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Embudo

On 10/7/2015 5:52 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 10/7/2015 1:11 PM, Embudo wrote:
>> On 10/7/2015 5:08 PM, wrote:
>>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:03:34 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 06:52:54 -0300, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Lol and yet he sets himself up as being so sensitive to what people in
>>>>> general want that if he became President he would ship all refugees
>>>>> back where they came from.
>>>>
>>>> Those damned immgrants with their filthy metric system have to go!
>>>
>>> Lol is he against metric too ?
>>
>> The most coarse scale to measure human environmental temperatures with.
>>
>
> That's true - it's got 80% more degree points. It's nearly 85 degrees in
> my office. The building manager said the AC was going to be fixed but
> that ain't happened yet.
>
> OTOH, when I was doing layouts for printing, I gave up trying to figure
> out what a third of 11" or 8.5" was. I just said screw it, used a metric
> ruler, and ignored the marking on the paste-up sheet. I may not know how
> to divide 11 inches but 280mm is as easy as pie.

It is perfect for some things, oddly off-kilter for others.

I enjoy metric sized bolts and such.