View Full Version : ATTN: USA
convert to the metric system, you stubborn fucks.
ok i'll get right on that
i'm sorry i'm holding up the process, you're right to be mad at me for the USA's reluctance to convert to the metric system, i don't know what i'm thinking
TimDoolan
10-08-2006, 01:05 AM
NO
ericlee
10-08-2006, 01:06 AM
I can see for kilometers and kilometers
I can see for kilometers and kilometers
I can see for kilometers and kilometers
Eh, no thanks. That song would sound like shit if we changed to the metric system.
birdfloatindown
10-08-2006, 01:16 AM
Never gonna happen. Fahrenheit can kick Celsius' butt, any day of the week.
insertnamehere
10-08-2006, 01:27 AM
i wish we would, it makes a lot more sense. except it doesnt actually make sense to me because im not familiar with it, but the concept of it seems to make more sense. and then i woudlnt have to do annoying conversions for physics problems becaue the professor wouldnt have the option of giving us the information in pounds and miles when i need kilograms and meters for my formulas
I can see for kilometers and kilometers
I can see for kilometers and kilometers
I can see for kilometers and kilometers
Eh, no thanks. That song would sound like shit if we changed to the metric system.
oh i would walk 805 kilometers and i would walk 805 more
just doesn't have a ring to it
ericlee
10-08-2006, 02:06 AM
oh i would walk 805 kilometers and i would walk 805 more
just doesn't have a ring to it
yeah exactly and then they'd probably have to make an extended track because they'd have to lengthen the, bdah dah, bdaha part.
Actually, unless I'm mistaken - congressed passed some kind of statement saying that we would switch to metric in like the 70's. We just never did since there were so many things that needed switching and no one wanted to be the first.
Pres Zount
10-08-2006, 02:34 AM
Who is inches? That is shit.
The Notorious LOL
10-08-2006, 02:38 AM
the law was we would convert once Canada became not so gay anymore....
WE'RE STILL WAITING! ;)
mikizee
10-08-2006, 03:06 AM
celcius is way better than fahrenheit.
its easy.
0= freezing
100= boiling
what could be more easy than that??
korn_phr33k
10-08-2006, 03:22 AM
Actually, unless I'm mistaken - congressed passed some kind of statement saying that we would switch to metric in like the 70's. We just never did since there were so many things that needed switching and no one wanted to be the first.
yeah we tried that once, and we found out we're stubborn and fear change.
HEIRESS
10-08-2006, 09:46 AM
only those fresh to the system say kilometers
I usually say "the speed limit is 80 klicks" or "the speed limit is 80 K"
saying kilometers everytime is hard work man
jackrock
10-08-2006, 11:14 AM
celcius is way better than fahrenheit.
its easy.
0= freezing
100= boiling
what could be more easy than that??
exactly! What's this 32=freezing bullshit?
yeah we tried that once, and we found out we're stubborn and fear change.
Actually, I looked into it more after posting that and there's a lot more to it. All the land in the united states is divided up using the English system. If you changed all our measurements to metric suddenly all the road grids quit making sense and nothing adds up to even amounts anymore. It's not as much of an obvious problem in urban areas, but out where farms are divided into one mile squares it gets really tricky.
Lyman Zerga
10-08-2006, 07:15 PM
ATTN: American Guys!
stop being so hot or park your place closer to mine, thats the deal
TurdBerglar
10-08-2006, 07:17 PM
the only thing we use in metric is for soda bottles and car engine displacement.
it's funny becuase i can understand that a 5 liter engine is a pretty big engine but i have no idea about cubic inches
Schmeltz
10-08-2006, 08:26 PM
I usually make it down to the States every spring break and nothing makes any sense to me. When someone tells me it's 72 degrees outside I have no idea what I'm supposed to think. Fahrenheit is the stupidest fucking idea ever created.
That said, I think feet/inches and pounds/ounces are good ways to measure certain things. Cooking is way easier when you use ounces instead of grams or millilitres. It just feels more sensible somehow.
I usually make it down to the States every spring break and nothing makes any sense to me. When someone tells me it's 72 degrees outside I have no idea what I'm supposed to think. Fahrenheit is the stupidest fucking idea ever created.
we're sorry! jesus! it's what we were raised with, leave us alone
Lyman Zerga
10-08-2006, 09:18 PM
ATTN: American Guys!
stop being so hot or park your place closer to mine, thats the deal
for months i dreamed to make a thread about this problem but im not tough enough
the explaination why my posts never fit to the rest of the thread
mikizee
10-09-2006, 02:33 AM
the only thing we use in metric is for soda bottles and car engine displacement.
it's funny becuase i can understand that a 5 liter engine is a pretty big engine but i have no idea about cubic inches
5 litre V8 = 308ci.
5.7 V8 =350ci.
there u go.
Nivvie
10-09-2006, 03:32 AM
The UK pretty much both these days, and it's fine by me.
Food packets have grams written on them, but you ask for things to be measured in pounds and ounces, engineering and medicine work in millimetres and millilitres, road signs, map and speed work in miles, but petrol's sold in litres, what could be simpler?!
celcius is way better than fahrenheit.
its easy.
0= freezing
100= boiling
what could be more easy than that??
Indeed.
Funky Pepp
10-09-2006, 05:28 AM
I'm going to see Metric on 10-22-06 live in Berlin :)
Nivvie
10-09-2006, 10:12 AM
...
3. Change the name of the language from "English" to "Americanish".
No one is stoppping America from making up it's own, entirely unique and therefore entirely their own language.
bigblu89
10-09-2006, 12:20 PM
228.6 Millimeter Nails.
Just doesn't work.
The logo would look rediculous.
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