What made your day a good one

Had a nice day out with the family yesterday for a picnic. Served as a really nice reminder for how lucky we are to live where we do. The right environment is good for the soul.

I can fully agree with that. It’s very easy to lose sight and appreciation of what’s around you when you live somewhere for a long time.

I live in a relatively small town right on the edge of a green belt.
My house has been in the family since it was built in the early 60’s so I’ve known it all my life although I've lived elswhere through the years as well.
Out the front window the view used to be incredible. In the 70’s / 80’s when I was growing up you could look directly out at open farmland, fields, and woodlands in the distance.
Today the council take no part in maintaining the hedgerow opposite so it’s overgrown and the trees behind it are now so high I can’t even see the fields from my upstairs window let alone the living room.
Don’t get me wrong, many people coming into the street for the first time are very complimentary of the outlook and I really can’t complain but I think the point I’m making is the best of it was when I had the least appreciation for it.
 
I agree. I live in the Thames Valley and wherever you are you can generally only see as far as the next building. I grew up in a rural area with views for miles and my goodness I crave a half decent view. By the sea or up a mountain is where I would like to be.
I don't know about up a mountain but I've been up a creek a few times and the view was shite !!
 
Weight in stone, and you want us to go metric. :rolleyes:

Who wants who to go metric?

Actually, it is an age thing and there's some shuffling about and disagreement for folks born around the early 1970s where half of us go by centigrade and the slightly older folks get Fahrenheit. There was much rejoycing amongst some folks that, with our withdrawl from the EU, we could buy our carrots in pounds and ounces again.

Weight in lbs (not pounds, that's a currency you dumb Yank!) and ounces, big weight in stones ... or tonnes (not tons)
Distance in miles, length in feet and inches ... who the heck is 188cm tall?
Drinks in pints and gills ... and yes, you can get a pint of (Yorkshire) tea up my way

But temperature ...

Yes, centigrade ... because Fahrenheit makes absolutely no sense whatsoever while centigrade is based on something observable, like snow and ice on the ground or water turning to steam. What's the temperature? It's 32! Que? It's freezing!!!

... that, and currency. Even you folks with your wonky way of speaking over that side of the big pond can count to 100 when it comes to money.
 
Who wants who to go metric?

Actually, it is an age thing and there's some shuffling about and disagreement for folks born around the early 1970s where half of us go by centigrade and the slightly older folks get Fahrenheit. There was much rejoycing amongst some folks that, with our withdrawl from the EU, we could buy our carrots in pounds and ounces again.

Weight in lbs (not pounds, that's a currency you dumb Yank!) and ounces, big weight in stones ... or tonnes (not tons)
Distance in miles, length in feet and inches ... who the heck is 188cm tall?
Drinks in pints and gills ... and yes, you can get a pint of (Yorkshire) tea up my way

But temperature ...

Yes, centigrade ... because Fahrenheit makes absolutely no sense whatsoever while centigrade is based on something observable, like snow and ice on the ground or water turning to steam. What's the temperature? It's 32! Que? It's freezing!!!

... that, and currency. Even you folks with your wonky way of speaking over that side of the big pond can count to 100 when it comes to money.

We are changing, I still think in miles per gallon and yet I buy petrol in litres, I am 6 feet tall and I think in 1.9 metres, no idea what my waist is in centimetres nor how much I weigh in kilos. If I cook I measure in metric and I wouldn't think about buying a pint of milk. No idea what my metric shoe size might be and tyre sizes are a joke with an imperial rim size and metric width.
 
The metric / imperial thing is all over the place and unlikely to change any time soon.
I just had one of the craziest examples of this recently when looking for new carpets.

In-store all the sizes are given in feet and inches. Hand written on sheets of card, taped to the carpet. I'm sure it's the same all over.
But on their website all measurements are metric. I mean ......... WTF !
 
I had a discussion with a friend of mine who is 10 years older and she maintained that "Fahrenheit is more sensible than Celsius because 80°F sounds hotter than 27°C". Er... nope, because by that logic, if its cold, 10°C sounds cold, but 50°F not so much!

0 is freezing and 100 is boiling. Simples.
 
I prefer Roman numerals for buying clothes etc.........
I can't say I have ever seen a clothes tag with "Size IV" on it?

miles teller GIF
 
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