v for frequency?

[Rod Speed]

Cycles per second.

Corse they did.

Hard to do that with electricity and gas.

[Commander Kinsey]

No it isn't, that works out as -17.778C. The freezing point of saturated brine is about -21C.

Are you sure? They claim 98.6F is body temperature. But firstly individuals can be +/- 1.8F. And your own body temperature can go to +/-1.8F depending how warm you are. Your body doesn't take much action unless it's more than that out. So in total the variation is 7.2F. From 95F to 102.2F is ok.

I'm in the UK and have never heard of it.

[Commander Kinsey]

My neighbour's wife (an accountant!) can't do negative numbers. She couldn't understand a £30 discount on fibre broadband bill number one, and a £60 installation charge on bill number two. She actually thought they'd not given her 50% off. Took me 10 minutes to not succeed in explaining it to her. Eventually her (dyslexic) husband said "I think Peter's right...."

[Commander Kinsey]

For that we use lb/sq inch. Something still used in the UK for car tyres for example. I use it for scuba, although most use BAR which is also imperial. I don't think there's a metric pressure used.

[Commander Kinsey]

Posh twatt. Say less.

To imagine America, just think of any other country 50 years ago. They evolve slowly over there.

Yeah I never realised the gallons were different until I was comparing petrol/gas prices UK/USA and something didn't add up. They didn't even get imperial measurement right. I wander what the history of that is?

The everything is related is pretty cool, and seemingly impossible. Gives rise to the belief of creationism I guess.

[Commander Kinsey]

Who buys a dozen shirts?

[Commander Kinsey]

I can tell the difference if I'm moving from one room to another. I can quite accurately guess the number of C difference.

I can also quite accurately determine the temperature of an object I touch if it's fairly near body temperature.

[Commander Kinsey]

You can't be serious. I assume you mean F? 25C is damn warm. I'd be cosy naked at 25C, in fact I'd say that was too warm.

[Commander Kinsey]

I went hillwalking 2 days ago and was annoyed it was 4C with a strong breeze and a light drizzle. I was starkers and wished it was cooler.

[Commander Kinsey]

I sprained my wrist when I went out at precisely 0C and didn't realise it was that cold. I slipped on the ice on my stupid neighbours concrete slab driveway putting his f****ng bin out. Why can't people have proper driveways?

I thought I'd broken it as it stiffened right up, the doctor agreed, he felt a chipped bit of bone. Turns out I'd chipped that in an accident 35 years ago and hadn't noticed, since I was more concerned with the break in the arm.

[Fredxx]

You claims are more like an infant child with an IQ of 90 or less.

Bar is a metric unit. If you were truly versed in SCUBA diving in water rather than your arm chair you would know this.

Very true, you don't think.

The SI unit is Pascal(Pa):

Bar is used more often as it is a quantity people can equate to and is close to an atmosphere.

[John Larkin]

I had a relative who had some pain in his foot, and the doctor x-rayed it. There was a small nail inside his big toe. It had probably been there for decades. Nobody ever explained that.

[John Larkin]

I can estimate the temp of a heat sink by touch pretty accurately, in the range of about 45 to 65c. 50c is my threshold of pain.

[rbowman]

A mens' clothing store tends to buy more than one shirt at a time. She worked for Cluett & Peabody who made Arrow shirts. The brand still exists but now they're made in Bangladesh or some shithole.

Anyway, they were dress shirts with each style available in a variety of collar sizes and sleeve lengths. When Harry's Haberdashery orders 5 dozen shirts they don't get to pick an choose; they get a selection of sizes in a normal distribution. That leads to a lot of base 12 arithmetic.

Today, the normal distribution seems to consist of XL, XLL, and XLLL sizes with sleeves suitable for alligators.

[rbowman]

At least America is evolving. The UK has been devolving since they lost that war they thought they won. How's that true Scotsman, Humza Yousaf, doing? Bad enough to have one named after a fish. What was the matter with Forbes? Upset the poofters?

[alan_m]

We used units such as Hertz long before the UK ever joined the EEC.

I note on some American videos that they refer to units as either metric or "English" units (rather than Imperial units).

[alan_m]

Especially when we asked for corn and you didn't send us wheat but instead you sent us some yellow bubbly stuff :)

I don't think you can be that proud of your food having inflicted McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Crap on us.

[Cindy Hamilton]

It would appear that the proper name for the non-metric system of units used in the U.S. is the U.S. Customary System of Units. Outside of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, I doubt anybody calls it that. "English" is so much shorter.

[charles]

Indeed - 1962 for me, when I started work

[NY]

Yes, atmospheric pressure is roughly 1 bar. My weather station software quotes pressures in mb (millibars) with figures that range from about 970 to

1050 mb. The gauge can changed to display hPa (hectopascals) which are numerically identical (1 mb = 1 hPa), kPa (figures range from 97 to 105) or inHg (figures ranging from 28 to 31.5). Surprisingly it doesn't offer mmHg. I believe that the standard for international aviation is inHg (because it was influenced by the Americans); similarly aviation altitudes are expressed in feet, though I have heard a pilot announce to his passengers that we would be flying at 5000 metres - this was in an internal short-hop flight from Amsterdam (NL) to Paderborn (DE).