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riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
KoolBak wrote:Dimebag....why did you say yard and not meter? Metre?? Spending to much time in the states manno?
2dimes wrote:I still buy pints of beer in the bar. Dirty business owners kept raising the price on them, then a few years ago switched to US pints too. Lost four ounces in that deal. I never knew you had smaller pints. Kind of makes me wonder why you broke away from the empire to do that.
This difference dates back to 1824, when the British Weights and Measures Act standardized various liquid measures throughout the British Empire, while the United States continued to use the earlier English measure. The imperial pint consists of 20 imperial fluid ounces and the US liquid pint is 16 US fluid ounces, making the imperial fluid ounce about 4% smaller than the US fluid ounce.
tzor wrote:2dimes wrote:I still buy pints of beer in the bar. Dirty business owners kept raising the price on them, then a few years ago switched to US pints too. Lost four ounces in that deal. I never knew you had smaller pints. Kind of makes me wonder why you broke away from the empire to do that.
We didn't the UK increased their measurement in our absence.This difference dates back to 1824, when the British Weights and Measures Act standardized various liquid measures throughout the British Empire, while the United States continued to use the earlier English measure. The imperial pint consists of 20 imperial fluid ounces and the US liquid pint is 16 US fluid ounces, making the imperial fluid ounce about 4% smaller than the US fluid ounce.
I was going to blame Queen Victoria on this one but apparently it happened 14 years before her coronation.
Meanwhile, why don't we have a discussion on your smaller ounces. Sure you get more beer for the chaser, but you've shorted the shot.
2dimes wrote:Because I'm old balls.
I know you fancy yourself an expert on Canadiana you should know they switched to metric after I started mesuring things. Maybe you do since this isn't the first time you have asked that sort of question.
I just can't get used to my height in cms. Fortunately I never cared about temperature so I'm not stuck like my dad using Fahrenheit, that's just miserable.
I still buy pints of beer in the bar. Dirty business owners kept raising the price on them, then a few years ago switched to US pints too. Lost four ounces in that deal. I never knew you had smaller pints. Kind of makes me wonder why you broke away from the empire to do that.
In the UK you get a real pint of delicious Guiness.
So after I made a nice new thread for mongo to enjoy, you just has to tromp though with "old topic" on your galoshes and soil it with repeat question.
pancakemix wrote:Quirk, you are a bastard. That is all.
riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
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