List of countries that DO NOT use metric system right now

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
FYI. We do use the metric system. Its just the rest of the fucked up world which likes their metrics to be decimal free. We can handle the decimal places here. On another note, have you considered how much it would cost to replace every speed limit sign to read kph?

Or for that matter, how much confusion it would be with all these speedometers in MPH, signs in KPH, so we have people flying down the highway at over 100 MPH?

 

[marvdmartian]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Uhh, bad news for you guys. You don't realize it, but everything in the U.S. is based on metric standards. An inch is now *defined* as 2.54 centimeters. There is no separate standard for our idiotic system of measurements. Hell, 99% of U.S. citizens don't even know what our measure of mass is (slug). And, of the 1% who do know that, the vast majority of them probably couldn't calculate the mass of an object given its weight in pounds.

So, "only one superpower left and it doesn't use the metric system" is actually "the citizens in the U.S. don't CARE."

Fixed, for accuracy! 😉

Hey, if everyone else is happy with metrics, more power to them. But don't expect us to change because you find it confusing or difficult to figure out. Big surprise.....we feel the same way about metrics! :laugh:

Oh, and a 2x4 was actually 2x4......before they'd run it through the planer, and smooth it out. If you look in old houses, you'll find genuine 2x4's, rough cut, that are truly that size. 🙂

 

[MattCo]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: 3cho
metric is so much better, what is it that people in this country dont understand. its all in 10s!

I have a 20 inch LCD. Or I could say I have a 50.8 centimeter screen. What? Or even better, my parents have a 19 inch LCD, or 48.26 centimeters.

Screw that! Imperial all the way. Metric for measuring computer temps only, and that's just because so many people use it and if I said my CPU is at 118 degrees F I get a lot of "what's that" comments (it is about 48C, FYI).

Most 20 inch LCD TVs/Monitors aren't exactly 20 inches.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: MattCo

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: 3cho
metric is so much better, what is it that people in this country dont understand. its all in 10s!

I have a 20 inch LCD. Or I could say I have a 50.8 centimeter screen. What? Or even better, my parents have a 19 inch LCD, or 48.26 centimeters.

Screw that! Imperial all the way. Metric for measuring computer temps only, and that's just because so many people use it and if I said my CPU is at 118 degrees F I get a lot of "what's that" comments (it is about 48C, FYI).

Most 20 inch LCD TVs/Monitors aren't exactly 20 inches.

Mine was advertised as a 20.1 inch screen and it measures out to that.

 

[mugs]

I click on the link in the OP, and the title bar says "Google Streetview sees man passed out drunk on mother's lawn" which was a funny picture but is completely unrelated to the content of the page. :laugh:

 

[ICRS]

Did you know celsius isn't really part of the metric system. The metric system uses the SI units, and the SI unit for temperature is kelvins not celsius.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
napoleon didn't conquer us and we were not then subjected to a european imperial power.

America still reports to the Queen.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: MattCo

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: 3cho
metric is so much better, what is it that people in this country dont understand. its all in 10s!

I have a 20 inch LCD. Or I could say I have a 50.8 centimeter screen. What? Or even better, my parents have a 19 inch LCD, or 48.26 centimeters.

Screw that! Imperial all the way. Metric for measuring computer temps only, and that's just because so many people use it and if I said my CPU is at 118 degrees F I get a lot of "what's that" comments (it is about 48C, FYI).

Most 20 inch LCD TVs/Monitors aren't exactly 20 inches.

Mine was advertised as a 20.1 inch screen and it measures out to that.

I've never seen a ruler that measures tenths of an inch. I've only seen them with inches broken into 1/2's, 1/4's, 1/8's, 1/16's, 1/32's, and 1/64's.

 

[herm0016]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

I've never seen a ruler that measures tenths of an inch. I've only seen them with inches broken into 1/2's, 1/4's, 1/8's, 1/16's, 1/32's, and 1/64's.

i have a scale that has 100ths on it, you can use an engineering scale.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender

Originally posted by: ElFenix
napoleon didn't conquer us and we were not then subjected to a european imperial power.

America still reports to the Queen.

You may be right, but AFAIK, I've never seen George W. Bush in drag, so I'm just not positive.

