This might help you.... (although I somehow doubt that it will)... Written in base 12 10 x 10 = 100 The same thing (same numerical values) written in base 10 12 x 12 = 144 The same numerical values in base 2 1100 x 1100 = 10010000 And in base 8 (Octal) 14 x 14 = 220 And in base 16 (Hex) C x C = 90
@bucko386 well the system is in base 12 even if burk used base 10 to explain it, and yes it would be easy to see that 12 times 4B is 4B0, but tel me what 4B0 is in english without thinking too much
Inches in a mile is 1760 (yards) x 3 (feet) x 12 (inches) and all base 10 numbers not base 12 or even base 3 and certainly not base 1760.
Quite where "base 12" was plucked from just because one of the numbers was 12 is something of a mystery - and guess what? Working in base 12 and multiplying 10 by 10 produces a base 12 result of (wait for it) 100 - and surprisingly this is true for any base you care to work with - 10 times 10 is always 100
@bucko386 the ratio between iches and feet is 12, and one could presume that is because of earlyer use of base 12, like our months. Thats what I wanted to say about the whole base thing. And the point I was going to get across was that its more difficult to think in 12s, you just sayd multiply 10 by 10 in base 12 results in 100, that is correct, but it wouldl be written A * A = 84 I think. even if its still 100. and dont you agree that remembering the number 1760 is harder than remembering 1000?
@16m49x3 It may well be more difficult for you to think in groups of 12 rather than in groups of 10 - but it is clear that in this context you do not quite grasp the concept of what is meant by, "base".
"Base" is where the number system "overflows" and we use two characters to represent the next increment as in our conventional base 10 - counting 7,8,9,10 is base 10
@16m49x3 Some on here - you may be one of them - appear to adopt the view that because the Imperial measure of foot is sub-divided into 12 inches (and/or) the year is divided into 12 months that this has a connection with a base 12 number system. It does not. No cultures have used base 12 for counting - nearly always base 10. Metrication is about the selection of Units - Metre versus Yard - Litre versus Gallon - Metrication has nothing to do with a Number Base system.
@bucko386 I just told you the ancient greech adpoted the 12 iches in a foot and 12 months a year, because they thought the dodecahedron was some magical shape. because of some of the mathematical properties it had. dodecahedron means 12 base idk...
@bucko386 Also I did some research because of ur quarreling and found out that the greech divided their months in to 12 and theyr feet in to 12 inches, because of the dodecahedron wich they saw as magical/holy w/e and dodeca means 12 and hedra means base.
Well, contrary to popular belief, almost ALL science in the US is conducted with the metric system. Moreover, feet/miles/Btus/lbs/etc. belong to the Imperial, or ENGLISH, system, invented in (surprise-surprise) BRITAIN. Sure, Americans adopted it, notably because America was largely colonized by THE BRITISH, but we didn't create it and, for the vast part, don't use it in scientific circles. That said, NASA did fuck up with the units in one of its program files, and Eddie Izzard is still awesome.
@coasterman16 It goes back further than that too for a lot of it, to Roman times, though they weren't really a set standard back then as they became with British Imperial came to be. The odd thing is that US Imperial is actually different to British and International Imperial standards in some places too. It all gets complicated lol. Metric is a base of 10 every time for every unit or measure, it's far easier to work with.
@SeriosaSoren I know! He's so goddamn sexy and comfortable! The best bit is, as a straight person I didn't think I would say this, but he's beautiful and I want to give him a nice warm hug. <3
Look, if the USA totally embraced SI and adopted it with a religious-like fervor, instead of the related, but weaker "metric system" they could feel superior again. "Milliliter?? Milliliter? Surely you mean cubic centimeter??"
Of course, the USA "pound" is now officially defined in terms of the kilogram, so we are both obstinate and secretly compliant.
Please let's adopt SI, it is much better and lets us keep our weird time counting.
i love when im talking with an american and the ask me whats my height or weight i always tell them in killos and meters. they get all confused hahaha
Even though England has the metric system, most teenagers I know can use the imperial one and if asked their height/weight will almost always give you it in feet/inches and stones/pounds. And we've never been taught it. :L
I'd like to suggest that people stop griping about how America should match England's use of the metric system, and concentrate instead on learning to spell in the English language, even if you have to cut down on watching anime to do so.
Also, recognize that America DOES use the metric system where England doesn't: in MONEY. 10 pennies = dime, 10 dimes = $1, ... $10, $100. England? How many shillings are in a pound? How many crowns are in a guinea? How many farthings are in a penny? Who knows?
How many feet in a mile? 5280. How many inches in a foot? 12. Now quickly without a calculator, how many inches in a mile? You don't know because it uses base 12, not base 10. How many pecks in a bushel? How many links in a chain?
No body knows. It's a stupid system and we have mostly forgotten it.
How many meters in a kilometer? 1000. How many centimeters in a meter? 100. Now quick without a calculator, centimeters in a kilometer? 100,000.
