The Metric System

no lols for the sasjag, chet?

Here, have a BS flag

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Didnt see his !

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

Hey, I have a B.S. in economics! Mortal is a big bully .

Gui, you have a B.S. in B.S.

I've been trying to convince my American K*bots counterpart to re-write the rulebook using metric measurements, but American kids still learn the Imperial system!! Bloody backwards-thinking rednecks...

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Physics courses are great here, people complain about metric system .

Gav, that would be a PhD.

The Lopper Wrote:
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> *Ridiculous thread alert*
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> It finally came in handy.
>
> So I'm there buying mince yesterday. Normally I'll
> ask for a pound of mince, and that'll do me for
> one dinner, with a small bit to spare. Since I've
> been working though, I have a bigger lunch at
> midday, and I've been throwing more onions,
> peppers, mushrooms, carrots into my dinners, so a
> pound of mince is just too much. I hit on an idea
> there yesterday though, that a pound of mince
> would almost do me for two dinners these days, but
> it's a bit skimpy on the meat value. Now a pound,
> if you check your pound of butter, turns out to be
> round about 452 grammes...I hit a brainwave, half
> a kilo of mince would probably just about do me
> for two dinners worth. So I went into the deli,
> big smiley head on me, and asked for a half a kilo
> of mince. Perfect.
>
> I feel so European.

The funny thing is that in Germany when you want mince (or meat or other food stuff) you'd always order a pound, half a pound or a quarter pound (which incidentally is exactly 500gr, 250gr or 125gr over here). If you ordered 125gr of mince at your butchers you'd get weird looks. Gram or kilogram are actually only used if you want exactly 167gr or 1.345 kilos.

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Interesting. That's pretty handy actually. Of course, like all good measurement, pounds would have typically varied from place to place, but at this stage the international standard is used here (which was the English standard, so was probably always used)

Standard pound = 453g = 16 ounces

therefore:
Half pound = 227g = 8oz
Quarter pound, as in your quarterpounder burger = 114g = 4oz

There or there abouts.

Of course, I'd never go into a butchers and ask for 125 grammes of anything really, I think you can just about get away with half a kilo without getting something heavy thrown at you.

Even a quarter of a kilo is risky.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2009 04:48PM by The Lopper.

A looong time ago in Brazil I'd order for 215g of mozzarella cheese, about 400g of mini french rolls... it was never a multiple of quarters :P.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/06/2009 01:03AM by Guimengo.

Pics or it never happened Gui, you know the rules. Otherwise we'll have to hoist the BS Flag.

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Especially the French rolls...400g of French rolls sounds downright silly.



RIGHT! This whole thing is getting rather silly!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/06/2009 02:02PM by The Lopper.

mortal Wrote:
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> Pics or it never happened Gui, you know the rules.
> Otherwise we'll have to hoist the BS Flag.

Someone should get that onto the official forums thing

mortal back in that day I didn't even use a computer, much less a camera . Loppernicus, that would come up to about 20 mini rolls, I then devoured most of them the same night :P.

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