consistent measurement as they obviously vary.

Light however is a bit of a stickler for it's own speed limit and is very predictable and hence accurate.

In fact there is only one Si unit that is based on an actual thing and that is the Kilogram which is the weight of an actual thingamajig kept in France somewhere (couldnt be arsed looking it up).

So...very accurately definable and more importantly base 10. How any one can say that working in bases 14,16,12,240 etc is easier I will never.

But like everyone says..forget the Foot...the least accurate measurement ever is the Penis!

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