@burkerow but 5280 can be divided by 2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12 whereas 1000 can be divided by 1 2 5 10. Now if you want to be accurate and not have any remainders you can see why a mile is useful. In addition 12 divided by the numbers 1-10 yields 2 number with more than one decimal place whereas 10 yields 5. That why base 12 is useful also you can count to 12 on one hand
It would be almost impossible to change America over to the metric system over night it would take something closer to decades of constant work if we started now because you aren't just changing a measurement you're changing culture *facepalm*
@akohler16 Well then you better get started. The metric system was introduced in 1799, you already had more than two centuries time for it (that's 200 years, by the way).
Ten centimetres x 10cm x 10cm = 1000 cm3 which also happens to be 1 litre. And what is the mass ( simplified = weight ) of one litre of water? 1 kilogram or 1000 grams. Length, volume and weight. All based around H20. Universal. Simple. Intuitive. Easy.
@Bensaves Um, yes. I know. That is why I wrote it. I simply placed an idiots alternative as most Yanks (whom do not have the capacity to comprehend other systems) would probably have no appreciation of the term "mass". The response was aimed at the inept majority of Americans failed by the USA Government who would rather spend taxes on tanks, submarines, aircraft carriers, SAMs and bullets than sorely needed education and other such related resources.
I'm an American and I want the freaking metric system! First we can't call socer football. Why? Cause some dumb idiotic game were guys takle each other already took it; god knows why, they only kick a few times >_> Then most can't use the metric system. It's a system that goes by incraments of ten! How hard is that to figure out?
@animefan3610 It's really too much of a bother, like who goes out for a gallon of milk and says you know what I want 3.78541178 liters >.> that's just too much words and stuff. Also if it's 100 degrees that sounds hot 38 does not. 38 sounds like you'd need long paints and a coat and maybe a hat depending on wind chill. Saying it's 100 is just way more satisfying.
@DasHrodgard or boils at 373.15 Kelvin and freezes at 273 degrees Kelvin if you want to be scientific. However it's best to use fahrenheit because it is more sensitive then celsius. ^__^
"Fahrenheit is more sensitive" - bullshit! Sensitivity is determined by device used to measure the temperature, not scale in which the measurement is done.
@KristoffDoe It's not bs look at the unit size Fahrenheit uses it's much smaller meaning more sensitive. If you say for example it's 40 F outside that's 4.4 C and then you say it's 48 F well C is 8.9 that makes a difference of 8 degrees in F but only 4.5 in C making F more sensitive. If your thermometer is broke go get a new one it has nothing to do with sensitivity or what I'm talking about. I don't really think you've understood my argument.
I suspected that much and I fully understood your "argument" - you're fucking moron who thinks that integers are more "precise" than fractions. Newsflash - no, they are not. What is more "precise" - 1 meter or 100 centimeters? or - 1 centimeter or 0.01 meter? Answer: there's no difference. Again, precision is defined by properties of a tool, not unit it uses.
@KristoffDoe "precision is defined by properties of a tool, not unit it uses." Where did I say precision? As long as you don't have a broken thermometer then it doesn't matter on THAT particular point. I said sensitivity, and that's because Fahrenheit has a smaller unit size read my example again, it's based on the fact that Fahrenheit's units are smaller so you can be more accurate. That's because most people round numbers when reporting the weather no one is going to say it's 8.8 repeating.
Yes, nobody would be reporting air temperature using repeating decimal places because it would be measured using thermometer scaled in Celsius, NOT converted from Fahrenheit. And you know what - those thermometers have FUCKING FRACTIONS on them! You can have 0.1 even on on cheap-ass electronic thermometer. Proper scientific equipment can routinely measure with accuracy of 0.01 or even better.
Same question - what is more sensitive/precise/whatever - 1m or 100cm? 1cm or 0.01m?
@animefan3610: having grown up under British rule, moving to America and using their system of measurement was SUCH A MINDFUCK. Maybe they should just... replace ALL the signs overnight... Can't possibly cost more than the 11 year war right :P
@animefan3610 You're not a real American than it seems. I know of no Americans in my area that want the metric system. Go live in another country if you want the metric system imo. America is different, deal with it.
@OktoberSunset Do you honestly think you can insult America? America doesn't care about your opinion, country, or anything that relates to you. In fact you're pretty stupid for pretending you could insult America. America is full of people that don't care about consequences and take w/e they want and doesn't care what people say about them, unless it's another American. Since you are not, you're just some pathetic scrub from another country no one cares about.
@OktoberSunset No, I just wanted to make it perfectly clear how worthless you are in the eyes of America. Some people like you are just too stupid or thick headed to realize how worthless you truly are to America.
@ZDrums24 Do you feel sad about polluting the Earth, do you feel sad that your country installs dictators in other countries, do you feel sad that we are a self centered country, are you sad that we are shallow, are you sad that we are careless and carefree, or do you feel sad that our country has the largest waste:per person ratio in the world assisting in the pollution of the world so we can live better than everyone else?
Please tell me you're not ignorant like most Americans.
