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  • #16
    Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
    Why is the US system called "Standard", when it isnt? The standard system is metric, and the US system isn't standard.
    Everyone calls the US system (inches and crap) the "imperial system" where I'm from.
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    • #17
      Either "imperial" or "old" system are the two terms I've heard used.
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      • #18
        Its not that we can't.

        We just choose not to. :P
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        • #19
          Originally posted by OzzyKP
          Its not that we can't.

          We just choose not to. :P
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          • #20
            In the United States, men measure their cocks by inches.
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            • #21
              Originally posted by MrFun
              In the United States, men measure their cocks by inches.
              I suppose centimeters would be more impressive for this use. Instead of saying 6 one could say 15
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              • #22
                Originally posted by OzzyKP


                I suppose centimeters would be more impressive for this use. Instead of saying 6 one could say 15
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
                  Yes, pico is smaller. Femto is even smaller.
                  Both are huge compared to atto-.
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Dissident
                    metric system sux
                    The English System sucks.
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                    • #25
                      USA refuses to adopt metric system because it is French

                      We prefer the system of our British Fathers
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                      • #26
                        The English system has the best of both worlds. We learn and calculate everything in metric and then express it all in imperial so that our American friends don't get confused whilst Europeans do..
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                        • #27
                          I like metric, but in the end it really doesn't matter.
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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by MrFun
                            In the United States, men measure their cocks by inches.
                            Speak for yourself

                            Some of us measure ours in YARDS
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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by mrmitchell
                              Dissident
                              What's 49 inches in miles? Or 32 furlongs in fathoms? 16 rods to the bar?

                              (I think all of those are real units ...the point: standardisation in a system of measurement is good.)
                              What moron would measure something 49 inches long in miles?
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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
                                Why is the US system called "Standard", when it isnt? The standard system is metric, and the US system isn't standard.
                                A'course it's standard! It's what we use, innit? Metric is fer them furrinners.
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