Finally an example of where the American measurement system makes more sense

Herdfan said:
But as long as they keep doing that, we will keep having to have both.

There really is no good reason to have both. If I had to choose one, I would pick Metric every day.
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No argument here. If things in the US would switch to Metric, we wouldn't need the imperial sets anymore. :)

Edit: Oh - and when it comes to cooking - I convert everything that makes sense to mass whenever I make it, I update the recipe. It's more precise for things like flour or even looser things such as chopped walnuts or cherries.
 
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fischersd said:
No argument here. If things in the US would switch to Metric, we wouldn't need the imperial sets anymore. :)
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What’s crazy is most of our auto manufacturers use metric. It’s the small manufacturing companies that seem to be stuck on it.


fischersd said:
Edit: Oh - and when it comes to cooking - I convert everything that makes sense to mass whenever I make it, I update the recipe. It's more precise for things like flour or even looser things such as chopped walnuts or cherries.
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I help my wife make product for her farmer’s markets. But my cookie dough was different than hers even though we followed the same exact recipe.

Turns out I picked flour and brown sugar a bit tighter than her. So I had her weigh it every time she made them. Averaged the weights and landed on a good number to make it repeatable.
 
As an engineer who had to often deal with both types of measurements, I say you are all commies. Neither system is inherently better, and it’s easy to convert from one to the other in your head. Moreover, once we give in and accept the commie “metric” nonsense, the next thing to go will be paper sizes, and we’ll have to cope with “a4” or whatever the hell that nonsense is.

Just stop it, people. Metric is stupid, and is biased against people with fewer or more than 10 fingers, and is not inherently superior to base-12 or any other system.
 
Yoused said:
old school
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Wow! Quite literally old school. Think they circulated conversion tools like that in grade school. Our rulers had inches on one side and cm on the other. Heh....and they were a foot long and made of wood. (my grade 7 English teacher liked to use one that had a brass edge - every so often it would break the skin when she was rapping someone on the knuckles for not paying attention in class). :D

*sniff*. None of the kids that came after us got to enjoy those....or the "strap" that the principal used in the office. We were SO lucky! ;)

Wait...it seems that corporal punishment is still alive and well.

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Heh - I was trying to find a funny corporal punishment satirical cartoon.... :)

Edit: Maybe if you stop letting the teachers hit the kids, they'll stay in school longer and not grow up to be MAGATS? :D
 
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