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From: The Peeler on 19 Jul 2010 14:37 On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:18:09 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > I prefer half a litre of my beer. >> >> By "beer", are you referring to bland, dead fizz? > >When I buy beer by the half litre, it's not bland, dead or fizzy. > >http://www.birrificio.it/ENGLISH/fscala.htm > >http://www.birraamarcord.it/ Italian beer, wopboi? LOL
From: The Peeler on 19 Jul 2010 15:00 On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:42:59 +0100, "Mortimer" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >"The Peeler" <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> wrote in message >news:e8o846ta53fkt24bmti2cei93ca9hddq43(a)4ax.com... >> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:01:23 -0700 (PDT), NKTB >> <north_korean_tourist_board(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Actually, Fahrenheit has more meaningful ranges of temperature. >> When it's in the 70s, 80s or 90s everyone familiar with Fahrenheit >> knows how hot it is. But what use is the 20s (Centigrade)? > >It has the same meaning for people who are more familiar with celsius. If >the temperature is above 30 deg C, it's very hot. If it's above 85 deg F, >it's very hot. It's just a matter of being more familiar with one or other >range of temperatures. But there are no equivalent meaningful ranges of Centigrade temperatures unless you talk about the low/middle/high 20s. >And having water freezing at 32 deg F and boiling at >212 deg F seems very bizarre - a temperature scale which gives round numbers >to the freezing and boiling point of the most abundant liquid on the planet >seems eminently sensible! The temperatures at which water freezes/boils are irrelevant to me when I want to know how hot it is outside.
From: Graham Harrison on 19 Jul 2010 15:03 "NKTB" <north_korean_tourist_board(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ff49cbf5-8f43-4cac-876e-d305ad586cff(a)l14g2000yql.googlegroups.com... > From watching various TV traffic cops type shows from various parts of > the Commonwealth, I notice that they all now use kilometres for > distances, and obviously kph for speed (and presumably km/Litre for > fuel consumption hopefully not the dreadful Litres/100km used on the > continent. > > I know the British people are a bit stick-in-the-mud, and don't like > all these nasty foreign weights and measures, but British people, > albeit in foreign parts (Aussies, Canucks, Enzedders etc) seem to have > happily adopted these measures, no doubt with some resistance from the > elder and more conservative of their number. The Irish, who are > probably our closest neighbours culturally now, have long since gone > metric. > > OK, we still buy milk in pints (multiples of 568ml), some food in > pounds (multiples of 454gm) but we are, to all intents and purposes, > fully metricated in the food area. We have for a long time used > celsius temperatures, and anyone who works in science or engineering, > as I do, will have used metric (MKS) units since I don't know when. > > Are the PTB scared of an almighty backlash if we go the final mile > (pun intended) and chuck the antiquated measurement into the long > grass? It would seem so. Is it just the expense of changing all > those road signs - I guess the current economic climate won't help. > > How long can we go on having a hybrid, half-arsed system of distance > measurement? At least the yanks have kept all the other imperial > measures. I'm thinking that KPH is a just a change too far. > > > > > Good God man, you'll want to get rid of the (monetary) Pound next.
From: Mortimer on 19 Jul 2010 15:56 "Graham Harrison" <edward.harrison1(a)remove.btinternet.com> wrote in message news:ksadnf00LtcDPNnRnZ2dnUVZ8rGdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > Good God man, you'll want to get rid of the (monetary) Pound next. No. The pound is now correctly divided into 100 pence. It was a different matter when it was divided into 240 pence ie 20 shillings each of 12 pence: I'm glad we got rid of that.
From: Ed Chilada on 19 Jul 2010 18:39
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:25:53 -0700 (PDT), NKTB <north_korean_tourist_board(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >From watching various TV traffic cops type shows from various parts of >the Commonwealth, I notice that they all now use kilometres for >distances, and obviously kph for speed (and presumably km/Litre for >fuel consumption hopefully not the dreadful Litres/100km used on the >continent. > >I know the British people are a bit stick-in-the-mud, and don't like >all these nasty foreign weights and measures, but British people, >albeit in foreign parts (Aussies, Canucks, Enzedders etc) seem to have >happily adopted these measures, no doubt with some resistance from the >elder and more conservative of their number. The Irish, who are >probably our closest neighbours culturally now, have long since gone >metric. It's because a mile is longer than a kilometer. If all roads were converted to kilometers they would cease to be long enough to get to where they currently go. |