Question for uk members

Sorry, Carolyn; it comes from a card game; it means we put the same thing at the same time....
the card game is often played by children; each player turns over a card one after another: when two match, the first player to say snap wins all the turned cards.
the object is to win all the cards!
good for picture recognition with young grandchildren!
 
Voicemacabre said:
Yes indeed, the grandkids are getting to big and bolshy to go back up the chimneys and there is not much call for tacklers hands these days. Still that nice Mr Squeers has promised the boys a new slate and a single piece of chalk next month.


Someone mentioned about a new candle for the privy but being cynical it were nowt but electioneering chatter, now if we were to get this elec trickery stuff, bless and save us we would have riches beyond measure. What next free health care ? upon my soul it is all to much. :playful:
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You make I laugh...you make I cry....you make I pee I drawers.:lofl:
 
I'd be quite happy to revert back to pounds, shillings and pence. As for centimetres and centigrade .... could be one and the same thing as far as I'm concerned....lol I only 'do' inches and fahrenheit.
 
I am ok with pounds and pence but for everything else I work in imperial for weights and measures and fahrenheit for the temperature and I don't intend changing.:)
 
Vivjen said:
Funnily enough; although we have decimalised our currency; us older ones, still tend to deal in pounds, (weight) feet, and miles....
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My next question was going to be that I notice Morse usually says miles, not kilometers. So you guys used to have miles, pounds, feet, etc,? Funny, I never thought about it, but we must have gotten our miles, feet, etc. from you guys in the first place?

When we were stationed in Germany, everything, of course, was metric. I got the money figured out OK, the kilometers and speed limits, etc., litres and all, but what drove me nuts was when I was making my daughter's wedding dress, I was using a US pattern she wanted which called for so much fabric in one width or so much in another (because of the way you have to lay the pattern out on the fabric) and I had to convert length and width and then figure out if it would work for laying out the pieces. Didn't want any mistakes, because the fabric was quite expensive. A kind lady in a fabric shop helped me figure it out -- I was about ready to just give up, too much math and geometry for me. I had found the fabric, and had stood there forever with pencil and paper and was just about ready to cry (yes, I cry when I am hopelessly frustrated) and the kind shopkeeper came to my rescue. So, forever after I went to that shop for fabric.
 
We still use miles all the time; although we have gone to litres rather than gallons while buying petrol, (gas), your gallon has always been different from ours.
why, I have no idea!
 
Holly, perhaps we should just say Jounce or perhaps the third derivative of position, then again not forgetting that,

Momentum equals mass times velocity
Force equals mass times acceleration
Yank equals mass times jerk
Tug equals mass times snap
Snatch equals mass times crackle
Shake equals mass times pop :confused:


Oh dear, where is Harry Champion when I need him?
 
Yes all our road signs are in MPH still....and we generally use feet and inches, and pounds and stones, rather than the metric system....however a few years ago when they first brought the metric system in for weights and measures, little retail businesses were getting fined right left and centre for selling a 'pound' of bananas instead of a 1/2 kilo...madness, ..I don't know if that's still happening today, but I always ask for a pound of something from the shop never a kilo..
 
Voicemacabre said:
Holly, perhaps we should just say Jounce or perhaps the third derivative of position, then again not forgetting that,

Momentum equals mass times velocity
Force equals mass times acceleration
Yank equals mass times jerk
Tug equals mass times snap
Snatch equals mass times crackle
Shake equals mass times pop :confused:


Oh dear, where is Harry Champion when I need him?
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ha!...excellent.... Jounce it should be!! ;)
 
Somebody posted that 'the sov' [sovereign coin] is still used in Morse country [Oxford] .Not so, although it may still be used in the East End [London]. They used to say it on 'The Sweeney' [an old police programme set in London in the 1970's], Cockney rhyming slang for the flying squad [Sweeney Tod.]John Thaw played the main character in that too.In Cockney rhyming slang, you only say the NON rhyming bit; as in 'Are my minces playing tricks on me?' Mince pies/eyes. Or 'Why have you got a long boat?' meaning a long face [boat race/face] etc.
Anyway, glad you are enjoying watching Morse, it was a good programme.
 
"Somebody posted that 'the sov' [sovereign coin] is still used in Morse country [Oxford] .Not so, although it may still be used in the East End [London]"

Sorry, I didn't know Morse was set in Oxford, I thought it was London; I've never watched it!
 
Bee said:
I am ok with pounds and pence but for everything else I work in imperial for weights and measures and fahrenheit for the temperature and I don't intend changing.:)
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Isn't that a bit difficult when weather forecasts are Celsius, cookers in celsius, food and drink in grams and litres?
 
Not difficult at all, it is what I am used to and I trust my judgement.
 

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