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It doesn't seem to have anything to do with spilling coffee as it is being made. Please stay on topic !
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Ok, I feel some people are stuck home and have too much time on their hands...
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Rage wrote: Ok, I feel some people are stuck home and have too much time on their hands...
... And they all send their left-over detritus to Griff!
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Outing myself so others might not be as embarassed.
Looked at that image 3 times before it dawned on me what the joke was.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Looked at that image 3 times before
I saw it in #5 
But at least I have the excuse of being not native speaker 
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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. . . after I finished the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing cursing
Set up coffee to make the normal first pint. Except I didn't put my cup under it and left the drip-catcher (a dirty cracked cup) there. Said drip-catcher cup holds 8oz or so (1/2 pint to you metric-oriented heathens).
So, when musical sound of dripping stops I go to collect it. Keen observation indicates I'd need to sponge it up and suck on the sponge for that to succeed.
Cleaning, drying, and more careful, this time. It sounds nearly done.
Is it Monday, already?
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: 8oz or so (1/2 pint to you metric-oriented heathens).
Well, ounces are measures of weight and pints are measures of volume. Both imperial, that is to say: invented here. Metric measures are all decimal values, such as 500cc or 1/2 Litre. 
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Well, ounces are measures of weight
And volume (base unit in a system based upon powers of 2 - much better for computers).
And sometimes both: A pint's a pound the world 'round.*
* much like a liter of water is very very nearly 1kg at STP, but metric just doesn't have any sort of poetic soul.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: but metric just doesn't have any sort of poetic soul.
Totally agree; it was forced on us (badly) when we joined what was then the Common Market.
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No it wasn't forced on us, the UK began the adoption of the metric system in 1965 which was 8 years before joining he common market, but metric units had been legalised for UK trade since 1897.
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Tony Hill wrote: It wasn't forced on us
It pretty much was when it became illegal to sell bananas etc. by imperial weight.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: It pretty much was when it became illegal to sell bananas etc. by imperial weight.
meters?
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lopatir wrote: meters?
Either that or Gigaparsecs.
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It was never illegal to sell bananas using only metric measures as we were allowed to use supplementary indications for a limited period which was extended several times due to public resistance to the metric units until 2009, in 2009 the requirement to ultimately cease use of traditional units alongside metric units was finally removed.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Richard MacCutchan wrote: Well, ounces are measures of weight
And volume
That's fluid ounces (you have to say the word "fluid", or people might misunderstand).
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Well - I think that works both ways - but here's a trick: consider the context!
When someone say use an "eight ounce cup", I would imagine only a very very small portion of the population would imagine that meant that one should weigh the vessel to determine its appropriateness for use. They'd probably jump to the irrational conclusion that it must be the cup's measured volume which they need to ascertain.
And I was talking in relation to "pint" - which sort of clarifies everything to almost everyone.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: * much like a liter of water is very very nearly 1kg at STP, but metric just doesn't have any sort of poetic soul.
Oh yes it does: From the British Metrication Board (or some such quango) in the 1970s:
"A litre of water's a pint and three quarters"
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Ahhhh - but the volume units are superb.
ounce->gil->cup->pint->quart->gallon(->peck->bushel)
Buy the way - how much does a kilogram of beer go for these days ?
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Except there are five ounces to a gill.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Buy the way - how much does a kilogram of beer go for these days ?
Way to much.
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As you can see, it's proof of yet another problem with the metric system.
You've changed the values for four and/or five.
Google[^]Quote: Although its capacity has varied with time and location, in the United States it is defined as half a cup, or four U.S. fluid ounces, . . .
I suspect yet another conspiracy by those metric-loving ghouls to discredit the rival system? !
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Well your mistake is obvious, is it not?
These are imperial units - for the UK - and they have been contaminated by their excessive exposure to the Common Market and then the EU. Of course they're stuff is a mess.
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