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[Redezra]

But all that power.You can't put a price on that.

All that power, signing or vetoing bills you didn't write and have little influence in the content of. I'll put a price of £2 5/- on it.

 

Two pounds what?

[*Anastasia]

But all that power.You can't put a price on that.

All that power, signing or vetoing bills you didn't write and have little influence in the content of. I'll put a price of £2 5/- on it.

 
Two pounds what?

5 shillings. Decimalization is for the Metric People.

[He who posts]

But all that power.You can't put a price on that.

All that power, signing or vetoing bills you didn't write and have little influence in the content of. I'll put a price of £2 5/- on it.

 
Two pounds what?

5 shillings. Decimalization is for the Metric People.

Join the human race already.

[*Anastasia]

Metric is for the Borg.

[Redezra]

Metric is for the Borg.

 

I was literally about to write "ALL BOW BEFORE THE METRIC SYSTEM".

 

The metric system is for people who like things to make sense.

[He who posts]

Metric is for the Borg.

No need to include my people into it.

[the rebel]

Metric is for the Borg.

I was literally about to write "ALL BOW BEFORE THE METRIC SYSTEM".

The metric system is for people who like things to make sense.

What's wrong with the old system?

1 guinea is £1 1s.
£1 is 20 shillings
5s. is 1 crown
2s. 6d is ½ crown
2s. is a florin
1s. is 12 pennies
1d. is 2 halfpennies or 4 farthings

[ᗅᗺᗷᗅ]

My only problem with the metric system is that, having been raised on the older, imperial-style measurements, I have a difficult time envisioning metric measurements in the real world. If you say a car is going 100 mph, I have a sense of how fast that is. But if you tell me it's going 100 kph I would have to do the conversion. 

[He who posts]

 

Metric is for the Borg.

I was literally about to write "ALL BOW BEFORE THE METRIC SYSTEM".

The metric system is for people who like things to make sense.

What's wrong with the old system?

1 guinea is £1 1s.
£1 is 20 shillings
5s. is 1 crown
2s. 6d is ½ crown
2s. is a florin
1s. is 12 pennies
1d. is 2 halfpennies or 4 farthings

iT's A b1t R3tarDEd aND 1NcoNSit4n1.

 

My only problem with the metric system is that, having been raised on the older, imperial-style measurements, I have a difficult time envisioning metric measurements in the real world. If you say a car is going 100 mph, I have a sense of how fast that is. But if you tell me it's going 100 kph I would have to do the conversion. 

Dutch highways mark every kilometer with a pole next to it.

[ᗅᗺᗷᗅ]

US highways do the same thing with mile markers. But that still wouldn't help me envision 100 kph any better. Or, if you tell me something is 3 meters long, I would estimate it to about 10 feet in order to envision the size.

[*Anastasia]

I'm in Jorost's camp in spite of having learned Metric in school. Because Imperial/"Canadian Units" are so widely used outside of the education system, despite Metrication, it just seems far more natural for me to use them. I can see the application of Metric in some cases, like in scientific scenarios*, but for daily use, Imperial just makes more sense.

*Except for Celsius. Celsius is fucking useless. Use Kelvin or Fahrenheit or GTFO.

[He who posts]

My response is fucking deal with it or I kick you over my wall back to China.

[*Anastasia]

Yes, we need a wall to keep the Metric people out.

[Manoka]

^ I vote this 1000. 

 

 

Albeit a wall would be good to keep things like, idk, gun smugglers out. 

[Redezra]

US highways do the same thing with mile markers. But that still wouldn't help me envision 100 kph any better. Or, if you tell me something is 3 meters long, I would estimate it to about 10 feet in order to envision the size.

 

 

Hang on, that second part should. 100 kilometers per hour is about 300 thousand feet per hour, oooor dividing by 3600, 83 feet per second.

 

I try to deconstruct everything into thing per second, because I can't properly imagine a mile, or a kilometer, let alone hundreds of them. This sort of breaks down when I talk about orbital velocities, things like tens of kilometers per second. Cause... like

 

That's crazy talk.

Edited by Redezra, 09 February 2016 - 08:20 PM.

[Killman4]

Yes, we need a wall to keep the Metric people out.

We don't need them Metrics ruining our children.

[He who posts]

 

Just admit metrics is superior.

[KiWi]

Have I tried to sell you guys on my idea to change the foot/gallon to fit metric?

1 Gallon should be 4 liters, and 1 inch be 2.5 cm exactly. It's off by ~6 and 3% respectively. But idk. We should do it! To hell with over-complicating things.

[*Anastasia]

 
Just admit metrics is superior.

I'll admit it's boring.
 
 

Have I tried to sell you guys on my idea to change the foot/gallon to fit metric?

1 Gallon should be 4 liters, and 1 inch be 2.5 cm exactly. It's off by ~6 and 3% respectively. But idk. We should do it! To hell with over-complicating things.

And this is what makes it boring.

That said, your idea for a Metric Inch isn't new: the Soviets used it in computer manufacturing, and the idea of a 'Metric Foot' of 30cm is likewise commonly used here to produce dual 12"/30cm rulers.

[the rebel]

Have I tried to sell you guys on my idea to change the foot/gallon to fit metric?1 Gallon should be 4 liters

Hold your horses, it would help if the US actually used the imperial gallon as the US gallon is just over 3¾ litres whereas the imperial gallon is just over 4½ litres.