Things that make you frown :(

Patrick said:
We attempted to change way back - about the same time as Canada.
Signs were duplicated so people would get "the feel" - weather was reported in deg C and F.
Canada said, "cut-over day has arrived" and took down all the signs in statute miles.

We chose Liberty. lol

Ounces you say? did you mean the volume ounces or the weight ounces?
While one would think that a dry ounce would weigh the same as an ounce of water at STP, it does not.

Bushel and peck are still used too. But that almost makes sense, cause it is the container size.

Can we talk about driving on the wrong side of the road?

PS
You should know where the statue mile originated?

Why is a furlong horizontal, but leagues are vertical (negative)
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Patrick said:
Wait - inHG is the wtg! or "WC

on the other stuff, you of all people appreciate precision. degC to the 1/10 is twice the precision of degF or half that of defF to the 1/10!
-40 - well at least they line up somewhere.

Should we talk about measuring time?

😀

I guess this doesn't make me frown.
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Are you preparing part 3 of that SNL skit?

Santapez said:
Fahrenheit makes way more sense for day-to-day use of measuring weather and human body temperatures.

I won't argue about the rest of it. Maybe PSI for normal daily use vs bar or whatnot.
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100% with you on this, weather and human body temperature as well as air pressure make more or less sense based on what you're used to. I would never argue on one system being better than another simply because it's not what I'm used to. So being in the US Fahrenheit does make more sense and so does PSI, it would be absurd to recalibrate a whole country because somebody 'visiting' has a different opinion...
 
Patrick said:
Wait - inHG is the wtg! or "WC

on the other stuff, you of all people appreciate precision. degC to the 1/10 is twice the precision of degF or half that of defF to the 1/10!
-40 - well at least they line up somewhere.

Should we talk about measuring time?

😀

I guess this doesn't make me frown.
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They use inches of water pressure to measure pipe organ pressure, since most pipes only need 1-2 psi at most.

The old organs are fun, cause they have a gauge on the console that has a literal water-filled tube on it, and you can watch it drop as you pull more stops.
 
It seems if you grow up using Celsius, then using it every day isn't a big deal. I spend enough time watching videos by non-US creators that I can start to "think" in Celsius after a while. Kilometers to miles seem to be the same way.
 
Unleashed dogs.

When riding up Observatory Rd yesterday in Voorhees, two Shepard looking dogs barked and ran circles around me as I cranked my way up the steep road near the park entrance. I’ve been nipped and chased on my bike before so I was quite scared. The owner kept calling to them but they didn’t stop until I had pedaled a ways away from him.

They looked like this but smaller (pic I found on google):

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natlady10 said:
Unleashed dogs.

When riding up Observatory Rd yesterday in Voorhees, two Shepard looking dogs barked and ran circles around me as I cranked my way up the steep road near the park entrance. I’ve been nipped and chased on my bike before so I was quite scared. The owner kept calling to them but they didn’t stop until I had pedaled a ways away from him.

They looked like this but smaller (pic I found on google):

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Isn't that fun? Came around a turn at Harthsorne the other day to find an off leash Pitbul with the owner about 50 feet away. Thankfully, the dog couldn't care less about me, but I have been snipped before in a similar situation.
 
This is my biggest pet peeve on the trails. I don't want another broken collarbone, but that will heal. More importantly, pulmonary contusions from a bike wheel rolling over a dog's chest are a bad way to die in a vet hospital. Ask me how I know....
 
My wife and daughter were driving back to school on Sunday and were rear ended. Daughter was driving and slowed down for traffic, car behind stopped late and the landscape dump truck behind them slammed into that car.
Bumper, supports, tailgate shouldn't be too much but the spare tire was ripped out. That did the most expensive damage underneath.

We have no car payment right now. The Pilot is a 2020 with 100k miles on it. We were hoping for a lot more life out of this car. Plus, my wife loves it.

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kdebello said:
My wife and daughter were driving back to school on Sunday and were rear ended. Daughter was driving and slowed down for traffic, car behind stopped late and the landscape dump truck behind them slammed into that car.
Bumper, supports, tailgate shouldn't be too much but the spare tire was ripped out. That did the most expensive damage underneath.

We have no car payment right now. The Pilot is a 2020 with 100k miles on it. We were hoping for a lot more life out of this car. Plus, my wife loves it.

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sucks about the car but hope everyone is OK!
 
kdebello said:
My wife and daughter were driving back to school on Sunday and were rear ended. Daughter was driving and slowed down for traffic, car behind stopped late and the landscape dump truck behind them slammed into that car.
Bumper, supports, tailgate shouldn't be too much but the spare tire was ripped out. That did the most expensive damage underneath.

We have no car payment right now. The Pilot is a 2020 with 100k miles on it. We were hoping for a lot more life out of this car. Plus, my wife loves it.

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Man...if that unibody floor pan that the spare mounted up to is bent/torn/shifted, she might be totaled out.
 
Carson said:
Man...if that unibody floor pan that the spare mounted up to is bent/torn/shifted, she might be totaled out.
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That's what I'm thinking. The spare was slammed up, then torn down. The mount is gone.

I did brakes and a diff and trans fluid change on the car this past year. Was about to do a timing belt, valve adjustment in the next few weeks. I'll hold off on ordering parts
 
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