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RIP Metric System
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Man of Honour
Interesting fact. In France bars would understand if you asked for "une pinte de bière".
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What do they call a Quarter pounder with cheese in France?
Soldato
I'm my experience, you don't need to state a quantity at all. Ask for "une bière" and you'll get what you want.
They use the metric system over there, they don't know what the *** a quarter pound is.
Man of Honour
True. But some places ask you for a measure. My point was that "pint" is a relatively know measure.
Same in Spain, just ask for a caña* (pronounced 'can-yah') 'small beer', or pinta, 'large beer'. Only tourists buy pints though as they warm up too quickly in the sun.
caña is not a fixed measure though, it could be anything from a cup full, to 2/3rds of a pint, depending on the establishment and the price of the beer.
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Un cochon Anglais? Sadly Jean-F is no longer around to give his none PC opinion...
I'm under 55 and have always filled up my car in litres
(Or kiloWatts)
Surely you mean kilowatthours? KW is a measure of power not energy.
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What do we call a pint in the pub?
0.57 litres, but it depends which version of imperial you are converting to.
Hope that clarifies things for you
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Anything. It doesnt care.
On a side note, when the bigger glasses for pints go brought in, (1 litre glasses?) it was soo much better, as you still got a pint, but the glass was that little bit bigger, so you wern't spilling it all over the place trying to carry 4 pints back to your table.
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0.57 litres, but it depends which version of imperial you are converting to.
Hope that clarifies things for you
Have you been buying 0.57s since 2000?
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Soldato
Yes, you're right. I'm not so familiar with the KW/KWH units because, of course, I covert to horsepower-hours when I charge my car
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Why isn't time measured as decimal?
I've been asking for pints or halves and getting pints or halves,... what's your question, caller?
You can thank the Babylonians for that one and their sexagesimal mathematical system
Soldato
Err...time is measured in the decimal system (Base 10) and in smaller units it's also what I think you are getting at i.e. milliseconds. Why are there 24 hours in a day and not 10 - is that what you mean?