Once there was a great King, called King GallonMan. He had four wives, and made each of them a queen. Each queen had two children, a prince and a princess. The children grew up spoiled, though, as the king had bought each of them two cars.
Posted on 10/24/2017 6:00:25 PM PDT by cotton1706
Why can't you say 288 in polite company?? Because it's two gross!
Love the Imperial system of measurement!
A pint is a pound, the world around.
Phooey!
Give ‘em a centimeter they’ll take a kilometer.
Ha, no I didn’t convert it. Too busy making chicken soup out of a roasted chicken.
Special this week (as they often do) 10 Knorr’s Sides for $10, get a free $7 roasted chicken. They’re really about $4.99 a lot of the time.
Does Tennessee still have highway signs in metric and imperial? They did the last time I was there 10 years ago (Thank you Jimmuh)
It isn’t always the same as what we know in America.
Metric kinda sorta won the contest, in that legal imperial or avoirdupois units must now have an exact metric definition. But people have long historically had needs for certain sizes of things, like pints or quarts or feet or yards etc. The liter is close enough to a quart, and the meter is close enough to a yard, that the human factor problem isn’t bad.
These human-inspired units go as far back as the bible texts. The hin, the ephah, etc. Still close to aliquot fractions of our pints and quarts etc.
Metric sucks.
In this day and age, where computers figure out differences, why do I have to change to a system with measures that do not mean anything to me?
Tell me something is three feet long, and I know what I’m dealing with.
Tell me it’s a meter long, and I’m completely lost.
We are the premier nation on planet earth, and we’re the ones who are supposed to give up our heredity?
Screw that noise...
'I arst you civil enough, didn't I?' said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 'You telling me you ain't got a pint mug in the 'ole bleeding boozer?''And what in hell's name IS a pint?' said the barman, leaning forward with the tips of his fingers on the counter.
''Ark at 'im! Calls 'isself a barman and don't know what a pint is! Why, a pint's the 'alf of a quart, and there's four quarts to the gallon. 'Ave to teach you the A, B, C next.'
'Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly. 'Litre and half litre--that's all we serve. There's the glasses on the shelf in front of you.'
'I likes a pint,' persisted the old man. 'You could 'a drawed me off a pint easy enough. We didn't 'ave these bleeding litres when I was a young man.'
The metric system never stood a chance!
Metric system is INFERIOR for everyday use because base 10 is clumsey. 10, 5 and 1 are awkward. .08683 decimals are arcane.
Metric demonstrates the STUPIDITY of ACADEMIA.
University Professors are STUPID, INEPT, SCIENCE & MATHEMATICALLY ILLITERATE.
The idea doubtless was to get us thinking in high tech terms.
But it never worked in the USA. Generations revered their yards, their miles, their pints, their gallons.
Was it US football with its yard markings that made it impossible? There would not be enough space in most stadiums to redo it in meters.
I really and truly loathe metric units.
Who invented it anyway?
Oh, a meter is a yard with a small bonus.
Once there was a great King, called King GallonMan. He had four wives, and made each of them a queen. Each queen had two children, a prince and a princess. The children grew up spoiled, though, as the king had bought each of them two cars.
Too late. I have had metric tools for years.
The metric system was, I think, invented in Napoleonic France
Someone who wanted to relate our measures of distance to the dimensions of the earth rather than that of typical humans. Except that the measurement turned out to be sloppy anyhow.
It’s great for some things — science and engineering. The calculations don’t need non-decimal factors of correction. I cannot imagine electrical engineering that tried to adapt itself to imperial units. We would not have the volt, the ampere, etc. as we know them now.
But not every human endeavor has to conform itself to engineering calculations either.
Back in the late 1970’s, Bob Greene, a Chicago columnist founded a movement called WAM! (We Ain’t Metric!) He asked rhetorically, why do we oppose the metric system? Because we don’t like it. Why won’t we cooperate with government efforts to get us to use the metric system? Because we don’t want to.
Thanks, in part, to WAM!, the Reagan administration defunded the federal government’s efforts at metrication, and a scheme by the Federal Highway Administration to have highway signs posted in kilometers came to nothing.
The biggest advantage is that most metric units trace their origins to defined natural standards instead of human constructs. A gram, for example, was established as the mass of one cubic centimeter of water at its maximum density. And surely a temperature scale based on the freezing and melting points of water is easier to work with than one where water freezes at 32 degrees and melts at 212 degrees!
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