Which one of you Toyota drivers is this?!?

The issue there is with the standard units.

Metric is really easy to convert within.
Take 693.4 meters. What is that in centimeters, millimeters, and kilometers?
Now 693.4 yards. Convert to inches, hundredths of an inch, and miles.

 

There you go, making things difficult for yourself by converting. Forget inches. Forget pounds.

 

Trouble is, a lot of mechanical items we support are imperial measure. No getting around it.

Actually, I've had my feet up for a bit over a year now, think I'm retiring.

 

I do not know. I constantly have to work in five currencies and two (sometimes three or four) languages, and I manage OK. I'm reasonably comfortable with metric and imperial on most things.

 

Making one measurement exactly another by fiat is always a good plan.

Bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly was a winner, after all.

 

when our government said we were going to be covering to metric, i rushed out and bought all the tools. and i mean all of them, there were none left for anyone else. now, some imported products are metric, and some domestic are not. the confusion is worse than one or the other. sears made a fortune selling combo metric/sae tools.

 

Ah, you see.... I have a way to avoid that problem. By being hopeless at DIY and mechanics and stuff, I can avoid the whole tools thing.

 

it took me 60 years to figure that out. i have a brilliant tool collection though.

 

I was on one fabrication job, it was largely a repeat of an older, imperial job. But there was one component, the star of the show, with metric fasteners. The client had a policy that no project could mix the two fastener types, so we had to convert the whole thing. Hands down the biggest component of the job, totally ubiquitous, day after day: convert, convert...

 

no wonder you have your feet up.

 

You should have just invested in Crescent.

 

i did, and plenty of them! with the cool blue rubber coated handles.

 

There it is, the all new Matrix!

 

PULEEEZEE do not let that woman in a car again. She has no idea how to drive or what "full lock steering" means. My Lord! what idiocy!

 

I wonder if she moved to the UK?

Love the way she clears the front wheels when it's a rear wheel drive car. Then wait for the ending lol

And this is why you need winter tyres in the snow.

 

Yeah the snow is not deep at all, and that vehicle looks to have decent ground clearance: worn "all seasons" at play?

 

Not even that. Probably worn summer tyres.

I think she might have learnt the hard way it's cheaper to pay £500 on a set of winter tyres than £500 on your insurance excess/deductable.