Don't put the blame on the British!
They may have introduced it but you're still using that garbage.
Although, at least the scientific sector is already using metric, dunno about engineering.
The thing is, if you grow up using those units it all makes sense through sheer experience, while the metric system always makes sense. So it's basically just the metric raised people that have problems the imperial 'system'.
Try building a house, or ANYTHING, and use metric units. Then do the same thing with Imperial Units. Much much easier.That is a huge load of horseshit.
Try building a house, or ANYTHING, and use metric units. Then do the same thing with Imperial Units. Much much easier.
. IE 80 degress versus 85 in Fahrenheit is a big difference. In Celsius that's a .2 difference.? wat
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Anders and AntiBlitz are pretty much spot on. However, both measurements are taught and used in the US, just with more emphasis on the imperial system. So it's not like we're completely blind to the metric system, we just have a preference to the alternative."Preference", more like status quo bias
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That is a huge load of horseshit.
The number 10 can be divided evenly only by 2 and 5. But the number 12 can be divided into whole numbers by 2, 3, 4, and 6. This makes for a lot less skull sweat—and better precision—when doing odd things such as dividing into thirds. One-third of a meter is 33.3333333333333 cm, but one-third of a foot is 4 in., period.
Extending this arithmetic ease to working with U.S. standard sheet-good sizes, one finds that a sheet of 48-in. by 96-in. plywood can be divided evenly three different ways in each direction: 12-in. centers (four or eight spans); 16-in. centers (three or six spans); or 24-in. centers (two or four spans). And that sure makes life easier for a hard-working framer.
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Are you a builder or an Engineer? If not please shut up. I Do this for a living and I know what I'm talking about.You do realize that cutting your wood planks or carpets in metric units at production gives you the exact same advantages? :x
Just an example...
http://www.finehomebuilding.com/how-to/qa/why-do-canadian-carpenters-still-measure-in-feet-and-inches.aspx
You do realize that cutting your wood planks or carpets in metric units at production gives you the exact same advantages? :xI don't think he does.
Ordnung muss sein.
I work for a canadian company but we are mainly in europe. as a result half of the nuts and bolts and threads are imperial and the other half is metric.
It is simply disgusting. and then you always find an idiot who forces a metric bolt into an imperial thread.
But not only this. you get your screwgun ready with a phillips bit to dismantle some woodwork and then you suddenly realize they used Robertson screws.
What the fuck!! robertson is crap why are they still in use in NA?
It's funny but some of what Anders says is true. The company I work for makes telecommunications antennas and filters and all of our engineering drawings use imperial measurements (I live in Canada). When I asked why we use this, as mentioned, collection of random measurements I learned that the company was founded by an American 65 years ago and to convert our thousands of drawings into metric is unfeasible. It's particularly funny because our current engineers are mainly Chinese immigrants who are trained to use metric and they absolutely hate with a passion how they have to make measurements in fractions of an inch as opposed to using millimetres.HF antennas/filters? That's voodoo and disgusting in its own right :P
Tl;dr imperial sucks collosal dick.
I work for a canadian company but we are mainly in europe. as a result half of the nuts and bolts and threads are imperial and the other half is metric.There are a lot motorbikes using imperial. Well, a lot means mostly Harley and Triumph :D
It is simply disgusting. and then you always find an idiot who forces a metric bolt into an imperial thread.
But not only this. you get your screwgun ready with a phillips bit to dismantle some woodwork and then you suddenly realize they used Robertson screws.
What the fuck!! robertson is crap why are they still in use in NA?
i wasnt aware of metric screws, only bolts, or maybe im reading this wrong. Anyways, i have tools for both metric and imperial, of which my car is metric(mitsubishi) yet my truck and other household appliances use imperial. I prefer the metric tools really, easier to understand that a 18mm is bigger then 19mm, yet telling someone to pass a 3/4 spanner or saying "i need something bigger" turns into a task of me comparing the diameter of the tool rather then looking at the label. Tell a friend to get you a 13/16 socket without looking at the label and see how puzzled they are.Yep metric is easier to understand :D :D
EDIT:oh, just googled it to see what a robertson screw was, had no idea the square topped had a name, have tools for that too lol. Do you use the star topped one in EU? idk what in the hell its called.
