Society The U.S. should FULLY ADOPT the metric system

[member 3289]

Needed to buy some plastic tubing with an inner diameter of 3 mm. So I search Amazon and nothing comes up. Literally nothing.

And even though the box for the product I was connecting the tubing to (a misting system used for plants) said 3 mm, I thought let me convert this to inches and see. Sure enough, it worked.

I mean just look at this dumb shit:



Not only is 1/8" written as a fraction and a number (0.118), a lot of space is wasted on something that could be written as "3 mm (3 mm inner X 4.75 mm outer diameter)".

Edit - I'm aware they messed up and 1/8" is not 3 mm.

The solution is to replace imperial measurement teaching in education with the metric system. Then in a few decades we'll all be metrically inclined.

I was hoping covid would kill off all the retards who think our dumb measurement system is somehow better but it doesn't look like that finna happen.

Thoughts?

 

[Rambo John J]

I agree

I use it daily

U setting up some drip line it looks like...lotta sweet lil misters and sprayers can attach to that 1/8th supply line FYI

 

[Hauler]

Fuck that.
We should bomb the world until they all agree to accept our American Standard.

 

[member 1013]

Haha

 

[Wintermute]

Haha
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This was going to be my comment too, but I agree about the metric system.

I have no idea how a base-12 system was adopted but knowing Americans, they just wanted to:

• be different
• have 2 more in their base than metric

 

[member 1013]

This was going to be my comment too, but I agree about the metric system.

I have no idea how a base-12 system was adopted but knowing Americans, they just wanted to:

• be different
• have 2 more in their base than metric

I bet you don’t even know what im
Laughing at, you measurement n00b!!

 

[kaladin stormblessed]

Needed to buy some plastic tubing with an inner diameter of 3 mm. So I search Amazon and nothing comes up. Literally nothing.

And even though the box for the product I was connecting the tubing to (a misting system used for plants) said 3 mm, I thought let me convert this to inches and see. Sure enough, it worked.

I mean just look at this dumb shit:

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Not only is 1/8" written as a fraction and a number (0.118), a lot of space is wasted on something that could be written as "3 mm (3 mm inner X 4.75 mm outer diameter)".

The solution is to replace imperial measurement teaching in education with the metric system. Then in a few decades we'll all be metrically inclined.

I was hoping covid would kill off all the retards who think our dumb measurement system is somehow better but it doesn't look like that finna happen.

Thoughts?

just a heads up so that you dont buy the wrong thing, 0.118" is a 3mm probably (cause 1/8 inch would be 0.125")

 

[member 1013]

just a heads up so that you dont buy the wrong thing, 0.118" is a 3mm probably (cause 1/8 inch would be 0.125")

I already beat u slow poke

guys if you ever have to go by tenths of an inch, the top of a framing square is often divided that way

you

welcome

 

[kaladin stormblessed]

I already beat u slow poke

guys if you ever have to go by tenths of an inch, the top of a framing square is often divided that way

you

welcome

i got excited when i saw an opportunity to talk about eigths and eight balls

 

[member 1013]

i got excited when i saw an opportunity to talk about eigths and eight balls

An eight ball a day keeps the doctor away

I was so much stronger then

 

[member 3289]

Haha
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[member 3289]

This was going to be my comment too, but I agree about the metric system.

I have no idea how a base-12 system was adopted but knowing Americans, they just wanted to:

• be different
• have 2 more in their base than metric

I believe it may have had something to do with the shipping industry, but it definitely has a lot to do with the fact that most Americans are fucking retarded.

 

[member 1013]

I’m sorry I yelled at you @peter_weyland

I was showing off. I wanted you to think I was cool.

 

[Hauler]

This was going to be my comment too, but I agree about the metric system.

I have no idea how a base-12 system was adopted but knowing Americans, they just wanted to:

• be different
• have 2 more in their base than metric

I already have all the 16th inch increments to mm conversions memorized anyway.

 

[member 3289]

just a heads up so that you dont buy the wrong thing, 0.118" is a 3mm probably (cause 1/8 inch would be 0.125")

I searched 0.118 inch. The seller fucked up with their conversion from decimal to fraction.

They're probably based in NJ.

 

[member 3289]

Fuck that.
We should bomb the world until they all agree to accept our American Standard.

Please catch covid

 

[Wintermute]

Here's a horribly convoluted argument to adopt the duodecimal system by a European Using the duodecimal system will make your day-to-day life much easier

 

[Qat]

 

[Hauler]

Please catch covid

I'm immune.
And now I have the vaccine.

So I'm doubly immune. Per Biden.

 

[member 1013]

I already have all the 16th inch increments to mm conversions memorized anyway.

Get in line behind me old man

 

[member 1013]

I'm immune.
And now I have the vaccine.

So I'm doubly immune. Per Biden.

Gibbme vaccine

 

[member 3289]

I agree

I use it daily

U setting up some drip line it looks like...lotta sweet lil misters and sprayers can attach to that 1/8th supply line FYI

Drip line and mister, yeah. I have a splitter on the base and one 4 mm hose attached to the sprayer, but it keeps leaking/slipping off.

 

[Hauler]

Drip line and mister, yeah. I have a splitter on the base and one 4 mm hose attached to the sprayer, but it keeps leaking/slipping off.

Sounds like it needs to be a little tighter.
I'd go with a 5/32" line

 

[member 1013]

Sounds like it needs to be a little tighter.
I'd go with a 5/32" line

Don’t help him

he doesn’t deserve it

 

[member 3289]

Sounds like it needs to be a little tighter.
I'd go with a 5/32" line

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