Originally posted by: herm0016

Originally posted by: DrPizza

I've never seen a ruler that measures tenths of an inch. I've only seen them with inches broken into 1/2's, 1/4's, 1/8's, 1/16's, 1/32's, and 1/64's.

i have a scale that has 100ths on it, you can use an engineering scale.

Yep, engineering and surveying tapes and rules are all in 100'ths of a foot. Not quite 10'ths of an inch, but almost...😀

 

[Chaotic42]

Bah.

If you're going to make up a system, at least make it right. Kilogram is the base unit of mass? Why not the gram? Why don't the prefixes for a multiple and its reciprocal start with the same letters? Why Celsius and not Kelvin?

Bring your A-game or don't come at all.

<--Uses metric system at work.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: herm0016
most engineering and science is done in SI units. really the only things left are the building industry and cars.

And since a two by four ceased actually being a two by four some time ago . . .

And much, if not most, of modern automotive stuff is metric anway . . .

We could have converted decades ago, but we were fat and complacent. Now we're just chauvanistically reisistant to change. We're sad pandas living under an expired delusion of grandeur.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Everyone that matters uses standard

Isnt it called imperial?

That's what the metric users call it.

We have standard(Imperial) and that weird crap(metric)

 

[BlackTigers]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender

Originally posted by: ElFenix
napoleon didn't conquer us and we were not then subjected to a european imperial power.

America still reports to the Queen.

You may be right, but AFAIK, I've never seen George W. Bush in drag, so I'm just not positive.

Originally posted by: herm0016

Originally posted by: DrPizza

I've never seen a ruler that measures tenths of an inch. I've only seen them with inches broken into 1/2's, 1/4's, 1/8's, 1/16's, 1/32's, and 1/64's.

i have a scale that has 100ths on it, you can use an engineering scale.

Yep, engineering and surveying tapes and rules are all in 100'ths of a foot. Not quite 10'ths of an inch, but almost...😀

I have a scale here that goes to 100th's of the inch.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
FYI. We do use the metric system. Its just the rest of the fucked up world which likes their metrics to be decimal free. We can handle the decimal places here. On another note, have you considered how much it would cost to replace every speed limit sign to read kph?

Or for that matter, how much confusion it would be with all these speedometers in MPH, signs in KPH, so we have people flying down the highway at over 100 MPH?

Last I saw, which was today, on the 401 there were Americans that were following our speed limits.

 

[George P Burdell]

I won't get into which system is better (people will almost always support whatever system they grew up with).

The one thing I remember about school is how much I hated converting units for physics problems. I just want the entire planet to pick a single STANDARDIZED system and stick with it. The SI system comes closest to a global standard and that's where I'm putting my money.

 

[Nitemare]

Not only the signs and automotive, but all the buildings and architecture and hell go in any hardware store and look for metric nuts and bolts.

It would be easier for us if you silly Europeans dropped metric and took up "Imperial"

 

[BlackTigers]

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
FYI. We do use the metric system. Its just the rest of the fucked up world which likes their metrics to be decimal free. We can handle the decimal places here. On another note, have you considered how much it would cost to replace every speed limit sign to read kph?

Or for that matter, how much confusion it would be with all these speedometers in MPH, signs in KPH, so we have people flying down the highway at over 100 MPH?

Last I saw, which was today, on the 401 there were Americans that were following our speed limits.

He's saying if the MPH signs were converted to KPH. A 65MPH sign would be about 105KPH, and we'd see that as MPH - and go 105 MPH.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: BlackTigers

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender

Originally posted by: ElFenix
napoleon didn't conquer us and we were not then subjected to a european imperial power.

America still reports to the Queen.

You may be right, but AFAIK, I've never seen George W. Bush in drag, so I'm just not positive.

Originally posted by: herm0016

Originally posted by: DrPizza

I've never seen a ruler that measures tenths of an inch. I've only seen them with inches broken into 1/2's, 1/4's, 1/8's, 1/16's, 1/32's, and 1/64's.

i have a scale that has 100ths on it, you can use an engineering scale.

Yep, engineering and surveying tapes and rules are all in 100'ths of a foot. Not quite 10'ths of an inch, but almost...😀

I have a scale here that goes to 100th's of the inch.

Hell, I'm getting to a point where I can barely see 16'ths of an inch...100'ths of an inch would just look like a black smudge...😀

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Bring your A-game or don't come at all.

