19 Dec 15 07:18, you wrote to me:   
      
    PQ>>> quick reply saying that I would have been more comfortable with the   
    PQ>>> old imperial measures.   
      
    ml>> the funny thing is that i had thought you guys were metric down there   
    ml>> so i made the special effort to convert the mesaures to metric for   
    ml>> you ;)   
      
    PQ> We are.  But I grew up with the old measures.  I still do the   
    PQ> conversion from metrics back to pounds & ounces, yards feet & inches.   
    PQ> The only 'plus' is the dollars & cents, which are more "comfortable"   
    PQ> than guineas pounds shillings & pence.   
      
   i hear ya there! :)   
      
    PQ> My reply was me being a cranky old man, for which I apologise.  There   
    PQ> are times when I need a smack.  :)   
      
   pshaw! you? cranky? i'll accept your diagnosis but there's no need to   
   apologise... certainly not to me in this case :) i'm as bad or worse at   
   times... most definitely have been in the past when i've ripped more than one   
   head off when i needed a new skull to drink out of ;) O:)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   "So let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've   
   killed all the bad guys, and when it's all perfect, and just and fair, and   
   when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going   
   to do with the people like you? The trouble makers. How are you going to   
   protect your glorious revolution from the next one?" - The twelfth Doctor   
      
   ... I'll have two brains on drugs, scrambled with bacon, homefries, toast and   
   co   
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