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Old 10-25-2011, 09:27 PM
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Darn it... pounds, tons. Metric is so much easier to work with. Its all multiples of 10, 100, 1000.
We do it on purpose to confuse the rest of the world.
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Old 10-25-2011, 10:05 PM
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We do it on purpose to confuse the rest of the world.
Americans manage to do that just by staying alive!
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Old 10-26-2011, 05:08 AM
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Americans manage to do that just by staying alive!
Says the guy who lives in a continent-sized Dark Sun LARP...
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Old 10-26-2011, 04:21 PM
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That might be truer for Targan and Stainless actually. Here it's just a bit different as can be seen in Willem Dafoe's latest...
http://youtu.be/KgfB9kebFNI
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Old 10-26-2011, 07:55 PM
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True. Western Australia is mostly a whole lot of hot, dry nothing. Drive a couple of hours north east of my city and you hit the start of a vast desert and semi-desert two-thirds of a continent across.
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Drive a couple of hours north west of my city and you hit the start of a vast desert and semi-desert two-thirds of a continent across.
And I thought there was an ocean called the Indian there?
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Oops . Fixed that now, to north east. And here was me saying a few weeks ago about how good I am at navigation!

To quote Bad News: "Day 37, things aren't going quite as planned!".
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