Can the US just ban Celsius from the world please?

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Chris

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Araxen_sl said:
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It's just as bad the as Euro's trying to display the date as like 06/12/2013(December 06, 2013). Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
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You mean in order of how long each period of time is? I know we are ridiculous!
 
Malakriss

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Quineloe_sl said:
as long as you don't need to do any serious math with it, I guess.

How come there are no imperial units for bytes?
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Because they already fuck up just fine on sizes rounded from the powers of 2->10. Oh there's 8 of those and 1024 of those? We'll go with 10 and 1000! Mb, MB, same thing right? (Seriously, Wildstar, seriously)
 
Tuco

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speaking of bytes I wish I could go back in time and convince everyone to use a base 8, 12 or 16 number system instead of ten. I don't care how many fingers I have, ten is awful.
 
Neki

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Notice on that map I linked that Canada uses all three DMY. MDY and YMD formats and on top of that, both metric and imperial systems

Shit must be so confusing over there
 
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Ya in Canada we are all over the map with systems. I work in construction and we all use feet, inches, eighths and sixteenths, but when it comes to distances we use kilometers. Most people over 50 use F over C. The only way I can understand Mph is knowing 60 MpH is 100 KpH and so on. Most use cups/tea spoons, pounds and ounces except when it comes to deli meat you usually have to order in grams. I have no clue on meters. I just think golf and yards makes way more sense to me. It definitely a mix of the two.
 
Gravy

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Medical marijuana is sold by the gram in the US now (for awhile?). Pot smokers will lead the US into the metric age.
 
Lejina

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Gooch_sl said:
Ya in Canada we are all over the map with systems. I work in construction and we all use feet, inches, eighths and sixteenths, but when it comes to distances we use kilometers. Most people over 50 use F over C. The only way I can understand Mph is knowing 60 MpH is 100 KpH and so on. Most use cups/tea spoons, pounds and ounces except when it comes to deli meat you usually have to order in grams. I have no clue on meters. I just think golf and yards makes way more sense to me. It definitely a mix of the two.
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Hell, if all this wasn't complicated enough, we often use time as a measure of distance too.

ex: Hey, what's the distance between Montreal and Toronto?
About 5 hours depending on traffic.
 
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Come to think of it, I get my weed in Imperial and metric units. Like, an 1/8th is 3.5g, 28g in an ounce....
 
popsicledeath

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Caliane_sl said:
Real world day to day applications however are not based on laboratory measurements. They are based on human elements of perception.
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Every neckbeard and fatty in Walmart knows exactly how much a 2 liter of Mountain Dew is just by being told what they wanted was 2 liters. So I'm pretty sure we'd survive the change and I'm okay with letting measurements dictate perception and not the other way around. If the only way you can learn to visualize a foot is to look at your own, or are to the point of knowing what base-10 number system means and still have to look at your fingers, well, then you're a retard and should have been drown in the river like that litter of kittens that wasn't worth feeding.
 
Agraza

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Liter is french for give me some fuckin cola before I break vous (your?) fuckin lips.

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Itlan

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I work with a lot of international assholes so I have to use that god damn date format. It's awful...
 
Aaron

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I lived in Sweden ages ago and found the YMD system they used fucking annoying until recently when it makes sense from a computer's perspective. It hurts when you find something you hate is actually pretty damn useful.
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