Do you hate the metric system?

[PlatinumGold]

how the fvck is this even a discussion? why do idiots have preferences when they are PURELY arbitrary standards. does anyone's foot actually equal 12 inches?

face it, we should have converted to metric decades ago. the fact that we haven't is just a testament to how stupid many americans are.

my teacher in 4th grade (this was in the mid 70's now) she started off the section on the metric system with the statement of how difficult and confusing this stuff would be. WHO THE FVCK says stupid stuff like that?

almost everyone was convinced it was too hard for them to learn before she even started the lecture.

stupid stupid stupid.

 

[Compton]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: Atheus
The standard unit of length should be the 'football field' and for mass it should be the 'bag of flour' and the 'blue whale' where 100,000 bags of flour = 1 blue whale.

I'll have the Monster Blue Whale Burger please. Small diet coke to wash it down.

Funny you should mention burgers. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
My dorm has a limit of 1 pint of hard alcohol per person per suite.

Who the F*** measures hard liquor in pints? Unless I have been under some rock, I have only seen hard liquor capacity in units of mL or L.

What the f*** does "per person per suite" mean? If there are 6 suites, each person can have 6 pints?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Compton

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: Atheus
The standard unit of length should be the 'football field' and for mass it should be the 'bag of flour' and the 'blue whale' where 100,000 bags of flour = 1 blue whale.

I'll have the Monster Blue Whale Burger please. Small diet coke to wash it down.

Funny you should mention burgers. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

Royale with cheese!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Compton

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: Atheus
The standard unit of length should be the 'football field' and for mass it should be the 'bag of flour' and the 'blue whale' where 100,000 bags of flour = 1 blue whale.

I'll have the Monster Blue Whale Burger please. Small diet coke to wash it down.

Funny you should mention burgers. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

"English muthfvker..."

 

[Howard]

Now you're even more retarded than I thought you were.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
Obviously not an engineer's perspective.

I think it is time for the US to let go of their insecurities and go with a unit system that almost every other nation uses.

too costly.. must be implented on new equipment, rather than retrofitting current stuff

oh yeah, MPG >> Km/L

 

[sandorski]

"Liter of cola"

Time to move to Metric America. Your "English" system doesn't even match Britains "English" system FFS.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: Atomicus
Obviously not an engineer's perspective.

I think it is time for the US to let go of their insecurities and go with a unit system that almost every other nation uses.

too costly.. must be implented on new equipment, rather than retrofitting current stuff

oh yeah, MPG >> Km/L

we don't use km/L. it's L/100 km. although the car manufacturers also like to put MPG on the window stickers, while using imperial gallons and not US gallons. :roll:

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: sandorski
"Liter of cola"

Time to move to Metric America. Your "English" system doesn't even match Britains "English" system FFS.

Does this look like spit to you?

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: sandorski
"Liter of cola"

Time to move to Metric America. Your "English" system doesn't even match Britains "English" system FFS.

Does this look like spit to you?

meh, f*** it

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: chambersc
i happen to feel the exact opposite of you.

as do I. the metric system > *

 

[Toastedlightly]

just remember... that pounds < newtons.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
just remember... that pounds < newtons.

Isn't that the other way round?

 

[BriGy86]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: BriGy86
convert.exe FTW!

google it

Google does unit conversions too

http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/

but this one you can install, and don't need an internet connection

and also has well organized tabs

 

[n7]

I'm used to both, mainly since older people in Canada know Imperial.

 

[Evadman]

Metric is better.

The US sucks because we are stuck using both imperial and metric measurements. Half of my tools are metric, and half imperial. Now I need 2 toolboxes.

 

[smack Down]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
*sigh*
And, whether the basis is grams or kilograms depends on whether you're using CGS or MKS
centimeter-gram-seconds
or
meter-kilogram-seconds.

Furthermore, what's the weight of 1 cubic mile of water? (do it without googling... I doubt you can, oh mighty master of the American system)
But, any high school kid in physics could quickly calculate the weight of 1 cubic kilometer of water.

And the answer to both questions is:

Who gives a fvck.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Any American who's taken a science class ought to be able to figure that the Metric system is superior. The problem is you can't just rip the English system out of schools and set a federal mandate that "ALL UNITS MUST NOW BE METRIC." That's a little extreme. But you can at least start teaching Metric as the standard over English, and begin slowly convert units in ways that wil have a low impact.

 

[0roo0roo]

i like meter/liter... but kg/km i dont like

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
How many of you nkow how many feet or inches are in a mile? Hell, even if you know one, you have to get out a calculator to figure out the other. Forget about square yards in an acre or ounces in a ton.

Off the top of my head I can say that there are 100,000 cm in a kilometer, 10,000 square meters in a hectare, 100,000,000 square centimeters in a hecture, and 100 hectares in a square kilometer.

5,280 feet in a mile
63,360 inches in a mile
4,480 square yards in an acre
32,000 ounces in a ton

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
How many of you nkow how many feet or inches are in a mile? Hell, even if you know one, you have to get out a calculator to figure out the other. Forget about square yards in an acre or ounces in a ton.

Off the top of my head I can say that there are 100,000 cm in a kilometer, 10,000 square meters in a hectare, 100,000,000 square centimeters in a hecture, and 100 hectares in a square kilometer.

5,280 feet in a mile
63,360 inches in a mile
4,480 square yards in an acre
32,000 ounces in a ton

Doing it longhand or spending 15min trying to do it in your head doesn't count either. Metric FTW.

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
How many of you nkow how many feet or inches are in a mile? Hell, even if you know one, you have to get out a calculator to figure out the other. Forget about square yards in an acre or ounces in a ton.

Off the top of my head I can say that there are 100,000 cm in a kilometer, 10,000 square meters in a hectare, 100,000,000 square centimeters in a hecture, and 100 hectares in a square kilometer.

5,280 feet in a mile
63,360 inches in a mile
4,480 square yards in an acre
32,000 ounces in a ton

Doing it longhand or spending 15min trying to do it in your head doesn't count either. Metric FTW.

Neither of which are the case.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: JujuFish
Neither of which are the case.

Then you're an exception to the rule.
Most Americans don't have values like that memorized, and some of them aren't even intelligent enough to figure them out in their head OR longhand. Not that there's any reason to know such values.

Regardless of your obvious superiority to your peers, the English system is trash. Step into a lab and try doing experiments related osmolality of Na+ ions in the English system. Good luck.

The sad part is that the more or less ignorant/uneducated majority are what's hindering America's "metrification." There's absolutely no need for it anymore (not that there ever was). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._customary_unit Half that sh1t makes my head asplode. Drams? Rods? Links? Who devised this system? 33/50ths of a foot? 272.25sq ft? When the hell would you need to use such obscure, odd units of measure?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Metric is better.

The US sucks because we are stuck using both imperial and metric measurements. Half of my tools are metric, and half imperial. Now I need 2 toolboxes.

YOU'RE stuck using both?
Bah, you have no idea what it's like to be using both.
England FTW. We sell our petrol in litres and our cars tell us how many mpg they do.