Mechanical aptitude test

Well it certainly isn't me, either.

 

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Question 9 for me. Then I realised it didn't involve anything vagely
technological and I got bored.

Phil.

 

That's the badger.

Although, it's Stella not Badger, natch.

 

He must have done.

Same as mine (what little of it I remember from what little of it I
bothered to listen to filtered through 20+ years of other crud being
piled on top).

I still think in miles though. I did get used to thinking in Km/h and
kilometres when riding in France/Germany but only peripherally.
Viscerially 100mph *sounds* much better than 160kmh.

Phil.

 

Which means 'a serious beer', which of course means nothing.

Try, 'une sérieuse'.

D.

 

Then you are just odd[1]. I can't think of any sane reason for using
Farenheit..

Phil.

[1] Take it from the master. I know one when I see one.

 

It's easy: one kg is 2.2lb (the weight printed on the front of a bag of
sugar), and 1 mile is 1.609 km ('cos '160' is printed next to '100' on a
car speedometer).

What else do you need ?

D.

 

Likewise. The only way I can remind myself is that you get 4 quarters
of sweets in the pound and there are 4oz in a quarter. I haven't the
foggiest how many Floz in a pint or even how many feet in a mile. I
know it must be roughly 1600 yards (1 yard is roughy equal to a metre)
but other than that I haven't a clue.

I'll stick to metric - it's nice and sane.

Phil.

 

Derek Turner skrev:

Anyhow: If the pulling hand had a spring-scale between the ropes, the
result would have been able to read as Kg's :-|

 

Simian skrev:

I conucour You captain!

 

I didn't say anything about ability to convert - just that the notion
that 'your' generation had somehow fallen in between two systems was a
nonsense. The fact that you still had to be taught to convert to/from
some of the old stuff doesn't contradict that.

For us, these old units were not part of the school syllabus at O
level, but I guess our generation had already learned the old ways at
primary school, in the days when it was expected that schooling
actually taught stuff from an early age, IYSWIM.

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I did my O levels in imperial, but we had to know the "new" stuff as
it was "the future" (tm). So I am eternally confused, although I am
partially converted in my head to metric. Up to a point:

Long distances - miles
Short distances - metres
Very short distances - feet and inches
Very very short distances - mm
Gaps - thou

Overall furniture dimensions - feet/inches
Joint dimensions - mm

Temperature - C, although I still understand F
Weight - Kg and tonnes, but still oz for small weights

Torque - lb/ft. Nm means nothing at all

Power - bhp. PS and KW mean nothing either

Tools - metric, every time (meaning, when I work on a Brit vehicle, I
think "this 13mm spanner is loose, so it must be a half-inch nut")

Speed - mph, always.

This isn't to say I don't understand the others or can't convert.
It's just the way my head sees it.

 

Une Sérieuse. Half a litre.

Forget the tm. A Formidable is a litre, not often found, but a normal
enough term.

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and does a hundred and twenty-something mph sound better than 200 km/h?

 

Pah.

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