Someone once commented that if the U.S. ever really did go metric, the only people who'd be comfortable with it would be scientists and drug dealers.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Sep 08, 2011 4:16:05 am PDT #24731 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
le nubian - Sep 08, 2011 4:23:55 am PDT #24732 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The problem is that I learned metric and imperial in school, but I don't have a frame of reference for imperial. Cookbooks aren't written in metric, my car does not display metric, I don't think in metric (although I used to for temperature, not anymore). It would be almost like learning a new language. I would have to mentally convert all the time.
le nubian - Sep 08, 2011 4:28:57 am PDT #24733 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jessica - Sep 08, 2011 4:38:47 am PDT #24734 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I would have to mentally convert all the time.
Driving to Canada every year has me pretty comfortable with switching between miles and kilometers, but gas prices break my brain - intellectually I know it's not really that much more math, but for some reason the conversion from USD/gallon to Canadian cents/liter is really difficult to do on the fly!
Jessica - Sep 08, 2011 4:49:50 am PDT #24735 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
UGH - there's a 9/11 truther posting in my local parenting listserv. (Someone asked if there were any "talk to your kids about 9/11" resources in our neighborhood and now the list is FULL OF CONSPIRACY NUT SPAM. GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!)
Toddson - Sep 08, 2011 4:50:56 am PDT #24736 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In re metric - I've also found that people who work with beads do fairly well with metric measurements ... in very small increments.
Jesse - Sep 08, 2011 4:52:37 am PDT #24737 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Obviously change is hard, so if the government wanted people to use metric, they would have needed to stop using imperial on everything. It's like dollar coins. OF COURSE we're going to keep preferring bills as long as we have them! Just take them away, and WE'LL ADJUST.
I'm not sure why I have such a Thing about dollar coins, but I do.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 08, 2011 4:56:14 am PDT #24738 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have been trying to switch to metric for patterning, but I am finding it impossible. The math is so much easier for most things, but I know so instinctively how big an inch is that I can't do it!
tommyrot - Sep 08, 2011 5:00:31 am PDT #24739 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
UGH - there's a 9/11 truther posting in my local parenting listserv. (Someone asked if there were any "talk to your kids about 9/11" resources in our neighborhood and now the list is FULL OF CONSPIRACY NUT SPAM. GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!)
Ugh is right--I have no idea how to deal with those people.
I was just reading an article about 9/11 conspiracy folks. Some people believe the World Trade Center was not hit by planes--those were holograms.
Damn, the government has some excellent hologram technology....
Anyway, I stopped reading at that point.
le nubian - Sep 08, 2011 5:06:25 am PDT #24740 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I actually like many complex conspiracy theories (JFK assassination being one), but Beau told me his uncle (now deceased) believed that the moon landing was staged.
It was not until adulthood I even knew that people believed this and I thought it was a small segment of the population! I cannot even fathom that the landing was staged. Truly.
As I cannot even fathom there were no planes crashing into buildings. I mean WTF?