Things that make you frown :(

GSTim said:
Don't tell me, 105 shifters?
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No actually the new ones are R8000 Ultegra. my old ones were R6800s and had a known issue with fraying the cables that Shimano doesnt acknowledge or warranty. While i have tried and failed a few times to save up for a Di2 conversion, the rear and front shifter each blew up on me last year after 10+ years so I replaced them. same result so i guess Im just going to plan to change the cables every 2 months preemptively. sigh.
 
iman29 said:
No actually the new ones are R8000 Ultegra. my old ones were R6800s and had a known issue with fraying the cables that Shimano doesnt acknowledge or warranty. While i have tried and failed a few times to save up for a Di2 conversion, the rear and front shifter each blew up on me last year after 10+ years so I replaced them. same result so i guess Im just going to plan to change the cables every 2 months preemptively. sigh.
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What cable are you using?
 
zmartene said:
Murica don't need no metric system
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Damn right it don't! It like cheating it's so simple...

Patrick said:
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Both part 1 and part 2 are down right hilarious.

I had no knowledge of the existence of the Fahrenheit scale or of the standard measuring system (the name is hilarious on it's own being this country pretty much the only one using it) until I was well in my thirties the first time I visited here. To someone that always used the metric system, where you get to the next order of magnitude simply adding a 0 to the end, the standard system did seem a little confusing, I'm not going to lie...but it only took a quick realignment and it's pretty easy to figure it out.

I'm still working on ounces though...funny how that part did not make it in the Washington skits...
 
serviceguy said:
Damn right it don't! It like cheating it's so simple...


Both part 1 and part 2 are down right hilarious.

I had no knowledge of the existence of the Fahrenheit scale or of the standard measuring system (the name is hilarious on it's own being this country pretty much the only one using it) until I was well in my thirties the first time I visited here. To someone that always used the metric system, where you get to the next order of magnitude simply adding a 0 to the end, the standard system did seem a little confusing, I'm not going to lie...but it only took a quick realignment and it's pretty easy to figure it out.

I'm still working on ounces though...funny how that part did not make it in the Washington skits...
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We attempted to change way back - about the same time as Canada.
Signs were duplicated so people would get "the feel" - weather was reported in deg C and F.
Canada said, "cut-over day has arrived" and took down all the signs in statute miles.

We chose Liberty. lol

Ounces you say? did you mean the volume ounces or the weight ounces?
While one would think that a dry ounce would weigh the same as an ounce of water at STP, it does not.

Bushel and peck are still used too. But that almost makes sense, cause it is the container size.

Can we talk about driving on the wrong side of the road?

PS
You should know where the statue mile originated?

Why is a furlong horizontal, but leagues are vertical (negative)
 
Santapez said:
Fahrenheit makes way more sense for day-to-day use of measuring weather and human body temperatures.

I won't argue about the rest of it. Maybe PSI for normal daily use vs bar or whatnot.
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Wait - inHG is the wtg! or "WC

on the other stuff, you of all people appreciate precision. degC to the 1/10 is twice the precision of degF or half that of defF to the 1/10!
-40 - well at least they line up somewhere.

Should we talk about measuring time?

😀

I guess this doesn't make me frown.
 
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