dead_dangler: It provides a frame of reference that people can relate to.

And are you merely dumb, or are you clinically retarded?

On a scale from 1 to 10?

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!

Babies with Rabies: A few corrections, repugnitards:

Norm Coleman did not "throw in the towel". He was defeated.

It was you repugnitards that made it harder to filibuster. Eat it.

The metric system is a good idea. You just don't like change.

46% is still less than half, stupidass.

That "pork filled stimulus" was Dubya's brainchild, not Obama's.

Bush passed a bigger stimulus and you didn't have shiat to say.

The speed limit isn't 55 anymore, retard.

Your full of shiat, moron.

My only complaint with the metric system is there are no decent midrange values.

Centimeters are too small to use with a straight face, nobody uses decimeters, and then you have a whole damn meter.

I'm sorry, but inches, feet, cups, and pints are just too damned useful.

The Republicans chose this particular "metric" talking point because it dovetails nicely with their other narratives... Namely that (1)liberals are attacking the government from within, that (2) Metric is European and therefore bad, and that (3) It's an illustration of one group trying to impose an idea on the public.

...Never mind the trifecta of irony - That the same folks (1) supported the Bush administration, (2) view math and science as the devil's tools, and (3) have no reservations about trying to impose an entire RELIGION on the public.

Who woulda thunk it ... there are actually carpentry nerds and they post on Fark.com.

Babies with Rabies: Ecobuckeye: Babies with Rabies: seamus james: Try building something with your unfinished 2x4s. Bring your level. You're going to need it.

I've done exactly that. I built a rather nice workshop out back of my friend's house. As for level...well, it's pretty much spot on. Why would using two by fours make it not level? That's just retarded for you to say, since most two by fours go in VERTICALLY, and wouldn't affect a structure being level.

See, this is the problem with you high school clowns. No real life experience. Dumbass.

And you hung the door using W-hinges, right? And we come full circle?

The door's actually hung on rollers, since you ask. Were you going somewhere with that, or did you just want to bluff your prowess by knowing what a dubya hinge is?

No, I was making a play on the word "whinge". Sorry I had to spell it out for you.

Not everybody's here to attack you, dipshiat.

Didn't bother to RTFA or TFT--I just came in here to say that SI is much better than standard.

/millwright
//has the ultimate set of SI tools

BobDeluxe: Your full of shiat, moron.

My full of shiat?

ESL, dumbass?

xria: So people can relate to 0 to 100 but not -10 to 30?

According to all the arguments in this thread about how base 10 and decimals form a superior and more intuitive system of measurement, I'd have to say yes, a range that goes from 0-100 is more relatable than one that goes from -10 to 30.

We speak of percentages and percentiles after all. We think of things in term of their fraction or position out of 100 all the time.

These guys are so many meters to the right it is not funny anymore.

BobDeluxe: Your full of shiat, moron moran.


Fix'd.

Babies with Rabies: BobDeluxe: Your full of shiat, moron.

My full of shiat?

ESL, dumbass?

Yes, yes. I see it. Now ask me if I give a shiat.

Just out of curiosity, what has crawled up you're ass?

Manic_Repressive: BobDeluxe: Your full of shiat, moron moran.


Fix'd.

many thanks.

Hau Ruck: raanne: omg - that would rule.

/why dont we use the metric system again?

Because Americans in huge SUVs like their tire sizes in inches, not p-metric crap. It's easy to understand 33x12.50x15, but how would you know that 305/75R15 is the same size without a calculator?

It's not exactly hard. Last time I got tyres (yes it's spelt that way outside the USA) I looked at the side of my existing tyres, saw that it said "305/75R15" (or whatever) and went and got the same ones.

I don't know or care what "305/75R15" means and wouldn't know or care what "33x12.50x15" meant either. Why would you need a calculator? You just get the same ones! Do you check yours with a calculator just in case the numbers printed on the side are wrong?

Seeing as how you apparently buy new tyres on a daily or even hourly basis, I can see why this would stop the country from adopting the metric system.

Ivnabru: Maybe I'm just backwards and ignorant but I don't see much of a benefit switching to metric.

In terms of providing any real benefits, no, there aren't any. However, sharing units of measurement (and our own scientists and other fields employing metric) only makes sense. My drive from here to there is still going to be the same distance and cost the same amount of money whether it's in kilometers or miles. But fark, it seems like we should all be on the same universal standard.

It's not like the metric system would be some sort of invasion of our culture. Suggesting that we speak another language? Yes, then people can get their panties in a wad.

/column was not bad...seems to be a republican whose head isn't too far up his own ass to see how poorly the ideology of whaargarble, fear-mongering, and 'real American' is failing a once powerful political force.

joethebastard: bushbot111: Try not to get those confused. Metric system - good idea. Socialized medicine - horrible idea.

Try to keep up. Nobody was talking about socializing medicine.

