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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 say it like: "The twentieth of January Two thousand and twelve"
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On January 21 2012 02:49 FalahNorei wrote:Show nested quote +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
Nah, we'd ditch temperatures altogether and use thermal energy. Then we could stop messing about with Boltzmann's constant anywhere, physics would becomes so much easier.
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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!
It's not very hard, you know water freezes at 0Cº, and boils at 100Cº. Most people got a pretty good idea of how cold ice is and how hot boiling water is, by using this logic you can easily adapt to Cº. Where as fahrenheit don't follow any logic as far as i can see.
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On January 21 2012 05:46 DenSkumle wrote:Show nested quote +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! It's not very hard, you know water freezes at 0Cº, and boils at 100Cº. Most people got a pretty good idea of how cold ice is and how hot boiling water is, by using this logic you can easily adapt to Cº. Where as fahrenheit don't follow any logic as far as i can see.
I believe that 100 degrees fahrenheit was put as the body temperature and zero degrees was the coldest salt-mixture fahrenheit could concoct. It's a lot lest intuitive than the celsius scale though certainly.
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I think everyone uses minutes and hours. The only unit of time in metric is seconds. :D
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On January 21 2012 05:55 Luepert wrote:
I think everyone uses minutes and hours. The only unit of time in metric is seconds. :D
What?
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Trying to fault a society for the faults of a group of scientists. Beyond absurd.
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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.
If you don't get it, it's not the pyramid that's stupid.
User was temp banned for this post.
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On January 21 2012 06:08 Cokefreak wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2012 05:55 Luepert wrote:
I think everyone uses minutes and hours. The only unit of time in metric is seconds. :D What?
Nobody says, "wow that game was at least 20 killoseconds long!" or "hey ill be with you in 6 decaseconds."
People use minutes and hours.
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On January 21 2012 06:27 Luepert wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2012 06:08 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 05:55 Luepert wrote:
I think everyone uses minutes and hours. The only unit of time in metric is seconds. :D What? Nobody says, "wow that game was at least 20 killoseconds long!" or "hey ill be with you in 6 decaseconds." People use minutes and hours.
Are you serious? You think someone using metric would say that? Time units are exactly the same for both unit systems.
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Metric system is much more simpler. All you have to know is the basic unit (meter, litre, gram etc. ) and what the greek prefix mean. Maybe that's the reason why the entire world use it. Why the americans use the other system is beyond me, but ... whatever fits them 
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On January 21 2012 06:30 Cokefreak wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2012 06:27 Luepert wrote:On January 21 2012 06:08 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 05:55 Luepert wrote:
I think everyone uses minutes and hours. The only unit of time in metric is seconds. :D What? Nobody says, "wow that game was at least 20 killoseconds long!" or "hey ill be with you in 6 decaseconds." People use minutes and hours. Are you serious? You think someone using metric would say that?
No, I know they obviously do not, but according to the metric system they should. Metric people run around saying "oh oh look at us, we multiply everything by ten instead of your dumb 3, 12, multiple of 3 system" but they actually use 60/60 for time. I just find it amusing.
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On January 21 2012 06:43 Luepert wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2012 06:30 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 06:27 Luepert wrote:On January 21 2012 06:08 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 05:55 Luepert wrote:
I think everyone uses minutes and hours. The only unit of time in metric is seconds. :D What? Nobody says, "wow that game was at least 20 killoseconds long!" or "hey ill be with you in 6 decaseconds." People use minutes and hours. Are you serious? You think someone using metric would say that? No, I know they obviously do not, but according to the metric system they should. Metric people run around saying "oh oh look at us, we multiply everything by ten instead of your dumb 3, 12, multiple of 3 system" but they actually use 60/60 for time. I just find it amusing.
Imperial and metric have different units only in length, area, volume and mass. Time has nothing to do with this debate.
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On January 21 2012 06:47 Cokefreak wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2012 06:43 Luepert wrote:On January 21 2012 06:30 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 06:27 Luepert wrote:On January 21 2012 06:08 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 05:55 Luepert wrote:
I think everyone uses minutes and hours. The only unit of time in metric is seconds. :D What? Nobody says, "wow that game was at least 20 killoseconds long!" or "hey ill be with you in 6 decaseconds." People use minutes and hours. Are you serious? You think someone using metric would say that? No, I know they obviously do not, but according to the metric system they should. Metric people run around saying "oh oh look at us, we multiply everything by ten instead of your dumb 3, 12, multiple of 3 system" but they actually use 60/60 for time. I just find it amusing. Imperial and metric have different units only in length, area, volume and mass. Time has nothing to do with this debate.
