12 June 2019

Beware the "global tyrrany of the metric system"



Via BoingBoing, where there is a salient comment thread.

5 comments:

  1. Slowly inching those imperial numbskulls out.

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  2. Because base-ten is so inherently evil... kill the dollar! Back to pounds, shillings, and sixpence!

    That's sarcasm, by the way. Just in case people don't pick up on that.

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  3. I still remember the sign in my High School science teachers lab:

    "Join the fight against metrics. We don't want no foreign rulers!"

    (tongue-in-cheek, of course)

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  4. From a comment I left on another site:

    I recently had to look to see how much a "dram" was. Depending on whether you're talking about weight or volume (liquid measure), the answers are different, and one is twice the other.

    Can I interest you in a milliliter?

    Lurker111

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  5. Next thing you know, they'll be insisting on teaching ARABIC numerals in U.S. schools!

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