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Britain Delivers a Welcome Blow to the Metric System
National Review ^
| September 17, 2021
| Dominic Pino
Posted on 09/17/2021 10:04:59 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites
I knew my refusal to learn the metric system would be vindicated some day. The insistence on its use always seemed somewhat pretentious to me.
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:08:28 AM PDT
by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
To: wattojawa
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:08:44 AM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: billorites
My favorite unit is the thou. One thousandth of an inch. A hybrid of metric and English.
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:08:50 AM PDT
by
brianr10
To: billorites; carriage_hill; wattojawa
The French Revolution was a time when men were, in the words of Edmund Burke, “pull[ing] down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.”Just like BLM.
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:09:46 AM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: brianr10
I have a dial caliper that measures in thous.
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:10:37 AM PDT
by
brianr10
To: billorites
I don’t mind having been taught the metric system in Junior High in the ‘70s. But at the time it was billed as, “We have to learn it because we’re changing to it”.
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:10:57 AM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
To: billorites
Like who says....Walk a kilometer in my shoes....
We adopted the system in 1866...but never did much about it until recently.
To: billorites
Back when I was a kid ~40 years ago, some teachers loved to tell us that in a few short years the metric system would totally displace the old system. And certainly metric does rule the world in certain areas like medicine where all the pills are in milligrams or auto engine size measured in liters and a few other things, but by golly no American ever talks about speed in kilometers per hour or their weight in kilograms or their height in centimeters. Despite those teachers’ predictions four decades ago, metric hasn’t won, and likely won’t win anytime soon.
To: billorites
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:15:05 AM PDT
by
Pollard
(Some people like to argue just to argue.)
To: billorites
A pig in a poke....................
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:16:12 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: fidelis
Got to say I love the Centigrade scale for temperature. Water freezes at 0, boils at 100. I get that.
What's wacky is the Fahrenheit scale. Anchored on the arm-pit temperature of the Fahrenheit family. Kinky, but true.
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:16:41 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: brianr10
We have electronic ones now that do both.................
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:17:03 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: billorites
It’s ‘Celsius’ scale now...................
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:17:46 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: billorites
I for one would be thrilled for us to go back to inches and feet and miles. Or ounces and pounds. I have to convert kilos and grams and kilometers all the time and I hate it.
It never made any sense in the US. Our land tracts are divided in sections which are measured over land 1 mile by 1 mile, this easily divides into 640 unique sqaures of 1 acre each. One reason for surveying land into sections of 640 acres is the ease of breaking the land into halves and quarters using whole acre measurements. We still use this system for it's ease, but then I see some trying to use kilometers to express distance.
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:19:43 AM PDT
by
Bearshouse
(Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
To: billorites
The Metric System does handle F=ma better.
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:20:00 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
To: irishjuggler
There’s no reason to not to use Gallons as a measure of engine displacement.
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:21:07 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
To: billorites
Small minds apparently cannot deal with the metric system so let’s use an old system which we got used to but didn’t make much sense.
ML/NJ
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:21:27 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
(DITCH MITCH !!)
To: billorites
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:22:26 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
To: billorites
The 160 oz British gallon isn’t going to help Americans much. And what about the commonwealth countries which followed Britain down the metric rabbit hole?
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:23:13 AM PDT
by
nagant
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