Re: "Let's Get Metric"

Can we please stop using an antiquated system that is old and naturally confusing. To one, simple, elegant, and naturally easy to understand? How 'bout it people?

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• metric
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• english
• Sparkygravity

[perunatic]

The problem with the metric system is that it does not relate to human capabilities.

a pound of sugar is the amount that an average family would consume in one week. three pounds of potatoes would last a family for about the same. Both quantities were based on the average persons ability to carry a certain amount of weight for a certain amount of time.

[Sparkygravity]

ah... it all makes sense now.

Man! I never realized I ate that many potatoes, scary.

[mainchow10]

@perunatic Yeah but the metric system has some human standards too. 1 liter is how much water I drink every day. 100 kg and above is very obese or muscular for humans. 120 km/h and above is very fast for a car. 60 kg is how much mass I have. For temperature, 0-10 is cold, 10-20 is cool, 20-30 is normal, 30-40 is hot, and 40 and above is desert heat.

[navylaks2]

@syalcin123

Do it now, you guys need jobs right well it's gonna take an awfull lot of workers to change everything to metric so give them that to do.

[syalcin123]

switching to metric is a long process, can take 50 years but in the end it will benefit economy

[Vot63]

"reason why many English people are so ugly"

That's comming from a Yank blimp with neon teeth, wearing bad sports clothes. 

[SanityPrudence]

@perunatic

Ah all those robots in the world? Fortunately, we Americans (and Brits too I suppose) are the last standing humans.

For every example that has a customary unit (say a pound) as a value that is human, there are more that are not; in which case the customary system becomes as non-human as metric.

Also these human values are not exact values (its always "about") and metric equivalents almost always fall within the "human" values.

There are better reasons to not use metric; not this.

[Ashbury2193]

I support the metric system, but then I'm Australian and we changed to the metric system over 30 years ago. Believe me, it's not such a big deal to use metrics. They're really quite straightforward.

[Kjxx1]

That's why it's called an island; imperial system, driving on the left side of the road and paying in pounds plus inbreed, reason why many English people are so ugly.

[ModWeekly]

Imperial all the way. From the UK!

[klicka83]

Let's get metric America, it's easy and smart, Let's us it. American's need to get out of the Comfort zone.

[cymruman123]

i am from australia and we have used the metric system since mid 1960's when i went to america it was like for me going back 40 years come on america change for the good of the world