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bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 11, 2020, 08:32:27 pm ---
Yes, in USA, customary units are (almost) everywhere — but so is metric.
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Are customary units DEPRECATED in the US? Nope.


--- Quote ---Is Europe more metric than USA? Definitely.
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Do you find imperial units EVERYWHERE in Europe? I mean EVERYWHERE? Nope.

So the US is NOT metric.


--- Quote from: KL27x on February 11, 2020, 09:01:45 pm ---For you to state this like a fact, you're just a total moron. If it has been "shown in this thread," you can quote it so we can make fun of this conclusion, again.

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OK. You want it, you get it. The world, with an economy, population and area multiple times greater than the US, did it. Now you can laugh at the world.
KL27x:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 11, 2020, 09:57:04 pm ---

--- Quote from: KL27x on February 11, 2020, 09:01:45 pm ---For you to state this like a fact, you're just a total moron. If it has been "shown in this thread," you can quote it so we can make fun of this conclusion, again.

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OK. You want it, you get it. The world, with an economy, population and area multiple times greater than the US, did it. Now you can laugh at the world.

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Good. You quoted (or at least paraphrased) yourself. With your most predictable argument with zero basis in understanding of the real world. You keep comparing the US to the rest of the world. And I already answered this in preparation of your usual BS, 4 hours ago.

I'll restate it, here:
"At one point in the manufacturing/machining revolution in the mid 1900's, the US was 6% of the world's population and it was producing over 30% of the world's manufactured good. The only other countries to invest so heavily during this time? Those countries all started this revolution in metric from the start. Namely Germany and Japan and France."

Your country's history and present situation is not comparable to that of the US. It's foolish for you to frame your understanding this way.

The rest of Europe was making shit by hand.* And selling this stuff in local markets. Then they chose metric in some coupe or revolution. Because they were already buying all their manufactured/dimensioned goods from France or Germany or Japan. Like w/e country you are from? There are only few examples, like Australia, where you can say this was maybe not the case, and the people just upped and decided they liked metric that much. (In the age of black and white TV, where a small homogenous population might all easily be swayed into making such a decision).

*Even when machines and motors emerged, America was among the first (along with Germany and Japan) to use them for mass automated production. In most of Europe, these machines were initially used to enhance/aid/improve manual labor for scores of years rather than the focus of automation pursued in America. Partly cuz of higher availability of skilled labor in Europe, at the time. So the measuring system is more moot in these countries at this time.  It was just a choice of what you like to use."You want a hat? Sure, what size? Let me measure your head, and I'll make the perfect hat." In America, you want a hat? We have shit ton in these sizes being pumped out daily. You pick from these, but you get it cheap and you get it right now. America has been shitting out standardized (in imperial) legos for a century, now, and there's massive industry built around these blocks.

Cubdriver:
Guys, did you ever get the feeling that you were talking to a wall?    :wtf: 

bsfeechannel, please, show us on this doll where the imperial units hurt you.

-Pat
Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: KL27x on February 11, 2020, 10:06:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 11, 2020, 09:57:04 pm ---

--- Quote from: KL27x on February 11, 2020, 09:01:45 pm ---For you to state this like a fact, you're just a total moron. If it has been "shown in this thread," you can quote it so we can make fun of this conclusion, again.

--- End quote ---

OK. You want it, you get it. The world, with an economy, population and area multiple times greater than the US, did it. Now you can laugh at the world.

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You keep comparing the US to the rest of the world.
I'll restate this:
At one point in the manufacturing/machining revolution in the mid 1900's, the US was 6% of the world's population and it was producing over 30% of the world's manufactured good. The only other countries to invest so heavily during this time? Those countries all started this revolution in metric from the start. Namely Germany and Japan and France.

The rest of Europe was making shit by hand. And selling shit in local markets. Then they chose metric in some coupe or revolution. Because they were already buying all their manufactured/dimensioned goods from France or Germany or Japan. Like w/e country are from.

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And let's also not forget that most of Europe, as well as a good part of Japan, was blown to hell and back during WWII so they were basically restarting from scratch.  Easier to change infrastructure if there really isn't any left...

-Pat

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tooki:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 11, 2020, 09:57:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 11, 2020, 08:32:27 pm ---
Yes, in USA, customary units are (almost) everywhere — but so is metric.
--- End quote ---


Are customary units DEPRECATED in the US? Nope.

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Already addressed earlier in the thread. And not the question anyway.


--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 11, 2020, 09:57:04 pm ---
--- Quote ---Is Europe more metric than USA? Definitely.
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Do you find imperial units EVERYWHERE in Europe? I mean EVERYWHERE? Nope.

So the US is NOT metric.

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But the US isn’t not-metric.

Again, you’re redefining “being metric” as being “metric-only”, which a) is a different question, and b) is unattainable anyway.

Yes, you encounter imperial units occasionally here, if far less frequently. (Of course, if you include things that are enumerated in metric, but are actually originally defined in imperial units, like pipes and screwdriver bits, then yes, one encounters imperial on a daily basis.)


Have you spent any meaningful amounts of time in USA? Where are you from, anyway?
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