The Metric System

liberalcynic · 1 Week Ago

Sorry, I din't realise that your quote wasn't added, that was what I was attacking using your arguement as supporting matirial, but I just don't normally quote, nor post, and I stuffed up... sorry.

sdbg · 1 Week Ago

I've used the metric system for decades in science classes. If it became law, we would adapt. The biggest implications would be for machinery and manufacturing. The best place to start the transformation would be in the schools.

liberalcynic · 1 Week Ago

Definatly

sean9incher · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by sdbg

I've used the metric system for decades in science classes. If it became law, we would adapt. The biggest implications would be for machinery and manufacturing. The best place to start the transformation would be in the schools.

Agreed...

Think of it this way... instead of an 8 inch cock you can now boast you have 20cm Cock!! or even better! A 200mm cock!!

liberalcynic · 1 Week Ago

The perfect international view of America in regards to the Metric System.
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liberalcynic · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by sean9incher

Agreed...

Think of it this way... instead of an 8 inch cock you can now boast you have 20cm Cock!! or even better! A 200mm cock!!

Or 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 yoctometres?

snobbes · 1 Week Ago

The Brits are approaching the metric system inch by inch.

jason_els · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by liberalcynic

Sorry, I din't realise that your quote wasn't added, that was what I was attacking using your arguement as supporting matirial, but I just don't normally quote, nor post, and I stuffed up... sorry.

I suggest you continue that policy.

"matirial, arguement, definatly, din't??" People in glass houses...

pseudoquasi · 1 Week Ago

I think the metric system should be used internationally but the standard language used for describing cock size is inches. I am metric educated but a saying 21.5 cm cock is not as sexy as an 8 incher!

dong20 · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by pseudoquasi

.. 21.5 cm cock is not as sexy as an 8 incher!

But it is bigger.

DC_DEEP · 1 Week Ago

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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.

LongRod · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by nudeyorker

US tried it in the seventies...Most Americans were too stupid to understand it!

No, it wasn't that Americans were too stupid to understand it. Americans were too inflexible to migrate to another measurment standard. Actually it is easier because it is a 10 base measuring system, but we are so used to 8 ounces = 1 cup; 16 ounces = 1 pint; 16 ounces = 1 pound but 1 pint is not 1 pound. 12 inches = 1 foot; 3ft=1 yard; 5,280 ft= 1 mile.

Now, there were certain Americans that mastered grams, kilograms etc. They could just take a look and they knew how much a kilo was, without using a scale.

mista geechee · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by liberalcynic

So there's a problem with education levels? So are you claiming the people of Iraq, Thailand, Tanzania, Zimbarbwe, Sudan have higher education levels than in the USA? Well if you elected Bush, It could be plausable.
You've also "dumb-ed-down" your English. It is so sad to have the word 'herb' sound 'h-less,' and see each adjective become a verb some how. Word's like Americanization, really should be spelt with a 's' Americanisation; (exempli gratia) Golabalisation, et cetera.

what's the problem with our english sounding different? our enlglish is now dumb because its's different?

StapledShut · 1 Week Ago

All I can think of when I read this thread is marley's signature quote about your father's hand-me-down anger.

Now, to address the issue at hand:
A lot of products and materials here are built on a standard of feet and inches, and as we all know, that system does not convert cleanly into metric. So, to convert to the metric system would be a long and arduous process of weeding out everything from those currently in production to those produced but not yet in use. Otherwise, these companies would suffer a severe inventory loss, and we can all agree that we can't afford that right now.
Sure, we could do it, but frankly when it comes to domestic operations, it's just not worth the trouble.

petergroot · 1 Week Ago

What will USA do with all those 11/16" spanners? ship 'em of to Burma? So may just as well keep the imperial system( anyway, US is more like an Empire, so they need imperial stuff, right?)