22 yds to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong, 8 furlongs to a mile.
Meanwhile the UK naming their currency after a sex act.
Metric system is easy? Only if you can do Latin, Greek, AND math at the same time!
You can’t?
My brain only has one thread 😔
Boooorrrrrriiiiiiing
Do we need to post the same shit all the time on a biweekly cycle? Surely there is something actually interesting to post/talk about.
This comment is the most exciting thing I’ve read on Lemmy all year long! I can’t wait to talk about something else! Whoopeee! Yay!
Bad news. Best I got for you is “metric good” and “proton bad”
So glad you contributed. The thread is so much better for your input.
Same bro!
You’re so cool.
You really opened my mind to what a flagrant hypocrite I am. I mean if I cannot provide the most unique and interesting complaint ever, then I should relish the endless reposts!!
Total lifesaver bruh. I’m a new man.
In fact, the only thing more boring than a repost is someone thinking they’re original when they’re complaining about reposts. Get over yourself. You’re not the only one reading the internet. Someone else might be one of today’s lucky 10000. https://xkcd.com/1053/
I remember discussing with a huge group of European students what imperial had become mainly used for in UK and Ireland. It’s for height and pizza size. I was in a group with many girls so us guys stopped short of mentioning about dick size being one of the few things imperial is only used for in UK and Ireland.
The one thing metric screws up is file size.
A gigabyte is 1000 megabytes or 1,000,000 kilobytes or 1,000,000,000 bytes.
A gibibyte is 1024 mebibyte or 1,048,576 kibibyte or 1,073,741,824 bytes, because it needs to go by increments of a power of 2.
This would be fine except gigabyte also means gibibyte. So if a file claims to be N GBs, I don’t know if it actually means metric GBs or GiBs.
That is not exactly metric 's fault though. It’s whoever made the decision to portray stuff as such in operating systems
Imperial thinking people most likely
I got a question about hard drive sizes on a math test 15 years ago. Was super frustrating, since I didn’t know wether or not the person who wrote the test, knew the difference.
1,000 kilometres = 1 megametre
0.01 Petameters
1 megametre equals: 0.001 gigametres 0.000001 terametres 0.000000001 petametres
Meanwhile, 1 megameter is the same as: 0.001 gigameters 0.000001 terameters 0.000000001 petameters
True, I did not mean my comment as a real conversion tho.
Now, speaking of megameters 😈 I’m pretty sure you can tell me which prefix corresponds to this from the top of your head. One of my favorite ones ever alongside its negative.
n-meter = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 megameters.
That’s nonillions of meters, so… 1 zetameter?
Whats funny is the oil and gas industry has orders of magnitude worse units. So much so, I would say the imperial system is scared of it.
I love that I’m seeing him in the wild now. One of my favourite creators, no doubts about it.
My contrarian brain:
- 1 inch = 1 cm
- 1 yard = 1 meter
- 1 mile = 1 km
This is upsetting
You’re welcome!
Wait till you hear about the energy efficiency ratio
Ew
Good thing the EU has an SI-unit alternative…
is that the one where they measure one half in BTUs and the other in KWh for some reason
I mean the yard and pound have been defined by metric for a long time so it’s really just an indirect metric system so the USs feelings don’t get hurt.
Frankly you shouldn’t even be using prefixes anyway. SI units are kg, m, and s and if you need to refer to large or small units, you just use scientific notation. e.g. 5.6 × 10²¹m
It’s obvious that there’s 1760 yards in a mile.
There’s 22 yards in a chain, which we can all remember because of the 22 yard line in rugby.
There are 10 chains in a furlong, which fans of metric can’t complain about.
There are 8 furlongs in a mile, just like there are 8 pints in a gallon.
And 22x10x8 = 11x10x16 and 11 is easy to multiply by in your head, so it’s really very simple to get to 1760.
/s
this but unironically.
Congratulations, you’re brainwashed.
I’ve said it on this platform before: I will build furniture in inches until my hands can’t hold a chisel anymore. The inch system arose around the needs of carpentry and woodworking, it works in base 12, which is outright superior to base 10, especially when you divide by 3 and 4 more often than by 5.
Also, the closest tape measure I have to hand is my 5m metric tape. I build things in metric, just…not furniture.
Wow, base 12, I never thought of thas! You halve it, quarter it, and third it, and still end up with clean integers.
Yeah; you’ll often find boards in America milled to 3/4" or 1 1/2". Those are 1/16th or 1/8th of a foot. A lot of boards used in furniture are 3/4" thick. Half of 3/4 is 3/8, a third of 3/4 is 1/4. It solves the problems we need to solve, and the metric woodworkers start sounding how teaspoon/cup/quart cooks do.
I’ve setup a software that generate quotes, sales invoice and production order for a windows and door company. The sales person enter the dimensions and option of the window and it automatically calculate the price, the exact amount material, deduct it from the inventory and generate the cutting and assembly instruction.
They were all working with fractional inches. I’ve started setting up the system using inches and it was a NIGHTMARE ! I quickly decided to convert everything on metric in the back end and to do all the calculations on that and I reconvert it in inches at the end.
Now most of the workers are using metric because it just make more sense.
I’m a carpenter as well, and I hear what you’re saying, but also my coworkers and I were just talking yesterday about how much better metric is 😅 Every base-12 advantage is weakened by the fact that I’m constantly expected to do fractions. Everything in metric is a whole number and it’s so hot. Love it when I get an actual number to build something to, instead of a math problem.
If you’ve ever ordered lumber from a Canadian company, you know how much easier it is to calculate and order in metric units vs. board-feet. I feel bad for their sales reps who have to deal with us Yankeestanis.
Also, all the really nice chisels and hand tools from Japan and Europe are already in metric.
What do you do when a piece you’re cutting isnt exactly a foot, say, 11 or 13 inches? I know nothing about woodworking, but I’m assuming there isnt a unified standard to make everything match to the nearest whole foot, so then this whole base 12 thing goes out the window, or am I missing something here?
You look at your tape measure, at the number 11 or 13 as appropriate, put a mark there, then take it to the saw and cut it.
I meant, for cutting in thirds and quarters. An exact foot you can cut at 3 and 4 inches, but if a board is 13 inches, divide that by 3 and you have to cut at… 4.3333333 inches?
Basically there is a conflict going on amongst the woodworkers of the world between those who think clearer in decimals, and those who think clearer in fractions. The fraction folks will tend to prefer standard units, the decimal thinkers will tend to prefer metric.
What’s interesting to me is: you only ever hear Americans complaining about metric, but you never hear woodworkers from Europe or Japan talk about the advantages of standard units… while the Europeans and Japanese are also pumping out generally much higher-quality woodworking than most folks in the USA are. You can probably tell which I prefer lol
My take is, if the standard units were really that much better, I think Japanese and French folks would be using them, because their cultures care a looot more about fine woodworking than the USA’s culture does.
Japan had their own system quite similar to inches that was so popular Japan had to ban the sale or transfer of the rulers.
