EPTDo you use Imperial or Metric? - Page 11
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Mortal
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Novalisk
Israel1818 Posts
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Khaine
Sweden75 Posts
I use metric by the way | ||
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HardMacro
Canada361 Posts
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dupshflayh
Norway49 Posts
But then again, It's all about where you grew up I suppose. | ||
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ShadeR
Australia7535 Posts
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Vorenius
Denmark1979 Posts
On December 09 2011 13:56 Keyboard Warrior wrote: the key word there is technically That's some grade A bullshit right there :D Why is saying 'half a foot' any different than saying 'half a meter'? + Show Spoiler [Hint] + It's not e: It's also nonsense to call the imperical system used in the US/UK for "standard". Metric is the standard system pretty much any where in the world outside former english colonies. | ||
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Rannasha
Netherlands2398 Posts
On December 09 2011 17:41 ShadeR wrote: I don't know it this has been mentioned yet but the only time i use imperial system is when i measure my cock. You get bigger numbers if you express it in metric (as you'd use centimeters rather than inches). Think about that. | ||
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surfinbird1
Germany999 Posts
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ShadeR
Australia7535 Posts
On December 09 2011 17:42 Rannasha wrote: You get bigger numbers if you express it in metric (as you'd use centimeters rather than inches). Think about that. I don't care for larger numbers this is just a comment on how american porn culture has influenced me who lives in Australia and uses the metric system 0.O | ||
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chocolatebunny
301 Posts
On December 09 2011 17:38 Khaine wrote: Is it really standard if 95% of the countries on Earth doesn't use it? I use metric by the way its not even 95% its like every single country except for us and some random country somewhere else. | ||
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SoylentCreep
Korea (South)176 Posts
Therefore decimal multiples for the win.Power of Ten, baby. | ||
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Lightwip
United States5497 Posts
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Rye.
United Kingdom88 Posts
I work for a company that designs and makes lab equipment. All measurements are in mm and Celsius, and thats the way i like it. What i cant stand are the people who use 2 systems simultaneously. me: "What are the dimensions for the box? " idiot: "50cm by 50cm by 1 foot" I personally would like to use kelvin instead of celcius, but that would confuse too many people. I think the problem is education. I only got taught metric at school, and yet teachers and my parents would all give peoples weight and height in stone/pounds and feet/inches. | ||
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
tho it makes sense to use metric over standard... | ||
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Rogerabbit_gosu
United Kingdom27 Posts
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BigBadBeaver
Canada272 Posts
Oddly enough, I use feet/pounds when I talk about weight/height Furthermore, at one point I did some first year physics and they gave you problems using imperial units for you to convert. Impossible task without google. Assholes | ||
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Excludos
Norway8247 Posts
On December 09 2011 17:19 Regime wrote: if ur gunu write metric its actually spelt metre and kilometre and so on.. but metric is simple easy to follow and a much better system imperial system does not make sense to me at all I actually did used to spell it metre before, but opera refuses to classify that as a word in its dictionary. So I stopped using it. Pretty sure its the old way of spelling it though, and its simply transformed into a word that easier to roll of your tongue. | ||
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Lennox
Lithuania36 Posts
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Perdac Curall
242 Posts
On December 09 2011 13:40 Keyboard Warrior wrote: but then it is not technically appropriate, because the metric system is designed to have specific measures for fractions, like 500 meters or so. saying half a kilometer borrows from the logic of standard system, though there is nothing wrong with it Actually it is the opposite. If you mean technically as in how to use it in a technical field, I can say in engineering which is my field that you MUST say 0.5 meters or even 0.231 meters and not 231 mm because in complex calculations you have to do everything in SI units otherwise the conversions can get complicated real fast, and the SI unit is the meter not mm or cm. | ||
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