the pint is saved!
Dunno if this is good or bad really.
the pint is saved!
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They (The Establishment) use sex as an addiction for control, just as they use alcohol and drugs ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
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As is the case for the US, but more so for the UK, it's merely about tradition and the keeping of the heritage or whatever you want to call it. Has its charms I s'pose....
But easy to use, practical etc? Naah. Now if 1 pint were composed of 1000 millipints, on the other hand
Logic doesn't always prevail. Even in the rest of the world:
why is an hour = 60 mintes; or a minute = 60 seconds? Why are there 24 hours in a day?
I say we go for 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute.
Might make it 10 months a year too, while we're at it.
Unfortunately, the year will have to have 365 days - i don't see how to get around that one.
But easy to use, practical etc? Naah. Now if 1 pint were composed of 1000 millipints, on the other hand
Logic doesn't always prevail. Even in the rest of the world:
why is an hour = 60 mintes; or a minute = 60 seconds? Why are there 24 hours in a day?
I say we go for 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute.
Might make it 10 months a year too, while we're at it.
Unfortunately, the year will have to have 365 days - i don't see how to get around that one.
Immodium for the people
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Yeah, and ya know why we have 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes in an hour - and seconds and minutes in degrees etc.? - Down to an olde numbering system based on units of sixty instead of ten (i.e. Decimal) - All thanks to our chums in what is now Baghdad/Iraq! - Apparently that is where 'Civilisation' started! - Funny that eh?!more-sedatives-pls wrote:As is the case for the US, but more so for the UK, it's merely about tradition and the keeping of the heritage or whatever you want to call it. Has its charms I s'pose....
But easy to use, practical etc? Naah. Now if 1 pint were composed of 1000 millipints, on the other hand
Logic doesn't always prevail. Even in the rest of the world:
why is an hour = 60 mintes; or a minute = 60 seconds? Why are there 24 hours in a day?
I say we go for 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute.
Might make it 10 months a year too, while we're at it.
Unfortunately, the year will have to have 365 days - i don't see how to get around that one.
They (The Establishment) use sex as an addiction for control, just as they use alcohol and drugs ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
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\HOLLY: I'm not bored. I've had a really busy morning. I've devised a
system to totally revolutionize music.
LISTER: Get out of town!
HOLLY: Yeah, I've decimalized it. Instead of the octave, it's the
decatave. And I've invented two new notes: H and J.
LISTER: Hang on a minute, you can't just invent new notes.
HOLLY: Well I have. Now it goes: (Singing) Do Re Mi Fa So La Wo Bo Ti
Do. Do Ti Bo Wo La So Fa Mi Re Do.
RIMMER: What are you drivelling about?
HOLLY: Holrock. It'll be a whole new sound. All the instruments will be
extra big to incorporate my two new notes. Triangles will have four
sides. Piano keyboards the length of zebra crossings. Course, women
will have to be banned from playing the cello.
\HOLLY: I'm not bored. I've had a really busy morning. I've devised a
system to totally revolutionize music.
LISTER: Get out of town!
HOLLY: Yeah, I've decimalized it. Instead of the octave, it's the
decatave. And I've invented two new notes: H and J.
LISTER: Hang on a minute, you can't just invent new notes.
HOLLY: Well I have. Now it goes: (Singing) Do Re Mi Fa So La Wo Bo Ti
Do. Do Ti Bo Wo La So Fa Mi Re Do.
RIMMER: What are you drivelling about?
HOLLY: Holrock. It'll be a whole new sound. All the instruments will be
extra big to incorporate my two new notes. Triangles will have four
sides. Piano keyboards the length of zebra crossings. Course, women
will have to be banned from playing the cello.
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The guys that came up with the French revolution also went for that, there's still some decimal clocks lingering in Paris. (according to wiki that's not even the only decimal clock )more-sedatives-pls wrote:I say we go for 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute.
Might make it 10 months a year too, while we're at it.
And new the names they invented for months were truly poetic (think poets came up with those).
On topic: Don't mind pints, but at least do distances and lengths the regular way, miles and yards and feet and inches mean nowt to me
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Not too bad, as a pint is slightly more than 1/2 litre (0.568l actually). And who can say no to some extra beer ?Pista wrote: the pint is saved!
Round here, when you order "a pint", what you get is in fact 1/2 litre. What a rip-off !
I'd end this moment to be with you
Through morphic oceans I'd lay here with you
Through morphic oceans I'd lay here with you
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Not bad and not good.....simple when you will drink a pint of beer, you will tell me:" yeah, i drunk about half-litre", but you will be drunk in the same way
thanks...my Lord...i'm unbeliver
tear up your pants for psicho...and jump on him
tear up your pants for psicho...and jump on him
Would be more convenient for us "Europeans" (isn't it great how people in the UK & Ireland always refer to us like that - as if they live on a different continent altogether!), but then you'd have nothing to laugh about. Like Toyah Willcox trying to sell the French pork scratchings (C'est quoi? Un cochon qui se gratte?). Priceless.
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The reasoning for 60 minutes, and 24 hours, is their amount of factors.
60 divides evenly by:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60
24 divides evenly by:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24
Think that's about it...
60 divides evenly by:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60
24 divides evenly by:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24
Think that's about it...
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i think bottles and glasses are the same every where
thanks...my Lord...i'm unbeliver
tear up your pants for psicho...and jump on him
tear up your pants for psicho...and jump on him
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once they're empty, it's crap.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
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Well, just in case anyone ever asks you Z - you're approx 7 and a half miles tallObviousman wrote:miles and yards and feet and inches mean nowt to me
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
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I knew thatboudicca wrote:Well, just in case anyone ever asks you Z - you're approx 7 and a half miles tallObviousman wrote:miles and yards and feet and inches mean nowt to me
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Obviousman wrote:I knew thatboudicca wrote:Well, just in case anyone ever asks you Z - you're approx 7 and a half miles tallObviousman wrote:miles and yards and feet and inches mean nowt to me
...and I'm 6 and a half - w000t! *Does a little dance*
Yeah - in maturity level, too...
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Yes, but dearest, *you* can fit neatly on other people's laps... *Sigh*boudicca wrote:Yeah, and I fcukin hate both of you!
*stands up straight and puts big fuckoff shoes on*
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SINsister wrote:Yes, but dearest, *you* can fit neatly on other people's laps... *Sigh*boudicca wrote:Yeah, and I fcukin hate both of you!
*stands up straight and puts big fuckoff shoes on*
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unfortunately that's not quite the done thing in my case!
i'll sit on yours, sinny, though
i'll sit on yours, sinny, though
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
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*snuggle*
lots of boys have been jealous of my a. being hugged by girls because b. i'm mostly on eye level with cleavage, and tend to get squished into them.
lots of boys have been jealous of my a. being hugged by girls because b. i'm mostly on eye level with cleavage, and tend to get squished into them.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
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SINsister wrote:Yes, but dearest, *you* can fit neatly on other people's laps... *Sigh*boudicca wrote:Yeah, and I fcukin hate both of you!
*stands up straight and puts big fuckoff shoes on*
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
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*Snuggles back* The boys deserve to be jealous, dear Ems!emilystrange wrote:*snuggle*
lots of boys have been jealous of my a. being hugged by girls because b. i'm mostly on eye level with cleavage, and tend to get squished into them.
I left my heart in Ballycastle...