The Last Post Game!!!!

[Vita Curator]

Very cold this morning and I refuse to turn the heat on yet, but I shouldn't complain when I see what Kat is going through today in her neck of the woods.

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[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

We turned the furnace on yesterday.

I'm looking forward to winter.  City-stopping blizzards aside, I still generally think of "snow" as something that implies "play".   

Last besides, the way things are going, we might not have it in a few decades Post

[Swatopluk]

20°C in mid-October doesn't look like winter to me yet.

Winter it will be when I freeze at Last while leaning to a Post.

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Just passing through to take the last post...

Not back in Germany yet, but spending some time in a net-cafe gave me the idea to stop by...

Will be fully online on Monday...

Till then:

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[anthrobabe]

So nice here in AR this am
low 40's, clear and absolutely perfect

I can't wait until it really cools down

now what would make the day even better?
OH the Last Post
for me
well    OK  i accept

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Farenheit confuses me.  I can do quick conversions in my head, but temperature doesn't really have any meaning for me until I translate it to Celsius (or "real" as I think of it).

Of course, my major beef with Imperial measurement is with pounds - why oh why did you have to use the same name for your force and mass units?  Didn't you realize you were consigning generations of engineers to use units like "slugs per foot" and "poundals"?

They're forecasting a high of 8 here... or 46 for the folks to the South.  :-)

Last "low 40s" means hot-like-Death-Valley to me Post

[anthrobabe]

do they use stone where you are? do they use it anywhere now- or is everyone using kilos?

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[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

No, not stone, but pounds are still fairly common (do Americans use "stone"?  I've only heard the term from British sources).  And yards/feet/inches (but not miles) for length.

Last crazy mess of metric and Imperial Post

[anthrobabe]

nope Americans use pounds and ounces and degrees F.

I'd only heard it from British too- guess I was putting that together with using celsius and was thinking Europe, course Britian is not the all of Europe.

[Aggie]

Pounds for people, produce, meat, and things in bags (anything from sugar to sand).

Ounces for steaks, and consumer amounts of pot in BC (Alberta uses grams; BC also uses kg).  Grams for small amounts of dry goods like pasta, cereal, spices, and hard drugs AFAIK.  Not sure on 'shrooms.

All small liquid measurements in ml/litres, except portable gasoline cans, large water jugs, coffee and fountain pop (both oz and ml).... larger measurements in gallons.  Propane in USWG.  Large oilpatch tanks are in bbl.   Meters are overtaking yards for length, but feet and inches are still most popular, particularily for height.

That's consumer/colloquial use, mind you, not official.

Last mishmash post.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

I'm not sure if people count as "meat" or "things in bags".  Depends on the fashion sense of the person in question, I suppose.   

One interesting event happened during the switchover from Imperial to metric when the wrong conversion factor was used to calculate the fuel load for an airliner (the plane ended up landing on a runway that had been converted into a racetrack... while a race was in progress.  The whole story is here).

And there was that whole Mars Polar Lander thing too.  Common units would make everything simpler.  And they'd mean we'd only have to buy one set of tools to work on our cars.

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[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

True, though I sort of like pounds and things like that. But that's what I was raised with, so go figure.

About 75* F around here. I love it like this, if it was like this all year 'round, I'd never leave.

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[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Unified fasteners in cars?  What EVER is a shade-tree mechanic to do, if there ISN'T a mish-mash of English/Metric bolt-heads to strip off?  Sometimes a mix of the two on the same engine.  CERTAINLY within the car.

At least for cars sold here in the USofA, since the 80's or so.  At that time, the "big three" automakers began to outsource their engines, who used metric-only fasteners.  But, the USA-made car bodies were still being assembled with Imperial fasteners.

Still being done like this today ...

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[Vita Curator]

Just running in to quickly and breathlessly grab...

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[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Unified fasteners in cars?  What EVER is a shade-tree mechanic to do, if there ISN'T a mish-mash of English/Metric bolt-heads to strip off?  Sometimes a mix of the two on the same engine.  CERTAINLY within the car.

When I went to replace my tie rod ends a few weeks ago, I found out that my car has a mix of metric and footric on the same PART.

Last Torx-head fasteners are still my favourite, though Post.