I like a great deal about England and the English. Fellow champions (for a long time anyway) of “customary measures”, inches, feet, yards, furlongs, and the English statute mile.
There’s a utility to the number 12 that decimalists will never acknowledge.
Recall the old 3,4,5 triangle of antiquity.
How to establish a 90 degree corner with just a piece of rope? Twelve evenly spaced knots. All forgotten now. Perhaps if seen as a piece of French Revolutionary madness like the decimal clock and calendar the so called “metric system“ could be dismissed as just more continental madness, but no. America alone. Again. What, if I may be so bold as to ask, is the utility of a measure that can’t be evenly divided by 3? What’s exactly 1/3 meter? 333.33333333... cm? Precision, eh? Bah! Humbug!
P.S. love the lit. Wodehouse is a delight, as are Chesterton, Lewis, and the less well known “Inkling” Charles Williams. Thanks Brittions. Don’t forget your past. Much worth conserving. Love love love to Tommy Robinson too.
I like a great deal about England and the English. Fellow champions (for a long time anyway) of “customary measures”, inches, feet, yards, furlongs, and the English statute mile.
There’s a utility to the number 12 that decimalists will never acknowledge.
Recall the old 3,4,5 triangle of antiquity. How to establish a 90 degree corner with just a piece of rope? Twelve evenly spaced knots. All forgotten now. Perhaps if seen as a piece of French Revolutionary madness like the decimal clock and calendar the so called “metric system“ could be dismissed as just more continental madness, but no. America alone. Again. What, if I may be so bold as to ask, is the utility of a measure that can’t be evenly divided by 3? What’s exactly 1/3 meter? 333.33333333... cm? Precision, eh? Bah! Humbug!
P.S. love the lit. Wodehouse is a delight, as are Chesterton, Lewis, and the less well known “Inkling” Charles Williams. Thanks Brittions. Don’t forget your past. Much worth conserving. Love love love to Tommy Robinson too.