LOL, yesterday we got rain in Vernon BC, well the lady on the radio
> said she could count the drops per square ft on her windshield.
> That's what a 30% chance of rain gets us in the Oky Valley BC. >
> Hear that, she used sq feet, REAL people are still on the Imperial. >
> I had a engineer and biologist over and was discussing architecture
> (which is and will always remain imperial), and that is done in feet
> and inches. Well these SOB's were getting a bit stand-offish cuz
> they didn't know what Imperial units were.
> So I asked how deep is a rainfall of 273mm, they didn't know that
> either (it's about a foot for REAL people), so I let the subject drop. >
> Awhile later I asked the biologist, who had spent the night on a bed
> I designed, how he slept, fine he answered. Well he's quite tall so I
> asked how tall he is, 6 foot 4 he blurted without having to think,
> (the bed was designed for 6' 8"), he never even noticed he reverted
> to imperial, I didn't have the heart to ask how much he weighed, cuz
> he'd answer in lbs, and I would have burst out laughing.
>
> Awhile later I asked what's 212 - 32 ? Well these two so-called
> educated guys look at each other cuz they couldn't figure out the
> meaning of the question. The answer is 180, as in a semi-circle
> that Fahrenheit 'invented' and hence the degree scale is applicable
> to his scale. It is plagurism for the Centigrade people to use the
> term "degree" on a temperature scale, cuz it isn't degrees of arc. >
> I use MEtric or Imperial equally well, it's the gobbers who seem
> to think a system using base 10 (MEtric) is better than one using
> base 12 (Feet-inches) that makes me laff. 12 is divisible by 2,3,4,
> while 10 is divisible by 2,5. What's the advantage of a system that
> can be divided by 5? I suppose if you're designing pentagons. >
> The MEtric system is about as scientific as people having 5 digits > on each hand.
> Ken
There was a little rain in the Buffalo area on Sunday, too, and it's measured in inches (and feet).
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