Re: OT - Metrication

"Bob E" <robert.embleton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Don't get me started on temperatures.
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> "It's 64 degrees. That's twice as hot as freezing."

Favourite on my local BBC station: "it'll be 11 and 52." So that makes it
63, then!

They really do need to bite the bullet. You can't wait for all the old
people who won't understand to die; there'll always be old people.

P.S. Bring back the pressure chart


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