jcredfer Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, kevinlms said: What's special about the 9th of November? I can't think of anything special, but the US have a habit... putting the month before the day, which becomes Sept 11..... Perhaps that's what you were referring to. 🙊 Edited October 10, 2023 by jcredfer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 I do wonder why the "Metric is best" advocates don't use the Metric clock or calendar..... They exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Compound2632 Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2023 11 minutes ago, kevinlms said: Yes, but many think of them as American cars. As in: Nothing is built in America these days. I just bought a TV and it said “Built In Antenna”. I don’t even know where that is! 1 1 1 2 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2023 12 minutes ago, jcredfer said: I can't think of anything special, but the US have a habit... putting the month before the day, which becomes Sept 11..... Perhaps that's what you were referring to. 🙊 I would never have guessed - thank you!😁 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2023 10 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: I do wonder why the "Metric is best" advocates don't use the Metric clock or calendar..... They exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar But it isn't a gazetted standard anywhere and unlikely to be so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2023 3 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: As in: Nothing is built in America these days. I just bought a TV and it said “Built In Antenna”. I don’t even know where that is! TVs don't need an antenna these days, as you can watch almost anything via the internet on smart TVs. Still good to have, if your internet dies for any reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2023 9 minutes ago, kevinlms said: TVs don't need an antenna these days 'sjoke. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giannis Halkis Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 4 hours ago, JZ said: I posted that on the 3rd October. My apologies! I thought I had saved it from my favourite car forum. G. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Giannis Halkis said: My apologies! I thought I had saved it from my favourite car forum. G. It was probably there as well. I got it from Classic Art Memes. Sorry, couldn't resist. Or maybe it's just a conspiracy. Edited October 10, 2023 by JZ 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold AndrueC Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) 6 hours ago, kevinlms said: Try explaining to Americans or indeed anyone, that the Imperial system is different to the American customary system, which effectively is an old British set of standards, that existed before the UK Imperial system, became standard. True to form, the Americans have 'simplified' some of their measurements (such as 1 [Short] Ton equals 2000 pounds). Most Americans think that 'Imperial' is their standard, but it is not! And while you're at it point out they aren't using proper units anyway. Everything they use is defined in terms of the metric measurements and has been for a long time. So an inch is just a archaic term meaning 25.4mm. Edited October 10, 2023 by AndrueC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 5 hours ago, jcredfer said: She rails, within, when trying to settle how to divide £1, equally, between three people - and similar none existents. Seemples! £1 = 240 old pence 240 / 3 = 80 old pence each. Just tell her it's still some date before 15 February 1971 (Decimal Day). 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) What can we learn from hippopotamuses? 1. That you can't lose weight by eating greens and taking exercise. 2. They can run and swim faster than humans. If you are ever up against one in a triathlon, your only hope is in the cycling. Edited to say, I am disappointed that nobody has hit the informative/useful button yet. Edited October 10, 2023 by JZ 2 2 1 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 8 minutes ago, JZ said: What can we learn from hippopotamuses? 1. That you can't lose weight by eating greens and taking excercise. 2. They can walk and swin faster than humans. If you are ever up against one in a triathlon, you only hope is in the cycling. Can easily beat them in a Biathlon though. I doubt one could pull a trigger or ski! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2023 6 hours ago, Hroth said: The high water mark of Carry On films was probably the mid-60s. The late 50s were fairly stilted and formal and the 70s less witty and coarser. For some reason, my favourites are Carry On Cabbie and Carry On Cleo... The most popular Carry On film was Carry On Up The Khyber. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exmoordave Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 The older I get, the more I regret all the people I've lost over the years. Maybe being a tourist guide wasn't such a good idea after all.... 1 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: The most popular Carry On film was Carry On Up The Khyber. Don't know how that slipped my mind! Stick it in with the ones I like... I'm Backing Britain!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said: Seemples! £1 = 240 old pence 240 / 3 = 80 old pence each. Just tell her it's still some date before 15 February 1971 (Decimal Day). Indeed so, 6s. 8d is very much to the point and one of the things that riles her. It's pre-decimal and works, but her, fantastic, SI system simply can't do it. It's the lack of a way to do it that's her real problem and difficult to process / simply accept. ..... and still pack boxes in factors / multiples of dozens... 🫢🤐 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 5 minutes ago, jcredfer said: It's pre-decimal and works, but her, fantastic, SI system simply can't do it. It's the lack of a way to do it that's her real problem and difficult to process / simply accept. In that case, you like to introduce her to maritime navigation. Where one nautical mile is still one minute of arc, and that is 1/60th of one degree of latitude. And there are still 360 degrees in a circle. Which may all date back to the Sumerian Sexagesimal (Base 60) number system, which is only 5,000 years old. All using "superior highly composite numbers", that combine time, angles, and geographic coordinates, with an elegance and relative simplicity that is completely lacking from SI units. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2023 8 hours ago, Hroth said: The high water mark of Carry On films was probably the mid-60s. The late 50s were fairly stilted and formal and the 70s less witty and coarser. For some reason, my favourites are Carry On Cabbie and Carry On Cleo... My favourite is Carry On Loving. My only claim to fame , for a while I was dating the cousin of one of the actresses . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold AndrueC Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2023 3 hours ago, PhilJ W said: The most popular Carry On film was Carry On Up The Khyber. My favourite is Carry on Screaming. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold AndrueC Posted October 10, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2023 (edited) On 10/10/2023 at 17:18, JZ said: What can we learn from hippopotamuses? 1. That you can't lose weight by eating greens and taking exercise. 2. They can run and swim faster than humans. If you are ever up against one in a triathlon, your only hope is in the cycling. ..and they are no good at sums involving a right angle? I think that's what I was told at school anyway. Edited October 12, 2023 by AndrueC 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley Melrose Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 8 hours ago, kevinlms said: It appears that most US built cars, use Metric bolts to assemble them. Even engine capacity of their big V-8s, is increasingly given in litres (or liters to them)! In the late 1960s when I was the passenger car engine product planner at Ford of Europe, it was decided that our new OHC engine would be used in the Ford PInto to be manufactured in the USA. I found myself the liaison between Ford of Europe and Ford USA. I recall the meeting when a German engineer announced to the US engineers that the engine was metric and they would have to source metric nuts and bolts as spares. Those were the days . . . Stan 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Stanley Melrose said: a German engineer announced to the US engineers that the engine was metric and they would have to source metric nuts and bolts as spares. Was his name Dirk Technik? https://www.fastcar.co.uk/cars/ford-escort-quattro-vorsprung-dirk-technik/ 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 13 hours ago, Hroth said: The high water mark of Carry On films was probably the mid-60s. The late 50s were fairly stilted and formal and the 70s less witty and coarser. For some reason, my favourites are Carry On Cabbie and Carry On Cleo... The BFI rated Cleo the best and I have to agree. "Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me." 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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