St George's Day 2020

[Wizzel]

and we've ALWAYS been able to buy pizza and Subway rolls by the inch too, even when we were "forced" to buy and sell by the gram.  Go figure - as the Americans would say - or as my Gran who was English always said, "never mix Imperial and Metric or the recipe will fail."  And you can read that as metaphorically as you wish :-)

[zak]

The American gallon is not the same as ours though.

Next it will be Whitworth and so on.

Wire sizes, screw threads, it never ends does it.
Units, I was brought up on Imperial, then had to transfer to CGS and the SI, its a minefield.
Horsepower, Joules, Ergs, Watts, my mind is boggling.

[Bigkev]

The American gallon is not the same as ours though.

Next it will be Whitworth and so on.

Wire sizes, screw threads, it never ends does it.
Units, I was brought up on Imperial, then had to transfer to CGS and the SI, its a minefield.
Horsepower, Joules, Ergs, Watts, my mind is boggling.

I was brought up on pounds shillings and pence, and pounds and ounces.
I'm too young to understand anything new.
Cheers,
Bigkev

PS. Doe's this mean I am due an increment in my modelling allowance with this new fangled measuring system??

[zak]

The American gallon is not the same as ours though.

Next it will be Whitworth and so on.

Wire sizes, screw threads, it never ends does it.
Units, I was brought up on Imperial, then had to transfer to CGS and the SI, its a minefield.
Horsepower, Joules, Ergs, Watts, my mind is boggling.

Don't worry, it will never catch on.
I was brought up on pounds shillings and pence, and pounds and ounces.
I'm too young to understand anything new.
Cheers,
Bigkev

PS. Doe's this mean I am due an increment in my modelling allowance with this new fangled measuring system??

[Wizzel]

I've often thought how this relates to the scales of models we commonly see - Airfix seem to work in multiples of 12 which makes sense being a British company but what's the background of 1/35 and 1/76 scales for vehicles and 1/350 1/700 for ships?