I had an accident on my Harley

[Crunchie]

While riding my Harley, I swerved to avoid hitting a roo, lost control and landed in a ditch, severely banging my head.

Dazed and confused I crawled out of the ditch to the edge of the road when a shiny new convertible pulled up with a very beautiful woman who asked, "Are you okay?"
As I looked up, I noticed she was long and lean, she could have been a model.

"I'm okay I think," I replied as I pulled myself up to the side of the car to get a closer look.

She said, “Get in and I’ll take you home so I can clean and bandage that nasty scrape on your head.”

"That's nice of you," I answered, "but I don't think my wife will like me doing that!"

"Oh, come now, I’m a nurse," she insisted. "I need to see if you have any more scrapes and then treat them properly."

Well, she was really pretty and very persuasive. Being sort of shaken and weak, I agreed, but repeated, "I'm sure my wife won't like this."

We arrived at her place which was just few miles away and, after a couple of cold beers and the bandaging, I thanked her and said, "I feel a lot better but I know my wife is going to be really upset so I'd better go now."

"Don't be silly!" she said with a smile. "Stay for a while. I don't mind. By the way, where is she?"

"Still in the ditch with the Harley, I guess."

[rrich]

So good and so bad!

[Old Croc]

[QUOTE=rrich;2130936] (/QUOTE]
When SWMBO said "I won't cook in metric."
The metric system died in the US. :rolleyes:
And that's why you lot consigned yourselves to an infernal system forever ��
Rgds,
Crocy.

[rrich]

[QUOTE=rrich;2130936] (/QUOTE]
When SWMBO said "I won't cook in metric."
The metric system died in the US. :rolleyes:
And that's why you lot consigned yourselves to an infernal system forever ��
Rgds,
Crocy.

Yes, but most of us won't starve either. :)

[damian]

As I've said before metric is for people who can't divide by 12....

[rustynail]

What's divide?

[DavidG]

What's divide? SHR (some will get it, some wont)

[aldav]

As I've said before metric is for people who can't divide by 12....

I suspect that what does their head in damian is that they have to be able to divide by 4, 8, 12, 16, 32 and 64. If you say yard to them after they get their head around that lot they scratch their head and wonder why you've changed the subject and started talking about your house. Whatever you do don't mention chain. :D

SHR?? Yeah, I don't get it. :C

[Jeffen]

Just shift a bit to the right, you should be fine :-)

[AlexS]

As I've said before metric is for people who can't divide by 12....

But it's a dozen times easier.

[rwbuild]

I suspect that what does their head in damian is that they have to be able to divide by 4, 8, 12, 16, 32 and 64. If you say yard to them after they get their head around that lot they scratch their head and wonder why you've changed the subject and started talking about your house. Whatever you do don't mention chain. :D

SHR?? Yeah, I don't get it. :C

or mention rods and perches, try and tackle that one!

[Old Croc]

[QUOTE=Old Croc;2131457]

Yes, but most of us won't starve either. :)
Rich, as you know I come to the US each year and last trip I bought a heap of metric vice versa tape measures. Fancy that, in the US. So I was showing my mate how it was easier to measure and remember 375mm rather than 14" 49/64ths. I rest my case.
Have a lovely day every one,
Rgds,
Crocy.

[rrich]

I hope this doesn't get this sent to the rubber room.

In another life I worked as a rear chainman on a survey crew. A chain by the way is 100 feet or 30.48 metres. Surveying in the US is based upon feet and 1/100 feet.

My survey party chief, or boss, once told me that feet and inches are only used by carpenters and whores. And that was one of the cleanest things that he ever said.

[DavidG]

:peepwall:

[Bohdan]

A chain by the way is 100 feet or 30.48 metres. Surveying in the US is based upon feet and 1/100 feet.

My survey party chief, or boss, once told me that feet and inches are only used by carpenters and whores. And that was one of the cleanest things that he ever said.

Our version of the chain is that it is 22 yards (the length of a cricket pitch) long. It is made up of 100 links so the original chain measurements were decimal.

[damian]

Gils, cubits...

I ran the low pressure lab at the national measurement laboratory for a while decades ago. You have all got it easy. Try doing high res calibrations of pressure instruments and converting on the fly between mmHg, inHg, MPa, KPa, psi, Bar, mmH2O, inH2O and about 20 others I can't even remember anymore....

I was young then and my brain still worked.

[AlexS]

I hope this doesn't get this sent to the rubber room.

In another life I worked as a rear chainman on a survey crew. A chain by the way is 100 feet or 30.48 metres. Surveying in the US is based upon feet and 1/100 feet.

My survey party chief, or boss, once told me that feet and inches are only used by carpenters and whores. And that was one of the cleanest things that he ever said.
Nah, a chain is 100 links, or 66 feet. 100 links to the chain, 10 square chains to the acre, 80 chains to the mile....

[damian]

Nah, a chain is 100 links, or 66 feet. 100 links to the chain, 10 square chains to the acre, 80 chains to the mile....

Unless it isn't:

1 chain [Ramsden, engineer] to feet = 100 feet


1 chain [Gunter, survey] to feet = 66.00013 feet

http://ramsden.info/Ramsden/Ramsdens/RamsdenChain.htm