I witnessed a crimeFreddy Woo writes, "A group of us once staggered home so insensible with drink that we failed to notice someone being killed and buried in a shallow grave not more than 50 yards away. A crime unsolved to this day."
Have you witnessed a crime and done bugger all about it? Or are you a have-a-go hero?
Whatever. Tell us about it...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 11:53)
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@K2k6Actually, while I was over in your fair country I was bewildered by the variety of units being used- liters, miles, stones, all thrown together in a weird mishmash that kept me doing a lot of mental mathematics.
As an engineering student I learned (and became very familiar with) the metric system as well as the Imperial system. I can't really say that one is inherently superior to the other, but converting between them is a bitch.
The Farenheit scale, by the way, was invented by a drunk. He decided that 0 should be the freezing point of water- and chose seawater rather than fresh. He also decided that 100 should be body temperature- but as he was a heavy drinker, his normal body temperature was a bit elevated, which is why normal temperature for humans is 98.6F.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 21 Feb 2008, 13:18,
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