Mechanical aptitude test

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Bear typed:

My wife is a severe sufferer from Malaprop's Disease, and once brought a
whole room to a choking, guffawing standstill by claiming that she was
"always going off on a tandem".

 

Indeed. I thought it was bad, but given that there was no answer for
300/5 I guessed the ratio was measured in box widths.

 

98% I *rock*!

Dunno which one I got wrong, though.

 

ogden skrev:

Being a continental guy, I can only aknowledge the mishmash-verdict!
But then: My believe I'm living in a metric world gets confused by the
fact that wheels, TV-screens and water-pipes (size, not lenght) still
are measured in inches here as well as world over - Even in France, I guess!
A kind of fun detail is that the firmer danish pound, wich was a little
under ½KG has been popular "metric-fied" to exact ½Kg and in that way
primary still is used by people for butter-packages (of "half, or
quarter of pound").
The firmer inch-dimension lives also as metric-fied in the
steel-business due to the popular sizes of sheet as well as bolts: 6mm
(1/4"); 12mm(1/2"); 16mm (5/8") - and more!

It IS a cunfusing world - Even on the continent :-(

 

Simian skrev:

If it had been a screw, it would bee screwed in (=direction: left) but
this "screw" is fixed and therefore will pull the wall towards as well
as the tothing of the cog!

 

Bear skrev:

Actual, MPG isnt a good size for fuelconsumption - Its more like a
measure of road-consumtion, like: "i drove 35 miles for each gallon"
Gallons pr Mile (as liter/Km) would describe the actual consumption
better, why liter/Km should(*) be the better definition!

(*):
However my own preference normally goes in km/litres ;-)

 

American Football predates Rugby League by a good 30 years.
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mb skrev:

Getting a little topic:
However it works out fine when the rised airspeed ind the narrov
carburator-house makes it able to suck(*) petrol up from the floatbowl!

(*): Knowing the problems in using the prase "suck" in this tread ;-)

 

I had a two-litre beer in Toronto once. I had to use both hands
to lift it, especially as my arms were still wobbly from carrying my suitcase
around almost a whole city block[1] the night before, looking for a phone
to call my friend and ask why she hadn't picked me up.

[1] If I'd gone anticlockwise rather than clockwise, I'd have only had to
go 1-200 yards... :-(

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I've never understood a weegie yet!

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Well, actually ...

First proposed by an Englishman

I forget his name, but it was on the news about 6 months ago

 

Don't forget the Zoll which is a German inch

 

Personally I think it is better, as it's more usable in real terms. I
mean, how often do you think "I wonder how much fuel I'll use in the
nextt 100km" conmpared with "I know there's a gallon left in the tank
- how far can I get on that?"?

The unit themselves aren;t so important, just that distance/fuel is a
much more useful measure than fuel/distance.

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Yes. Insert the missing words "a minute of" as appropriate. I noticed
after I'd posted, but CBA to issue a correction. Glad someone noticed
anyway.

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Distance/fuel is a measure of fuel economy; fuel/distance is a measure
of fuel consumption.

 

No matter how you look at it, you're not part of some "lost
generation". In fact, your generation is the best placed to be able to
span the metric/imperial differences, since they were both in everyday
use in various ways when you were being educated. For us older types,
the new system we learnt at school was used practically nowhere in the
real world.

Yupp, even here. 3/8" and 1/2" pipe fittings, with pipes in 12mm,
14mm, 16mm etc. doesn't make for the easiest DIY plumbing, I can tell
you.

Not just in Danish-influenced countries. I first encountered this in
Belgium 20 years ago, where it was quite normal for people to ask for
a half-pound of cheese (meaning 250g, of course) but it's still alive
and well in both Alsace and Switzerland.

The UK's actually easier in many ways, as they don't tend to have such
mixed units in a single area, IYSWIM.

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Yes. And?

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