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Re: Police hunt sick thug who shot cow in neck with crossbow
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:05 pm
by Demonic69
But metric is precise and logical, not based or random "facts" that change over centuries based on the weather, monarch, altitude, phases of the moon, religion or other such nonsense and doesn't require fractions to figure out
Re: Police hunt sick thug who shot cow in neck with crossbow
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:07 pm
by Sandgroper
Demonic69 wrote:But metric is precise and logical, not based or random "facts" that change over centuries based on the weather, monarch, altitude, phases of the moon, religion or other such nonsense and doesn't require fractions to figure out
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Re: Police hunt sick thug who shot cow in neck with crossbow
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:45 pm
by meles meles
'orlicks, ooman. Imperial is sensible.
Imperial linear measure based upon practical natural lengths such as the length of a thumb, width of a paw (hand), forearm, outstretched arm.
Metric linear measurements based upon a a multiple of the wavelength of light
Imperial weights based upon everyday items: the mass of a cereal grain, an apple, a pint of water, a barrel of grain
Metric weights based upon the mass of a lump of platinum kept in Paris
Re: Police hunt sick thug who shot cow in neck with crossbow
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:53 pm
by Sandgroper
meles meles wrote:'orlicks, ooman. Imperial is sensible.
Imperial linear measure based upon practical natural lengths such as the length of a thumb, width of a paw (hand), forearm, outstretched arm.
Metric linear measurements based upon a a multiple of the wavelength of light
Imperial weights based upon everyday items: the mass of a cereal grain, an apple, a pint of water, a barrel of grain
Metric weights based upon the mass of a lump of platinum kept in Paris
And your point is...
Re: Police hunt sick thug who shot cow in neck with crossbow
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:01 pm
by Polchraine
Chuck wrote:Methinks all this olde worlde measurement thing should make a comeback.
Let's bring back Chains (22 yards), furlongs (10 chains) Miles (8 furlongs) gills (4 to a pint) quarts (2 pints), poles, perchs, stones (14lbs) hundredweights (Cwt or 8 stones) and proper TONS (20cwt or
2260lbs), not the shortassed metric tonne.
And beer in the pub should come in firkins and hogsheads only, not 800ml glasses s or 330cl bottles
http://home.clara.net/brianp/quickref.html
2240 lb in a ton!
What about Quarters? 1qtr=2stone
Re: Police hunt sick thug who shot cow in neck with crossbow
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:11 pm
by Demonic69
Soon the mass of a kilogram will be the most specific in the world (based on the number of atoms in a silicon sphere) which, in turn will finally sort out your rubbish imperial pound :-)