The Basket
Senior Master Sergeant
- 3,712
- Jun 27, 2007
Just askin.
Seems they do and don't.
Seems they do and don't.
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I said a sytem the Brits would be proud of, a mixture of bases from 60, 24, 7 and then a confusing number of weeks and months. The Japanese had a different system for time I presume the Chinese did too.Time measurement have very little to do with the Brits.
The goal in football is 8 yards by 8 feet, the boxes are 6 yards and 18 yards from the goal line, the radius of circle and semicircles are 10 yards and the penalty spot 12 yards from the goal. There originally was no specified length and width but a range 70 to100yds wide and 100 to 130 yds long. So theoretically it could have been played on a 100 yard square. There is now a standard size of 105m x 68m for new grounds but the old grounds still have smaller pitches due to the construction of the stands. They are all now quoted in metric of course but they are converted from the imperial.Now that I had no idea. What do the world's flight controllers use? I know they have to speak English but in the movies they always talk about altitude in thousands of feet.
Well, I know when I've worked on every car I've ever owned I not only have to drag out every standard tool I own, I also need to lug out all the metric ones as well. I think whomever engineers autos just likes to throw a little bit of everything on them just to pi$$ me off!!!
So, that's where venereal disease comes from!Dies Veneris (Venus goddess of love)
My 7-year-old bounces between units - inches, feet, metres. Not sure what his teachers think of it!Much the same as the UK, the young people learn metric along with Imperial. We dinosaurs will continue with what's familiar, bending as necessary to look for a 10mm wrench.
I'm much the same, except I can't understand Fahrenheit. That's where my son gets it from.Being a child of the "change", I'll use metric or imperial depending who I'm talking to. I've used both in the same sentence, temperature and distance. In the papermill for 22 years, our paper roll diameters were inches and the widths were centimetres.