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whatever you grew up with is the best for your personal uses snype
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counterpoint: i grew up with fahrenheit but moved to celsiusland and it only took me about a year to be more comfortable in celsius
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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 and i know it because learning words, and definitions, is not as hard as americans want it to be
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Nov 25, 2014 16:03
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Hearing Americans trying to use inches, pounds and Fahrenheit to do engineering is loving hilarious to anyone not american just FYI. Especially when y'all start confusing pounds mass and pounds force.
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Nov 25, 2014 16:27
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jammyozzy posted:Hearing Americans trying to use inches, pounds and Fahrenheit to do engineering is loving hilarious to anyone not american just FYI. Especially when y'all start confusing pounds mass and pounds force. i'm not sure anyone under 40 actually likes using imperial units for anything outside of casual stuff
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Nov 25, 2014 16:28
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jammyozzy posted:pounds mass and pounds force. I don't believe that you are in regular contact with Americans that are working on something that requires such an esoteric distinction yet still use imperial to express it.
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Nov 25, 2014 16:48
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jammyozzy posted:Hearing Americans trying to use inches, pounds and Fahrenheit to do engineering is loving hilarious to anyone not american just FYI. Especially when y'all start confusing pounds mass and pounds force. i learned about slugs in high school physics sorry that you know some terrible engineers
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Nov 25, 2014 16:52
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I wish I wasn't, but the world ain't perfect. Next up, when is a gallon not a gallon?
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Nov 25, 2014 16:53
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:i learned about slugs in high school physics sorry that you know some terrible engineers i didn't even learn that like literally it was completely metric and maybe "1 inch = 2.5 cm", we didn't do anything with mass or energy or anything like that reminds me, i found out that some extra special engineers tried to develop an imperial unit for electricity that was basically btu-e(lectrical) 
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Nov 25, 2014 16:58
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computer parts posted:i'm not sure anyone under 40 actually likes using imperial units for anything outside of casual stuff frankly i don't really ccare for the imperial system but it's what im surrounded with so it's what i can estimate in, hth
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Nov 25, 2014 17:02
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flakeloaf posted:the olympic swimming pool is a measure of fluid volume, length is measured in football fields I use an Olympic swimming pool as a measure of distance because of literally how many tortured lengths I have had to do. all throughout my life I have been swimming in 50 meter increments, and now whenever I have to estimate the distance of something visually I will do so by comparing it to the size of an Olympic swimming pool.
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Nov 25, 2014 17:41
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lol if 110f is painfully hot u never experienced a desert summer
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Nov 25, 2014 17:45
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Ocrassus posted:I use an Olympic swimming pool as a measure of distance because of literally how many tortured lengths I have had to do. all throughout my life I have been swimming in 50 meter increments, and now whenever I have to estimate the distance of something visually I will do so by comparing it to the size of an Olympic swimming pool. same but agonizing trips to the fridge for another ice cold can of mtn dew
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Nov 25, 2014 17:45
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canada is weird but also the best of all possible worlds, as usual height: feet and inches distance between cities: kilometers speed: km/h dick size and other personal measurements: inches land area: acres furniture: BOTH argh! (thanks ikea) temperature: celcius
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Nov 25, 2014 17:47
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as an american, celsius is better
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Nov 25, 2014 18:13
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please do not pretend to be American. no real American uses celsius
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Nov 25, 2014 18:14
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someone from america please defend using dumb american paper sizes instead of the clearly superior iso 216 standard
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Nov 25, 2014 18:15
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when there are competing ansi and iso standards, ansi is usually correct. a4 is overly long and stupid. you can tell its poo poo because they named it "a4" and everyone calls the correct size for letters "Letter".
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Nov 25, 2014 18:20
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rear end cobra posted:someone from america please defend using dumb american paper sizes instead of the clearly superior iso 216 standard nah i'm with you on paper sizes the metric system is dumb but they have good ideas about paper sizes
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Nov 25, 2014 18:21
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rear end cobra posted:someone from america please defend using dumb american paper sizes instead of the clearly superior iso 216 standard switching would likely involve giving money to hp for new printers
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Nov 25, 2014 18:49
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computer parts posted:i didn't even learn that lol if you use anything but cgs for electrical work
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Nov 25, 2014 18:59
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Metrication posted:drat decimal systems are so dumb base 12 is natural to use *estimates distances in tens of feet* did you know your hands are actually base 11
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Nov 25, 2014 19:01
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on one hand it being 83° right now sounds kinda nice on the other it being 28.7° does not
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Nov 25, 2014 19:01
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you can also encode numbers with your fingers up to 2^10 and I think some ancient central American civilization counted that way but they're all dead so that just goes to show you don't count in base 2
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Nov 25, 2014 19:03
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Beeftweeter posted:on one hand it being 83° right now sounds kinda nice it's actually 83.2° right now
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Nov 25, 2014 19:04
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nobody who doesn't own a train whistle reckons daily temperatures with decimal places
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Nov 25, 2014 19:04
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when has a paper size standard ever had an effect on your life?
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Nov 25, 2014 19:13
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So wait, do the whole US use different size papers than the rest of the world do as well?
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Nov 25, 2014 19:19
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Tin Gang posted:when has a paper size standard ever had an effect on your life? actually for real using A4 instead of letter is really really convenient when doing documents because of how it scales. so at least twice a week if not more
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Nov 25, 2014 19:19
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Tin Gang posted:when has a paper size standard ever had an effect on your life? figuring out which paper goes into which envelope or printing multiple pages per sheet
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Nov 25, 2014 19:21
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American paper still scales it's just your margins get hosed up
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Nov 25, 2014 19:31
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dragon enthusiast posted:it's actually 83.2° right now wunderground uses decimals for celcuius but not fahrenheit because who the gently caress cares in fahrenheit when i used to live up north 28.7° would probably be correct for today too anyway
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Nov 25, 2014 19:44
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oh i guess the decimals depend on the weather station who cares anyway. dirty foreigners thats who
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Nov 25, 2014 19:46
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American paper not only is hosed but has an unpleasing h/w ratio it's too fat
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Nov 25, 2014 19:52
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carry on then posted:lol if 110f is painfully hot u never experienced a desert summer temperature is meaningless without humidity. 110 in the desert isn't as bad as a tropical 90
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Nov 25, 2014 19:58
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is this the thread to complain about america using e26 light fixtures when the rest of the world is on the e27 standard?
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Nov 25, 2014 19:59
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fart simpson posted:is this the thread to complain about america using e26 light fixtures when the rest of the world is on the e27 standard? yes please keep going
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Nov 25, 2014 20:00
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rear end cobra posted:yes please keep going that's about it, really
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Nov 25, 2014 20:03
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light fixtures are easy to replace there's really no excuse not to have whatever size lightbulb you want
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has anyone mentioned dates yet :iamafag:
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