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1. about 6 hours ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   Ethics is the County in England next to Thuffolk……

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   (Essex & Suffolk for those without a lisp)

2. 1 day ago on Off the Mark

   Is Rex allowed on the couch though?

3. 1 day ago on Ten Cats

   I thought that would be around the price for a S/H mug $1.50-$2.50, as you can probably buy new mugs from the big box stores for $4-$5. (I will mention that I don’t know what the prices would actually be as I’m not from the US, for those who don’t know).

4. 2 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   If you go to the breakingcatnews dot Com website (If you haven’t already), then you can see all the early strips before BCN was carried on GC. They’re worth a view.

5. 2 days ago on Ten Cats

   Hopefully they’re realise soon, do you normally expect around $2 for a mug?

6. 2 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Georgia Dunn (Breaking Cat News) colours all of her strips as she uses watercolours, and Nancy Beiman (FurBabies) colours hers as she’s told us what palette she uses for different strips.

7. 2 days ago on Ten Cats

   That is actually a very good one, I’ll have to remember that.

8. 3 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Here in the UK they should as it’s now a legal requirement to have cats microchipped.

9. 4 days ago on Ten Cats

   No worries, it’s the conversion back and forth that is the tricky part. If you stay with one system, or the other, then there’s no issues. Remembering a few ‘ballpark’ numbers helps to give you some idea of values when confronted with the other system. 100mm (10cm) = approx 4in, 1 metre = 3’3", 1km = 5/8ths of a mile, 1 litre = approx 1 quart, 1kg = approx 2.2lbs.

   I have a bit of a blind spot when watching US videos on the ’toob (I watch a lot of them) when it comes to giving weights in pounds in visualising the actual weights involved (“The trailer I was hauling weighs 15,000lbs”). That weight means nothing to me, because I was taught grams/kilograms/tonnes, but I was brought up with pounds/stones/hundredweight/tons. When you got over a certain value, you moved to a larger denomination to reduce the number. What I have to do with the American system is divide the figure by two, and then by 1000 (Knock off three zeros), or the other way around, to convert the weight into US (Short) Tons, which gives me an idea of what the weight actually is.

   It’s all fun!

10. 4 days ago on Ten Cats

    Yes, one degree is a big step as regarding body comfort, which is why we normally split it into halves of a degree. It does make a lot of sense in other ways though, knowing that 0c is the freezing, and 100c is the boiling point of water.

    The one major advantage of the metric system though is the easy conversion between volumes and weights: 1 litre of water = 1kg (2.2lbs): 100mm cubed (Approx 4in cubed) = 1 litre. so a 100mm cubed container of water = 1kg. So 1000mm cubed (1 metre or 39 3/8ths inches) = 1000kg, or 1 Tonne (2200lbs).

    Something that car manufacturers have been doing for many years (at least over here), is giving the internal capacity of the luggage space in vehicles in litres. This sounds nonsensical at first because litres are generally associated with the quantity of liquids, until you remember that 100mm cubed equals 1 litre. So you can visualise the physical size like that.

    I learnt the metric system at school (We were the first year to do it exclusively), but I grew up in an Imperial world, so I normally dealt in pounds and ounces, stones, hundredweights, tons, and gallons. It was a strange time.

    I still convert fuel bought, in litres, into gallons (Imperial gallon = 4.545 litres) as I continue to use miles per gallon to work out fuel comsumption of my vehicles.

    Us humans are a funny lot.