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| bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: KL27x on December 04, 2019, 06:35:19 pm ---^What argument? Your position has been that the common person in America uses imperial because they are ignorant and arrogant. --- End quote --- I never said that. What I said is that the common citizen doesn't understand the benefits of metrication. And since you tried to put words in my mouth, I'm afraid you lost the "internet argument" (or whatever you mean by that). --- Quote ---And that is costs a significant amount of money, but you can't seem to even comprehend what this means. --- End quote --- I showed you that I paid 10 times more for an oilite bronze bushing just because it was imperial. And now I add that I also wanted some imperial screws to replace the old rusty ones. However, they also cost an unreasonable amount of money compared to the metric equivalent. So I passed and kept the rusty ones. If you engage no more than two of your brain cells to think about it, you'll promptly understand that those who really benefit from the refusal to metricate are certainly not you, not me, nor anyone down the street. --- Quote ---You don't accept that Americans learn metric and use only metric in school. They know everything about metric that you do. Every single American. Knows everything you do about metric. --- End quote --- They don't know how to use metric exclusively. And this shows that they don't know everything about metric. --- Quote ---And they also know what a quarter pounder is. The reasons they use imperial [...] [yaddayadda] [...] something better suited to our version of English for km. "Killems?" Maybe in another 30 years that would turn into "kims?" Our military might say "clicks," but maybe I saw that in a movie. --- End quote --- If that kind of gibberish is all that the imperial fan boys can produce, any speck of doubt that imperial is doomed has now vanished. |
| bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on December 04, 2019, 10:49:47 pm ---The article in the picture is from my local newspaper yesterday. It perfectly encapsulates all of the points from this thread. America is metric where it matters for commerce. And doesn't really care or have a good reason to change in the remaining areas. The US is way behind the other nations when it comes to metrication, and when people are questioned about it, they give lame excuses. --- End quote --- TIFIFY |
| CatalinaWOW:
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on December 05, 2019, 05:38:16 am --- --- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on December 04, 2019, 10:49:47 pm ---The article in the picture is from my local newspaper yesterday. It perfectly encapsulates all of the points from this thread. America is metric where it matters for commerce. And doesn't really care or have a good reason to change in the remaining areas. The US is way behind the other nations when it comes to metrication, and when people are questioned about it, they give lame excuses. --- End quote --- TIFIFY --- End quote --- I guess if I was fully metric I would understand the TIFIFY acronym. But since I am not I am not efficient enough to express whole thoughts without using whole words. Oh well, my loss. And another area where America is way behind. :'( |
| KL27x:
The fish is getting testy. Biting the hook enough to move the bobber. Taking a shit all over the place and darting back under the rock. TIFIFY: There, I fixed it for you. |
| CatalinaWOW:
Taint fixed. Bfees is correct when he says we are behind. But when we tell him we don't care he explains that he knows better. Maybe we we should care. Maybe the reasons given why we don't care are lame. But we don't. I use metric when it is useful to me. I will probably find my way successfully to the grave without ever fully converting. And don't see how that trip would be improved in any way that matters to me by a full conversion. Surprisingly making bfees happy is on that list of things that won't improve the trip. |
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