Another curious American unit of measurement

[Gra]

Turducken

Sounds like something you would do at grunts place......

[E. maculata]

Might just be enough in that meal to feed all of his family

[sailingamerican]

Now these yanks are just plain wierd...

Something so wrong about stuffing a bird with a bird in a bird...

you'll see what I mean..

Damn TURDuckens...

antisense ^_^

Even we are laughing at this one. It is the but of every joke this week.
As for our measurements. Thank King George of jolley old England for that one. All or medical, science, physics etc are all in metric. Our whole country is in feet. Every house, every door, window etc. If you are a replacement company you must use feet and inches. Our infrastructure is so large that it makes it imposible to change. As for the EU we laugh. They are dicades behind us. The 36 hour work week and months of vacation creats their 15 plus unemployment rate. Basic Econ 101. The cost of production makes their products cost more because they are not using manifacturing plants effenectly. Thus theor goods cost to much to export. We have 5 percent unemployment. Our econemy is going like crazy. Your Aussie vat taxes keep your econemy a mess. Every thing there cost 3 times what we pay. I spend several months a year in Australia. I love it there and the people are very nice. I go to buy things and can't find them and what I do find is years behind. You may think we are slow. Hum, That is why the world is beating down the door to come here. That is why we have the best collages in the world. The space shuttle did not come down because of the metric system. Damn old politics. The wacked out environmentalist where fussing about what they were using for a heat shield and bolcked the good materials from being used. Blame that on the candy ass tree hugging liberal morons who thing no one has a right to live and own property. Socialism does not work and never will work. It keeps people from being the best they can be and dumbs everything down and takes away incentive . Come here and live for a year and you will find out just how far behind the world is compaired to us Yanks. I pay $800 for a side by side refrigiator the same one cost you $3800. I tell ya socialism does not work. It can take you months to get an operation in Canada, EU and Australia. If need be we can have it the same day. Our medical care is the worlds best bar none. If I have offend you so what. The world does not evolve around us. It follows us because be are woking our asses off. You don't think we have so much because we sit on our bumbs do you. As for board feet that is English.

[Iain]

I pay $800 for a side by side refrigiator the same one cost you $3800.

US$800 = AU$1080 roughly, just bought a 560Lt S/Steel frost free side by side for $1500.00, thats a bloody big fridge.
My kitchen full of Blanco appliances cost under AU$2000.00.
Eye fillet steak AU$9.50 a pound, King Prawns AU$8.50 pound.
Decent beer, AU$30 slab 24 stubbies.
The recipe looks like one taken from the Middle East, Camel stuffed with a goat stuffed with a goose stuffed with a chicken, far from new.

[Termite]

Re operations "if need be you can have them the same day."
Dear me, I am realy stunned by that fact.
The last operation I had here in backward Australia I had to wait 4 whole HOURS.

[craigb]

Re operations "if need be you can have them the same day."
Dear me, I am realy stunned by that fact.
The last operation I had here in backward Australia I had to wait 4 whole HOURS.

And I'm guessing that you didn't have to take out a second mortgage to pay for it either.

[outback]

My duickhead detector just went crazy.

[doublejay]

Even we are laughing at this one. It is the but of every joke this week.
As for our measurements. Thank King George of jolley old England for that one. All or medical, science, physics etc are all in metric. Our whole country is in feet. Every house, every door, window etc. If you are a replacement company you must use feet and inches. Our infrastructure is so large that it makes it imposible to change. As for the EU we laugh. They are dicades behind us. The 36 hour work week and months of vacation creats their 15 plus unemployment rate. Basic Econ 101. The cost of production makes their products cost more because they are not using manifacturing plants effenectly. Thus theor goods cost to much to export. We have 5 percent unemployment. Our econemy is going like crazy. Your Aussie vat taxes keep your econemy a mess. Every thing there cost 3 times what we pay. I spend several months a year in Australia. I love it there and the people are very nice. I go to buy things and can't find them and what I do find is years behind. You may think we are slow. Hum, That is why the world is beating down the door to come here. That is why we have the best collages in the world. The space shuttle did not come down because of the metric system. Damn old politics. The wacked out environmentalist where fussing about what they were using for a heat shield and bolcked the good materials from being used. Blame that on the candy ass tree hugging liberal morons who thing no one has a right to live and own property. Socialism does not work and never will work. It keeps people from being the best they can be and dumbs everything down and takes away incentive . Come here and live for a year and you will find out just how far behind the world is compaired to us Yanks. I pay $800 for a side by side refrigiator the same one cost you $3800. I tell ya socialism does not work. It can take you months to get an operation in Canada, EU and Australia. If need be we can have it the same day. Our medical care is the worlds best bar none. If I have offend you so what. The world does not evolve around us. It follows us because be are woking our asses off. You don't think we have so much because we sit on our bumbs do you. As for board feet that is English.