Double Edit: called a Torx screw, i gues that a universal one, considering its used on pc parts and what not.
19 comes after 18 AntiBlitz
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How many cubic inches is a gallon? How much does a gallon of water weight in lbs when it has its highest density(40 °F)?
One liter is 1000 cm^3 and a liter of water weights about 1 kg. Makes shit easy. I pity American engineers with their cripple units. Metric system masterrace. Ordnung muss sein.
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TIL american engineers can only handle integers.
I admit, I had my suspicions.
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Dude you are just so bad at internet....
Its clearly a troll nightmare :P hence the chicken sandwich and the american footballer and the gun tally ^^
Except that USA is mostly mix of great number of states, cultures and people.
Yeah, so?
And united states have 323, WHILE UK alone, being relatively small in comparsion has 117 ALONE, followed closely by germany and france.
Try to compare a state with greatest number of nobel prizes in US and a state with greatest number of nobel prizes on one state in EU.
It's one country, not 50. Are you trying to say to compare noble prizes won by Californians with those won by Britons?
And honestly now, just because your ancestors have invaded a land of great wealth and murdered and enslaved its population, thus having far greater ammount of resources does not mean you are any more clever or batter than the rest of the world.
You are on thin ice here debate wise. Name one country in the world where this has not happened.
EDIT: And yeah, there would be no america as we know it today without europe, do not forget that
And yeah, there would be no Europe as we know it today without Africa, do not forget that.
Its clearly a troll nightmare :P hence the chicken sandwich and the american footballer and the gun tally ^^
Its clearly a troll nightmare :P hence the chicken sandwich and the american footballer and the gun tally ^^
I'm not sure why we use it. What's weird is that our military uses both, like crazies.I think airplanes always use feet, don't they? Not sure...
It's one country, not 50. Are you trying to say to compare noble prizes won by Californians with those won by Britons?
You are on thin ice here debate wise. Name one country in the world where this has not happened
And yeah, there would be no Europe as we know it today without Africa, do not forget that.
I think airplanes always use feet, don't they? Not sure...
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Your point? Are we europeans priding ourselves as superior to Africans?
i guess the point is that the first hominids came from africa.But that is not what I was talking about.
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EDIT: And yeah, there would be no america as we know it today without europe, do not forget that
Personally the month, day, year triangle pisses me off the most. Why is it like that? Can someone explain?
2014/06/08 would make most sense...
I name my files at work this way for proper auto-sort by name and date :D
I guess there really is an ISO for everything...
I guess there really is an ISO for everything...
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I always found it silly comparing us with all those countries as the US practicly holds as much citizens as all those combined. Bet the nobel prize per number of citizens is relatively way lower though, but hey, from all those braindead rednecks atleast one in a billion is a smartass :D
Plot twist: All those people who won nobel prize in US are European immigrants...
Majority are jewish.so its a matter of the religion?
I think airplanes always use feet, don't they? Not sure...
Wonder why they keep imperial values for length, weight and stuff when they use metric for current, voltage, power and a bunch of other "physics".
Would be easier to generalize to metric overall, I guess.
Technically united states is union of 50 separate states. You can not compare union of 50 separate states to one state or country. That is immensely stupid.
It could not have happened in every country, otherwise, there would not be any other ones. Try to think for a moment.
Your point? Are we europeans priding ourselves as superior to Africans?
Brain drain don't real, only patriotic feels.
I wish I grew up on metric but I didn't so now i'm stuck scratching my head when I think about the metric system. Then I just convert and carry on without any more thought.
I always found it silly comparing us with all those countries as the US practicly holds as much citizens as all those combined. Bet the nobel prize per number of citizens is relatively way lower though, but hey, from all those braindead rednecks atleast one in a billion is a smartass :D
[...]Don't even get me started on HDI. All the excuses about how it's so obviously different for the US because it's a giant country of 300 million people suddenly don't apply when you compare it to an area of 500+ million people though, because reasons.[...]Not to mention the language barrier added to the EU.