dandv is reading
An excellent site...
3 years ago
...explaining why the metric system is better.
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melb100 lives in edinburgh!
I am five foot and ten inches tall, I weigh 10 stone 10 (though let’s keep that between us two, eh?), I drank a pint and a half of water yesterday afternoon and I bake bread using 6 ounces of flour. I still calculate all the Japanese roadsign distances back into miles and though I understand the concept of a metre, and a lovely one it is too, I confess I walk 500 yards down the road to go to the post office and not 457 metres.
I await your disdain. :p
dandv is reading
ARGH!!!
You deserve to be pounded struck with a force of 55 Newtons per square centimeter, which amounts to 550 kPa, after you are forced to run 42 kilo-meters without drinking a mili-liter of water.
But I’m willing to wave the punishment if you can, quickly, tell me which is a longer distance, 4 miles, or 7,000 yards?
melb100 lives in edinburgh!
sorry
I’ve been away cleaning out tortoise cages with elementary school children and teaching (some of) the rules of cricket to bewildered Japanese. Sometimes I really love my job!
Hence the delay.
If I remember rightly there are 1760 yards to the mile. Anything higher than a mile and obviously, I count it in miles not in yards. So off the top of my head I would guess they are the same. Ish. Or very close. But I have no time to dig out a calculator to check. I have a fish pond to empty of a couple of (UK) gallons of water and a few inches of thick green slime to scrape from the sides.
I wonder where we will deposit the fish in the meantime…
More fun than sitting at my desk I suppose.
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melb100 lives in edinburgh!
あれ？
1.
If I am five foot ten, and my friend is 6 foot three, then he is 5 inches taller than me, in which case why on earth would I want to express the distance in feet?
2.
I haven’t the foggiest idea what the density of gold is or is not in the metric system, so I hardly feel ashamed for not knowing the imperial conversions. BTW we don’t have proms where I’m from; we have gaggles of hoodied youths drinking cider and sneering at anyone who did manage to make it all the way through their GCSEs, and who would only procede to rip the necklace from my daughter’s neck and sell it on the next day to a man with a greyhound called Burburry.
3.
I don’t know the speed of light in furlongs (oh come now, nobody uses furlongs anymore), but I presume I could check it on a calculator. I like to think that if I were doing any sum which had anything to do with the speed of light, I would have the common sense to check my workings out on a calculator anyway, so what’s the difference?
Look, I don’t have anything against the metric system. Like most other Brits I grew up being taught a hotch potch of both metric and imperial – feet, inches, metres, miles, pints, stones, kilos and litres. I don’t consider myself scarred for life because I can use two different systems. If the world goes metric or not, it’s all the same to me; frankly, I couldn’t care less. I’d only convert it back into the units I’m most confortable with.
I like to tease dandv about it because (a) he is so easily wound up (oh, but you are!) and (b) I just think there are more important things worth devoting your time and energy to than convincing Brits that they should stop measuring milk out in pints because someone in another country (who therefore presumably isn’t buying their own milk in pints) doesn’t fully grasp how much milk that is. If they want to know that desperately, just do the conversion.
Apologies for my general indifference.
:)
melb100 lives in edinburgh!
power to the pound!
dandv is reading
Oooh rad!
Can’t wait for another Gimli Glider to happen! Bonus points if those who agreed to this idiotic, retarded, measurement system, are in it.
