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On 27 May 2008 16:46:40 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com>
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>LOL, I know what you mean....
Poor we ;)
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Stephen
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On 27 May 2008 16:48:32 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
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>Gardners' World from 2007 that I've burned to disc for her. I think
>she's got 5 DVDs at the moment with that on it.
Ooo! I listen to Gardeners Question time on Radio 4 and I live in an
apartment. Try the podcast ,brownie points :-)
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Stephen
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 23:55:21 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 27 May 2008 16:48:32 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
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>>Gardners' World from 2007 that I've burned to disc for her. I think
>>she's got 5 DVDs at the moment with that on it.
>
> Ooo! I listen to Gardeners Question time on Radio 4 and I live in an
> apartment. Try the podcast ,brownie points :-)
Already got two of 'em for her on her iPod. :-)
Jim
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 23:53:35 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 27 May 2008 16:46:40 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
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>>LOL, I know what you mean....
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> Poor we ;)
Yeah, well, at least we've identified each other. ;-)
Jim
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> "See? There's our hotel over there on the left."
> "Then why did the driver just pull into the right-turn-only lane?"
> "The line's shorter."
> "Ah, welcome to China."
Hehe, sounds about right. I remember a similar situation coming up to a big
intersection that was at red. The 3 lanes in our direction were already
pretty full, so people started to use the lanes that go the opposite way!
Cars coming from the other direction did the same. When the lights went
green everyone somehow managed so squeeze back into the correct number of
lanes.
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Btw, given that Americans love so much their non-decimal based
sub-units, I honestly wonder why they haven't done so with their
money: 1 dollar is divided into 100 cents. That sounds so metric!
That sounds like heresy or something. How come? :)
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- Warp
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On Wed, 28 May 2008 09:03:10 +0200, "scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
>> "See? There's our hotel over there on the left."
>> "Then why did the driver just pull into the right-turn-only lane?"
>> "The line's shorter."
>> "Ah, welcome to China."
>
>Hehe, sounds about right. I remember a similar situation coming up to a big
>intersection that was at red. The 3 lanes in our direction were already
>pretty full, so people started to use the lanes that go the opposite way!
>Cars coming from the other direction did the same. When the lights went
>green everyone somehow managed so squeeze back into the correct number of
>lanes.
>
Q. What side of the road do they drive on in Nigeria?
A. Whatever side is emptiest.
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Stephen
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Warp wrote:
> That sounds like heresy or something. How come? :)
Because the Brits used Pounds and Shillings and Pence, and the founding
fathers said "F**k that, that's way too messy." :-) Seriously, that one
they figured was just too ugly.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Warp wrote:
> As andrel pointed out, measuring those ranges is less intuitive using
> feet and inches because a foot is not a handy multiple of an inch.
I think to summarize a lot of this, ones problems tend to be either
1) stated in one unit of measure and rounded off to that unit, such as
saying "I want 3 gallons of milk" rather than "I want three gallons and
2 ounces of milk", so you're not doing conversions but your measurements
are precise, or
2) you wind up with math anyway: "You have a plot of land 17 meters by 5
meters. Each plot needs twelve metal support spikes, each 93 cm long.
How much metal do you buy?" :-) Once you get into real-world stuff like
that, using base 12 instead of base 10 to convert feet to inches doesn't
really add much complication.
That's why the imperial system doesn't really bother us much here.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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On Wed, 28 May 2008 08:46:14 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
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>Warp wrote:
>> That sounds like heresy or something. How come? :)
>
>Because the Brits used Pounds and Shillings and Pence, and the founding
>fathers said "F**k that, that's way too messy." :-) Seriously, that one
>they figured was just too ugly.
Well we did make an attempt at decimalation in the 19th Cent. We got
as far as the florin, worth one tenth of a pound.
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Stephen
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