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Remember back during the "oil crisis" they sold gas by the litre for a while?
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Some years back there was a song "8 Miles HIgh" that I rather liked. Wouldn't have been the same if it was "12874.8 meters high".
Even the Byrds understood that. Calculating loads in milligrams There is a conversion block on my scale, but its just a bunch of rectangles to me.
-OMotS
"If memory serves fails me..." Quote: ( unnamed) "been prtty deep in the cooler todaay " Television and radio are most effective when people question little and think even less.
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Campfire Kahuna
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If you metricians can tell me why I should GAF what the air speed velocity of an unladen African Swallow is in meters per second.........
Never mind. I still wont GAF about metric.
I am MAGA.
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Anyone want to be on the old English money system?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Anyone want to be on the old English money system? It's funny hearing Americans wanting to adhere to ANYTHING English.
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Why do you say that Paul?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Why do you say that Paul? Because they are always going on about rejecting the English domination over them as per the American Revolution. I don't blame you folks for that either.
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It may be because I spent some time in Canada as a youngster. Red Rose tea, and a lot of English influence in Canada.
In the low grades in school, it was the French that we were taught to admire.
I think it was WW2, that brought the US, and England together as great allies.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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The choices are:
A. Use a system where you measure in fractions, then convert those fractions to decimal numbers in order to use a calculator, then convert the decimal answer back into a fraction. Your basic unit of measure is grouped in such a way that it's divisible by 2, 4ths, 8ths, 16ths, and 32nds or is multiplied by 12.
B. Use a system where you measure in decimals, use no conversion to plug those numbers into a calculator and no conversion of the answer as it's already in decimals. Your basic unit of measure is divisible or multiplied by 10, allowing one to slide the decimal as needed usually sans calculator.
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
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Campfire Kahuna
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The choices are:
A. Use a system where you measure in fractions, then convert those fractions to decimal numbers in order to use a calculator, then convert the decimal answer back into a fraction. Your basic unit of measure is grouped in such a way that it's divisible by 2, 4ths, 8ths, 16ths, and 32nds or is multiplied by 12.
B. Use a system where you measure in decimals, use no conversion to plug those numbers into a calculator and no conversion of the answer as it's already in decimals. Your basic unit of measure is divisible or multiplied by 10, allowing one to slide the decimal as needed usually sans calculator. Ahhh.....so the metric system is for dumb people. No wonder the rest of the world uses it. Well explained.....thanks.
I am MAGA.
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I use both, daily.
I like speed and distance in miles. Mile a minute makes everything easy to estimate.
Temperature? Can we just forget there ever was a Fahrenheit? He was probably gay, constipated, or both, anyway.
Weights? Kilos for the win. You know why not Imperial? For the same reason you don’t know how many stone you weigh....
Carpentry, plumbing? Inches and feet, thank you. It just works. Never could come close to cutting to the millimeter. But welding and metal work? Metric. All the way. That stuff has to be right the first time.
Volume? I go either way. But once you get to cubic feet and acre feet, imperial Is easier. Cubic meters are just the wrong size.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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I was a kid in the 70s and remember when they tried to get us to convert. They fugged up when they tried to ease us into it. Should've been like ripping off tape from a hairy arm ...quick and painless.
Guvmint fugged everything up per usual.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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If you metricians can tell me why I should GAF what the air speed velocity of an unladen African Swallow is in meters per second......... So that you don't mysteriously get flung off of a bridge into oblivian.
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There is no way to coexist no matter how many bumper stickers there are on Subaru bumpers!
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SAE wrenches only. Metric get thrown away.
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If you metricians can tell me why I should GAF what the air speed velocity of an unladen African Swallow is in meters per second......... So that you don't mysteriously get flung off of a bridge into oblivian. Fair point.
I am MAGA.
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After five years of metric based engineering school I head off to work in a refinery. Need to do a performance test of a compressor train. Open up the company supplied steam tables, WTF?
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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2.54 centimeter worm just doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily as inchworm.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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It would be easier if the rest of the world would just use the English system.
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