Ask a Yank of the Day
Ask a Yank of the Day
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- eryx8
Why cant you just use the fucking metric system!
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- Fucking right.Continuity
- hey canada...what's your height and how much do you weigh?hotroddy
- canada: 5'10" and 160 poundshotroddy
- Hey Mike Weir, how far do you hit your driver?hotroddy
- Mike Weir: I hit an average 290 yardshotroddy
- The metric system issue is a microcosm of America.CyBrainX
- *walks a mile to the pub to get a pint of ale and pays in hundred penny pounds at 12:00pm, sits down and posts a snarky comment about the US lack of MetricNairn
- What's the problem with no metric systems ? stop being a cunt********
- The imperial system of units (and anyone who uses it) can suck my dick********
- That's the thing though - on some scales, inches just make more sense than as-arbitrary metric cms.Nairn
- So in your case, BabyDick - what are we looking at here - half an inch?Nairn
- Measuring anything with rocks and body parts is a vulgar insult to the intelligence.Continuity
- can't even wear a mask, as if they going to change the way they measure things.inteliboy
- Rocks? Probably. Body parts... why? Metric is entirely arbitrary, measurement on a human scale can be more intuitive with 'imperial'Nairn
- I'm totally metric (and definitely well mexico) but a 'craftsperson' made me realise recently that inches and feet have their place in some contexts.Nairn
- Continuity nobody is measuring with body parts though. Don’t be ridiculous.monospaced
- Not explicitly, but inches work with hand scales and feet with limbs, yards with general heights of people. As approximations, they kinda work.Nairn
- Like, I know what a 6 foot drop is, but 1.8 isn't quite so meaningful. They're both useless in their own ways, but still we have meanings ascribed to them.Nairn
- I still fucking hate it when people send me files based in Imperial units and describe them as such on the phone or emails or whatever. Twats.Nairn
- 'nobody is measuring with body parts though' Really? What's a foot, then, other than a body part?Continuity
- Hotroddy. We use both. The only reason we still use imperial is cuz we trade with US. Otherwise we will be using metric.pango
- What would really make me happy is if Canada switched 100% to ISO216/DIN paper sizes. But, again, US trade ...Continuity
- They're measurements. Who cares. We'll follow you rules when you're in your space :)toemaas
- ^ lol. I'll believe that when I see it.Continuity
- I've Spent about 8 months in EU over the course of my adulthood and love your ways, even you measurements. But like a different language, you learn to use it.toemaas
- it's a proud boy thang.dibec
- Fahrenheit is better for weather, who fuckin caresnb
- ^ How?
If 0C⁰, shits gonna freeze. Simple as that.pango - Yes..Celsius is much more intuitivehotroddy
- Anyone who defends the imperial system in 2020 is a dumb ass.********
- Hotroddy I agree with you.pango
- A foot is a distance. Not a body part. Nobody is using body parts. Don’t be ridiculous.monospaced
- Eat a foot of dick, mono********
- I fucking hate a place where an asshole like me isn't banned.********
- cause they prefer to have 7 inch instead of 17,78 cm though they could say it measures 18 cm aprox.oey_oey
- yeah mono eat a foot of dick like a baby dick had one foot...LOL!oey_oey
- Uh, OK, mono.
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Fuck me, you're thick.Continuity - Thick? Please. Nobody uses a body part to take measurements, that’s ridiculous. Unless you are prohibitively literal you could understand.monospaced
- That’s like saying you weight things with stones. You would reply “no, a stone is a weight, we don’t actually use rocks to measure. That’s ridiculous.” Samemonospaced
- Obviously nobody uses their foot just like nobody uses rocks. Maybe once upon a time nearly lost in history it was done and set, but that’s the extent.monospaced
- stop using foot and rocks!pango