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why fall in line with everyone else?

for example, me, i'm putting up a festivus pole insead of a christmas tree.

but that means you're falling in line with seinfeld

the nasa thing was something about them being given info from the people that built an instrument in ONE system, but thinking it was in the OTHER. if you backwater hicks had switched to the system of the educated intelligensia (metric) that never would have happened

Bandalero wrote:metric sucks....plain and simple.

think about it, your going 100 miles per hour or:
your going 100 kilometers an Hour.

which one sounds more sexy? miles of course it does. so to you! biatch!

Typical American response?

happeningfish wrote:the nasa thing was something about them being given info from the people that built an instrument in ONE system, but thinking it was in the OTHER. if you backwater hicks had switched to the system of the educated intelligensia (metric) that never would have happened

dunbasses should have states a system, not just a number.

50.....50 what? 50 cents, dollars, milimeters, miles, ounces, gallons, what?

another question for you all, do you pronounce it KiLOMeters or kilo-meters? I'm from the praries so i don't call them kilo-meters, even though i'm pretty sure that's the proper way.

yup you're supposed to preserve the pronunciation of "meter" so it's kilo-meter

Bandalero wrote:why fall in line with everyone else?

Because metric is actually logical...?

pfffft who needs logic when you live in TEXAAAAS

Axtech wrote:

Bandalero wrote:why fall in line with everyone else?

Because metric is actually logical...?

so is the Ph scale, and you don't see everyone calling shit acid's or bases.

TexAn baybie, the only way to be.

Who doesn't use the Ph scale for acids and bases?

ok, i'm gonna make acid 5 in the coffee maker, and put some acid 3 in my ice tea. (only you wouldn't call it tea, you'd call it what it ranks on the Ph scale.)

blah...this ice tea is too neutal'ed down.

Using the pH scale when knowing the acidity of something doesn't matter isn't the point.

The point here is to change from one form of measurement to another. This doesn't mean that you should go around measuring things. Just that, when you do measure things, metric is the more logical choice.

Axtech wrote:This doesn't mean that you should go around measuring things. Just that, when you do measure things, metric is the more logical choice.

says...who? the man, that's who......well you know what.....DAMN THE MAN!

*shakes fist in victory*

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i mean c'mon dude, if you want everything universal and logical, then why not use the Ph scale to describe every liquid known to man.

me...i'm a fan of variety. i'll mesure my penis (85) in inches, weight myself in stones, use miles as distance, and use pounds to measure my steak.

um... I'm not saying that whenever you mention something you have to say how many meters it is. Just that it makes more sense to use Metric than Imperial.

so if the rest of the world used "imperial" and we used metric, would you look at us backwards also?

No, because Metric actually makes sense.