@ZDrums24 My arrogance is due to the fact other countries are offended about Americans and I defend myself in the same way they attack us. As for ignorance who are you to judge? I said nothing out of ignorance and you only know ignorance. You know nothing about America, but you state you're an American? What kind of person doesn't know a damn thing about their own country?
You are an example of why our education system is failing.
@heroineadict And that's the problem with America summed up right there. And the irony of the whole thing is you seem to think that's a reason to be proud.
@TalesOfWar And you think randomly harassing people is something to be proud of? I can guess you're proud of w/e you come from and your country has something to be ashamed of. You have no idea what the problem with America is though is the true irony, lol. If I was considered a problem in America than America would be an amazing place :).
Uhhh Football Isn't retarded...you might be, different people like different things just because you don't appreciate it doesn't mean its any less entertaining, the same could be said about your precious anime.
1) with increments of 10, there's a lot of 0's invloved and a lot of room for decimal errors
2) the standard system increments in multiples of 3 which is super handy cuz that way there are usually no annoying FLOAT numbers. speaking of floats...
3) especially when it comes to heights and lengths, why would I want to say that I'm 1.81 m tall? what is .81 meters? well thats 81 cm well how tall is that?
@ahtartersauce101 Anyone who has been using the metric system for years has a good idea of how much 81cm, much like users of the imperial system can estimate how much 7 feet is.
Well of course I can. I can narrow that down to 1 foot which is ironically the size of my REAL foot (size 12), so 7 of those would be indeed 7 feet. Now what do you do with cm? Just have a good idea about how big 9 cm is and go from there. But see, there's no in between measurement. The increment is too big. we go inch, to foot, to yard, to furlong, to rod, to mile. Which all increment in 3's. Metric goes mm cm dm m km. jump from cm to dm is too big and dm isnt used a lot
It's a decimeter or 10cm? holy crap, learn your system before dissing on people for using other systems that they actually know. I use my foot to measure things sometimes, because I don't have a measuring stick shoved up my ass all the time unlike some people.
@ahtartersauce101 Huh, I've never used decimeters to measure anything, I suppose because it throws thing out of ballance, see:
1 cm = 10 mm (10^1)
1 m = 100 cm (10^2)
1 km = 1000 m (10^3)
If you had dm in there it would make the jump to km inconsistent.
Oh, and the "measuring things with your feet" thing was just a joke. Of course it's cool to measure things with your body parts. If my foot was excatly 25cm (it's closer to 25.6cm) I would probably use it to measure things
I apologize for that uncessary outburst. But see, all I see is 1s and 0s. You have less errors with binary numbers than with metrics. Thats my main complaint about it is the amount of how human error-prone it is.
@animefan3610 Although I agree it is a pretty large thing to do, but I hope we'll get there completely one day. We'd have to spend a ton of money adjusting a lot of things from large machinery down to the measurements of the paper you print on if and when we switch. It is a more complex process than just punching in new conversions. As to the soccer thing, we just call it football as you know as an American. Yes it might be odd, but I don't think it deserves the irritation it somehow generates.
@visualvexation Now theres irony!, you guys celebrate being so "removed" from all british culture and your soooo over patriotic and american, and you have the stars and stripes on everything in sight!
yet you cannot shake of British imperial measurements?!?!?, a foot came from King henry saying, a foot shall be based on my foot length.
You americans do not get irony, yet you measure everyday stuff by it! XD classic!.
@visualvexation Foot size is measured in barley corns too. The great thing with metric is its based on the size of the Earth, then just divided by 10 at every stage to get smaller and smaller increments. Imperial used things you often had to hand (or feet lol) so you could get a rough estimate of something. As things started to demand more precision (especially during the Industrial Revolution) they started to actually standardise these measurements, but kind of forced the old into the new.
@animefan3610 Yes, the metric system is easier but think about how much it would cost to change labels and road signs all over the USA (and during a recession). Also, Americans aren't exactly the brightest in the world, how would we teach a country of our size a new system of measurement? I'm afraid going metric is never going to happen.
@Sabianstix85 Are you ill or just plain stupid? If you're trying to pick a fight it's not going to work. I gave reasonable explanations but you pick a little pathetic YouTube fight instead. You're welcome for answering your question.
@animefan3610 Hhaha, some dumb idiodic game?!?!!?!? i believe you mean "Rugby?
And its actually played on a WORLD scale with more than just your country involved, yet you call it The Superbowl and the "world" series?!?!?, i really do not understand you americans on that one.
You guys obviously missed the class lecture on "irony" huh?.
@animefan3610 Couldn't agree more. It's so SIMPLE!!!!!! And transferable. It's magnificent. Increments of ten! As apposed to 2 and 5 tenths of an inch?!?! What the hell does that even mean? Even when people say "he jumped from 5400 feet, I have to sit back and think "What does that even mean? It sounds impressive! But what does it MEAN?" Oh, it's about 2 k's. "Oh, well that's pretty high then! Thanks." Metric is so simple, and so PRECISE, especially when we get down to the small.
