I'm kind-of left handed - I use a carving knife in my left hand, and hold a spoon in my left. I keep the fork in my left, and table knife in my right.
I always struggle with posh desserts where I'm given a fork and spoon...
Andy
My mother had me looking through some of my father's stuff a few days back. In there were some cards with the common metric cruising heights for Russia and China converted to feet.
Not all aviation is old units.
Andy
SWMBO has always used a knife in her left hand, and a fork in her right. I have no idea why.
I just wear my watch on my right wrist.
Yeah I know. It's much easier to eat a dessert with a carving knife.
But an issue for anyone born this century who never learned of such archaic measure systems.
I think mine will sell in either. Doesn't bother me either.
I eat my peas with honey Ive done it all my life It makes the peas taste funny But they stick upon the knife.
It is today. Because it doesn't matter what units it is in, as long as everybody is using the same.
3,000 is unambiguous if you know it's in feet.AFAIK only fuel weight is not standardised English is the default language too.
Not really. He'll just lose the trade.
I wouldn't use him since he's cleraly a cured pork specialist.
With food price inflation going the way it is, he'll be selling in ounces only fairly soon :-)
Well if you don't want to believe the charts issued to airline captains how about this link
It starts
"In November 2007, China implemented RVSM, between 8,900m (FL291)and
12,500m (FL411) inclusive"Note that those heights are in metres, and the equivalent in feet is given. Further down the article is a conversion table.
Andy
I just checked. Oil comes in barrels OR in metric tonnes. It is perfectly possible to buy a tanker load of oil in barrels and sell it in tonnes. There are some interesting arbitrages relating to buying by volume and selling by mass, (or vice versa) especially when the temperature varies a lot between the source and the destination ports.
John
You will note that they require feet to be available as the primary means.
What china does for military reasons is not what world wide air traffic control does.
Air traffic gives height, in feet, in English., Everywhere
It doesn't matter what standard you have, so long as you have one.
2440mm x 1220mm - 8' x 4'
I can see 1/8" markings, struggle to see 1/16" markings and can't be sure of 1/25" (1mm) markings without glasses.
Yes. That's common here (1935 house), but everything is still nominally a sensible imperial measurement.
Some years ago (mid-90s) I designed the control system and instrumentation for a compressor for ICI Billingham. ICI's specs were woefully out of date - such as requiring pressure instruments to have
1/2" BSP, parallel, male threads ... with greased leather sealing washers! They agreed to Dowty washers instead.
When designing industrial plant, the internal diameter is exactly what matters - it gives you the flow velocity for the required flow, the back pressure, etc. Which is critical for process, power and control requirements.
Copper pipe is an oddity probably because imperial used the definition of pipe, while metric uses the definition of tube - and pipes were assessed on the Nominal Bore, while tubes are and were by external diameter.
Or mil - perfect to confuse those used to metric!
I cant even find my own arse without glasses.
Professional Boxers still come in imperial weights - never changed. Amateurs I think are metric.
Bottom line:-) is what best to teach a mixed ability class of children. No reason why the more able can't handle historic complex stuff as needed.
If the world was starting from scratch, the MKS system would be my choice.
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