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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 10, 2016 at 4:54 am
I saw an American guy say "Britishians say it in a way that makes more sense".
Sure, this American guy I only saw in my mind's eye just now but I still saw it.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 10, 2016 at 5:10 am
What have the Romans ever done for us?
They have us the Julian calendar and our present day dates.
So we, in the romance languages, say it the right way:
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 10, 2016 at 5:27 am
Pssshhaw. Red Herring.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 10, 2016 at 5:59 am
Everything in the northern hemisphere is arse up!
Hell, even your water drains backwards!
SC, I'd like to see you explain how metric is a bad system compared to yours!
Take your time!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 10, 2016 at 7:51 am
I'm comfortable with both because anything/everything on the mustang is imperial (including the engine rebuild), but things are so much more easier to remember with metric.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 10, 2016 at 9:43 am
There is no reason that 5280 of anything should be 1 of anything.
AFAIC, one of the benefits of buying a Japanese car is that nearly everything is either 10 or 12mm with a 17mm drain plug. I never have to do the 4 msec of math to figure out whether 11/32" is bigger than 3/8" or not.
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