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There's an app for that. I haven't found a good one on android yet but there's an alarm clock that wakes you up at your lightest stage.
 
kellyjdrummer said:
Neon Alarm Free.
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I'd assume it is this one, looks cool
May be the wrong app, there's 50 of the same app =~=
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sfbloodbrother said:
Colour! Here in the states, we spell it Color, I find it interesting that they are the same word spelled differently by different countries.
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Blame Noah Webster and terrible American-British relations.

You should see some of the changes he tried to make but was rejected by the American public...
 
Dngrsone said:
Blame Noah Webster and terrible American-British relations.

You should see some of the changes he tried to make but was rejected by the American public...
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I don't get why Americans have to be so different. I mean the US Customary measurement system???? I'm American and don't understand any of it. It's why I only use metric!
 
Inches, feet, miles, pounds, Fahrenheit... and you use a . in numbers where there should be a , and the other way around.
 
Kaat72 said:
Inches, feet, miles, pounds, Fahrenheit... and you use a . in numbers where there should be a , and the other way around.
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Ounces, cups, quarts, bushels, dozen, barrels, none of that crap makes sense. For example.

How many feet are in 1.63 miles????
Or
How many meters are in 144.67 Km?
Easy take that and multiply!
 
sfbloodbrother said:
I don't get why Americans have to be so different. I mean the US Customary measurement system???? I'm American and don't understand any of it. It's why I only use metric!
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It's known as SAE (Standard American Engineering.)

I agree. I'm a 60 year old American who has been metric specific for 20+ years. 1 through 10. How can that be hard to get? But, it is.

When I switched from road biking to mountain biking, I flipped. Three static wrenches to do 90% of the work on an Ellsworth Distance. Doesn't get easier.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Ounces, cups, quarts, bushels, dozen, barrels, none of that crap makes sense. For example.

How many feet are in 1.63 miles????
Or
How many meters are in 144.67 Km?
Easy take that and multiply!
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Now we're talking. Meters and kilometers :)
 
Ya. It's simple. I'm going to be an engineer so and metric is standard world wide. So I can forget about this American crapp of measurement. No offense tho.
 
Well, the measurement thing is one of the things we kept of the British way of doing things. The Brit's of course switched to the metric system a long time ago. The US tried to switch back in the '70s, but the effort was half-hearted and pretty much went nowhere.
 
Dngrsone said:
Well, the measurement thing is one of the things we kept of the British way of doing things. The Brit's of course switched to the metric system a long time ago. The US tried to switch back in the '70s, but the effort was half-hearted and pretty much went nowhere.
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Yeah. Everyone here is just sooooo used to it that they can't.

I did it in a day.
 
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