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This is a link post nevermind the trade negotiations
Let's focus on making life a bit more complicated for everyone because nostalgia
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 14:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yawns

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 14:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post It was much better in the olden days*
* this statement is bollocks
 (I helped save b3ta! spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 14:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post They should bring back smog, typhoid and sewage in the streets too.

(I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 14:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post They should bring back white dog shit too

(I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Maybe if you fed your dog Spangles...

(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bagsy rickets first!

(PhosphorBurnedEyes Swastika Shop opening here soon, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 23:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Pounds and inches is so much easier. Who the hell knows how much a kilogram is except for drug dealers?

(I helped save b3ta! BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 14:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Drug dealers have gone metric now?
*feels old*

Fun fact kids, four 2p pieces weighs an ounce.
Don't accept any other method of weight.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 15:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Shit I wish I was your dealer
2p weighs 7g (quarter)
 (I helped save b3ta! SpookySpoon www.vivino.com/users/hig.func, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 20:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Which is why four 2ps is an ounce old chap!

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 20:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry! My bad
Trying to read text on an iPhone, and I dun goofed
 (I helped save b3ta! SpookySpoon www.vivino.com/users/hig.func, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 21:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post No problem.
Fun fact, when they moved all copper coins to steel they had to make them a little thicker so they weight the same.

Obviously the royal mint cares more about people given short weight rather than the slightly extra cost to make a thicker coin.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 31 Aug 2016, 9:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post yeah because base 10 numerical systems are so fucking confusing aren't they?
ffs
 (theswollenbeef where there's a will there's a wank, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 15:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Actually more confusing than base 12
To make it really work, we need 12 numerals. Lot's of mathy boffins think this would be a great idea
 (I helped save b3ta! simbosan liked your link on, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post It is more polydactyl-friendly.

(I helped save b3ta! Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post What about flightless dinosaurs?

(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Old people!
Please fuck us up some more while you yet cling on to undeserved power, life.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post it is starting to feel like that isnt it?
A country retreating from the modern world.
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Euthanasia much?
People can't kill a 17 year old gorilla without the world rising in outrage, but getting rid of granny and gramps is all good.
 (I helped save b3ta! BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post You can get outraged if you want

(benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Funny how old people can tell young people they're not informed or sensible enough to vote...

(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Have you not met some of the young people hanging around here?

(I helped save b3ta! BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post How old are you?

(I helped save b3ta! sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Wed 31 Aug 2016, 13:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post There is something to be said for Imperial Units
It's always easy to divide by 2 without access to accurate scales; therefore 1/4s, 1/8s, 16th, etc. are also simple. Try dividing a Pizza into 10 equal slices without a protractor.

A Stone is 14lbs, or enough bread or meat for 8 men for 2 weeks at 2oz per man per day.
 (CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post No, really, there isn't.
i. If it's so easy to divide by 2, why do I suddenly have to divide by 14?

ii. A trader who can't afford a set of scales in this day and age is a fucking crap trader.

iii. 57g of meat per day? On yer bike grandpa.

iv. Units have nothing to do with how many people want to share a pizza.

v. Having spent my formative years computationally modelling and balancing Sea King rotor systems I can assure you I can still divide a circle into five equal parts to within ±3° by eye, so ten is not a problem.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post
...the point is it all divvies up into 'nice' numbers that you can achieve with balancing scales instead of trusting someone else's weights. And you can factor Time into it as well.

Don't blame me, blame the Roman Army.
 (CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post these do seem like 2000 year old problems
I cant remember the last time I saw anyone weighing stuff to sell with weights. The butcher is about the only place I get asked how much I want by weight these days
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post
±3°? Nice way of getting an extra olive.

*edit* you're good at this then I assume?

woodgears.ca/eyeball/
 (CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post Can't do the parallelogram ones.
But the intersections and circle-in-a-triangle come easy.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post What if I've got 9 men to feed for 23 days?

(benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Cut a quarter pounder into 7,
Then give them two and three elevenths of a bit each.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post I was watching some aussie video and they mentioned some forrin name for horsepower and torque.
Freaks.
 (I helped save b3ta! BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post I couldn't eat 10 slices of pizza.
Divide into 8, and I'm there.
 (TSLunch, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 20:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post Do you remember Spangles?

(LetsGetDownToIt, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post Do you remember when you could pop round to investigate a nonce,
and come away with a signed annual for the kids?
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wot evs.
When are we going to decimalise time?
 (I helped save b3ta! Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 16:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bit buggered on that front now that one second is an SI unit.

(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well, I didn't say it would be painless.
We'll need to slow the rotation of the earth until there's 100 days in the year first.
 (I helped save b3ta! Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post Or only count the first 100

(benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post Don't be silly. The seasons must be preserved.
We'll all look like damn fools if we are there in our Whoregust clothes getting Furbywary weather on us.
 (I helped save b3ta! Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Or how soon after Michelmas
to make a Muckle.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 17:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post Slowing the rotation of the earth will add more hours to the day.
Nice.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 22:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think the main idea here is that a trader, for example a market trader
could sell an old lady an ounce of barley sugar without having to citizens arrest her, and kneel on her shoulder until the police arrive.
 (I helped save b3ta! gaijintendo Regular Member, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 19:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post Almost as bad as imposing a system of weights and measures on a nation that didn't want it.
And make it illegal to offer both for the sake of those too old to adapt.

Just to add one more sodding layer of conformity.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 20:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post suspect there were people saying similar years after they binned the Julian calendar

(benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 20:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post Don't get me started on that...

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 22:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think like many people my age
I use both systems. I 'get' miles per hour and distances on that scale. Up close and personal I use millimetres. 2/5 of an inch is too much like algebra if I have to add or contract, let alone multiply or divide. Weight, if it is my weight I just use whatever system gives the lowest number, other than that I go by price, as I do with petrol and wine.
 (TSLunch, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 20:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post what she/he said
I don't really understand km, I don't really understand kilos, but I'm happy with cm, inches, metres, yards, feet, litres, pints. I'm forever thankful that we have decimal currency and my butcher doesn't complain when I order a pound of sausages. Just use what feels, like, good, man!
 (sithemong, Tue 30 Aug 2016, 22:29, , Reply)