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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on November 24, 2012, 10:54:47 PM
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Sat Nov 24, 2012, 11:40 PM
Beringia (282 posts)
Does liking centimeters better than inches make me unAmerican?
Lately, I have been doing some craft projects requiring lots and lots of measuring. I had my wooden ruler and tape ruler at hand. For some reason, which I don't understand, I began to use the centimeter sides of the rulers. I somehow felt it was more logical or simpler. Now I am hooked and wonder if it was something in the water that changed me over aka the red scare.
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The brilliant nutcase nadin chimes in, after telling her fellow DUmpmonkeys not long ago that there are 60 centimeters in a meter:
Sat Nov 24, 2012, 11:41 PM
nadinbrzezinski (112,362 posts)
1. It is more logical
Why the rest of the world uses it.
And the fact that most of the rest of the world is a miserable shithole has nothing to do with the metric system.
It's because of their liberal politics.
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A solid understanding of the Imperial and Metric systems is a good thing. There is no law saying that both can't be used. :tongue: By the way, I think my favorite unit of measure is the stone. 1 stone equals 14 pounds.
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A solid understanding of the Imperial and Metric systems is a good thing. There is no law saying that both can't be used. :tongue: By the way, I think my favorite unit of measure is the stone. 1 stone equals 14 pounds.
Ah, but how many furlongs could you carry one in an hour?
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Ah, but how many furlongs could you carry one in an hour?
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I would say at least 24 :cheersmate:
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Our conversion to the metric system is the crowning achievement of the Jimmeh Carter administration.
He set up the U.S. metric board, which was such a total failure that Reagan dissolved it shortly after taking office.
It may be the only government board ever to go out of existence.
Reagan wrecked Jimmeh's legacy.
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As a measure of weight, I've always favored the Henweigh
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I'm pretty sure all DUmmies know how many grams are in an ounce. With or without the baggie.
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The rest of the world smells like urine.
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Sat Nov 24, 2012, 11:40 PM
Beringia (282 posts)
Does liking centimeters better than inches make me unAmerican?
Lately, I have been doing some craft projects requiring lots and lots of measuring. I had my wooden ruler and tape ruler at hand. For some reason, which I don't understand, I began to use the centimeter sides of the rulers. I somehow felt it was more logical or simpler. Now I am hooked and wonder if it was something in the water that changed me over aka the red scare.
I think this is merely an attempt to get some DUmmie street cred. She/he/it is saying, "Look at me! I'm so sophisticated that I use the metric system like the Europeans. I don't use inches like those uncouth Americans." The truth is that she/he/it is probably too stupid to use inches and fractions of an inch. Fractions can be difficult to master for many people so this isn't really anything to be ashamed of. She/he/it ought to just get a triangular engineer's scale.
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I seem to remember gNads having a little "problem" with the metric system.
Perhaps ten, is a little over her pay grade.
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I seem to remember gNads having a little "problem" with the metric system.
Perhaps ten, is a little over her pay grade.
Not to mention her stature. :lmao:
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Primitive males love the metric system. When they measure their junk in centimeters instead of inches it makes them feel better about themselves.
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I don't get the fascination for the metric system. Unfortunately it was what I was taught at school and I can see how it's helpful for sciences...but when I started to use measurements in real life it became apparent that the imperial system just fits better.
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I don't get the fascination for the metric system. Unfortunately it was what I was taught at school and I can see how it's helpful for sciences...but when I started to use measurements in real life it became apparent that the imperial system just fits better.
I can only think of one real thing it has going for it, which is that I'd rather have a liter of beer than a quart of beer.
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I don't get the fascination for the metric system. Unfortunately it was what I was taught at school and I can see how it's helpful for sciences...but when I started to use measurements in real life it became apparent that the imperial system just fits better.
:cheersmate: For most of the things we deal with in real life, the imperial system works better. For very small measurements, the metric system works (millimeters are great for small measurements, mL great for small amounts of fluid, etc.) Temperature has to be one of the worst things the metric system has going for it in terms of real life temperatures.
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True, CR, despite living overseas for several years in countries that use it, I've really never developed any feel for what Centigrade/Celsius temperatures really meant, except that below 20 means cold, and above 30 means pretty damn' hot.
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As a measure of weight, I've always favored the Henweigh
What's a hen weigh?
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Vincent: You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
Vincent: Nah, man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the f*** a Quarter Pounder is.
