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Originally Posted by liberalcynic  You would say "give us a centimetre, and we'll take a 1 kilometre."
The Metric System works far better, and is much simplier. everything is in losts of 10s, whilst you have your 1000 thou(Proper English)("mil" in your bastardised" Americanised "English") to theInch, 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 220 yards to the furlong, 8 furlongs to the mile, 3 miles to the league.
All in lots of tens, simple, easy, and obviously better since every other country, except the USA and 2 other, have adopted since they've realised the benifits of having it. |
Issues, much? Honestly, you should try to avoid being so supercilious. It is quite unattractive.
And other than horseracing, I know of no instances of furlongs being in common usage; other than nautical references, I don't know of leagues being in common usage.
I am quite fluent in the use of metric (SI), metric (common), Imperial, and US Common measurement systems. I'm not sure why anyone would get his panties in a wad over which system anyone else uses. Pounds, slugs, kilograms, newtons, it doesn't matter. Slugs & kilograms for mass, pounds and newtons for weight. Who cares?
Perhaps those of us who can use either system should be condescending to those who whine about the "inferiority" of the one system or the other.