Per the standards of the Internet this thread degraded into imperialism (not Imperial measurement system) of some telling others that their culture isn’t worthy. Not to point fingers but let the record show the Americans were defending plurality and the freedom to chose while the ‘others’ tried to press their ethnocentric xenophobia and intolerance on the minority.
[QUOTE=DeckApe;187810]Per the standards of the Internet this thread degraded into imperialism (not Imperial measurement system) of some telling others that their culture isn’t worthy. Not to point fingers but let the record show the Americans were defending plurality and the freedom to chose while the ‘others’ tried to press their ethnocentric xenophobia and intolerance on the minority.
Shame! Shame! We know your name!
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It is called Democracy; 95% fore and 5% (mostly) against. “The Ayes to the left has it”
[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;187811]Good point, I shall start stacking my firewood 1.2192 m x 1.2192 m x 2.4384 m starting today.[/QUOTE]
No just continue to stack it in 4 x 4 x 8 ft. How else will you be able to sell your firewood to those (few?) who have not managed to convert to the metric system yet. They will get around soon.
[QUOTE=KPChief;187823] Hey play it both ways. *Retain the Growler as the container but label it in ml. Growler sounds so much better don’t you think? Viva la difference.[/QUOTE]
According to my beer-o-meter, there are 4 pints in a growler, and 124 pints in a keg. Therefore there are 31 growlers in a keg. These sound like unwholesome, unmetric, unkosher numbers. Don’t worry. I can sanctify them, without breaking the math or compressing any liquids. Observe:
A pint is 2.5 decigrowlers, or 8 milikegs*
A keg is 1.24 hectopints, or 32258 microgrowlers
A growler is 3.1 decikegs , or 0.4 dekapints
[QUOTE=ombugge;187815]No just continue to stack it in 4 x 4 x 8 ft.[/QUOTE]
Always trust advice coming from folks who will cheerfully try to convince you that diving into icy cold water immediately after roasting in a sauna will make you feel great.
PS: They might even try to convince you that people who know how to use only one measurement system are somehow smarter than those who are able to juggle several systems without breaking into a sweat. By their very own twisted reckoning, Americans are superior to them because we are smart enough to concentrate on one language instead of having to memorize several unrelated ones to communicate. Lah.
[QUOTE=z-drive;187807]
Hey Let’s go slam some pints…I mean .473 liter glasses of beer[/QUOTE]
Good idea. If you make it to Aalesund one of these days we could make it a few “halvlitera” of “utepils” at “Toldboden”. (Try Google that)
We should be able to solve the world’s problems after a dozen or so of those. (each)
[QUOTE=Emrobu;187826]According to my beer-o-meter, there are 4 pints in a growler, and 124 pints in a keg. Therefore there are 31 growlers in a keg. These sound like unwholesome, unmetric, unkosher numbers. Don’t worry. I can sanctify them, without breaking the math or compressing any liquids. Observe:
A pint is 2.5 decigrowlers, or 8 milikegs*
A keg is 1.24 hectopints, or 32258 microgrowlers
A growler is 3.1 decikegs , or 0.4 dekapints
I hope you clowns are happy drunks.[/QUOTE]
Innovative use of the roman prefixes in the Metric system.
[QUOTE=Emrobu;187826]According to my beer-o-meter, there are 4 pints in a growler, and 124 pints in a keg. Therefore there are 31 growlers in a keg. These sound like unwholesome, unmetric, unkosher numbers. Don’t worry. I can sanctify them, without breaking the math or compressing any liquids. Observe:
A pint is 2.5 decigrowlers, or 8 milikegs*
A keg is 1.24 hectopints, or 32258 microgrowlers
A growler is 3.1 decikegs , or 0.4 dekapints
I hope you clowns are happy drunks.[/QUOTE]
But wait. . . the taproom at my local brewery has TWO different sized growlers. . . . .
Isn’t that the Russians?? The Finns like to beat themselves with birch branches and roll around in the snow.
As for me? I have taken my “saunas” crawling around in tanks under a hot tropical sun. No snow, birch branches or even cold water anywhere around to refresh yourself in. (Air-condition isn’t the same)
PS: They might even try to convince you that people who know how to use only one measurement system are somehow smarter than those who are able to juggle several systems without breaking into a sweat. By their very own twisted reckoning, Americans are superior to them because we are smart enough to concentrate on one language instead of having to memorize several unrelated ones to communicate. Lah.
It is not that we cannot handle two systems, we have had to when working with Americans who know only their own system. But it is difficult to understand the need for hanging on to an old and archaic system when a better system is already in use by most people, incl. in America.
Whyfore you so pek check one? You so atas meh? Not so siong, can or not?
He’s been roundin’ off bolts since the age of fourteen
Was that a five eighths or a nine sixteenths?
He’s got a metric socket that don’t quite fit
Well it’ll wiggle just a little but it ain’t quite stripped
The safety guard’s gone from his grinding machine
He got a stiff paint brush he only kinda got clean
He’s the hired man, my neighbor and a cousin in law
He’s a jerry riggin’ fool, he got the tool for the job
If I had a muggeseggele (housefly’s penis) worth of sense I would have mentioned these pressure units before now. I noticed them in a built-in conversion tool when I was play with the simulator yesterday:
N/m^2 (=Pa)
mm H2O or Hg
in. H2O or Hg
mwc (a non-linear, but useful unit. Richter is the only other non-linear ‘unit’ I can think of. Do you guys know others?)
Kg/cm^2
[QUOTE=ombugge;187838]Whyfore you so pek check one? You so atas meh? Not so siong, can or not?[/QUOTE]
Perhaps us ‘Muricans like to retain certain things from our past. You guys were splashing around the fjords (we let you steal the name off our cars), dreaming up utopias and wishing someone would come up with a better measuring system, having a grand ol’ time while we were struggling to cast off the oppressive yoke of British Expansionism. It’s a reminder. Give it a fucking rest.
[QUOTE=Lee Shore;187856]Perhaps us ‘Muricans like to retain certain things from our past. You guys were splashing around the fjords (we let you steal the name off our cars), dreaming up utopias and wishing someone would come up with a better measuring system, having a grand ol’ time while we were struggling to cast off the oppressive yoke of British Expansionism. It’s a reminder. Give it a fucking rest.[/QUOTE]