For us people who live in the 194 countries out of 197 in the world that have adopted the metric system over the last number of decades and centuries, seeing a sign saying 89 cents for a £ is a bit weird. Also feet, your archaic measurement of a foot is based on the size of an English king's foot, ... y'all had a revolution to get rid of the British but still you keep these little fond memories, these little ties that tell the world not only that you are mired in a past world, but also you are mired in a past world.
And Georgia is just north of Turkey if you want a hint of how USAcentric y'all are.
Not that we'all don't enjoy your site. And a LOL to make it a bit nicer.
The smallest Roman measurement, like the smallest Greek, was a finger's-breadth (digitus). As in Greece and elsewhere, 4 of these finger's-breadths formed a palm, and 4 palms made a foot, so there were 16 digiti to a foot.
-Mathematics and Measurement by Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke
70 years into the Empire, Rome kicked the crap out of Engla Land and decided Britain was a better name.
And why would someone in the U.S. pay fifty pee for a half a kilo of the Peach State's peaches? WTF does that even mean?
Think about that the next time you're having a half-liter of beer. Oh. Wait. . . .
For us people who live in the 194 countries out of 197 in the world that have adopted the metric system over the last number of decades and centuries, seeing a sign saying 89 cents for a £ is a bit weird.
ReplyDeleteAlso feet, your archaic measurement of a foot is based on the size of an English king's foot, ... y'all had a revolution to get rid of the British but still you keep these little fond memories, these little ties that tell the world not only that you are mired in a past world, but also you are mired in a past world.
And Georgia is just north of Turkey if you want a hint of how USAcentric y'all are.
Not that we'all don't enjoy your site.
And a LOL to make it a bit nicer.
The smallest Roman measurement, like the smallest
ReplyDeleteGreek, was a finger's-breadth (digitus). As in
Greece and elsewhere, 4 of these finger's-breadths
formed a palm, and 4 palms made a foot, so there
were 16 digiti to a foot.
-Mathematics and Measurement
by Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke
70 years into the Empire, Rome kicked the crap out
of Engla Land and decided Britain was a better name.
And why would someone in the U.S. pay fifty pee
for a half a kilo of the Peach State's peaches?
WTF does that even mean?
Think about that the next time you're having a
half-liter of beer. Oh. Wait. . . .