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Do you trust the metric system?

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  • #32
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    spottyelephant wrote: »
    Zero idea of speed in Km/h.

    I know 80km/h is 50mph, and 120 is 70mph, so then i just kinda guestimate anything inbetween those values.
    My car is all set to klm, it takes a while but you get used to it but it has to be forced on you on a daily basis to get used to it.


  • #33
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    fontanalis wrote: »
    Metric makes more sense. Ten fingers on both hands, multiply by ten you get a hundred.

    She's a witch, a wiiiiiiitch!


  • #34
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    pickarooney wrote: »
    She's a witch, a wiiiiiiitch!

    I got 11 fingers altogether so you must be right.


  • #35
    OxfordComma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭OxfordComma


    I don't like the imperial system at all to be honest. I'm far more comfortable thinking in terms of the metric system, probably because it's the way I was taught to measure things in school. Plus, the metric system is so much more logical - I like how it's all based on multiples of 10 (far better than imperial system, which uses all these seemingly random multiples like 3, 12, 14 and 16...)


  • #36
    FruitLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    molloyjazz wrote: »
    maybe the fact that it was designed by the british is why alot of irish don't like it.

    Eh... would you like to take a wild guess at who came up with the imperial system?


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  • #37
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    molloyjazz wrote: »
    i embrace it, its more exact and better for science (SI units and all).. only american don't have it afaik.. maybe the fact that it was designed by the british is why alot of irish don't like it.

    Ahem.


  • #38
    TanG411
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    I use pounds and stones for weight, but metres for height. So I say I'm 1.73 metres and 184lbs.

    I'm a loon. :D


  • #39
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    I buy my hash in quarter ounces and half ounces but buy my MDMA powder in grams, so I'm kinda down with both systems.


  • #40
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    Do you know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in france? (NSFW).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k2JafdUCZI


  • #41
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    pickarooney wrote: »
    We seem to have finally accepted the notion of a litre of milk but there is no chance of us ever recognising an alcoholic drink in non-pint format.
    If they start selling litres of beer down my local, I think I could stomach the changeover. ;)


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  • #42
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    I understand and use both randomly. Hurray for all!


  • #43
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I understand and use both randomly. Hurray for all!

    Ever the ambiguous one hey ?


  • #44
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,037 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I don't understand how they can do engineering in inches, it's crazy.

    I often wondered myself how they managed to work with feet /inches for construction engineering etc. The answer is they dont appear to use inches. they use decimal feet - so they use for example 1.5 ft instead of 1'6". THis makes the use of survey instruments just the same as for metric.


  • #45
    mmmmmmm.......
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭mmmmmmm.......


    metric system is far superior and way easier to use!i just dont get why people insist on using such a dated system like imperial:confused:
    wasnt the "acre" created on the basis on what an average man could farm in one day?????
    oh and for the record-70kg and 178cm i am!!


  • #46
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Abrasax wrote: »
    I buy my hash in quarter ounces and half ounces but buy my MDMA powder in grams, so I'm kinda down with both systems.

    Your hash dealer ought to be prosecuted for flagrently breaching EU weights and measures legislation.

    Lock em up and throw away the key !


  • #47
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    My index finger is <
    > long. What is that in Kilometers?


  • #48
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Bit of a laugh how the Brits invented the metric system and yet British tabloids reckon its a conspiracy by the Eurocratic superstate to destroy the British way of life which consists of measuring everything using a system introduced by the Romans.
    henryporter wrote: »
    Considering that the metre is based on the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1⁄299792458 of a second, I'd be asking who thinks of these things and why??

    I thought it was something like one ten millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator along a line running under the Eiffel tower


  • #49
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Your hash dealer ought to be prosecuted for flagrently breaching EU weights and measures legislation.

    Lock em up and throw away the key !

    Unfair.
    Us people in the ghettoes wouldn't know no maths if it wasn't for making these conversions from ounces and pounds to grams and kilos.


  • #50
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    I'm only able to visualise in metric, just can't get my head around the imperial thing. If someone said to me, "I was going at 70mph", I would think, that's 120km/h, thats quite fast, but 70mph means nothing to me.

    except of course pints of beer, i know how much that is.


    Also another thing, who the hell thought shortening pounds to lb was a good idea? how the hell did that happen


  • #51
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    dannym08 wrote: »

    Also another thing, who the hell thought shortening pounds to lb was a good idea? how the hell did that happen

    From the latin for pound, libra (pondo).


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  • #52
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I have some excuse as I was schooled right in the middle of the changeover so use both. I dont get why 20 year olds still use the old one. But I'm all over the place. If im going really small I use Mm. I could not be arsed with 5/16ths and all that crap. Next I use inches. There isnt a decent equivalent for an inch in metric. Cms dont cut it IMHO. Unless your measuring your willy and then cool. Miles per gallon I understand. MPH I would use too.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #53
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Im actually suprised the vintners never cottoned on to the idea of selling beer in 500ml glasses for the same price that they used to charge for 568 Ml like what happened with bread when it went from being sold in "two pound loaves" to 800 gram loves
    Wibbs wrote: »
    I have some excuse as I was schooled right in the middle of the changeover so use both.
    I was schooled just after the changeover but our teachers had this wierd kind of "metric schizophrenia" whereby during maths class reference to anything other than metric units was strictly verboten but reference to metric units during all other classes or in casual conversation (even with the same teacher) just got one some funny looks.

    There was a couple of threads on this subject over on R&R some while back


  • #54
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    Abrasax wrote: »
    From the latin for pound, libra (pondo).

    i honestly was not expecting someone to answer that. thank you


  • #55
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    Libra is the latin where lb came from.
    Pondo was a later Germanic addition, hence pound.
    And who said AH wasn't educational?


  • #56
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    dannym08 wrote: »
    i honestly was not expecting someone to answer that. thank you

    Contrary to popular belief, there are intelligent and knowledgeable people in AH.


  • #57
    hal9000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭hal9000


    Wibbs wrote: »
    If im going really small I use Mm.

    Woah! you use Mega meters to measure the very small :eek:!!!!! Sir are you the size of an astronomical unit?


  • #58
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Contrary to popular belief, there are intelligent and knowledgeable people in AH.

    pfft, yeah sure there are:rolleyes:

    runs...


  • #59
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    "Headshops" introduced the Metric system into the recreational scene in Ireland.

    It will now be all back to ounces again. :mad:


  • #60
    dotsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,636 ✭✭✭dotsman


    Metric all the way. Including alcohol.


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  • #61
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    I'd be quite happy to have 500ml glasses in pubs instead of pint glasses.

    Metric all the way.


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