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Metric system is meant for clever people.
The system is made for those who create and those who don't know which way to hold an hammer. and it works, that's the beauty of it.
Imperial is just made for peasants in 870s and people who are on still on that level of education.
Not really, the system itself is clever but it's made for everyone, very simple to use.
Can we also double down on getting information only from Canadian Owned and Operated media?
The linked article is from the CBC...
The post title is: "Time to double down on the metric system".
At the same time, I also think it's a good idea to:
double down on getting information only from Canadian Owned and Operated media
I agree we should be refraining from using US owned media, but it's a little confusing to comment about it on discussions about something else.
The post body:
In the spirit of ...reorientation away from the United States
My comments are exactly in line with the discussion, to move away from US media.
I went to the states a couple years back. Went to a tavern and was deciding on a beer. Bartender overhears I'm Canadian and tells me the size of the pints in decilitres π
For what it's worth, I'm pretty comfortable with FL oz from reading soda cans and stuff. I just find it crazy how unintuitive metric is to some.
I appreciated his effort, I just thought it was funny
That's just ridiculous. The pint is a measurement unit in itself. The fact that the bartender didn't seem to be aware of that fact is a failure of the imperial system in itself, though not really a surprise since the system relies entirely on memorizing arbitrary values that have no connection with other units.
Though admittedly, the US pint is smaller than the British pint, so there is justification of pointing that out.
That would be the correct way to do it. Just one or two digits for most common sizes, from shots to full glasses. I'd say a very large percentage of European beers, wines, etc. measure that way, and the remainder use mL.
Seems to be a cultural thing. Here in Canada I see mL and L most often for drinks.
One quirk of metric I have taken a liking to recently, is in Japan, apparently they measure their object dimensions in mm. 'The size of one sheet of Letter paper in mm is 279.4mm x 215.9mm.' I don't know why, but for some reason I like this.
Decilitre is actually the common unit for drinks in Hungary (and possibly in other countries). Hungarians also use dekagramm, which is 10 grams. But the cool thing about metric is that to convert, you just move the decimal around!
A lot of my European beer glasses have dL on them. Offhand I can think of duchesse (Belgium), and Delirium Tremens (also Belgium). Okay, maybe it's just beers from Belgium, I'd have to take a look.
"I'd have to take a look."
Sounds like you have booked a special evening in the pub: "Can I try the next beer please?"
I hate fucking fl.oz. I understand cups, teaspoons and tablespoons, but then there's the odd recipe that uses 'fl.oz.' and I always have to go look it up.
Yeah, what the hell is a florida ounce anyway?
An ounce of fentanyl
The cool thing is, it's still an easy conversion to bring it back to a familiar unit!
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Can we get the UK on board with this as well? (Maybe when they rejoin the EU? And let's drive on the same site of the road as 98% of the planet while we're on it).
Other than miles most of our stuff is metric anyway, at least legally. Like yeah, we use stones and feet for 'human' measurements in speech etc but if you go to the doctors it would be in kilos and metres. There are a few oddities like milk bottles being in pints and beer in pubs but even then you find things like plant milks and bottles/canned beer in litres. The one that really makes no sense is car fuel efficiency. We sell fuel by the litre but measure it in miles per (imperial) gallon - so it doesnt even tie up with American figures.
When someone asks your height, you answer in centimeters.
Honestly it's just easier for me anyway, because I'm like a quarter short of an inch, and if I round down people straight-up get confused, since they're used to the numbers getting padded.
I mean, I can without hesitating. We all should be able to.
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And what did Mulroney stop in the metrification of Canada?
Yeah, he was late enough the effect has been limited. We still use pounds and feet for measuring people, mostly, and fahrenheit for cooking, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
I'm 178cm and 65kg
Fuck you trump
Congrats on the healthy BMI, and on using the correct scale!
By my book, you're now an EU citizen.
BMI was made by an statistician who never intended it to be used as a means of medical assessment.
What? BMI > 30 is the literal definition of obesity.
It's a tool, and it serves a purpose.
Basically just because it's easier to measure. In reality, visceral fat is the thing they worry about, but you can't run everyone through an MRI just for that.
That being said, having a really high BMI is definitely bad. Saying that you're healthy at 50 is taking a ~~mile~~ kilometer when given a centimeter.
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Let's finally move to the ISO 216 standard for paper!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216
But, hear me out.... PC LOAD A4 just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I've put every 4 I can find I'm, but it just doesn't work! It seemed especially angry at the fridge magnet ones.
Oh please, yes!
When I moved to Mexico I was always annoyed with the weird ass paper formats, then when I moved to Canada I had hoped that over here they would have sane formats but alas...
Seriously, the entire world got upgrade after upgrade everywhere and the US constantly was like "nope, we will keep our feet and miles and inches because those "make sense" keeping a large part of developed nations in the dark ages
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