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re: Britain to return to Imperial Measurements
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:20 pm to CleverUserName
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:20 pm to CleverUserName
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Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:21 pm to CleverUserName
quote:
You didn’t work for a company that made big precise mirrors for NASA space telescopes in say, early 1980’s did you?
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:23 pm to DesScorp
This is GLORIOUS!!! I STILL remember back when I was in grade school, we spent like 2 weeks learning about The Metric System. Teachers told that when were were grown up, EVERYONE would be using the Metric system.
They also said that soccer would replace baseball, football and basketball as America's favorite pro and college sport.
SCREW YOU, Miss ELLIS!!!
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:25 pm to CleverUserName
quote:
You didn’t work for a company that made big precise mirrors for NASA space telescopes in say, early 1980’s did you?
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:29 pm to SkinnyTestaverde
quote:I am a fan of cubits. One cubit is equal to the distance from your elbow to the tip of your middle finger. You know, the ark and all.
Only thing that sucks is height. Who the frick wants to be 2 meters tall. How we measure horses makes for a more accurate description
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:30 pm to AUHighPlainsDrifter
quote:
For example if you had 12 slices of pizza you could share it evenly with 2 people ( 6 slices each), 3 people (4 slices each), 4 people (3 slices each) or 6 people (2 slices each). On the other hand you had 10 slices of pizza you could only share it evenly with only 2 people(five slices each) or 5 people (2 slices each).
quote:
At my house, pizza is divided by whoever paid for it
We call that the 'capitalist' measurement system. The rising tide of meritocracy that it creates floats all the ships. Including the little dinghies.
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:39 pm to SkinnyTestaverde
quote:
Lmao wut
Metric system is infinitely better for measuring mass and distance. I mean, it’s not even up for debate
Only thing that sucks is height. Who the frick wants to be 2 meters tall. How we measure horses makes for a more accurate description
How is either better than the other? If you know what the measurements mean (I have no idea how to translate the metric system, because I never had a reason to learn it as an American) then what does it matter which one you use? I know how to translate a yard in feet (3 feet). A kilometer is a certain amount of meters and a meter is a certain amount of feet (whatever that number is), etc... That's it. It's not more or less accurate, that I can see. If anything, I find that the metric system is more complicated to translate, but that might just be my own bias. It seems like our system is much more efficient.
All I know is that it was absurd for the EU to have mandated the metric system, before.
This post was edited on 9/17/21 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:47 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
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What a ridiculous theory. MM is just fine for a carpenter to use....
As a Carpenter, I concur. Metric Base ten makes a lot more sense and is more easily divided as it uses whole numbers. Granted, you can jump out of fractions and go to decimal places in the imperial system but you have to stay with fractions in base 12 until under an inch and then you have to jump behind the decimal point and it falls behind it multiple places very quickly. A millimeter is a very small measurement as far as length is concerned and you rarely go many places behind the decimal point after a millimeter.
For example
1"
1/2"
1/4"
1/8"
1/16
1/32
This is the end of most tape measures and rulers. Beyond this is hard to discern with the naked eye so now you have to go to whole numbers in the imperial system.
0.016
0.008
0.004
Etc
Now metric
26mm
13mm
6.5mm
3.25mm
1.625mm
In five halvings we're already at 1/32". It took six in the Imperial system.
0.6625mm
In one halving we're already at roughly 0.004" in the imperial system
6 vs. 9 and we stayed with whole numbers the entire time without having to convert from fractions to whole numbers.
All that said I'm glad the British are telling the rest of the world to go frick themselves. Variety is the spice of life.
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:49 pm to EA6B
I will say this though, and you know if you are in construction. Tape measures that have imperial and metric are easily the worst things ever created on earth.
Most of the kitchens I do are from Italy and Germany so the guys that install them carry the dually. Might as well have the tape in Braille
Most of the kitchens I do are from Italy and Germany so the guys that install them carry the dually. Might as well have the tape in Braille
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:58 pm to nola000
quote:What?
