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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    This is what 2 Mts looks like
    D
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited March 2020
    ..when I was down Sainsbury's (yep, I know ... I'm posh) I was judging the distance in the queue as we mooched around the car park by the length of my shadow. Luckily I had my sextant and a theodolite with me - bit of mental maths, time of day and a star chart later and I was queuing at exactly 2' 6"....
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    In the past we also had imperial politicians, like Michael Foot. Nowadays they are all metric, like the Milliband brothers.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    @Lyn - I don't have any relations that size.   :o

    That's it - we're all doomed Cap'n, doomed I tell you....
    Love it though  ;)

    @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool :D

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Thank you @wild edges that was a thoughtful link and I was paying attention. I will just add another 6" I think because taking exercise shouldn't make your brain ache and my broom handles are shorter than that just so I can use them.

    I haven't been anywhere for the last fortnight yet (am I allowed to say fortnight? Is there a metric equivalent? ) so I'm off to practise in the garden before I venture into reality. I may be gone some time.......
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    herbaceous said:

    (am I allowed to say fortnight? Is there a metric equivalent? ) ..
    The metric fortnight is called a Megasecond, about 12 days.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    What about a Baker's Dozen ... it's not even Imperial, let alone metric ... but it's the best way of counting cakes and sausage rolls  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No.  The French call a fortnight a 15aine - which just shows you how good they are at maths but that's why Napoleon got rid of the old imperial system and made everything a unit of 10.  In fact, it's amazing that they've ever managed any major engineering projects - Concorde, rocketry, TGVs - given that they still count using 4 score for 80 and four score and ten, eleven, twelve all the way to 100.

    @Alan Clark2 love Liverpudlian humour.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I just love these Spoof newspaper reports.
    https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/people-who-highlight-minor-grammar-points-are-amazing-2013082378916?fbclid=IwAR3CiLYq0z8ABPOvcCnHQ1vCIeANe48XDz8mM1dRG-Va39BS6YBQJnh2DOE
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...ok, but you fail to say not just ordinary crisps....probably the best crisps in the world...

    ..didn't one of the French thingies try to stop the use of English terms in French and ban things like Le (le,la, les? I was never good at French - or English for that matter) Weekend. L'inch...Le foot...l'yard - surely terms like that would enhance any language?

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
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