Stones, Pounds, Ounces, Feet and Inches

[Big Gus]

Yeah Imperial measures OK for the UK! Take that Europe!!

And Bob! Strange non metric weights and measures win!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6988521.stm

[insertnamehere]

wait wait wait, so someone besides america still uses the imperial measures? awesome. every science teacher i've ever had has lied to me.

the other day i had a teacher say something was approximatly 64 millimeters, and then asked if anyone knew how big 64 millimeters was. this asian girl held up her fingers a certain distance apart. my teacher then said "you're cheating! you arent from america!"

it was pretty hilarious/unbelievably racist

[jabumbo]

i swear i saw kilometers and shit when i was in london back when. for real?

[QueenAdrock]

I'm having a hell of a time here trying to convert stuff. Go to buy 4 quarts of oil for my car and I have to figure it out in liters, I need to go pick someone up and they're 15 kilometers away, I have to figure out how far that is, etc. etc. Yeah, they make fun of me for knowing miles, pounds, inches, whatever else, but you know what? They measure themselves in pounds, their food in grams. They measure their dicks in inches and everything else in centimeters. If they're going to be snotty about the metric system, they should at least be consistent! :mad:

[hitmonlee]

since americans don't actually use metres and kilometres, do they really need the american-spelt words "meters" and "kilometers"

?

[TurdBerglar]

yes

[jabumbo]

stupid engineering school makes us learn all the basic stuff in both systems

most of my concentrated classes didnt, but it was so much of an annoyance. they would come up at the start of class and say "you won't ever need to use it, but we're going to make you do a couple problems each week in metric just so you learn it"


so i know that the gravitational constant is 9.8 meters per second, but i won't ever have to use that in my life

[hitmonlee]

my housemates and i were watching mythbusters and looked at some of the plans they had with measurements and they looked fucking complicated. it really says a lot about the skill of the people in your country as they can still build things that stay erect with such complicated plans and measurements.

cos there's nothing smaller than an inch right? and you measure in fractions of inches?

[insertnamehere]

i'll have to be honest and show my american ignorance here, sometimes i dont know if a particular measure is metric or imperial. well this thread kind of cleared it up, but when it comes to measures of volume, i really dont know how much that is. like, i know about what a foot looks like, or an inch, but not how much an ounce or a quart is. unless its a familiar package, like "oh look a 20 ounce bottle of coke and a gallon of milk" and then in school they make you use metric for your world problems, and you come up with your answer, and you have no idea if the answer is logical or not because you dont know how fast 30km/hr is.

but all in all, the imperial system seems more appropriate for like, buying things. like quantities of things. if i want 5 feet of rope it's about 5 of my feet. if i want 3 meters of rope, well, who the fuck knows how long that is? not me.

while we're on the topic, fahrenheit is so way better than celcius. much more accurate because 1 degree C is about 2 degrees F. just too bad the guy who made the system had to throw in that 32 degree offset on account of being dumb. that makes it weirder. freezing should be at 0 and not 32. oh well.

[insertnamehere]

my housemates and i were watching mythbusters and looked at some of the plans they had with measurements and they looked fucking complicated. it really says a lot about the skill of the people in your country as they can still build things that stay erect with such complicated plans and measurements.

cos there's nothing smaller than an inch right? and you measure in fractions of inches?

generally if you want to give something smaller than an inch you give centimeters too. its a crazy mixed up world. something could be like, 4 inches 7 centimeters. or you could use fractions. i guess it depends how accurate you want to be. a standard 12 inch ruler usually has centimeter markings. but most tools like socket wrenches will be given sizes like 5/8ths of an inch. so really i dont know if its more common to use fractions of inches or centimeters. dont listen to me.

i <3 mythbusters. i <3 is so much.

[TurdBerglar]

the same people that complain about americans switching up the spellings of english words making them more americanized are the same people that complain about americans still using the original english imperial system...

[hitmonlee]

but all in all, the imperial system seems more appropriate for like, buying things. like quantities of things. if i want 5 feet of rope it's about 5 of my feet. if i want 3 meters of rope, well, who the fuck knows how long that is? not me.

a metre is about the length of one large stride. alternatively, think of tall people as being 2 metres tall and short pepople are 1.5.

[Yetra Flam]

I'm quite fluent in both. Fluent? Is that the right word to use?
I don't know.

[Teh]

stupid engineering school makes us learn all the basic stuff in both systems

most of my concentrated classes didnt, but it was so much of an annoyance. they would come up at the start of class and say "you won't ever need to use it, but we're going to make you do a couple problems each week in metric just so you learn it"


so i know that the gravitational constant is 9.8 meters per second, but i won't ever have to use that in my life

I have never, ever used gravity in any unit other than m/s^2, even on summer jobs, always metric.

