Posted on 06/27/2014 8:16:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
metric is decimalized
standard is halving/doubling
they suit different purposes, imo, convenience for science calculations or convenience for daily use
-Rush-
That's gonna leave a mark.
Olbermann had a hilarious rant on soccer yesterday... Yes he’s a putz, but you still should watch it.
I think you need to be drunk when watching it. It numbs the pain the boredom inflicts on the viewer. My husband likes it because he can go to the bathroom and not miss anything.
I played soccer in high school. Goalie. Fun to play, boring as all get-out to watch!
Whether you are a soccer fan and/or an American football fan, please:
Give the painted hair and face A REST!
You've just described jazz. At least most jazz.
Metric it a lot easier then the American system because it goes by ten, hundred and thousand, which is much easier to remember.
Typical American take. Not enough scoring as if that was the only thing to watch for in a sporting event. Ignore the flow of the play, the improvisation, the athletic skills and physical prowess of the players. Just ram the ball, puck, or whatever into a goal over and over again. Seven foot tall physical anomalies shooting at a ten foot high target. Two hundred or more points per game. Time out after time out, substitute after substitute, Deliberate fouls in BBall OK. Soccer..oh my criminal. Football 300 pound goliaths covered in everything short of armour plate ramming into one another for a 15 minutes of play that drags out over three hours spiced up with seemingly endless commercials. Then after the final 2 minutes which take in some cases 20 minutes to complete, the game is won by a European soccer style kicker with a spotlessly clean uniform and a kick from 25 yards. Point difference 1,2, or 3. Big deal. Soccer (football) is the most popular game for a reason. It is exciting in all phases. BTW the highest paid athletes in the world...Soccer players. Just saying.
I should have added Esperanto to the list.
For things that require precision (science & engineering), the metric system makes infinitely more sense. For less precise, everyday use, an inch, a foot, a yard, etc... are much easier. That’s why there’s still resistance to the Metric system for things that don’t require much in the way of calculation or precision.
Mark Davis applying the pejorative, “tedious,” is the apotheosis of the pot calling the kettle black.
Having your choice of hospital assigned to you by the government makes that a lot easier to remember, too.
Not being allowed to own a private car makes remembering the train schedules easier, I'm sure.
;)
2 cups = 1 pint 2 pints = 1 quart 4 quarts = 1 gallon
Pretty easy to remember.
Doubling/halving is much easier to do "by eye" than dividing/multiplying by ten
The systems are suited to different uses
“Typical American take.”
We hear that a lot in the context of other debates. Only industrialized country that doesn’t ... like soccer?
The inevitable questions came about why Americans don't support soccer despite it being "America's fastest growing sport", and I answered "To say Soccer is America's 'fastest growing sport' is something I've been hearing in America for thirty-plus years and it's akin to saying 'I own America's fastest growing goldfish in this here little fishbowl'. If America actually enforced our immigration controls, Soccer would be America's #1 fastest diminishing sport.
Euros can watch Association Football matches in their own language, but the USA is in the Central American league and you'd have to watch the match in Spanish on some Mexican channel like 'Telemundo!' or Noticiero eSporta, or whatever. Americans just aren't tuning in to hear 'GOOOO-LO-LO-LO-LOOOOOLLLL!' being shouted when some team scores. Just can't get excited about Uruguay versus Latvia. There's no compelling draw for a contest like that in the USA.
Besides, I said, our American football gridirons are too small to be used as soccer fields. The biggest US football stadium is rinky-dink compared to a typical soccer stadium in The Netherlands. You could take off and land a C-130 on the field in one of those enormous stadiums. The first time I saw one, I couldn't believe the magnitude of their soccer stadiums. When the Euro NFL played their games inside them, the teams looked like they were playing croquet on a postage stamp.
But I like the spectacle of the World Cup and don't get snarky or jingoistic about it. I think it's neat. I'm glad the US team isn't made up of real professionals like all the big Euro teams have. Our guys are college students that nobody in America would recognize by name or face to the point you'd have to ask a Mexican day laborer hanging around outside of Home Depot to identify them for us as to who the hell our national team players are. Even Americans who've watched all three US World Cup games so far would be hard pressed to give the last name of any player on the US team.
Meh.
Sorry, Mark, I just don’t care about soccer, no matter who might be playing. It’s pro football for me.
I think that when somebody understands the game, they get more enjoyment out of it. If you don’t understand the rules, it’s a bunch of gibberish. That goes for any sport. I find most of them are enjoyable the more I understand the rules and how to play.
If you understand the game, you realize that every single touch of the ball, every position of every player, is an integral part of the game. This goes for football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse, hockey, etc. Soccer is no different.
Shoot, card games aren’t fun if you don’t understand how to play them. Pretty much anything in life isn’t fun if you don’t know know or understand the rules and see no point in different strategies to win a game.
The metric system is easy to understand. I would have to look and see how many feet are in a mile. A kilometer is exactly 1000 meters
In the interests of hyperbole, Rush conveniently neglected to mention that the U.S. actually advanced with a level record of 1-1-1, the same as Portugal’s except a tiebreaker was involved… Also forgotten apparently is that in the beloved NFL it’s not unheard of that an 8-8 team ekes into the Playoffs, or that a team backs in while losing its last game (sometimes purposely).
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