@animefan3610 Come on sir/ma'am.. I mean as I respect soccer as a sport and everything, but I would love to see a Manchester halfback survive just one 80-yard drive in the NFL, let alone play a whole sixty minute game. But as an American soon-to-be organic chemist, I agree with your metric system idea a thousand kcals/mol with zero ohms of resistance :p
@animefan3610 it's not at all difficult, but there are other issues, many of them logistical, there is also the issue of personal preference, you may want it, but other people do not, for example i absolutely refuse to use metric units in certain contexts, such as cars, with the exception of liters and kilograms, no meters, no watts, none of those
@animefan3610 The creators of soccer used "soccer" and "football" interchangeably. Therefore, both Americans and everyone else are correct. Soccer is Football, and Football is Soccer. The only reason Americans prefer "soccer" is because we have another sport already named "Football."
yes measuring by 12 is much easier than measuring in increments of 10
thextremedude077 1 week ago
Pleeeeaassseee give us metric! lol
parsonsmarcus 2 weeks ago
bucko386 4 weeks ago
We need to adopt the metric system. It's more convenient and easier to understand lol
xDejahx 1 month ago
Surely it's in the order of 5280 x 10 = 52800
Plus 5280 x 2 which must be about 10560
Then add them together for the final answer
I don't think the "base" makes any difference
This isn't base 12 you know - it's all base 10...
63360 inches - 1,609,344mm
All base 10 - base 12 just doesn't come into it
Base 12 is like this ... 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B, 10
bucko386 1 month ago
@bucko386 well the system is in base 12 even if burk used base 10 to explain it, and yes it would be easy to see that 12 times 4B is 4B0, but tel me what 4B0 is in english without thinking too much
16m49x3 4 weeks ago
@16m49x3
Inches in a mile is 1760 (yards) x 3 (feet) x 12 (inches) and all base 10 numbers not base 12 or even base 3 and certainly not base 1760.
Quite where "base 12" was plucked from just because one of the numbers was 12 is something of a mystery - and guess what? Working in base 12 and multiplying 10 by 10 produces a base 12 result of (wait for it) 100 - and surprisingly this is true for any base you care to work with - 10 times 10 is always 100
Base 12 does not apply here.
bucko386 4 weeks ago
@bucko386 the ratio between iches and feet is 12, and one could presume that is because of earlyer use of base 12, like our months. Thats what I wanted to say about the whole base thing. And the point I was going to get across was that its more difficult to think in 12s, you just sayd multiply 10 by 10 in base 12 results in 100, that is correct, but it wouldl be written A * A = 84 I think. even if its still 100. and dont you agree that remembering the number 1760 is harder than remembering 1000?
16m49x3 4 weeks ago
@16m49x3 It may well be more difficult for you to think in groups of 12 rather than in groups of 10 - but it is clear that in this context you do not quite grasp the concept of what is meant by, "base".
"Base" is where the number system "overflows" and we use two characters to represent the next increment as in our conventional base 10 - counting 7,8,9,10 is base 10
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10 is base 8
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F,10 is base 16.
I am available for private tuition...
bucko386 4 weeks ago
@bucko386 I just explained to you that A * A = 84 in base 12, if I know that how could I not know what base means... user ur brain
16m49x3 4 weeks ago
@16m49x3 Some on here - you may be one of them - appear to adopt the view that because the Imperial measure of foot is sub-divided into 12 inches (and/or) the year is divided into 12 months that this has a connection with a base 12 number system. It does not. No cultures have used base 12 for counting - nearly always base 10. Metrication is about the selection of Units - Metre versus Yard - Litre versus Gallon - Metrication has nothing to do with a Number Base system.
bucko386 4 weeks ago
@bucko386 I just told you the ancient greech adpoted the 12 iches in a foot and 12 months a year, because they thought the dodecahedron was some magical shape. because of some of the mathematical properties it had. dodecahedron means 12 base idk...
16m49x3 4 weeks ago
@bucko386 Also I did some research because of ur quarreling and found out that the greech divided their months in to 12 and theyr feet in to 12 inches, because of the dodecahedron wich they saw as magical/holy w/e and dodeca means 12 and hedra means base.
16m49x3 4 weeks ago
Well, contrary to popular belief, almost ALL science in the US is conducted with the metric system. Moreover, feet/miles/Btus/lbs/etc. belong to the Imperial, or ENGLISH, system, invented in (surprise-surprise) BRITAIN. Sure, Americans adopted it, notably because America was largely colonized by THE BRITISH, but we didn't create it and, for the vast part, don't use it in scientific circles. That said, NASA did fuck up with the units in one of its program files, and Eddie Izzard is still awesome.
coasterman16 1 month ago
@coasterman16 It goes back further than that too for a lot of it, to Roman times, though they weren't really a set standard back then as they became with British Imperial came to be. The odd thing is that US Imperial is actually different to British and International Imperial standards in some places too. It all gets complicated lol. Metric is a base of 10 every time for every unit or measure, it's far easier to work with.
