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Location: Blue Springs, Missouri. United States
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PM me if it's what I think it stands for.  In all seriousness, I like the metric system for working on stuff, but I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around useing kilometers while driving in Canada (even though I don't go there anymore) or useing celsius for temps. I guess it kinda like knowing a little bit of a foriegn language. I know what they are saying but I still have to convert it over in my head to truely get a mental image or "feel".......if that makes any sense. |
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12-29-2010, 10:43 PM
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Location: Abbotsford, BC, Canada
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Speeds are pretty straight forward, distance is another matter... I can visualize distance in miles better then km's. 50KM/h in town, 100KM/h on the highway (general rule of thumb). Our free way off ramps are marked at 1200 meteres (1.2 km) and again at 600m (.6km) from the exits. Our roads are laid out in miles though, 8 numbers to a mile... Roads often at mile intervals (when not in a city or subdivision), 0, 8, 16, etc... It's helps to find addresses, if your 2 numbers off it's a 1/4 mile.. For example 1800 Awesome Ave would be a 1/4 mile away if you were at 16th ave. Construction still uses imperial measurements too. I don't have a clue about weights in imperial though, kg's only for me. Actually that's not really true, it depends on what, for smaller things like people, I don't have any idea in metric, then I go with lbs.
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12-30-2010, 12:29 AM
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Location: Sardis, BC, Canada
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I guess this thread is about as drifted as it can be, so...
They brought in the metric system when I was in the second grade, and some of it still doesn't come naturally for me. I only think of myself as 6' tall and 215lbs. The local drag strip is a 1/4 mile. A 2x4 is 1.5" x 3.5". A big car is roughly 4000lbs. Beer should always be served by the pint. That said, it's 1200km from my house to Edmonton, it's currently 21 degrees Celcius in my house and gas is overpriced at $1.07 per litre today. There are benefits to both systems while travelling. If you're moving at 60mph, you are covering one mile per minute. Therefore, if the sign says 120 miles to the next town, you have 120 minutes (or two hours) to go. Conversely, since the highway equivalent in Metric is 100km/h, you can think of distance in terms of percentage of an hour. If you have 350km left to travel, you have 3.5 hours to go. To further complicate the issue, some grocery stores sell produce by the pound and others sell by the kilogram.
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12-30-2010, 01:12 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: central vic australia
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I was raised in UK, so learned Imperial and Whitworth which are the original standards before you lot messed with them for Gallons/pints etc. So now you are all wrong, you drink more than you should and live further away from each other than you think you do!
And the Aussies went metric so they have dollars (finally on par with US dollar as it should be) and they have kilos and all that other weird french crap. I have a simple grumpy old sods system, called the 'TOO' too bloody hot too bloody cold too bloody far too bloody heavy too bloody expensive too hard Petrol here is $1.32 + per liter, bloody rip-off bastards, thats $5 a gallon 91 octane petrol that is (gas is something idiots put in frozen beer that makes you belch) |
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12-30-2010, 05:08 PM
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Location: Nashville, TN
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12-30-2010, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: orbital platform
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"Real" Canadians do not drink pints, they drink quarts, a lunchtime beer is 2 quarts: one to drink now, and one "to go". I was raised in Canada, so learned Imperial and Whitworth which are the original standards, before that rude fellow got elected in 1968. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau |
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