|
echinopsis posted:the point is that you're clinging onto the tiniest of threads and all you have left is that you like your one because on a average day its between 0 and 100. in texas the highest speed limit is 85mph and people regularly drive 95-100 on that road so mph suits my needs in this regard thanks
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 12:31
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 05:45 |
|
|
Doc Block posted:when has anyone ever needed to know this? it's like when metric people try to prove how clever they are by asking how many rods are in a mile or something. 1000?
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 12:38
|
|
|
no im right
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 12:39
|
|
|
see? owned. whereas everybody can remember 5280 in a mile, or 212 is water boiling metric is easily confusing because all the numbers are the same just with zeroes on the end imperial gives you interesting numbers that are easy to memorize
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 12:41
|
|
|
nobody will debate that driving a beautiful scenic mountain road with dips and turns is less boring than driving i-70 across west kansas' endless flat cornfields. metric is those cornfields. just seas of zeroes and zeroes to bore you and cause you to make some easy mistakes because you didnt move a decimal point correctly. imperial measurement = safety through awareness
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 12:42
|
|
|
wow imperial is your one direction huh
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 12:51
|
|
|
echinopsis posted:the point is that you're clinging onto the tiniest of threads and all you have left is that you like your one because on a average day its between 0 and 100.
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 13:17
|
|
|
can we all just agree kibibytes are loving stupid?
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 13:20
|
|
|
Tin Gang posted:can we all just agree kibibytes are loving stupid? i am going to start measuring distance in kibifeet just to make everyone in this thread mad.
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 13:23
|
|
|
5.15625 kibifeet in a mile 60 mph is roughly 310 kibifeet/hour, so the conversion works out to be a nice non-power of ten imperial conversion number. EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Nov 25, 2014 |
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 13:25
|
|
|
celcius is excellent and america is not very good 
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:02
|
|
|
Metrication posted:celcius is excellent and america is not very good
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:27
|
|
|
Metrication posted:celcius is excellent and america is not very good
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:27
|
|
|
metric sucks because they sell a 500ml bottle for the same price as a 20oz
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:33
|
|
|
my arbitrary dad could totally measure up to your arbitrary dad also i came to say nobody uses hecto and then i remembered that's what a hectare is
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:41
|
|
|
this thread is retarded as hell jfc
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:47
|
|
|
Doc Block posted:point was that 0 - 100 F is the range of temps humans commonly live in/experience. actually it's -40 to 40c hth
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:49
|
|
|
I brought myself down to the level of defending my home countries measurement system on the basis of aesthetic appeal of scale and it owned me never again
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:50
|
|
|
Metrication posted:celcius is excellent and america is not very good
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:51
|
|
|
echinopsis posted:I brought myself down to the level of defending my home countries measurement system on the basis of aesthetic appeal of scale and it owned me the trick is just to say the thing that works for you is by definition good and then pack a few handfuls of oatmeal in with the mealworms
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:52
|
|
|
computer parts posted:90% of the metric system is completely arbitrary lol what's a kilogram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram#Stability_of_the_international_prototype_kilogram quote:What has become clear after the third periodic verification performed between 1988 and 1992 is that masses of the entire worldwide ensemble of prototypes have been slowly but inexorably diverging from each other. It is also clear that the mass of the IPK lost perhaps 50 µg over the last century, and possibly significantly more, in comparison to its official copies. turns out we have no idea! gently caress it, add more zeros because anything other than base 10 is hard what's a meter? quote:The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. yeah cool let me measure that in my house and then add more loving zeros the metric system is exactly as stupid as the imperial system
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 14:55
|
|
|
A Wheezy Steampunk posted:lol what's a kilogram except when casually used it is substantially easier. the maths underlying it's measurement may be more complex, but for the layman who gives no shits they can comfortably state that there are a 100 centimetres in a meter. to the dude who was saying 'what is a hexameter' or whatever, who the gently caress in their day to day use of measurements uses loving hexameters you clot. none of this applies to me since I measure distance by Olympic swimming pools. a neurotic ai fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Nov 25, 2014 |
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:00
|
|
|
Ocrassus posted:wifi finically lol same
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:02
|
|
|
i wonder if anyone had done an experiment with imperial and metric users to see who can more accurately estimate volume, distance etc with their respective system
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:06
|
|
|
Ocrassus posted:
the olympic swimming pool is a measure of fluid volume, length is measured in football fields
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:06
|
|
|
Ocrassus posted:to the dude who was saying 'what is a hexameter' or whatever, who the gently caress in their day to day use of measurements uses loving hexameters you clot. right so you can't then go "lol the imperial system has furlongs" everyone knows 12 inches are in a foot and four quarts are in a gallon and 4 and 12 are numbers just as easy to work with as 10
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:07
|
|
|
Jonny 290 posted:nobody will debate that driving a beautiful scenic mountain road with dips and turns is less boring than driving i-70 across west kansas' endless flat cornfields. metric is those cornfields. just seas of zeroes and zeroes to bore you and cause you to make some easy mistakes because you didnt move a decimal point correctly. imperial measurement = safety through awareness so you're saying your posts are metric?
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:09
|
|
|
when you use fahrenheit you can set your thermostat to 69 degrees proof is in the pudding
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:14
|
|
|
A Wheezy Steampunk posted:lol what's a kilogram p much because all measurement systems are arbitrary for good-enough measurements you can take 111 moles of hydrogen, burn them to make water and derive the other units from the litre of water you get out of that
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:18
|
|
|
.lnk to the past posted:when you use fahrenheit you can set your thermostat to 69 degrees yeah it proves that its a joke of a system!!!
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:19
|
|
|
drat decimal systems are so dumb base 12 is natural to use *estimates distances in tens of feet*
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:21
|
|
|
Metrication posted:drat decimal systems are so dumb base 12 is natural to use *estimates distances in tens of feet* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6xJfP7-HCc
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:23
|
|
|
And be it remembered that the iron yard of our Lord the King containeth 3 feet and no more, and a foot ought to contain 12 inches by the right measure of this yard measured, to wit, the 36th part of this yard rightly measured maketh 1 inch neither more nor less and 5 yards and a half make a perch that is 16 feet and a half measured by the aforesaid yard of our Lord the King.
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:31
|
|
|
iron yard sounds better
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:32
|
|
|
my stepdads beer posted:'hello this is my horse he is 16 hands and 4 stone i love him a lot' unironically this
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:35
|
|
|
i'll show you my iron yard 
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:36
|
|
|
Metrication posted:i'll show you my vale yard
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:38
|
|
|
.lnk to the past posted:when you use fahrenheit you can set your thermostat to 69 degrees i could set my thermostat to 69c and things would definitely get hot 
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:42
|
|
|
Doc Block posted:fahrhehnheiht 0 is freezing 10 is not 20 is warm 30 is hot hth
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:43
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 05:45 |
|
|
flakeloaf posted:the olympic swimming pool is a measure of fluid volume, length is measured in football fields or rhode islands
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2014 15:43
|
|
