Thread: People who don't understand the metric system

1 British pint. You are already qualifying. a British pint might be 568, but an Imperial British pint is 570ml. South Australian 425ml American 473ml Australian Milk 600ml New Zealand 450ml European Metric 500ml That's 4 pint definitions used in Australia (568 / 570 / 425 / 600) alone, and you claim there are only 2 used universally?

if you give them an inch, they will take a mile

Quote: Originally Posted by dbb618 1 British pint. You are already qualifying. a British pint might be 568, but an Imperial British pint is 570ml. South Australian 425ml American 473ml Australian Milk 600ml New Zealand 450ml European Metric 500ml That's 4 pint definitions used in Australia (568 / 570 / 425 / 600) alone, and you claim there are only 2 used universally? As has been said, the South Australians are calling schooners...

Quote: Originally Posted by dbb618 Trirst, Read what I wrote. The secret ballot in isolation wasn't the foundation, it was that in conjunction with the other things I mentioned. Before that there was no representative democracy. It didn't exist. one man one vote was just as important a foundation (ie. the first place in the world to grant one and only one vote to every male over the age of 21). France invented universal suffrage,...

Quote: Originally Posted by THEHEATH I blame the ALP. What would Malcolm Turnbull do? ?

Quote: Originally Posted by dbb618 1 British pint. You are already qualifying. a British pint might be 568, but an Imperial British pint is 570ml. South Australian 425ml American 473ml Australian Milk 600ml New Zealand 450ml European Metric 500ml That's 4 pint definitions used in Australia (568 / 570 / 425 / 600) alone, and you claim there are only 2 used universally? Enough with the stories dbb. We don't use American pints, and the...

Quote: Originally Posted by dbb618 Rubbish? We invented modern democracy. I'm sending a dust storm your way in anger. hehe it's not that bad. My gf is from Adelaide and I've visited the place a few times. A little boring, but harmless.

Quote: Originally Posted by dbb618 what is a pint? It varies from country to country and from australian state to australian state. you don't necessarily know what you are getting unless you have local knowledge. It's a shit measurement. this is the fail dbb. a 'pint' according to the imperial system is 568.26125 ml as spacemonkey pointed out. you fail because you can't understand that it is the glass size and naming...

Yeah, thats less that what I weigh, and I am not so fat, and I am a shortish (5"6' ish?) chick.

all this beer talk is making me thirsty.