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   margueritem said, 4 months ago

   Read to them, Lio, they love this story.
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   kfccanada said, 4 months ago

   They’re everywhere….everywhere….
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   Kali39 said, 4 months ago

   Lio must think it’s a documentary…
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   dukedoug said, 4 months ago

   Non-fiction for Lio.
   

   
   My son loved this book when he was “little” (He’s over 180cm – 6 feet – now …)
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   win said, 4 months ago

   “Wild thing you make my heart sing You make everything groovy, wild thing…” – The Troggs
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   Bilan said, 4 months ago

   …and if the wild things want something scary, turn on C-SPAN.
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

   Is it me, or do the monsters under the bed .. seem to be afraid of Lio?
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

   re: gweedo

   Mainly convenience. When the British went to metrics in the late 1990s, it was a terrific adjustment for them to think in different sizes. They adjusted.
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   What’s funny is that from an engineering standpoint, the English system is less confusing. For example, despite it being a unit of mass, the kilogram is sloppily used for “weight”. In the English system, the two are separate, with slugs for mass and pounds for weight.
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   It’s compounded by the fact that most countries have their own standards for mechanical engineering. Tolerances are different from country to country. Numbers of threads per centimeter are different. Etc.
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   Our land surveys present a problem. Except for the Napoleonic era stuff in Louisiana, they are in feet. Township system, Meets-and-bounds, etc. While GIS could theoretically be used to fix that, we don’t have 100,000 people inputting surveys from the last 400 years into computers. Until they all get digitized, we’re stuck with the English system in land surveys.
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   I like how the Germans said a pound was 1/2 kilogram. We could easily do that. Make the foot exactly one third of a meter. A number of things like that where the measurements are close would be helpful.
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   pcolli said, 4 months ago

   @Gweedo Murray

   We got bullied into taking on the metric system and you can still ask for a pound of carrots etc, in shops. Anyway, the old (Imperial) system was originally French.
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    Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

    Problem: can Lio read out loud to them? They sure would enjoy a good semi-scary story!
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    yldchyld said, 4 months ago

    haha…Bunny fangs
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    differentboat said, 4 months ago

    Why read it when you could have written it?
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    Tacopielvr said, 4 months ago

    Lol, a perfect read for Lio.
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    Dogsniff said, 4 months ago

    What’s he do, sleep with stilts on?
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    redbaronss said, 4 months ago

    Are you sure those are wild things under the bed? They look like the eyes from Grandma’s gift jar.
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