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AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@twostraws
This. Always.
frank_bough
@frank_bough @twostraws
Still use inch-foot-furlong-mile and ounce-pound-stone-cwt-ton here, but yes.
Still use inch-foot-furlong-mile and ounce-pound-stone-cwt-ton here, but yes.
Iwillyeah@AlisonW I've never heard of a furlong outside of a racetrack 😂 I'll die before I'll personally be measured in meters though.
LouD@Iwillyeah @AlisonW we measure in centimeters tho 🤣
@loudfpv who's 'we'?
@Iwillyeah we as in Dutch residents 🤭
@loudfpv of all the nations to be using such little units to measure yourselves in!
@Iwillyeah indeed, but makes the outcome sound huge 🤣
@loudfpv precisely. There'll be no cms left for the rest of us!
@loudfpv @Iwillyeah
There's definitely an age aspect in the UK to preferred measurements, for different purposes too.
There's definitely an age aspect in the UK to preferred measurements, for different purposes too.
@Iwillyeah
Yeah, it's specific. As are chains (measuring railway track)
Yeah, it's specific. As are chains (measuring railway track)
MarjorieR@AlisonW @Iwillyeah
Chains (which were actual steel link chains) were widely used in the UK for land survey hence an acre is area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet).
A furlong is 10 chains.
The length of cricket pitch is 1 chain.
As well as race courses distances on canals are traditionally measured and reported in miles and furlongs. Not doubt road distances were too at one time.
Chains (which were actual steel link chains) were widely used in the UK for land survey hence an acre is area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet).
A furlong is 10 chains.
The length of cricket pitch is 1 chain.
As well as race courses distances on canals are traditionally measured and reported in miles and furlongs. Not doubt road distances were too at one time.
Steve Ashmole-Day@marjolica @AlisonW @Iwillyeah and railways of course, measured in miles and chains or miles and yards, with markers every 20 chains.
@marjolica @Iwillyeah
I've used a (metal type) chain in the past, though this one was a wire rope of the correct length making it a bit lighter. 22 yards.
I've used a (metal type) chain in the past, though this one was a wire rope of the correct length making it a bit lighter. 22 yards.
Phil Burg (he/him)
Robin Capper@AlisonW @frank_bough @twostraws Does my head in reading British car related stuff.
Engine output Horsepower? Engine Capacity Litres? Fuel: £/Litre? Economy: Miles Per Gallon? What the?
Engine output Horsepower? Engine Capacity Litres? Fuel: £/Litre? Economy: Miles Per Gallon? What the?
irne jawe@frank_bough @AlisonW @twostraws year - month - day is the only way if you want things to sort properly