Subdeacon Joe Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 So what the heck are "Goujons?" Looks like they gots both chicken and fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 15 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: So what the heck are "Goujons?" Looks like they gots both chicken and fish. Expensive chicken/fish sticks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 17 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: So what the heck are "Goujons?" Looks like they gots both chicken and fish. Think fish sticks Joe pulled the trigger first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 15 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Think fish sticks Joe pulled the trigger first. Or I have a higher muzzle velocity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 There are places in the Falklands where penguins thrive because the land mines have not yet been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South-Eye Ned Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 So, the Falklands use the British pound sterling, but not the metric system? (Steaks are in ounces) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 They have reindeer in South America? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perro Del Diablo Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 I like reindeer meet. Had it in Norway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 If you ever get to Sheboygan The FalklandsIt's the greatest little place in the worldJust tell them you're an old friend of mineAnd every door in town will have a big welcome sign So mention my name in The FalklandsAnd if you ever get in a jamJust mention name, I said mention my nameBut please don't them where I am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Alpo said: They have reindeer in South America? And penguins. The farther south you go, the more north you get. https://exploringkiwis.com/wildlife-guide-falkland-islands/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 10 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: There are places in the Falklands where penguins thrive because the land mines have not yet been removed. Penguins ain't heavy enough to set em off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 6 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Penguins ain't heavy enough to set em off. Yup! i read that the govt has agreed to remove the land mines but the date keeps slipping, now 2021. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Lamb and spinach are out but I can do with the rest of the menu. Sure makes my mouth water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 I am glad Goujons aren’t what I suspected. Leave it to auto communista to just scramble crap out of a perfectly good sentence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 22 hours ago, South-Eye Ned said: So, the Falklands use the British pound sterling, but not the metric system? (Steaks are in ounces) I thought brits invented imperial measurements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 They may well have invented it ; but they were convinced that metric was easier .......... ......... as to the U.S.A. ..... they're waiting for all you old people to die off so they can convince the rest of you ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: They may well have invented it ; but they were convinced that metric was easier .......... ......... as to the U.S.A. ..... they're waiting for all you old people to die off so they can convince the rest of you ...... Several years ago on a black powder mortar and cannon forum a guy from Sweden was going on about how the metric system was so superior, and Americans kept using the Imperial, with its odd fractions and being based on things like the length of a persons foot or from the finger tips of an outstretched arm to the tip of the nose. I challenged him to, using only a compass and straight edge, divide a line segment into tenths. Then divide it into half, quarter, eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds, sixty-fourths, and so on using the same tools. I also asked him, using the quarter circumference of the Earth from the Equator to the North Pole as it passes through Paris, to estimate a metre. Or he could pull out his special Iridium bar. Neither is superior to the other. Just different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 3 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: They may well have invented it ; but they were convinced that metric was easier .......... ......... as to the U.S.A. ..... they're waiting for all you old people to die off so they can convince the rest of you ...... Never happen. The Force is strong with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 23 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: But please don't them where I am I suggest an edit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 3 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: They may well have invented it ; but they were convinced that metric was easier .......... ......... as to the U.S.A. ..... they're waiting for all you old people to die off so they can convince the rest of you ...... I like to use SAE and Metric to confuse people...hmmm...I must be part English after all. Chevrolet, the bass turds, likes to use metric for bolt heads but SAE for threads. That right there is worthy of a good butt whoopin’! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 37 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Never happen. The Force is strong with us. https://hackaday.com/2017/01/13/whats-so-bad-about-the-imperial-system-anyway/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 ..... but, ........ but, .......... you'all been using metric money since ..... forever .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: ..... but, ........ but, .......... you'all been using metric money since ..... forever .... Not so! We started out with the £sd system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 .... and decided that you liked metric money fairly quickly ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeaconKC Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 33 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: .... and decided that you liked metric money fairly quickly ..... Don't go confusin the issue with facts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: ..... but, ........ but, .......... you'all been using metric money since ..... forever .... Why do you say our money is metric? Our paper money is one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred. If it was metric it would only be one ten and one hundred. Our current coinage is one, five, ten, twenty-five, fifty and one hundred. When we first got rid of English money and adopted the Spanish dollar, we also had a piece worth 12 1/2 cents. Again - metric would only be one, ten and one hundred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 are there not 100 cents to the dollar ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 18 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: are there not 100 cents to the dollar ? Yes but that doesn't make it metric. There's also a 10 cent piece, but the existence of the nickle, quarter, and 50 cent piece blow the metric theory out of the water. Cents seem to have shown up in the US at about the same time the french were inventing the metric system. So it sounds like maybe the 100 cents to a dollar has more to do with the founding fathers having, on average, 10 fingers each and naturally counting in base 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 2 hours ago, Ramblin Gambler said: . So it sounds like maybe the 100 cents to a dollar has more to do with the founding fathers having, on average, 10 fingers each and naturally counting in base 10. ...... I rest my case ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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