Re: Metric

Robatoy 16 years ago

notbob snipped-for-privacy@nothome.com wrote >

> >> has been invading most everything. That is, except for the food that
> >> we export up from the US. And, considering that 90% of our food comes
> >> from the US, it's a wonder we don't all starve deciding how to
> >> allocated all those pounds and quarts of food.
>
> > We're bound to go metric pretty soon. After all, isn't Mexico on the
> > metric system.
>
> > nb
>
> Metric or not, a pound is half a kilo, an ounce is 100 g or 1/1 a kilo. At
> least when I was a child. I think now they are getting confused ... Must
> be because of the € ...
>
> --
> Best regards
> Han
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Een ons vlees. was 100 gram/ 500 gram 'een pond'. My grandfather always talked about 'duim' (thumb)..I guess about an inch. At our house in The Netherlands, the indoor temp was always in degrees F. Everything else was metric.

a 100mm x 100mm x100mm cube of water weighs 1 KG and is one liter. (At max density 4C)

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Han 16 years ago

Robatoy snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@a7g2000yqo.googlegroups.com:

Indeed

Yes, that was very, very old-fashioned/obsolete when I was a kid

Well, we had dual scales on the thermometer (or was it triple, with Reaumur <sp?> too)

Everything was always metric.

Makethat 1 dm cubed.

I had one "uncle" (neighbor from way back) who still used degrees F in his thinking. But he was the only one, and that was in the late forties as I recall. His house is to be demolished now, next to the old KRO studios in Hlversum, to make way for an apartment building.

And there was this childrens story about birds dropping dead off the telegraph wires because it was over 100 in the shade (in Holland!!??)

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Chris Friesen 16 years ago

Technically a liter of water isn't _exactly_ 1kg. But it's awfully close.

Chris

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