The US should switch to metric

[Odin]

Why is my country so stubborn when it comes to switching to the metric system? I laugh everytime a person has to use a calculator to convert pounds to ounces or feet to miles; if it was metric one would only have to divide or multiply by powers of 10. I am sick of having to convert degrees F to degrees C when I read scientific things.

[yavoon]

duh? u started a thread about the obvious, haha!

[Panzer32]

Us Canadians are tired that Americans haven't switched too!!

[loinburger]

Farenheit 4 Evar!

[Cyclotron]

Feet rock, man. What is this "meters" babble?

[Joseph]

Bullsh!t, inches are just fine. The world should switch to us.

[Zero]

I use the tiny/short/medium/long/whoa system.

For weights, weightless/light/okay/heavy/ugh... and so on

[Odin]

Originally posted by loinburger
Farenheit 4 Evar!

I WANT CELSIUS!!!

Melting point being 32 is stupid.

[Boris Godunov]

Oh yeah, a system wherein you have quarter-inches, inches, feet (12 inches), yards (3 feet), and miles (5,280 feet) makes sooooooo much more sense than a base-10 system! Who needs simplicity?

BRING BACK THE CUBIT!

[Zero]

Originally posted by Odin


I WANT CELSIUS!!!

Melting point being 32 is stupid.

in my world, melting point is at 69.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Calc II


in my world, melting point is at 69.

As loin would say:

WUTANG!

ACK!

[Hot Mustard]

Originally posted by Joseph
Bullsh!t, inches are just fine. The world should switch to us.

That's the American creedo, isn't it?

[Zero]

Originally posted by Tuberski


As loin would say:

WUTANG!

ACK!

well, boiling point is at 69.01

[Asher]

I like both for different things.

I find feet/pounds/inches better for every-day things like describing people, and I like metric when I'm actually doing academic stuff...

[Alexander's Horse]

We've had metric for more than 20 years but I still roughly convert some things like weight, distance and area.

That's because my main beef with metric is that some of the standard units are too small or large. For example a mile is a good distance whereas a kilometre seems a bit short. Conversely an acre is an area you can visualise but a hectare is too large.