On Sunday, 27 March 2022 at 22:43:30 UTC+1, Bruce Horrocks wrote:

> "She allowed herself to be pinned to the bed by his lissom 75.3 kilogram
> frame eagerly anticipating his full 20.3 centimetres of pleasure."
>
> Metric: a guaranteed nomination for the "Bad Sex in Fiction Award"!

OK Gammon.

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:19:36 +0800, Boots
<news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:

>I reckon that's because a example 1450 sq foot apartment sounds bigger than 135
>metres.

Eh? So do you also think that 86 degF sounds hotter than 30 degC?
--
Ace
http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/

On 27/03/2022 16:33, Turby wrote:
> On 3/27/2022 7:58 AM, YTC#1 wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 27/03/2022 09:44, Cab wrote:
>>> Mark Olson wibbled:
>>>
>>>> Abolition of 'English/SAE' fasteners in new products can't happen
>>>> soon enough.
>>>>
>>>> I still irks the shit out of me that products that I help design (I
>>>> do electronics and SW coding) are still being made in the 2nd decade
>>>> of the 21st century with non-metric fasteners and measurements.
>>>
>>> Not so fast!
>>>
>>> There are actually people in the UK that think a benefit of leaving the
>>> EU, is bringing back imperial measurements.
>> yet I still weigh myself in stones and pounds, and measure my height
>> in feet& inches
>>>
>>> Just think of it. Both the US and UK, brothers in arms, using inches to
>>> the last!
>>>
>>
>> I still snigger at the HD dealer in Lousianna telling me "we can't fix
>> it, it's metric" (for an electrical issue).
>>
> He probably was laughing, too, after you left.
>
I doubt it, he was serious in his response.

The Yam dealer we found next was very disparaging about him and HD.
Something about brain cells.

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

On 27/03/2022 20:13, Champ wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 15:58:11 +0100, YTC#1 <bdp@ytc1-spambin.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>> There are actually people in the UK that think a benefit of leaving the
>>> EU, is bringing back imperial measurements.
>
>> I still weigh myself in stones and pounds, and measure my height in
>> feet& inches
>
> #Living in the past
>
> I know I'm ~81kg, and no longer know what I weigh in imperial units

Similar age, but not a crossover I've moved to.

I am happy buying fruit/veg and meat in Kg though and the weights make
more sense to me than oz.

Now, if only we could switch to KM/H I'd be happier.

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:46:11 +0800, Boots
<news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:

>On 27/03/2022 22:58 YTC#1 penned these words:
>> yet I still weigh myself in stones and pounds, and measure my height in
>> feet& inches
>
>I have no idea what I am now in ancient measurements. I do know in metric
>weight 73 - 75 depending
>height 178
>waist 82

I don't think I've ever actually measured my waist in either inches or
cm, but simply in whether 32-inch Levis 501s fit comfortably or if I
need to break out the 33s. I do still have a pair of almost unused
31-inchers I bought the last time I visited SF, just for a reality
check if I'm feeling like I've lost weight.

--
Ace
http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/

On 28/03/2022 16:32 Ace penned these words:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:19:36 +0800, Boots
> <news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I reckon that's because a example 1450 sq foot apartment sounds bigger than 135
>> metres.
>
> Eh? So do you also think that 86 degF sounds hotter than 30 degC?
>
I don't but most people are simple minded. I have the drawings for my gaff all
in metric but the advertisement was all in SQ feet as is the local property site
URL:https://www.propertyguru.com.my/apartment-for-rent/in-georgetown-pg027
albeit as far as I am aware this is the only imperial hangover, the country
switched to metric in the 70s after the UK.

--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest"

On 28/03/2022 17:00 Ace penned these words:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:42:03 +0800, Boots
> <news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>> I don't but most people are simple minded. I have the drawings for my gaff all
>> in metric but the advertisement was all in SQ feet as is the local property site
>> URL:https://www.propertyguru.com.my/apartment-for-rent/in-georgetown-pg027
>> albeit as far as I am aware this is the only imperial hangover, the country
>> switched to metric in the 70s after the UK.
>
> Wierd.
>
> I didn't realise you were in Georgetown - is the Hong Kong bar still
> going strong? They used to take pictures of visitors and keep them
> under the bar. I was there in 1976 and 1983, would love to go back and
> dig out the old pictures.
>
No idea. All the booze only bars have been closed as far as I am aware since
beginning of 2020 blamed on the plague, albeit if they sell grub they're most
likely open. I was really was not a user of the bars big time before hand, I'll
buy a bottle of beer with a meal in a kopitiam. Google suggests the Hong Kong
bar is still going.