Yeah...no one knew what you meant by 'affordable healthcare'. Pretend you didn't mean that. Right. lol

cameroncrazy1984: bushbot111: joethebastard: The metric system and affordable healthcare? Really?

Damn, I thought terrorists were a lame boogeyman.

Could we get a competent second party, please? We're not really set up to have just one party here.

Also, I really don't understand the complaint about not being able to filibuster. If the Republicans farked things up so much that they were overwhelmingly voted out, why should they be allowed to prevent the other party from fixing their terrible mistakes?

Try not to get those confused. Metric system - good idea. Socialized medicine - horrible idea.

Yes, those horribly, socialist countries with their horribly affordable healthcare!

This is coming from a pothead college student. I really value your opinion on this issue. Really.

Been using the metric system for 30 years in my line of work. It's easy to understand, unless you are stupid or a die hard traditionalist. I could see the republican base rejecting metric because it is foreignish and all that rubbish.

ifarkthereforiam: Been using the metric system for 30 years in my line of work. It's easy to understand, unless you are stupid or a die hard traditionalist. I could see the republican base rejecting metric because it is foreignish and all that rubbish.

I'll admit, if you understand it, it's definitely easier to use. Change is never easy....

Babies with Rabies: OHOHOHOHOHOOOOO! IS FUNNY BECAUSE IS NOT JOKE AT ALL!!! OOOHOHOHOHOHO!!!!!!

Wow, you need to lighten up, bro. Maybe you should switch to decaf.



BobDeluxe: many thanks.

Any time.

gm: The biggest problem with converting would be having to retool the entire country and organizations that currently use the metric system would have to reengineer all of their things, and for the most part that is everyone and everything made in America. Even NASA would have to reengineer all of their stuff.

Of course that's not to say that we shouldn't have changed over before this became a problem, the metric system is so much more neat and tidy than the imperial system. It just makes sense. While it won't be easy to switch and in fact would be quite the task, it should be worth it in the end.

Why "retool"? Just start calling it out in millimeters instead of inches, kilograms instead of pounds, etc. Secretly, most industries have been metric for years.

Back when you could buy a 1-pound can of coffee and a half-gallon of ice cream, maybe the old units made sense. Now, ice cream is like 56-58 ounces, and coffee is 14 ounces, so everything is just numbers.

You all everybody
You all everybody
Acting like you're stupid people
Getting troll'd real hard!

/why, yes, I am high right now

HA!

That's why I bought a 9 MM and not a 40 caliber.

Suck it Glock-tards! My gun will still work after this legislation yours will be obsolete!

actually, if we used the metric system our faster, better cheaper Mars probe would've landed softly and started returning data instead of trying to fly through it.

jafiwam: That's why I bought a 9 MM and not a 40 caliber.

Won't a .40 chamber a 10mm round?

/mine's a .38
//got plenty of ammo

BobDeluxe: ifarkthereforiam: Been using the metric system for 30 years in my line of work. It's easy to understand, unless you are stupid or a die hard traditionalist. I could see the republican base rejecting metric because it is foreignish and all that rubbish.

I'll admit, if you understand it, it's definitely easier to use. Change is never easy....

If you can understand our monetary system, you can understand metric. I'll admit when my industry switched to metric I was worried I would never understand it, but the change was quite easy.

DRTFA or even any of the comments. I'm a small government Republican with Libertarian tendencies, and a science geek. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let us convert to the metric system! It is SO MUCH better and more convenient. There is just no logic to the standard system. What the hell is "2 pints to the quart, 4 quarts to the gallon"? Don't even get me started on ounces to pounds, or is it ounces to gallons? Just. Plain. Stupid.

They promised us the metric system when I was in middle school. I just turned 50. Where's my metric system. While we're on the subject. Where's my farking flying car?

Fastest way to get the metric system adopted is to start with measuring candy and soda in grams and liters. Move to automobiles and food in general, next. The kids and teens will pick it up.

Old people will be dead soon enough. They won't mind if their coffin is 2.25 meters long.

Babies with Rabies: "Overall: 80% Conservative, 20% Liberal"

That pretty much explains why you're such a repugnitard. It's because you're a repugnitard.

Your argument is invalid.

80% conservative =/= believing in magic. FAIL.

And really, "repugnitard?" What are you, four?

What I find amazing is that all the dems are whining about the republicans whining, didnt they convince a moderate republican to switch sides when the republicans were about to get a 60 member senate? All the while yelling, "Its bad for the country if this happens?!" I think what they meant to say is "Its bad for US if this happens and shiat get accomplished!"

Both sides are full of shiat, the sooner you people realize that and start voting these lifelong politicians out the better off the country will be.

Hosebeatings: Babies with Rabies: "Overall: 80% Conservative, 20% Liberal"

That pretty much explains why you're such a repugnitard. It's because you're a repugnitard.

Your argument is invalid.

80% conservative =/= believing in magic. FAIL.

And really, "repugnitard?" What are you, four?

