Kilometre - Kick it into Touch

[bb21]

I will be totally honest here, I have absolutely no idea of how Fahrenheit works, it may as well be written in Russian for all the use it is to me. I am actually struggling to think of anyone I know who uses it.

F = C x 1.8 + 32

The Americans are the only major country still persisting with it. They are just weird. *ducks for cover*

 

[talltim]

Load of crap, This is Britain, we should be using BRITISH weights & measures, never mind all the foreign rubbish. Why should we change? the likes of America don't change. A mile, a foot, an inch and a pound & pence, gallon, pints. loosing our identity.

I reckon we should go back to using the British spelling of 'losing' instead of the internet version 'loosing'

 

[Butts]

I will be totally honest here, I have absolutely no idea of how Fahrenheit works, it may as well be written in Russian for all the use it is to me. I am actually struggling to think of anyone I know who uses it.

Clue.... weather forecast - when they say it's going to be in the "eighties" that is Fahrenheit not Celsius (or you will be frying tonight )

 

[gswindale]

Haven't heard fahrenheit used on an English weather forecast for several years now.

 

[PermitToTravel]

F = C x 1.8 + 32

The Americans are the only major country still persisting with it. They are just weird. *ducks for cover*

For them, it's not too unsensible. 0°F is in the region of the lowest temperature that is likely to be encountered in the US, and 100°F is in the region of the highest.

 

[edwin_m]

Anyone over 40 I suspect

Is that 40 Fahrenheit or 40 Centigrade?

 

[bb21]

40 tonnes.

 

[Butts]

Haven't heard fahrenheit used on an English weather forecast for several years now.

You will normally find if it's going to be really warm they will say something like - "that's 80 degrees in old money"

Perhaps it's more prevalent in Scotland and Wales :roll:

 

[starrymarkb]

But they don't if it's cold

 

[Butts]

But they don't if it's cold

Yes it's a strange phenomenon, cold is -5 degrees Celsius but hot is 80 degrees Fahrenheit

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Yes it's a strange phenomenon, cold is -5 degrees Celsius but hot is 80 degrees Fahrenheit

Could be quite amusing if they did it the other way around.... Very cold would be 30 degrees (Fahrenheit), while very hot would be 30 degrees (Celsius)!

 

[Lampshade]

While the mile will be here to stay for a long time (due, principally, to road signage) there aren't many imperial measurements that are familiar to people today. And why should they be?

Most of the cookbooks in our house date from the late 1970s so it's what I grew up understanding, though school always taught metric. Hence I still speak in pounds and ounces when buying food off the deli etc, went to the cheese counter - "a quarter of blue Stilton please", what did I receive? 250g :roll:

 

[Yew]

Personally I prefer the FFF system, Furlongs, Firkins, and Fortnights...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_system

 

[Emyr]

Google will convert odd scales and units..

"62 mph in furlongs per fortnight"

62 miles per hour =
166 656 furlongs per fortnight

Full documentation for Google's calculator, graphing and conversion capabilities: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/3284611?hl=en-GB

 

[jon0844]

Why did I never know about the FFF system? I feel like I've wasted my life.

 

[starrymarkb]

Google will convert odd scales and units..

"62 mph in furlongs per fortnight"



Full documentation for Google's calculator, graphing and conversion capabilities: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/3284611?hl=en-GB

What's that in Brontosauruses?

 

[Harbon 1]

Did anyone experience the parent length measurement when you were little? Everything was 'just round the next corner' away...

 

[jon0844]

Round the next corner is the same as a 'a few more minutes' I believe, give or take a furlong or Brontosaurus.

 

[ert47]

Round the next corner is the same as a 'a few more minutes' I believe, give or take a furlong or Brontosaurus.

Whats that in double decker buses?

 

[talltim]

Whats that in double decker buses?

About half an Olympic sized swimming pool, unless it up a hill when its a Nelson's Column

 

[AM9]

I can't believe this .....people quoting their height in CM and weight in KG

You are correct, it should be expressed in metres only or millimetres. We officially use the MKS system which is the standard for SI measurement where there is no such thing as a centimetre.
Topically, remember that standard gauges track is 1435mm, not 143.5cm, 14.35dm, however 1.435m would be acceptable.

 

[talltim]

I always measure the track gauge as 0.001435 kilometres

 

[PermitToTravel]

I prefer 0.0000000000182757 calories fortnights decades chains per firkin hectare [link]

 

[AM9]

I prefer 0.000000000018280255 calories fortnights decades chains per firkin hectare [link]

Well I'm afraid that your link shows an error. That figure equates to 4ft 8.514 in..
So you would be out of gauge by 14thou!

 

[bb21]

You are correct, it should be expressed in metres only or millimetres. We officially use the MKS system which is the standard for SI measurement where there is no such thing as a centimetre.
Topically, remember that standard gauges track is 1435mm, not 143.5cm, 14.35dm, however 1.435m would be acceptable.

There is no such requirement. Metre is merely the base unit.

Height is commonly described in many countries in centimetres, simply because it is more convenient than metres. Centimetre is more widely used than you might think, one of the reasons being that it is probably the first unit of measurement one learns at school.

Decimetre is not used in daily life, neither is decametre nor hectometre.

 

[PermitToTravel]

Well I'm afraid that your link shows an error. That figure equates to 4ft 8.514 in..
So you would be out of gauge by 14thou!

Which I believe is within tolerance, but nonetheless, sorted

 

[edwin_m]

Round the next corner is the same as a 'a few more minutes' I believe, give or take a furlong or Brontosaurus.

Is that where "there" is, as in "are we there yet"?

 

[ralphchadkirk]

What people fail to realise with metric is that you still have to choose an appropriate unit for the number you are describing. I would be shouted at if I described a drug dose as 0.0001kg rather than 100mg.

 

[David Barrett]

Load of crap, This is Britain, we should be using BRITISH weights & measures, never mind all the foreign rubbish. Why should we change? the likes of America don't change. A mile, a foot, an inch and a pound & pence, gallon, pints. loosing our identity.

And I suppose that the British are the only people in the world who aren't foreigners and, ultimately, the rest of the world will be out of step with us. A thousand years have passed and Canute's demonstration still hasn't been taken on board.

 

[radamfi]

There is no such requirement. Metre is merely the base unit.

Height is commonly described in many countries in centimetres, simply because it is more convenient than metres. Centimetre is more widely used than you might think, one of the reasons being that it is probably the first unit of measurement one learns at school.

Decimetre is not used in daily life, neither is decametre nor hectometre.

In that respect, the UK is more standard than some other countries. For example, in France the centilitre is used widely, for example a pack of 6 cans of Coke is described as 6x33cL, whereas in the UK this size can would always be 330 ml.

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