LBs/Kilo's

[teepee]

the metric debate goes on and on, with traders loosing out again today in court, i wonder are match organisers breaking the law for weighing in LB's & oz's, and the angling press for reporting results, funny a kilo roach does'nt stir the imagination like a 2LB. roach,

[Chris Plumb]

Ah but a 2lb roach is 'only' .907 of a Kilo - your right not half as 'romantic'.

 

Chris

[teepee]

your right Chris, i new someone would pick up on the weight differance, but you get my point its as though they are two different spieces

[Vagabond]

The only good thing I have found in the Napoleonic (metric) system is the metrication of swivel chairs.

 

Got one chair each for self and wife, to go with our two desks, and the two chairs had ten legs between them !

 

I'm sitting on one now, typing this. Five legs under my seat (or seven if you count my own) means I now fall off my chair less often, however much whisky I drink, or however funny Newt's jokes are

 

The Aussies went Napoleonic, and have forgotten Imperial - the sheila behind the counter was gob-smacked when in an outback bar I asked for a pint of beer.....

 

They still serve slabs in multiples of twelve though ( a slab is a pack of 48 cans - nothing to do with slimy bream) - and there are still 24 hours in a day......

[Peter Sharpe]

I can assure you teepee that you are only breaking the law if you are a retailer, and you try to SELL anything in pounds and ounces. Match organisers can weigh in and publish their results in drammes, grams, bushels, pecks, pennyweights or even apples and oranges as far as the law is concerned. A good pair of scales should last you for years and years, so if it bothers you, buy two or three sets calibrated in imperial gradations, and you can use your preferred units for ever...well almost.

[Kappa]

I assume you all buy litres of maggots! I can never remember my 0.5683 times table!

 

[ 18 February 2002, 08:51 PM: Message edited by: Richard Capper ]

[BrianStapley]

Here in NZ we have used kilos for years but all fish are still reported in lbs.

 

Recently on our national TV news it was reported that a guy caught a Black Marlin in the Bay of Islands. It weighed in at 1 metric tonne the newsreader then said that it was approx. 2204 lbs.

 

It sure sounds better in lbs.

 

Talk to any fisherman over here and its always ibs not kilos.

[stickfloatking]

I know one think that sounds better in metric than imperial

[phonebush]

Can you sell a "stone"?

What the hey is a stone anyway.

Been watching the Olympics. Is a curling stone a stone or is it somekind of rock?

Phone

[Andrew]

Metric Martyrs

They come from my neck of the woods,they are not being took to court for not having kilo's and grammes on the till,not for selling in POUNDS AND OUNCES.

How BLOODY trivial can our council be, THE CITY OF SUNDERLAND, bunch of ===========================

Cannot put those words on in case some of the useless gutless wonders look in on the site, then again no, to busy SPENDING MY BLOODY RATES MONEY ON A COURT CASE. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: .

The same COUNCIL had the chance to but wooden ship built on the WEAR and bring her HOME,what did they say WE HAVE NO MONEY :confused: Thats a laff, they have just sold all the houses {35.500}

also sold off share in Newcastle Airport.