Groundhog Thread Part Deux - P-39 Fantasy and Fetish - The Never Ending Story (Mods take no responsibility for head against wall injuries sustained)

[pbehn]

Isn't that akin to furlongs per fortnite?

Don't go there, bi-weekly and bi-monthly are the same thing, fortnightly.

 

[swampyankee]

In the US, for a great many years land was measured with a chain of exact length which laid on the ground, but since the use of transits and optical measuring, the property lines of old established land are being moved. Differing measuring systems have always caused difficulty. Rifles of US and UK manufacture have the rear sites marked in yards, while European rifles were in meters, and Russian rifles were in Arshins.

Until the middle third of the 20th Century, British inches and US inches were different.

 

[special ed]

Is that only in the bedroom?

 

[swampyankee]

Is that only in the bedroom?

Obviously, American inches were larger, except in Texas

 

[pbehn]

Obviously, American inches were larger, except in Texas

Ive got twelve inches, but I don't use it as a rule.

 

[Ivan1GFP]

14 pounds = 1 stone
8 stones = 1 hundredweight
20 hundred weight = 1 ton

20 x 8 x 14 = 2,240 lbs

Couldn't be any easier!

Hmmmm.... So a Hundred Weight doesn't really have a "hundred" of ANYTHING.....

Makes perfect sense!

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Just the super-power countries not using metric now; U.S. of A, Myanmar and Liberia

Guess that means we've got an uphill battle ahead, freeing the world from the the tyranny of metricism, but we know we can rely on our allies!

 

[pbehn]

Hmmmm.... So a Hundred Weight doesn't really have a "hundred" of ANYTHING.....

Makes perfect sense!

I do wish people would pay attention, a hundred weight has 112 pounds that's why its called a hundredweight.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Now that everyone has taken the bait, maybe we can stop beating this dead horse.

AMEN

 

[Peter Gunn]

I do wish people would pay attention, a hundred weight has 112 pounds that's why its called a hundredweight.

At that point, is it a 'Royal' Fizzbin or just a regular Fizzbin?

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Now that everyone has taken the bait, maybe we can stop beating this dead horse. If P-39's were great, we would see a lot more of them as collectibles.

AMEN!

 

[pbehn]

At that point, is it a 'Royal' Fizzbin or just a regular Fizzbin?

Obviously a long Fizzbin, a short hundredweight has 100 pounds.

 

[Peter Gunn]

Obviously a long Fizzbin, a short hundredweight has 100 pounds.

My bad, thanks for the enlightenment.

Except how many Fizzs' in a bin?

 

[fubar57]

Am I ever glad I went to England after the farthings and shillings had been dispensed with, crazy British money!!!!!

 

[Ivan1GFP]

My bad, thanks for the enlightenment.

Except how many Fizzs' in a bin?

Are y'all using the rules from Beta Antares or just the simplified ones that Kirk was using?

- Spork.

 

[pbehn]

Am I ever glad I went to England after the farthings and shillings had been dispensed with, crazy British money!!!!!

Well there were 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound, life must be hell for those who find it complicated. how do they tell the time with 60 seconds in a minute 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day? And lets not even consider the 360 degrees in a circle.

 

[Ascent]

If your money is decimal when everything else is imperial your heart is obviously not in it. When we used imperial units everything was imperial including the money.

 

[pbehn]

If your money is decimal when everything else is imperial your heart is obviously not in it. When we used imperial units everything was imperial including the money.

For me they all changed over at about the same time late sixties early seventies.

 

[wuzak]

Until the middle third of the 20th Century, British inches and US inches were different.

Imperial measurements are now defined by their relationship to their metric equivalent.

So the inch is defined as 0.0254m.
1lb = ‪0.453592‬kg.

etc.

 

[Milosh]

Now this has to be the hijack of all thread hijacks.