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Keith Barrow wrote: there is nothing stopping them
Indeed there is not but it would be unfair to say that the metric martyrs and their ilk had no hand in this. The original directive would have required exclusive use of the metric system from 2009. Opposition led to the UK Government arguing for and obtaining an indeterminate extension of the right to use dual units.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I tend to use a mixture.. metric for weights and short lengths (up to about 20m) but imperial for distances and heights.
It's a lot easier for me visualise 10 miles than 16km or 1000ft high instead of 330m 
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: metric for weights
Well that's barking! Everybody knows what an 8lb baby, a pound jar of jam, a 12 stone man, and 2 ounces of mixed herbs looks like. I find it not difficult but impossible to visualise metric weights.
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9082365 wrote: I find it not difficult but impossible to visualise metric weights.
That's one of the perks of a mixed O-level and GCSE education - it makes you bimetrical 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Well, apart from it being completely untrue, the problem set being totally unrelated to the example, and the parameters being unspecified (what the blurb is room temperature?), yeah!
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Think, man, think!
The System used in the US is because we knew - well in advance - that the computer age would come and rule.
Start with an Ounce.
22 ounces is a gill
23 ounces is a cup
24 ounces is a pint
25 ounces is a quart
27 ounces is a gallon.
So - obviously this is much better represented in a computer's binary data storage.
Far far advanced relative to your round-off-error-prone metric mess.
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Bah... just means you folks aren't very good at math. 
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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OK, so quick without Googling (and no you can't Bing it either  ) what's the heat of vaporization of water?
(Hint, it's not the 1 joule/gram/deg C that the sunshine who wrote that seems to think is the only number needed to answer the equivalent question in the metric system.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Movie Quote Of The Day
You are the "dumbest" smart person, I have ever met in my life!
Which movie?
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Easy...The Dumby Trumpy II
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Smart Dumbest 
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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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I, Frankenstein
(That was easy)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The Banker
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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else
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Dumbo!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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All the President's Men? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'll ignore the typing error, so yet it is  .
Did you look that up?
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Nope..I just saw that movie once again last night ..and hence I remember...
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in that case the upvote is yours...
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Hey Thanks for the upvote....
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It is said that past 2 A.M. is the time when only bad decisions happen. But this is interesting. 
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RUs123 wrote: It is said that past 2 A.M. is the time when only bad decisions happen.
Couldn't agree more. From then until midnight!
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So you've got about two hours a day, when good decisions happen? 
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