Well an ounce, IIRC, without googling, is about 30ml? That's about what we would call "a shot". We even have shot glasses to measure. I myself use a graduated cooking measuring glass graduated in both ml, tablespoons and ounces. lol. As long as it's repeatable I don't care..
All I can say, is, man that must have been a good time to be there. Any memories to share? Maybe about a pint or two?
Throwing darts in a pub. Good people, good times. I felt very welcome.
Several times:
I can not tell now exactly where I was, it was all in the greater London area. As a long time bar room maven in my youth, I kept my wits about me. But pretty much all the people I interacted with were very cool indeed.
Indeed. I always wanted to return to your fair Country. It has not worked out that way. But after all, you and I have common ancestors. Mine being from France, Scotland and Ireland.
There are 16 ounces in a pound weight. But I never got my head round how fluid ounces work, since my parents used Imperial measurements at home (not to be confused with US Customary with different pints/gallons/tons) but we were taught in metric at school.
My family is all from Yorkshire where I was brought up. We can only go back to about 1900, never bothered any of us enough to do research.
I hear you Owen. Hard to keep up with the lineage of all these measurements, for sure.
Well. Being an American is often being a "mutt". It does not mean we don't respect where we came from: after all, America is a melding pot of many peoples....as has your country has become.
The UK has been a melting pot for thousands of years. The people that built Stonehenge were almost entirely replaced by other peoples before the Iron Age. Then you've got the Celts, Romans, Angles and Saxons, Vikings, and finally the Normans as major phases of invasion and colonisation. So we were already complete mongrels by 1066. Then there is our more recent history of immigration from the former British Empire and elsewhere.
Your immediate family you mean. Surely you are smart enough to know that people in "England" are not all indigenous peoples.
Yes my immediate family are all from Yorkshire going back to about 1900. There's some red hair in the family so likely some Celtic blood somewhere.
Owen. This may surprise you. But some of us here have studied history. The entire history of the world is being uncovered more every day. Strange, some of it Revelations, much of it. Wish I could keep up with it all.
Yes. do you know where the highest population of people with red hair reside? Northern Africa. lol.
I should add there's a great board game called Britannia where you start with the Celtic iron age tribes on the board of the UK, and then the players have various of the historic invasions to play starting with the Romans and ending with the Normans. It often ends up with a wildly different result to actual history.
If I recall correctly that is because white slaves with red hair were highly prized by many North African kingdoms.
Owen. I always like talking with you. You are an intelligent person. We just have divergent views on some small things that are of no matter my friend.
I am still waiting for them to invent a metric-sized egg, so the measurements come out even..
And, let’s not forget that a gallon is an “Imperial” unit of measurement, just like a mile and a pound.
Not only that, you drive on the wrong side of the road!
