• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

imperial/metric poll

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    #11
    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Did you know that the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight is exactly one trillion?
    A US, or UK trillion?
    ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

    Comment


      #12
      Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
      One trillion what?
      furlongs per fortnight I assume
      "Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."

      Comment


        #13
        This story cracked me up CNN
        How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

        Follow me on Twitter - LinkedIn Profile - The HAB blog - New Blog: Mad Cameron
        Xeno points: +5 - Asperger rating: 36 - Paranoid Schizophrenic rating: 44%

        "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to high office" - Aesop

        Comment


          #14
          obligatory lock stock quote...

          Originally posted by lambrini_socialist View Post
          metric for everything except weed, please.
          We grow copious amounts of ganja, yah? And you're carrying a wasted girl and a bag of fertilizer. You don't look like your average horti-*******-culturalist!
          Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you do" in a gloomy manner to Pooh.
          "And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
          Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to felt at all how for a long time."

          Comment


            #15
            http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...e+Search&meta=

            Comment


              #16
              also, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...of_measurement

              Comment


                #17
                Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                Don't touch the stuff mate, it f*cks with your brain!

                Although in your case that warning may have come a little late...
                I didn't need weed in my case...

                Comment


                  #18
                  And also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...n-Conventional

                  Comment


                    #19
                    There are useful things about metric, like the fact that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogramme. And, coincidentally, one kilogramme of water has a volume of one litre.

                    I don't get why car performance is still measured in miles per gallon when a lot of people (i.e. me) have probably got no idea what a gallon looks like, weighs or costs.

                    Also, this country has been officially metric for more than 40 years now. And the metric system was invented by an Englishman.

                    Comment


                      #20
                      Originally posted by dang65 View Post
                      There are useful things about metric, like the fact that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogramme. And, coincidentally, one kilogramme of water has a volume of one litre.

                      I don't get why car performance is still measured in miles per gallon when a lot of people (i.e. me) have probably got no idea what a gallon looks like, weighs or costs.

                      Also, this country has been officially metric for more than 40 years now. And the metric system was invented by an Englishman.
                      A gallon of "what" weighs...

                      Comment

                      Working...
                      X