Society is going all to hell. - by van HellSing
Ulukai on 30/9/2008 at 18:31
Quote Posted by Matthew
'Adopted' is a bit too strong for the UK. To all intents and purposes we are dual-running both imperial and metric.
Hmm, well...they taught me metric at school but I still live 7 miles from work, am 5' 10" high, weight 10st 1lb and aspire to own a nice cottage in several acres of land!
Sometimes, just sometimes, I use centimetres.
wtf is a yard, tho'? Thems be just for batties :D
D'Juhn Keep on 30/9/2008 at 23:24
Hmmmm I hadn't considered the implications on playing golf. Measuring putts in feet would seem to be better than metres. As for working out what club to hit it shouldn't be too hard I suppose, divide by 10 and multiply by 9 would get it close as damnit under 200 yards. Mind you, more and more people are getting these fancy GPS/laser sighting devices that tell them to the <strike>inch</strike> centimetre how far they have to the pin.
Matthew on 1/10/2008 at 09:31
Pity they're not all legal for tournament play, eh?
inselaffe on 1/10/2008 at 10:34
Quote Posted by Thief13x
I think this is rather big. Maybe 10 years ago this kinda thing might have not been a big deal, but the problem is society is moving on and some people arn't. Fortunatly, they will be the ones first removed from the gene pool (hopefully not taking anyone else with them).
If I were you VH, I would have marched to the front of the bus and told the bus driver that the lady had a gun on board. That's just me, I like to try to manipulate society for my own personal gain:sly:
Crikey, I forgot how neo-nazi a lot of hicks were. That and your other xenophobic thread about the "threat" of immigrants "leeching your once proud america".
PigLick on 1/10/2008 at 11:08
Quote Posted by D'Juhn Keep
Hmmmm I hadn't considered the implications on playing golf. Measuring putts in feet would seem to be better than metres. As for working out what club to hit it shouldn't be too hard I suppose, divide by 10 and multiply by 9 would get it close as damnit under 200 yards. Mind you, more and more people are getting these fancy GPS/laser sighting devices that tell them to the <strike>inch</strike> centimetre how far they have to the pin.
I've played with GPS equipped carts before, didnt help me at all.
D'Juhn Keep on 1/10/2008 at 11:46
Quote Posted by Matthew
Pity they're not all legal for tournament play, eh?
Though I could never justify splashing out the cash on it, I could see it being invaluable on links courses or ones without good/any yardage markers. But really a course guide should be fine. (
http://randapublic.loghar.com/flash/decisions/decisions.html) The R&A rules (14-3/0.5) lay the onus on the individual course to make it legal it seems.
Matthew on 1/10/2008 at 11:49
Indeed, and mine has strictly limited the types that can be used. Of course, with the guides being generally written by pro caddies that have gone out with all the fancy gadgets in a non-tournament setting, they're the next best thing. Dad and I followed one such caddy round a few holes one time, interesting stuff.
Brian The Dog on 1/10/2008 at 12:28
Quote Posted by Matthew
'Adopted' is a bit too strong for the UK. To all intents and purposes we are dual-running both imperial and metric.
Just to give an example to those of you who don't live in the UK, food from shops is very metric. Drinks are in in 250ml, 330ml, 500ml, etc. Food is labelled in grams, e.g. the packet of tea on my desk is 250g. The only thing I can think of that is sold in imperial units is beer and milk (in pints), and jam (pounds, but labelled as 454g), both of these for tradition rather than anything else.
Officially, doctors and so on record people's height and weight in metres and kilograms respectively. However, most people use stones and pounds when asked their weight, and feet and inches if asked their height.
Also, long distances are universally given in miles, and speeds are in miles per hour (km/h are shown on car dashboards, but in a smaller font). Short distances are given in either imperial or metric.
This is why some of my foreign friends here in the UK find the units system a bit confusing - it's mainly metric with bits in imperial, as Matthew said.
