v for frequency?

Better to quote the sizes in thousands of an inch rather than fractions: 688 thous means a lot more to me than 11/16 inch.

IIRC my husband got a set marked in "large print" a few years ago.

In any event, he doesn't work under the car. He prefers carpentry, although he works on our lawn tractor because hiring that is stupid expensive. I'm much more likely to be asked to cut a 2x4 to a specified length.

Depends on what you work with on a regular basis. Hand me the 17mm wrench, please.

But nowadays faggots seem to be mostly liver, without the rest of the offal such as pancreas (sweetbreads) and heart and not always wrapped in the caul/cawl fat.

But the frozen variety by Brains Ltd are quite acceptable.

We do get a Sainsburys' haggis for Burns Night (25th Jan) the day before Australia Day (26th Jan).

Talking of Australia Day, some years ago we were on the strength of the bellringers in Bathampton, and did a special performance on Australia Day for the blessing of the Admiral Philips memorial chapel (First governor of Australia)

Good luck finding a 688 thousandths open end wrench in a SAE set.

The US benefits from mass levels of constructive chaos. It's like evolution, random mutation and selection. Many of the driving forces of modern civilization were invented by amateurs in the USA.

Great inventions in fact happen *from* the above lamented lack of culture and ideology.

Exactly. Lunatics bring down establishments.

That sounds, well, novel. Or repulsive.

We poor provincials have to make do with chicken-apple sausage and anduille.

The garlic ice cream is actually quite tasty. And the aroma of the festival is delicious by itself. It used to be a fun way to spend a hot weekend.

Unfortunately, the gun nuts have closed it down, since they can no longer get insurance after the last festival where some nut with an assault rifle killed several of the guests.

Sprouts are OK if cooked correctly and not boiled or steamed to death aka uk school dinner cooking method (hopefully things have improved over the years in school canteens).

Spouts also benefit from being field to shop in a very short time span.

Which ones do you believe those are ?

Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Haiti...

Do you think those storming the southern border are all rocket scientists in disguise? For the most part they didn't have the skills to make it at home.

Quite a different animal in the rest of the world.

I'm one of those people who cannot distinguish by eye between one spanner/wrench and other of very similar size (*), so I always have to look at the number stamped on it. Especially with socket-spanners where they are all lined up in ascending order in the box. And I find it easier to read "17 mm" than "11/16 inch". I suppose I prefer to use integers of a smaller unit (millimetre) than fractions of a larger unit (inch).

(*) My wife is just the opposite: she can't understand how anyone can't remember what two similar spanners look like, having seen one and then the other (ie not side-by-side), and then select the correct one by eye. Likewise with judging the weight of thing: this potato is "obviously" heavier than the other one, judging either by holding one and then the other, or else by judging the size of them even though they are completely different shapes.

I've not yet found any way of cooking them which serves the fundamental aim of destroying that horrible "green" flavour. Maybe I just don't like chlorophyll in green veg. ;-)

I use the number closest to what I'm measuring on the tape.

Dafuq? I always call it SI.

And CGS? People use centimetres? Do they not grasp the concept of whole units matching nicely?

Why did he say 656? Is that yank?