--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest"

Ace <Ace@ch.com> wrote in
news:34u24h57v692f1b1avf46rvcdk80oe9dl9@4ax.com:

> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:42:03 +0800, Boots
> <news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>I don't but most people are simple minded. I have the drawings for my
>>gaff all in metric but the advertisement was all in SQ feet as is the
>>local property site
>>URL:https://www.propertyguru.com.my/apartment-for-rent/in-georgetown-pg
>>027 albeit as far as I am aware this is the only imperial hangover,
>>the country switched to metric in the 70s after the UK.
>
> Wierd.
>
> I didn't realise you were in Georgetown - is the Hong Kong bar still
> going strong? They used to take pictures of visitors and keep them
> under the bar. I was there in 1976 and 1983, would love to go back and
> dig out the old pictures.
>

https://goo.gl/maps/cvri84aCTZxf1u9M6 - are you in any of these?

Ace <Ace@ch.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 08:44:19 +0000, "Cab" <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>>There are actually people in the UK that think a benefit of leaving the
>>EU, is bringing back imperial measurements.
>
> I don't mind at all if they do, as long as they use the continental
> norm of 500ml=1 pint, 500g=1 lb. It's still not unheard-of for French
> or German folks to use them. Un demi-livre de beurre rolls off the
> tongue much more easily than deux-cents cinqante grams. I think people
> tend to forget that those units, and inches, were the standard, albeit
> in ill-defined one, units across most of Europe before
> post-revolutionary France started pushing for standardisation to the
> already existing standard units.
>
>>Just think of it. Both the US and UK, brothers in arms, using inches to
>>the last!
>
> Well inches is stilll the unverally accepted standard for some things
> across Europe. And in fact it's a derived SI unit in its own right,
> having been defined as 25.4mm for 100 or more years.

I remember reading quite a long time ago, probably in the mid-to-late
70's timeframe, about how Imperial (non-CNC) machine tools could be
adapted very simply to read in hundreths of a millimeter because
0.050 inch (typical lathe cross slide distance for one full turn)
was 1.27 millimeter, so a simple replacement of the crank wheel's
scale or even an adhesive label with 127 divisions would enable
reading directly in 1/100 mm units.

I realize that this is only one small aspect of machine tools but
the simplicity of it made this stick in my memory. Thread cutting
could also be corrected by switching in a small collection of gears,
without needing to replace the feed screw, IIRC.

All this reminds me, I have to retrieve my grandfather's lathe (he
was a gunsmith) from the basement of my mother's house which is going
to be listed for sale very soon.

No one I know has a strong enough back to be trusted with any part
of the move, hence the need to hire movers...

--
FJR1300A, GL1000, KLR650A6F, EX250J9A, DR200SE, Vespa Ciao

On 3/28/2022 2:16 AM, Boots wrote:
> On 28/03/2022 17:00 Ace penned these words:
>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:42:03 +0800, Boots
>> <news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I don't but most people are simple minded. I have the drawings for my gaff all
>>> in metric but the advertisement was all in SQ feet as is the local property site
>>> URL:https://www.propertyguru.com.my/apartment-for-rent/in-georgetown-pg027
>>> albeit as far as I am aware this is the only imperial hangover, the country
>>> switched to metric in the 70s after the UK.
>>
>> Wierd.
>>
>> I didn't realise you were in Georgetown - is the Hong Kong bar still
>> going strong? They used to take pictures of visitors and keep them
>> under the bar. I was there in 1976 and 1983, would love to go back and
>> dig out the old pictures.
>>
> No idea. All the booze only bars have been closed as far as I am aware since
> beginning of 2020 blamed on the plague, albeit if they sell grub they're most
> likely open. I was really was not a user of the bars big time before hand, I'll
> buy a bottle of beer with a meal in a kopitiam. Google suggests the Hong Kong
> bar is still going.
>

I took this in 1984. It's somewhere around Penang. I hope it's not a
hangout of yours.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/turbster/50065833321/in/album-72157714931945451/

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:19:23 -0000 (UTC), wessie
<willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:

>Ace <Ace@ch.com> wrote in
>news:34u24h57v692f1b1avf46rvcdk80oe9dl9@4ax.com:

>> I didn't realise you were in Georgetown - is the Hong Kong bar still
>> going strong? They used to take pictures of visitors and keep them
>> under the bar. I was there in 1976 and 1983, would love to go back and
>> dig out the old pictures.
>>
>
>https://goo.gl/maps/cvri84aCTZxf1u9M6 - are you in any of these?

What would the chances be, eh? Seems like most of the old pics were
destroyed by a fire in 2004.

