The simple things you never knew

Originally Posted by Bigblah

A4 is 210mm by 297mm, which Google converts to 8.27 x 11.69 inches.

There are people who have never heard of A4?

Only the Americans and Canadians, dear. The standard in Asia is A4. Don't know about Europe but as they don't usually go by inches I'm sure their printer settings are also set in metric measurements.

Some of the simplest things I did not know until recent years:
a) common physics. Wet floor + no friction shoes = slippage. Yeah...that was a smart move. Painful one at that.
b) That adding a "the" before a particular street name or highway is a part of speech/language particular to an area you come from. It's most common for Southern Californians such as myself to give directions like, "Take the 405 North to the 101 and get off on the second exit." Where a Northern Californian, (as I'm told) would typically leave out the first couple "the"s.
c) the best way to communicate while having a mouth full of cotton gauze and still on anesthesic is NOT by using my cellphone to text msg.

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Originally Posted by Gumby

Huh, who told you that? That doesn't make any sense why one system would be more accurate than another. 1 cup will always equal 236.59 ml and vice versa... It is stupid to say that 1mm is more accurate than .03937in since they mean the exact same thing O_o, the same goes for ANY other measurement system as well. Seriously there is nothing wrong with the English measurement system.

Well, as a decent cook myself, I say that measurements in cooking/baking/whatever is all relative, so it really shouldn't matter so long as you're keeping consistency with the system you're using in relation to what you're measuring.

I dunno... I never cooked anything that precisely before so I may be wrong in this... I'm an eyeball-measuring type of cook. /shrugs

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