helene_t Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 hectolitres90% of the population reached for a dictionary (or a google search). Damn metric systems! ;) :) not so difficult. a hectopascal is 100 pascal, a hectare is 100 ares, a hectogram is 100 grams, so a hectoliter is .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 I think hectare comes from hm^2, not from hectoacre. edit: I was wrong. sorry. but it's my primary school teacher's fault!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 I wonder what kind of "logic" is behind these strange US measures like the gallon = 231 cubic inches,=0.133680555 cubic feet =3.785411784 litres ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 No logic, that's just the way it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lobowolf Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 I wonder what kind of "logic" is behind these strange US measures like the gallon = 231 cubic inches,=0.133680555 cubic feet =3.785411784 litres :) To be fair, they were created at a time when people could actually multiply and divide, so it wasn't as problematic as one might think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 I wonder what kind of "logic" is behind these strange US measures like the gallon = 231 cubic inches,=0.133680555 cubic feet =3.785411784 litres :) To be fair, they were created at a time when people could actually multiply and divide, so it wasn't as problematic as one might think. Thus the gallon, the basic English unit of volume, was originally the volume of eight pounds of wheat. wet wheat or dry wheat? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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helene_t Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 I wonder what kind of "logic" is behind these strange US measures like the gallon = 231 cubic inches,=0.133680555 cubic feet =3.785411784 litres :blink: 1 feet = 12 inches. Like one day = 24 hours. These units come from a time when we used base 12 rather than base 10. But also it's an incoherent mismatch of conventions with different sources. Sometimes American use metric units: Volts and millimeters. And a calorie is the energy it takes to heat a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. Pretty useless if you use neither kilograms not degrees Celsius otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kfay Posted June 13, 2010 Report Share Posted June 13, 2010 I wonder what kind of "logic" is behind these strange US measures like the gallon = 231 cubic inches,=0.133680555 cubic feet =3.785411784 litres :blink: 1 feet = 12 inches. Like one day = 24 hours. These units come from a time when we used base 12 rather than base 10. But also it's an incoherent mismatch of conventions with different sources. Sometimes American use metric units: Volts and millimeters. And a calorie is the energy it takes to heat a kilogram of liquid water by one degree Celsius. Pretty useless if you're an eskimo. FYP!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 13, 2010 Report Share Posted June 13, 2010 What about Vuvuzuela noises as a new sound on BBO :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Winstonm Posted June 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 The USA-England World Cup match ended in a 1-1 tie. Some here in the U.S. actually knew a game was being played sometime this year. The rest of us only found out because ESPN told us between NFL reruns and NBA playoff games. It's not that we find soccer boring, but.... Soccer would be a great game to play on ice with skates and sticks and a puck instead of a ball, and with a Zamboni between periods. Hell, soccer on ice with drunk Canadiens and brooms would be better.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobowolf Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 The USA-England World Cup match ended in a 1-1 tie. Some here in the U.S. actually knew a game was being played sometime this year. The rest of us only found out because ESPN told us between NFL reruns and NBA playoff games. It's not that we find soccer boring, but.... Soccer would be a great game to play on ice with skates and sticks and a puck instead of a ball, and with a Zamboni between periods. Hell, soccer on ice with drunk Canadiens and brooms would be better.... Heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 What about Vuvuzuela noises as a new sound on BBO ;) +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 And you call yourself a sensible person? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 Delicate sound of Vuvuzuela trompets is a pure joy for sensible people, oh yeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pooltuna Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 The USA-England World Cup match ended in a 1-1 tie. Some here in the U.S. actually knew a game was being played sometime this year. The rest of us only found out because ESPN told us between NFL reruns and NBA playoff games. It's not that we find soccer boring, but.... Soccer would be a great game to play on ice with skates and sticks and a puck instead of a ball, and with a Zamboni between periods. Hell, soccer on ice with drunk Canadiens and brooms would be better.... I thought that was Curling ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted June 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 The USA-England World Cup match ended in a 1-1 tie. Some here in the U.S. actually knew a game was being played sometime this year. The rest of us only found out because ESPN told us between NFL reruns and NBA playoff games. It's not that we find soccer boring, but.... Soccer would be a great game to play on ice with skates and sticks and a puck instead of a ball, and with a Zamboni between periods. Hell, soccer on ice with drunk Canadiens and brooms would be better.... I thought that was Curling :) This will be a lot like curling only they will wear shorts and someone will actually care about who wins. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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