A Question of Time

CTA answered that themselves.

Pep ("25 or 6 to 4"

Litres /serious

Pep (gets drunk faster drinking metrically.)

Is it seriously "liters" in the US? By analogy with things like "centre / center"?

Yes we spell it "liters." As with most things the British spell "re" - although we accept either spelling as acceptable. "theater/theatre" for example.

We still mostly use quart, gallon, pint, etc. Bottled water comes in liters.

No wonder we are so confused.

Don't forget that that US fluid measures, while using the same names as the UK Imperial measures, are different. One US pint is 16 US fluid ounces. One Imperial pint is 20 Imperial fluid ounces. One US fluid ounce is 0.96076 Imperial fluid ounces. I think.

/me is sooooooo glad she never had to learn this stuff.

Now maybe someone can explain guineas, pounds, crowns, shillings, pence, and farthings?

That's why you think you can hold your drink over there better than us.

Pep (You can't. )

Didn't know that EF. Thanks!

To be honest I still have to stop and think what all those (American units) really mean, too. Not that it matters much, unless I were to become an alchemist.

1 guinea is 21s/- (shillings) or £1/1s/-. £1 is 20s/-. 1 crown was 5s/-, though the comemorative crowns issued by the Royal Mint these days have a face value of £5. 1s is 12d (something Latin involved there). 1d (old pence) is 0.41666666666666666666666666666667p (new pence). One fathing is 0.25d. And you forgot to mention the half-crown at 2s/6d, the florin at 2s/- (10p) and the groat at 4d.

Shall I explain the rules of cricket next?

Didn't you forget the ha'penny?

When they did the conversion in Australia, sixpence became 5c, a shilling became 10c, and a penny became 1c.

The obvious minor larceny this enabled was immediately clear to us kids, especially since back then a penny could actually buy a piece of candy.

Ack. Thanks! I've never heard of a florin (in an English context, anyway), and I'd forgotten about the groat, which I think I've seen mentioned only rarely?


Heh, no thanks. My understanding is that to do so would probably take as long as a typical match.

I had a difficult enough time getting my head around the rules of baseball. And I STILL don't understand American/Canadian football. (Mercifully)

Baseball - run around a diamond and try not to get tagged.

Football - run back and forth on a huge grassy field and try not to get knocked down.

Oh and make millions of dollars for it. And get a sponsorship to sell cereal and shoes.

I did, and I apologise. Should I mention the tanner (6d) and the thrupenny bit (3d) too?

And the double florin (4s/-).

Thank god for decimalization !!


Yeah, that's my impression. But it also seems to involve a lot of vaguely homoerotic touching, patting, and squeezing. A part of the whole male bonding thing, do you think?

Lol, we'll let them keep claiming so.

Don't forget the naked towel snaps!

Yeah, that's another male thing I REALLY don't get. I mean . . . OUCH!

Correction:

Baseball: Rounders for boys

Football: Rugby for wimps.

Pep (Further information on request.)

You should see what the bowler in a cricket match does with his balls.

We should adopt a metric clock,
where one (metric) tick = 0.0864 old-style seconds.
1000 ticks in a kilotick
1000 kiloticks in a day (one megatick).


Canada is often forgotten.



I've written to the Nobel Committee to recommend you for a special prize.

We should also extend that idea to abolish all years numbered less than 31.

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*sigh* Yeah. Although sometimes that's a godsend.

Nah, keep the second, abandon the day.

Measure time in kiloseconds (about 1/4 hour) and megaseconds (close enough to 12 days).

If we get a viable space-based civilization it'll happen.

@ OP
PM = Post Meridian (after the middle)... since noon marks the middle of the day, anything, even one nanosecond past it would be PM (and by logical extension, midnight would work similarly, but opposite) or to look at it another way, midnight would also the the zero hour, so it would be before the middle of the day.

So would 12 a.m. be 0 or 1 megaticks? Or do I mean 12 p.m.?

The florin is one of the most used old name for money and had a different falue from city to city, the monutairy sign for the dutch guilder was fl to houner this.

I thought that was to honor the Florin-Guilder fire swamp.