>>>>>>People get used to certain ways. Personally, I have strong 'metric background', but I got used to miles/pounds so backward conversion causes me some inconvenience, though I still dislike 5'7"-like sizes.
>>>>>
>>>>>I especially dislike 5/16" or 7/64" -like sizes. :)
>>>>>But what completely does not make any sense to me is the Fahrenheit scale. Though, it was invented by a German. :-)
>>>>
>>>>The whole system makes no sense.
>>>>
>>>>Foot = 12 inches
>>>>Yard = 3 feet
>>>>Rod = 5 1/2 yards
>>>>Chain = 22 yards
>>>>Furlong = 220 yards
>>>>Mile = 8 furlongs or 1760 yards or 5280 feet
>>>>Acre = 4 roods or 1210 sq yards
>>>>1 pint = 4 gills
>>>>1 quart = 2 pints
>>>>1 gallon = 4 quarts
>>>>1 peck = 2 gallons
>>>>1 bushel = 4 pecks
>>>>
>>>>This is all complete gibberish.
>>>
>>>Add to this "the whole 9 yards" and it will be complete. :)))
>>
>>I like the difference between ounce and troy ounce. It helped me few times on other boards to fill an expert role.
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>If I would just have enough things that they use the troy ounce to measure... :-)

Could you imagine a message board with people discussing it? It is really measured in troy ounces only, but many people believe that it's 28 grams, that may cause distortion of so important proportion...