Daily Polandball: The Metric System.

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95) 04/23/2014 at 13:30 • Filed to: Polandball

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spanfucker retire bitch > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 04/23/2014 at 13:33

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Our arrogance saved us from making a costly mistake.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 04/23/2014 at 13:34

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I regard it as a serious problem the USA doesn't have a 5000" tank.

For Sweden > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 04/23/2014 at 13:37

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After the Chauchat, Burger would into any excuse to avoid French hardware.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > For Sweden 04/23/2014 at 13:40

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I thought everybody wanted a cool-looking self-intersecting-open-banana-mag design that jammed all the time.

Roberto G. > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 04/23/2014 at 13:40

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Yep. And it crashed a satellite too, if I well remember...

BigBlock440 > Roberto G. 04/23/2014 at 13:42

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Mars rover

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 04/23/2014 at 13:43

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Fuck it just build the thing in inches, no conversion, that way = HUGE FUCKING TANK!

Spoon II > BigBlock440 04/23/2014 at 13:45

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If you're gonna do something wrong, might as well do it on an interplanetary scale. Oh conversions...

Spoon II > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/23/2014 at 13:48

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It'd be almost 4 times this design, terrifying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuz…

Babz > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 04/23/2014 at 13:52

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If it "actually happened", would you care to explain how the US built 950 M1917 aka "Renault FT-17 adapted for imperial machinery" ? Oh, and they also brought back about 200 of the original from France after the war.

cazzyodo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/23/2014 at 13:54

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I had a similar thought.

Then I realized the implications of that...we need to contract with SHIELD.

Svend > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 04/23/2014 at 13:55

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Lol.

Try living in a country with metric and imperial.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Spoon II 04/23/2014 at 14:20

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Exactly. Of course "land-based aircraft carrier" doesn't have quite the same ring as "tank", but why not have an amphibious assault ship that's amphibious? That's big enough to field Harriers, certainly - LCS eat your heart out.

Daniel > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 07/06/2014 at 08:17

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It wouldn't work. Nothing built in inches works, it is all crap. That is why Americans import everything in hidden metric.

Daniel > Babz 07/06/2014 at 08:20

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That was 60 years ago. Things are different now. Imperial or USC machinery is obsolete as are imperial/USC fasteners. The costs to convert to non-metric, build and maintain non-metric is through the roof. Today it is either metric all the way or bankruptcy.

Daniel > For Sweden 07/06/2014 at 08:23

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There is no such thing as French hardware. French industry builds to international standards. It is the same hardware specified and used in every country of the world, including the USA.