I became pretty comfortable with the metric system in engineering school. I much prefer the system and would happily adopt it.

Unfortunately, it would take an entire generation to get used to it and I don’t think the added value would be worth the shit show.

Metric makes sense and it’s intuitive. It simplifies science, industry and commerce.

Screws and tools are a lot easier to ID with metric.

The strange part- At work it's mixed for no logical reason. 1 lab will be standard and another will be metric. Using similar parts but incompatible is wasteful and frustrating.

I was just checking my DVD shelf for the 1991 movie Doc Hollywood starring Michael J Fox and Julie Warner and other great actors.

There is a great scene where, after he runs his vintage Porsche through a small town fence, he is sentenced by the small town judge to pay penance by staying for awhile, so he has to work at the local dinky hospital (I loved the role played the black woman nurse in the hospital, just hysterical).

Anyway, there is a scene where, sorry I can't quote it exactly, I can't find a YouTube video of that, he is looking at his mangled car and of the 2 local mechanics there, one says something like That's OK, Doc, don't worry, I've always wanted an excuse to buy a set of metric tools.

It's a movie I've always enjoyed and watch every so often.

Hey Doc, nice pig!
That's ok, Doc, we're not using bait today!
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Originally posted by parabellum:
Trying to stir...

No sir, I was not trying to stir. I don't do that. I was attempting to make a good-natured chiding to make snsguppy aware that we all notice the bickering, and many of us are not supportive of it.

It wasn't my place to do that, so I was wrong. And my post may have ended up having the "stirring" effect you stated; for that I apologize.



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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
I like my finances in metric.

I mix and match for work, with mg/kg or ug/L concentrations in reports right next to areas in acres...

I seriously read that as "I like my fiancees in metric." :P

LOL. Like foreign? Or 10s? Or divisible by 10? And just how many fiancees have you had?

Nope. I do conversions almost daily in both directions. Doesn't bother me a bit.

handy desktop conversion app...

https://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/

I'm very comfortable with metrics in tools, nuts, bolts, etc. I don't think I'll ever get used to the liter vs gallon or kilo meter vs mile. I'm too old for that

When using metric tools it's very simple... you need the one that is missing... you know, the 10mm

Years ago they decided to convert to metric speed limit signs for Tennessee roads. It was going to cost a fortune but they started a 10 year plan to convert. It was so confusing and folks raised so much hell that they abandoned the idea. I still hate speedometers with both systems on them.

I can, and have used the metric system quite a bit and it's OK but I absolutely HATE a metric snob...
At work we had an engineer come in to set up a new ~million dollar machine that was my project to approve. He set it up to use a metric interface. I refused to sign off on it because our workflow was totally in inches/decimals. Big riff ensued during which at one point the engineer actually said to me that they ALWAYS used the metric system because it was "more accurate"
I had a word with my boss... we had a agreement that we would buy two more of their machines if it satisfied our requirements. My boss made a call to the engineers boss. By the next morning another engineer had been flown in, all he said when he came in the door was "Yes Sir, what do you need me to do?"

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
handy desktop conversion app...

https://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/

And there is one great one for iOS devices that I love. Simply called "UNITS" in the App Store. You can edit the conversion list to eliminate unused conversions and reorder the list so that your most used conversion is at the top.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
When using metric tools it's very simple... you need the one that is missing... you know, the 10mm

My son pointed to a "dating" website that has since been taken down

I am a hetero man looking for a hetero female
I am a gay man looking for a gay woman
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I am a normal man looking for my god damned 10mm socket.

Really true.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
When using metric tools it's very simple... you need the one that is missing... you know, the 10mm

Yours, too? Dang.

One, I get, but why is the 10mm missing in the 1/4" drive (and why am I using 1/4" drive with metric?), but in the combo wrenches, and the 3/8 drive, as well?

I don't know where the 10mm's go, but I'm pretty sure that when I find them, there will be a pile of 12mm's, too.

My wife is helpful, though. "I can't find your 10 millimeter, but there's a ww0I here. Will that do?"

The 3/8 and 7/16 don't seem to walk off. Why just the metric? There's something under the car that only eats metric. Weird.

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Originally posted by cparktd:


Years ago they decided to convert to metric speed limit signs for Tennessee roads.

That reminds me, all of our Interstate Highways in our beloved USA are marked in miles. Well, except for Interstate 19. I-19 runs from Nogales AZ (border town with Mexico) to Tucson AZ where it meets I-10.

I've driven I-19 many times and it still amazes that it's in Kilometers, not miles, and has stayed that way.
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No.

HELL NO

It's way simpler to use, it's the international standard, and it makes sense. Still I don't care, I'll keep my measurements thank you.

Nope......And I had to use it for years!!

Standard is meant to be easily worked, with fractions, on pencil and paper, and takes units from the real world.

AKA, want to go to the moon on pencil and paper, use Standard.

Want to contemplate your navel in French, use metric.

(I admit, metric is handy at subatomic units - again, those units are taken from actual aspects of subatomic components.)

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Originally posted by cparktd:

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
handy desktop conversion app...

https://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/

And there is one great one for iOS devices that I love. Simply called "UNITS" in the App Store. You can edit the conversion list to eliminate unused conversions and reorder the list so that your most used conversion is at the top.

And for Android try https://play.google.com/store/...pro.ucplite&hl=en_US