Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:48 pm
Feet and inches are very important to the British people- according to the Daily Maillawrenceg wrote:IMO GB players should get into the habit of using metric as it is not unusual for Brits to attend continental comps and vice versa, although it probably doesn't make a great deal of difference in FoG. (In DBM it makes a big difference in some column expansions).miffedofreading wrote:We prefer inches in blighty too!
pints (liquid volume), pounds (weight) and acres (land area) are still in regular usage- although the pound was close to being culled- only to be saved by the great British euroskeptic press barons. It may take another 50 years until there is no one who can remember there were 240 pennies to 1 pound, and 16 ounces to the pound- surely our european friends can understand that 2 different units can have the same name
as Tom Lehrer wrote in his song MLF lullaby
"Once all the Germans were warlike and mean, But that couldn't happen again. We taught them a lesson in 1918, And they've hardly bothered us since then."
and as for metric units are all the responsibility of that evil French imperialist Napoleon Bonaparte - still he's threatening the UK with invasion; since 1800!
Enough satire
The DBM problem is down to bases set out in metric units and using imperial units for movement- As we know base size has no effect on fog as distance is irrelevant for expansion and contraction, and anything else other than the actual move. (A major plus point). Don't care if we use 1 inch or 25mm, just as long as my opponent is using the same scale.
Spike
