1st World Problems - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Dayvenkirq wrote:

RoyFairbank wrote:

Metric system never, miles and feet forever!

Miles and feet can suck it. In your calculations you don't get nice numbers. You use metric, you can pretty much do some stuff in your head. English system is a pain in the balls.

^Screw metric,

"Britons never never never shall be slaves(of the kiloooooo......meter)"

Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ So they should be slaves of 12's (inches to a foot), 8's (fluid oz. to a cup), etc.

A-a-a-a-ari-i-i-i-i-ight. Back to topic

Actually we use metric for weights.

Great, my neighbors seem to be ready to party for a long part of time (1:30 in Paris right now).

I can't wait for them beginning to work (students or doing part-time jobs, I don't know, but they are tiresome).

Snow Dog wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ So they should be slaves of 12's (inches to a foot), 8's (fluid oz. to a cup), etc.

A-a-a-a-ari-i-i-i-i-ight. Back to topic

Actually we use metric for weights.

A cup is a volume, and the UK cup is 10floz and in Japan it's 200ml.

Cups are clever because they are proportional and work for liquid and bulk solids. They don't care whether they are metric or imperial or avoirdupois.

It's odd how no one ever came up with a metric system for angles - degrees, radians and gradians are all non-decimal systems. Of course the reason for that is 10 can only be divided by 2 and 5, which is rubbish.

As easy as the metric system looks, it's actually not that good for metal arithmetic requiring division, and that's where the old mixed-radix imperial systems came from - the quick calculation of division. American's aren't dumb because they can divide any weight by 10 just by shifting the decimal point just like any "metric" user can, but they can also divide by 2, 4, 8 16, 32. And in length not only can they divide by 10 by shifiting the decimal place, they can divide a length by 2, 3, 4 and 6 without the need for a pocket calculator.

What?

stonebeard wrote:

darkshade wrote:

You'd think with all the dummies in America, that we'd use the metric system instead, as it's easier to understand.

It's simple, American stubbornness always trumps American laziness.

I don't know... There is a lot of fat people around here.

My Last.fm

^

Someone also told me that "I would walk 500 kilometers" just wouldn't have the same flow
Good point too

Perhaps the ultimate 1st world problem:
When your AC is broken Angry

Jim Garten wrote:

JJLehto wrote:

Perhaps the ultimate 1st world problem:

When your AC is broken Angry

Go DC?

hehehe
Reckon I should've seen it coming

clue:

What?

When I lived in Israel we had no air conditioning, we only had portable fans wafting hot air around. It was pretty bloody terrible trying to sleep at night in summer.