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Cohiba · Joined: 01 Feb 2005

This system is nearly 300 years old and past due for
an overhaul. Get with the program you people. I'm
really sick of trying to explain to my students stupid
measurements like F, lb., mile, oz.

NOBODY USES THESE ANYMORE!

Pehaps if we clone Henry VIII he will be happy, but that
is about it!

Now if you will excuse me I have drunk nearly a hogshead
of ale tonight and I have to walk two chains to my domicile.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

When Ray Bradury dies.

mithridates · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:22 am Post subject:

Number of hits on Google Groups for July 1990, 1995, 2000, and January 2002. Nothing after that because Moore started making his film and hits with the word Fahrenheit suddenly rose threefold.

Fahrenheit - 259, 8780, 31500, 46000
Celsius - 185, 6280, 30100, 47600

So you can see celsius has surpassed fahrenheit. Probably just a matter of time (long time). Loooong time.

chiaa · Joined: 23 Aug 2003

I really wish we would stop.

VanIslander

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

Wow...it was 101 FAHRENHEIT back home today! Maybe it's because we like big numbers (101F degrees, 200lbs)

mithridates · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:23 am Post subject:

The imperial system is good for such things as crashing space probes worth hundreds of millions of dollars:

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

I kind of agree with the OP on this one. I think the world should agree on something. Metric would be a good place to start.

When I was a kid it was gallons, miles, feet, inches, Celsius, pounds, ounces (for food and dope Exclamation

), grams (for dope Razz

), and it all got a bit hazy later on.

Maybe it was all that dope Cool

Now it's feet/inches for height but cm are fine. It's pounds for weight but I can live with kg. Miles are still commonly used, but km, not a problem.

I can't remember gallons too well, but we used to have buckets of 1 or 2 or 5 or 10 gallon units. I think liters have kicked their asses to the curb.

It's always been Celsius for me though. Fahrenheit still confuses me.

Others, likes "stones" for weight, are totally foreign to me.

Since America uses a lot of this, I can live with Shaq being 7 foot 2 and Miami being 50 or whatever miles from Havana. And the average "cat" or dude weighing 200 pounds!

Or is that 225 cm, 85 km and 91 kg?

I forget.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Du'oh!

b

most of you can figure out where it's supposed to go

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Didn't the road signs in Canada use both km and miles, and the speedometers too? I recall scales of weight and height showing both systems as well.

What a confusing lot we all are!

And how many hectares are there in a lot anyway?

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

I don't care what system...let's just all pick one! I flunked 4th grade math and can't handle the conversion charts.

sonofthedarkstranger · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I learned the other day that temperatures in saunas can exceed boiling. They can get as high as 120 C.

There are these sauna competitions in Germany and of course Finland where these guys will sit in a room that is, quite literally, above boiling temp. If you have a glass of water next to you, it'll start bubbling and evaporating. Needless to say, they keep the humidity way down so you won't get scalded.

Some guys can last in there up to 15 minutes. 15 minutes!! Women have a harder time with it, they can take about 8.

Google "sauna competition."

It blew me away because I'd always thought that boiling temp would kill a man. And it would if you stayed in there too long. But I had no idea that humans could even survive above-boiling temperatures.

The object of the comeptition is to be the last to leave on your own, unassisted.

Anyway, speaking of heat. Did you know that?

mithridates · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:57 am Post subject:

The first time I left Canada was in 1998 when I went to Estonia and they have saunas in each house too, like the Finns. You can't wear a towel in the sauna because it gets so hot it feels like you're wearing a piece of burning steel on your lap. It hurt to breathe. Then in between we would go and sit outside in the buff and eat apples, even though it was nearing November and the temperature was always around zero.

Back to the op, standardization is a definate must. Using one system is as necessary as using one language for scientific documents. We cripple ourselves as people when we do otherwise.

jaderedux · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Lurking outside Seoul

The U.S. Military uses Metric but since they can force it they can. Awhile back the government (u.s.a) decided everyone is going metric.

It was quite comical. (I am an American BTW). The thing was they put up all the road signs and such and changed some commercial products but basically the American public said "no thank you very much". I don't know why. You can buy a liter of Cola but it is just a word. It looks a quart to me.

Americans in their own special way just SAID NO! Government had/has bigger fish to fry and gave up. They teach both in school but Metric is largely ignored.

I am used to it but it drives me crazy...30 degrees to me is freaking cold. Laughing

But I like my weight alot BETTER in kgs. Aw if only I could pick and choose. Since I didn't buy drugs I didn't have to worry about it so much. Twisted Evil

I find it interesting that Canadians switched so easily and Americans just simply refused. Seriously refused. If the government tried to force it again I am sure it would be ignored again and militantly so. It is such a quirk. Has nothing to do with intelligence just a strange cultural quirk.

Ah...sometimes I do love my compatriots in the U.S.A.

Jade who is 5 feet 3 inches tall.

sonofthedarkstranger · Joined: 15 Jan 2003