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Who the hell would ever use the metric system
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Just in case you're wunderin'


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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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Murica is different
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [softrun] [ In reply to ]
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softrun wrote:
Murica is different

Murica is Imperial. Even the Brits have abandoned the system they invented.
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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Communists embrace the metric system.
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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I use it when doing home improvement projects around the house.

Makes for tighter tolerances and far fewer fuck ups.

Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [Duffy] [ In reply to ]
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Duffy wrote:
I use it when doing home improvement projects around the house.

Makes for tighter tolerances and far fewer fuck ups.

There is no doubt it's a better system. I can do both but prefer metric, but still think temperature in F better than C, although again C is the better system.
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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cerveloguy wrote:
Duffy wrote:
I use it when doing home improvement projects around the house.

Makes for tighter tolerances and far fewer fuck ups.

There is no doubt it's a better system. I can do both but prefer metric, but still think temperature in F better than C, although again C is the better system.
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Yeah, I got a metric tape measure a few years ago. Back when I doing photography all my technical measurements were in metric.

Unfortunately everything I deal with at work is in freedom measurements.

I agree with you on Communist temperature. For some reason I just can’t get with it.

Weight as well (body weight). 83 kilos just doesn’t sound right.

Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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UK?

Imperial not metric
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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I grew up in Canada with the Imperial system and it changed while in school. I still find I convert temperatures and distances (miles/km) and have no idea when it comes to km/litre for gas or ordering things like deli meats in grams (I just order in number of slices).

There are other countries that use a mixture (Philippines, Bermuda) and since I've lived in the U.S and those countries, I'm still using both systems.
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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I use both, but prefer the metric.




Distance: Miles or kilometers. Meters instead of yards.




Speed: MPH, but KPH is fine too.




Weight: Lbs and ounces.




Liquid: Gallons.




Temp: Fahrenheit




Tape measure: Feet & inches but primarily because it is hard to find a metric one.






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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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On the subject, what's the proper pronouncement: kilo-meeeter, or kil-aahmeter? I feel like we aren't consistent, using both kil-aahmeter and milo-meter.

I prefer kil-aahmeter, in which case I should probably say mil-aahmeter and cent-aahmeter, which is weird, right?

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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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Metric system, blah blah blah. I bought into it until I went to Japan for work and said "WTF?" To their units. Newtons? Nah, how about kilogram force instead? Pascal as a unit of pressure? Nope. Let's divide by Earths gravity and use kilogram force/mm^2. So sell me on the virtues of this system again....
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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when i lived in the UK (over 20 years ago so it may have changed) they had a mix. Work was metric - weighed in kilos, measured distance in mm, cm etc, forces in newtons, pressure in pascals; but drove home from work at mph, over distances in miles and weighed ourselves in stones, despite buying food at the store in liters (but beer at the pub in pints), grams and kilos (this bit was sometimes odd in that the weight of canned stuff was a strange number of grams .....which was clearly a pound).
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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Being raised on imperial and then having to switch to metric I now use both. I still convert to miles when traveling but use kph for speed I use feet and inches but I use F for temps above 32 and C for below 32/0C, I'm so messed up...lol
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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There are 2 types of countries in the world; those who use the imperial system and those that are dead wrong.






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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [JD21] [ In reply to ]
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JD21 wrote:
Communists embrace the metric system.

Yup. That is why US uses imperial, you know, gotta be different then them Cubans :-)
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [sphere] [ In reply to ]
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Keelow

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Millee

Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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Here in Ca, in the 70’s they tried doing the liter vs gallon thing. I worked at a friends family gas station during that time. The sheeple did not go along with that scheme. To this day, I still can’t figure out why stupid people would yell at me all damn day.
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [softrun] [ In reply to ]
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softrun wrote:
Murica is different

Exactly. Much like gun control, state run health care and all the other things that other countries do... the metric system would never work in the US.

How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [softrun] [ In reply to ]
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softrun wrote:
Murica is different

We just don't like foreign rulers:-D
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [getcereal] [ In reply to ]
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getcereal wrote:
softrun wrote:
Murica is different


We just don't like foreign rulers:-D
And there'd be mass confusion.
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [tigermilk] [ In reply to ]
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I think this quote by Josh Bazell pretty much sums it up:
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In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [cerveloguy] [ In reply to ]
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Coming from Oz the only thing that seems more natural to refer to the imperial system is height.

6' always seemed like some sort of benchmark. People seem to clearly distinguish between 5'11" and change vs 6' rather than 182 cm vs 183 cm (approx).
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [BLeP] [ In reply to ]
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Just be thankful we allow you to keep the metric system....for now. ; )
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Re: Who the hell would ever use the metric system [Duffy] [ In reply to ]
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Duffy wrote:
Keelow

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Millee


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