>> Is anyones system mixed like that?
> 
> Yes.

Ah yes, beer and road signs :-)

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scott wrote:
>>> Is anyones system mixed like that?
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> Ah yes, beer and road signs :-)

Not to mention people's weight and height (but not clothing 
measurements, oddly enough). Until recently most food was sold in 
imperial units. AFAIK wood is still sold as "two-be-four". ;-)

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> Not to mention people's weight and height (but not clothing measurements, 
> oddly enough).

I thought you still bought a pair of jeans as "33/34" or whatever?

> Until recently most food was sold in imperial units. AFAIK wood is still 
> sold as "two-be-four". ;-)

Last time I went to B&Q all the wood was in metric, I don't think they are 
allowed to mark it in imperial anymore.

Also, did you know, that it's illegal to sell draught beer in metric?!?!

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>> Not to mention people's weight and height (but not clothing 
>> measurements, oddly enough).
> 
> I thought you still bought a pair of jeans as "33/34" or whatever?

I know I'm 6'2" tall (to the nearest 1/16"), but I have no idea what 
that is in metric. (Very roughly 1.5m, AFAIK.)

Most people seem to know their weight in stone, not Kg. (I happen to 
know both, cos the guy at the ski shop always asks me for metric. I 
guess the skis are European or something...)

I was under the misunderstanding that "33 waist" is metric - but a quick 
computation falsifies this hypothesis. I'm pretty certain I've seen leg 
length measured in metric though.

> Last time I went to B&Q all the wood was in metric, I don't think they 
> are allowed to mark it in imperial anymore.

Mmm, maybe. I don't buy wood very often. (We already own a ridiculous 
quantity of the stuff...)

> Also, did you know, that it's illegal to sell draught beer in metric?!?!

Dude, I realise that a relation is simply some subset of the extended 
Cartesian product of the respective domains of its attributes, which not 
many people seem to know. But *that* fact is just too far! o_O

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On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:26:58 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>AFAIK wood is still sold as "two-be-four". ;-)

Two by four, Andrew. You know it makes sense :p
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Regards
     Stephen

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>> AFAIK wood is still sold as "two-be-four". ;-)
> 
> Two by four, Andrew. You know it makes sense :p

Phil Harding FTW! :-D

"Oh God-ar... Stone thu crows!"

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Invisible a écrit :
> 
> I know I'm 6'2" tall (to the nearest 1/16"), but I have no idea what 
> that is in metric. (Very roughly 1.5m, AFAIK.)

No that would be 1.88m. Your estimation is more like 5'2", maybe you 
computed that a few years ago ;-)

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Vincent

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On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:23:59 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
>"Oh God-ar... Stone thu crows!"

A good group, shame about the electricity (before your time) :)
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Regards
     Stephen

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>> I know I'm 6'2" tall (to the nearest 1/16"), but I have no idea what 
>> that is in metric. (Very roughly 1.5m, AFAIK.)
> 
> No that would be 1.88m. Your estimation is more like 5'2", maybe you 
> computed that a few years ago ;-)

By "very roughly" I mean "it's nearer to 1.5m than it is to 6m or 1m". ;-)

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Jim Holsenback <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Is anyones system mixed like that?

  The only things which are measured by imperial units here, for some
reason, are display screen sizes (monitors, LCDs, plasma TVs...), ie. by
inches. I guess this is true for most if not all of Europe.

  I can't really remember any other such example, and I really can't
understand why this one exception exists. (Well, I can understand where
the custom is coming from, but I can't understand why it has not been
metricized.)

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                                                          - Warp

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