TalesOfWar 2 weeks ago
I hate it how he's so much more beautiful than me.. :(
SeriosaSoren 1 month ago
@SeriosaSoren I know! He's so goddamn sexy and comfortable! The best bit is, as a straight person I didn't think I would say this, but he's beautiful and I want to give him a nice warm hug. <3
hislord1 1 month ago
@hislord1 Good luck with that! Tell him I said Hi! :D
SeriosaSoren 1 month ago
Look, if the USA totally embraced SI and adopted it with a religious-like fervor, instead of the related, but weaker "metric system" they could feel superior again. "Milliliter?? Milliliter? Surely you mean cubic centimeter??"
Of course, the USA "pound" is now officially defined in terms of the kilogram, so we are both obstinate and secretly compliant.
Please let's adopt SI, it is much better and lets us keep our weird time counting.
FinnMcRiangabra 1 month ago
@FinnMcRiangabra Move onto the A paper standard too please, and poke your friends to the north to see the light too! lol
TalesOfWar 2 weeks ago
If we adopt the metric system, do we have to wear braces and waistcoats, too?
HyperSchmizzle 2 months ago
i love when im talking with an american and the ask me whats my height or weight i always tell them in killos and meters. they get all confused hahaha
lilithrozz 2 months ago
1 dislike ?!? that's almost as funny as Eddie himself .. maybe they wanted QVC and switched to the wrong channel LOL
carlafierro7 2 months ago
brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
rosenerik 3 months ago
Once you go metric system,
you never go back
It doesn't rhyme but it's true:D
Lyxbyxan 3 months ago
Even though England has the metric system, most teenagers I know can use the imperial one and if asked their height/weight will almost always give you it in feet/inches and stones/pounds. And we've never been taught it. :L
HanziSax94 3 months ago
Denmark ftw!!! our money system is: 50 øre, 1 krone=50 øre+50 øre, 2 kroner= 2x1 krone, 5 kroner= 5x1 krone, 10 kroner= 10x1 krone, 20 kroner=20x1 krone, 50 kroner, 100 kroner, 200 kroner, 500 kroner and 1000 kroner. and the metric system ftw!!! 1 mmx10=1cm X10=1dmX10=1m etc. so easy...
matiasporsgaard 3 months ago
America dosn't use the metric system for one simple reason.
1 US gallon = 3.8 liters
People can't handle the shock of watching the numbers on the gass pumps flying around almost 4 times as fast
whiteowl1415 4 months ago
I'd like to suggest that people stop griping about how America should match England's use of the metric system, and concentrate instead on learning to spell in the English language, even if you have to cut down on watching anime to do so.
Also, recognize that America DOES use the metric system where England doesn't: in MONEY. 10 pennies = dime, 10 dimes = $1, ... $10, $100. England? How many shillings are in a pound? How many crowns are in a guinea? How many farthings are in a penny? Who knows?
MagiMysteryTour 4 months ago
@MagiMysteryTour
A formal policy of metrication started in the UK in 1965.
The only things using the Imperial system are body measurements, journey distances and vehicle speeds, and liquid measures.
The UK started converting the currency to the Metric system in 1971
davidstevenson456 4 months ago
@MagiMysteryTour Crowns? Guineas? Farthings? Not since 1972 dumbo!
heyalex72 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
I don't get it, Military Grade, especially in the US, is the most awesome high quality stuff there is.
Why doesn't the US use the metric system like their military does?
tiaxanderson 4 months ago
Says this American: fuck our system, give us metric. PLEASE.
StarfireandSakura 4 months ago 5
@StarfireandSakura Fuck our system, give us metric. PLEASE.
mainchow10 3 months ago 23
How many feet in a mile? 5280. How many inches in a foot? 12. Now quickly without a calculator, how many inches in a mile? You don't know because it uses base 12, not base 10. How many pecks in a bushel? How many links in a chain?
No body knows. It's a stupid system and we have mostly forgotten it.
How many meters in a kilometer? 1000. How many centimeters in a meter? 100. Now quick without a calculator, centimeters in a kilometer? 100,000.
Base 10 is easy.
burkerow 4 months ago 26
@burkerow but 5280 can be divided by 2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12 whereas 1000 can be divided by 1 2 5 10. Now if you want to be accurate and not have any remainders you can see why a mile is useful. In addition 12 divided by the numbers 1-10 yields 2 number with more than one decimal place whereas 10 yields 5. That why base 12 is useful also you can count to 12 on one hand
xs12345 1 month ago
It would be almost impossible to change America over to the metric system over night it would take something closer to decades of constant work if we started now because you aren't just changing a measurement you're changing culture *facepalm*
akohler16 4 months ago
@akohler16 Well then you better get started. The metric system was introduced in 1799, you already had more than two centuries time for it (that's 200 years, by the way).
apomk2 4 months ago
the metric system is just.. you know.. TEN times better than any arbitrary measurement system like feet, inches, stones, miles, ect.. :p
GronTheMighty 4 months ago
Full of insects! Commie insects!