Occasionally N/kg^1 :D

[Bob]

stupid engineering school makes us learn all the basic stuff in both systems

most of my concentrated classes didnt, but it was so much of an annoyance. they would come up at the start of class and say "you won't ever need to use it, but we're going to make you do a couple problems each week in metric just so you learn it"


so i know that the gravitational constant is 9.8 meters per second, but i won't ever have to use that in my life

what are you, flying to mars or something?

i know i saw meters when i went to london too. i saw a sign that said "mcdonalds, 50 meters" (it might have been metres)

[Otis Driftwood]

i saw a sign that said "mcdonalds, 50 meters" (it might have been metres)
Mighta been 500 metres, cause those signs always lie.

[roosta]

The german lad i know thinks its hilarious we still use the Imperial system.

Although we have ditched miles on roads and maps and stuff. The rest is still old school.

[Freebasser]

the same people that complain about americans switching up the spellings of english words making them more americanized are the same people that complain about americans still using the original english imperial system...

Not true! I hatehatehate Americanized (sic) words more than anybody, but if I didn't have my miles per hour, my pints of beer or my 12 inch dildo I'd go crazy.

I like the stupid mix of imperial and metric that the UK continues to use (y)

[jabumbo]

a metre is about the length of one large stride. alternatively, think of tall people as being 2 metres tall and short pepople are 1.5.

a yard and a meter are about the same, so thats how i always thought about it. so someone who is 2 meters tall is about 6 feet tall

but the only conversion ever needed is 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters

[Bob]

i wonder what you use that for

[jabumbo]

you know what bob...


you might never know the answer to that

[DandyFop]

to make your dick sound bigger

jabumbo: hey, asl?
cutefeetgirl: 15/f/alabama
jabumbo: cool. Hey my dick is 12.75
cutefeetgirl: :eek:
jabumbo: centimeters
cutefeetgirl: :(

[Schmeltz]

Oh shit our kilogram is shrinking! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_eu/shrinking_kilogram)

[jabumbo]

to make your dick sound bigger

jabumbo: hey, asl?
cutefeetgirl: 15/f/alabama
jabumbo: cool. Hey my dick is 12.75
cutefeetgirl: :eek:
jabumbo: centimeters
cutefeetgirl: :(



15?!?!?


i'm not that bad!

[insertnamehere]

your foot is 12 inches long?

i dont know, i don't have a ruler, but yeah, approximatly. your foot is also roughly the length from your wrist to the inside of your elbow, fwy. when you think of that that way, feet are a lot bigger than they seem. i bet you just looked at your forearm and thought "no way!"... but now put your foot against your arm. yep.

[abcdefz]

i dont know, i don't have a ruler, but yeah, approximatly. your foot is also roughly the length from your wrist to the inside of your elbow, fwy. when you think of that that way, feet are a lot bigger than they seem. i bet you just looked at your forearm and thought "no way!"... but now put your foot against your arm. yep.



Holy crap.

You're right -- I wouldn't have thought that.

[abcdefz]

Mine almost hits my knuckles, and my feet ain't that big.

And my arms aren't particularly short, I don't think.

I don't think.

[insertnamehere]

i just tried it and it nearly reaches my wrist from the inside of my elbow, but then i measured the inside of my arm to my wrist and it only measures 8 1/4 inches

eh well you're tiny. i have biggish feet for a girl. i think like on the big size of average, not freakish big.

i generally wear a size 9, but according to my adidas shelltoes that im wearing at the moment, it's an 8.5 US, and a 7UK. my kangaroos are a 9 US and a 7 UK, my adidas running shoes are a 9.5 US and an 8 UK.... hmm.... this is odd

[insertnamehere]

using a sheet of paper with known dimensions as a reference, im now guessing that my feet are about 8.5-9 inches long.

i guess its guys that usually have feet that are a foot long. makes sense. back when this stuff was created women had no need to measure land.

[insertnamehere]

if by trainers you mean sneakers i figure youd wear like a 6...ish?

*is jealous of crafty's tiny feet*

my feet are crazy wide. like duck feet. stupid feet. :mad:

[insertnamehere]

im about 5'4" as well and my feet are that big :(

[Bob]

man, if i sort of stretch my hand out, i the distance between my thumb and my middle finger is the length of my forearm

[insertnamehere]

whoa me too

[beastieangel01]

I am depressed to discover that I have clown feet.

thanks.

[jabumbo]

did you guys know that if your hand is bigger than your face, it means you have cancer?

[insertnamehere]

you only tell people that when they're actually in front of you so that when they check you can hit their hand into their face, stupid!

[Bob]

i hit myself in the nose when i went to check