(August 27, 2016 at 5:49 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I am British and have been involved in science and engineering all my life, in these areas almost everyone uses metric units. I have never understood why anyone would use the Fahrenheit scale for temperature, it is so illogical, centigrade is simple - 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling, 20 is room temperature. As far as distance is concerned I find it easy to switch between miles and kilometers, I have no preference. Volume and weight is simple - a cubic meter of water weighs 1 tonne, can't get easier than that!

Centigrade is awful. Why base temperature scale off water of all things?!?

Kalviners represent!

(August 27, 2016 at 4:34 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, there IS the well-known popularity in the US of the 9mm bullet...

Boru

You jest but there are actually a lot of examples of that kind of thing. We use Celsius when talking about CPU temperature, for instance. A more mainstream example is bottles of soft drinks which are more often measured in liters now. You'll see the metric size with the imperial units in parenthesis. Automobile engines are measured in liters of displacement now rather than cubic inches, a trend which began in the late 1970s.

The metric system is slowly sneaking its way in here, one millimeter at a time.

(August 27, 2016 at 9:07 am)Tiberius Wrote: Kalviners represent!

The uprising starts NOW!!!!!

Because "MERKA" that's why.

(August 27, 2016 at 9:07 am)Tiberius Wrote:

(August 27, 2016 at 5:49 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I am British and have been involved in science and engineering all my life, in these areas almost everyone uses metric units. I have never understood why anyone would use the Fahrenheit scale for temperature, it is so illogical, centigrade is simple - 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling, 20 is room temperature. As far as distance is concerned I find it easy to switch between miles and kilometers, I have no preference. Volume and weight is simple - a cubic meter of water weighs 1 tonne, can't get easier than that!

Centigrade is awful. Why base temperature scale off water of all things?!?

Kalviners represent!

Fahrenheit, you furriner here to terk er jerbs.

In all seriousness, I can recall learning metric and some push to get the USA to adopt metric when I was in elementary school - during the Carter administration.

For what has worth, most products are now labeled in both Imperial and metric units, and some like a bottle of water I purchased then other day uses metric as it's primary unit (700ml).

Practically every vehicle I have owned had a speedometer a calibrated primarily in MPH but also indicated KPH. I don't think it's terribly likely the US will change it's roads to kilometers any time soon due to the expense of altering signs, not to mention replacing countless mile markers.

Other than that, bring it.

I personally have no problem adjusting to metric when I travel outside the US. YMMV. The trick is to stop trying to do the conversion to Imperial and simply embrace the new unit.

P.S. Celsius sucks. Fahrenheit, fuck yeah!

We still enjoy reading our press clippings....



Yellowing though they are!

(August 27, 2016 at 4:01 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: Not to mention all the cars that use imperial measurements.

Unless it's an exclusively American or british model, there won't be any costs, since they're already produced for abroad, using the metric system.

(August 27, 2016 at 5:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We still enjoy reading our press clippings....



Yellowing though they are!

Yea Minn, I love you dude, but that was then and this is now. We are unfortunately great at lots of bad things now, such as being behind in modern mass transportation, education, and pay gap, gun violence,  compared to many of our other allies.

Couldn't agree more.



Which I think you missed the first time.

(August 27, 2016 at 9:07 am)Tiberius Wrote:

(August 27, 2016 at 5:49 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I am British and have been involved in science and engineering all my life, in these areas almost everyone uses metric units. I have never understood why anyone would use the Fahrenheit scale for temperature, it is so illogical, centigrade is simple - 0 is freezing, 100 is boiling, 20 is room temperature. As far as distance is concerned I find it easy to switch between miles and kilometers, I have no preference. Volume and weight is simple - a cubic meter of water weighs 1 tonne, can't get easier than that!

Centigrade is awful. Why base temperature scale off water of all things?!?

Kalviners represent!

Shouldn't it be Dimeigrade or Quarterigrade with the rising costs over the decades? HA...... I made a funny.