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meters?

METERSTICKS

screw meters. that's what i told jimmy carter, and i mean it now just as much.

Jinx.

The metric system makes tons more sense than our measurement system. XD

inches?

they tried to sell us that crap in the 70s. we spit on it.

omers.

ours seems to work fine

they tried to make any federal construction project use the metric system no to long ago

i got no problems with it.

 

 

yeah, don;t like it when they do that.

It does, but it's more memorization. Metric actually has a system to it that makes sense.

 

It's not crap, it's just not "better."

they learned their lesson when everything kept getting screwed up

Like, why 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 5280 feet to a mile?

if you met the people who wrote the proposals for things like that you'd understand why they'll never get anything right.

Our system makes perfect sense. If it didn't nothing would work.

As opposed to, say, 100 centimeters in...a meter. :o No way...

the normal measurements are based on natural measures, and i'm too tired to get into it, but you can research it if you care.

Or 10 decimeters in a meter... Or 1000 meters in a kilometer. You know by the word, you don't have to memorize unrelated numbers, you can do the math easily...

I just think metric is easier if you're not taught the other way first. Because then it's common sense and isn't anything new.

Well actually you should be asking why is their 80 chains to a mile. Or 4 rods to a chain.

But like, I'd have to whip out a calculator to know how many inches are in a mile, because I don't have it memorized. But I know there are 100000 centimeters in a kilometer easily.

Edited November 23, 201114 yr by mmeeshal

I don't even know chains...