Neglecting the Imperial measurement thing isn't 2 pints still a quart in Britain?
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Mar 13, 2023
Last reply: 2 years ago
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It is. It's also 1.136 litres ('cos it sez so on the bottle).
Not does, did. We buy solder in mm diameter. We buy electrical cable in mm^2 cross sectional area.
All mm now.
I thought you were going to say it had gone off.
I find hot drinks disgusting. Both the blobby milk, and it just seems wrong to quench your thirst with something which isn't cool. Food should be warm and drinks cool. I associate hot with dry. To cool and wet something go together.
That is illogical. It means you use a higher number to describe a smaller barrel.
Never heard of quart being used outside a pub.
It would appear to be another strange measurement we inherited from oyur lot:
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As I've never heard of anyone calling a quart of milk a 2-pint bottle. I suppose it works when describing a 2 pint warrior; a quart warrior just isn't the same.
We moved on from our old stupidity, you kept it.
You dislike saying 2 pints instead of 1 quart, but you'll say 140 pounds instead of 14 stone. Why not go the whole hog and measure people in ounces?
Never mind that: the East Pondians talk in terms of litres per 100kmh, which is weird and the smaller it is the better it is.
WE buy petrol and diesel in litres but still quote economy in mpg.
140 pounds is 10 stone.
That's why you ask for "macaroni cheese" and rely on the shop/restaurant knowing what it means, just as you rely on a restaurant knowing how to cook a meal.
Minor detail... Are British bathroom scales calibrated in stones. 'Oh, s*it, I gained a stone after eating that cake last week!' Or is it 0.075 stone?
The ones I use measure stones and pounds, but I could change the display to display Kg.
But Americans aren't bright enough to use the larger denomination. 140 pounds is an easy one. Try dividing other numbers by 14 in your head.
I know what I weigh in stone. I would never care about putting on a few pounds, since you go up and down by that all the time depending on how hydrated you are. I wouldn't declare any problem unless I saw an increase of half a stone.
Anyway, who weighs themselves to check weight? Just look at your stomach, easy.
Mine rotates mechanically, it shows both, in different colours. I can see them at the same time, you can't, so there! And no I don't care if mine is wildly inaccurate.
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