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tooki:
P.S. I actually prefer metric, on the whole. The fact that people like rstofer would consider me a metric apologist, while people like you would call me a customary Luddite, means that my views are actually likely to be very balanced and realistic.

angrybird:
I haven't read through this thread entirely but I assume that the actual historical reason for this (British tyranny from a very long time ago) has been pointed out.  Nowadays, since we're mostly getting along and the 50% of America that has high power deer rifles in their back pocket that can put a hole in an armored vehicle don't really care all that much about metric vs. imperial,  I think you will continue to see a natural, mostly un-opposed transition towards the metric system in areas that this is easy to do, it's just easier to do that math in your head.

However consider:

1) All of the roads are marked in miles
2) All of the cars are therefore using miles as their predominant marking (through the metric markings have existed thanks to their canadian neighbors for a very long time)
3) There are countless idioms that mention miles and you can't make people reword their idioms, now can you
4) It doesn't really matter since math is math

Chirp, chirp.

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 24, 2020, 10:11:32 pm ---Child, if anyone here is a cliché, it’s you. Many of us have attempted to explain basic logic to you, with clear, logical reasons for why embracing metric* without restraint isn’t necessarily optimal. Not one iota of it manages to penetrate your dense skull. That’s on you, not us.

*As well as tangential discussions of what metrication actually means: just writing things in metric? Or actually changing the controlling dimension to metric?

--- End quote ---

You think that eggs are units, that in metric countries everything has to be group in packs of tens, that France is in possession of a rod with the exact size of the meter, compromising the US sovereignty, that degrees Celsius are defined by the boiling and freezing point of water, that the transition to the meter has to cost zero dollars, that you don't care about metrication, while you really care.

This and many other stupid assertions. How are we supposed to accept your arguments?

Sorry, pal. Maybe some other time. But not today.

tooki:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 25, 2020, 12:12:00 am ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 24, 2020, 10:11:32 pm ---Child, if anyone here is a cliché, it’s you. Many of us have attempted to explain basic logic to you, with clear, logical reasons for why embracing metric* without restraint isn’t necessarily optimal. Not one iota of it manages to penetrate your dense skull. That’s on you, not us.

*As well as tangential discussions of what metrication actually means: just writing things in metric? Or actually changing the controlling dimension to metric?

--- End quote ---

You think that eggs are units, that in metric countries everything has to be group in packs of tens, that France is in possession of a rod with the exact size of the meter, compromising the US sovereignty, that degrees Celsius are defined by the boiling and freezing point of water, that the transition to the meter has to cost zero dollars, that you don't care about metrication, while you really care.

This and many other stupid assertions. How are we supposed to accept your arguments?

Sorry, pal. Maybe some other time. But not today.

--- End quote ---
I didn’t say those things. I, and others, gave you real, sensible reasons, and your stubborn ass simply declares them irrelevant or pretends they weren’t said at all. And then you go whine about stupid shit like the above, ascribing it to people who didn’t say it. You’re pathetic.

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 25, 2020, 01:49:27 am ---I didn’t say those things. I, and others, gave you real, sensible reasons, and your stubborn ass simply declares them irrelevant or pretends they weren’t said at all. And then you go whine about stupid shit like the above, ascribing it to people who didn’t say it. You’re pathetic.

--- End quote ---

Man, you are the one whining about the people that reject your self proclaimed "sensible reasons". While you don't change your mind, every discussion about this topic will be interpreted by you as an attack to the US.

So, I'm sorry. If you think your insults will detain me or others you are wrong.

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