Sometimes, the elves travel to America, too, and we have accommodations for them.
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Sometimes, the elves travel to America, too, and we have accommodations for them.
Australia changed over to metric just as I started school so I sort of grew up in both worlds. It's funny that people here still usually describe their height in feet and inches yet everything else is metric.^ I use metric on things such as my lathe, micrometers etc.
It's the equipment I have so I happily use it, outdated.
I'm also happy to use imperial measurements when doing tasks,woodwork, fitting doors, the usual home tasks.
Here in the States, we are still stuck with the dregs of our dinosaur "English" measure.^ I use metric on things such as my lathe, micrometers etc.
It's the equipment I have so I happily use it, outdated.
I'm also happy to use imperial measurements when doing tasks,woodwork, fitting doors, the usual home tasks.
Our engineers and tool makers also have the same problem because of the amount of imported machinery we use. And even in my world as a printer, the Heidelberg machines were all metric but the Fuji is US/Imperial.Yes, I fully understand how much simpler the metric system is, but the majority of our fasteners and machinery leaves us stuck in the dark ages.
Our automotive industry was kind of screwy for a while where fractional threaded engines some of which were designed in the early 1950s were installed in metric chassis even up until recent years.Our engineers and tool makers also have the same problem because of the amount of imported machinery we use. And even in my world as a printer, the Heidelberg machines were all metric but the Fuji is US/Imperial.
12 inches to a Foot, but 3 feet to a Yard and 22 yards to a Chain.In centuries gone by the 12 system made sharing out easy.
Four people get 3 apples, three people get 4 apples, two people share 6 apples. That's what I read some time ago.
1 Chain = 66 Feet - the length of a cricket pitch.IEdit Edit: it should be 24 to a chain, that's annoying me now.
My grandfather always kept two pennies in his pocket, when I was little he told me that that was so that no one could accuse him of not having two pennies to rub together. He showed them to me, one side of each coin was polished completely smooth. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I realised - they were his Two Up coins.