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Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:08 pm
by dromia
Sandgroper wrote:dromia wrote:
Imperial good.
Metric bad. :evil:
No you can't make me. I won't do it!
Imperial gggggg.....
No can't do it.
Metric - easy and sensible
Imperial - random and confusing :G
Ah feel much better now. :lol:
Well if it works for you.
Shame you have no soul.
Never liked decimals they never felt right. I still even convert money to £.s.d in my head its the only way I can measure value.
Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:40 pm
by Sandgroper
Well if it works for you.
Shame you have no soul.
Never liked decimals they never felt right. I still even convert money to £.s.d in my head its the only way I can measure value.
:lol:
I can understand the basic weights and measures, but beyond that it's like some arcane code for initiated! :G
Chains, furlongs :?: Where's the sense in 16 oz to the lb (or 12 oz troy) and then 14 lbs to the stone! I'm a simple soul - multiples of 10 I can understand.
£.s.d :!: does that mean you just take a wild guess to measure value?
Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:51 pm
by dromia
Sandgroper wrote:Well if it works for you.
Shame you have no soul.
Never liked decimals they never felt right. I still even convert money to £.s.d in my head its the only way I can measure value.
:lol:
£.s.d :!: does that mean you just take a wild guess to measure value?
:lol:
Not at all, we were still on the gold standard in those days when money really had some tangable, measuerable value.
Who would have thought it, 8/- for a bag of crisps.
Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:47 pm
by Robin128
Bag of Smiths crisps with the screw of salt in blue paper for a tanner.
:cheers:
Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:30 am
by Sim G
When you could say "Thrupenny Bits" and not breach the mod's swearing ban....... :55:
Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:49 am
by dromia
Some people don't seem to give tuppence for it anyway.
Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:21 am
by Sim G
dromia wrote:Some people don't seem to give tuppence for it anyway.
Is that your six penneth on the subject?
Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:23 am
by Sim G
I've got an old book with some of the more obscure measurements in........ does anyone know what a Rood is (without google!), in the measurement if area?
I'll dig it out and post some for the "metrics"!
Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:42 am
by dromia
1/4 acre.
My allotment was 1 rood.
Re: One for Sim G - Savage 1899
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:55 pm
by dodgyrog
What about Rod, Perch and Pole - what was that about? Not fishing that's for sure!