The problem I have with metric is when the Canadien stations announce the temperatures in C, I don't know if I need shorts or a jacket.
-Tom
Since the base of the metric system is as arbitrary as it is in imperial, compromise. Let there be ten inches in a foot, and maybe 100 divisions to the inch. Viola! No nasty fractions.
And it may keep all those anti-metric people happy, too, by staying with the words "inches" and "feet."
Last edited by Tony Zona; 06-29-2016 at 10:18 PM.
Here's a real fact.
Of all the countries in the world, only three backwaters still use the archaic Imperial system of weights and measures: Liberia; Myanmar; and the USA.
Further confusing me is that the F150 in the driveway has both metric and SAE nuts and bolts and apparently no rhyme or reason as to where the place them.
I haven't seen an imperial fastener on an american vehicle in 20 years. All of my wrenches are metric, and they fit every bolt I've ever had to remove.
Those same 85% won't be able to understand metric decimal places either.The combination of the insistence on staying with bizarre fractions with the demonstrated inability of 85% of the population to manipulate those fractions defies any semblance of logic or sense.
Gerry
JointCAM
So many reasons to not convert but all the countries that have converted all had the same reasons and still managed to stumble through the conversion. The biggest problem Australia had was when the currency changed and no one was sure how to count it or if they were getting paid too much or not enough. It really was a shock when I opened my first pay packet and found I did not have a clue how much should be in it.
Chris
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening
Those same 85% won't be able to understand metric decimal places either.[/QUOTE]
Gerry; that's a bit of a sad indictment of our modern education system.
Last edited by Stewie Simpson; 06-30-2016 at 1:05 AM.