The Metric System
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- ********0
i measure everything in picas.
for example, on my way in to work this morning i drove a steady 476,901,896 picas per hour.
blaw
(Aug 1 05, 06:16)haha
- bedenken0
I live in Canada and use metric for everything and get a lot of confused faces. We say we're metric here, but we really are not.
It's much easier on the head using a system based on 10.
- blaw0
a 10-based system excels in some aspects, but a 12-based system has it's advantages, too (dividing into thirds).
the best element of the metric system is the millimeter with is pretty much the perfect size small unit of measure.
- tkmeister0
metric rules.
i hate doing all the stupid conversions in imperial.
- Fariska0
especially for inches: 2,54 cm...
if it was 2,5 it would be ok, but these 0,4 mm.....
- ********0
I had to measure grain sizes of rocks to determine their geologic history.
mm's
- 5timuli0
There is an alternative Scottish measurement system still in use today - the 'baw hair'.
"Just move that text box a baw hair to the left."
I think it's a fraction of a millimetre but not sure exactly how much.
- ********0
how is 'baw hair' abbreviated...?
- Jaline0
metric rules.
tkmeister
(Aug 1 05, 06:53)the band too
- Rob_Heat0
I don't know about the other provinces, but in Nova Scotia we were taught to use cm, kg, and litres.
- 5timuli0
Baw hair can be abbreviated to 'bh' or 'ph' depending on how technical you want to get. I'd estimate 3bh or 3ph to be approximately 1mm although it depends on the wiriness and colour of the hair (e.g. blonde bh is slightly narrower that brunette bh). Maybe that makes the abbreviations brbh, brph, blbh, blph and the dreaded gph if you're using the ginger system
- chossy1
The correct measurements
a pickle
a doad
a few
muckle
wee
a baw hair
a hoor of an amount of ______
- ********0
My brain is 2 bh's
- BrigadeDesigns0
It's a wierd mix for printing.
I was taught in points and picas, most of the printers I work with use inches (though I normally make'em work for their fee and send things in picas), and I use metric for most other things.I think we use imperial in Canada (for printing, at the least) because we're connected more to the American priting industry than the UK's
Frankly, if you showed me a piece of A4, I wouldn't know what to do with it.
- BrigadeDesigns0
It's a wierd mix for printing.
I was taught in points and picas, most of the printers I work with use inches (though I normally make'em work for their fee and send things in picas), and I use metric for most other things.I think we use imperial in Canada (for printing, at the least) because we're connected more to the American priting industry than the UK's
Frankly, if you showed me a piece of A4, I wouldn't know what to do with it.
- BrigadeDesigns0
It's a wierd mix for printing.
I was taught in points and picas, most of the printers I work with use inches (though I normally make'em work for their fee and send things in picas), and I use metric for most other things.I think we use imperial in Canada (for printing, at the least) because we're connected more to the American priting industry than the UK's
Frankly, if you showed me a piece of A4, I wouldn't know what to do with it.
- 5timuli0
When working to baw hairs there is a way to get the measurements completely accurate: drop your pants, have a wee shake on the trombone over your proofs and voila! Instant calibration tools!
- Mimio0
Blame those who drive on the wrong side of the road. Thanks god they didn't export that poor idea.
- SOLIDCOLORS0
I like the metric system to, but keep the calculator handy...
1 divided by 8 =
boop beep boop
0.125
- sofas0
also #conspiracy_OTD
I think the US doesn't go metric because it will hurt moral.
It will mean losing face and admitting that the US has a faulted core value and can learn from the rest of the world (that opens a pandora box).
It also helps to keep the US population dumb by making it more difficult for them to understand metric measurements.There are the common claims of the cost of the change, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the long run it costs the US more to maintain the constant conversion, pay for mistakes caused by overlook and faulty conversion and upkeep the isolation of its populus.
- I find it hard to believe lobby groups of scientists, engineers and industrialists that say the metric is bad. They are shillssofas
- I mean who doesn't find it hard to understand 16¾ flangeguts make up one brakflart?face_melter
- Or that it is 1251 chuglards between New York and Los Angeles?face_melter
- LOL @facesofas
- I measure distances in kellicams.Continuity
- I'm metric, but there's a certain inate comprehension in nominated measurements such as inch or feet when working with physical objectsdetritus
- Saying that, i was probably in my early-twenties when I found out what a 'yard' is!detritus
- I learned metric in school in Canada. TBH, I wouldn't know an inch, yard, or pound if it slapped me in the face.Continuity
- My father is convinced we switched to metric to scam more sales tax of people. Somehow.i_monk
- FREEDOM UNITESsofas
- *units :(
https://www.urbandic…sofas - lol, the metric system isn't a core valuemonospaced
- and fucking lol @ insinuating that people in the US aren't able to comprehend the metric system ... absolutely ridiculous.monospaced
- and uber-fucking-lol @ assuming the US uses only the Imperial system ... we use the metric system all the timemonospaced
- Why would anyone want a system based on logical units of 10s, 100s, 1000s etc? I much prefer working in dozens and fractions.ETM
- "Hey Bill, adjust those margins by 0.078in."
"You mean 2mm, Bill?"
"I said 0.078", you twat!"ETM - @mono maybe not core value but very important?
where did I insinuate? didn't mean to.
I know many use it, I meant in general.sofas - sorry if I offended anyone, that wasn't the pointsofas
- it's not a core value, it's just the system brought here by the geniuses in the UK, and which we keptmonospaced
- you insinuated that people are "dumb" because they use the imperial system, and also that it's difficult to learn the metric system, both ridiculous claimsmonospaced
- Isn't there, like, only two places that use Imperial - the US and the 1700's?face_melter
- I think it's easier to lean the metric and people are not dumb if they don't know it, just ignorant, and I don't hold it against themsofas
- "[The Imperial System] also helps to keep the US population dumb by making it more difficult for them to understand metric measurements."monospaced
- "a faulted core value"monospaced
- mono your right, lousy wording on my partsofas