LOL, it has no place in this debate because you know it doesn't make sense. Your whole argument against the Imperial system is that it is irregular and everything should be in 10's. But you don't even follow your own guidelines when it comes to time. Here's my question, why exactly is it that you use irregular units for time? Maybe is it that you were raised with them and you don't want to switch? 
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On January 21 2012 06:43 Luepert wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2012 06:30 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 06:27 Luepert wrote:On January 21 2012 06:08 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 05:55 Luepert wrote:
I think everyone uses minutes and hours. The only unit of time in metric is seconds. :D What? Nobody says, "wow that game was at least 20 killoseconds long!" or "hey ill be with you in 6 decaseconds." People use minutes and hours. Are you serious? You think someone using metric would say that? No, I know they obviously do not, but according to the metric system they should. Metric people run around saying "oh oh look at us, we multiply everything by ten instead of your dumb 3, 12, multiple of 3 system" but they actually use 60/60 for time. I just find it amusing.
If you find that amusing you'd die laughing if you'd see the US system as a European.
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On January 21 2012 06:50 SilentchiLL wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2012 06:43 Luepert wrote:On January 21 2012 06:30 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 06:27 Luepert wrote:On January 21 2012 06:08 Cokefreak wrote:On January 21 2012 05:55 Luepert wrote:
I think everyone uses minutes and hours. The only unit of time in metric is seconds. :D What? Nobody says, "wow that game was at least 20 killoseconds long!" or "hey ill be with you in 6 decaseconds." People use minutes and hours. Are you serious? You think someone using metric would say that? No, I know they obviously do not, but according to the metric system they should. Metric people run around saying "oh oh look at us, we multiply everything by ten instead of your dumb 3, 12, multiple of 3 system" but they actually use 60/60 for time. I just find it amusing. If you find that amusing you'd die laughing if you'd see the US system as a European.
I know my system is messed up, and I'm ok with that, the thing I laugh at is the people insulting it use irregular time units.
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On January 21 2012 06:21 lololol wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2012 02:32 ZasZ. wrote:On January 21 2012 02:24 snIJIJzer wrote:Might be posted but still oblig pic 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. If you don't get it, it's not the pyramid that's stupid.
Ho ho ho, a one-liner insult. How clever. Should add a "tro-" to the front of your handle.
I didn't get it because I don't know how Europeans say dates. The kind poster up there ^ said that you say it Day/Month/Year, in which case it makes sense to write it Day/Month/Year.
But in the U.S., we don't say "The 20th of January, 2012," except in legal documents. We say "January 20th, 2012," in all other instances. That's why we write it that way. I don't get the pyramid because it's a silly thing to nitpick over and doesn't really affect anyone, just seems to be thrown out there by people who want to say "lol stupid americans."
I get why people have a beef with the Imperial system, since it's confusing and we're pretty much the only country that uses it. Why they feel the need to demand we change, I'll never be able to guess.
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On January 21 2012 06:56 ZasZ. wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2012 06:21 lololol wrote:On January 21 2012 02:32 ZasZ. wrote:On January 21 2012 02:24 snIJIJzer wrote:Might be posted but still oblig pic 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. If you don't get it, it's not the pyramid that's stupid. Ho ho ho, a one-liner insult. How clever. Should add a "tro-" to the front of your handle. I didn't get it because I don't know how Europeans say dates. The kind poster up there ^ said that you say it Day/Month/Year, in which case it makes sense to write it Day/Month/Year. But in the U.S., we don't say "The 20th of January, 2012," except in legal documents. We say "January 20th, 2012," in all other instances. That's why we write it that way. I don't get the pyramid because it's a silly thing to nitpick over and doesn't really affect anyone, just seems to be thrown out there by people who want to say "lol stupid americans." I get why people have a beef with the Imperial system, since it's confusing and we're pretty much the only country that uses it. Why they feel the need to demand we change, I'll never be able to guess.
It does affect many people when pretty much only the US Americans say it like that and when one of them talks to somebody who isn't from the US about any topic which could include a date(you know, like here in the forum).
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For date, I'm pretty lucky as my birthday is the same in both systems. 3/3/1996. :D
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