did someone say this is a dating agency?
Marvellous!

Man 178 cm, 74kg, seeks woman 34" 26" 35" for wild evenings of metric / imperial converting shenanigans

must have own tape measure.
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 13:19, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

There's only one measurement I need to know ; )
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( girlinthehole, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 13:30, Reply)

Love to help
but I only have a steel tape which doesn't bend too well. Oh, and I'm only 161 cm and 49 kg so I'd come off worst if we started to fight.

*books body building course*
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 7 Oct 2008, 13:57, Reply)

@BGB
9.5" cut.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 14:10, Reply)

BGB
15½"







You meant neck measurement yeah?
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 14:25, Reply)

Imperial/metric conversions
are best done with a little program called convert.exe which I find invaluable.

When I was visiting BGB I tried her scale and got a two digit number. After a moment I realized it was set to stones rather than kilograms or pounds.

You lot are weird.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 7 Oct 2008, 14:39, Reply)

loon
that program sounds great, but its hardly the same as measuring naked bodies really
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 14:53, Reply)

Loon
yes we are. We still think in "old money" for a lot of things (referring to pre decimal coinage which I'm not old enough to remember) but in metric for others.

I'm 161 cm, which is about 5 foot 3. No idea what the weight is, in stones or pounds.I only know my weight in kilos.

But distance will always be in miles.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 7 Oct 2008, 14:55, Reply)

Awww, WeeWitch
You're tiny. Can I stick my pencil up your bum, and pretend you're a troll?
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:03, Reply)

Okay Bert
*dyes hair purple*

*sticks finger in socket*

Just 'cos it's you, you understand?

Before you get too cheeky, I should point out that I am 49kg of coiled, firm muscles, poised to spring at a second's notice*.



* more to the point, married to 183 cm of growly Scotsman.



(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:10, Reply)

I really don't know
how you can deal with such a strange blend of measures. I can think well in the metric system or the imperial system, but can't easily mix them. Then you throw in things like stones and shillings and the like and it's no wonder that you have so many eccentrics over there- just going about daily life would be enough to make me barking mad.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:11, Reply)

Loon
We conquered and owned all the important bits of the world for a few hundred years with the most fucking stupid system of money ever.

inches to miles to fathoms to acres to pints to gallons to chains to furlongs is a piece of piddle
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:47, Reply)

Indeed.
Just think of what you could have accomplished if you didn't have to waste all that brainpower on making sure that you had the right change!

Then again, considering our current financial mess I can't say that the US has a lot of room to talk...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:50, Reply)

maybe that's why
We made a system so complicated and archaic that nobody else could be bothered to figure it out - so they let us handle it instead....
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:50, Reply)

There were
12 pence to a shilling a twenty shillings to a pound for a reason. It's just that now people are so used to the measured being made to match the measurement rather than the other way around.

We had money in that form because a thousand years ago, the worth of the metal was based on its weight, which is where "pound" comes from. Next most precious metal was silver, so how many pennies was worth a pound of gold? And so on. By 1966 the system was meaningless, so they decided that having everything in tens and hundreds would be nice and simple and so valued the currency to match.

That's my understanding of it, anyway. I have been known to talk bollocks from time to time.
( Kroney, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 18:11, Reply)

Kroney
But you don't usually.
( thealternativefact, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 18:23, Reply)

I always think
that life would be much more sensible had humans evolved with six fingers on each hand. Then we'd have used a base twelve counting system.

12 is a far nicer number than 10 (although in base twelve the number we call twelve would be represented as 10, if you get my drift) as it's divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, whereas the latter is only divisible by 1, 2 and 5.

The base twelve metric system would have been inherently useful as well as numerically simple and we'd have used it automatically.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 18:59, Reply)