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  1. North Yorks Red

    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    Good ideas become ‘life hacks’ ?

    snow only start falling in centimetres ?
     
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    We're just getting old.
     
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    Farnham_Red Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    More importantly why!

    Actually the second one I can understand a bit more as 15cm sounds more than 6 inches but I really don’t like the phrase life hacks
     
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    But not often enough Helen!
     
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    I can understand centimetres, its kilometres that I struggle with. I drive using miles - mpg, mph, miles to various destinations displayed on road signs - but the BBC insists on telling me the news in kilometres. It's difficult to get my head round the scale of something when it's expressed in km.
     
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    Me too. I'm bilingual when it comes to metric and imperial. I use what's convenient. What's convenient when driving is miles, for all the reasons you stated. To the point where I'm entirely comfortable with calculations using KM but have trouble actually visualising the distance, as miles in the UK are ubiquitous and KM only used by the BBC. An institution that moves further away from relevance and closer to a government mouth piece with every action
     
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    I'm also comfortable with KM/miles and metres.......and feet for small distances. But some road signs in the US have exit distances in feet. Bemused me no end.
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    TBH that's the one that really grinds with me too for some reason
     
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    Yes, me too. Most of them in the areas I drove. Feet I use for how tall someone is. I know my height in feet and inches, I don't know it in metres and centimetres. Similarly I know my weight in stones and pounds, I don't know it in kilograms. But judging distance in feet, just didn't work for me at all. I use mm, cm, metres and miles like any sane human being. And feet for height. And inches for human appendages. And then when I'm weighing stuff it depends entirely on what is being weighed. A quarter of cherry lips, a teenth of your finest Moroccan, and 200 grams of ham please sir.
     
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    We were all better off under LSD. :)
     
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    When/why did we start giving storms names?
     
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    What on earth is a life hack?
     
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    a good idea. Something to make your life run smoother.
     
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    Every time you go out your feet get wet and cold and small stones get lodged in them. It's painful and it's making you miserable. You then have this great idea to wear shoes. That's a life hack.
     
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    I much prefer km when driving long distances, it appears that I'm making better progress.
     
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    Life sucks was one I had heard before
     
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    The metric / imperial one that gets my attention is...

    Civil engineers work in metric (obviously) so when they build 10 kilometres of new road, the last thing they do is add some road signs measured out in imperial.

    Also
    I have mates from the medical profession who talk height and weight purely in metric - sounds like a different language to me. I could work out how tall I am in cm and how much I weigh in tonnes, but it’s a million miles from intuitive.
     
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    Christ you must be a big unit if you need to go to tonnes to describe your weight.
     
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    Surely you mean 1.609 million km?
     
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    I could stay on this thread all day with the things that p155 me off like this. I'll just leave my biggest bug bare and then leave the room.

    "Oh sorry, my bad"

    Why did I go 45 years without hearing this and now it's effin everywhere? !?

    Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh
     
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