What's wrong with Canada?
Apr 5th 2009, 9:28 pm
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
And what's the deal with bags of milk!!
Apr 5th 2009, 9:44 pm
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Apr 5th 2009, 9:49 pm
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Apr 5th 2009, 10:26 pm
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
When old threads are not allowed to die, they slip into dementia.
Apr 6th 2009, 1:08 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
I hate them though. I think they're a fine example of the evils of careless metrification. Most things went metric by expressing the amount in metric measures but not changing the actual volume, thus we have butter sold in 455 megasomethings and beer in 12oz bottles but expressed as 300 and odd milliflops. Bagged milk actually comes in 1 litre bags which don't fit the 1 pint jugs. Wonderful for the milk marketing board as there's so much spillage but so messy in the kitchen.
Apr 6th 2009, 5:55 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
I hate them though. I think they're a fine example of the evils of careless metrification. Most things went metric by expressing the amount in metric measures but not changing the actual volume, thus we have butter sold in 455 megasomethings and beer in 12oz bottles but expressed as 300 and odd milliflops. Bagged milk actually comes in 1 litre bags which don't fit the 1 pint jugs. Wonderful for the milk marketing board as there's so much spillage but so messy in the kitchen.
Our bagged milk comes in a pack of 3 individual bags, each of which I assume are of exactly equal amounts of approximately 1.333 (recurring) totalling 4L.
Apr 6th 2009, 8:10 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
I hate them though. I think they're a fine example of the evils of careless metrification. Most things went metric by expressing the amount in metric measures but not changing the actual volume, thus we have butter sold in 455 megasomethings and beer in 12oz bottles but expressed as 300 and odd milliflops. Bagged milk actually comes in 1 litre bags which don't fit the 1 pint jugs. Wonderful for the milk marketing board as there's so much spillage but so messy in the kitchen.
Apr 6th 2009, 9:39 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
Speaking from first hand experience. Other than that Canada is fine.
Apr 6th 2009, 10:46 am
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Apr 6th 2009, 11:30 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
Are they indeed? That's news to me but what would I know? I only worked there for four years.