evilazulan 4 months ago
Ten centimetres x 10cm x 10cm = 1000 cm3 which also happens to be 1 litre. And what is the mass ( simplified = weight ) of one litre of water? 1 kilogram or 1000 grams. Length, volume and weight. All based around H20. Universal. Simple. Intuitive. Easy.
biggielebowski 5 months ago 4
@biggielebowski Actually mass is correct there because the 2 are different things entirely :P
Bensaves 5 months ago
@Bensaves Um, yes. I know. That is why I wrote it. I simply placed an idiots alternative as most Yanks (whom do not have the capacity to comprehend other systems) would probably have no appreciation of the term "mass". The response was aimed at the inept majority of Americans failed by the USA Government who would rather spend taxes on tanks, submarines, aircraft carriers, SAMs and bullets than sorely needed education and other such related resources.
biggielebowski 4 months ago
I'm an American and I want the freaking metric system! First we can't call socer football. Why? Cause some dumb idiotic game were guys takle each other already took it; god knows why, they only kick a few times >_> Then most can't use the metric system. It's a system that goes by incraments of ten! How hard is that to figure out?
animefan3610 6 months ago 191
@animefan3610 It's really too much of a bother, like who goes out for a gallon of milk and says you know what I want 3.78541178 liters >.> that's just too much words and stuff. Also if it's 100 degrees that sounds hot 38 does not. 38 sounds like you'd need long paints and a coat and maybe a hat depending on wind chill. Saying it's 100 is just way more satisfying.
MistressArte 5 months ago
@MistressArte
Water freezes at 0 centigrade and boils at 100 centigrade ... Its the most logical system
DasHrodgard 5 months ago
@DasHrodgard or boils at 373.15 Kelvin and freezes at 273 degrees Kelvin if you want to be scientific. However it's best to use fahrenheit because it is more sensitive then celsius. ^__^
MistressArte 5 months ago
@MistressArte
"Fahrenheit is more sensitive" - bullshit! Sensitivity is determined by device used to measure the temperature, not scale in which the measurement is done.
KristoffDoe 4 months ago 4
@KristoffDoe It's not bs look at the unit size Fahrenheit uses it's much smaller meaning more sensitive. If you say for example it's 40 F outside that's 4.4 C and then you say it's 48 F well C is 8.9 that makes a difference of 8 degrees in F but only 4.5 in C making F more sensitive. If your thermometer is broke go get a new one it has nothing to do with sensitivity or what I'm talking about. I don't really think you've understood my argument.
MistressArte 4 months ago
@MistressArte
I suspected that much and I fully understood your "argument" - you're fucking moron who thinks that integers are more "precise" than fractions. Newsflash - no, they are not. What is more "precise" - 1 meter or 100 centimeters? or - 1 centimeter or 0.01 meter? Answer: there's no difference. Again, precision is defined by properties of a tool, not unit it uses.
KristoffDoe 4 months ago
@KristoffDoe "precision is defined by properties of a tool, not unit it uses." Where did I say precision? As long as you don't have a broken thermometer then it doesn't matter on THAT particular point. I said sensitivity, and that's because Fahrenheit has a smaller unit size read my example again, it's based on the fact that Fahrenheit's units are smaller so you can be more accurate. That's because most people round numbers when reporting the weather no one is going to say it's 8.8 repeating.
MistressArte 4 months ago
@MistressArte
Yes, nobody would be reporting air temperature using repeating decimal places because it would be measured using thermometer scaled in Celsius, NOT converted from Fahrenheit. And you know what - those thermometers have FUCKING FRACTIONS on them! You can have 0.1 even on on cheap-ass electronic thermometer. Proper scientific equipment can routinely measure with accuracy of 0.01 or even better.
Same question - what is more sensitive/precise/whatever - 1m or 100cm? 1cm or 0.01m?
KristoffDoe 4 months ago
Comment removed
mainchow10 5 months ago
@DasHrodgard It's actually called Celsius, as it is named after him.
InsideCellardoor 5 months ago
@InsideCellardoor
True, but it is called the centigrade scale
DasHrodgard 5 months ago
@animefan3610 Love the metric systeme! Wohoo!
InsideCellardoor 5 months ago
@animefan3610 IKR?
mainchow10 4 months ago
@animefan3610: having grown up under British rule, moving to America and using their system of measurement was SUCH A MINDFUCK. Maybe they should just... replace ALL the signs overnight... Can't possibly cost more than the 11 year war right :P
transientfragility 4 months ago
@animefan3610 You're not a real American than it seems. I know of no Americans in my area that want the metric system. Go live in another country if you want the metric system imo. America is different, deal with it.
heroineadict 4 months ago
@heroineadict lol 'merica!! fuck yeah!
ZeZeBatata69 4 months ago
@heroineadict lol, 'different' like the kids on the short bus.
OktoberSunset 3 months ago
@OktoberSunset Do you honestly think you can insult America? America doesn't care about your opinion, country, or anything that relates to you. In fact you're pretty stupid for pretending you could insult America. America is full of people that don't care about consequences and take w/e they want and doesn't care what people say about them, unless it's another American. Since you are not, you're just some pathetic scrub from another country no one cares about.
heroineadict 3 months ago
@heroineadict lol, so uninsulted you had to write a 6 line reply. lol, needy much?
