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Topic: I give up, or, "let us all tell Pelegius how to write."
Orincoro
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posted July 11, 2006 01:24 AM
The Brits also use stone weight measurements, which is just wierd.
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rivka
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posted July 11, 2006 01:30 AM
Yes, but just for people. Produce gets measured in kg.
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Angiomorphism
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posted July 11, 2006 02:10 AM
I like you're advice MrSquicky, I sure took it when I was in high school...
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Orincoro
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posted July 11, 2006 04:28 AM
quote: Originally posted by rivka: Yes, but just for people. Produce gets measured in kg. Of well in that case...
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El JT de Spang
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posted July 11, 2006 08:32 AM
quote: I like you're advice MrSquicky, I sure took it when I was in high school... If the recent Socrates comparison is any indication, it's gone totally unheeded.
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kwsni
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posted July 11, 2006 09:14 AM
Rivka, they use stone measurements on horses, too.
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rivka
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posted July 11, 2006 11:09 AM
kwsni, I didn't know that. But it makes sense. (Well, in the kind of twisted logic that uses stone for people and kilograms for apples.)
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Angiomorphism
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posted July 11, 2006 11:34 AM
I only brought up socrates to make fun of pel bringing up aristotle. Maybe I was too sublte, my bad.
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kwsni
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posted July 11, 2006 12:57 PM
JT, Everybody uses hands, not just the english. A hand is four inches.
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Angiomorphism
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posted July 11, 2006 01:27 PM
news to me, here in canada we use metric mostly, but then sometimes say miles (like when my parents tell me how much they have run for their marathon training) or feet/inches, when we are refering to height. never heard of hands though..
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Jon Boy
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posted July 11, 2006 02:06 PM
Probably because you don't work with horses.
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Pelegius
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posted July 11, 2006 02:18 PM
"pel bringing up aristotle" I didn't, actualy. It was Orincoro who brough up "Rhetoric."
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Angiomorphism
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posted July 11, 2006 03:12 PM
alright well then I was making fun of both of you.
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