that's because it's all written on the side of the measuring cup! :1orglaugh

Petrol prices are not influenced by gallons or litres :2 cents:

Universal price is per barrel and that filters down to the petrol stations.....

Idiotic. What does that clip even mean? Americans can't relate? The watch face makes more sense... can't even read the rest. Dumb.

Mine? I'm not an Ukrainian :winkwink:

What did you expect from experimental engines (never used on real Soviet/Russian rockets) made in the USSR (Soviet Ukrainian Republic) 40 years ago? Not just designed but physically made :1orglaugh

90-60-90 -- WTF is that? a Buffalo Girl?

Joe I need 6 /2 meter 100x50's Joe: OK, I'll ask the crane operator to send them up ...

Do you have size 44 shoes in this style -- WTF Willis? :1orglaugh

We Americans don't buy gasoline in 1 liter Coke bottles (except for a riot) :P

That said, it's metric sized when we export it ... A lot of engineering and scientific measurement/dimensions are in metric.

BTW, Imperial measure FYI refers to the UK and Canada, not the USA. We don't have kings or nobility ...

ussr/soviet/russian/ukranian.... sorry, those shell games you got going there don't have anyone fooled. they all had the same leaders and scientists support at the time...

The americans have admitted to their ongoing problems with their space program, it is you and your country that is in denial still.

That being said the world needs both your countries in the steps moving forward, no doubt. I hope we live long enough to see it in our lifetimes.

We have a nice mixture of both here in the good old USA... Its ALWAYS been a mixture of metric/inches wrenches when you work on any car or motorcycle here... and on some cars with the digital dash for fun you can always hit the switch from MPH to KMH when your buddies aint looking and say "damn... look how smooth the rides going over 100"

We buy our milk and gas by the gallon and our Cokes by the liter...

But one form of measurement will NEVER change... when your wanting absolute precise zero tolerance NASA approved perfection... the RED CUNT HAIR is the WORLD standard!!! :thumbsup

We have Quarter Pounder. As McChicken or McFeast or Filet-O-Fish. Only some are translated to our language as the name can be abstract as well, and we can speak English too, if that matters.

Problems with what? Soviet Union/Russia has launched more rockets than all countries together and no one cosmonaut has died because the unsuccessful rocket launch. NO ONE.

Fitty inches, er I mean millimeters :pimp

no, they died on the way back

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._and_incidents


but for sure Russian technology has proven to be extremely reliable over the years - on the other hand a big step forward in technology was always avoided - see Buran - and within this always lie big risks - see Space Shuttle/Virgin/SpaceX.

but this thread is not about this

Rockets do not send the people from orbit to Earth. Lander capsules and parachutes do it. Bad parachutes and bad capsules - of course, but not the rockets. Once again: USSR and Russia have launched more than half of all rockets to the space (more than all other countries together) and no one cosmonaut has died.

From practical point of view that doesn't matter that much. The end result is the same whether the rocket explodes or they drink too much vodka on the way back to base.

Do you know that even the first space rocket made by mankind (R-7/Soyuz) has a catapulted module? It was used at least once when the rocket engine has failed on the start. The module was catapulted and saved lives for two Soviet cosmonauts. You know, the US shuttle crew was doomed to burn in fire in a similar situation...

i made this thread to make a little fun and because of the "Go fuck yourself" in the initial text - not to debate the whole Russia/USA thing once again and who killed how many people how.

but thanks for starting that debate once again

Did I kill your thread again? Sorry for that then.

Another thing that drives me nuts about metric/imperial is gas mileage. Being old school, I could always understand getting 25-35mpg. But with this whole metric thing, I'm still comparatively lost when a dealership states it as litres/100kms.

well, if you grow up with ltr/100km, mpg makes no sense at all

for me a car with 5 ltr/100 km is efficient and when it takes 13ltr/100km like my Porsche used to, it needs to go :1orglaugh