Metrication

[Max Rockatansky]

Why I am suddenly feeling a urge to join the anti-metric bandwagon?

[Poiponen13]

My wife drinks them.  Nobody at the marketing department at Celsius is claiming the tagline from Red Bull though.

We should also have "Anti-Fahrenheit" drink, which would have key item in Fahrenheit opposition.

"Fahrenheit, it clips your wings?"

FTFY
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Why I am suddenly feeling a urge to join the anti-metric bandwagon?

Anti-imperial. Let's Go Metric!

[MikeTheActuary]

But in the US, we don't use Imperial measures; we use the American Customary system.

[kalvado]

My wife drinks them.  Nobody at the marketing department at Celsius is claiming the tagline from Red Bull though.

We should also have "Anti-Fahrenheit" drink, which would have key item in Fahrenheit opposition.

"Fahrenheit, it clips your wings?"

FTFY

Kelvin all the way!!!!111

[Scott5114]

Just like degrees Celsius, Celsius the beverage comes in an inconveniently-sized can.

I would guess that Fahrenheit would come in the same size cans as every other North American beverage, thus making them more convenient because everybody else in the United States is drinking out of them.

[tmoore952]

What would be different if metric system had been invented in the UK instead of France?

An interesting question is, what would have happened if the ship carrying the measurement devices from France had actually made it to the US in 1793?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-americas-metric-system

We might have had townships 10km on a side, and sections 2km x 2km.  A metric gallon like Canada has (4L jug).

All in all, US should metricate so that all will be measured in metric in 2050.

I remember when I was in early (US) grade school, almost exactly 50 years ago, we were taught that the metric system was coming. No date was given, but I'm sure the prevailing thought was that it would be by the end of the century at the latest, and likely earlier than that (like 1980).

In my subsequent life and overseas travels since then, I have gotten somewhat comfortable with kilometers, Celsius, and liters, but I always have to convert these in my head to miles, Fahrenheit, and quarts, if just to explain to other people what quantity is meant. I don't think I will ever get to the point where I don't have to do that.

[1995hoo]

Why I am suddenly feeling a urge to join the anti-metric bandwagon?

I'm remembering an old poster that said something like, "We don't need no foreign rulers. Join the fight against metrics." (I remember Cracked Magazine used that line a few times, though I assume it originated somewhere else.)

[Max Rockatansky]

Why I am suddenly feeling a urge to join the anti-metric bandwagon?

I'm remembering an old poster that said something like, "We don't need no foreign rulers. Join the fight against metrics." (I remember Cracked Magazine used that line a few times, though I assume it originated somewhere else.)

Someone on one of the Faceboo road groups recently phrased it as "the tyranny of the Metric System."  I prefer to it more succinctly as "the fight against the tyranny of Poiponen."

[jeffandnicole]

SNL skit this past Saturday night at the American Army Camp in 1777 where the army is reminded that they are fighting to create their own nation, where they can choose their own laws, choose their own leaders, and choose their own system of weights and measurements...

https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?si=2qmLS46ntTdPHpP5

[CtrlAltDel]

That was funnier than I thought it would be.

— And how many yards to a mile?
— Nobody knows.
— Okay, well, how many feet to a mile?
— 5,280, of course. It's a simple number that everyone will remember.

[algorerhythms]

Something feels ironic about this...

[jakeroot]

Something feels ironic about this...

What country are you in? I'm in Japan, only using a VPN when necessary. Video is accessible to me.

[7/8]

Something feels ironic about this...

What country are you in? I'm in Japan, only using a VPN when necessary. Video is accessible to me.

I'm getting this same message in Canada.

[davewiecking]

Something feels ironic about this...

What country are you in? I'm in Japan, only using a VPN when necessary. Video is accessible to me.

I'm getting this same message in Canada.

Works OK for me in Delaware.

[fwydriver405]

Something feels ironic about this...

What country are you in? I'm in Japan, only using a VPN when necessary. Video is accessible to me.

I'm getting this same message in Canada.

Works OK for me in Delaware.

A quick check on this website shows that this video is restricted in a decent number of countries.

[Poiponen13]

UK should fully metricate.

[freebrickproductions]

UK should fully metricate.

I suspect at least a few of the British members here wouldn't entirely disagree, given the fact that it'd bring 'em in line with the rest of Europe and one could argue a half-assed job of metrification is probably worse than barely even starting like the US, given that it'd be much more confusing...

[1995hoo]

UK should fully metricate.

Might be confusing for the rest of the SEC for only one school to do that.

[freebrickproductions]

UK should fully metricate.

Might be confusing for the rest of the SEC for only one school to do that.

Would they be meters rather than yards in football then?

[Big John]

UK should fully metricate.

Might be confusing for the rest of the SEC for only one school to do that.

Why would a Wall Street watchdog group care?

[LilianaUwU]

Something feels ironic about this...

What country are you in? I'm in Japan, only using a VPN when necessary. Video is accessible to me.

I'm getting this same message in Canada.

Works OK for me in Delaware.

A quick check on this website shows that this video is restricted in a decent number of countries.

Why would anyone willingly click on a SNL skit anyways?

[Rothman]

Something feels ironic about this...

What country are you in? I'm in Japan, only using a VPN when necessary. Video is accessible to me.

I'm getting this same message in Canada.

Works OK for me in Delaware.

A quick check on this website shows that this video is restricted in a decent number of countries.

Why would anyone willingly click on a SNL skit anyways?

Because, every ten years or so, one of them is funny.

[Poiponen13]

UK should fully metricate.

Might be confusing for the rest of the SEC for only one school to do that.

I meant that United Kingdom should fully metricate. And United States too.

[1995hoo]

UK should fully metricate.

Might be confusing for the rest of the SEC for only one school to do that.

I meant that United Kingdom should fully metricate. And United States too.

Really???? Damn. I never would have guessed that you meant that if you hadn't explained it for me. Who woulda thunk it.

[Rothman]

UK should fully metricate.

Might be confusing for the rest of the SEC for only one school to do that.

I meant that United Kingdom should fully metricate. And United States too.

Really???? Damn. I never would have guessed that you meant that if you hadn't explained it for me. Who woulda thunk it.

Poiponen got whooshed.