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Yes I agree. I was only puzzled because you seemed to imply that the difference between adjacent deg C was less noticeable than between adjacent deg F. Maybe I read something into your wording that you didn't intend.

Sensation of temperature is very subjective: I can feel cold when the room is 25 deg C but I've been sitting still for a long time but warm at 18 deg C if I've been active. And radiant heat from the sun through a window or from a wood stove can sometimes make a cold room feel warm. The body is not a good thermometer :-)

Cauliflower and broccoli (as well as other members of the cabbage family) can be roasted or cooked by other dry heat methods. It makes them sweeter and less watery. Just a brush of oil is all that's really needed, although you can apply various spices if your palate can handle them.

After a particularly cold winter 12 C and sunny was shirtsleeve weather for my hike on Sunday. The upcoming Sunday is predicted to be 0 C with possible snow. Ah, spring!

I remember going outside one day when the temperature was below freezing and there was a lot of snow. No wind, and it was NOT cold (unless I picked up some ice).

BTW, that was a strange day. It was hot earlier that afternoon.

I don't get that effect at all.

Never got that effect with my heart attack.

It wasn't so much the heart attack itself as the cardiac arrest that went with it: the brain being a bit starved of oxygen as my wife and the ambulance crew struggled with CPR for over an hour to get my heart to beat unaided (*). And then the effect of the drug-induced coma while I recovered in intensive care: I was originally taken to York where my heart was "jump started" but I then had to be taken to Leeds where they had a special ICU designed to lower the body temperature for a period of time to aid recovery.

All in all, it's a minor miracle than I'm still here.

(*) Apparently they were eventually advised to bring me in to Casualty even though I wasn't stabilised (normal paramedic advice is "stay and play" rather than "scoop and run"). That was after I've been pumped with the ambulance's entire supply of adrenaline, plus some more that was brought by a backup ambulance.

... and broccoli in an oil fondue is surprisingly tasty

A mile is about 1.609 km. A foot is a little over 30cm. A pound is about 454 grams. A pint is 656ml in the UK.

Andy

Even a UK pint is only 568ml. Which pint did you have in mind?

For most of us a UK pint is 568ml.

The one where the keys on my keyboard are the other way around! Well spotted!

Andy

A pint of beer?

I don't know if it was pints, but I remember about some old units where it depended on what was being measured.

Maybe its 656ml when its beer?

Pints are pretty much always 1/8 of a gallon.

The U.S. adopted the old British wine gallon (231 cubic inches) for wet measures and the British corn gallon (268.8 cubic inches) for some dry volumes.

In 1824 the British replaced the various gallons with a single gallon of

The Wikipedia article has a lot more info, of course.

What were the people smoking when they came up with the idea of different definitions for dry and wet gallon, and defined some of them not even to be an *integer* number of cubic inches, let alone a nice round number? That's the biggest problem with the imperial system (after its use of non-base-10 relationships): the fact that there is no single worldwide definition of some of its units, so we have US versus UK definitions of pint and gallon, and troy/apothecaries/avoirdupois definitions of ounce and dram/drachm (and presumably multiples thereof such as pound, stone etc - if troy and apothecaries use weights that heavy ;-) "Please send us three stones of diamonds (*)" or "The patient must take 5 pounds of aspirins per day" ;-)

Did other countries have measurement systems that were as absurd as ours?

(*) Yes, I *did* realise the confusion of stones (unit of weight) and stones (rocks or jewels).

This'll make you laugh: they were based on the weight of the amount of water they held, which worked out to a weird number of cubic inches.

Probably close to it, although the varying size of a gallon might be unique to us.

Ah, well. We're ahead of you there. We don't use stones as a unit of weight in the U.S. We just use pounds.

Hundredweight might be used in some specialized context, but never in daily life.

Incidentally, I buy topsoil in 40-pound bags, but mulch by the cubic foot. I often wish I knew the weight of the latter before I attempt to lift it.

I'd like the U.S. to go fully metric, but I'm confident I won't see it in my lifetime.

...if you include the head.

Personal weight in the UK is always stones and pounds except when kg is used - which very few people do, even youngsters.

Perhaps you are thinking of weight, where the Avoirdupois system is used for everything except precious metals where the Troy system is used, as in the old brain teasers ...

Which weighs more, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

Which weighs more, an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold?

ISTR that the answers lie with that most elementary of weights, the Grain.

Who remembers the old, red, school exercise books that had all the weights and measures on the back cover?

Finally, were you lucky enough to have a double yolker for your breakfast, in the case of a double yolker, which is correct? ...

The yolks of an egg is white, or, the yolks of an egg are white?