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"KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time" (kngt) 07/19/2018 at 22:00 • Filed to: shitpost, shitposting, units

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Chariotoflove > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:04

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You mean the cutest most adorable kid on the block that everyone is jealous of?

Yeah, sounds about right. 

Urambo Tauro > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:05

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As an American, MFW someone starts talking in m etric:

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For Sweden > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:07

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My arbitrary way of counting is better than your arbitrary way of counting

dogisbadob > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:10

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don’t the British still use miles too? :p

facw > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:11

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We should use metric. Except Celsius, Fahrenheit is clearly better for talking about the weather, and in the lab, just use Kelvin. Fahrenheit  also isn’t broken in the way a lot of our other units are, there’s no weird sub-units or non-decimal fractions, or any of that other cruft.

facw > dogisbadob 07/19/2018 at 22:14

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Anyone who still measures things (well mostly people I guess) in s tone certainly has no right to make fun of us.

Svend > dogisbadob 07/19/2018 at 22:15

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We use both metric and imperial in the U.K.

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:18

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we live in a society

Svend > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:19

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Lol.

In the U.K. we use both metric and imperial.

It’s mostly metric for weights and measures, but imperial in pubs.

Distance on roads is in miles and cars are in mpg and mph.

A lot of Europe is kW or ps for power output of cars while we are still bhp. 

interstate366, now In The Industry > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:24

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_19

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:26

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Which country is back to back world war champs and has put men on the moon?

Yea. Sit down other countries

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 22:34

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Base 12 is what happens when you take Europeans out of Europe.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > dogisbadob 07/19/2018 at 22:40

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They do.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Svend 07/19/2018 at 22:40

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We do in the US, too.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > For Sweden 07/19/2018 at 22:41

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Except ours really is. SI is based on bad science.

AestheticsInMotion > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/19/2018 at 22:44

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I had a calculus teacher in high school who lost her job after she tried to switch to teaching a base 12 system... Right before standardized testing season. I get that 12 can be evenly divided into halves, thirds, and fourths, but I don't think that's enough of a reason to attempt a mathematical coup

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > AestheticsInMotion 07/19/2018 at 22:47

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What the hell? She must not liked having a job.

AestheticsInMotion > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/19/2018 at 22:52

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I liked her, but she was very odd. Now she has her own brewery/bar in downtown Seattle, which seems like a much better fit

I'll never forget the 30 minute rant she gave the class on how irritated she got when she saw people driving who had forgotten to turn their turn signal off... 

Wacko > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 23:15

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Wacko > TheD0k_2many toys 2little time 07/19/2018 at 23:27

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Cash Rewards > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 23:27

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It bothers me how one set of units is temperature, speed, and mass, but the other set it temperature, distance, and speed. 

Svend > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 07/19/2018 at 23:31

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It just works for us really. 

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 23:46

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Yes but are you happy, comfortable, self-assured and confident of your place in the world?

fintail > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/19/2018 at 23:48

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I like using both, keeps my arithmetic sharp.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > TheD0k_2many toys 2little time 07/19/2018 at 23:49

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Got any other examples  that aren’t half a century old?

MrDakka > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/20/2018 at 00:09

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At least imperial isn’t full of retco nned definitions of it’s units. I mean what did you expect when you tried to tie immutable natural phenomena to something highly variable like Earth just to make it relatable to the average person.

For example, t he metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299, 792, 458 second. Don’t even try and tell me the metric system is more logical than imperial when you have define units  like this. Both are just as biased thanks to humans observing the system.

For Sweden > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 07/20/2018 at 00:13

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Americans discovered gravitational waves; that was neat.

For Sweden > AestheticsInMotion 07/20/2018 at 00:14

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Who is this woman and how can I join her army

sn4cktimes > For Sweden 07/20/2018 at 01:31

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Publications about LIGO, even American ones seem to use the Metric System...

Scientific American (check out the diagram... )

Wikipedia (check out the spacing of detectors...)

I won’t discount America’s space prowess ever. It’s been amazing from the very beginning, and continues to be pretty astounding. But I think a lot aeronautics and space “stuff” is done with the nice base 10 M etric system...

I still have to use inches and “thous” every day at at my job. In Canada. It’s annoying.

Svend > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 07/20/2018 at 01:46

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Saying that, you work on the old imperial system of 3.8litres or as you say, ‘literal’ to the gallon whe re we use the newer imperial system of 4.5 litres to the gallon. 

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 07/20/2018 at 02:05

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Well no one else has done it since then besides us so...

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > dogisbadob 07/20/2018 at 02:28

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And  pounds, and gallons...

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > TheD0k_2many toys 2little time 07/20/2018 at 02:28

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Wait...World War I?

duurtlang > Svend 07/20/2018 at 03:02

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So the Americans use 5 1/4" floppy disks versus your 3.5". That is a significant upgrade, but from a 2018 perspective it’s equally archaic.

I do get the irony of using inches when describing the width of floppy disks.

duurtlang > facw 07/20/2018 at 03:05

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Celsius and Fahrenheit are both not part of the metric system, so they're irrelevant in the discussion. Like you mentioned; science uses Kelvin. Which is based on Celsius, but still.

duurtlang > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/20/2018 at 03:41

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Legacy unit girl is too slender. Does not compute.

random001 > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 07/20/2018 at 06:20

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Huh?

random001 > TheD0k_2many toys 2little time 07/20/2018 at 06:22

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Lolwut moment for the day.

FYI, the people that put men on the moon and build those technological terrors you’re so proud of?  Yeah, those guys use the metric system....

random001 > AestheticsInMotion 07/20/2018 at 06:23

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There is never, and I mean never, a reason not to attempt a mathematical coup.  Ever.

random001 > sn4cktimes 07/20/2018 at 06:23

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Try about all of it.  Trust me on this.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > For Sweden 07/20/2018 at 07:34

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I’ll wager that it wasn’t a team that was exclusively all Americans though...it certainly wasn’t an all American team that ended both world  wars or put Americans on the moon either.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > TheD0k_2many toys 2little time 07/20/2018 at 07:40

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No-one has quite managed to start another world war.

As for the Moon...true. However, given that the US gave up on it why shouldn't everyone else? 

ateamfan42 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/20/2018 at 09:28

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Use whatever system you like. My calculator understands both and converts between them fine. Just label your damn units! Assuming the wrong units causes all kinds of cock-ups.

And use the right units for the right quantities, people . Kilograms are not units of weight.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > duurtlang 07/20/2018 at 10:17

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For a more accurate analogy, the US uses the equivalent of 8” floppies, the UK uses 5 1/4 ”, and SI is a 90x94mm . Nobody has stepped out of the magnetic media era. Today’s SI looks nearly identical to the popular 3 1/2”, but it’s proprietary, has less storage space, and won’t work in an average ancient 3 1/2” floppy drive, but has a  fervent following for mysterious reasons.

duurtlang > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 07/20/2018 at 10:31

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That’s an interesting take. Scientists, like basically all scientists, would disagree with you. Especially those not in one of the mere 3 red countries in the picture below.

Now I know adoption doesn’t equate to ‘being right’, but I did find this interesting:

(adoption of the metric system)

Spanfeller is a twat > For Sweden 07/21/2018 at 12:54

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What do you mean? I use atomic decadence to measure how time changes.