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dromia wrote:I think that you know the answer to that question.

I have no feeling for metric lengths I can estimate yards, feet, inches, chains, furlongs, poles, miles etc but mms, cms, ms, kms leave no pictures of distance in my head.

Metric is like decimal coinage, I need to convert it to pounds, shillings and pence for it to make any sense and have practical meaning.

So for me metric is very clumsy and not really worth the effort when I have a perfectly good Imperial system that works.

i think you'll find moa and mil are angular measurements not distance

Yes they are but they translate into distance, thought you had a better handle on these things.

Obviously a little knowledge on your part.

dromia wrote:Yes they are but they translate into distance, thought you had a better handle on these things.

Obviously a little knowledge on your part.

I have a very good handle on both systems thanks but that's my choice rather than be a curmudgeon and deliberately obtuse about different methods ? It improves a person to be open minded?

You say they translate into distance and yes you could do that but my point still stands that they are angular measurements and treated as such there usage is simplified.

Whatever.

Obviously your view is fixed with no tolerance for other peoples preferences which you seek to diminish and belittle.

I'm finished with this "debate", no point in going further with it.

dromia wrote:Whatever.

Obviously your view is fixed with no tolerance for other peoples preferences which you seek to diminish and belittle.

I'm finished with this "debate", no point in going further with it.

oh , i hope i haven't upset you?

if anyone else whos reading this would like to chip in and tell me if i'm belittling dromia then i'm more than happy to apologise because that was not my intention?

I originally posted a reply to your and i quote 'infernal mils' statement ?

mils or moa makes no difference to me i use both but personally but i find 10's easier to deal with, for example 1/2 a mile is 880 yds, a yard is 36" and an inch is divided into various parts 1/2 or a 1/4 or an 1/8 right down to thou (strangely they went metric for that one?) whereas a half k is 500m a metre is 100cm a cm is 10mm and so on , i know which one has easier sums!

no malice here by the way , if we ever meet lets have a chat over a couple of 568ml of beer? (some things are defo better in old money!)

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