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[Lazydocker]

I guess anybody under about 45-50 would be mostly metric

Shit, that means I bat both ways....

But we knew that anyway

[Nick W]

Imperial measures are far superior to metric. Metric is mickey mouse stuff, just like the Euro is mickey mouse money.
If I were undisputed leader I would outlaw metric with transgressors being hung from 2 yards of rope. 

The actual measures are largely irrelevant. It makes no difference whether you measure something as 34.7mm or 493/787Snookums.
It's when you come to actually do something with that measurement that using a directly relatable system is worthwhile/sensible/rational/quicker/easier/less prone to cockups. Especially if it's one that everybody else has agreed upon.

[Andy B]

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4840 when I was at school.

You're  right ..... but not  a conversion I've  ever needed 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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4840 when I was at school.

You're  right ..... but not  a conversion I've  ever needed 

That STMO chappie needs to stand in the corner wearing a pointy hat with a 'big D' on it.

[Mister Rog]

When I am total and unsputed ruler of Britain, I

 

Yes of course. "unsputed". Someone who's had the spute removed silly 

[Andy B]

When I am total and unsputed ruler of Britain, I

 

Yes of course. "unsputed". Someone who's had the spute removed silly 

   

[Rods2]

The Hubble telescope was a tragic example of working with mixed measurements - but they were American! 

Ron.

When they were calculating how concave the mirror needed to be on Hubble, somebody used a '+' instead of a '-' in the correction equation, but still where they forgot, check twice and machine once.

When I worked on space stuff, the amount of checking, rechecking and quality control was unreal as when it is up there and it breaks there is very little you can normally do.

[Bigron]

I'm sure stories abound about the cause of the problem (mainly due to blame-shifting!), but the way I heard it there were two teams working on the Primary Mirror (the bit that was wrong) and whereas one team were workinhg in Imperial measurements, the other team were working in metric and the conversions were not as accurate as they needed to be - hence my earlier statement.....

Ron.

[ronnyd]

Perhaps the guy who was supposed to be fitting my dear old Ma,s door last week had trouble with his imperial/ metric conversions. The new door was only 3" (75mm) too small. What a plonker.

[Ever Ready]

I started working in Imperial, moved to Metric then started working for American companies who sent me all Imperial again.

I was working on a machine from Illinois last night with both Imperial & Metric fixings 

[zirk]

Seems strange that we can still buy a Pint of Milk, but have to buy our Fuel in Litres, or would people just freak out if they knew they were paying £5.50 for a Gallon of petrol.

[Andy B]

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I was working on a machine from Illinois last night with both Imperial & Metric fixings 

All the machines in a machine shop I once worked in were imperial, a firm we did a lot of work for sent their drawing in metric, so the first 5mins of any new job was converting all the metric dimensions to imperial. It was common for tolerances to be given in thou on a metric dimension eg 100mm +/- 0.015"   

[X30XE]

The only reasonable explanation for imperial I've ever heard is that in order to half a dimension all you needed to do was double the denominator.  Which meant that even retarded peasants stood half a chance in a world pre calculator 

[BazaJT]

Must admit I still convert measurements,torque settings back to Imperial.

[TheBoy]

I guess anybody under about 45-50 would be mostly metric

Shit, that means I bat both ways....

But we knew that anyway

Only because to took me violently.  And you never rang me once afterwards

I feel used and dirty