Please explain Hitcher

[martybabe]

Standardise shmanderdise, no one is completely metric or imperial are they ?

My kids have been metric all their lives, but when asked they are 6 foot 2 inches and fourteen stone or whatever.

At the timber yard I get 3 metre lengths of of 2x4 (inches). The chap doing my fence is running it from 1.8 metres down to 4 foot.

What happened to hundred weights.

My wife travels in KGs as in, I was doing 95 kilograms an hour in a 100 Kilogram zone.

Don't blame us we're poms, distance is measured in miles but if you sell veges in Pounds and ounces you get locked up. Whatever works for you I say

[Badjelly]

What happened to hundred weights?

You know, I'd completely forgotten them! We were taught about them in my youth, and they were in fairly common use, I think. In case any of you young-uns doesn't know what the hell we're talking about, here's the word from Wikipedia:

* In Imperial units, a hundredweight ('long') is defined as 112 pounds avoirdupois, or 8 stone, or four quarters (50.80234544 kg). This is so close to 50 kg that the transition to metric equivalents has been easy.
* In U.S. customary units, a hundredweight ('short') is defined as 100 pounds (equivalent to 45.359237 kg). The short hundredweight is also the normal hundredweight in Canada.
o The short hundredweight is also called a cental, especially in places which normally use the long hundredweight.

Easy, eh? Just remember the "hundred" in hundredweight means 112. Or 100 for the short one, which is the normal one in Canada.

Edit: Oops, I forgot to mention the old hundred, which was 108.

[Ixion]

You know, I'd completely forgotten them! We were taught about them in my youth, and they were in fairly common use, I think. In case any of you young-uns doesn't know what the hell we're talking about, here's the word from Wikipedia:

* In Imperial units, a hundredweight ('long') is defined as 112 pounds avoirdupois, or 8 stone, or four quarters (50.80234544 kg). This is so close to 50 kg that the transition to metric equivalents has been easy.
* In U.S. customary units, a hundredweight ('short') is defined as 100 pounds (equivalent to 45.359237 kg). The short hundredweight is also the normal hundredweight in Canada.
o The short hundredweight is also called a cental, especially in places which normally use the long hundredweight.

Easy, eh? Just remember the "hundred" in hundredweight means 112. Or 100 for the short one, which is the normal one in Canada.

See ! It is just SO easy. Each cwt contains four (duh) quarters. hell, even an Aussie could grasp that. And each quarter has two stones. Well, duh, again, how many do *you* have? Hardly likely to forget that , are you? And everybody knows that a stone weighs 14 lb, so it's just basic arithmetic.

And Canadians have always been short , in lots of ways, eh?

[Clockwork]

That's pretty good. Retort when I think of one.

I didn't wish to offend you BD but I figured an Aussie living in NZ would be bound to have a pretty thick skin.

[mynameis]

I remember many years ago being forced to change from imperial to metric. I was maybe 5 at the time and after graduating from Kindergarten wondered what the point is of learning if they are going to change the rules all the time. Needless to say I left school on my 15th birthday.

35 years later, these pricks still can't make up their mind.

Take for example the following article in the Waikato Times.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...-gunshot-wound

"The offender is described as a male Maori, of stocky build, about six foot tall."

Make up your mind.

P.S. I hope they shot the prick.

Sound pretty young mate, you wouldn't know what 6 foot is Finn, com on hahaha

Most babies now are "graded" in metric, but ah yes, the old 42DD.... (me by the way) Imagine the tongues hanging out if a bra size was 106.68DD

42DD I don't believe it, show me your tits.