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What the Fark???

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bigblue_dl said:
30 years ago they thought it would be that today. Metric is like Soccer, always the next big thing, but neither ever catch on.
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All that has to happen for the metric system to catch on is for Barack Obama to make a comment in passing about how common-sense and useful imperial units are.

Half the country will disown them overnight.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
All that has to happen for the metric system to catch on is for Barack Obama to make a comment in passing about how common-sense and useful imperial units are.

Half the country will disown them overnight.
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"Imperial units?! The Muslin Marxist wants us back under the crown! HIS CROWN!" ;)
 
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I am amazed the amount of people who think the Metric system is HARD!. It's not. But then they complain about they'd have to change football and baseball stadiums. Nope. Last time I looked, Canadian football players are still 6' and 250 lbs and the field is still 110 yards long.

We'd all be trained in 5 years or less.

The biggest hangup? What's the size of a 2 x 4?
 
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joecct said:
I am amazed the amount of people who think the Metric system is HARD!. It's not. But then they complain about they'd have to change football and baseball stadiums. Nope. Last time I looked, Canadian football players are still 6' and 250 lbs and the field is still 110 yards long.

We'd all be trained in 5 years or less.

The biggest hangup? What's the size of a 2 x 4?
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It's not hard, it's just un-learning (literally) a lifetime of not using it. I prefer our system, mainly because I'm used to it. I'm sure that if I learned under the metric system, I'd feel the same about that unit of measure.
 
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Brenthoven said:
It's not hard, it's just un-learning (literally) a lifetime of not using it. I prefer our system, mainly because I'm used to it. I'm sure that if I learned under the metric system, I'd feel the same about that unit of measure.
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temperature is easy. Best approximation - double the metric and add 30. You'll be in the ballpark.
Distance - 1 km = .6 mi.
I get lost on liters. Something like 4 to a gallon I think

An hour is still 60 minutes.
 
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joecct said:
temperature is easy. Best approximation - double the metric and add 30. You'll be in the ballpark.
Distance - 1 km = .6 mi.
I get lost on liters. Something like 4 to a gallon I think

An hour is still 60 minutes.
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Time is still universal. Thank goodness.

And temp is probably the toughest, since at some point, temps do match. I forget which temp that is, though.
 
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I don't understand the push to switch to metric. So what if some people think it's easier. The system we usr now works and has worked for years and years, and we know how to use it. Why go through the pain and expense to change something that really isn't broken?
 
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joecct said:
Been there. Brought the car battery into the dorm so car would start the next day.

Antifreeze was -60F, so I wasn't worried about that.

Class was not cancelled.
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You couldn't plug in your car?

Seriously, for years we had cars that you plugged in so they would start in the morning. It was hilarious explaining that to southerners.
 
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Brenthoven said:
You couldn't plug in your car?

Seriously, for years we had cars that you plugged in so they would start in the morning. It was hilarious explaining that to southerners.
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It was a 1966 Chevy Bel Air straight 250 cu in 6 with a 2 speed auto transmission. We lived in NJ then and nobody had block heaters in NJ. After that winter I bought the biggest battery with the best cold cranking amps that I could find. That baby would start a Caddy at the North Pole.
 
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