USA should be metric.
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we were metric (canada), then the building sector put pressure on and we now have an effed up hybrid............10bv01 said:
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Is that why we're hybrid?
We use km for distance (miles in the countryside as range roads are usually spaced by miles), km/h for speed, Celsius for temperature, feet and inches for height and most smaller and multi-dimensional measurements (I guess that's where the building sector had their say), pounds for human weight, grams and liters at the grocery store, ounces and pints in restaurants and bars.
The British are kinda weird too. More or less metric except for when it comes to distance and speed. Distances are in miles and fuel is sold by the liter, so I'm not sure if they use miles per gallon, like the U.S., or L/100km, like everyone else when it comes to measuring fuel consumption.
We use km for distance (miles in the countryside as range roads are usually spaced by miles), km/h for speed, Celsius for temperature, feet and inches for height and most smaller and multi-dimensional measurements (I guess that's where the building sector had their say), pounds for human weight, grams and liters at the grocery store, ounces and pints in restaurants and bars.
The British are kinda weird too. More or less metric except for when it comes to distance and speed. Distances are in miles and fuel is sold by the liter, so I'm not sure if they use miles per gallon, like the U.S., or L/100km, like everyone else when it comes to measuring fuel consumption.
From freezing to boiling the Celsius scale is divided into 100 increments. The Fahrenheit scale is divided into 180 and therefore is much more precise. If the USA was on the Celsius temperature measurement standard, Al Gore would never have known about global warming and, therefore, would just fade away. One can only invent just so many Internets.Thalo said:
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Can't disagree there....22350 said:
Temperature can be measured with decimal points too, JGO.
What's retarded about Fahrenheit is the numbers. What's the boiling point of water? I don't fucking know! It's 100 degrees C. What's the freezing point of water? 32 degrees. I only know that because I spent 3 winters in New England. But why 32???
Boiling point is 212ºF. You don't fucking know and that's my point in this conversion talk. As we were kids, our main focus was education. Now that we have so many things to address and worry about, we are all resistant to change things that we would all have to learn over again and will provide us with no advantage. The metric system works for you. That's what you learned. I didn't and I am perfectly comfortable with temperature in Fahrenheit and gasoline in gallons. Maybe we would be better off if we used the metric system but converting everything over is very expensive and most of the people in the USA do not want it. Like I said earlier, it was tried and it just gave us (USA) one more thing to disagree over. Personally, I don't give a shit and never did.Thalo said:
Can you imagine an orange GTI Celsius?
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