Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Colwyn on April 21, 2013, 16:24:58 PM
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I mean, of course, Fahrenheit or Centigrade? Early on after we were officially encouraged to chose the latter I went over to using C and now find that I have converted completely. If people tell me me what the weather forecast is in F degrees I want to say "And what is that in real money?". Hilary just told me that the forecast for our short break in Toledo next week is 60 degrees F. I had no idea what that meant. Is that cool or mild or warm? I don't think she knew what it meant either since when I looked it up on conversion charts it said it was 15.5 (in real money) and I am sure it will be higher than that.
What about you? Are you an F person or part of the C folk?
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I guessed you meant Fethiye or Calis :D
Isn't it celcius these days? Metrication came half way through my education so for me it is centigrade for all temperatures except really hot weather where you must switch to farenheit ;)
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I'm definitely a Fahrengrade man.
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Metrication came half way through my education
I'm still only half way through my education and am rapidly running out of time. It doesn't work for me in respect of all metrication. I have got 30cm is a foot and a metre is a yard and a bit, but any other numbers I have to convert into Imperial so they have meaning to me.
Some years ago, when metrication came in, I visited my local timber yard to get some materials for DIY. I asked for some timber - 2 by 2. The chap said, "We don't do that any more. We have gone metric. We call it 50mm by 50mm now". "OK", says I, "How much is it". Without a trace of a smile, he instantly responded, "10p a foot".
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Reminds me of a story a South African customer told me about the same thing. When metrication came in there, a woman apparently went to buy a bra but the whole thing confused her. "Well I was a 36C but I have no idea how many litres that is".
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I am a C man but I also convert it or switch the temp thing to F to see how it compares.
With regards to feet/inches or cm/metres I can work in either although I only learnt metric at school from what I can remember.
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I don't convert much now. I know 0 is cold, 20 is ok, 25 is warm, 30 is hot and anything above 40 is unbearable :)
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I know 0 is cold, 20 is ok, 25 is warm, 30 is hot and anything above 100 is unbearable ;)
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Hah - but can you convert Celsius to old money?
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I do that in a vague way, but it's near enough right, say temp is 20 c = double it and add 30 = approx 70f
I think the correct way is to multiply by 9/5 and add 32.
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I'm ok with C, but feet and inches and stones and pounds every time for me, I can't work without my trusty conversion charts, and dont think I ever will.
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I have my satnav set to metres and miles :)
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I do read it and understand in C, but still by habit convert it back .... daft I know but old habits die hard :-\
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BTW Colwyn don't forget that 6 guineas, thirteen shilling and sixpence three farthing you owe me, otherwise I may need to put my 30cm down, as I do not want to end up in quart ;) ;)
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but do you remember the thrill of a threepennny (or a tuppeny if times were bad) bit to go to the shop for sweeties, these days nothing less than a quid would do.
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You'll not get a groat out me, UBT. That job you did was a cubit too short and only delivers a gill per peck.
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but do you remember the thrill of a threepennny (or a tuppeny if times were bad) bit to go to the shop for sweeties, these days nothing less than a quid would do.
Tell me about it, on my last run home to the UK I went to Tesco Express and they charged me 60 pence for a Mars bar, that's 12 bob in old money!!
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That was possibly the biggest shock for me when we returned to the UK after 5 years abroad. How the hell did a single chocolate bar get to these prices??!!
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You would think children ought to be finished with their schooling by the time they are twelve. After all they don't have to learn all the ludicrous measures we had to memorize. There were 20 shillings in a pound or 240 pennies. There were also 20 hundredweights in a ton but there were a hundred and twelve pounds in a hundredweight so a ton was a mighty 2240 pounds. Whoever dreamed up 1756 yards would be really good number to call a mile? And that 22 of them would constitute a chain and could double up as the length of a cricket pitch? The mind boggles at the logic that one acre was made out of 4,840 square yards so that it would equal 0.0015625 square miles.
On the other hand I suppose they have to learn lots of things we didn't. Like how to make an atomic bomb; and the names of 22 central Asian countries ending with -stan when we called them all the USSR.
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Think it's 1760 yards in a mile, (drummed in rote fashion daily at school along with our times tables!)
16 oz in a pound
2240 pounds in a ton
4 gills in 1 pint
8 pints in a gallon
1 acre 4840 sq yards
Etc etc etc . . .
Odd how these things stick, yet I can't get my head around metric!
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Strangely enough I think of hot ambient temperatures in Farenheit (i.e. 95 degrees phew !!!)
and low ambient temperatures in Centigrade (i.e. -10 degrees brrrrrr !!!!)