Administrators Eric Posted August 19, 2022 Administrators Share Posted August 19, 2022 Manpower: Manpower is a unit of measurement of power. One manpower is somewhere between 1/8th and 1/10th as powerful as horsepower 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 19, 2022 Administrators Share Posted August 19, 2022 Movements of your computer mouse are measured in Mickeys. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 19, 2022 Administrators Share Posted August 19, 2022 A Half-million twitter followers is a wheaton. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 19, 2022 Administrators Share Posted August 19, 2022 A Centipawn measures the value of chess positions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 19, 2022 Administrators Share Posted August 19, 2022 An Oxgang is about 15 acres. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 19, 2022 Administrators Share Posted August 19, 2022 The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Drawring. It’s Drawing. There is no second R. Woof. It’s Wolf. Pasketti. Instead of Spaghetti. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted August 19, 2022 Author Share Posted August 19, 2022 "Drawyers" is a plaid unit of storage volume. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 The metric system is a crutch for the little countries that haven't put a man on the moon but still need foreign aid from us. They can't even use yard sticks, they need meter-meters. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 22 hours ago, Batesmotel said: Freedom Units. I have no time for anyone who militantly will not use or even speak metric. Nothing wrong with knowing both systems. And Kelvin is not a communist unit of heat. The metric system was invented by the French, can't trust anything from those cheese eating surrender monkey's. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 20, 2022 Administrators Share Posted August 20, 2022 10 minutes ago, Silentpoet said: The metric system was invented by the French, can't trust anything from those cheese eating surrender monkey's. I wonder if they are the ones who steal all our 10mm sockets? 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 14 minutes ago, Silentpoet said: The metric system was invented by the French, can't trust anything from those cheese eating surrender monkey's. Better than the ambiguity of the length of a kings foot or arm. Or three “average” barleycorns. And the whole thing had to be redone every time a monarch died. Metric is not anti freedom. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 19 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: Better than the ambiguity of the length of a kings foot or arm. Or three “average” barleycorns. And the whole thing had to be redone every time a monarch died. Metric is not anti freedom. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar_ml Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Silentpoet said: 40 rods is 1/8 mile 1 hogshead is 63 gallons. 504 gallons per mile... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 If memory serves, one of NASA’s rovers crashed on Mars because of an Imperial/Metric mixup. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 27 minutes ago, railfancwb said: If memory serves, one of NASA’s rovers crashed on Mars because of an Imperial/Metric mixup. Yep. In fact, most aircraft accidents are caused by conversions gone wrong, but the Lufkin Cartel keeps it all hushed-up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 I simply don't care. What I do care about is why can't we pick a system and stick with it. That being said: 2.54 cm per inch-- 39.37 inches to a Meter -- 2.2 lbs. per Kilogram. One Kilometer is 6/10ths of a mile. -- These numbers will get you a long ways and simple mental calculations can be done. Just settle on a system! Problems come about when we mix them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar_ml Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 On 8/18/2022 at 11:12 PM, Eric said: Manpower: Manpower is a unit of measurement of power. One manpower is somewhere between 1/8th and 1/10th as powerful as horsepower 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 27 minutes ago, Cougar_ml said: What’s the weight if 1.13 million duck harnesses? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar_ml Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Batesmotel said: What’s the weight if 1.13 million duck harnesses? ducks, depending on species, are around 1 to 4 lbs. Lets call it about 2.3 lbs so just about 2.6 million lbs Average adult horse is around 650 lbs 400 horses is about 260,000 So to equal the power of a horse requires 10 times the weight in ducks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 So, what's a duckway? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 Syntax is always useful for separating the men from the non-men. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 5 hours ago, gwalchmai said: Syntax is always useful for separating the men from the non-men. <div></div> A programmer shibboleth. For you AND for the young lady. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Thankfully short lived shibboleths of my lifetime: "Totally tubular." "Da kine" (supposedly Hawaiian for the kind). "Cool beans." Shoes referred to as 'sneaks.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now