Today in History: Black People Conquered Great Britain Before It Was Cool
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Am I'm hazarding a guess here, that convert to kilometers would cost "a" government too much to replace all the road signs.
You're saying they haven't already all been replaced since the early 70s?
Excuses, excuses.
Look, what chafes my hide is when the British people start making fun of Americans for not using metric. When, as it turns out, we use exactly as much metric as they do. They're just being delusional assholes. And not even particularly effective ones, since it's easy for an American to watch British television or read British websites and see them talk about a person's weight in "stones". (Which is a unit so archaic we never used it in the US.)
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when the British people start making fun of Americans for not using metric.
Nobody likes to be miserable alone, and this is typically how Brits like to share - by ridiculing a thing until it is abandoned, in the hope that the thing we have is adopted. Then, when the misery the new thing brings is complete, we have increased the pool of (understanding) people we can moan (about the thing) with when we are standing in queues
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What are you talking about?
Using US Standard measurements doesn't make me feel miserable.
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Right, and that's also not what he said.
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Using US Standard measurements doesn't make me feel miserable.
Yes, but hearing Brits whine about it appears to.
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But but but British people always make fun of us Americans because they "converted to metric" and we didn't!?
You all converted to metric:It’s just that you use weird multipliers and not the normal unit names — this goes for most Imperial and American units, sometimes in a roundabout way (the US gallon is defined as so many cubic inches, and the inch is defined as 2.54 cm, for example).
It's almost as if the British didn't either, and they're just deluding themselves.
Oh, but they are deluding themselves — part of the country in that they’ve gone metric, part in that they might be able to cling onto imperial measurements.Using US Standard measurements doesn't make me feel miserable.
Unlike much of the rest of the world, when they have to.
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Try "Fancy 568ml?"
"Fancy a half-liter"? At the price you used to pay for a pint, of course.
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Housekeeping note: You misattributed that quote (or quoted the wrong text)
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Seems so. I'll opt for failing to interpret what it was what i wanted to do.
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Best comment:
Romans, Celts, Vikings, Anglo-saxons, Normans should all go home. They are taking our jobs, women etc, etc.
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In a gross attempt to get a picnic watery badge, I would like to point out the technically Africans have always ruled Great Britain, at least as far as humans are concerned, since you know we're all descended from hominids originating in the Great Rift Valley.
Wait, 'picnic watery'? WTF, Google Voice?
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Well, yes, every human is in fact a descendant of African people. But remember that African people are descendants of bacteria.
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But remember that African people are descendants of bacteria.
On their grandfather’s or grandmother’s side?
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Both. It's incest all the way down!
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Both. It's incest all the way down!
Be nice, he's my father and he's my father's father! - Irish idiom
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Weird Idioms Thread is that way
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Watery fowls
I recently watched a documentary about Fawlty Towers, where they mentioned that the naughty writers managed to slip a rude one (I presume it was 'flowery twats') past the BBC.
They then showed a helpful image of the relevant opening credits with the sign blurred out.
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