Youtube- The curious origins of (the words for) imperial and metric units

[historicalarms]

By lane splitting, I'm taking the right of way control from both lanes. If you ever see an oversized load doing that, it's for that reason.

I use the traffic circles that way even with a 4-wheeler...straddle the middle line until I want to get off and just go there, nobody will be beside me....never had a problem ever.

 

[Susquatch]

I use the traffic circles that way even with a 4-wheeler...straddle the middle line until I want to get off and just go there, nobody will be beside me....never had a problem ever.

My lady would be the one beside you. She has this silly habit of thinking that her Cherokee is just as tiny as she is. She has no problem passing or driving half on a shoulder.

 

[Janger]

95% of the world uses metric, even the blokes who invented imperial. I don't think the remaining 5% still using imperial will change their minds so we're bilingual in measurement for the foreseeable future. Reading about the imperial standard, this is often not what we mean by imperial. Imperial was adopted by the british empire in 1826, and it is not the same as the "United States Customary Units" and this explains why a US Gallon is not the same as a British or imperial gallon. Talk about confusion. I guess we're actually trilingual on measurement.

Check out the metric plumbing parts in the UK, this is the "soil" category 😛 soil pipes 110mm

 

[jorogi]

One of my tubers (can't remember which) measured some part at "1 inch 5 mm". It made perfect sense in the context but I still got a chuckle out of it.