It looks like there's a pretty sweet hill run every year. I'll wait for that to make my ascent. No silly climbing gear required.

Nalgene bottles, I should say, not plastic.

By the way, SYnapse, maybe this is common sense to you, but seriously, no cotton underwear. You can figure out why.

64 ounces is a half gallon. It makes sense to us in the states.

And it happens to weigh 4 pounds (which is also 64 ounces).

20 ounces in a pint, 8 pints (160 ounces) in a gallon. 2 pints in a quart, which is important due to it being the absolute maximum you can drink and still drive, assuming you drank slow and it wasn't the stronger stuff.

How the hell did your Imperial units go so skew?

Is it Empirical or Imperial? I don't even know...

Imperial. Although why they are called Imperial I have no idea. Sometime after 1776 one of us must have decided to tweak measurements quite a bit. I believe our distances are the same though.

Part of the anti-British movement, I would imagine. Same as the Webster dictionary goes (and by that I mean Noah Webster, not modernized Merriam-Webster, which is adapted).

1 gallon is 128 ounces

8 to the cup, 16 to the pint, 32 to the quart, 128 to the gallon. US system rocks as a multiple of 2s and 4s (except teaspoon to tablespoon which is 3 to 1

Considering 1 ounce of water weighs 1 ounce in 1 G, a US cup weighs half a pound and a pint weighs a pound. But what do you Brits care anyhow? You went to the metric system instead of holding your ground and keeping the British end up.

No we didn't. We straddle both systems.

For long distances we use miles and for speed we use miles per hour. For personal height and weight we tend to use feet and inches, and stones and pounds. For shorter distances meters and millimetres t

end to dominate.

Milk and beer come in pints, pop and juice come in litres or millilitres or centilitres. Engine size is measured in litres, as is fuel, but fuel economy is measured in miles per gallon and power is measured in horsepower.

It's all rather straightforward.

Oh, with warm weather popular culture favours Fahrenheit, but for colder weather everyone sticks to Celsius.

I gotta admit that a mile and a pint and everything is a much more intuitive distance than a kilometre (you never walk the dog or something for a kilometre... Do you? That would require you to turn around halfway through a street.) or a litre (again: when do you ever get a litre of something?), but it's much more of a pain in the ass when you're studying physics and chemistry for example, so I'm happy we have it all the metric way.

Do nano-inches even exist for example? Or are you forced to switch to metric or use scientific notations when things start to get really small?

I really have no idea. For tiny distances the metric system dominates in the UK. I would hazard a guess at units like 1/100000000 of an inch, but I suspect it may have always been metric. Yanks will know better than I.

Yeah, who ever heard of walking 1.65 kilometers in the other guys shoes? :-)

1,61 kilometres, rounded up, actually.

The comma is to piss you off, naturally.

And I know that some engineering does tolerances to thousandths of an inch, so milli-inches exist, we just call them thousandths.

Comma doesn't bother me and I was just roughing it in my head knowing that 60 MPH is 100 KPH (roughly).

I know the comma doesn't bother you, but I had to do it anyway. You know, to piss you off :)

And to be clear:
97 KPH, rounded up.

Anyway, back to SYnapse's epic quest to Mount Nether.

After all, that's where he has been forged so that's where he has to fall through a crack! It's the only way!

I cannot believe no-one has said this yet, but:

Who is Ben Nevis? Is he knew?

Often times, you'll use Ångströms (1E-10 m) for very small units.

Well, I survived. We only got to 950m though because an avalanche had caused 30 feet of snow to cover the path and it was a near vertical climb. Many others turned around as well out of the 30 or so climbers who decided to go up, maybe 5 continued. We watched their torches near the summit well into the night - not sure if they had to be rescued or not. Had a great time though.

It took you a couple of days to learn to type again though.