Your favorite science subject during high school?

And yet you use base ten in coinage, one hundred cents in a dollar etc. When I was a kid their was 144 pennies in a pound, crazy. It was for some reason easy to have that changed to 100 pence to a pound, we even had half new pence coins for a while but that soon got taken out of circulation. However, the measurement of centimeters for length and kilograms for weight was a more difficult pill to swallow. We had to make it illegal for stores to weigh out pounds and ounces and remove imperial weighing scales.

The one time I really appreciated small measurements being in millimeters was when I was a printer and cut up paper and card to sizes using that scale. It made total sense and subsequently not difficult to convert too. But, I still would go into a sweet shop and ask for a quarter of this and half a pound of that. I have not changed in that respect. Even now, young store working people who never experienced imperial still seem to accommodate on that front. Still enough imperial memories and people who used them around but that will soon disappear in the UK and Europe.

"5, 5 dollar, 5 dollar 30.48 centimeter long" does not sound right, lol.

My vocational teacher said the US would never change fully to the metric system because the old-timers in charge will resist change, especially if it costs money. Working in the automotive field since the mid 70's all US cars eventually switched to the metric system. Personally, I use a metric tape measure over a standard tape measure because fractions s*ck IMHO.

Mine still up for pecks.

You're joking, but I never enjoyed any violent acts. When I was a little kid and others used magnifying glass to burn ants, I thought it was cruel....and nonsensical.

Even sports. I remember telling the wrestling coach (He told me I could be great at it), that I thought trying to hurt the other guy, or even beat him, was unproductive use of strength.

To me, animals, especially mammals, are just different versions of us. They have the same emotions, instincts, senses, and fears of death.

When I was a 20 year old, I worked at a hospital, in their animal lab. I fed the dogs and let the dogs out for exercise. These animals were used for experiments and training in medical procedures. I lasted a month. Every day was spent with animals that were in pain, because of what we did to them.

My Dad and all my uncles were really into guns and hunting. My dad would take me and my brother out to hunt with them. Neither my brother no I wanted to shoot an animal. My brother did it to fit in, but it really bothered him. I told my Dad when we were alone that I wasn't going to shoot an animal, that I thought it was cruel

He understood, and promised me I could hunt with them, but would never have to shoot.

I really appreciated that.

A few days ago, I was talking to a neighbor. A really nice man from Sweden. He told me how he would trap the chipmunks in his back yard, and let them loose in the nearby woods. Our neighborhood is thick with squirrels and chipmunks. All our back yards are really just woods with a creek.

I laughed a little and confessed that my wife and I feed the chipmunks in our yard. We buy bags of walnuts, and sprinkle them in the back yard. when we (and our cats) watch the critters (and one lone groundhog) eat the nuts.

Fixed that for you

[QUOTE=Claude Whitacre;11792583]I always thought temporal mechanics made us lose our tempor, because the subject was so frustrating.

I'm totally cereal.[/QUOTE

The above line that I wrote for you was from one of my budget, economy packages.