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[Punkawallah]

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Horse racing? Furlongs. Planed wood? 2.4m lengths, which is 8’ (actually less than, but the wood was 8’ before it was processed). It’s always struck me as curious that the ‘metric set’ are so obstinate over its usage, yet happily use 24 hour days with 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes . . .

 

[Profpointy]

Horse racing? Furlongs. Planed wood? 2.4m lengths, which is 8’ (actually less than, but the wood was 8’ before it was processed). It’s always struck me as curious that the ‘metric set’ are so obstinate over its usage, yet happily use 24 hour days with 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes . . .

Car tyre sizes are fun too. Mine are 17" x 205mm

And even more so there's this account of the absurd hodge podge of units used in the (American dominated) oil industry. Often different units used for the same thing for different parts of the oil platform


View: https://youtu.be/sdWEGzWFcCc?si=jR0rLM48fqbzNFoo

 

[Dogtrousers]

It’s always struck me as curious that the ‘metric set’ are so obstinate over its usage, yet happily use 24 hour days with 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes . . .

That's all the fault of the bloody Babylonians foisting their highly composite base 60 system on us. It's time we took back control and returned to measuring time by sacred rowan leaves.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Car tyre sizes are fun too. Mine are 17" x 205mm

Not always, a couple of my Land-Rovers had 7.50 x 16
2 friends had both of theirs on 9.00 x 16

 

[prestonhere]

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Not always, a couple of my Land-Rovers had 7.50 x 16
2 friends had both of theirs on 9.00 x 16

Cross ply tyres were English
Radials metric

 

[cisamcgu]

Horse racing? Furlongs. Planed wood? 2.4m lengths, which is 8’ (actually less than, but the wood was 8’ before it was processed). It’s always struck me as curious that the ‘metric set’ are so obstinate over its usage, yet happily use 24 hour days with 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes . . .

What on Earth is the 'metric set' ?

 

[Mike Ayling]

Horse racing? Furlongs. Planed wood? 2.4m lengths, which is 8’ (actually less than, but the wood was 8’ before it was processed). It’s always struck me as curious that the ‘metric set’ are so obstinate over its usage, yet happily use 24 hour days with 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes . . .

Here in Oz the horses run metric distances but luckily a furlong is pretty close to 200 metres.

 

[Alex321]

What on Earth is the 'metric set' ?

I was wondering that too.

 

[Dogtrousers]

What on Earth is the 'metric set' ?

One of these?

 

[Punkawallah]

Here in Oz the horses run metric distances but luckily a furlong is pretty close to 200 metres.

You mean 200m is pretty close to a furlong ;-)

 

[Punkawallah]

What on Earth is the 'metric set' ?

I take it you’ve heard of the ‘jet set’, the ‘in crowd’, the ‘lanyard classes’? It’s the sort of shorthand expression coined in English to describe people of a particular bent. In this case, people who champion the cause of Metrification. A sub set of the whole world bar America and Britain, usually found decrying the use of furlongs in horse racing, when 201.2m is much more accurate, and dobbing-in butchers for selling sausages by the pound (yes, I know it’s changed). Related to people who only want Welsh language place name signs in Wales, and unrelated to the programming crowd who enjoy the use of the ‘firkin/furlong/fortnight’ system of measurements.

 

[Alex321]

I take it you’ve heard of the ‘jet set’, the ‘in crowd’, the ‘lanyard classes’? It’s the sort of shorthand expression coined in English to describe people of a particular bent. In this case, people who champion the cause of Metrification. A sub set of the whole world bar America and Britain, usually found decrying the use of furlongs in horse racing, when 201.2m is much more accurate, and dobbing-in butchers for selling sausages by the pound (yes, I know it’s changed). Related to people who only want Welsh language place name signs in Wales, and unrelated to the programming crowd who enjoy the use of the ‘firkin/furlong/fortnight’ system of measurements.

So nothing to do with any actual real group of people then.

And incidentally, while I did hear the term "jet set" in the 70's, and the "in crowd", I hav e never gheard the term "lanyard classe".

 

[Punkawallah]

So nothing to do with any actual real group of people then.

And incidentally, while I did hear the term "jet set" in the 70's, and the "in crowd", I hav e never gheard the term "lanyard classe".

Very much real, I’m afraid. Just not necessarily known to you. ‘There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your Philosophy, Horatio’.
If you can’t ‘get down with the kids’ and keep up with current jargon, perhaps it’s time to take a road trip?

 

[Mike Ayling]

You mean 200m is pretty close to a furlong ;-)

That too.

 

[Dogtrousers]

So nothing to do with any actual real group of people then.

And incidentally, while I did hear the term "jet set" in the 70's, and the "in crowd", I hav e never gheard the term "lanyard classe".

You'll be telling me you've never heard of the anglepoise caste next.