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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 17:35 |
Dayvenkirq wrote:
RoyFairbank wrote:
Metric system never, miles and feet forever!
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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.
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^Screw metric,
"Britons never never never shall be slaves(of the kiloooooo......meter)"
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 18:11 |
^ 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.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 18:13 |
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. |
Actually we use metric for weights.
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zappaholic
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 18:15 |
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.
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But it's Communism.
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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CPicard
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 18:35 |
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).
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CCVP
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 18:56 |
Not a first world problem per se, but it's raining and I have no umbrella.
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Dean
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 19:01 |
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. |
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.
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Padraic
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 20:47 |
My first world problems usually involve companies doing things that are annoying, such that I have to call a number and speak to a human being. When it's reached that point, they've already failed.
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darkshade
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 21:49 |
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.
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It's simple, American stubbornness always trumps American laziness. |
I don't know... There is a lot of fat people around here.
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 21:51 |
"I don't know... There is a lot of fat people around here." was my 6000th post!
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 00:01 |
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 02:16 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Dayvenkirq wrote:
RoyFairbank wrote:
Metric system never, miles and feet forever!
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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.
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<span style="text-align: left; : rgb248, 248, 252; ">^Screw metric,</span><div style="text-align: left; : rgb248, 248, 252; "> <div style="text-align: left; : rgb248, 248, 252; ">"Britons never never never shall be slaves(of the kiloooooo......meter)" | Imperialists of the world unite - we have everything to gain including our chains!
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JJLehto
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 02:25 |
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
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 04:37 |
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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JJLehto
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 04:55 |
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 05:10 |
I still don't know what AC is.
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Dean
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 05:14 |
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 05:15 |
Oh yeah.........I knew that.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 05:18 |
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.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 06:01 |
The condenser has gone on my car's air conditioning... just in time for the hottest weather of the year so far
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