Having said that... Far right, third one down, could actually be a
group of us from the MS Strathalvie when we were there n 1977 (got the
years wrong - it was 77 and 84, now I've remembered the ship I was on,
and that the second visit was on a holiday 7 ears later). Furthest
right in the picture reminds me very much of the electrical officer -
the tache sticks in my memory - and the furthest left sitting at the
bar looks like it could well be me.

Unlikely, but it's a definite possible.

--
Ace
http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/

On Monday, March 28, 2022 at 4:48:06 AM UTC-4, Boots wrote:

> I don't but most people are simple minded. I have the drawings for my gaff all
> in metric but the advertisement was all in SQ feet as is the local property site
> URL:https://www.propertyguru.com.my/apartment-for-rent/in-georgetown-pg027
> albeit as far as I am aware this is the only imperial hangover, the country
> switched to metric in the 70s after the UK.

Just looked at the monthly weather chart for George Town. Perfect. Jealous.

On 28/03/2022 00:26, Turby wrote:
> On 3/27/2022 3:21 PM, Mike Fleming wrote:
>> On 27/03/2022 22:43, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>>> On 27/03/2022 19:01, Mike Fleming wrote:
>>>> "The prime minister’s official spokesperson said: 'Pounds and ounces
>>>> are an easily understood and widely used unit of measurement.' "
>>>> They are neither. And it would be a lot easier life if people
>>>> started using metric measurements for their own bodies instead of
>>>> fucking stones and pounds and feet and fucking inches. We have been
>>>> metric for over 50 years, after all.
>>>
>>> "She allowed herself to be pinned to the bed by his lissom 75.3
>>> kilogram frame eagerly anticipating his full 20.3 centimetres of
>>> pleasure."
>>>
>>> Metric: a guaranteed nomination for the "Bad Sex in Fiction Award"!
>>
>> You read some strange fiction.
>
> You don't?

No, I write it.

The Klingon metricate

"YesMisterSPOCK, what.....is it?"

"Captain, sensors are picking up a vessel on the port bow"

"Very........well, Mister........Spock. LIEUTENant Uhura, hail the vessel"

"Aye, Captain. They're responding, sir"

"This is Captain.......James........T.......Kirk ofthestarship
Enterprise. What vessel is that?"

"This is the Grrr-Haarg of the Klingon Metricate. Ha, puny earthmen, we
shall .45 kilogram you into submission. 2.54 centimetre by 2.54
centimetre, we will take your worlds, and bind you in 20.12 metres. We
shall not spare the 5.03 metre on you, snivelling earthbeings. There's
no need to 1.83 metre out our motives, we simply desire to be the
dominant race, and grind you under 30.48 centimetre."

"I feelthatmaybe.........IT.....losessomethinginthe.....TRANS..lation"

On 3/28/2022 5:50 AM, Mike Fleming wrote:
> On 28/03/2022 00:26, Turby wrote:
>> On 3/27/2022 3:21 PM, Mike Fleming wrote:
>>> On 27/03/2022 22:43, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>>>> On 27/03/2022 19:01, Mike Fleming wrote:
>>>>> "The prime minister’s official spokesperson said: 'Pounds and
>>>>> ounces are an easily understood and widely used unit of
>>>>> measurement.' " They are neither. And it would be a lot easier life
>>>>> if people started using metric measurements for their own bodies
>>>>> instead of fucking stones and pounds and feet and fucking inches.
>>>>> We have been metric for over 50 years, after all.
>>>>
>>>> "She allowed herself to be pinned to the bed by his lissom 75.3
>>>> kilogram frame eagerly anticipating his full 20.3 centimetres of
>>>> pleasure."
>>>>
>>>> Metric: a guaranteed nomination for the "Bad Sex in Fiction Award"!
>>>
>>> You read some strange fiction.
>>
>> You don't?
>
> No, I write it.
>
> The Klingon metricate
>
> "YesMisterSPOCK, what.....is it?"
>
> "Captain, sensors are picking up a vessel on the port bow"
>
> "Very........well, Mister........Spock. LIEUTENant Uhura, hail the vessel"
>
> "Aye, Captain. They're responding, sir"
>
> "This is Captain.......James........T.......Kirk ofthestarship
> Enterprise. What vessel is that?"
>
> "This is the Grrr-Haarg of the Klingon Metricate. Ha, puny earthmen, we
> shall .45 kilogram you into submission. 2.54 centimetre by 2.54
> centimetre, we will take your worlds, and bind you in 20.12 metres. We
> shall not spare the 5.03 metre on you, snivelling earthbeings. There's
> no need to 1.83 metre out our motives, we simply desire to be the
> dominant race, and grind you under 30.48 centimetre."
>
> "I feelthatmaybe.........IT.....losessomethinginthe.....TRANS..lation"
>
>
I agree. That's definitely some bad sex.

