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Mojo said:
20 fl oz to the pint (it's on the measuring jug I use for cooking)
2 pints to the quart
4 quarts to the gallon (hence the name, I suspect) so 8 pints to the gallon

Won't be 70 for a while yet.
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I'm in my mid 50s and know some of the imperial measures:

Ounces - Pints - Gallons
Ounces - Pounds - Stones - Hundredweight - (long) Tons
Inches - Feet - Yards - Chains - Furlongs - Miles

Dry volume measures like bushels and pecks or larger liquid measures like firkins and hogsheads I'm less sure about.

I'm not sure how many of my contemporaries would have learned and retained this information when it wasn't taught at school
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The Don said:
I'm in my mid 50s and know some of the imperial measures:

Ounces - Pints - Gallons
Ounces - Pounds - Stones - Hundredweight - (long) Tons
Inches - Feet - Yards - Chains - Furlongs - Miles

Dry volume measures like bushels and pecks or larger liquid measures like firkins and hogsheads I'm less sure about.

I'm not sure how many of my contemporaries would have learned and retained this information when it wasn't taught at school
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You are of the generation that were taught both, it was apparently the case from about 1970 to 1980 they taught both. After that it was only metric. I remember my maths O level had questions using miles as well as kms.
 
Darat said:
You are of the generation that were taught both, it was apparently the case from about 1970 to 1980 they taught both. After that it was only metric. I remember my maths O level had questions using miles as well as kms.
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I'm 52 & other than feet/inches & stone/lb for people, miles for driving & pints for drinking I don't really have a clue about Imperial.
 
Darat said:
You are of the generation that were taught both, it was apparently the case from about 1970 to 1980 they taught both. After that it was only metric. I remember my maths O level had questions using miles as well as kms.
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Don't forget the fun ones:

100 links in a chain.

10 chains in a furlong.

8 furlongs in a mile.

3 barleycorns in an inch.

40 rods (or poles) in a furlong.

3 miles in a league.

9,127 snorts in a hogshead.
 
Darat said:
You are of the generation that were taught both, it was apparently the case from about 1970 to 1980 they taught both. After that it was only metric. I remember my maths O level had questions using miles as well as kms.
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We had a year sometime in the early 70s when we worked through a maths workbook in imperial units one term and then had exactly the same exercises in metric units the following term (I could remember the first lot so found it a bit tedious the second time), but I don't remember imperial units after that.

A couple of years later I was in the last year at our school to be taught to use a slide rule.
 
novaphile said:
Don't forget the fun ones:

100 links in a chain.
10 chains in a furlong.8 furlongs in a mile.
3 barleycorns in an inch.
40 rods (or poles) in a furlong.
3 miles in a league.
9,127 snorts in a hogshead.
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A chain being the length of a cricket pitch ;)
 
Mojo said:
20 fl oz to the pint (it's on the measuring jug I use for cooking)
2 pints to the quart
4 quarts to the gallon (hence the name, I suspect) so 8 pints to the gallon

Won't be 70 for a while yet.
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A pint's a pound the world round. As long as the world consists only of the USA.
Then again, I'd guess the number of adult USAnians who know there are sixteen ounces in a (US) pint to be less than 40%.

Oh, and did you know how much one fluid ounce weighs? Well, it's not one AVDP ounce, I'll tell you that!
 
Trebuchet said:
A pint's a pound the world round. As long as the world consists only of the USA.

Then again, I'd guess the number of adult USAnians who know there are sixteen ounces in a (US) pint to be less than 40%.



Oh, and did you know how much one fluid ounce weighs? Well, it's not one AVDP ounce, I'll tell you that!
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An ounce of what?
If it's just water, that's about 30ml volume so about 30 grams. Which is, oh yeah... ~1oz. [emoji38]
(I diy my vape juice. [emoji1] )
 
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Mojo said:
Why the hell isn't Starmer at least suggesting that we should?
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Probably a combination of the following:
1) Rejoining the EU won't fix the issues most voters consider the most urgent, ie. the cost of living crisis, public services being worn down, etc.
2) Too many voters still think that even if Brexit was a disaster, the will of the majority should be respected.
3) At the moment it's just not a fight worth having.
 
KDLarsen said:
Probably a combination of the following:
1) Rejoining the EU won't fix the issues most voters consider the most urgent, ie. the cost of living crisis, public services being worn down, etc.
2) Too many voters still think that even if Brexit was a disaster, the will of the majority should be respected.
3) At the moment it's just not a fight worth having.
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Or just imagine the headlines in papers such as the Express, Mail, Andrex and such.
 
Wudang said:
Or just imagine the headlines in papers such as the Express, Mail, Andrex and such.
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True, they're already gearing up to fight Starmer tooth and nail on his record at the Crown Prosecution Office in the first place.
 
Yes, when he was a barrister he defended criminals and illegal immigrants.

He's a complete disgrace, a lefty lawyer, wasting public money on trying to get criminals off and stop deportations.
 
Trebuchet said:
A pint's a pound the world round. As long as the world consists only of the USA.
Then again, I'd guess the number of adult USAnians who know there are sixteen ounces in a (US) pint to be less than 40%.

Oh, and did you know how much one fluid ounce weighs? Well, it's not one AVDP ounce, I'll tell you that!
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Anyone work with Troy ounces?

My favourite W&M trivia is the 'ton' displacement used for ships comes from 'tun', the large wine barrel. It was an estimate how how much such a ship could carry, for duty purposes.
The tun was 252 gallons of wine (well usually: the 'standard tun' was 252, there were others, of 200 to 260 gallons). Oh and not standard gallons, that'd be far too simple. There was eight Troy pounds of wine (approximately) in a 'wine gallon'.

And finally, the 'wine gallon' of approximately 3.75 litres, was the basis for the US gallon. The US not following UKia into "standardising" Imperial units in 1826.....
 
Trebuchet said:
A pint's a pound the world round. As long as the world consists only of the USA.
Then again, I'd guess the number of adult USAnians who know there are sixteen ounces in a (US) pint to be less than 40%.

Oh, and did you know how much one fluid ounce weighs? Well, it's not one AVDP ounce, I'll tell you that!
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"A pint of water weighs a pound-and-a-quarter"!
 
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