We solve that in metric Canada by each drinking our own case.
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“a pint is a pound the world around”
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In anime it’s perfectly standard for people to give their height in centimeters (senpai is 157cm, I hope he notices me this year) and I can only assume the Japanese are at least as conversant in metric as any American is in US customary units.
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157 cm? How old is senpai?
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Using 10’s lack of factors is kind of missing the point. Here, quick - I need to add up 1-13/16", 2-3/4", and 7-7/8". Go ahead and start finding common denominators. Meanwhile, I’ll add up 46mm, 70mm, and 200mm in my head. I need to split up 200mm into thirds? 66.6mm. What’s one-third of 16 inches?
Fuck I don’t know. I use feet and inches.
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Wonderful photos man.
Yes, Everyone else wants to see Paris to see the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre.
I want to see Paris to see the Musée des Arts et Métiers. I know a bit of what is there that place is insane if you are into antique technology. Probably no better museum on Earth for such things. The Brittish museum has a good watch and clock collection, but my favorite so far is the Greenwich Observatory collection, and Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in London (need to get to that one yet).
For those interested in how the metric system’s platinum iridium mass standards were machined to precisely the exact correct size:
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This will come as a shock to the metric defenders, but I paid for my very Non-Scientific university degree by working as a grunt in a research laboratory. I spent all day, every day using the metric system to measure ingredients and mix them into precise solutions. Finicky, finicky, finicky. My co-workers, who were all ‘real scientists’, were the sloppiest, most lackadaisical, incompetent radiation-spillers I have have ever encountered. They couldn’t do simple math in their head, they had only a shaky grasp of basic chemistry, and were deliberately unsafe in their procedures. Proponents extol the precision of the metric system, but any system of measurement was doomed to failure in the hands of those idiots.
Around the house, I never use the metric system. Why knock yourself out when a margin of 1/8th of an inch is plenty precise? Just so you can say, ‘It’s METRIC!’
My car is metric. My metric tools are commingled with my ‘murrican’ tools, and so are the tools of my metric-raised neighbor. After living in the US for about 16 years, he’s become ‘bilingual’ in measurement systems.
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This reminds me of the storyline in Veep where Jonah wants to outlaw teaching math in schools because it was invented by Muslims. You can’t even make satire any more.
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In Australia they call a half liter metric pint. I´m okay with that.
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Don’t forget to twist at exactly the correct moment.
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I never thought of it that way but metric can feel like the switch to digital in time. To this day I still waste 20ms of neuron time considering whether I should say it’s 5:58 or just call it 6 like you would have in the old days.
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That’s going on my shopping list. And thanks for adding the Australia beer size decoder earlier.
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If we switched to the metric system I’d never be able to understand my great-great-great-grandmother’s cookie recipes!
- 4 lumps of butter
- 1 tumblerfull of flour
- gill of blackstrap
- goblet of milk
- pinch o’ th’ devil’s ward
Mix and bake for twice a round o’ able wickets.
Thank goodness “our history has been preserved” and we all understand exactly how to make these cookies now. Down with the metric system!
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In the Computer Age, shouldn’t we use hexadecimal units?
There are 0x10 ounces in a pound or pints in a peck.
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So that would mean there are 0x3D8 farthings in a Guinea. Simple.
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this stuff?
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You should have “number 3 can” (of yams or what have you) in there…
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