Note to self: Whatever you do, don't let nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh get started talking about the standardising of industrial measurements in the late 1800s. That guy knows more than is reasonable on the topic and can talk 😅😝🤣 jokes. If y'all are interested in how such things presided over a leap in innovation, hit Beave up he got kind of passionate about it. 😊
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The USA got quite the head start there, amirite nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh ?
Some British Commonwealth manufacturers were using proprietrary measurement units into the middle decades of the 1900s
I got the impression that it certainly started in the US before my eyes glazed over and Beave realised what he'd done and changed the topic. 😅🤣 Joking again, he actually made the topic way more interesting than it has any right to be. You probably won't get much out of him for a few hours coz he said he was off to bed when we hung up.
Naaw sweet of you to listen. My old boss and nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh could probably talk about it for hours :D
I wonder if your old boss has the stamina to keep up with Beave talking for hours 🤔😅😂😏 He said at the time that he could talk about this specific topic for hours.
Honestly, I don't mind talking about random stuff with Beave, we're friends it's what we do, but it's the amount of gun talk that comes from him that would be hard to tolerate if it were anyone else. 😅😔 Somehow he kind of even makes that fun though, got a lesson on pencil muzzles (I don't know of that's the right word, he said a bunch of words and pointed out the parts 🤷🏽♀️) verses government ones and the history of why civilian AR-15s are better than the ones the US army issues. The philosophy of weapon making and warfare in Russia and the US and how they differ also came up. Always a hoot with nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh
Honda, bizarrely, used (maybe still does). A BPT (British Pipe Thread) for some oil system components on many of their engines from the 80s to the aughts.
Why?
Also BPT is the perfect example of this nonsense.
Also, let's go back to standard. It's much more human and forces people to do much better math. 🤣