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  • #16
    Originally posted by dejon
    That's the American creedo, isn't it?
    It sure is, you meter-loving son of a foreigner.

    Actually, we're just doing what's best for the world. I mean, think about it: It will be far easier to switch the whole world to our system than drag our notoriously obstinate population kicking and screaming into metric use.

    So, I say just do things the easy way.
    Lime roots and treachery!
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    • #17
      I WANT CELSIUS!!!
      Melting point being 32 is stupid.
      Nah, I want Kelvin.
      Absolute 0 being at -273 degrees C is stupid.
      "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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      • #18
        Base 10 is inefficient. I say we measure everything in hex!
        I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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        • #19
          Screw that, use base-60.
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          • #20
            Yeah... I love how the world complains when we try to tell them how to do things, but they turn around and try to tell us to change our measuring system

            Either system is fine by me... I just wish I didn't need two different size of tool sets to deal with products made here and products made abroad
            Keep on Civin'
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            • #21
              Metric rules. Its so easy to switch between distances, areas, volumnes. Can anyone tell me how many pounds of water are in a three cubic foot hottub?
              "Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito Mussolini

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              • #22
                That would also depend on water displacement... How many women are in the hot tub?
                Keep on Civin'
                RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                • #23
                  "Measuring speed in furlongs per fortnight since 1666."

                  (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                  (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                  (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                  • #24
                    THE METRIC SYSTEM IS THE DEVIL! MY AUTO GETS 4 RODS TO THE HOGSHEAD, AND THATS THE WAY I LIKES IT!
                    -Abraham Simpson
                    "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
                      Can anyone tell me how many pounds of water are in a three cubic foot hottub?
                      Why the hell would I need to? If you're trying to fill the hottub up, you turn the ****ing faucet on until it's full. We live in the United States, not in some physics final.
                      John Brown did nothing wrong.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Felch


                        Why the hell would I need to? If you're trying to fill the hottub up, you turn the ****ing faucet on until it's full. We live in the United States, not in some physics final.
                        you're damn right.

                        infact, we can leave the faucet on longer. let it overflow. we can waste all the damn resources we want. some forigner we hire will mop it up.

                        viva!
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                        • #27
                          Why the hell would I need to? If you're trying to fill the hottub up, you turn the ****ing faucet on until it's full. We live in the United States, not in some physics final.
                          Speak for yourself (just spent the past week studying for the finals for my physics classes).
                          "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                          -Bokonon

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                          • #28
                            Why the hell would I need to? If you're trying to fill the hottub up, you turn the ****ing faucet on until it's full. We live in the United States, not in some physics final.


                            Gee, and what possible benefit could you have if measuring things were made easier?

                            EDIT: Didn't see the other two replies to the exact same quote.
                            I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
                              Metric rules. Its so easy to switch between distances, areas, volumnes. Can anyone tell me how many pounds of water are in a three cubic foot hottub?
                              -Hmm... don't have a calculator, but a foot is (12 * .00254) m, so cube that multiply by 3, then multiply by 1000 to get the weight in kg, then multiply by (1000/454). That should give you a pretty good estimate. (and yes this is the extent of what I can do without looking anything up)
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                              -Joan Robinson

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                              • #30
                                I actually agree with Horsie on this one.

                                It's easier to describe a person's height in feet and inches rather than meters or centimeters.

                                Likewise for weight in pounds rather than kilograms.

                                Metric is easier for academia, but much of the measurements are a pain in the ass in the real world.

                                I don't have a problem with kilometers though...
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