Oh it's easy, a sestertius is worth two-and-a-half silver ingots, there are twenty silver ingots in a gold ingot, and twelve copper ingots in a silver ingot. Each copper ingot is made up of four.....
Oh, that's only in Wales, which is a completely separate country which just happens to have the same laws and government and no border controls. You do have to pay to leave but it's not much. They have their own football team but are part of England for cricket.
Several years ago by chance I saw an obituary of a man whose photo showed he had a face like the full moon and no neck, just cascading jowls. Before reading his obituary I said to myself "a victim of seed oils if ever there were one". And it turns out he owned and ran a cottonseed mill !! He did live into his early 80s, but he looked his age in full.
A few years later I happened to read another obituary, of a doctor who lived to 91. The obituary photo was of him as a very handsome young man, and the obituary stated "The only thing the man was afraid of was carbohydrates; which he adamantly refused to eat. As a result he died a hot, fine and handsome specimen to the end with gorgeous blue eyes!!!" In other words he ate very few seed oils - no pastries made with seed oils, no potatoes fried in seed oils etc. Perhaps he ate chicken and fish fried in seed oils and used salad dressings made with seed oils, but his seed oil consumption (by accident) was probably less than 10% of a typical American.
These two obituaries, both separately and taken together, have reinforced my determination to avoid seed oils as much as possible.
Just when you master the weirdly newfangled units of the French revolutions, the throw literal stones at you..
Oh it's easy, a sestertius is worth two-and-a-half silver ingots, there are twenty silver ingots in a gold ingot, and twelve copper ingots in a silver ingot. Each copper ingot is made up of four.....
Ok I get all that, but how do the dragon scales come into play? It seems more of a semi-floating bimetallic standard aside from that.
> but how do the dragon scales come into play?
Oh, that's only in Wales, which is a completely separate country which just happens to have the same laws and government and no border controls. You do have to pay to leave but it's not much. They have their own football team but are part of England for cricket.
Wales is a separate country? C'mon man.
The latter part is cause cricket is not a real sport, it's actually an insect.
Two anecdotes re seed oils.
Several years ago by chance I saw an obituary of a man whose photo showed he had a face like the full moon and no neck, just cascading jowls. Before reading his obituary I said to myself "a victim of seed oils if ever there were one". And it turns out he owned and ran a cottonseed mill !! He did live into his early 80s, but he looked his age in full.
A few years later I happened to read another obituary, of a doctor who lived to 91. The obituary photo was of him as a very handsome young man, and the obituary stated "The only thing the man was afraid of was carbohydrates; which he adamantly refused to eat. As a result he died a hot, fine and handsome specimen to the end with gorgeous blue eyes!!!" In other words he ate very few seed oils - no pastries made with seed oils, no potatoes fried in seed oils etc. Perhaps he ate chicken and fish fried in seed oils and used salad dressings made with seed oils, but his seed oil consumption (by accident) was probably less than 10% of a typical American.
These two obituaries, both separately and taken together, have reinforced my determination to avoid seed oils as much as possible.
>afraid of was carbohydrates .... ate very few seed oils
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Maybe we are winning indeed.