OktoberSunset 3 months ago
@OktoberSunset No, I just wanted to make it perfectly clear how worthless you are in the eyes of America. Some people like you are just too stupid or thick headed to realize how worthless you truly are to America.
heroineadict 3 months ago
@heroineadict as an american, this makes me sad.
ZDrums24 3 months ago
@ZDrums24 Do you feel sad about polluting the Earth, do you feel sad that your country installs dictators in other countries, do you feel sad that we are a self centered country, are you sad that we are shallow, are you sad that we are careless and carefree, or do you feel sad that our country has the largest waste:per person ratio in the world assisting in the pollution of the world so we can live better than everyone else?
Please tell me you're not ignorant like most Americans.
heroineadict 3 months ago
@heroineadict In this particular moment, I am sad at how proud some people seem in our arrogance and ignorance.
ZDrums24 3 months ago
@ZDrums24 My arrogance is due to the fact other countries are offended about Americans and I defend myself in the same way they attack us. As for ignorance who are you to judge? I said nothing out of ignorance and you only know ignorance. You know nothing about America, but you state you're an American? What kind of person doesn't know a damn thing about their own country?
You are an example of why our education system is failing.
heroineadict 3 months ago
@heroineadict And that's the problem with America summed up right there. And the irony of the whole thing is you seem to think that's a reason to be proud.
TalesOfWar 2 weeks ago
@TalesOfWar And you think randomly harassing people is something to be proud of? I can guess you're proud of w/e you come from and your country has something to be ashamed of. You have no idea what the problem with America is though is the true irony, lol. If I was considered a problem in America than America would be an amazing place :).
heroineadict 2 weeks ago
@animefan3610
Uhhh Football Isn't retarded...you might be, different people like different things just because you don't appreciate it doesn't mean its any less entertaining, the same could be said about your precious anime.
Dustpuma1 4 months ago
@animefan3610 Apple "invented" American "football". And than asked all who disagree to fuck off and that they were holding the ball wrong.
Glad1kun 4 months ago
@animefan3610 Soccer is the better name for it anyway.
Wyndstorm1 3 months ago
@animefan3610
3 reasons why I don't like the metric system:
1) with increments of 10, there's a lot of 0's invloved and a lot of room for decimal errors
2) the standard system increments in multiples of 3 which is super handy cuz that way there are usually no annoying FLOAT numbers. speaking of floats...
3) especially when it comes to heights and lengths, why would I want to say that I'm 1.81 m tall? what is .81 meters? well thats 81 cm well how tall is that?
AMERICAN FOOTBALL SUCKS! baseball
ahtartersauce101 3 months ago
@ahtartersauce101 Anyone who has been using the metric system for years has a good idea of how much 81cm, much like users of the imperial system can estimate how much 7 feet is.
FetaCheese222 3 months ago
@FetaCheese222
Well of course I can. I can narrow that down to 1 foot which is ironically the size of my REAL foot (size 12), so 7 of those would be indeed 7 feet. Now what do you do with cm? Just have a good idea about how big 9 cm is and go from there. But see, there's no in between measurement. The increment is too big. we go inch, to foot, to yard, to furlong, to rod, to mile. Which all increment in 3's. Metric goes mm cm dm m km. jump from cm to dm is too big and dm isnt used a lot
ahtartersauce101 3 months ago
@ahtartersauce101 Okay, you keep measing things with your feet while I measuring thing with maths. Everyone's happy.
Also, what the hell is a dm?
FetaCheese222 3 months ago
@FetaCheese222
It's a decimeter or 10cm? holy crap, learn your system before dissing on people for using other systems that they actually know. I use my foot to measure things sometimes, because I don't have a measuring stick shoved up my ass all the time unlike some people.
ahtartersauce101 3 months ago
@ahtartersauce101 Huh, I've never used decimeters to measure anything, I suppose because it throws thing out of ballance, see:
1 cm = 10 mm (10^1)
1 m = 100 cm (10^2)
1 km = 1000 m (10^3)
If you had dm in there it would make the jump to km inconsistent.
Oh, and the "measuring things with your feet" thing was just a joke. Of course it's cool to measure things with your body parts. If my foot was excatly 25cm (it's closer to 25.6cm) I would probably use it to measure things
FetaCheese222 3 months ago
@FetaCheese222
I apologize for that uncessary outburst. But see, all I see is 1s and 0s. You have less errors with binary numbers than with metrics. Thats my main complaint about it is the amount of how human error-prone it is.
ahtartersauce101 3 months ago
@animefan3610 Although I agree it is a pretty large thing to do, but I hope we'll get there completely one day. We'd have to spend a ton of money adjusting a lot of things from large machinery down to the measurements of the paper you print on if and when we switch. It is a more complex process than just punching in new conversions. As to the soccer thing, we just call it football as you know as an American. Yes it might be odd, but I don't think it deserves the irritation it somehow generates.
