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Metric was designed by the French to be "modern" and efficient. So they took measurements that made sense to a pre-industrial people (inch being the thumb to the first knuckle, foot self explanatory, yard 3 feet or the length of a man's arm, etc.) and said "if you want to be considered...

Yeah. The "joke" is that an American would choose the 100 m over the 1 km, which makes no sense at all. Anyone who doesn’t know metric is goong to go for the lower number, which is 1. If the creator of the meme split the measurements and intended the 100 m to be 100 miles, that should have been...

I looked in mine. I think I found the piece you're missing.

"Norman soldiers attempts to make dates with Saxon barmaids, and no more legitimate than the other results."

If that hurts your head--if a man goes back in time and becomes his own father, where did the male genes come from? :lau

The air? The bottle is empty. :lau

Really, I would rather not eat either.

Looks like 4 apricots and 4 peaches have survived their third winter. One apricot seems to struggle with going dormant correctly in the fall, but goes dormant in the hottest part of the summer instead. I'll keep it going until I find out if it fruits well. It might need a warmer environment in...

I was laughing. Embrace the power of "And"! Mostly A's, some B's, often on the same question. Part of one, a bit of another. It's a mix-and-match game! Oh, my food storage has to be organized? Oops. Does that question become a B, or an A-? I did go into town today. Stores didn't have what I...

I have seeds for upland rice. The others can grow without a paddy as well, it's just easier to grow them that way because it cuts down on weeds. Rice has both air and water roots.

The squashes and grains (eventually amaranth, quinoa, oats, flax, sesame, sorghum, possibly sunflowers) will be primarily for the birds winter forage. Their area currently has plum, pear, and apple trees, as well as a number of fruit bushes. Once their area is done, they should have plenty of...

I am into 5 generations with my chicken landrace. The base is Jersey Giant and Rhode Island Red, with Marans, Black Australorp, Ranger and Buckeye. This year I added Kraienkoppe, American Game (looks like none of the AG survived) and a Sussex-Dorking mix that's supposed to have really good...

These particular jars are Anchor-Hocking. The jar is 1/8 inch shorter in the neck, the ring is about 1/16 inch shorter, but the ending point on the ring track is about 1 inch shorter than either Kerr or Ball.

The difference is 1/8 inch, but it makes a huge difference.