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graham[_4_]

On 08/10/2015 5:11 PM, wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 08:39:12 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:21:20 -0300, wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:35:05 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:08:20 -0400, Dave Smith
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2015-10-07 19:08, 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 ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I the only North American who actually likes the metric system and
>>>>> sees it has being so much easier to understand and to use?
>>>>
>>>> LOL. I know a few old coots in Aus that still hate the metric system,
>>>> it completely baffles me why there would be any resistance to it.
>>>>
>>>> I learned firstly imperial and later metric in school, it was a
>>>> no-brainer as far as I am concerned as to which system is the better
>>>> and easier one. Imperial, you basically have to learn it by rote, as
>>>> there no consistency at all. Metric... all you need to know is that it
>>>> goes up or down by 1, 10, 100, etc. making it so easy. No more '28
>>>> hogs heads to 1 chain', or whatever...
>>>
>>> It's a dying thing here, my grandchildren down only learned metric in
>>> school. The supermarkets still put price per pound in small letters
>>> to help seniors, when looking at some one day it occurred to me if
>>> they really want to help, surely the pound factor should be in the
>>> larger print
>>
>> We also have some persistent inconstancies here too, certain products
>> such as farm gates are still generally referred to in ft and not
>> metres.
>>
>> With heights, I'm still more imperial than metric - I can relate to
>> 6ft but not 188cm so much. Yet for distances I'm metric
>
> I heard an argument the other day on the radio, somebody felt the
> measurements for a cord of wood should be changed. Currently a cord
> of wood is 8ft. by 4 ft by 4ft stacked, that makes sense to anyone
> buying firewood. Somehow it was one time the metric measurement
> seemed much more complicated.
>
My B-I-L has a sawmill in the scottish borders to supply his businesses
in SE England. He always talks of cubic metres for their product. What
we call a 2x4 used to be called a 4x2 in the UK but is now a metric size.
Graham