Comment What will parents and grandparents do (Score 1) 942
What will parents and grandparents do when they have only learned metric and the kids bring home work involving how many gills there are in a peck?
Well . . . the UK did manage to switch to the "New Pence", and get away from shillings, farthings and half-crowns. If anyone even knew what they were worth.
A shilling was 1/20th of a pound or 5p in decimal
A farthing was a quarter of an old penny. There were 240 old pennies in a pound so a farthing was 1/960 of a pound or just over a tenth of a new penny
A half-crown was two shillings and six pence, or an 8th of a pound, so 12.5p
while "1 cup" and "1/2 cup" do. So when a recipe calls for 1 cup of anything, you can measure that quickly.
You rarely see this in UK measurements, for one thing in the UK cup sizes are not standard. My wife (from the USA) found it confusing at first that things were either given in capacity or weight (fluid ounces and pints/pounds and ounces in traditional UK books) and not various cups or spoon sizes.
Is this because he hasn't a clue about science or because he is catering to a particular political base?
Both.
Mostly though because so many conservatives have a "we have always done it that way" attitude. Many of them don't have a clue that imperial measures are very different from US customary ones (we have 20 fluid ounces to a pint, and the US has 16). Many also don't know their pecks from their bushels, or their furlongs from their rod, poll, or perch, but think the system must be good "because its traditional".
How about the sapiens sapiens giving Europe back to the neanderthalensis?
Or is it too late for that too.
I think its in the works
Nowadays it seems like almost everything is twisting to the right...
Including the iPhone 6....
If you incorrectly believe that _everyone_ pays the US 35% corporate tax sure, the US has the highest corporate tax rate. You would have to be extremely ignorant or gullible to believe that anyone pays the base rate.
A lot of people do. They are the hard working local stores, builders, mom & pop hotels, and so on. Its only the big guys get exemptions.
its a problem with ANY group or individual that want to decide what's "best for you."
what's best for you never seems to be very good for them.
Shh
It was so cheap because India relied on the R&D done by developed nations
Partly, but the key technologies were not shared as the USA blocked this, so India developed a lot itself.
There you go again. You really need some help. You do realise that it's not normal behaviour to group ~1.6bn people together, and even less normal to think it's a good idea to shoot them simply because they're near you, right?
You sound dangerously close to a small-minded xenophobe. So close the difference is, at best, imperceptible.
I wasn't seriously sugesting shooting them at random - it was a joke. You don't deal with them by becoming like them, or else they have won.
Yeah, I want these fucking things all over my neighborhood. I swear to god if these start sprouting up like toadstools I'm going to start using them for sighting in the
Quite agree, but that's enough about Muslims.
The official chemical name IS Aluminium with Aluminum being an alternate spelling
Except it's not. You are right about "alumium", however.
It is the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) standard international name, though they recognise Aluminum as an alternative.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
