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| eti:
--- Quote from: KL27x on November 23, 2019, 04:35:01 am ---We're all just having fun, here. Right? Baby names, 2x4's, global trade, the finer points of sign painting? --- End quote --- What the...? :-// Not sure what all that was about, but the jibe I made about exclamation marks was just a smidge of dry British humour; there's no need to get all heavy and serious. :) "If this thread is not a gift to your day, try to take a minute and look again. This thread is TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<truncated - I think I got the point>" Erm, yeah... okay. "Awesome" - yes, it truly inspires awe in me. /s (In case it didn't convey well, I am messing around, no malice intended, nor snippiness :) ) |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
You're asking it wrong. Real 'mericans can't spell metre properly. Ask'em to metericate. >:D |
| Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on November 23, 2019, 03:51:04 am --- --- Quote from: Cubdriver on November 23, 2019, 02:14:19 am ---So, like me, you cannot come up with a good reason to spend all that money to change out all the highway signs. Cool. --- End quote --- So, you're not metric because you don't do your homework but you want me to do it for you. And you'll be happier if I don't. This indicates what I said before. The common citizen can't understand the benefits of metrication because they want to see an immediate individual gain with the change. And if you try to explain using data and arguments with a little more sophistication to show that the benefits are going to be diluted and felt in the long run, they get bored. :horse: --- End quote --- No, we're metric where it's important, and see no compelling reason to throw away a great deal of money to change where it's not. Spare me your condescension. -Pat |
| bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on November 23, 2019, 12:17:15 pm ---No, we're metric where it's important, and see no compelling reason to throw away a great deal of money to change where it's not. Spare me your condescension. --- End quote --- And here's where you die (metaphorically speaking, of course). There's no such thing as "metric where it is important", or "metric where it makes sense". Metric is important and makes sense EVERYWHERE. It was designed with that goal in mind. Imperial can't claim that, and the proof is that the US uses metric to supplement their broken-down and obsolete imperial system. Since the US could only conduct a half-assed metrication, it is in a even more cumbersome stage where they use all the confusing imperial units PLUS metric. You will only be able to say that the US is metric, when they finally manage to ditch imperial for good, like whole world did, and stick to just one coherent system of units. And today the only system capable with bearing that quality is metric. So game over. Try again next year. |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
That's not entirely true bsfeechannel, we say a pinch of salt, a slice of bread, a glass of water, a bit further, an arms length, a bottle or two, a can of beans, [and many others] etc etc. It doesn't matter much what the unit is, 100 miles or 160.9 km, as long as we can figure out how far away that is. And they obviously can, and like it the way it is. So what? |
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