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[Argent Stonecutter]

Which Angel does the volumetric measurement table summon?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Texas School District Backtracks: There Are ‘Not Two Sides’ to Holocaust

The school district had told teachers in a meeting last week to include books with “opposing” views with “other perspectives” when teaching the Holocaust.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[WolfEyes]

Which Angel does the volumetric measurement table summon?

I'm guessing Azrael?

 

[Romana]

I mean, it WOULD take a forbidden tome from some ancient esoteric religion to make sense of imperial measurement conversions.

And then try taking all that and interpreting it for British folks who are used to using measurements than are consistent and make sense, but are trying to follow recipes written by Americans.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I'm old enough to be pretty much bilingual, as it were, when it comes to cooking in metric or imperial, but US measures are a foreign language.

 

[Soen Eber]

A quart is roughly a liter, a pound is roughly half a kilo, a mile is roughly a klick and a half,, I don't give a fig about acres and hectares, 25c is pleasant and every 5c is a 10F departure. That's my rough and ready conversion.

 

[WolfEyes]

A quart is roughly a liter, a pound is roughly half a kilo, a mile is roughly a klick and a half,, I don't give a fig about acres and hectares, 25c is pleasant and every 5c is a 10F departure. That's my rough and ready conversion.

one pound = 2.2 kilos.... of marijuana

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A quart is roughly a liter, a pound is roughly half a kilo, a mile is roughly a klick and a half,, I don't give a fig about acres and hectares, 25c is pleasant and every 5c is a 10F departure. That's my rough and ready conversion.

I didn't mean so much being able readily to convert (no need -- I have digital scales that do that for me) but if someone tells me about half a litre of something, or three-quarters of a pound, I know what they mean without having to convert. Grams and ounces i have to think about for smaller conversions, which means I usually end up cooking in metric, simply because I've got a set of metric measuring spoons, so I use metric measures to go with them.

ETA: Having now seen Wolfies' post above, I have to say I suppose the ability to convert between grams and ounces in your head too readily might, in some circumstances, be considered suspicious.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I didn't mean so much being able readily to convert (no need -- I have digital scales that do that for me) but if someone tells me about half a litre of something, or three-quarters of a pound, I know what they mean without having to convert. Grams and ounces i have to think about for smaller conversions, which means I usually end up cooking in metric, simply because I've got a set of metric measuring spoons, so I use metric measures to go with them.

ETA: Having now seen Wolfies' post above, I have to say I suppose the ability to convert grams to ounces and back in your head too readily might, in some circumstances, be considered suspicious.

LMAO... a lot of my engineering classes alternated between using metric and imperial units in problems. Despite that, I still feel like I only directly grasp the things I learned first. For example, I learned how tall a 6 foot person is in imperial, so human metric heights only make sense to me if I convert. I originally learned most things in imperial, so that's what I normally think in. But there are exceptions... thermodynamics and metallurgical information makes more sense to me in metric because that's how I originally learned them. So for outdoor temperatures I still think in Fahrenheit, but for heat treating steel I immediately think of Celsius values...

 

[Ashiri]

LMAO... For example, I learned how tall a 6 foot person is in imperial, so human metric heights only make sense to me if I convert.

Height seems to be the one remaining measurement that people I know (even those born after 1973) are usually familiar with in imperial. Oh, that and pints / half pints in a pub.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Height seems to be the one remaining measurement

All the American television. It’s more alien to non-English native speakers.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Height seems to be the one remaining measurement that people I know (even those born after 1973) are usually familiar with in imperial. Oh, that and pints / half pints in a pub.

A person who's one meter tall is a toddler. A person who's two meters tall is a giant. For that reason, I just visualize height in feet better.

 

[Free]

A person who's one meter tall is a toddler.

I bet Verne Troyer would have disagreed.

 

[Essence Lumin]

We all avoided imperial units for light and energy anyway. We could have had

16 wallwarts (ww) = 1/4 lightbulb (lb)
4 lightbulbs (lb) = 1 television (tv)
4 televisions(tv) = 1 hairdryer (hd)

So 1024 ww per hd.

 

[Free]

We all avoided imperial units for light and energy anyway.

Did you know we have many different kinds of horsepower?

 

[Essence Lumin]

Did you know we have many different kinds of horsepower?

Uggh, yeah forgot about that.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

David Amess: MP’s killing declared a terrorist incident

Man, 25, in custody as police investigate ‘potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Sir David Amess obituary

Optimistic and long-serving Conservative MP, father of five and champion of animal welfare

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Verifying Device

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[Innula Zenovka]

Cardiff street art celebrating diversity washed away by mistake

Commissioned murals of underrepresented women removed by cleaners after ‘devastating error’

www.theguardian.com

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[Romana]

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Hurray for my state! and yes... we're embarrassed... lol.