Deirdre Flint The Metric System

The great Metric Takeover Attempt of 1975

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Music

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• Metric
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[ComradeSephiroth]

Help! The French are coming! Metric is being forced down our throats, we'll be buying 4-liter milk jugs and wearing Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses in 32-degree weather!

[plantucha]

Lyrics here:

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[CuddlyBadger]

I wanna see you do FOOD! Well, you don't have to do the food on camera. But sing about it. I get it in my head every once in a while, after indulging in Wendy's or something spicy and sweet and always in the mood. Like women prior to the 19th Amendment.

[DeirdreLovesYou]

my name is Deirdre ;)

[Nyrmahl]

I like my metric system, but this song is hilarious.

[daniellejudith]

very funny & original. absolutely beautiful. i looked up metric system on youtube trying to remember it because i am doing conversions and proportins for pharmacy tech class. this song makes me want to like metric, thanks

[jnielsen8786]

The comments on this video post are disturbingly somber, given the context. The Four Bitchin Babes are all about comedic music set against the backdrop of popular culture. This is the coolest thing since "Wierd Al" Yankovic.

[77tubuck]

Your Mars Orbiter comment is a BLANKET STATEMENT. No flints song does not mention the Orbiter her song is a satire look at all these people that blow the metric system out of proportion. There are people on both sides of the debate that blow things out of proportion. As per student giving up because they are confused with metric don't teach it.

[SupportWeThePeopleKB]

Flint is correct. Her song refers to the incorrect unit data mix-up put in the computer regulating the Mars Climate Orbiter probe that was to go into orbit Sept. 30, 1999. $125 Million was lost and scientific progress was impeded because the foolish use of dual measurement systems in U.S. culture. The back-up measures to catch the error failed. The cost of this measurement system? The devastating loss of U.S. students who become permanently confused and give up on science and math.

[77tubuck]

Your logic is flawed. If the unit is always specified then engineers should not mistake imperial for metric.

[BayAreaBiker2001]

The units must always be specified. Besides, "deca-" is rarely used. "Kilo-" and "milli-" are much more frequently used. For scientific and engineering work, SI is to be used, which is limited to powers of a thousand.

[77tubuck]

Avynian have you ever been to America. It might surprise you how many places in America the metric system is used. I am not going to worry about America using metric but in Canada there are industries that still use imperial. The conversion factor does not come up in the industries that still use imperial.