What bulls**t is this?

Hey! Talk nice to our British friends! Everybody knows a shedload is one toiletful.

Sheesh.

Yes.

Ermmm.... Metric rules?????

Morwen.

Can they charge for nothing? Thats not possible! and if LLABS is charging to phyiscal presetns on sl as POSSIBLE income making alts from the EU are in for a wild ride!

Oh C'mon Brad. Don't go turning into one of those Hypersensitive, PC Crazed, Self Hating LA Liberals on me now. Please.

If people can't take uncomplimentary generalizations, they shouldn't dish them out. Then they won't get uncomplimentary generalizations thrown back in their teeth like: Nothing is more arrogant than a European getting on his high horse and pontificating about American arrogance. Better yet, maybe we can come to an understanding here: How about Europeans take care of our morons and leave the rest of us alone, and we'll take care of the European morons and leave the rest of the Europeans alone? There are an excess of high horses on both sides of the Atlantic. Between the two of us, maybe we can wipe these threads clean of morons, and of other leavings of the high horses. (I know, I know, but I can dream, can't I?)

No you're not. And Malachi you aren't the only USAer who's embarrassed that ours is about the only government in the world that thinks its citizens are too backward to switch from our archaic nonsensical system and adapt to the sensible standards of measurement used by the rest of the world. I'm a Monty Python fan too and I got a chuckle from from your "rant".

Not the only government Kaimi - it's even worse in the UK. The EU has just ruled that we Brits don't have to go metric after all. So we're stuck between the two systems. We drink most liquids in litres but beer still comes in pints and half-pints, we measure materials and so on in metres (although a lot of catalogues also give the measurement in feet and inches) but walk miles and not kilometres. We talk about how many miles to the gallon our cars do but buy our petrol in litres. We buy a dozen eggs but the weight on the carton is shown in grams. We diet to lose a few pounds or even a couple of stone, but the SlimFast comes in millilitres

/me remembers Pounds, Shillings, and Pence

No, there's supposed to be some guy living up in Oregon who likes it too

No. I like metric. It's the stupid conversions I can't stand. That's why metric never caught on here...everyone concentrated on getting people to learn conversion factors.

If we just dropped all the english system units into the dustbin of history and simply USED metric units, we'd get the conversion done in a fortnight.

I'll give you stupid conversions, when is a pint not a pint? When you're in a America and they give you a cheapskate small pint! Not to mention bloody shoe sizes being half a size out!

It's bad enough with this hybrid imperial/metric system we have going on here and then you visit America and realise their measurements aren't what you think they should be!

in oz only a couple things are not measured in metrics.
height, cock length, and certain quantities of drugs.

I SCREW AMERICANS.....

meaning I use american made screws...

I don't mind metric, I just wish we would all get on the same system, whichever one it is I get so tired of coversions every time I decide to go online fantasy shopping for villa in Italy in need of renovation.

OMG I am laughing so hard that Britain is in a transitional state on a switch to a non metric system. This is what happens when we have governments. 35 years ago when I was in grade school it was decided here in the US that by the year 2000 everything would be in the metric system. Think it might have even been a law that was passed. For a decade or so there were half hearted attempts to make a start at it including putting both measurements on packaging and MPH with KMH on the interstate signs. This attempt eventually died away without even a whimper.

Guess we were finally smart enough to leave well enough alone, hopefully the same thing will happen in Britain.

Now back to the OP's question; It makes sense that once you sign up as a premium member you will be charged for a month even if you decide a day or so later to go with a basic membership. Along the same lines of being charged for your maximum land holdings in a month even if you had the extra tier for only an hour.

Now that isn't a bad system. It should be a case for false advertisement when you get all excited that they weigh 21 stone and have 12 cm. Wow they are tiny and HUGE!

Until you get out your caculator and see that they are REALLY huge and tiny instead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah i think men just have an aversion to in any way relating their endowment to 'centimetres'

Including using words like "fortnight?" Would it become a decinight? Or is that a night divided by ten? Hopefully it wouldn't take a kilonight; that'd be a thousand nights.

What did I miss with all this culture bashing that everyone's talking about? Jeesh, I spend one day actually WORKING, and I have no clue what's going on.

They can't charge VAT on nothing, so either there's an error or you have made some sort of transaction.

For those on the LL side of the pond, 'shedloads' translates roughly as 'garden outhouse-sized consignments'

What is your VAT rate because it seems that you may have been charged the monthly fee (9.95) + VAT.

Yeah I read about that. I was surprised. To hear Phill Liggett and Paul Sherwin I thought you guys were all comfortably transitioned. I was actually living in the UK when it started. I gave birth to my son and they told me his weight in kg - what!? Then soon after that the money changed - which right there should have made it clear to all why measurements that use the same decimal system we use to count with only makes sense.

Of course all our scientists and engineers use metric but our politicians cater to those who fear learning anything new.

They can have my 16 ounce Pint when they can pry it out from under my drunken , passed out fingers.

I for one applaud our efforts to stubbornly resisting all attempts to make us submit to The One World Order. Now, excuse me, I have to go back outside on Black Helicopter Watch.

Do we still make screws?

I don't think we make screwdrivers anymore, let alone the screws

Lightweight.

Here in the centre of the known world, pints are properly 20 fluid oz.

No wonder you can't handle our beer. (cue relative comments on warmth, taste, gassiness ad nauseam....)

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