For example
1"
1/2"
1/4"
1/8"
1/16
1/32
This is the end of most tape measures and rulers. Beyond this is hard to discern with the naked eye so now you have to go to whole numbers in the imperial system.
0.016
0.008
0.004
Etc
Now metric
26mm
13mm
6.5mm
3.25mm
1.625mm
In five halvings we're already at 1/32". It took six in the Imperial system.
A half is a half no matter the system. 5 halvings of a unit don't equal 6 of the same unit, regardless of nomenclature. 1/32" = 0.8125mm, not 1.6mm
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:07 pm to Metaloctopus
quote:
I find that the metric system is more complicated to translate
Translating fricking sucks. I’m talking about starting from zero. The metric works in thousands and zeros. Imperial goes grams, ounces, pounds, ect…. There is no rhyme or reason to the madness.
28.34 grams in an ounce because we don’t do small numbers so we start there. 16 ounces in a pound, 2.2 ounces in a kilo. Drug dealers gotta navigate all the systems lmao
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:08 pm to NC_Tigah
Im going to have to revisit this. Im currently drunk and working in drunker.
Either way, as a man that uses both systems I find the metric WAY easier to use and thats coming from someone that grew up in the US using imperial his whole life.
I NEVER reach for my imperial Starrett calipers. I always grab my metric dial caliper or metric micrometer set. Likewise all my mass scales are set to grams, not ounces.
Either way, as a man that uses both systems I find the metric WAY easier to use and thats coming from someone that grew up in the US using imperial his whole life.
I NEVER reach for my imperial Starrett calipers. I always grab my metric dial caliper or metric micrometer set. Likewise all my mass scales are set to grams, not ounces.
This post was edited on 9/17/21 at 9:09 pm
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:11 pm to SkinnyTestaverde
quote:
Translating fricking sucks. I’m talking about starting from zero. The metric works in thousands and zeros. Imperial goes grams, ounces, pounds, ect…. There is no rhyme or reason to the madness.
28.34 grams in an ounce because we don’t do small numbers so we start there. 16 ounces in a pound, 2.2 ounces in a kilo. Drug dealers gotta navigate all the systems lmao
I don't know, man. I guess every has an opinion, but I've never found difficulty in measuring anything with the imperial system. So long as I know that I have a standard from which to measure something, and I follow the standard accurately, I don't have issues.
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:14 pm to wallowinit
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In my mechanical engineering classes when they had problems and the units were imperial the first thing I did was convert everything to metric and then solve the problem and convert back to imperial because it was much easier to work the problems in metric.
However I prefer my every day units in imperial units because I can more easily relate to them.
This.
Familiarity is everything in the practical sense but from a purely mathematical standpoint it makes sense to work everything in metric from base 10.
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:16 pm to Metaloctopus
My best example of the hell of the imperial is going to Home Depot and trying to find a random screw in those pull out drawer boxes. 100 measurements that make no sense and they have them in both fine and rough cuts. Wtf
Metric has 7-8-9-10-11-12mm and all fit
Metric has 7-8-9-10-11-12mm and all fit
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:17 pm to SkinnyTestaverde
quote:Besides, you spot a 1.65m blonde with a 87-61-87 figure at a bar, you can tell by those measurements, she's a hottie.
28.34 grams in an ounce because we don’t do small numbers so we start there. 16 ounces in a pound, 2.2 ounces in a kilo.
You ask her if she'd like to see your 10cm member, and in the US it's a pick up line that might work.
This post was edited on 9/17/21 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:17 pm to Metaloctopus
quote:
How is either better than the other? If you know what the measurements mean (I have no idea how to translate the metric system, because I never had a reason to learn it as an American) then what does it matter which one you use? I
International Trade. Standardization. Global economy, bro
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:20 pm to nola000
quote:How many mL's in a jigger?
Im going to have to revisit this. Im currently drunk and working in drunker.
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:21 pm to Taxing Authority
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And the gap between cm and m is too big. Need something intermediate... like a foot.
Or a decimeter?
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:22 pm to NC_Tigah
All machinery is done in metric. It’s not even possible to do it in imperial
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