AnimeEyes143 3 months ago
@animefan3610
you cant be suggesting that a game where people in shorts jog after a ball for an hour is somehow better
notjustin 3 months ago
@animefan3610 I agree, but you need spell correct...
Our dumbass system is based on a king's foot and some other random stuff, I don't even know.
visualvexation 3 months ago
@visualvexation Now theres irony!, you guys celebrate being so "removed" from all british culture and your soooo over patriotic and american, and you have the stars and stripes on everything in sight!
yet you cannot shake of British imperial measurements?!?!?, a foot came from King henry saying, a foot shall be based on my foot length.
You americans do not get irony, yet you measure everyday stuff by it! XD classic!.
Sabianstix85 1 month ago
@visualvexation Foot size is measured in barley corns too. The great thing with metric is its based on the size of the Earth, then just divided by 10 at every stage to get smaller and smaller increments. Imperial used things you often had to hand (or feet lol) so you could get a rough estimate of something. As things started to demand more precision (especially during the Industrial Revolution) they started to actually standardise these measurements, but kind of forced the old into the new.
TalesOfWar 2 weeks ago
@animefan3610 I agree, and WHEN we do, unlike the UK or Canada, let's get rid of the imperial units completely.
mainchow10 3 months ago
@animefan3610 But having the metric system also means you have to wear those awesome trousers!!! Are you up for that?? LOL
gyqz 3 months ago
@animefan3610 Nope, we go by increments of 10 then 12 then 3 then 1760.
mostaryankidyouknow 2 months ago
@animefan3610 Yes, the metric system is easier but think about how much it would cost to change labels and road signs all over the USA (and during a recession). Also, Americans aren't exactly the brightest in the world, how would we teach a country of our size a new system of measurement? I'm afraid going metric is never going to happen.
stnaP2the3 2 months ago
@stnaP2the3 We can teach monkeys to finger paint, ride horses and mini bycicles, how hard can it be to teach americans to count by ten????.
Sabianstix85 1 month ago
@Sabianstix85 Are you ill or just plain stupid? If you're trying to pick a fight it's not going to work. I gave reasonable explanations but you pick a little pathetic YouTube fight instead. You're welcome for answering your question.
stnaP2the3 1 month ago
@animefan3610 Hhaha, some dumb idiodic game?!?!!?!? i believe you mean "Rugby?
And its actually played on a WORLD scale with more than just your country involved, yet you call it The Superbowl and the "world" series?!?!?, i really do not understand you americans on that one.
You guys obviously missed the class lecture on "irony" huh?.
Sabianstix85 1 month ago
@animefan3610 Couldn't agree more. It's so SIMPLE!!!!!! And transferable. It's magnificent. Increments of ten! As apposed to 2 and 5 tenths of an inch?!?! What the hell does that even mean? Even when people say "he jumped from 5400 feet, I have to sit back and think "What does that even mean? It sounds impressive! But what does it MEAN?" Oh, it's about 2 k's. "Oh, well that's pretty high then! Thanks." Metric is so simple, and so PRECISE, especially when we get down to the small.
Pianoguitarman34 1 month ago
@animefan3610 Come on sir/ma'am.. I mean as I respect soccer as a sport and everything, but I would love to see a Manchester halfback survive just one 80-yard drive in the NFL, let alone play a whole sixty minute game. But as an American soon-to-be organic chemist, I agree with your metric system idea a thousand kcals/mol with zero ohms of resistance :p
em129836 1 month ago
@animefan3610 it's not at all difficult, but there are other issues, many of them logistical, there is also the issue of personal preference, you may want it, but other people do not, for example i absolutely refuse to use metric units in certain contexts, such as cars, with the exception of liters and kilograms, no meters, no watts, none of those
aracaen 1 month ago
@animefan3610 You could always rename "football" to what it really is, Armoured Rugby, thus alloweing Football to be football
TheLemonGrenade 1 month ago 30
@TheLemonGrenade Which actually sound way cooler.
NDusk 3 weeks ago
@TheLemonGrenade "Armoured Rugby" you say? Hmmmm....
Sound f*cking badass! :D
Monday night Armoured Rugby! ...Or is it Sunday? LOL!
J88Wolf 2 weeks ago
@TheLemonGrenade That makes it sound like they've got battlemechs running around on the field or something. :)
Dilandau3000 1 week ago
@Dilandau3000 They should so do that
TheLemonGrenade 1 week ago
@animefan3610 The creators of soccer used "soccer" and "football" interchangeably. Therefore, both Americans and everyone else are correct. Soccer is Football, and Football is Soccer. The only reason Americans prefer "soccer" is because we have another sport already named "Football."
patpatboy2 1 month ago
@patpatboy2 wich doesnt involve using ur feet.
16m49x3 4 weeks ago
@16m49x3 Except for field goals and punt returns...
patpatboy2 4 weeks ago
wasn't that our turn? ROFLMFAO
michelthegreatable 6 months ago 30