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[Mick Dempsey]

No, they’re better, make more sense.

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

No, they’re better, make more sense.

Ok .  I know You are right ! Its just I am old and its what I am used to .

Edited July 28, 2019 by Stubby

[Mick Dempsey]

Me as well, but owning a (otherwise excellent) yankee stump grinder (Rayco) and realizing that none of my  nuts/bolts will replace the ones that fall out because they still use a medieval system of measurement changed my mind.

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Me as well, but owning a (otherwise excellent) yankee stump grinder (Rayco) and realizing that none of my  nuts/bolts will replace the ones that fall out because they still use a medieval system of measurement changed my mind.

In my tool box somewhere I have Whitworth , BSF , UNC ,  UNF , BA and metric taps .  Bonkers innit ?

[Mark J]

49 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I don’t mind the bloke, seems smart and well informed.

 

But the imperial measurement thing is fricking nuts, who honestly thinks that inches, feet and yards is better than mm, cm, and metres? Or that pounds and stones are better than kilograms?

 

This is what happens when you give your measurements in Imperial and your tailor works in metric

[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, Stubby said:

In my tool box somewhere I have Whitworth , BSF , UNC ,  UNF , BA and metric taps .  Bonkers innit ?

I remember a lesson at school where my metalwork teacher spent a long time explaining a long time explaining the different gauges. I thought then “bollocks to all this” and turned my head against engineering. 

 

I am sure I wasn’t alone in that, metric is the best and the rest of the world uses it.

If JRM did anything but buy his asparagus in imperial (ie. Worked with his hands) he’d understand that.

[Stubby]

Just now, Mark J said:

 

This is what happens when you give your measurements in Imperial and your tailor works in metric

Cracker !

[Mark J]

Haunted victorian pencil.
Keep your eyes on Steve Bannon's puppies. Very similar rhetoric in Alexander boris de pfeffel johnson's spiel about creating powerhouses and galvanising destitute working towns, as there is/was in the same shallow lies that the tango-faced wankpuffin, Trump, peddled.
Bannon was the Chief Strategist in Trumps early whitehouse  days, it seems that he's a bit of a bastard.
It also seems like he's pulling the strings:

 
Ever get the feeling you're getting mugged off?

 

 

Edited July 28, 2019 by Mark J

[felixthelogchopper]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I don’t mind the bloke, seems smart and well informed.

 

But the imperial measurement thing is fricking nuts, who honestly thinks that inches, feet and yards is better than mm, cm, and metres? Or that pounds and stones are better than kilograms?

This made me chuckle.

[eggsarascal]

2 minutes ago, felixthelogchopper said:

This made me chuckle.

You must remember while we're giving him an inch and he's taking a mile, he's doing it for the good of all of us.