 | | Re: LEGO Queen Mary 2 - Making-of —Jeffrey Findley
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| | | (...) A US ton is 2000 lbs. Jeff (15 years ago, 4-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Queen Mary 2 - Making-of —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) Yeah that's just a bit more confusion that imperial measures brought us. It's all explained (URL). Good think all the sensible countries are moving to metric ;) ROSCO (15 years ago, 6-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Queen Mary 2 - Making-of —David Laswell
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| | | | (...) You mean the bit where it's stated that if God intended for us to use Metric, he would have seen to it that Jesus had 10 disciples? (...) No we're not. And it's telling that no country in the world has voluntarily undergone the metrication (...) (15 years ago, 7-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Queen Mary 2 - Making-of —Brian Davis
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| | | | | (...) Well, you'd think the ten fingers things would have been hint enough... (...) Huh. What real world are you working in? In my professional life, which I suspect uses actual weights and measures a bit, English units are just something we joke (...) (15 years ago, 8-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Queen Mary 2 - Making-of —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) That has nothing to do with the confusion between short (US) tons and long (imperial) tons, which was what led us here. (...) ROFL!! I had hoped you'd realise I was being humourous, or maybe you did and decided to bite anyway, in which case (...) (15 years ago, 8-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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