EPTI mean metric.
Do you use Imperial or Metric? - Page 59
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
I mean metric. | ||
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scaban84
United States1080 Posts
On January 21 2012 02:00 Patriot.dlk wrote: Just in case your are serious, any backup to the statement? Mine is here: (see map to the right) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland Where in the article does it say that Britain is a European state? It says it is a sovereign state located off the coast of Europe. | ||
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JulsFoF
49 Posts
and i mean football when i say football not handegg | ||
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Chaosu
Poland404 Posts
On January 21 2012 02:00 Patriot.dlk wrote: Just in case your are serious, any backup to the statement? Mine is here: (see map to the right) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland this alone makes it: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Europe_orthographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary.svg/250px-Europe_orthographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary.svg.png) | ||
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FalahNorei
Germany56 Posts
On January 21 2012 02:04 scaban84 wrote: Where in the article does it say that Britain is a European state? It says it is a sovereign state located off the coast of Europe. I'm actually not that hurt, just a bit confused. I love learning new things, but doesn't that article exactly say that britain are european? maybe not with exactly those words, but in the sense at least? | ||
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Witten
United States2094 Posts
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Cokefreak
Finland8095 Posts
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Zyte
Netherlands564 Posts
oblig pic | ||
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Zorgaz
Sweden2951 Posts
Just thought of the saying ''don't fix it if it aint broken''. Then i remembered Day9 daily number 400 xD | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6272 Posts
How can this even be an argument of course Britain is in Europe, lets list the continents and see if Britian is on it. Antartica - no North America - no Latin America - no Asia - no Africa - no Oceania - no That leaves Europe. and your picture explains it well :p. | ||
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ZasZ.
United States2911 Posts
While I get that the Imperial system is unintuitive and wonky, I never got that stupid month/day/year pyramid. I take it then that Europeans write it Day/Month/Year? Do you say it that way? If not, then it makes no sense. At least in the U.S., we spell out a date as January 20th, 2012. Thus, it makes the most sense to write it in shorthand as 1/20/2012. It has nothing to do with the relative length of the spans of time. | ||
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Stiver
Canada285 Posts
The only non-metric system I use is trying to give my parents a measurement, where I have to convert to imperial so they know what I am talking about. | ||
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Dayvx
Sweden92 Posts
How is it an advantage? :p Isnt that just personal preference? | ||
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ZasZ.
United States2911 Posts
On January 21 2012 02:36 Dayvx wrote: "No one goes to the grocery to buy 400ml drink, instead, they buy it in 12 ounces" How is it an advantage? :p Isnt that just personal preference? Not really personal preference, just the way things are over here. They've started putting volumes in mL on beverages, but for the majority of my life soda has come in 12 oz cans. That's just how it's been, and I couldn't tell you how much that is in mL. Not a personal preference really, as I think metric is a lot easier to understand. | ||
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mderg
Germany1740 Posts
On January 21 2012 02:32 ZasZ. wrote: I take it then that Europeans write it Day/Month/Year? Do you say it that way? We say it that way  | ||
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how
United States538 Posts
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danielrosca
Romania123 Posts
On January 21 2012 02:32 ZasZ. wrote: While I get that the Imperial system is unintuitive and wonky, I never got that stupid month/day/year pyramid. I take it then that Europeans write it Day/Month/Year? Do you say it that way? If not, then it makes no sense. At least in the U.S., we spell out a date as January 20th, 2012. Thus, it makes the most sense to write it in shorthand as 1/20/2012. It has nothing to do with the relative length of the spans of time. you'd get that analogy if you extrapolated (due to how they logically scale): it's minutes<hours<days<months<years<centuries<etc for some unknown reason, you managed to do this: minutes<hours<months<days<years<centuries<etc And in casual dialogue, the day you're referring to holds the most interest, while month is commonly inferable. | ||
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FalahNorei
Germany56 Posts
On January 21 2012 02:42 how wrote: I am used to thinking in standard, but trying to get used to metric. The real bitch is tempatures. Someone tells me is 15 degrees out, and I have to take a sold 5 minutes trying to figure out what clothes to wear. Fun fact though, -40 is the same in both! especially in temperatures, it doesn't really matter if you use celsius or fahrenheit. if one could make temp-messurement better, it would probably be kelvin or rankine. but other than that, not really | ||
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
On January 21 2012 02:01 Talin wrote: Stormcloak. I mean metric. Imperial. I mean Imperial :D | ||
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anomalopidae
Slovenia549 Posts
On January 21 2012 02:36 Dayvx wrote: "No one goes to the grocery to buy 400ml drink, instead, they buy it in 12 ounces" How is it an advantage? :p Isnt that just personal preference? well you'd only buy 400 mL drink in a country that uses imperial measurements, in countries that use metric there's 500 mL, 250 mL, 1 L because everything is standardized to the metric system, you don't get silly numbers when you're buying things, because it's easier for sellers and buyers to have round numbers so ofc in countries with imperial measurements you'd have items being sold at round numbers in imperial system and vice versa | ||
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