Why can't we adopt the metric system?

[TheRealEddie]

I'm tired of running from store to store looking for metric hardware for my car and racing kart. I usually wind up buying hardware that isn't the right length but right diameter and pitch because the selection of metric hardware blows. I then have to cut down everything to the right length.

The metric system just makes sense, a decimal system not some back ass system with units in weird fractions of two, like twelths, sixteenths, etc.

Damn I hate Home Depot and Loews..they shut all the other local stores out of business and Petboys is no better for parts.


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[TheRealEddie]

Grandpa's car gets 0.0025 miles per gallon. :)

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[mdr55]

Because the metric system is un-American. Why would you give the Europeans a voice in our test and measurements system. Our system of measurement may not be popular but it's right.

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Cause ours is better.

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[Aggie]

Cause we're lazy arrogant Americans, dammit.

When I ask a dude what he's workin' with, hearing "A big 22.86 centimeters baby," just doesn't sound as good as 9 inches. But that's just me.

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[Snoogans]

arent grams metric?



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[newport king]

yeah but if we're talking drugs, would you rather have a couple grams or a pound?

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[Snoogans]

yea but i can only break pounds down to grams.
i know a pound is 16 ounces and an ounce is 28 grams

i dont know what ounces break to in the english system

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I heard we would lose gravity and float off into space.

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cuz its french.




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[TheRealEddie]

They don't let gays adopt.


oh yeah? Tell him that!

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[JPMNICK]

I went to an enginering college. We basically used the metric system for everything. Physics and chemistry - mostly all the problems are based off of the metric system. when you use it, it is SO much easier than our stupid system with base 12. everything there is base 10. its very easy to convert and there are (should be) less errors on small calculations.

when i do work in my house, hanging pictures, anything, I always work in metric. I find it way easier than breaking shit into 16ths and 32's depending on the ruler and then doing the quick mental conversions. and i am not a stupid person, but naturally the metric system makes more sense. we have 10 fingers, not 12.

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[monkeysweat]

Because the metric system is un-American. Why would you give the Europeans a voice in our test and measurements system.

But the American system is European. The official name is the English Measurement System. So, actually, the Europeans have their voices all over the test and measurement system.



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[SpicyMcHaggis]

Why can't we adopt the metric system?


Because you touch yourself at night.

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They don't let gays adopt.


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[nickeye]

Try switching to these sayings without sounding like a dick:

Give him 2.54 centimeters and he'll take 1.6093 kilometers.
I'm willing to go the whole 8.2296 meters.
It hit me like 907.18 kilograms of bricks.

Or go to the baseball game and order a 3.048 decimeter-long hot dog. You'll probably get a lugie on it.


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[East Side Dave]

If we change to the metric system will that screw up the dimensions of a football field? It better not! My team's playing Chuck Floyd's team this sunday!!

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[TheRealEddie]

If we change to the metric system will that screw up the dimensions of a football field? It better not! My team's playing Chuck Floyd's team this sunday!!


Think about how great it would be! It would make for higher scoring games since you won't have to run as far. A football field would only be 91.44 meters!

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Did you know that Jon Bon Jovi owns an arena-league football team??? Whew! Is there anything he can't do???

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[Doctor Manhattan]

Because the metric system is un-American. Why would you give the Europeans a voice in our test and measurements system.
But the American system is European. The official name is the English Measurement System. So, actually, the Europeans have their voices all over the test and measurement system.

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[mdr55]

Because the metric system is un-American. Why would you give the Europeans a voice in our test and measurements system.
But the American system is European. The official name is the English Measurement System. So, actually, the Europeans have their voices all over the test and measurement system.

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<b>The world since 1970: Green = metric, black = English Imperial system: the US and our buddies Liberia and Burma</b>


BUSH: I've got to respond to that. YOU tell Liberia we're going Alone!! And Burma is part of that coalition too. It may not be popular, but it's the right thing to do.

KERRY: What the president is not telling you is that the U.S. makes about 98% of that coalition. I have a plan to help convert our test and measurement system without going metric.

BUSH: :confuse:



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[furie]

If God wanted us to use the metric system, there would have been 10 apostles instead of 12.


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[Doctor Manhattan]

If God wanted us to use the metric system, there would have been 10 apostles instead of 12.

I think not:

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[nickeye]

Does anyone else remember the particularly creepy Schoolhouse Rock about a twelve-fingered alien that uses a base-12 numbering system? I don't know why, but that one and the "Figure 8" one really spooked me.

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[TheRealEddie]

If God wanted us to use the metric system, there would have been 10 apostles instead of 12.


Hmm, the God of the old Testament (the vengeful one) would be pro-metric since he laid out ten commandments. But the God of the new testament is clearly pro-english system, afterall Jesus did choose 12 apostles as you pointed out.

Man, me and my blasphemous mouth. I am going straight to hell. I just know it.

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[Iamnotatool]

Why can't we adopt the metric system?



Because we aren't foreign. You don't like it, there's the door.

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Why can't we adopt the metric system?

Because when it grows up it will search out its birth parents.



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