Or a pound of it.
An acre is about 70 yards square.
OK, I use the small metric units such as anything from a micron to a metre, but after that it is in feet, yards, miles.
Get a couple of pints of milk, I'm asked.so I get a litre.
I recalibrated my speedometer on the car when living overseas, with bits of dymotape, to save on the mental transition to mph.
This is surely all daft.
A dozen eggs should now be sold in packs of ten?
I bought some strips of timber to glorify my boat ceiling a couple of years ago
I wanted stuff two inches wide, and ended up with timber 500mm wide.
It did not fit properly.
I am dismayed that we have to bow to the silly EU directives.
Next, am I allowed to use my 15cm spring onions from the allotement ?
It drives you to the point where you laugh at this silly situation.
What do you reckon ?
Bob
2007-05-09
01:39:16
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