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Old 02-06-2009, 09:01 AM   #1516
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To create amusement for anyone who gets the privilege of watching you hop/hobble around like a numpty?
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Old 02-06-2009, 09:52 AM   #1517
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Do people realize how SIMPLE the metric system is. We are so used to using BASE 10 numbers... measuring everything that way would be so much easier. The 2-2-4 thing wouldn't be needed any more. You just have to remember a few prefixes and you've got it. My only probably would be the temperature scale, since the number just seem so close together for such big differences. But, I could get used to that to get the benefits of all the other.

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Old 02-06-2009, 10:06 AM   #1518
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This is also like another MANDATED thing that has never happened, that is

STOP PRINTING THE $1 NOTE!

But, once again, similar to your wife and metric everyone thinks there is just no way they could get along without it. How it will be such a chore to carry $1 coins...

I think some people don't like change.

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Do people realize how SIMPLE the metric system is. We are so used to using BASE 10 numbers... measuring everything that way would be so much easier. The 2-2-4 thing wouldn't be needed any more. You just have to remember a few prefixes and you've got it. My only probably would be the temperature scale, since the number just seem so close together for such big differences. But, I could get used to that to get the benefits of all the other.
I never did see why the C system was better than the F system for temperature. They both are totally arbitrary. Sure I know that the C system has a multiple of 10 between water freezing and boiling (at sea level on a standard atmospheric day) but those are both arbitrarily selected points. Why not a more regal system like the melting & boiling point of gold.

Also as Bob says the F system allows for finer measures since one degree F is smaller than one degree C.
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Old 02-06-2009, 11:47 AM   #1519
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The patterns you can buy in the UK are generally multi-lingual - English and French or English and Spanish, or all three, being common combinations. The measurements given in English are in imperial, in the other languages metric.

The reason I'm mentioning this is because it's utterly infuriating when you note down the amount of fabric you need from the English instructions, only to discover that every fabric shop in the country sells fabric by the meter. Especially as clothes sizes are different between the UK and various European mainland countries...
I thought they still used rulers - though I do remember watching in a John Lewis store a sale assistant using a measuring reel that was clamped to the table and the cloth was pulled through a slot that both measured and cut the length required...
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Old 02-06-2009, 02:06 PM   #1520
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Would you pick the damn ice cube off the floor after you drop it.

Don't just leave it to melt into a little puddle.

I hate walking into the kitchen and stepping in your little ice cube remnant puddles! ARGH! It is the worst when I am just in stocking feet... then I have to go change my socks.

PICK UP THE ICE CUBE !!!
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Old 02-06-2009, 02:12 PM   #1521
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Please close that door!

If you open a cabinet to get something out of it, then close it when you are done. It's not hard... Its very simple. It drives me crazy to walk into a room and have the door under the sink open...

Just close it... you can use your knee for the love of Pete!

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Old 02-06-2009, 02:19 PM   #1522
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Would you pick the damn ice cube off the floor after you drop it.

Don't just leave it to melt into a little puddle.

I hate walking into the kitchen and stepping in your little ice cube remnant puddles! ARGH! It is the worst when I am just in stocking feet... then I have to go change my socks.

PICK UP THE ICE CUBE !!!
It's worse stepping in a puddle when you live singly, KNOW you haven't dropped any ice cubes ..... but you DO have dogs.
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Old 02-06-2009, 02:38 PM   #1523
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It's worse stepping in a puddle when you live singly, KNOW you haven't dropped any ice cubes ..... but you DO have dogs.
Ew!

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Old 02-06-2009, 02:45 PM   #1524
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Poor BOb! At least no one put the orange juice container back in the fridge when there was only a smidgen left.

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Old 02-06-2009, 02:54 PM   #1525
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I just pulled out an excedrin bottle with nothing in it. How stupid is THAT?

An guess who is the only one who uses Excedrin in this house?
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Old 02-06-2009, 03:07 PM   #1526
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I just pulled out an excedrin bottle with nothing in it. How stupid is THAT?

An guess who is the only one who uses Excedrin in this house?
Maybe someone ELSE got it for you, the last time it was used, and put it back empty. See? Then you don't have to blame yourself!
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Old 02-06-2009, 03:08 PM   #1527
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Poor BOb! At least no one put the orange juice container back in the fridge when there was only a smidgen left.

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That doesn't so much bother me. I don't like clutter. And closing the cabinet door is such a simple thing to do.

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Old 02-06-2009, 03:23 PM   #1528
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No one in my family closes cereal boxes right. They don't squish down the plastic and don't close the lid. Drives me CRAZY.

I get really heated about grocery carts though. WALK 20 FEET AND PUT IT IN THE CORRAL!!!
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Old 02-06-2009, 03:54 PM   #1529
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I thought they still used rulers - though I do remember watching in a John Lewis store a sale assistant using a measuring reel that was clamped to the table and the cloth was pulled through a slot that both measured and cut the length required...
They do - but the rulers are in metric only

None of the John Lewises I've bought fabric in have had that device. Then again - it's been a while since I've been there, as I have a cheaper and better place as close...
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I feel the same way about cabinets AND drawers that are left slightly open. Go ahead and close them the rest of the way, please.

And please don't lean against the wall or door frame when you are taking off your shoes, because it leaves a mark.
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