PJ "Vote Green" CoffeyMay 28, 2024

A little fun from the FT. Apparently they don't care for American paper sizes in comparison to ISO 216 and I appreciate the poetry with which they express this. 😀

EDIT: A kind person has provided this link https://www.ft.com/content/bb9bf7c6-1785-4383-9e39-03da04a17fe2 although much of the other language employed smacks of desperation to claim credibility as a younger person and is quite cringeworthy in its use.

We tried to design the perfect sellside note. How did we do?

Notes on notes on notes

Financial Times
Show threadKatLSMay 28, 2024
@Homebrewandhacking and there’s the Imperial system…
Show thread@richh has movedMay 28, 2024
@KatLS The Imperial system that Americans call "English". And yes, yes, we still do use a handful of unholy mashups (like miles for distance and mileage expressed as miles per gallon despite petrol being sold by the litre) but nobody is doing civil engineering by the bushel.
Show threadSpace Hobo

@richh @KatLS Americans do not use the Imperial measurement system: they use the American Standard measurement system, which is slightly different. Some of the names overlap, but that is it.

Also the UK went metric in 1967. The only place that it is still using Imperial measures is in pint glasses (defined in ml, fortunately) and motoring. Even National Rail switched away from "miles and chains" a decade or so ago.

I measure all distances in km, and when people ask me "what's that in miles?" I always smile and cheerily shout "Nine shillings, sixpence!!"

May 28, 2024 at 2:21pmWeb
Show threadgigantosMay 28, 2024
@spacehobo @richh @KatLS However, the American Standard measurement system defines all of its units indirectly in terms of SI units, so there is that 🙂
Show threadCraig GrannellMay 28, 2024
@spacehobo @richh @KatLS Although the UK metric conversion is frustratingly incomplete. Imperial is still used frequently in a colloquial manner. And it seems unlikely we will ever get rid of miles on the roads. (The one exception I’ll make to all this: pints of beer. The UK can keep that one.)
Show threadSpace HoboMay 28, 2024
@craiggrannell @richh @KatLS So I know people my age who get frustrated at the weird versions of imperial units showing up. Once @cmsj said to me "What's a pound? I have no experience of what that means. I know what a kilogram is: it's a bag of sugar."
Show threadCraig GrannellMay 28, 2024
@spacehobo @richh @KatLS @cmsj I grew up in the 1980s so my head is a weird jumble of metric and imperial. My wife is Icelandic and so I’ve tried to purge the remnants of imperial but room sizes (of all things) is the final one I’m struggling with. But also, after years of living in the UK I’ve noticed she now often uses imperial colloquially.
Show threadKatLSMay 28, 2024
@craiggrannell @spacehobo @richh @cmsj it was destiny. Where will we be in 100 years?
Show threadCraig GrannellMay 28, 2024
@KatLS @spacehobo @richh @cmsj The UK will still inexplicably be using miles for road distances.
Show threadSpace HoboMay 28, 2024
@craiggrannell @KatLS @richh @cmsj You don't have to use the numbers on the little signs, you know. You can just use km.
Show threadAmin Negm-Awad🇪🇺🌍May 29, 2024
@KatLS @craiggrannell @spacehobo @richh @cmsj Or in 98,7 years (= 1 Imperial century).
Show threadKatLSMay 28, 2024
@spacehobo @craiggrannell @richh @cmsj the food companies haven’t helped because now they put 12 ounces in what used to be pound (16 ounce) containers (like coffee bags). Even canned goods are distorted. Canned pumpkin is now in 14.5 ounce cans throwing off my old church fundraiser cookbook recipes ever so slightly.😠