Is this the New Winston Churchill?

[RCAF_FB_Orville]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

WHAT?! How did I provoke anyone here now?! I was actually defending the imperial system and this racist bully steps in and gets on a personal attack on me AGAIN (because there's history with Mr Orville,who apparently confuses me with someone Italian that might have done something to him,or his girlfriend..) because he doesn't like it when someone has an opinion on the UK that might differ fro his!

Well boo-effing-hooo,you're not thinking you live in a perfect country do you mister? Or it burns when someone who's not British says something you don't like? Is complaining not allowed if youre a foreigner? You like my tax money to go in your unemployment check though,dont u sunshine?
This is racism 101,and you should be kicked out of this place for good,because it's people like you that ruin this community.

The self reflective word that you are looking for is actually "GRASS"

Wouldn't lower meself to that level. Very sad.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by RCAF_FB_Orville

The self reflective word that you are looking for is actually "GRASS"

Wouldn't lower meself to that level. Very sad.

..wow, you're still here.

[Kongo-Otto]

IBTL

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

I'm actually surprised they still allow him in the EU Parliament, he's so vehemently anti-Euro and anti-EU, still he greedily sucks from the big EU tit... I suppose they keep him for the entertainment factor, especially now that Berlusconi is not around lol

Lol, so true!

[SG1_Lud]

I used to not understand the reasons for using the Imperial Metric System, until someone explained me that indeed, it was more natural for the human scale than the somewhat artificial and difficult to understand concept of the meter.

That's why things like doors, have whole numbers if measured in feets, instead of meters for example.


And about fractionay units, daily we use to divide things in two, three, four parts... a foot is 12 inches, half a foot is 6 inches, a third is 4 inches and a quarter is 3 inches. Half a metre is 50 centimetres, a third is 33.3333333333 cms and a quarter is 25 centimetres....

And about the base 10 thing, we have the time (1 hour = 60 minutes each, 1 minute 60 seconds ) and no one seems to have a problem with that.

So pick your poison...

[5./JG27.Farber]

Metric TIME!

10 Hours to a day. 10 Mins to an hour. 10 seconds to a min...

Of course they wont be the seconds we know now. One second would actually be 2.4 minutes!

Imagine when someone says just give me a second and they take allot longer, when they say give me a second under the new Metric time they would be right if they were with you with 2mins!

[SG1_Lud]

And patches 4.8 weeks be sure

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by SG1_Lud

I used to not understand the reasons for using the Imperial Metric System, until someone explained me that indeed, it was more natural for the human scale than the somewhat artificial and difficult to understand concept of the meter.

That's why things like doors, have whole numbers if measured in feets, instead of meters for example.


And about fractionay units, daily we use to divide things in two, three, four parts... a foot is 12 inches, half a foot is 6 inches, a third is 4 inches and a quarter is 3 inches. Half a metre is 50 centimetres, a third is 33.3333333333 cms and a quarter is 25 centimetres....

And about the base 10 thing, we have the time (1 hour = 60 minutes each, 1 minute 60 seconds ) and no one seems to have a problem with that.

So pick your poison...

I don't know how you call inches in Spanish, but in Italian is "pollice" (thumb), because one inch is indeed the average width of a male thumb. That's the beauty of the imperial system, it's based on body proportions

[SG1_Lud]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

I don't know how you call inches in Spanish, but in Italian is "pollice" (thumb), because one inch is indeed the average width of a male thumb. That's the beauty of the imperial system, it's based on body proportions

We call it pulgadas, that comes from "pulgar" which is the word for "thumb"

[SG1_Lud]

I think we also tried to use another measures based in body proportions, but no agreement was reached on what was "average" LOL