if you have ever complained about the nonsensical ratios of imperial units, consider that for a while the scottish inch was sometimes 1/37 of an ell, and sometimes 1/42 of an ell, and in 1663 the scottish parliament, tired of some twelve-inch feet bein...
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if you have ever complained about the nonsensical ratios of imperial units, consider that for a while the scottish inch was sometimes 1/37 of an ell, and sometimes 1/42 of an ell, and in 1663 the scottish parliament, tired of some twelve-inch feet being 37/42 of other twelve-inch feet, finally got fed up and insisted everyone standardize on 1/37 of an ell:
https://www.rps.ac.uk/trans/1663/6/81 -
wikipedia describes the barony ell as "a fraudulent smaller inch", which feels a wee bit salty for a controversy which presumably ended ~300 years ago
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anyone claiming that i have misrepresented my dick size on scruff is spouting imperialist nonsense
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37 inches per ell. A PRIME number. I can just see 17th century Scottish parliamentarians declaring that common factors in units of measurement were sinful. "Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
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@aphyr 37 is indeed evil and a sign that those Scottish parliamentarians were heretics and not proper Christians!
