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That's how I feel about the metric system and don't push it too much -- nm

Posted by Zorcàs (aka zork) Jul 1 '14, 11:40

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working in healthcare, I love the mcg/mg/gram/kg relationship. but metrics will never win for me till they get rid of that crazy celsius stuff -- nm - dogbert Jul 1, 11:45 3
- Plus, centimeters are too short. They need to be longer. - prayformojo Jul 1, 11:56 2
  - length has too many unused catagories (decimeter, hectometer) so I'll never use it, but I'll be willing to at least try it once celsius is gone -- nm - dogbert Jul 1, 12:02
  - Or shorter, with no goalie. -- nm - Ender Jul 1, 11:59
I understand the metric system, I just think it is a crass simplification for something that is not broken. -- nm - Spawnaldo Jul 1, 11:44 16
- Plus, until they convert to measuring time in Centidays they're all hypocrites. -- nm - Ender Jul 1, 12:01 3
  - no see, we just have to decrease the time of a second by a factor of 11.6, then we can have 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour, and 100 - mafaça Jul 1, 12:07 1
    - Strictly speaking, we'd probably have to go with ~3 milliyears per present-day day. -- nm - Ender Jul 1, 12:14
  - xactly -- nm - prayformojo Jul 1, 12:03
- The metric system is a bit more intuitive, being in base 10. And it has a basis in naturally occurring phenomena. - TWuG Jul 1, 11:47 1
  - except that basis is flawed since the measurements were incorrect when they created the system -- nm - decline Jul 1, 11:52
- I readily admit metric is better but I want it to become status quo the day after I die. - David Jul 1, 11:46
- unless you do math with units. then it's broken. -- nm - mafaça Jul 1, 11:45 8
  - pixie? -- nm - Spawnaldo Jul 1, 11:46 7
    - the metric system is superior in all conceivable ways. -- nm - mafaça Jul 1, 11:47 6
      - 480p is superior in all conceivable ways. -- nm - hqmeister si Jul 1, 11:53
      - hint - Spawnaldo Jul 1, 11:48 4
        
        I don't hate your inferior system, I feel compassion toward you for clinging to it. -- nm - mafaça Jul 1, 11:51 1
        
        Metric is the co-ed of students. - Spawnaldo Jul 1, 11:56
        
        Spawn is the new pixie -- nm - Roger More Jul 1, 11:48 1
        
        Even with the Joker finally dead, Batman is still Batman. -- nm - Spawnaldo Jul 1, 11:54

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