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dromia
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#21
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by dromia » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:08 pm
Sandgroper wrote: dromia wrote:
Imperial good.
Metric bad. :evil:
No you can't make me. I won't do it!
Imperial gggggg.....
No can't do it.
Metric - easy and sensible
Imperial - random and confusing :G
Ah feel much better now. :lol:
Well if it works for you.
Shame you have no soul.
Never liked decimals they never felt right. I still even convert money to £.s.d in my head its the only way I can measure value.
Come on Bambi get some
Imperial Good Metric Bad
Analogue Good Digital Bad
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Sandgroper
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#22
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by Sandgroper » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:40 pm
Well if it works for you.
Shame you have no soul.
Never liked decimals they never felt right. I still even convert money to £.s.d in my head its the only way I can measure value.
:lol:
I can understand the basic weights and measures, but beyond that it's like some arcane code for initiated! :G
Chains, furlongs :?: Where's the sense in 16 oz to the lb (or 12 oz troy) and then 14 lbs to the stone! I'm a simple soul - multiples of 10 I can understand.
£.s.d :!: does that mean you just take a wild guess to measure value?
“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”
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I plink, therefore I shoot.
dromia
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#23
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by dromia » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:51 pm
Sandgroper wrote: Well if it works for you.
Shame you have no soul.
Never liked decimals they never felt right. I still even convert money to £.s.d in my head its the only way I can measure value.
:lol:
£.s.d :!: does that mean you just take a wild guess to measure value?
:lol:
Not at all, we were still on the gold standard in those days when money really had some tangable, measuerable value.
Who would have thought it, 8/- for a bag of crisps.
Come on Bambi get some
Imperial Good Metric Bad
Analogue Good Digital Bad
Fecking stones
Real farmers don't need subsidies
Cow's farts matter!
For fine firearms and requisites visit
http://www.pukkabundhooks.com/
Robin128
#24
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by Robin128 » Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:47 pm
Bag of Smiths crisps with the screw of salt in blue paper for a tanner.
:cheers:
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by Sim G » Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:30 am
When you could say "Thrupenny Bits" and not breach the mod's swearing ban....... :55:
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!
dromia
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by dromia » Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:49 am
Some people don't seem to give tuppence for it anyway.
Come on Bambi get some
Imperial Good Metric Bad
Analogue Good Digital Bad
Fecking stones
Real farmers don't need subsidies
Cow's farts matter!
For fine firearms and requisites visit
http://www.pukkabundhooks.com/
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#27
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by Sim G » Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:21 am
dromia wrote: Some people don't seem to give tuppence for it anyway.
Is that your six penneth on the subject?
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!
Sim G
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#28
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by Sim G » Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:23 am
I've got an old book with some of the more obscure measurements in........ does anyone know what a Rood is (without google!), in the measurement if area?
I'll dig it out and post some for the "metrics"!
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!
dromia
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#29
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by dromia » Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:42 am
1/4 acre.
My allotment was 1 rood.
Come on Bambi get some
Imperial Good Metric Bad
Analogue Good Digital Bad
Fecking stones
Real farmers don't need subsidies
Cow's farts matter!
For fine firearms and requisites visit
http://www.pukkabundhooks.com/
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#30
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by dodgyrog » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:55 pm
What about Rod, Perch and Pole - what was that about? Not fishing that's for sure!
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