metric system vs old US system

[papaof2]

There are two types of countries in the world. The ones that use the metric systems, and the ones that have walked on the moon. You do the math.

[eyeseetwo]

I think it is good to know how to use both systems,

As a food preserver I come across recipes on the WWW that use weight not standard cups, pints etc. It did take a bit of time to acclimate to non USA measurements.

As a teacher I was astounded by the volume of parents pissed offed that I was teaching how to read analog clocks and telling time using your hand and sun dials. The students truly liked learning the old fashioned way of telling time. I also pissed off parents teaching the history of calendars, why there is daylight savings time, and how to manage your time.

[rvm45]

Friends.

The thing that pisses me off about the Metric system—some dudes in FRANCE dreamed it up and proposed to replace all of the world's measuring systems.

Did people say:

"NO, we're good."

OR

"Who died and left FRENCHMEN in charge of the world's system of measurement?"

OR

"Man is the Measure of all things."

At least the old measurements—foot, hand, span, inch, fathom, hard, cubit, mile—were originally based on the human body before they were standardized—Instead of an abstract fraction of the Earth's circumference—later changed to an arbitrary number of wavelengths of a certain frequency.

OR

We could channel the Jewish Dude in "Fiddler on the Roof" and shout:

"TRADITION"

Nah, the whole Damned Gay world bends over and lets some FRENCHMEN with Delusions of Adequacy shove the Metric System up their Rectums.

HMMMmmnnn…?

Wonder if I could sell the red-faced, screaming SJWs that the Metric System is Cultural Appropriation on the part of FRANCE!??!


…..RVM45

[papaof2]

Nov 13, 2020 22:13:10 GMT -6 eyeseetwo said:

I think it is good to know how to use both systems,

As a food preserver I come across recipes on the WWW that use weight not standard cups, pints etc. It did take a bit of time to acclimate to non USA measurements.

As a teacher I was astounded by the volume of parents pissed offed that I was teaching how to read analog clocks and telling time using your hand and sun dials. The students truly liked learning the old fashioned way of telling time. I also pissed off parents teaching the history of calendars, why there is daylight savings time, and how to manage your time.

I think kids should know how to do things without electronic aids.
- use your pulse or respiration rate to estimate time - and know what can make those faster and slower.
- read a magnetic compass, not an app.
- read a paper map and navigate by it.
- read a handed clock/watch, not one whose attention span is only as long as its battery lasts.
- my last watch purchase was a Chinese knock-off self-winding watch for about $60. I can't read its date without my glasses so I don't bother setting that, just the time. I do start with a clock synced to the atomic clock at NIST but we have a wind-up 8-day clock on the wall over the piano for 20+ years. I've learned how much the pendulum needs adjustment to accomodate the changes in seasons and keep decent time. We'd have semiaccurate time for months if all the clocks/watches needing power died tomorrow.
- An accurately built and calibrated sundial can at least give you the hour on any sunny day, year-round.
- I have plans for several sundials but haven't yet built one.

[admin]

The metric system isn't bad, after all it gave us the 9mm.

[cutter]

I hate to point it out, but the USA has used both systems for a very long time. Specifically, the military and NASA use the metric system. The moon landing used metrics.

ukma.org.uk/why-metric/myths/metric-internationally/the-moon-landings/

[papaof2]

Cutter,
That's not always the case for NASA - remember the Mars lander that buried itself because the US group used fps and the EU group assumed things were mks?