On Tuesday 24 October 2006 17:08, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Tuesday 24 October 2006 20:59, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >I know that " means inch, but I have no idea what an inch is... >> >> Nominally its 2.5cm, Dotan. Our 'yard' of 36 inches is near your >> 'meter' which is 39.xx inches to us. Yeah I bitch everytime I have to >> do something in inches that makes a hell of a lot more sense to do in >> metric, but 200 million old fogies like me yelled when they tried to >> start selling gasolene by the litre. I was for it myself. And I still >> consider the US as the odd man out in the measurement wars, fallout of >> my eletronics experience I guess, we don't measure anything but >> wavelength in feet and that takes tricky math. > >Like Gene, my husband and I have a work background in metric, but most of > our lives we have lived with Imperial. In England today officially we > use metric, although 90%+ of the population have no understanding of it. > We do sell petrol and diesel in litres, but beer and milk in pints. We > still use gallons, but they are different from US gallons. Until very > recently you had no chance of buying a sheet of plywood in metric - 8ft > x 4 ft or 6 ft x ft was what you got. Metric is slowly creeping in, > though. > >We have recently taken to keeping koi, and it seems that in the koi world >ponds are always measured in gallons. We both find this extremely > difficult to handle, after working in litres for so long, but if we > quote the pond capacity in litres no-one understands what we are talking > about. > >IOW, we are a very mixed up country ;-) > >Anne Humm, and I thought we were the goofy ones. But it seems to be universal. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
