What annoys you the most ? - Page 747

**cuzzyman927** · December 30th, 2015, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cicciobuki

But we metric people find the opposite annoying

1 bottle of milk is 1 liter (well, usually the standard bottles are).
1 liter water is 1 kilogram.
etc.

As for Fahrenheit, i'll admit it has the cooler name, but Celsius is just a lot better. Water freezes? Zero! Easy!

Edit: by the way, what term do you use to devide inches? (your millimeters, so to speak)

Edit 2:
i converted 2 millimeter online and got this:
2mm= 05⁄64in
... what?

Quote:

Originally Posted by sandhunter

5/64 is 1/64 less than 3/32 that's not hard is it ?

I'm from the old school where we were taught the standard measures. All this liter, metric, kilo, centi jargon is as confusing as Chicago's song "25 Are 6 To 4" to me??!!

**trailmaster** · December 30th, 2015, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SanteeFats

I live in Cally and we still have most every thing in good ol" US measures. So I am a bit cornfused, does Illy have most every thing in metric

Illinois like any U.S. state only uses the metric system for some things. Most countries in Europe though use the metric system for everything in daily life!!

**trailmaster** · December 30th, 2015, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cicciobuki

But we metric people find the opposite annoying

Stones, gallons, inches, shillings, and so on, you have to remember alot of different terms and the relationship with eachother.

1 bottle of milk is 1 liter (well, usually the standard bottles are).
1 liter water is 1 kilogram.
etc.

As for Fahrenheit, i'll admit it has the cooler name, but Celsius is just a lot better. Water freezes? Zero! Easy!

Edit: by the way, what term do you use to devide inches? (your millimeters, so to speak)

Edit 2:
i converted 2 millimeter online and got this:
2mm= 05⁄64in
... what?

Touche!!

**Dr Pepper** · December 30th, 2015, 07:17 PM

Don't understand why you would have such issues with it-it's far far more logical than the mishmash of measurements in the old system (or since i'm a kiwi-and a son of the Commonwealth)-the old 'imperial' system of measurement. OK-I was educated as a scientist-so the metric system is ingrained into me-but I grew up with both-NZ adopted the metric system in 1969-when I was still at primary school. My school rulers and geometry set had inches and centimetres on them, milk came in pint bottles, we bought petrol in gallons-real gallons not your stunted US one! and weighed things in pounds, stones, kilograms, hundredweight, and tons. Consumables were often sold in pounds or dozens-or by the gross...

In comparison with such logical measurements as: stones, ells, cubits, rods, perches, tuns and hundredweight-I'll take a simple decimal based metric system any day......and don't forget-that most traditional measure-the mile-derives from the latin 'mille'-the distance covered by a Roman soldier taking 1000 paces.....so a decimal based measure originally...!

some old habits die hard though-I still calculate fuel consumption in 'miles per gallon' rather than 'litres per hundred km'.....

**sydney1** · December 30th, 2015, 09:45 PM

Working on big construction sites as an Engineer, we had to use both systems and it was a bit-like being bi-lingual, after a while you didn't even have to think about working it out,you just knew..

Below is your archetypical Brit working abroad in Germany in the 80s.I should know, I was one of them.

**cuzzyman927** · December 30th, 2015, 10:55 PM

I have a difficult time understanding how and why anyone would consider it easier and simpler saying 0.915 meters instead of just saying 3 feet??

If something is 3 feet long then just say 3 feet and none of this 0.915m BS!

Its hard enough these days just trying to understand some people talking without having them talk metric and having to decipher, convert and calculate numbers!

I guarantee that if you surveyed 100 people on the street and asked them if they honestly understand the metric system, or to convert something from standard to metric, 75-80 of them would not have a clue!

Without a conversion chart and/or a calculator most people, and the average person, would be lost!

**SanteeFats** · December 30th, 2015, 11:35 PM

Geez who cares, every one is used to the measurements where they are so IMO it really doesn't matter.

**cuzzyman927** · December 30th, 2015, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SanteeFats

Geez who cares, every one is used to the measurements where they are so IMO it really doesn't matter.

So sorry if 0.37521 of your hairs got ruffled!

