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This argument is getting a bit punny. I think I need a pint - no wait, it's now 500ml, oh well, the barmaid knows what I drink anyway, so all I really need to do is grunt and pay.....

BTW, a pint is the next step up from a schooner in SA and is 16 fluid ounces, but that would be a schooner in most of the rest of Australia, except it would only be 15 fluid ounces. A ten ounce glass (285ml) is a middy in NSW, a handle in the NT, a pot in Victoria, a schooner in SA, a ten in Tas and a half pint in WA. And if you get it wrong you're looked upon a a complete dunce. I love this country!

And Gav, nobody drinks XXXX through choice. The suggestion that people do is a marketing ploy; it's only drunk at all because they have tied up a large number of sporting venues as exclusively serving the muck. But then, I'm South Australian and grew up on Southwark and West End, so the rest of the country would probably say that my judgement is warped!
 
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If I had a choice between XXXX and KB Lager, it'd be XXXX any day.
BTW, go to the top of the class for your mathematical genius, and summary, of glass sizes.
 
True, although I'm not sure KB is still being made. With luck it has gone the way of Rech's Dinner Ale, which wasn't really ale, couldn't possibly be drunk with dinner and probably should never have been drunk at all......
 
I'm fluent in both metric and imperial. because I was taught both at a relatively young age. Sometimes I even use both systems when drafting my own plans. I've noticed with the younger generations, they often wouldn't have a clue how long a foot or a mile is.
I find imperial feet and inches tends to suit people/house sized things well, sizes keeping to one or two digits. I prefer metric for models because of the small millimeter increment suits the small scale and less than a millimeter often doesn't matter.
As for fractions, only good for division and impossible on a calculator without some rounding errors.
A dozen eggs will equally feed 1, 2 ,3, 4, 6 or 12 people just depends on how hungry you are but I can see why they originally adopted that way of measuring things because it is based on the need to divide in trade etc. Same goes for inches.
Our metric system is often based around physical properties ie: 1 kilogram of water = 1 litre at the temperature of melting ice so it has it's place in scientific calculation.
 
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Then there's always the Baker's Dozen to be added to the equation (but somebody might consider that unlucky!).
 
The bakers dozen is to make up for the one that falls out of the basket into the muck on the street. Dividing by 11 will drive you nuts otherwise.
 
Paradise said:
The bakers dozen is to make up for the one that fell out of the basket into the muck on the street. Dividing by 11 will drive you nuts otherwise.
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How do you mean "will drive you nuts" - I don't need driving there 'cos I arrived there long ago:rofl:
 
What if I lived in a roundhouse, or if I'm not fond of contemporary beige or minimalist decor?
I don't want my home to look like an iPhone app. :shake:
There are three semaphore signals in my lounge room. All home signals of course... :)
 
Gizzy said:
I concur!

I work on equipment supplied by Boeing, but with a significant portion of kit supplied by other OEMs, so we use Metric and Imperial....
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Worked on UK supplied (Westland) aircraft fitted with French radar and US and UK radio/navigation equipment wasn't that fun. 3 different toolkits just to do basic equipment changes.
Not to mention the simulators supplied by the Canadians with OEM kit from every corner of the globe.
 
spoz said:
This argument is getting a bit punny. I think I need a pint - no wait, it's now 500ml, oh well, the barmaid knows what I drink anyway, so all I really need to do is grunt and pay.....

BTW, a pint is the next step up from a schooner in SA and is 16 fluid ounces, but that would be a schooner in most of the rest of Australia, except it would only be 15 fluid ounces. A ten ounce glass (285ml) is a middy in NSW, a handle in the NT, a pot in Victoria, a schooner in SA, a ten in Tas and a half pint in WA. And if you get it wrong you're looked upon a a complete dunce. I love this country!

And Gav, nobody drinks XXXX through choice. The suggestion that people do is a marketing ploy; it's only drunk at all because they have tied up a large number of sporting venues as exclusively serving the muck. But then, I'm South Australian and grew up on Southwark and West End, so the rest of the country would probably say that my judgement is warped!
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You forgot its also a pot in Queensland.
NSW and Qld do have pints as well but hardly anybody drinks them, though they are on special for $5 at my local pub at happy hour.
To avoid being seen as a dunce you could just order stubbies except in SA where they are known as Echos.
West End is drinkable, but Southwark, well the less said is best.
 
I found the safest way, is to just order 'a beer'...... then the onus is on the barman to offer whatever size they have.
 
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