10 easy. 12 silly.
RM can count to 23 if he takes his socks off.
One hell of a ride.
10 easy. 12 silly.
RM can count to 23 if he takes his socks off.
Should be out riding
*cough* old *cough*Originally Posted by Ixion
Everything based on 10 makes more sense to an untainted mind (10 fingers, 11 toes etc), 12's are only good for those who calculate in circles or those who have had 12's jammed down their through in the short stint at the cool playhouse of learning.
Or of course those really weird people who do maths over multi-bases unary/binary/trinary/quactal/pental/hexal/heptal/octal/noctal/decimal/hexadecimal/tridecibinary and then there's always apples and banana's.
A pint is different to a pint (because american beer is weaker), a ton is different to a tonne, the imperial measurement system isn't standardized at all (apart from its origins of the origonal yard stick which was the distance from some king's nose to the tip of his knob).
Why not go the discovery channel way and say that the hill was as tall as 14.3 jumbo jets stacked end to end on their wingtips?
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NO. Do you really believe we think that?
MpG or Km/l measure efficiency, that's an engineering point of view.
Litres per 100Km measure cost, that's a user point of view.
How much gas will you use on that trip? Divide distance by 100 (easy) and multiply by l/Km.
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There are 2205 lb in a tonne and 2240 lb in a ton - that isn't 10%.
Forget the stupid US measurements, they bastardise every measure they get their hands on and thus can't be relied upon.
Just look at dates (for but one example).
They display time from the longest unit to the shortest, yet dates is all jumbled. Then to avoid confusion invent a "new system" of year/month/day. Why not just use the same system as the rest of the world to avoid confusion? Why create confusion to avoid confusion? Fucked if I know, they're fucken stupid!
Our imperial system was never American.
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Not sure if it's imperial or metric but I've always felt breasts should be measured in BSH's
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I'll provide the standard hand.
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Usually,where an American measurement,spelling etc. differs from the current English equivalent,it is because the American one is the original English variation and in the interim the poms have changed their version- usually on a whim.
e.g. aluminum was the original spelling by the English discoverer of the element.
Exceptions are Franklin's attempt to rationalise spelling - e.g. color
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Well you know what they say..... anything more than 1 BSH is a waste but I reckon my hand would be bigger than your mouth.
(unless you're an Aussie of course)
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Standardise shmanderdise, no one is completely metric or imperial are they ?
My kids have been metric all their lives, but when asked they are 6 foot 2 inches and fourteen stone or whatever.
At the timber yard I get 3 metre lengths of of 2x4 (inches). The chap doing my fence is running it from 1.8 metres down to 4 foot.
What happened to hundred weights.
My wife travels in KGs as in, I was doing 95 kilograms an hour in a 100 Kilogram zone.
Don't blame us we're poms, distance is measured in miles but if you sell veges in Pounds and ounces you get locked up. Whatever works for you I say
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I disagree that Litres per 100 km is a daft measurement. Agreed it's a bit of a mouthful, but it's a measure of fuel consumption rather than its inverse (fuel economy), which makes more sense. If I asked you to weigh an orange and you come back with the number of these oranges that would make up 1 kilogram, I'd tell you to stop being daft.
It's just a question of getting used to it, which many people don't want to do. The claim that mpg is a more intuitive unit than L per 100 km is similar to the claim that the pound is more intuitive than the kilogram: bollocks. It's a question of what people are used to.
If you prefer to deal with fuel economy, then km/L is fine. Just remember the scales cross at 10 (10 L/100 km = 10 km/L) and one doubles as the other halves. Having used both measurements for a while, i find that L/100 km fits my mind better as time passes.
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So you think nobody's noticed your clever subverting of the argument you purport to be making?
A mile is 1/20 the distance a legion can walk in a day, or is that a league? A chain is the length of a cricket pitch. A cubit is the length from someone's elbow to his finger. A furlong is some other thing. So now we have eight bloody units to measure distance, and we've barely started. An inch is 1/12 the length of my penis. A parsec is ...
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Well, if you only consider it the "metric" system then yes I suppose you are right. On the other hand - if you consider the whole system of SI units it does make a lot of sense. It gets rid of all the nasty constants in the equations.
Funnily enough - if Henry I had only had an arm that was ~8.5 cm longer the metric system would have been invented 600 years earlierHow is that for arbitrary?
The meter is, IIRC, founded upon being 1/10.000 of the distance from equator to the north pole.
The imperial system is extremely clever when you have a reasonable tolerance for error and no calculators. All the units can typically be divided by 2, 3, 4 - some even by 7 and 11. This makes it possible to quite easily approximate Pi (22/7) using the different measures.
In this day and age engineering demands precision on such a scale that you will need a calculator anyway - and then the advantage of the imperial system becomes a bother instead. Length - one measure - the meter and if it doesn't fit what you are looking at fit a prefix of your liking.
And the same prefixes are valid for every other measure in the SI system. The only weird thing is that the SI unit for mass is kilograms not grams - but that's about it really.
What's so nice about the SI system is how the units relate, consider the equations: 1) force equals mass times acceleration, 2) work (energy) equals force times distance:
F = m*a <=> [N] = [kg]*[m/s^2]
E = F*dx <=> [J] = [N]*[m] = [kg*(m/s)^2]
No conversion factors needed. I wouldn't even dare to try and write down the equivalents for imperial units
As for being better able to relate to the units - that's bullshit. Nothing but tradition and conditioning. I have a better grasp of what 1.83 meter is than what 6 foot is, simply because I grew up in a place where only the SI system was used. If you want to be able to do precise measurements using your own body you'd need to measure yourself in advance - whether you use metric or imperial.
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But we can't be expected to accommodate people from FornParts. They have all sorts of weird notions. Where would it all end. Half of them don't even drink tea. British is Best, we all know that, so it would be much better for them to change their silly systems to sensible Imperial ones.
One hell of a ride.
That's pretty good. Retort when I think of one.
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