Jaw007
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And should we all speak Pig Latin?
I don't think so!
I don't think so!
Originally Posted by kydsid /img/forum/go_quote.gif The sheer cost of the conversion would keep the US from undertaking the change. And I beg to differ that it is only three countries. Seems to me every sign I remember in jolly ol Englad was imperial. Course I suppose the EU has changed that too. |
Originally Posted by Emooze /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think the imperial system at least needs to change if you don't completely get rid of it. |
Originally Posted by immtbiker /img/forum/go_quote.gif I also believe, that in a day and age that pancakes and coffee no longer cost 35¢ (too many '60's Twilight Zone episodes), that we should do away with pennies and nickels. Dimes, quarters and paper money would do just fine. |
Originally Posted by mbriant /img/forum/go_quote.gif I forget exactly when Canada made the switch from Imperial to Metric, but it's been decades since, and even though metric makes much more sense, I still think in Imperial and have to roughly convert to metric in my head...especially temperatures for some reason. I voted yes because I think the U.S. should have to go through the same confusion as we did. |
Originally Posted by marvin /img/forum/go_quote.gif Voted no. For the uses where it's necessary, people have switched. In other areas, unnecessary as the SI system isn't human friendly and inferior for daily use. For length, the foot is far superior to the meter, and the inch is superior to the centimeter. No surprise since the foot is human scale based and the meter is an arbitrary distance cooked up by French crackpots with fancy titles. For temperature, Celsius ain't even the metric unit. Kelvin is. And unless we want to start reporting temperatures in the two to three hundred range, the metric system ain't the way to go. The metric system is bad enough in this aspect that the BIPM has to approve a deviation for the use of the Celsius scale. For mass/weight, metric wins out all the way. Pound/slug sucks. For time, the metric system only officially recognizes the second. The hour and minute are again deviations recognized by the BIPM. The Imperial system wins out again. There was a pre-existing decimal time system that could have been picked up by the metric people, but it was pretty much a miserable failure and died a well deserved death. So looking at the units, Imperial wins, 3-1. |
Originally Posted by wonderwall /img/forum/go_quote.gif I guess we should enforce a global language standard as well then? And then after that maybe we could work on some kind of dress code? Let people do as they wish. Or smoothly integrate by teaching young children both. But this force non-sense makes some of you sound rather militaristic and quite unlikable. |
Originally Posted by marvin /img/forum/go_quote.gif Voted no. For the uses where it's necessary, people have switched. In other areas, unnecessary as the SI system isn't human friendly and inferior for daily use. |