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Re: Too much exposure
I'll settle for a soft,curvy woman any day rather than a "hardbody" with a six-pack.
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I don't know how much I agree with that. I am a man. I am young and I am in excellent shape. My family history is full of bad medical issues so I make a point to stay in tip top condition. There is a lot to be said about being comfortable in your own skin. It is a very healthy overall mental outlook. However, especially here in America, being comfortable in your skin has been transformed in to a lazy attitude toward fitness and an increasing problem with weight management. The last report said that by the end of 2010 40% of American adults will be OBESE. That is sad and irresponsible. I fully support a curvy woman and a healthy woman but there is a line that shouldn't be crossed. That of course if different for every individual.
@Hey Chris ,
for no misunderstandings: I´ll have to eat very much - and to drink very, very much, especially beer, to grow up to the weight of my mummy. That will need time. And even my mummy is not a ton of fat because she´s an unusually tall woman with more than 180 cm! I´m swimming nearly daily - and that running is not so much my case is based not in my hip bacon but in the fact that it doesn´t works so well with my balcony...
But I fear I could become a ton of fat around my hips, around my stomach and at my ass because I love too much eating, drinking and partying hard. And at the same time I´m afraid that I could loose weight above because --- now, maybe you can look at my avatar pic.
You can be sure that I will do my very best not to become a woman who looks like: "OMG, how could this happen???" I´m much too vain to mess up myself in such a way.
Stay a muscular six-pack-male, dear Chris!!!
I love strong males in a good shape!!!
Yours nudie Nicci
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180 cm. is about 5'10". I guess I'll keep doing these conversions until the US gets in step with the rest of the world.
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9/2/2009, 6:37 pm
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180 cm. is about 5'10". I guess I'll keep doing these conversions until the US gets in step with the rest of the world.
We live in hope
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In 1796, when the metric system was newly created, the US Congress voted against changing the measurement system here because the cost of the change would be too great.
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In 1796, when the metric system was newly created, the US Congress voted against changing the measurement system here because the cost of the change would be too great.
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Been a long time since 1796, Australia, NZ, UK, Canada etc have all made the decision and done it. You have to wonder what the cost of not converting is. For example at least one space probe was lost not that long ago because part of it was designed and made in Japan and someone got the conversion wrong in some calculation. US cars have historically been difficult to export to metric always countries because they don't have imperial tools. My husband worked on a plant a few years back where a 2nh hand hydrogen plant was imported from US, they had to get the old guys out to assembly as the younger half couldn't read the drawings and then buy a special set of tools to build and service it. During an expansion a few years later a US supplier was rejected because they couldn't supply the plant in metric. Initially they said they'd change the bolts and drawings, but then it came to spare parts etc. I know some movies and TV shows from US are recorded twice, once for metric and another for imperial if they have a measurement term in there. Catalogues etc either have both or printed twice.
Australia converted not long after I was born in the early 70's and a few years after we also converted to decimal currency, 1966 (at least US got that bit right first go). For those not kowing what this, if I remember my mum's comments. 12 pennies to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound.
It will probably be easier to covert today than even in 70's as "hopefully" more and more kids in US are taught metric over recent years than in 1796 and even 1970. Anyone studing Science, engineering, maths etc should know. As a kid I remember seeing the old road signs. My first car had a dual speedo with both km and miles, but odmeter was in km. A car my mum had from same year when I was a kid ironicaly had odmeter in miles, but dual speedo.
Its not that hard to convert. Say from Jan 2011, everything must have dual signage, ie new car speeo's, road signs etc. Then from Jan 2015, metric is the offical system and must be the dominate measure. 5-10 years after, most of imperial will die a natural death because its more combersum. People will still say LA is x miles from SF, but other parts will die faster, just ask Australia's older population. Overall conversion will take about 1-2 generations and many regards we are still converting, but ask anyone under the age of 60 what a quart, fluid onze, pound etc and few could tell you.
As I said, US is not the first country to convert, but it will be the last and part (currency) is already done.
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while I make more than my share of mistakes at converting to metric -- it is a great drawback for my country to have not bit the bullet and converted years ago.
Similarly -- compared to other countries - very few of us United States people are able to speak a language other than English. Whereas people on the other side of the pond often speak several languages.
The term "imperial" system is a good description - "imperialistic" is how we behave too often especially when being willing to be flexible and engage with the global community.
It must be said, however, more and more metric is common in the United States. Now all science and medicine and many common foods use metric. Anybody who uses mechanical tools, they have two sets - one geared for inches and another geared for metric.
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A lot of us are familiar with both systems, but since I learned the "English" system (although metric is used officially in the UK) as a child, it is what I feel in my gut. For example, I know immediately what 86 degrees F feels like, but I have to think to know what 30 degrees C feels like.
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Using the metric system is straight foward. The problem is that Americans insist on using "our" system. For a few years road signs had both miles and kilometers but not any lomger. The problem comes trying to convert one to the other. Think half a kilo (about a pound) rather than trying to figure out how many pounds it actually is. Do you look for exactly a pound of meat or about a pound? A liter is about a quart. In the metric system things are multiples of 10. We have 12 inches per foot 3 feet per yard, and I honestly don't know how many yards per mile. I used to have a professor that wanted speed in furloughs per fortnight. We will never understand other people until we walk a kilometer in their moccasins.
Peace.
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Re: Too much exposure
10 millimeters= 1 centimeter
100 centimeters= 1 meter
1000 meters= 1 kilometer
I kilometer= .61 mile
I meter= 39 inches
2.4 centimeter= 1 inch
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