1st World Problems - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq

Originally posted by RoyFairbank

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)"

Coldness doth get away with the badness.

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq

^ 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.

Coldness doth get away with the badness.

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).

Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Neptune, god of the Sea?

Originally posted by Snow Dog

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq

^ 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.

If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would - Neil Gaiman

Originally posted by stonebeard

Originally posted by darkshade

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
Jazz-rock conspiracy? Zappa and Miles played at the same festivals in the
summer of '69 right BEFORE Hot Rats AND Bitches Brew were recorded.

^

"Composing itself, in a way, is a simplifying process, just trying to pick some (strands?) out [of] the clamour in the head." - Robert Wyatt.

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

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Originally posted by Jim Garten

Originally posted by JJLehto

Perhaps the ultimate 1st world problem:

When your AC is broken Angry

Go DC?

hehehe
Reckon I should've seen it coming

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clue:

If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would - Neil Gaiman

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.

Coldness doth get away with the badness.