Thread: an interesting site

Well, you can always work on building a bigger and better lathe in between bottle stoppers

A man of strong opinions ....

Let's take a moment and chat about Metric...

I find the metric system in these Great United States of America to be offensive. Further, I find the fact of it being shoved down our throats to be intrusive to say the least. And, lastly, I reserve the right to loathe the metric system. So, I'm afraid you won't find anything here that going to help you with anything metric.

Section on shop arithmetic.

Originally Posted by rsser

A man of strong opinions ....

Let's take a moment and chat about Metric...

I find the metric system in these Great United States of America to be offensive. Further, I find the fact of it being shoved down our throats to be intrusive to say the least. And, lastly, I reserve the right to loathe the metric system. So, I'm afraid you won't find anything here that going to help you with anything metric.

Section on shop arithmetic.

Originally Posted by rsser

A man of strong opinions ....

Let's take a moment and chat about Metric...

I find the metric system in these Great United States of America to be offensive. Further, I find the fact of it being shoved down our throats to be intrusive to say the least. And, lastly, I reserve the right to loathe the metric system. So, I'm afraid you won't find anything here that going to help you with anything metric.

Section on shop arithmetic.

Yep, the rest of the world must be wrong.

Bet if he's a 'biker' he rides a Hardley and without a helmet.

(sorry Skew, nothing personal.)

Added: gotta laugh. Having learned imperial, and then metric, I confess to getting irritated when US gear only comes with imperial graduations. Eg. Woodpecker router table fences. But you have to be able to work with both so I ordered one of those neat Incra rules from the US with both metric and imperial scales. The ones with fine slots for pencil marks. And damn me, the imperial increments were in tenths of an inch.

What is imperial

After the term empire, ie. RULES

my impression of the gentleman is that he is not very comfortable with change...hence the loathing to learn and use metric........his loss.

my impression of the gentleman is that he is not very comfortable with change...hence the loathing to learn and use metric........his loss.

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my grandson reckons he might be a dinosaur

This is the sort of jingoistic claptrap that is spewed out by idiots of all nationalities.No Quicker way known to put people off-side.

Wonder if he reserves the right for the Great United states to be intrusive and shove their opinions down everyone's throat.


##### like that spoils a great site.

Well, some of it's great, and some of it isn't so great. He seems a little too full of himself.

e.g. the "Problem Solving Flowchart." I haven't used that sort of language in years - at least not in print. Some of the others are even worse.

Cheers,
Joe (this Joe, not that Joe)

Joe (this Joe, not that Joe)

Y'all shure about that buddy?

Originally Posted by

Y'all shure about that buddy?

His Home page identifies him as "Joe Johns." Definitely not me.

I'd never heard of him before now, but according to Google, he's apparently a prolific writer on woodworking, and inventive to boot. Here's his scroll saw station: Lake County Leader Archives News Page in a converted school bus, of all things.

Cheers,
Joe

well I did say it was interesting.....