Any tricks to thinking in meters than feet

[Worker 11811]

Nails were originally sold as a price, in pennies, per hundred.

A 10-penny nail cost 10 pennies per hundred. A smaller 6-penny nail cost six pennies per hundred.

The "d" stands for the Roman, "denarius," which was similar to a penny in Great Britain where that was the abbreviation for "penny" before the currency was decimalized.

 

[Steve Smith]

which was similar to a penny in Great Britain where that was the abbreviation for "penny" before the currency was decimalized.

No. We were decimalised!


Steve.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

No. We were decimalised!


Steve.

*snickers*

 

[lxdude]

How much would the Threepenny Opera cost now?

 

[E. von Hoegh]

How much would the Threepenny Opera cost now?

Didn't that take place in Germany? I know it was written by Bertold Brecht.

 

[Steve Smith]

How much would the Threepenny Opera cost now?

I don't know but they now have to make do with fivers instead of tenors.


Steve.

 

[lxdude]

 

[lxdude]

Didn't that take place in Germany?

Set in Victorian-era London.

I know it was written by Bertold Brecht.

I don't think it took him long, but the music took a Weill.

 

[semi-ambivalent]

Set in Victorian-era London.


I don't think it took him long, but the music took a Weill.

Show yourself out.



s-a

 

[lxdude]

I don't think it took him long, but the music took a Weill.

BTW, for the first production Brecht didn't have enough money to pay a lead actress, so Weill said Kurtly, "Don't worry. I've got a Lotte Lenya."

 

[Ross Chambers]

Sometimes I am amazed to compare first and last (?) posts on a subject. To ask about metric/feet conversion and progress to dreigroschen puns on Brecht/Weill is a masterpiece in the digressive genre.

Ross

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Sometimes I am amazed to compare first and last (?) posts on a subject. To ask about metric/feet conversion and progress to dreigroschen puns on Brecht/Weill is a masterpiece in the digressive genre.

Ross

Yes, I wonder what the OP thinks? A couple of those puns were of almost supernatural atrocity.

Not to mention that it's in the "Exposure" subforum in the first place. Beautiful.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

I'm buying a camera where all distance is done in meters. Well, schooling here standardized on feet. Any tricks any of you used to retrain you mind to evaluate in meters? I am aware of the conversion 3 feet = .91 meter, just currious if there are any "tricks" or things that help get the mind to convert faster?

First post.

 

[zsas]

Haaaa, I love this thread, I've learned a ton (or kilo)! Nothing wrong with having fun along the way...

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Yeah, just wait until you ask a really complex question....