Jules: What do they call it?
Vincent: They call it a Royale with Cheese.
Jules: Royale with Cheese.
Vincent: That's right.
Jules: What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent: A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac.
Jules: Le Big Mac. What do they call a Whopper?
Vincent: I don't know, I didn't go in a Burger King
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I'm sure most of you know my opinion on this already. I personally consider metric to be a superior form of measurement and it would be nice if everyone adopted it, but knowing both systems and how to properly convert between them isn't a bad idea.
I use metric for just about everything because I know it the best, just like most of you know imperial the best.
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What's a hen weigh?
3 or 4 pounds
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In practical terms, metric makes sense as it is all base 10, and fits in nicely with the rest of base 10 mathematics. HOWEVER there are many instances in which the metric system ends up being unwieldy, as differences between conditions end up so small numerically that it becomes almost useless- such as the Celsius scale mentioned upthread. A few Celsius degrees mean a world of difference, unlike Fahrenheit.
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I think I do the metric system like every normal American.
Whenever I see eurotrash units, I convert in my head to inches, pounds, miles, gallons, or real degrees.
A handful of conversion factors and some simple math is all you need to make sense out of metrics.
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To be brutally honest, the metric system IS more logical and easier to use. It is the only measurement used in science, and only America uses the old English system in commercial and legal use.
Having said that, since America created the world standard for socio-economics throughout the 20th century, the usage of the English system is pretty much ingrained and won't be changed until economics completely shift outside of US domination. As I was in the military, though, I am more used to kilometers and meters than most Americans (though most Americans can roughly equate a meter to a yard), as well as served in foreign countries that used kilometers exclusively in their civilian venues. Even out of the military for 20 years, I catch myself looking at the inner kilometer scale on my speedometer, but that's just a habit.
What the DUmmy is INSTINCTIVELY talking about, however, is an inference to the government mandating changing EVERYTHING from English to metric, with the ensuing costs and fees associated with such change, and having it controlled by an Obamanaut. In short, sticking it to the corporations and to "backwards (implication: "rethug")- thinking Americans." THAT is what we all know; it's not about personal preference; it's about mandating said preferences for everyone, and mandating the change be paid for by the rich republican bastards.
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What the DUmmy is INSTINCTIVELY talking about, however, is an inference to the government mandating changing EVERYTHING from English to metric, with the ensuing costs and fees associated with such change, and having it controlled by an Obamanaut.
I agree with that, but I also think that it's a bigger issue. Liberals like 'systems', put everything into neat boxes with interchangeability and screw the reality which lies beneath - by contrast conservatives think if it works then it works regardless of what its system is (or ideally isn't as no system is even better). The imperial system grew out of people's needs and actual uses as such it is profoundly reasonable...metric was based on Napoleon's incorrect guess of the circumference of the world, and is profoundly rational.
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I know that a few Americans are very comfortable with the metric system due to having used it long term in their occupations.
But I still bet that somewhere, in some corner of their brains, most of them are surreptitiously, or maybe unnconciously, still doing the conversion math so the numbers make sense.
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Mheh.
I'm fully conversant with both systems and use them both in regular life.
Neither is superior.
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There is no such thing as a standard thread pitch for a bolt in metric,therefore metric sucks.
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What's a hen weigh?
Depends on how much she eats!!! Oh wait... you was talking about birds. :fuelfire: :fuelfire: :fuelfire:
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Obama measured his 'junk'....told Moochelle it was 28 minimeaters on the Nadin scale.
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Metric System;
My father was very upset when the "State Store" (we live in PA.) went to the metric system. You see he always bought a "fifth" of liquor (1/5 of a gallon) which equaled 757 ml. Now they are all 750 ml bottles and my father believed he was being cheated because the price was the same. :lmao:
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There is no such thing as a standard thread pitch for a bolt in metric,therefore metric sucks.
ISO would disagree with that.
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Metric System;
My father was very upset when the "State Store" (we live in PA.) went to the metric system. You see he always bought a "fifth" of liquor (1/5 of a gallon) which equaled 757 ml. Now they are all 750 ml bottles and my father believed he was being cheated because the price was the same. :lmao:
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My uncle used to complain about Joe Kennedy getting a dollar every time he bought a bottle of Crown.
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my father believed he was being cheated because the price was the same.
He was being cheated. Every little bit counts.