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WCDT: 2226-2230 (9-13 July 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread (SDCC Edition 1)
PHDrillSergeant:
I envision that Dora and Tai WILL start getting into it, but there is the slight problem of Tai's piercing.
(a) she goes to get a dental damn and kills the mood
(b) she forgets the dental dam and gets an infection.
VonKleist:
lol wasn't that forever ago?
no one special:
--- Quote from: Skaltura on 08 Jul 2012, 23:55 ---Because we're apparently all about the tangents here, my favourite unit is the Outhouse aka one microbarn. :angel:
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"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!"
--- Quote from: snubnose on 08 Jul 2012, 23:42 ---Fahrenheit ? Seriously ? I'm expected to subtract 32, divide through 9, mulitply by 5, all in my head ? Just because you want to freeze water at 32 and boil it at 200-something ? Gah.
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The interesting thing is that Britain only started switching to the metric system in 1965, and didn't start issuing mandatory orders for the switch until 1978. So it's not like like America has been this longstanding bastion for imperial unit supremacy - even Britain only made it mandatory 30 years ago - and imperial units are still widespread over there. Interesting.
pwhodges:
Just for fun, the UK's Traffic Signs Manual requires that roadworks warning signs are placed at 200m intervals, and simultaneously requires that the signs contain indications in multiples of 200 yards.
Boxilar:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Jul 2012, 11:53 ---Just for fun, the UK's Traffic Signs Manual requires that roadworks warning signs are placed at 200m intervals, and simultaneously requires that the signs contain indications in multiples of 200 yards.
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That sounds like fun. I think we've mostly abandoned the metric system for the U.S. highway system. Road signs only have distances and speed limits in miles now.
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