Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "Quest for an International Standard Measure: The History of Metrication" video.

  1. I run a pair of US 1944 Dodges and a number of premetric Land Rovers. You reckon you have problems with tool sizes? :-) The only useful one is that a US quart of oil is close enough to a litre not to worry.
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  2. I went to a builders yard and asked for 55 pounds of sand or a 25 kilos if they prefferd. The bloke looked at me and sniffed, then said 'We do it by the shovelfull. '
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  3. France still has the hump that Greenwhich is the Prime Meridian. So they were given the Leap Second to keep them from throwing all the toys out of the pram.
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