CarbonXe

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Prove me wrong.

RodC

No sh*t.

tCTaco

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Jesus dosent use Metric

CarbonXe

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That's because Jesus is dead.

tCTaco

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So no one uses Metric in heaven?

CarbonXe

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Heaven doesn't exist. Prove me wrong.

Danger_Darren

can i prove you right instead? that would be waaay easier

tCTaco

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It does so! and I have the rash to prove it! Its small place close to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico where the beer flows like water the hookers have all of their teeth!

CarbonXe

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lol.

So anyway, Metric > US ____.

Someone should open a gas station, and list the gas at $3.00/L, they will make so much money for the first couple of days, because moronic people will think "OMFG ITS SO CHEAP", but in reality, they're paying near 4x as much .

HeathenBrewing

Agreed.

Although in 1866, Congress legalized its use in an act reading:

It shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system; and no contract or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system.

What we have failed to do is to restrict or prohibit the use of traditional units in areas touching the ordinary citizen: construction, real estate transactions, retail trade, and education.


Marge: Now, I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions, like switching to the metric system --

Abe: The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

- The Simpsons

HeathenBrewing

Top 10 reasons we should convert to the Metric System (with apologies to David Letterman)

10. People will finally understand my joke about driving attoparsecs per nanocenturies.
9. Gas will seem cheaper at $1.50 a liter.
8. Being 22 kilos overweight does not sound as bad as 50 lbs.
7. Defense will be easier if the offense has to drive 10 meters for a first down.
6. Arizona summers will not seem as bad when its only 40 degrees outside.
5. Its not "metric", its "Digital"!
4. Imagine all the exciting math you will do converting your favorite recipes to milliliters.
3. Less fractions to deal with like, "Do I need a five eighths socket or a nine sixteenths to loosen this nut?"
2. The boy band 98º will not be as popular calling themselves 36.7º.
1. Half a liter is more than a pint, which means, MORE BEER FOR EVERYBODY!

TLS317

Is this even an argument? Noone can competently defend the Standard system. American's are just too stuborn to let it go.

CarbonXe

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No, it's not an argument, since it's a proven fact that the metric system is not only easier, but it's more accurate.

Also, I wouldn't say they're too stubborn, I'd say they're too lazy and stupid.

Aroddalobster

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meh, i've lived my whole life using US stuff. i would just like ALL tools to be turned into metric. i hate converting 16/19 or whatever into mm...

TLS317

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I disagree about the stupid part. It's a helluva a lot harder to use the US Standard method. We have to memorize 12 inches in a foot, 3 foot in a yard, however many feet in a mile. We have to remember boiling water is 212 degrees. We have to use fractions and all that crap. Everything in metric, by definition is base 10 making it much easier.

Again I make the arguement that it has a lot more to do with stubborness than stupidity.

HeathenBrewing

And even more to do with fear.

Americans are afraid of the whole conversion process. We are afraid of a lot of math that goes along with the converting. People are not going to convert recipes to metric measures. Land division has been done in acres and square miles for centuries now, and because all of the property is divided this way it will not change anytime soon.

Converting to the metric system can only happen a little at a time, and one step at a time. I would start by dropping miles for kilometers on all US highways. Lets use that KM/H dial on our car.

Dispatcher138

Im satisfied using the US system. No one has said why metric is the ____.

TheMerovingian

Multiplying by 10 is a lot easier than the fractions of the US system

HeathenBrewing

-- Using the metric system just makes sense, in order to standardize measurement around the globe. The metric system has been adopted by most major countries around the world. By the mid-1970s, most countries had converted to the metric system or had plans to do so. When it comes to measurement, the United States is the only major country who has not adopted the metric system!


-- The metric system was designed to be simple! When making measurements of all kinds, it is only necessary to know a few metric units! In all, there are only 7 base units in this system of measurement! Compared to the twenty base units found in the inch-pound system of measurement, it is much easier to remember. As mentioned above, the metric system also follows the decimal number system, so each metric unit increases or decreases in size by 10. (Ex. 1 meter = 10 decimeters; 1 decimeter = 10 centimeters; etc.)

-- Avoids Errors - When working with just one measurement system, it is much less likely that errors will occur, such as with machinery, manufacturing, NASA space probes (Mars Rover anyone? ), etc.

--Future Proof - In the future, the metric system is likely to prevail as the one and only measurement system used throughout the world, and so those who do not use it or continue to use non-metric units will be left behind the global economy.

CarbonXe

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It's easier than that. Just move the decimal.

Dispatcher, without a calculator or converter, convert 9281 miles into inches. Do it within 2 seconds.

Now convert 9281 Kilometers into millimeters. If you can't do this within 2 seconds, it's back to the first grade for you.