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:50:48 +0100, Mike Fleming <mike@tauzero.co.uk>
wrote:

>The Klingon metricate
>
>"YesMisterSPOCK, what.....is it?"
>
>"Captain, sensors are picking up a vessel on the port bow"
>
>"Very........well, Mister........Spock. LIEUTENant Uhura, hail the vessel"
>
>"Aye, Captain. They're responding, sir"
>
>"This is Captain.......James........T.......Kirk ofthestarship
>Enterprise. What vessel is that?"
>
>"This is the Grrr-Haarg of the Klingon Metricate. Ha, puny earthmen, we
>shall .45 kilogram you into submission. 2.54 centimetre by 2.54
>centimetre, we will take your worlds, and bind you in 20.12 metres. We
>shall not spare the 5.03 metre on you, snivelling earthbeings. There's
>no need to 1.83 metre out our motives, we simply desire to be the
>dominant race, and grind you under 30.48 centimetre."
>
>"I feelthatmaybe.........IT.....losessomethinginthe.....TRANS..lation"

<applause>

I needed to do some work to translate some of those to archaic units,
but I got there in the end :-)
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On 28/03/2022 13:50, Mike Fleming wrote:
> On 28/03/2022 00:26, Turby wrote:
>> On 3/27/2022 3:21 PM, Mike Fleming wrote:
>>> On 27/03/2022 22:43, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>>>> On 27/03/2022 19:01, Mike Fleming wrote:
>>>>> "The prime minister’s official spokesperson said: 'Pounds and
>>>>> ounces are an easily understood and widely used unit of
>>>>> measurement.' " They are neither. And it would be a lot easier life
>>>>> if people started using metric measurements for their own bodies
>>>>> instead of fucking stones and pounds and feet and fucking inches.
>>>>> We have been metric for over 50 years, after all.
>>>>
>>>> "She allowed herself to be pinned to the bed by his lissom 75.3
>>>> kilogram frame eagerly anticipating his full 20.3 centimetres of
>>>> pleasure."
>>>>
>>>> Metric: a guaranteed nomination for the "Bad Sex in Fiction Award"!
>>>
>>> You read some strange fiction.
>>
>> You don't?
>
> No, I write it.
>
> The Klingon metricate
>
> "YesMisterSPOCK, what.....is it?"
>
> "Captain, sensors are picking up a vessel on the port bow"
>
> "Very........well, Mister........Spock. LIEUTENant Uhura, hail the vessel"
>
> "Aye, Captain. They're responding, sir"
>
> "This is Captain.......James........T.......Kirk ofthestarship
> Enterprise. What vessel is that?"
>
> "This is the Grrr-Haarg of the Klingon Metricate. Ha, puny earthmen, we
> shall .45 kilogram you into submission. 2.54 centimetre by 2.54
> centimetre, we will take your worlds, and bind you in 20.12 metres. We
> shall not spare the 5.03 metre on you, snivelling earthbeings. There's
> no need to 1.83 metre out our motives, we simply desire to be the
> dominant race, and grind you under 30.48 centimetre."
>
> "I feelthatmaybe.........IT.....losessomethinginthe.....TRANS..lation"
>
>
Oh most excellently played!

Chris

--
The Deuchars BBB#40 COFF#14
Yamaha XV750SE & Suzuki GS550t
http://www.Deuchars.org.uk

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:46:11 +0800, Boots
<news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:

>I have no idea what I am now in ancient measurements. I do know in metric
>weight 73 - 75 depending
>height 178

<jealous>

Same height, but ~81kg :-(
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:03:58 +0200, Ace <Ace@ch.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:19:23 -0000 (UTC), wessie
><willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>>Ace <Ace@ch.com> wrote in
>>news:34u24h57v692f1b1avf46rvcdk80oe9dl9@4ax.com:
>
>>> I didn't realise you were in Georgetown - is the Hong Kong bar still
>>> going strong? They used to take pictures of visitors and keep them
>>> under the bar. I was there in 1976 and 1983, would love to go back and
>>> dig out the old pictures.

>>https://goo.gl/maps/cvri84aCTZxf1u9M6 - are you in any of these?

