ed
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In fact, anything imperial. It's all totally worthless and annoying. God I hate the Americans even more now
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Steve
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why is inchs too big a unit to measure your manhood in?
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ed
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No, it's because when you are designing a machine vice and the brief is to use inches you have to do more maths to work out engineering fits...
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ed
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Plus it takes about twice as long to add dimensions together.
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MikeE
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yep conversion tables and such like cos of these bloody americans
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Jake
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When i done engineering at college for abit there was one machine with imperial measurements, no one wanted to use it and they had to mark in tipex on measure wheel how much you had to turn per milli metre
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RobHayes
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i may be wrong but i thought imperial was a british measuring system, with metric being american?
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drax
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No your wrong rob
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ed
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The ISO standard is Microns, MM, M, Km e.t.c... (European)
The ANSI standard is Inches, Feet, Yards, Miles e.t.c... (American)
I don't understand how the invented Imperial measurements, was it like "hmmm, how many inches shall we fit into a foot? 10? Noooo, that would make far too much sense I'll use the first number that came into my head... 12!..."
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RobHayes
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and im supposedly an engineer
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ed
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mav
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work in both at my work 
But always in thousands of an inch and millimetres
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