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I doubt we’ll be ditching our ell-wands or Windsors soon. I suppose you should be glad we’re not reverting to pre-decimal currency. Besides a laissez-faire muddle is the British way. Like the UK not being an imperial power – except having the British overseas territories (and Crown dependencies) – oh and sharing our queen.
Besides it doesn’t do to be too revolutionary, just look where you could end up [time] [calendar]!
I always thought that the Discordian calendar made a lot of sense. To be honest, our current system of timekeeping is a complete mess – have a look at these falsehoods: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca
How many different lengths called “mile” are there? How many of those are actually still in use? (at least 3 off the top of my head).Mile, nautical mile, country mile?
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and US customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly 1,609.344 metres.With qualifiers, mile is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now 1.852 km exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (now 500 m exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 8 furlongs or 5,280 feet in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which continue to employ the mile. The US Geological Survey now employs the metre for official purposes, but legacy data from its 1927 geodetic datum has meant that a separate US survey mile (6336/3937 km) continues to see some use, although it will be officially phased out in 2022. While most countries replaced the mile with the kilometre when switching to the International System of Units (SI), the international mile continues to be used in some countries, such as Liberia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a number of countries with fewer than one million inhabitants, most of which are UK or US territories or have close historical ties with the UK or US.
Even worse is that you need a conversion table to go between U.S. MPG to UK MPG. Also, “mile” doesn’t even have an agreed upon short-form (it is supposedly “Mi” but no-one seems to use it). UK road signs often use “M” to mean miles except when they use it to mean metres. Imperial units make little to no sense and just sow confusion wherever they’re used.
I detest Imperial units – I’d get rid of them along with the monarchy.
Rich_cb wrote:
If you’re selling it labelled as 2×4 then you’ve got an imperial measurement on it anyway which is all that will change with this legislation. Same with pints etc. I’ve no issue with putting a metric measurement as well but when international standards are in imperial units it makes no sense whatsoever to not use those standards as they are.I don’t think the international standards are in imperial units and just because it’s called “2×4” doesn’t mean that it has to be measured in inches. Computer parts are often “mis-labelled” in MB or GB, but actually measured in Mebibytes (MiB) or Gigibytes (GiB).
Incidentally, the name “2×4” is confusing because that’s not the actual size sold – the “standard” used to be 1 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches and is now closer to 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches or 38 x 89 mm.
This highlights a problem with imperial units – it’s a bad idea to do calculations using them as you have to check whether it’s the actual size or a historic size. If you use metric units then it’s far simpler and everyone agrees on exactly what they mean.
Edit: It’s about time I started on my “cup size” rant with U.S. recipes. It’s so much easier to measure dry ingredients by weight than it is to use volume as some ingredients (e.g. porridge oats) may have different densities according to how the packet has been handled. Also, what cup are they talking about?
Rich_cb wrote:
IMO it makes sense to sell things that have standards based on imperial units in imperial units (eg lumber) and anything else in metric. More than happy to leave it to the free market to decide what people want. Doubt we’ll see much change at all.I’d go for using metric for everything just to avoid confusion. By all means call it 2×4, but have the actual size specified in mm (which I think it is anyway). Similarly, there’s nothing wrong with being sold a “pint” as long as it’s measured in ml.
Imperial units are awkward to use and have a dodgy name as well, so let’s just stop using them for actual measuring even if we continue to refer to a pint of milk etc.
How about another Whiteladies
How about another Whiteladies Road incident in Bristol?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/man-arrested-after-car-crashes-7146014
(That dog wants to pee on the car to claim it)
A man has been arrested after a car crashed into a number of shopfronts on Whiteladies Road today (May 30). One witness said a car had driven into several shops along the road, taking out the stall outside of Better Food Co.
He also claimed that others in the area had tried to get the driver out of his car when he hit the A-Plan Insurance shop front but the man drove off once more. He also said that, shortly after, the driver crashed into the front of AMD Solicitors.
Well, it’s about goddamn time
Well, it’s about goddamn time
He ran a red light too. Probably an off duty cyclist.We need a way to identify cyclists when they’re driving
Maybe it’s a middle aged man thing but that sounds a lot more fun than the ablation. So we have a reset button….Maybe it was just that one bloke, but it seems like it’s worth a shot before sticking soldering irons in your heart or however they do ablation.
“This road’s not big enough for the both of us.”More like this road’s not big enough for a bike lane and cars because of flooding
I’m puzzled by this one –
I’m puzzled by this one – could it be the start of self-driving cars targetting motorbikes?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/police-called-whiteladies-road-crash-7141840
The incident involved three cars and two motorbikes, according to Avon and Somerset Police.
Police say one of the motorbikes is believed to have been parked at the time.
Heart warming.An encouraging story about cycling on the BBC!
Although the kids are fully kitted out with helmets and hi-viz and need to be surrounded by parents to protect them from other traffic.
IanMSpencer wrote:
Di2 has been improved since then and now all the Bluetooth stuff is built in.Is it in the battery? With my system, the MT800 display provides the Bluetooth functionality (that I never use).
Di2 only broadcasts on ANT+ via a private channel, as the D-Fly units predate the open standard ANT+ shifting protocol that Campagnolo and SRAM adopted after that became a standard. So no Bluetooth and Shimano presumably have no intention of moving away from their proprietary protocol.It doesn’t affect me as a Garmin Edge user, but it bothers me that Shimano could one day see Garmin as a competitor (power meters) and switch the same functionality off.
Wahoo could be in the same boat now they’ve acquired Speedplay.
As I recall, you can get Di2 gear information over Bluetooth if you’ve got the extra Shimano Bluetooth adapter – I connected my Wahoo Bolt that way, but found it was a little bit slow updating the gear and instead went for the MT800 handlebar display (wired in).
That sucks. This is the kind
That sucks. This is the kind of thing that bugs me about proprietary systems and the artificial problems caused by companies and their tech.
Does the Karoo just use ANT+ to talk with the Di2 system or can it use Bluetooth? (I use a Wahoo Bolt, so am not directly affected by this).
I can hardly wait
Still waiting….
I’ve got half a mind to go out and make a car crash into a building just so that I can be “Mr 1,000”
