Why Canada and the U.S. Should Merge, Eh?

[Sheilbh]

(US)American, voted no.  Variety is the spice of life. 

Agreed. I like difference, I think we're all merging together too much anyway (mondialisation ).

[garbon]

(US)American, voted no.  Variety is the spice of life. 

Despite being one country, the US has a lot of variety.

Meanwhile isn't Canada known for being sort of beige?

[OttoVonBismarck]

Wow, I don't even remember ever hearing of chains as a unit of measurement  before.   

I had to look up the numbers for furlongs and rods which are not used for anything I'm familiar with but I was aware they existed. I did actually have memorized that a chain was 66 feet because of some reading I had done about the building of the railroads and chains was a very widely used measure, but combined with miles. Chains are even still used in some property documents and even maybe surveying in parts of the United States. Links are notable just because there are 100 of them in a chain, but I don't think they have any practical application being of such odd length.

The old league unit of measure also made sense--it was the distance a person, on average, could walk in an hour. At 3 miles that sounds about right for an average person walking at an average pace even today.

[Admiral Yi]

Furlongs are used in horse racing. 

[Eddie Teach]

(US)American, voted no.  Variety is the spice of life. 

Was that vote in the poll over whether the two threads should be merged? 

[Grey Fox]

In this country, no.

In the UK, yes.

Normally by 6 or 12, so by the dozen

It's been 10 years but I remember 10 eggs boxes in Tesco.

[jimmy olsen]

Wow, I don't even remember ever hearing of chains as a unit of measurement  before.   

I had to look up the numbers for furlongs and rods which are not used for anything I'm familiar with but I was aware they existed. I did actually have memorized that a chain was 66 feet because of some reading I had done about the building of the railroads and chains was a very widely used measure, but combined with miles. Chains are even still used in some property documents and even maybe surveying in parts of the United States. Links are notable just because there are 100 of them in a chain, but I don't think they have any practical application being of such odd length.

Now that you mention it, I do remember reading about chains in reference to rail roads now.

[Agelastus]

In this country, no.

In the UK, yes.

Normally by 6 or 12, so by the dozen

It's been 10 years but I remember 10 eggs boxes in Tesco.

Depends on the brand - Supermarket own label and the specialist/higher quality eggs use the 6/12 size. Odd brands like "Big and Fresh" and "Happy" tend to come in 10 size.

Likewise with milk - it's the supermarkets own label milk that tends to come in pint, 2 pint, 4 pint and 6 pint sizes (even if they have to be labelled in ltrs.) Brands such as Cravendale or Yeo valley have gone to a litre size.