On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 6:00:06 PM UTC-10, Embudo wrote:
> On 10/7/2015 6:48 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 2:33:05 PM UTC-10, Embudo wrote:
> >> On 10/7/2015 5:52 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> >>> On 10/7/2015 1:11 PM, Embudo wrote:
> >>>> On 10/7/2015 5:08 PM, wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:03:34 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 06:52:54 -0300, wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Lol and yet he sets himself up as being so sensitive to what people in
> >>>>>>> general want that if he became President he would ship all refugees
> >>>>>>> back where they came from.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Those damned immgrants with their filthy metric system have to go!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Lol is he against metric too ?
> >>>>
> >>>> The most coarse scale to measure human environmental temperatures with.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> That's true - it's got 80% more degree points. It's nearly 85 degrees in
> >>> my office. The building manager said the AC was going to be fixed but
> >>> that ain't happened yet.
> >>>
> >>> OTOH, when I was doing layouts for printing, I gave up trying to figure
> >>> out what a third of 11" or 8.5" was. I just said screw it, used a metric
> >>> ruler, and ignored the marking on the paste-up sheet. I may not know how
> >>> to divide 11 inches but 280mm is as easy as pie.
> >>
> >> It is perfect for some things, oddly off-kilter for others.
> >>
> >> I enjoy metric sized bolts and such.
> >
> > Automobile repair guys (including me) have been using metric fasteners for decades. Back in the old days, the Japanese cars would use 10, 12, 14, and 16mm bolts. The Italian cars I had would use 13, 15, and 17 mm bolts. The result being that the Italian cars had beefier, more robust, fasteners. I can't say if that's still the case but I always thought that was pretty strange.
> >
>
> This is very interesting to me and something I have noticed before.
>
> I would guess the Japanese like the numeric efficiency of even numbers.
>
> The Italians I have never understood.

You try to find meaning in the things you observe. I do the exact same thing. Hee hee.