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Freddie Woo tells us "I'm having to drive 500 miles to pick up my son from the ex's house because she won't let him take the train in case he gets off at the wrong station. He's 19 years old and has A-Levels and everything." - Tell us about illogical and irrational people who get on your nerves.

(, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:24)
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No, it's the fact that it's 16 (or 20) of one, 14 of another, 220 of a third, 36 of something else and 1760 of yet another

(, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 10:53, 2 replies)
Yes
Exactly this.
(, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 12:37, closed)
I'd agree with you if you were doing this shit in your head or if you had to remember them
but in reality these days in most scenarios, no-one does, and no-one does.

When I lecture this stuff I do fall down in favour of the boy Panzer, in that imperial/US units are a bit of a pain compared to SI. But the conversions are really only a minimal inconvenience when everything is done with a computer.
(, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 13:18, closed)
It's true you would never have to really work them out
But it would be easier to do a miscalculation
(, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 20:03, closed)

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