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[2014-8-13. : 5:52 pm]  O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- if you said "15th january' people would look at you funny, but probably understand. [2014-8-13. : 5:52 pm]  Devourer -- though I do not quite understand why not just "first (of) january" [2014-8-13. : 5:51 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- because in speech we say like "January first of twenty-fourteen", so that's how we write it [2014-8-13. : 5:50 pm] NudeRaider -- but yeah you know it's bad when you have to look up your measurement system. [2014-8-13. : 5:50 pm] Devourer -- but time, ok cool, we got days months and years. So we order them from most to least significant, which makes sense. How did you guys come up with "Month-Day-year"?  [2014-8-13. : 5:50 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- That's what all of the imperial measurements are. There's even way more like handbreadths, fingers, etc. [2014-8-13. : 5:50 pm] Devourer -- You know, measuring sizes, when invented, it made sense to use like a foot or sth; you wouldn't have an idea of "a metre" [2014-8-13. : 5:49 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- Also yards aren't even really used all that much. I think they're used in like sports, but people pretty much stick to inches, feet and miles. [2014-8-13. : 5:49 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- To the point where off the top of my head I couldn't tell you how many feet or yards are in a mile. I have to look it up every time. xD [2014-8-13. : 5:48 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- Same with our food labels being required to be in both US and metric [2014-8-13. : 5:48 pm] Devourer -- Do you guys actually ever think about your measure system and then realize how totally random that all is? Like I know you are used to it and you have learned it that way, but still [2014-8-13. : 5:47 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- That's the idea, I'm pretty sure. They tried just switching once I guess and everyone was too steadfast and just refused. Having centimeters on rulers is a remnant of that.  [2014-8-13. : 5:46 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- So actually I guess people might understand centimeters, since an inch is about 2.5 centimeters. [2014-8-13. : 5:45 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- Here metrics is exclusively for scientific and medical measurements. We do learn it in school, but it's so far out of common usage that if you said something weighed x grams or was y centimeters, people would have to figure out conversions to even begin to understand (such as me, earlier) [2014-8-13. : 5:45 pm] NudeRaider -- come to the light side of the force! You have it in you. I believe in you. [2014-8-13. : 5:44 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- That's what we get for using (a variant of) Britain's measuring system. [2014-8-13. : 5:43 pm] NudeRaider -- but one of the most sinful strawmans is to justify one's action by stating that it could be worse [2014-8-13. : 5:42 pm] NudeRaider -- 2nd step is you acknowledge that only you have to power to change who your are. (Or what measurement you use :P) [2014-8-13. : 5:42 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- Britain is all screwed up. We have a system, and we stick to it. We're not so wishy-washy. [2014-8-13. : 5:41 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- Like they measure distance in miles, but length in meters. [2014-8-13. : 5:39 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- And in Britain it's absolute hell because half the time they use metrics and the other half they use imperial. Or crazy archaic imperial (why would you measure in stone?!) [2014-8-13. : 5:39 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- Also you can't blame us, we took our measuring system from Britain and cut out all the useless ones. [2014-8-13. : 5:37 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- So the 1760 yards or 5280 feet is because all the measurements between (rod, chain, furlong) are no longer commonly used. [2014-8-13. : 5:36 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- "A mile is a unit of length most commonly equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards (about 1,609 metres)." [2014-8-13. : 5:34 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- Here we go. There are 8 furlongs in a mile, 10 chains in a furlong, 4 rods in a chain, and 5.5 yards in a rod. [2014-8-13. : 5:33 pm] NudeRaider -- have you checked the picture it links? it says 1 mile = 1.76 km. Google says 1 mile = 1.61 km. [2014-8-13. : 5:31 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- like there are US volume measurements and then Imperial volume measurements, and they are slightly off from eachother [2014-8-13. : 5:27 pm] Devourer -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59LQw9bKeJ8&feature=youtu.be btw anyone knows this song? ;o [2014-8-13. : 5:27 pm] NudeRaider -- What's with that miles to km? Google tells me 1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers [2014-8-13. : 5:26 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- There's a bunch of archaic measurements between yard and mile. |
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