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  • eryx8

    Why cant you just use the fucking metric system!

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    • Fucking right.Continuity
    • hey canada...what's your height and how much do you weigh?hotroddy
    • canada: 5'10" and 160 poundshotroddy
    • Hey Mike Weir, how far do you hit your driver?hotroddy
    • Mike Weir: I hit an average 290 yardshotroddy
    • The metric system issue is a microcosm of America.CyBrainX
    • *walks a mile to the pub to get a pint of ale and pays in hundred penny pounds at 12:00pm, sits down and posts a snarky comment about the US lack of MetricNairn
    • What's the problem with no metric systems ? stop being a cunti_was
    • The imperial system of units (and anyone who uses it) can suck my dickbabydick
    • That's the thing though - on some scales, inches just make more sense than as-arbitrary metric cms.Nairn
    • So in your case, BabyDick - what are we looking at here - half an inch?Nairn
    • Measuring anything with rocks and body parts is a vulgar insult to the intelligence.Continuity
    • can't even wear a mask, as if they going to change the way they measure things.inteliboy
    • Rocks? Probably. Body parts... why? Metric is entirely arbitrary, measurement on a human scale can be more intuitive with 'imperial'Nairn
    • I'm totally metric (and definitely well mexico) but a 'craftsperson' made me realise recently that inches and feet have their place in some contexts.Nairn
    • Continuity nobody is measuring with body parts though. Don’t be ridiculous.monospaced
    • Not explicitly, but inches work with hand scales and feet with limbs, yards with general heights of people. As approximations, they kinda work.Nairn
    • Like, I know what a 6 foot drop is, but 1.8 isn't quite so meaningful. They're both useless in their own ways, but still we have meanings ascribed to them.Nairn
    • I still fucking hate it when people send me files based in Imperial units and describe them as such on the phone or emails or whatever. Twats.Nairn
    • 'nobody is measuring with body parts though' Really? What's a foot, then, other than a body part?Continuity
    • Hotroddy. We use both. The only reason we still use imperial is cuz we trade with US. Otherwise we will be using metric.pango
    • What would really make me happy is if Canada switched 100% to ISO216/DIN paper sizes. But, again, US trade ...Continuity
    • They're measurements. Who cares. We'll follow you rules when you're in your space :)toemaas
    • ^ lol. I'll believe that when I see it.Continuity
    • I've Spent about 8 months in EU over the course of my adulthood and love your ways, even you measurements. But like a different language, you learn to use it.toemaas
    • it's a proud boy thang.dibec
    • Fahrenheit is better for weather, who fuckin caresnb
    • ^ How?
      If 0C⁰, shits gonna freeze. Simple as that.
      pango
    • Yes..Celsius is much more intuitivehotroddy
    • Anyone who defends the imperial system in 2020 is a dumb ass.babydick
    • Hotroddy I agree with you.pango
    • A foot is a distance. Not a body part. Nobody is using body parts. Don’t be ridiculous.monospaced
    • Eat a foot of dick, monobabydick
    • I fucking hate a place where an asshole like me isn't banned.babydick
    • cause they prefer to have 7 inch instead of 17,78 cm though they could say it measures 18 cm aprox.oey_oey
    • yeah mono eat a foot of dick like a baby dick had one foot...LOL!oey_oey
    • Uh, OK, mono.
      https://simple.wikip…)
      Fuck me, you're thick.
      Continuity
    • Thick? Please. Nobody uses a body part to take measurements, that’s ridiculous. Unless you are prohibitively literal you could understand.monospaced
    • That’s like saying you weight things with stones. You would reply “no, a stone is a weight, we don’t actually use rocks to measure. That’s ridiculous.” Samemonospaced
    • Obviously nobody uses their foot just like nobody uses rocks. Maybe once upon a time nearly lost in history it was done and set, but that’s the extent.monospaced
    • stop using foot and rocks!pango

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