The solution is simple. All you metric types should switch over and follow the USA!Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
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The solution is simple. All you metric types should switch over and follow the USA!Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
Ever work on an "American" car? Lots of metric bolts there too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roamy
That boggles me.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
My Hyundai POS built in Korea uses metric bolts, but the missus's Toyota minvan, built in Ontario, uses imperial :crazy:
Public Law 39-183, the Metric Act of 1866, and its subsequent amendments , made it illegal to refuse to trade or deal in metric quantities. Section 207: "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."Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
As an American who grew up in Europe, I have never quite understood, much less fathomed, the whole nonsense with inches, yards, pecks, pints, rods, acres, and so forth and so on. An irrational and antiquated system at best, dumber than a box of rocks or a passel of Republicans/Tea Party lunatics (same thing) at worse.
I to and fro between using imperial and metric depending on what I'm doing but my height and weight are measurements that swap between imperial and metric depending on my mood. :s
When it comes to cooking I have a fridge full of equivalent magnets.
Temperature: carenheit - celcius - gas mark
Solids: grams - ounces
Fluids: millilitre - fluid ounce
Others: cup - fluid ounce - tablespoon - teaspoon - millilitre
If often find myself staring at my fridge in despair when cooking depending on who and what type of receipe I'm following. I always find slow cooker recipes tend to be measured in cups which normally means that I stare at the fridge for a while, go back to chopping and then throw it all in the crockpot anyway.
That map is quite misleading since the UK isn't listed, as it should be as a 'halfway house' type of arrangement.Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
We use imperial exclusively on the roads, with feet / miles and miles per hour. Fuel is sold by the litre but economy figures are quoted in miles per UK gallon.
In pubs you by beer by the pint when it's served draft but bottles are sold by the millilitre.
Sizes of televisions are still quoted in inches. Weights of people are in stones and pounds, heights of people are in feet and inches, whereas weights of products sold in the shops are in metric, unless you are a market stall trader when for some reason you insist on selling everything by the pound.
Temperatures are quoted in degrees C most of the time, except when there's a heat wave and the media will always quote it in Fahrenheit because it sounds bigger.
In short: it's a mess!
Yeah we're well down the middle here too. We travel miles but measure things in millimetres, yet talk about being 6 foot tall. I drink a pint of beer but buy a litre of water etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
Working in the building industry you come across some really weird combinations. It's not uncommon to ask for x metres of 4"x2", then we have 2'6" doors etc. You can also ask a bloke for a measurement and he'll tell you it's 535mm by 10". This is usually just based on what side of the tape measure is easiest to read. For this reason I always keep a tape in my desk drawer, so that I can convert any of these dodgy measurements to something that makes 'sense'.
I find millimetres so much easier though, even than using Jags idea of 10th of an inch. 10mm to 1cm, 1000mm to 1m etc. etc. is far easier than 10/10ths of an inch to 1 inch 120/10ths of an inch to a foot.
Aah but a bottle of beer beer (as in ale) is 568ml, so that doesn't really count as metric that's actually a pint.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Love the weather thing though, we talk farenheit in the summer and celsius in the winter purely because it makes it sound more extreme.
It's not a mess and the solution is simple. The reason people resist a system change is because it forces them to learn and use a system that already exists and is in use. Come up with a new Global Measurement System that every body will have to go through the trouble of learning, and you'll have a winner. People don't mind getting it broke off in them as long as everybody else is getting some too.
They did, they call it...the metric system ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hondo