Imperial:
1 foot = 12 inches
1 mile = 5280 feet

Absolute zero = -459.67° Fahrenheit
Boiling point of water - freezing point of water = 180° Fahrenheit

1 gallon = 128 fl oz

1 pound = 16 oz
1 short ton = 2000 pounds

SI:
1 meter = 1000 millimeters
1 kilometer = 1000 meters

Absolute zero = 0° Kelvin
Boiling point - freezing point = 100° Kelvin

1 liter = 1000 milliliters

1 kilogram = 1000 grams
1 ton = 1000 kg

There's a good reason 6.2 billion people use SI. There is logic behind the units and it's fucking easy to convert. How many km is 233232 m? Just move the decimal point three places and you get 233.232 km. How many miles is 233232 feet? Oh wait, let me pull a random number out of my ass... how about 5280? Awesome, now lets divide by 5280 and zzzzzzzzzzz.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

No matter the measurement system Chuck Norris will pack more than you

 

[seemingly random]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Bring your A-game or don't come at all.

Imperial:
1 foot = 12 inches
1 mile = 5280 feet

Absolute zero = -459.67° Fahrenheit
Boiling point of water - freezing point of water = 180° Fahrenheit

1 gallon = 128 fl oz

1 pound = 16 oz
1 short ton = 2000 pounds

SI:
1 meter = 1000 millimeters
1 kilometer = 1000 meters

Absolute zero = 0° Kelvin
Boiling point - freezing point = 100° Kelvin

1 liter = 1000 milliliters

1 kilogram = 1000 grams
1 ton = 1000 kg

There's a good reason 6.2 billion people use SI. There is logic behind the units and it's fucking easy to convert. How many km is 233232 m? Just move the decimal point three places and you get 233.232 km. How many miles is 233232 feet? Oh wait, let me pull a random number out of my ass... how about 5280? Awesome, now lets divide by 5280 and zzzzzzzzzzz.

Now, if we could just do something about time units - 60 and 24 aren't natural for anything.

Also, pi. Damn all those decimals - they just seem to go on and on - it's probably some liberal commie plot. We should follow the lead of the kentucky legislature: attempt to pass legislation that makes pi = 3.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: BlackTigers

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
FYI. We do use the metric system. Its just the rest of the fucked up world which likes their metrics to be decimal free. We can handle the decimal places here. On another note, have you considered how much it would cost to replace every speed limit sign to read kph?

Or for that matter, how much confusion it would be with all these speedometers in MPH, signs in KPH, so we have people flying down the highway at over 100 MPH?

Last I saw, which was today, on the 401 there were Americans that were following our speed limits.

He's saying if the MPH signs were converted to KPH. A 65MPH sign would be about 105KPH, and we'd see that as MPH - and go 105 MPH.

And he's saying he saw some Americans driving on the 401 (in Canada) seeing 100KM/H limit and more or less sticking to it. I have to say American drivers (that I have seen) respect the speed limit a lot more than Ontarians, both in Canada and in the States.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Uhh, bad news for you guys. You don't realize it, but everything in the U.S. is based on metric standards. An inch is now *defined* as 2.54 centimeters. There is no separate standard for our idiotic system of measurements. Hell, 99% of U.S. citizens don't even know what our measure of mass is (slug). And, of the 1% who do know that, the vast majority of them probably couldn't calculate the mass of an object given its weight in pounds.

So, "only one superpower left and it doesn't use the metric system" is actually "the citizens in the U.S. don't even have a clue."

Every time I have engineering homework that deals with the Imperial system, I feel like killing something. It's a real goddamn pain in the ass.

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Holy poop, at least the US is consistent.

2 liter soda bottles.
Pills sold by the milligram.
Electrical appliances rated in watts.

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: 3cho
metric is so much better, what is it that people in this country dont understand. its all in 10s!

I have a 20 inch LCD. Or I could say I have a 50.8 centimeter screen. What? Or even better, my parents have a 19 inch LCD, or 48.26 centimeters.

Screw that! Imperial all the way. Metric for measuring computer temps only, and that's just because so many people use it and if I said my CPU is at 118 degrees F I get a lot of "what's that" comments (it is about 48C, FYI).

Ever buy a laptop? 12.3", 14.1", 15.4".....

 

[Mr Pickles]

That big country above us has it. They seem legit.