>What would the chances be, eh? Seems like most of the old pics were
>destroyed by a fire in 2004.
>
>Having said that... Far right, third one down, could actually be a
>group of us from the MS Strathalvie when we were there n 1977 (got the
>years wrong - it was 77 and 84, now I've remembered the ship I was on,
>and that the second visit was on a holiday 7 ears later). Furthest
>right in the picture reminds me very much of the electrical officer -
>the tache sticks in my memory - and the furthest left sitting at the
>bar looks like it could well be me.
>
>Unlikely, but it's a definite possible.

<looks>
<zooms in>

Blimey - it could be!
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On 3/27/2022 10:46 PM, Boots wrote:
> On 27/03/2022 22:58 YTC#1 penned these words:
>> yet I still weigh myself in stones and pounds, and measure my height in
>> feet& inches
>
> I have no idea what I am now in ancient measurements. I do know in metric
> weight 73 - 75 depending
> height 178
> waist 82
>
I'm 6'4", 200, 36" (waist & leg)

I've got a bunch of rocks in the garden. I suppose I could pick one and
weigh it to measure stones.

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On 28/03/2022 16:58, Champ wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:46:11 +0800, Boots
> <news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I have no idea what I am now in ancient measurements. I do know in metric
>> weight 73 - 75 depending
>> height 178
>
> <jealous>
>
> Same height, but ~81kg :-(

180.34 cm
85.27 kg

Need to lose 1/2 s^H^H^H 2.72kg

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

Champ wrote:
> YTC#1 <b...@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> wrote:
> >I still weigh myself in stones and pounds, and measure my height in
> >feet& inches
>
> #Living in the past
>
> I know I'm ~81kg, and no longer know what I weigh in imperial units

I've forced myself to start weighing in kilos, but I still have to convert it to stones and pounds to have any idea what it means.

Absolutely no idea how tall I am in metrics though. And if I did I'd have to convert to feet and inches for the same reason. Not that it's changed much in the last thirty years.

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:29:00 -0000 (UTC), Mark Olson
<olsonm@tiny.invalid> wrote:
>I remember reading quite a long time ago, probably in the mid-to-late
>70's timeframe, about how Imperial (non-CNC) machine tools could be
>adapted very simply to read in hundreths of a millimeter because
>0.050 inch (typical lathe cross slide distance for one full turn)
>was 1.27 millimeter, so a simple replacement of the crank wheel's
>scale or even an adhesive label with 127 divisions would enable
>reading directly in 1/100 mm units.
>
>I realize that this is only one small aspect of machine tools but
>the simplicity of it made this stick in my memory. Thread cutting
>could also be corrected by switching in a small collection of gears,
>without needing to replace the feed screw, IIRC.

It's how cheap Chinese lathes convert from imperial to metric, or vice
versa, I believe. My lathe (Chinese, cheap) has a second wheel in the
lead screw train that I've never used; could be for that.

--

-Pip

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:46:11 +0800, Boots
<news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:

>On 27/03/2022 22:58 YTC#1 penned these words:
>> yet I still weigh myself in stones and pounds, and measure my height in
>> feet& inches
>
>I have no idea what I am now in ancient measurements. I do know in metric
>weight 73 - 75 depending
>height 178
>waist 82

I had to convert the waist, but I've crept up to nearly 86Kg and 91cm,
but at least I'm 185cm tall. And big-boned, of course.

--

-Pip

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:58:56 +0100, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:46:11 +0800, Boots
><news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I have no idea what I am now in ancient measurements. I do know in metric
>>weight 73 - 75 depending
>>height 178
>
><jealous>
>
>Same height, but ~81kg :-(

Hah. Same weight (as you), 184cm (ish).

My height does actually vary. As well as the normal daily variation,
where most people will be a centimetre or so shorter if they've been
on their feet all day, mine also depends on how my back is feeling -
the more painful, the more tensed up, the less upright I stand. I
think it comes to most people as they age, but I'm fighting it by
keeping as fit as skiing can make me.
--
Ace
http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/

ogden <eldaifo@gmail.com> wrote in
news:650616ca-a5d1-450f-a796-bfbcdf4d4c35n@googlegroups.com:

> Champ wrote:
>> YTC#1 <b...@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> wrote:
>> >I still weigh myself in stones and pounds, and measure my height in
>> >feet& inches
>>
>> #Living in the past
>>
>> I know I'm ~81kg, and no longer know what I weigh in imperial units
>
> I've forced myself to start weighing in kilos, but I still have to
> convert it to stones and pounds to have any idea what it means.
>
> Absolutely no idea how tall I am in metrics though. And if I did I'd
> have to convert to feet and inches for the same reason. Not that it's
> changed much in the last thirty years.
>

you're a boomer at heart, aren't you :P