Comment Re:1 cent per search (Score 1) 412
Then it ceases to be a free source of information. Won't work even as you suggest. Still honor system and how would they pay? Paypal?
Too complicated.
Then it ceases to be a free source of information. Won't work even as you suggest. Still honor system and how would they pay? Paypal?
Too complicated.
In the South we have our units of measure as well:
A piece - some distance
Yonder - over there a piece
Down there - somewhere
Up the way - over yonder a piece.
Boat load - a bunch of something
Shit load - a great bunch of something
Ass load - more than one shit load
Y'all - a group of people being addressed
All y'all - every one of you
Buncha - a group of something
Most of these are indeterminate as we here in the South really don't need to know or care for the exact amount.
Personally I'd be in favour of changing to all metric, but road signs are the major problem. Changing mph to kph and miles to kilometres across the whole country, then educating everyone about the change would be crazily hard.
Here in America, they tried that during the '70s and some in the '80s but it never caught on.
Just think, trying to change a whole nation like the US when just my state is about the same size as England (not UK). Talk about crazily hard.
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