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[Sweaty]

Just for you Red.
Nice Pussy 

[Kiwifruit]

Floyd has just returned through the cat door........he is now a very wet pussy !!

[Red Biker]

This forum never lets me down 

Go Floyd or KFC as i like to call him (Kiwifruits cat)

[Rynglieder]

Do I win anything for "elevation" on a GSX1400?

If you have been higher tell us the story

[seth]

Only if it was on the back wheel at the time 

[KiwiCol]

What's the 'ft' bit Pete?  Isn't distance & height measured in Meters in the modern world?  Thought only Yanks used the old measures.

[KiwiCol]

You & the bike would be starving for air up that high yeah?   Did it run any different?

[seth]

We still use feet on the right way up side of the world 

[KiwiCol]

Pounds & Ounces too?  Thought you were metric when you went to EU.

[seth]

No not for us that French metric stuff unless your under 40 I think they do metric in schools thesedays but normal folk use imperial as it reminds us we used to have an empire that was the pink bit on the globe.


In Scotland we use "nats" and "a bawhair" for the finer measurements

[Rynglieder]

What's the 'ft' bit Pete?  Isn't distance & height measured in Meters in the modern world?  Thought only Yanks used the old measures.

I should explain (although one or two others have got in first).

As a child of the sixties and seventies I was at school when metrication was introduced in Britain, I therefore sit on the barbed wire fence of indecision.

I think in feet and inches, but I work in metric.

For example, the idea of a six foot blonde appeals to me. I would have to stop and think about a 1.83m blonde (but only briefly).

I can work out the cross sectional area of 9mm x 9mm timber in my head but if I needed to know the cross sectional area of 3/8" x 3/8" timber I would pretend I was busy and give it the office junior to do.

The image above is from the notorious Gramin Zumo and I never really know what that is thinking, although I believe that it will display units in Modern if you poke the right buttons.

It's all going to be irrelevant soon though, Brexit is coming and we will soon be measuring in Chains and Furlongs, paying each other in Groats and having blue passports which we will not be able to use without a visa. (Ooops, a bit of politics creeping in now so I had better go)....

[Del]

In Scotland we use "nats" and "a bawhair" for the finer measurements

and the smidgin 

[Mister Fishfinger]

I'm comfortable with both systems, bearing in mind in the UK it's pretty much necessary. Road distances and speed limits are still marked in miles, we know our weight in stones, our height in feet and inches and we drink pints.

To be fair, a pint is exactly the right amount of beer to have. With a smaller measure, you'd be going to the bar too often. Any larger and the beer would go stale as you got to the end (and it would be harder to carry a round of drinks).

[gsxbarmy]

In Scotland we use "nats" and "a bawhair" for the finer measurements

and the smidgin 

Don't forget the gnats as well 

[KiwiCol]

I'm comfortable with both systems, bearing in mind in the UK it's pretty much necessary. Road distances and speed limits are still marked in miles, we know our weight in stones, our height in feet and inches and we drink pints.

To be fair, a pint is exactly the right amount of beer to have. With a smaller measure, you'd be going to the bar too often. Any larger and the beer would go stale as you got to the end (and it would be harder to carry a round of drinks).

We have 'pints' here too, however the 'pint' has shrunk over the years.  It's no longer 600ml, (or very rarely) it can be anything from 500 to 440ml.  We get ripped by buying a 'pint' so most down here buy 'jugs' which is a litre and drink from a '5' or a '7' (150 - 200ml)  They can't short change jugs, as everyone know what they look like & are a std size everywhere.  A 'pint' on the other hand is in a glass & the size & shape of the said pint varys enormously.

The beer doesn't go stale buying a litre at a time, but then we possibly drink it a bit faster too - being the thirsty bunch we are.