"Half a pound of salami, please."
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I find using imperial units rather cumbersome. It's hardly ever necessary now, as we're all using IEC, ISO standards and what have you. I still get reports to review which sometimes reference the old units. I send them back and tell them to replace their
colonialimperial gibberish with the correct units. -
Interestingly, in medicine, everything is metric - other than weight. Patient weight, that is.
That may have changed in the last few years, however. I'm out of that loop.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Weight is also metric. For example calculating body surface area in chemotherapy dosage.
I’m pretty much “bi” in the sense that I can switch in my head back and forth.
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way. -
Weight is also metric. For example calculating body surface area in chemotherapy dosage.
I’m pretty much “bi” in the sense that I can switch in my head back and forth.
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
I was only joking
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Hey you are right, I didn’t know that.
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@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
More bad beer…
The Brad
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I can do much of it in my head going back and forth....weight, distance, milliliters. But when it comes to smaller measurements, I don't have that conversion logic upstairs yet because I haven't really had to use it. It's not that hard and it makes more sense to use base 10.
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Fine, just so long as we base the length of a centimeter as the size of Rudolf VanWerdenstein’s knuckle on his middle finger. And a gram should be the measured weight of a single lock of a Hapsburg princess’s hair.
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And a liter should be set at the exact amount of Bohemian Pilsner with an ABV of 5.2% it takes for me to drink in an hour to reach a blood alcohol level of .06.
I’m willing to sit through multiple tests…
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
More bad beer…
@LuFins-Dad said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
More bad beer…
I shouldn't worry - they'd probably be willing to serve it to you in a lady's glass.
In fact, they might insist.
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@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
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@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
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@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
What about other countries?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
What about other countries?
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
Link to videoI was only joking
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@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
Link to video@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
But you don't pronounce the "r".
KIL oh metah.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
But you don't pronounce the "r".
KIL oh metah.
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
But you don't pronounce the "r".
KIL oh metah.
I think the 'r' is in there - then again, I've lived in New England for 20 years, so I might here r's where none exist
