Guess where this is

[fred]

Any one in to orienteering???

Guess where the sign is, going by the distances shown to the various places.

[Jaberwoc]

Any one in to orienteering???

Guess where the sign is, going by the distances shown to the various places.
An Out And out guess Fred ... Lands End, that should start the ball rolling. ;) :D

[brett]

Capetown.

[amb141]

English measurements aren't good enough for the South Africans now? Just say "NEVER" to the metric system!

alan

[Gruss]

George.

[fred]

:D You guys crack me up..............great responses......

see the answer in attach. (The guy is on a tour and sent these back)

Fred

[robarro]

English measurements aren't good enough for the South Africans now? Just say "NEVER" to the metric system!

alan
why on earth would you say that alan. by trade i'm a woodworker and i sure wish the US would switch over!!!! metric is so much easier than the inch,foot,yard,mile system. it doesn't take a rocket scientist to -- times 10

[amb141]

Roy

In all seriousness ... I have been a carpenter, among many other things and I can eyeball a 2x4 to within a couple of inches to the 12 foot stick. I can add, subtract to 64ths in my head without even thinking about it. Even so, that is just what I am used to and I suppose I could get used to metric linear measurements.

It is other measurements, particularly temperature, where metric leaves me, er, cold.

It is all very nice that water boils at 100 degrees c and freezes at 0, but who cares? When I want to decide what to wear in the morning it is nice that we have a system that is set up to be meaningful to human beings, not water. 100 degrees F. is damned hot and over 100 is unbleepingbearable. 75 degrees is nice and balmy. 50 is the cutoff for needing a jacket. 25 is bracingly cold. 0 is too cold to go out in except for cigarettes -- and below 0 is time to put your head under the covers, turn up the heat and sleep until spring.

Same with distances. A mile is about right for a long stroll. And, in day to day living, nobody needs a unit smaller than an inch, dammit. I know that a kilometer is 1000 meters and a meter is a little less than a yard -- but I have no idea, intuitively, if a kilometer is a long way -- or a hop, skip and jump. And nobody, anywhere, needs a unit of measurement that is one one hundredth of a little less than a yard!

alan

[stringbean]

Could it be some place in the persian Gulf ?

[fred]

Could it be some place in the persian Gulf ?


stringbean, please refer to the link in post #6. It has the answer.

"It is other measurements, particularly temperature, where metric leaves me, er, cold"

Roy, I for one, from a land of Metric's couldn't agree with you more........But it is all a matter of what you learned, what you can comprehend and if you can handle the change. (I have difficulty with it having learned Imperial Measure as a kid.) We thought we were hard done by when they imported British Cars to Canada and we had to buy a whole set of Whitworth wrenches to fit them. To our south there lived the US gallon that was 4/5 the size of ours. But the inches and miles were the same. When they changed to Metrics, supposedly to unify all this all they did was give the marketers a chance to repackage and reprice their commodities. While the older consumers dithered around trying to understand the change they were taken to the cleaners, big time!! IMHO.

But the sun still shines so why complain :)

fred

[JohnF]

0 is too cold to go out in except for cigarettes -- and below 0 is time to put your head under the covers, turn up the heat and sleep until spring.
alan


lol :D