Maco1969

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TV's and plumbing are still measured in inches in the UK, the measuring system was already in place when we went metric and it was what people were used to. Plumbing fittings are as you said now rounded off to millimetres etc. but the actual physical size is still the same as the original imperial. For example what is referred to as a 25mm fitting is actually one inch (25.4 mm).

No, freshwater fish apart from predatory fish have never been on the menu in the UK, top feeding fish like trout or pike but never tench, bream or subsequent to the Romans, carp. The BBC article relates to one site and even there is a possibility that the aversion to fish was due to fecal contamination causing illness. In East Anglia scales from sea fish were common however apart from trout other local fish was not present in middens.

The Celts lived in houses built on piers, eating the fish you were shitting on would wipe out your tribe due to cholera and dysentry, they imported their water from local springs. They ate locally caught seafood but not freshwater fish. Carp were introduced by the Romans however the Romans had a means to wash the fish prior to consumption. There was no need to eat something possibly detrimental due to a lack of population pressure, the Romans washed carp in fresh water for a period of days prior to consumption, the Celts didn't simply because they didn't have to.

There were no monkeys when dinosaurs existed, also more time elapsed between the stegosaurus in the back existing and the t rex and triceratops than between them and us.

on excuse me? · c/memes · 1 pts · 2y

The son is going to inherit the company, he's clearly terrified and going to piss the whole thing up the wall within five years of being given the reins.

on Good job man 👍 · c/memes · 1 pts · 2y

It's still just two layers of a manufactured felt or bitumen, the quality of tiling, flashing and lead in the UK is beyond compare. There's flashing on a church near me that's nearly a thousand years old.

I would imagine that at some point we went from highways agency signage that was made to a standard to outsourcing to the cheapest bidder. There is also a possibility that signs can't be too rigid so they don't cut vehicles in half?