Maybe they should add grammar and spelling to the curricula at "the best collages in the world"

[journeyman Mick]

Just a few points, SA, I won't dignify all your ramblings with responses though:

Our infrastructure is so large that it makes it imposible to change.

What happened to good old American can do? The size of your infrastructure is relative. Yes, you've got a large amount of infrastructure, but you've also got a large population and lots of resources. We had a smaller infrastructure but a much smaller population in a country not much smaller than yours yet we managed to change over to the metric system. It's not the largeness of the infrastructure that makes it impossible to change, it's the smallness of people's minds.

You may think we are slow. Hum, That is why the world is beating down the door to come here.

Macdonalds is probably the most popular "restaurant" chain in the world with people "beating down their doors" to eat there. Doesn't mean that it's good food though.

It can take you months to get an operation in Canada, EU and Australia. If need be we can have it the same day. Our medical care is the worlds best bar none.

Actually, just like in America, if you've got enough money you can get pretty much whatever treatment you like, when you like. Unlike the US though, over here if you have a life threatening condition you will recieve treatment even if you don't have any money or insurance. If that means we're socialist, then so be it but in my mind it just means we're more compassionate, or at least our system is.

The US at the moment is very much like the Roman Empire was in its twighlight years and sadly most of its inhabitants don't realise that their once powerful nation is on a definite economic, social and moral decline. Luckily I have friends and relatives who are Americans so I realise that the US is not populated entirely by xenophobic and bigotted fools. Unfortunately, most Americans are so insulated from the real world by their "culture" and standard of living that they haven't even noticed that they're very unpopular with a lot of the rest of the world. When they or their citizens or interests are attacked they wonder why. If you haven't yet done so, go an read a book written by two of your fellow countrymen back in the late 50's called "The Ugly American"

Mick

[Iain]

A little point I forgot, when in the Public Service, I (well, four of us) travelled to good ole US of A 3-5 times a year lecturing law enforcement departments on forensic skills, negotiating and profiling.
And I never went to 'Collage', only University.
Only the Poms have vat, not us.
Doublejay, I have worked with a lot of DICADES, so don't be too critical (critticle).

[Termite]

And I'm guessing that you didn't have to take out a second mortgage to pay for it either.

Not a brass razoo.

[E. maculata]

There rests a point I like to make occasionally, the bottom line to some people is only ever measured in $$$$$, humans like it to be measured in humanity.

[Rocker]

The world does not evolve around us.

It is really sad how many Americans do not believe in evolution

One has to wonder about the standard of their universities, if SA's spelling, grammar, punctuation, and logic are typical of American graduates.

Rocker

[bitingmidge]

You don't think we have so much because we sit on our bumbs do you.

Mate, if you got off your "bumbs" occasionally, maybe they wouldn't be sooooo big!

Actually, those of you that have so much, usually have it from exploiting those that don't. Still paying those wetbacks $5.00 an hour??

Yep!:mad:

P (lovely country, shame about the lack of free lobotomies)

[Termite]

There rests a point I like to make occasionally, the bottom line to some people is only ever measured in $$$$$, humans like it to be measured in humanity.

Ah Bruce, I think your reply was aimed at the Yank, but it followed straight after me so just in case

It was very high on the humanity scale, I was writhing on the floor of the doctors surgery with a (born with it - only just made itself felt) twisted bowel, absolute agony apart from life threatening. A big shot of morphine, siren screaming ambulance, surgery as fast as possible.
As far as money was concerned I was willing to give them my house, SWMBO, and even my woodwork tools.

At no point did they even ask if I was in a health fund, yet I have heard that in the land of the free you can lay in the gutter and die if you're not in one.