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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

LV426 said:
Yeah, particularly as this is a French car, and those crazy Euro types are obsessed with metric aren't they? We left the EU to preserve our imperial units dammit! :)
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Meh, I can convert feet, pints and pounds into real units, and know approximately how long a mile is, but that's about it. For the rest you may as well be using cubits or whatever the ancient Greeks used.

And my kids generation barely know what a foot is, though I have explained that it's approximately 1 light-nanosecond...

The "pint" is a recipe for confusion though, since that's 20 fluid ounces in the UK and 16 in the US - though as they have slightly different definitions of the fluid ounce even that isn't the full story.
 
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Ah... but when you are talking booze... we, as Americans, let the industry lie to us. A gallon contains less than 128 oz and and so on down through the typical half pint, pint, fifth, quart.. etc. We don't care.. we still buy our fifth of Jack and are happy. For what it's worth... a pint of booze in the US contains 12.7 oz... not 16 oz... 375 ml
 
olbriar said:
Ah... but when you are talking booze... we, as Americans, let the industry lie to us. A gallon contains less than 128 oz and and so on down through the typical half pint, pint, fifth, quart.. etc. We don't care.. we still buy our fifth of Jack and are happy. For what it's worth... a pint of booze in the US contains 12.7 oz... not 16 oz... 375 ml
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Actually a lot of our canned / bottled beverages are metric nowadays. We just read the ounce part. Wather bottle are now 16.9 OZ (500mL). Booze as @olbriar mentioned. My job I still do a lot of measuring in links, rods, hectares, etc. :rolleyes:
 
mikedt said:
But you drive your car and observe speed limits in miles-per-hour(MPH). :thumbsupdroid:

I like confusing them sometimes, when they're enquiring about my weight. 13 stone 3 pounds. And it's often a good subject for a culture lesson about the UK.

BTW ever tried to be clever and attempted buy something like curtain material specified in centimetres, it's still very much yards, feet and inches for that I'm sure in the UK. In Hong Kong supposed to be metric, I have a suit or shirt or something made. they measure me in feet and inches.
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I learned how to read stones as weight. I liked Dick Francis mysteries which all revolved around horses and/or jockeys. Jockeys do go by weight and he wrote all weight in stones.
 
Dngrsone said:
... and would it kill anyone to design a website that did not depend on white?
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Yes, deaths attributed to being non white is only surpassed by the mosquito.
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At least I can see to log in. That's an improvement.

I don't mind the format too much as long as I don't see an m in the address bar. I've had enough of that on a phone when I have desktop selected.

There are differences. I've been on some sites on the phone and computer at the same time. The Mobile site always looks like it's missing something.
 
Got more rain on the way this weekend.

My roof was still leaking Tuesday.

I pray they at least cover it with a tarp this time. The damage is quite significant. I'm sure there is a ton of mold too in the ceiling and wall where the leak is coming in.

Good thing it doesn't cost much to file with Justice of the Peace. I've got a ton of evidence and plenty of correspondence.

I'm one angry lady.
 
LG grinds my gears their the wost company to develop for with their damn morning call stuff
 
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