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The silly thing being of course that they are not English units.

English units have a pint of 20oz, not the 16 used in the USA... In any case England is gradually moving to SI units.

Andy

But in many cases it's not English units. Our fluid once is different to yours, our pint/gallon is different to yours, our hundred weight and ton are different to yours.

My parents' portable radio, a Grundig Yacht Boy, which they got in the mid-to-late 1960s, was calibrated in kHz and MHz rather than kc/s and Mc/s (or even wavelengths in metres).

Grits? Grits is wonderful.

It's popular in the Olde Country because it so much better than what you had.

Popeyes is much better chicken.

Yes, and it was dent corn. (dent corn is a high starch variant chiefly used for fodder, or ethanol production these days.)

And to my frustration fasteners on British sports cars were sui generis.

afaik things like the 40 m ham band that was assigned in 1924 in the US has always been called the 40 m band. A specific frequency will be given as 7.010 MHz but I've never heard it called the 7 MHz band.

otoh 2 m is often referred to as 144 MHz and 440 MHz is rarely referred to as 70 centimeters.

Why be consistent?

England was the cultural and technical driving force of the world, a long time ago. The US has taken over those roles.

The class structure of many countries drives the best and brightest individuals to the US. It's so big and there are so many different places and cultures here, it's a good place for unusual people to come and find a place to fit in. I have several very smart and very nice neighbors with huge incomes and interesting accents.

I think that Putin actually wants the war objectors and draft dodgers to leave Russia. He wants a country of dumb poor alcoholic patriots, and he'll get it. We'll take the troublemakers.

Long term, diffusion of talent dominates progress.

I read a claim that, in 1900, people mostly married someone born within 15 miles of themselves. Now we have national and international immigration diffusion gradients thus positive-feedback effects on populations and genetics.

Generating limp insults can be done with much less IQ than electronic design.

Utter bollocks. There are 10 times as many acres per head of habitable land in the USA as in Europe, and ten time as as many resources under it. The miracles is that middle class americans are not ten times as rich as Europeans, a tribute to the rapacity of its leaders. Like any other country,Such success as the US has us *despite* it's (lack of) culture religion ethnicity and political, ideology.

It's so big and there are so many different

In pakistan, its rare to marry outside your own family

I wonder whether he puts sugar on his porridge.

From what you know of Americans, how likely is it that any of them care?

I don't have a clue what the nuances of that are. I wouldn't use 'porridge' but when I made oatmeal this weekend I added dried cherries, a little stevia, and cinnamon. I hope that doesn't make me a Scot.

My wife was born across the river. It was a short walk. Do the positive effects offset the negative? Some countries aren't sending their best and brightest.

As I understand it, "real" Scotsmen regard porridge as a savoury dish, seasoned with salt, rather than (as everyone else does) a sweet dish, seasoned with sugar and maybe fruit.

Probably apocryphal but my brother had a story about a Yankee engineer working at Redstone during the BOMARC project. They were under a lot of pressure and everyone's fuse was a little short.

The engineer went to the same diner every morning for breakfast and would say "No grits." Being Alabama his order would always come with grits. Finally he snapped, threw the grits through a plate glass window saying "No goddamn grits!"

Yanks eat cream of wheat and toast Wonder Bread. Hopeless.

White grits. Yellow grits. Cheezy grits. Fried grits. Grits and hash.

I wonder how much that has changed. We do have one long distance in the family, my sister married a guy from England but to counter that my daughter is married to the boy next door.

I probably could eat it with salt and butter. A couple of times I've forgotten sugar and it was nearly sweet enough. I generally add raisins, since brown sugar is already in play.

Oatmeal for breakfast every day. Rolled oats, though, so perhaps that's a disqualifier.