He went to a thread where he can swim in his own fantasies and other farkers will call him enlightened.

at the risk of sounding ignorant, why isn't there "metric time"? I've always thought the 60 seconds->60 minutes->24 hours->7 days a week was a rather arbitrary measurement (especially once you start factoring in days of the month). Granted, converting to this measurement would probably be a big headache than imperial to metric measurement conversion, but still.

MentalMoment: British

/whinge that is... colour me gobsmacked.

When we make a mistake in a headline, we can just point to the UK and pretend we meant to do that.

These are 91 cm.

/This is the quickest way to get America using the metric system
/These were real hectares, Jerry

chaunceymo: It's become some sort of perverse point of pride for a lot of idiots here. I think it's the national equivalent of a 45 year old still wearing the Slayer t-shirt he bought in high school and thinking it awesome because no one else his age wears a Slayer t-shirt.

Tom Araya is 48. I'm just sayin'.

bmb_789: Hardest part about converting to metric is that nobody has any concept of the measurements. If I say something is 680 mm long, to get a picture of that length, you have to convert it back to inches. And if I say something weighs 25 Newtons, well, everybody's pretty much lost (including myself).

Why do people like you deliberately try to make this harder than it is? Newtons? Are you serious?

seamus james: /I'm moving to Canada - anyone have a contact in immigration?

No, but I know a guy who was deported from Canada. Close enough?

Here in Canuckistan, we've been using the metric system since I was a teen. Decades later, I still think of indoor temperature in Fahrenheit but outdoor temperature in Celcius. I think Kilometers per hour when driving but still convert to Imperial when it comes to fuel economy (miles per gallon). I weigh myself and still call my weight in pounds but purchase meat and cheese in kilograms. I buy wine in litre bottles and describe my height in feet and inches. All of this makes perfect sense to me too. Oh ya, and while I'm at it - although I have on very rare occasions used the phrase "eh", I've never heard anyone here say "aboot". What's that about?

Adolf Oliver Nipples: Look it up.

Eh, I knew it was one way or the other. I'm kinda drunk right now so I've got an excuse. One more day of "work" and I'm on vacation! w00t!

Bomb Head Mohammed:
I live in England and am tired of this stupid gobshiate pubtwaddle.


I think I just found my new favorite phrase. I wish Americans were as creative with our cursing :(

Stay Cool Babylon: Ivnabru: Maybe I'm just backwards and ignorant but I don't see much of a benefit switching to metric.

In terms of providing any real benefits, no, there aren't any. However, sharing units of measurement (and our own scientists and other fields employing metric) only makes sense. My drive from here to there is still going to be the same distance and cost the same amount of money whether it's in kilometers or miles. But fark, it seems like we should all be on the same universal standard.

It's not like the metric system would be some sort of invasion of our culture. Suggesting that we speak another language? Yes, then people can get their panties in a wad.

/column was not bad...seems to be a republican whose head isn't too far up his own ass to see how poorly the ideology of whaargarble, fear-mongering, and 'real American' is failing a once powerful political force.

My only problem with metric is it seems like a difficult switch especially for older people. I'm only 27 but I can't imagine ever being able to picture length without a quick conversion in my head. I know how far a meter is and a kilometer, but if you show me something a far distance away I think in terms of miles and doubt that will ever change. If it's a short distance feet or inches are what I think about. I won't be too bent out of shape either way because I'm sure there will be a long period with both measurements if there is a shift. But I don't really see the benefit for those of us who are already set in our way outweighing the negatives. It's kind of like learning a second language on a much much much smaller scale. I think people like me will always think in terms of their native language even if they're proficient in a new one.

I like hiking and enjoy bagging 14ers. In Europe they bag 4Kers, what the heck is that?

fireandashes36: People that drive crown victorias are douche bags. assholes.

FTFY. You were close, though.

I actually drive it because it's a decent-sized car with a proper V8 that'll push it up to 106 no problem, and has been used successfully as a high-speed ramming vehicle for quite some time with a pretty good safety record. It can also be repaired with a minimum of fuss, and spare parts are readily available.

/it's also the P74 "might as well be a Grand Marquis" old man's model, not a retired P71 cop car.

I had to look up the word "whinge"

/that is all

This is part of the reason why American school children lag behind in the sciences. I mean how many kids really know that 1 inch = 2.54cm

If the GOP is fearmongering about the metric system it really is time that they hang it up.

Bohemian: If the GOP is fearmongering about the metric system it really is time that they hang it up.

RTFA. The Dems actually did it during the Jimmy Carter years.

raanne:

/why dont we use the metric system again?

Because saying it's a sweltering 38 outside will take some time getting used to.


Hosebeatings: fireandashes36: People that drive crown victorias are douche bags. assholes.

FTFY. You were close, though.

I actually drive it because it's a decent-sized car with a proper V8 that'll push it up to 106 no problem,

106...don't you mean 170.5

/I for one will welcome our new metric overlords.