OT. The futures Bright, the Futures Brexit!!!

[ramAnag]

they still use furlongs in horse racing, which is, I think one of the earliest metric measures in the imperial era - there being 10 chains in a furlong and 100 links in a chain. Sadly it breaks down then as there are 8 furlongs in a mile (on land). A rod is a quarter of a chain, making a rood the area defined in a rectangle that measures one chain by one rod, and an acre being 4 roods. Simple isn't it!

Links and chains sort of make sense, as does the unit of length the nail (at 2.25 inches) or the hand (at 4 inches), as measurements were set against something everyone could get a handle on and understand: the measurements are relateable - as opposed to the metre which is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum to be 299792458 when expressed in the unit m⋅s−1, where the second is defined in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs. Right, so I see where that is coming from.

You’ve lost me.

Suffice it to say...the silliness of the whole situation may be summed up by the fact that we all buy petrol in litres but then work out fuel consumption in gallons while that other arch advocate of Imperial - the USA - also measure in gallons...but their gallons are smaller than ours. Go figure.

P.S. Who’s a drama teacher?

[Geoff Parkstone]

OK, I can figure that. When USA was colonised by the British they adopted the Queen Anne gallon, which was a measure of wine volumes as opposed to beer or grain gallons, all of which existed in Britain at the time, and were different sizes in terms of cubic inches contained. Sometime later Britain consolidated the three different measures at an approximate average of 8 pints to the gallon. The Americans however retained the Queen Anne wine measurement of 6 pints to the gallon and didn't "average up"

QED

[AdiSalisbury]

U lot is ollld init blud

[ramAnag]

OK, I can figure that. When USA was colonised by the British they adopted the Queen Anne gallon, which was a measure of wine volumes as opposed to beer or grain gallons, all of which existed in Britain at the time, and were different sizes in terms of cubic inches contained. Sometime later Britain consolidated the three different measures at an approximate average of 8 pints to the gallon. The Americans however retained the Queen Anne wine measurement of 6 pints to the gallon and didn't "average up"

QED

Impressive answer GP...daft system...if we can’t even agree on the volume of a gallon what hope is there?

[swaledale]

Nice to see you're back for your late night name calling rant. Was it sherry or port this eve?

Good to see that your still wide of the mark on both attempted sarcasm and observation!

Don't need any help to find the sheer lunacy posted on here, coupled with fantasy views expressed as the views of idiots, there is no other conclusion that even a half sentient being could reach. But then thats the point isn't it? One only has to look at those who lead the Brexit charge to realise that they are not (despite the utter *******s they spout) on the side of or interested in the so called "ordinary citizen" but then theres none so blind as cannot see.

Mind you long since took anything you post with a huge pinch of salt!

[swaledale]

The same David Davis who quit, after refusing to commit to May's capitulation and back door remain stance?
Please RA spare me.
May fooled the lot of us.
Camerons lap dog, who tried to carry out his wishes of lashing us to the EUSSR.

Sorry, but it hasn't worked, no matter how many times she tried to push it through.
Embarrassing really, as to how stupid she thought everyone was.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/09/david...ve-eu-7693516/

In your case she was absolutely right, the thousands like you spouting unintelligible crap!

[swaledale]

Au contraire mon brave. When you had to know 12 pennies in a shilling 20 shillings in a pound, 16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 8 stones in a hundredweight, 20 hundredweight in a ton, 8 pints in a gallon, 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile etc you HAD to be mathematically literate and learn. With metric systems all in 10s you don't need to understand the basic principles. Metrication dumbs down maths and is directly responsible for increased innumeracy.

10 times table is easiest, granted, as we use base 10 maths, but if you only teach the kids the easiest things, they will have no concept of for example, base 16 maths as they no longer have a practical application of the concept that pounds and ounces would give.

On that basis, why not just teach kids the easiest words in literacy classes, so they just wander around saying yes, no, the, and etc and cant understand big words like inconsolable or artillery. Oh hang on, them does, innit.

Ah yes imperial measurements are of course so superior that we are one of 4 countries that use them in one form or another, so I guess there are a lot of dumb kids in the rest of the world who are so bad at maths then?

As a statement its neither based on any fact nor evidence which kind of sums up the Brexit debate!

[ramAnag]

Regardless of how it’s measured it seems we’re on the brink of recession, the £ is falling virtually every day against both the euro and the dollar, there’s talk of food and medicine shortages and stockpiling of ‘essential items’.
Going well this Brexit malarkey isn’t it? Especially so with the latest ‘no deal’ - ‘do or die’ option.
Thank you Prime Minister.

[AdiSalisbury]

I even got stuck behind 4 horsemen on my way to work this morning!

[Trickytreesreds]

Regardless of how it’s measured it seems we’re on the brink of recession, the £ is falling virtually every day against both the euro and the dollar, there’s talk of food and medicine shortages and stockpiling of ‘essential items’.
Going well this Brexit malarkey isn’t it? Especially so with the latest ‘no deal’ - ‘do or die’ option.
Thank you Prime Minister.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...wth-forecasts/
https://www.businessinsider.com/germ...19-1?r=US&IR=T
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08...the-challenge/
https://www.theguardian.com/business...on-its-germany

Of course, Brexit is the cause of everything.
Global warming/Ebola/Trump tweeting/Katie Price's face falling to bits/England cricket crap.

Tighten them blinkers up RA, the whole world is thriving except us apparently