Metric? Imperial?... Who Cares!!!!

[Catfish Virgin (Still!)]

Went fishing today:

• Filled up with 30 Litres of petrol
• Drove about 25 Miles
• Set up a 10 Metre pole
• And a 12 Foot rod
• Used 2ml pellets in a 20 gram feeder
• Also used about 1kg of groundbait
• And 1 Pint of maggots
• Using 8lb line
• Caught about a dozen carp up to 10lb
• In approx 7 feet of water

European Union......No Chance.

[pingu]

and british records still in lb and oz



and more importantly beer is in pints !!!!!!

[esaa]

God bless the Imperial Pound and long may it last! After all, I weigh hundreds and hundreds of them according to my bathroom scales!

[Greenheart]

Anyone win a few Guinea's in the Cheltenham gold cup? & if not how many Furlongs did your horse make it before it fell?.........

[Vagabond]

Originally Posted by pingu

and more importantly beer is in pints !!!!!!

Yes, and a good reason to sticking to that is that a pint is 0.568 litres -thats about six medium swallows (unless you have a mouth like this guy )

If ever we go metric in the pubs, the "equivalent" of a pint will be half a litre ie 0.5 litres, which is only about five swallows.

Bet we will still be charged the same price though. .

[Catfish Virgin (Still!)]

Originally Posted by pingu

and more importantly beer is in pints !!!!!!

And long may it stay that way.

The Brewing Industry has a system all of it's own, a version of "Imperial" but based on "9".

Beer is delivered in a standard "Firkin" of 9 gallons or a "Kilderkin" of 18 gallons. Brewery capacity is measured in "Brewers Barrels" (1 barrel = 4 Firkins). God help anyone who tries to change the industry?

Unfortunately we do supply bottled beer in 500ml bottles although some do keep to the pint bottles (568ml).

[Everlands]

... and when it's hot we measure the temperature in Fahrenheit, but when it's cold we measure it in Centigrade ... ;)


Andy

[wellyfish]

when cooking a steak one night at the restaurant the waitress ask me what was the difference between medium and rare , i told her medium was 6 inches , dropped my trousers and said .........rare is 9 inches ....sorry peeps

[Everlands]

... to which she said "looks more like a Minute Steak"

Geddit?