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Do you use Imperial or Metric? - Page 47
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Germany171 Posts
Don't be too American when the rest of the logical and scientific world has already standardized measurement. | ||
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Silvanel
Poland4751 Posts
On January 06 2012 17:44 Fontong wrote: Either you're joking or you accidentally set your country to Canada when you really live in Romania The temperature in Romania can easily vary from +40 to -20 during the year....i dont get something here... | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 06 2012 17:35 gosuMalicE wrote: I'm pretty sure that SI/Metric measurements are considered "Standard" and not US/Imperial measurements. But seeing as this thread was made by an american the ignorance is understandable. Pretty sure you didn't read the thread or maybe you think saying the same thing 10 times over in this thread is contributing. Although you did defeat your own pretty sure, if awknolwge that the OP is from the US where metric isn't standard, so to the OP metric isn't standard so you saying that it is would be ignoring the OP's perspective, which i guess makes you pretentious. Perhaps next you'll say that the various forms of chinese is the standard lanauge as more people speak it, when you say standard it depends, standard isn't a bad term to use to discribe US units which are basically US units(US customary units), they are not exactly the same as imperial units so they aren't imperial as if you read the thread you would know that imperial was standardized after the US broke off from the empire. On January 06 2012 18:23 Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: Standard = Metric. Don't be too American when the rest of the logical and scientific world has already standardized measurement. I guess feeling self important doesn't even warrant looking at the last page of the thread. | ||
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Sneakyz
Sweden2361 Posts
On January 06 2012 18:01 supdubdup wrote: All I know that is if my fever hits 103 or 104 Fahrenheit, then I'm dead. No you're not lol, I've had 103 like 10 times and 108.5 once. Assuming googles celsius->fahrenheit converter is correct  . | ||
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SpaceFighting
New Zealand690 Posts
On January 06 2012 18:24 Sneakyz wrote: No you're not lol, I've had 103 like 10 times and 108.5 once. Assuming googles celsius->fahrenheit converter is correct .ur not him are u? he said he's dead... what if he's a fucking dog or some shit...that can type and is a fan of starcraft | ||
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ShoKakuUtena
United States304 Posts
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Jiyakku
England19 Posts
As such, I am used to being able to imagine imperial (yes, imperial, not standard) and here we tend to use miles (mph etc) rather than kilometers (other than when dealing with physics, or distance in general in an acedemic light). However, in the building/architectural/engineering/manufacturing trade, and therefor in all physical entities, "mm" is quoted and always used. As some one who can imagine and use both, i feel that metric is the easier, more reliable and above all more logical method. | ||
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Grovbolle
Denmark3813 Posts
On January 06 2012 18:27 SpaceFighting wrote: ur not him are u? he said he's dead... what if he's a fucking dog or some shit...that can type and is a fan of starcraft Assuming he is not a dog, then he wouldn't die at 103. He would be sick though. | ||
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mcc
Czech Republic4646 Posts
Non-metric systems come from ancient times when decimal system was far from common and 0 was not known/used. | ||
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kastoob
Australia153 Posts
I fear the outcomes of Imperial units becoming standard: | ||
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supdubdup
United States916 Posts
On January 06 2012 18:44 Grovbolle wrote: Assuming he is not a dog, then he wouldn't die at 103. He would be sick though. DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who has insurance or money these days for antibiotics. DEAD! | ||
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farside604
Canada127 Posts
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LegendaryZ
United States1583 Posts
100 yards. 16 oz. 2 liters 20lbs. 1 kilo 5 feet 9 inches 1 gallon 1 teaspoon 32 degrees F 20 decibels Bla bla bla... And yes, I live in the USA. I don't really get the argument over switching everything to metric. As long as you're familiar with the system and an inch is always an inch, who cares? It's like currency... if you need to, just do the conversion afterward. As for the issue of calculation, I really don't get what's so much easier about metric. Are calculations like 12x2 that difficult? Is metric more sensible and consistent? Probably. Is it any easier? Same shit to me... | ||
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shankems2000
United States103 Posts
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Tektos
Australia1321 Posts
Of course I use metric, there are no advantages to imperial besides familiarity to Americans. | ||
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LegendaryZ
United States1583 Posts
On January 10 2012 14:04 Tektos wrote: It should be "Do you use standard or imperial" heh. Yeah, because that quip never gets old...  | ||
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Cyber_Cheese
Australia3615 Posts
##Vote 1 mod change thread title On January 10 2012 14:00 LegendaryZ wrote: Whatever is easier/more familiar for a given product or purpose at the time. 100 yards. 16 oz. 2 liters 20lbs. 1 kilo 5 feet 9 inches 1 gallon 1 teaspoon 32 degrees F 20 decibels Bla bla bla... And yes, I live in the USA. I don't really get the argument over switching everything to metric. As long as you're familiar with the system and an inch is always an inch, who cares? It's like currency... if you need to, just do the conversion afterward. As for the issue of calculation, I really don't get what's so much easier about metric. Are calculations like 12x2 that difficult? Is metric more sensible and consistent? Probably. Is it any easier? Same shit to me... It was harder to teach you to get to the point where it became second nature. With that time, you could have been learning/memorizing other things. It's just inefficient to have an unnecessarily convoluted system for these things. On January 10 2012 14:07 LegendaryZ wrote: Yeah, because that quip never gets old... Does being old make it untrue? If most of the world uses it, it's standard. | ||
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Tektos
Australia1321 Posts
On January 10 2012 14:07 LegendaryZ wrote: Yeah, because that quip never gets old... It is true though. More people use metric, it is the standard. If you're going to refer to imperial as "standard" then specify "U.S. standard". Or maybe, you know, request the thread title to be changed so people stop bringing this up? | ||
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LegendaryZ
United States1583 Posts
On January 10 2012 14:07 Cyber_Cheese wrote: This thread, it always annoys me with the 'imperial is standard' title. ##Vote 1 mod change thread title It was harder to teach you to get to the point where it became second nature. With that time, you could have been learning/memorizing other things. It's just inefficient to have an unnecessarily convoluted system for these things. I don't get this argument either. You learn all this stuff as a child so it takes no time at all for it to become second nature. Do you really think the fact that 12 inches = 1 foot is what's holding the American education system back? Really... unless you start getting into really obscure measurements (ie. furlongs and jiggers), nobody has trouble with this stuff at all. | ||
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Kaiyotic
United States90 Posts
- Tends to be divisible by 3 and 4 more often - Fahrenheit has smaller units so less messing with decimals Pros of Metric system - It makes sense. | ||
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