Have we walked into a BTU’ shoot out at the OK Corral ?
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Ah, British - these days we use SI, System International…
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Yep, kWh…
Sock it to 'em Kiddo.
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Actually, I have seen a lot of paper mills that are Imperial units. Age tells their stories. One was from Grimsby and then it was uplifted, the whole jing bang, and moved to Taiwan - with me included…
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It was a nightmare during my days as an engineer and machinist Besoeker.
Some machines were calibrated in Imperial, and the newer ones were calibrated in metric.
Drawings would come in sometimes in Imperial, and sometimes in metric…
We all learnt to convert very quickly… 
Yep, fun times ! And actually, my wife, the American, uses mostly metric these days but my old fashioned sister uses stones and pounds…
Then there was my father on the farm. Bushels, chains, links and other sorts…
I digress…
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So basically, the size of an acre in America is 2 football fields length + endzones X 22 yards. 1/8 of a mile X 22 yards. 1 mile X 22 yards = 8 acres. 'Thus, if you drive across the USA on a 4 lane divided highway, say 3000 miles you have travel over part of 100,000 + acres of Interstate most likely much more! Add clover leaf’s, gas stops, rest stops, campgrounds, motels, sight-seeing and family. Many parts of an interstate are over 1/4 mile across, 1/2 mile or more.
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We use Hectares which is an area 100 by 100 metres or 10,000 sq metres.
Or about 2.5 acres. A soccer or Rugby pitch is about 0.7 hectares and Aussie Rules ground is 1.5 to 2 hectares
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I stopped by the Dealership yesterday, for a look at the new 2026 aluminum pickup. Just for fun, I took it out for a test drive. I wanted to sense that new truck “feel” before they become old. The salesperson (a nice-looking lady wearing a “RESIST” lapel pin) sat in the passenger seat next to me, describing the truck and all its wonderful options. The seats were of particular interest. She explained that the seats directed warm air to your bottom in the winter and directed cool air to it in the summer heat. Feeling like messing with her, I mentioned that this must be a CONSERVATIVE truck.
Looking a bit angry, she asked why I thought it was a CONSERVATIVE truck. “I explained that if it were a LIBERAL truck, the seats would just blow smoke up rears year-round!” I had to walk back to the dealership, but it was worth it.
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Ha Ha can’t get the staff anymore Zac… 
Some people have no sense of humour, or are too woke to know the difference…
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Foxy, its fuel source causes a lot of wars 
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Who cares Spitty, it’s the motorist who’s at the sharp end.
Wars are like general elections, they come around every few years.
Life is just one damn thing after another…
Is that spoken from the Gut? 
No Spitty, it’s spoken after I just read my car insurance quote for this year…
That’s just a fact of life, like taxation.
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It’s bloody daylight robbery, that’s what it is…
Of course it is, what did you expect?
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