Things I hate about Summer

[Parkdrive]

People bringing their little darlings to the office for the day, keep your children amused elsewhere, the office is not a kindergarten.

[Sue]

> malumbu Wrote:

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> > People who use Farenheit instead of Centrigrade

> > (or Celsius to be precise). Educatated in the

> > metric system 40 years ago.

To be fair, if you've been brought up with Fahrenheit (sic), as I was (I was educated (sic) at school/uni in the fifties and sixties) it is often still very difficult to imagine what kind of heat level temperatures in Centigrade represent.

I still have to mentally try to convert them, or do it on my phone.

It's easier with length and weight because you are using them more often, but I still sometimes have to consciously mentally convert them.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> People bringing their little darlings to the

> office for the day, keep your children amused

> elsewhere, the office is not a kindergarten.

People who use the word 'kindergarten' instead of 'nursery'

[KalamityKel]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> Parkdrive Wrote:

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> > People bringing their little darlings to the

> > office for the day, keep your children amused

> > elsewhere, the office is not a kindergarten.

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> People who use the word 'kindergarten' instead of

> 'nursery'

Ah you beat me to it!

[Earl Aelfheah]

Fahrenheit make a lot more sense - it's a much bigger scale so you can categorise in broader terms of the 60s, 70s, 80s etc. Centigrade it's generally all 20s and 30s - not descriptive / sensitive enough.

Other metric weights an measures are different - it make much more sense to express things in multiples of tens.

[Parkdrive]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> Parkdrive Wrote:

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> > People bringing their little darlings to the

> > office for the day, keep your children amused

> > elsewhere, the office is not a kindergarten.

>

> People who use the word 'kindergarten' instead of

> 'nursery'

Just don't bring your brats to work. Happy now?

[Mustard]

I went to a kindergarten, aged 5, for half a day. It's the year before starting primary school in the United States, and many other countries. The word nursery to me always makes me think of a room with lots and lots of cots in it, with sleeping or crying babies.

[DulwichFox]

Wind, Rain, Cloudy days..

Foxy

[Sue]

Mustard Wrote:

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> I went to a kindergarten, aged 5, for half a day.

> It's the year before starting primary school in

> the United States, and many other countries. The

> word nursery to me always makes me think of a room

> with lots and lots of cots in it, with sleeping or

> crying babies.

When I started school the first year (5 year olds) was kindergarten. That was in Streatham :))