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Dog I rescued in January ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/yYDjsxrQ/IMG-0124.jpg)
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Once in awhile there is a glimmer of hope in an insane world.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Campfire Kahuna
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What's the dollar to shilling exchange rate?
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Note, it's 12.7 sounds way more impressive than 5...
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
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Campfire Regular
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Metrics came to Australia about 1972. I still have not converted, for me it is still feet, pounds etc.
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Campfire Kahuna
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It was in the early 70's when England changed their money system to metric and got rid of shillings. They kept the pound and broke it into 100 pennies that they called the new penny.
I'll bet they won't change that back.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Campfire Ranger
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10ths make things a lot simpler.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Metric is only common sense but if you haven't been raised with it, it's a real PIA. I wasn't.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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10ths make things a lot simpler. Not when are using something everyday. It's interesting in Australia when it is very hot or someone is very tall etc. even the media will revert to imperial. When it is 45 C they will say ... that is 113 in the old money ..... same thing with someone who is very tall .... I get my supermarket orders online and a few weeks ago the delivery bloke would have been about 21 and he was real tall and I said that to him and asked how tall he was. Straight out he said 6 foot 8. No 203 cm or 2.03 metres.
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Campfire Oracle
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10ths make things a lot simpler. Not when are using something everyday. It's interesting in Australia when it is very hot or someone is very tall etc. even the media will revert to imperial. When it is 45 C they will say ... that is 113 in the old money ..... same thing with someone who is very tall .... I get my supermarket orders online and a few weeks ago the delivery bloke would have been about 21 and he was real tall and I said that to him and asked how tall he was. Straight out he said 6 foot 8. No 203 cm or 2.03 metres. Glad Jim comey found work.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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10ths make things a lot simpler. An inch is 100 10thousanths. In fact when it comes to precise measurements the Imperial system has it all over Metric. 254 MM equals 1', 25.4 MM equals 1". Seems like it takes a lot more figures for metric.
Dog I rescued in January
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They just think that .275 Rigby sounds way cooler than 7x57mm. 
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Came within an inch of his life. Missed by a mile. Try that in metric.
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Dog I rescued in January
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Metric is a better system, by far.
Isn't your money in 10ths in the States?
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Came within an inch of his life. Missed by a mile. Try that in metric. Yeah, He came within 2.54 centimeters of losing his life just doesn't have the right ring to it. 
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Don't start celebrating yet. From the actual original article, and missing from the original link:
" The British government said it was taking steps to return to its traditional system of imperial weights and measures, allowing shops and market stalls to sell fruits and vegetables labelled in pounds and ounces alone, rather than in the metric system’s grams and kilograms, ..."
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Campfire Kahuna
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"Once again, one inch is three barley corns laid end, to end." 
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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6.5 Creedmore is a metric measurement. Tells you all you need to know about THAT system.
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