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(Topic ID: 327512)
Arse or Ass
Fanny ( front bum) or Fanny ( back bum)
Colour or Color
Metric or Imperial
Why does USA seem to have their own set of rules.
What other idiosyncrasies abound?
We left and made our own rules. We killed millions so an engine could ride the tracks and carry the spoils. We offered unlimited wealth to any who dared help us build a society on this giant land mass. They’re still coming. The turning is here. USA 2.0 is going to become the world.
Ann Arbor, MI
Auckland
Quoted from yaksplat:Anyone with an engineering degree would ban imperial units.
Reading this with your Ron Swanson avatar is like trying to push magnets together flipped the wrong way
Quoted from yaksplat:Anyone with an engineering degree would ban imperial units.
I would not, and I am a degreed and practicing engineer.
Our State Highway Department forced metric on everyone for about three years, and then gave up and went back to traditional units.
Everyone - contractors, engineers, suppliers, public - was relieved to go back.
Quoted from RCA1:I would not, and I am a degreed and practicing engineer.
Our State Highway Department forced metric on everyone for about three years, and then gave up and went back to traditional units.
Everyone - contractors, engineers, suppliers, public - was relieved to go back.
I am as well. I still don't know of a good reason for the imperial system. Not being used to metric UOM is usually the biggest gripe with it. Whoever came up with pound mass and pound force should be slapped. Slugs make more sense but are equally stupid. Let's use ounces for volume and weight while we're at it.
When England finally decides on their unit of measure for vehicle speeds and distances and uses something other than "stones" for someone's weight, then we can talk. At least the Aussies seem to be all in on metric, so credit where credit's due. Better looking cars there, too.
One of my best friends and his then-fiancee are both British. When his then-fiancee came over from the UK to stay at our flat for a few days, she woke early one morning and came to the kitchen to find me finishing breakfast before getting ready to head off to the shower. She then offered to help me wash up, which I then learned meant something very different in the UK.
this was of course a few weeks after I asked that friend if I could borrow his suspenders, which also means something quite different, I quickly learned.
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Quoted from oldskool1969:Why does USA seem to have their own set of rules.
Kinda like the Golden Rule, but in this case the one with the bombs rules.
Quoted from Miguel351:At least the Aussies seem to be all in on metric, so credit where credit's due. Better looking cars there, too.
on the title deed, my hose block is measures in chains
Quoted from PopBumperPete:on the title deed, my hose block is measures in chains
That must be quite a hose.
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