Today

Congratulations, Joan. Here's to many more.

Joan Archer said:

Well today is my wedding anniversary and I have some gorgeous roses.

Congratulation, Mrs. Archer.

Kari

Thanks boys it's going OK and the sun has been shining today as well for a change, apart from that it's much like any other day

Happy Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Archer. :)

Kari said:

My distinguished fellow guru, may I point out an error in your statement: When we (civilized metric system) have already 2.54 units (cm) snow, you (medieval imperial system) only have 1 unit (inch). One inch equals 2.54 cm. Ergo, we get snow two point five four times faster.

Kari

Hey, don't include me on that, I am a metric guy trapped in a Imperial system... I could never understand it, why sometimes you divide by 16, sometimes by 12? They couldn't get to an agreement?
Regarding the snow speed discussion, maybe I put a foot into it...

Joan Archer said:

Well today is my wedding anniversary and I have some gorgeous roses.

Congratulations Joan and Mr. Archer!

Regarding your metric system...I can't understand your mesurements either

1 inch is 2.54 cm which begs the question of why the cm measure up to an inch in a very odd measurement (2.54 is very strange)

It all comes down to the region and we learn in very odd ways. Should there be a global system for this? Yes!

Actually, the inch was defined after some King's thumb measurement (don't know if the same they used the foot too). And it measured 2.54cm. May be a legend.

Zidane24 said:

Regarding your metric system...I can't understand your mesurements either

1 inch is 2.54 cm which begs the question of why the cm measure up to an inch in a very odd measurement (2.54 is very strange)

It all comes down to the region and we learn in very odd ways. Should there be a global system for this? Yes!

You got it wrong, Zid What's odd is that 1 centimeter is 0.3937 inch!

Personally, I find a bit confusing to remember that 1 mile = 1 760 yards = 5 280 feet = 63 360 inches. It is easier to think 1 kilometer = 1 000 meters = 100 000 centimeters.

To add for confusion, 1 kilometer is 0.6214 miles and 1 mile is 1.609344 kilometer.