**SanteeFats** · December 30th, 2015, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cuzzyman927

So sorry if 0.37521 of your hairs got ruffled!

Okay back at me.

**thunderfly** · December 31st, 2015, 12:56 AM

It's not one system or the other that bothers me but having to deal with both. Also the fact that I 'grew up' with Imperial measurements but then, when I was a young teenager, metric started to be introduced into the curriculum due, I imagine, to the UK's entry into the Common Market/European Union (thank you Mr Heath). Even today in the UK, most weights and measures are in metric but a few Imperial weights and measures such as miles and pints are still with us. I can also judge things in Imperial. I 'know' what an inch or a foot looks like but I can't really judge things in metric except to say a centimetre is approx 1/2 inch.

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December 30th, 2015, 07:17 PM	#7464
Dr Pepper Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: NZ Posts: 4,056 Thanks: 70,881 Thanked 41,070 Times in 4,047 Posts	Don't understand why you would have such issues with it-it's far far more logical than the mishmash of measurements in the old system (or since i'm a kiwi-and a son of the Commonwealth)-the old 'imperial' system of measurement. OK-I was educated as a scientist-so the metric system is ingrained into me-but I grew up with both-NZ adopted the metric system in 1969-when I was still at primary school. My school rulers and geometry set had inches and centimetres on them, milk came in pint bottles, we bought petrol in gallons-real gallons not your stunted US one! and weighed things in pounds, stones, kilograms, hundredweight, and tons. Consumables were often sold in pounds or dozens-or by the gross... In comparison with such logical measurements as: stones, ells, cubits, rods, perches, tuns and hundredweight-I'll take a simple decimal based metric system any day......and don't forget-that most traditional measure-the mile-derives from the latin 'mille'-the distance covered by a Roman soldier taking 1000 paces.....so a decimal based measure originally...! some old habits die hard though-I still calculate fuel consumption in 'miles per gallon' rather than 'litres per hundred km'..... Last edited by Dr Pepper; December 30th, 2015 at 09:05 PM..

December 30th, 2015, 09:45 PM	#7465
sydney1 Vintage Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,378 Thanks: 10,562 Thanked 27,978 Times in 1,357 Posts	Working on big construction sites as an Engineer, we had to use both systems and it was a bit-like being bi-lingual, after a while you didn't even have to think about working it out,you just knew.. Below is your archetypical Brit working abroad in Germany in the 80s.I should know, I was one of them. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

December 30th, 2015, 10:55 PM	#7466
cuzzyman927 Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Down at the "Y" Posts: 33,073 Thanks: 390,390 Thanked 1,111,748 Times in 36,682 Posts	I have a difficult time understanding how and why anyone would consider it easier and simpler saying 0.915 meters instead of just saying 3 feet?? If something is 3 feet long then just say 3 feet and none of this 0.915m BS! Its hard enough these days just trying to understand some people talking without having them talk metric and having to decipher, convert and calculate numbers! I guarantee that if you surveyed 100 people on the street and asked them if they honestly understand the metric system, or to convert something from standard to metric, 75-80 of them would not have a clue! Without a conversion chart and/or a calculator most people, and the average person, would be lost! __________________

December 30th, 2015, 11:35 PM	#7467
SanteeFats Super Moderator Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Santee, Ca Posts: 60,915 Thanks: 282,079 Thanked 815,435 Times in 60,964 Posts	Geez who cares, every one is used to the measurements where they are so IMO it really doesn't matter.

December 31st, 2015, 12:56 AM	#7470
thunderfly Vintage Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 896 Thanks: 6,620 Thanked 11,388 Times in 896 Posts	It's not one system or the other that bothers me but having to deal with both. Also the fact that I 'grew up' with Imperial measurements but then, when I was a young teenager, metric started to be introduced into the curriculum due, I imagine, to the UK's entry into the Common Market/European Union (thank you Mr Heath). Even today in the UK, most weights and measures are in metric but a few Imperial weights and measures such as miles and pints are still with us. I can also judge things in Imperial. I 'know' what an inch or a foot looks like but I can't really judge things in metric except to say a centimetre is approx 1/2 inch.