n3ta

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:10 pm**

Me:

My height - Imperial

My weight - Imperial

Distances - Imperial / Metric

Small measurements* - Metric

Liquids - Metric (except for pints!)

*Not rude!!!

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:47 pm**

it is a minefield to be sure.

in racing sims for example, when setting up the car, i want the fuel in litres not gallons, the tyre pressure in PSI rather than kPA, ride height in CM or MM, rather than inches, spring strength in NM not lbs/in. All over the place

is stupit

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:47 pm**

I only use megalithic yards

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:51 pm**

and of course most games only let you choose metric or imperial for everything, which ain't no good

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:53 pm**

arms and cubits are best

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:33 pm**

richschnauzer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:47 pm I only use megalithic yards

Bah! Typical druid!

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:39 pm**

endar wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:53 pm arms and cubits are best

Cubits are good, because they're one of the few measurements whose overall length includes the outstretched middle finger!

YEAH! REBEL MEASUREMENTS TAKE NO SHIT FROM ANYONE! YEAH! SCREW YOU, DISTANCE!

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:45 pm**

oh and car power in horses not kilowatts pls

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2021 12:23 am**

Lumens - Eh? Watts - Right-oh, now I understand.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:22 am**

British Thermal Units. The only time i've ever heard it used was in the matrix for some reason

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:33 am**

Thank White American Jesus we don't have any of 'em sinful METERIC measurements here in MERICA

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:45 am**

Work is an absolutely bizarre hodgepodge of UoMs. We measure material in linear meters but the cores they're mounted on in inches. Finished bag dimensions are in mm, but headspace measurements in inches. I'm pretty sure at least one of our tests measures results in grams/inch which is just a great big fuck you.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2021 3:24 pm**

fucking hell

also thank yeshua that the murcan space agency don't ever confuse metric and imperial. On O rings for instance.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:33 pm**

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:57 pm**

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2021 6:09 pm**

An Unicorn wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:45 am Work is an absolutely bizarre hodgepodge of UoMs. We measure material in linear meters but the cores they're mounted on in inches. Finished bag dimensions are in mm, but headspace measurements in inches. I'm pretty sure at least one of our tests measures results in grams/inch which is just a great big fuck you.

++ C-C-CANNOT COMPUTE ++

*explods*

Posted: **Sat Sep 04, 2021 5:32 pm**

richschnauzer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:33 pm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

Imagine the pinch on the face of the person who rejected the forms. I've seen that type of face too many times.

[... two navigators, whose concerns were dismissed because they "did not follow the rules about filling out [the] form to document their concerns".]

Posted: **Sun Sep 05, 2021 11:18 am**

I only use the furlong-firkin-fortnight system

Posted: **Sun Sep 05, 2021 7:16 pm**

I mistakenly thought you'd written 'foreskin' in there, so I was going to write 'I use mine for measuring purposes as well!', but then I realised you'd hadn't written 'foreskin', so I'd better say nothing!

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:15 am**

Pual wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 11:18 am I only use the furlong-firkin-fortnight system

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:39 am**

Ha!

The metric system?!?! The HERETIC system more like!!!!!!

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 8:14 am**

Where do centimeter cubes stand in all of this? I always liked those. They were like pixels that existed in real life.

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Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:44 am**

Hooray. I had forgotten all about centicubes

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:47 am**

I had too, I used to love those

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:47 am**

what were the slightly bigger ones that fit together called?

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:48 am**

snap cubes, according to google.

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:49 am**

they were definitely not called snap cubes

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:19 am**

twocenticubes

inchcubes

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 1:07 pm**

unit cubes maybe

the images that come up for snap cubes don't look quite like my memory

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 1:11 pm**

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more like this

but without the bonus shape holes

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 1:11 pm**

and a bit dirty and worn

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 1:31 pm**

yay i remember those things

and sticklebricks

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:53 pm**

An Unicorn wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:45 am Work is an absolutely bizarre hodgepodge of UoMs. We measure material in linear meters but the cores they're mounted on in inches. Finished bag dimensions are in mm, but headspace measurements in inches. I'm pretty sure at least one of our tests measures results in grams/inch which is just a great big fuck you.

A couple weeks ago, I requested a roll of 50 metres. Since this was being slit down from a full-width roll, I figured we could keep the other half too, which would have given us 100m.

Apparently 0, 100 meters was interpreted as 100 lbs, and since film is incredibly lightweight, this resulted in a pallet containing 8100m of material delivered to us.

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:17 am**

Now you can wrap your colleagues up like they're being cocooned by spiders

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:18 am**

and then liquefy their insides and feast on them for aeons

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 1:49 pm**

endar wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 1:31 pm yay i remember those things

and sticklebricks

I've never liked sticklebricks, even as childe. I don't like either their looks or connectivity!

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:20 pm**

You can still buy sticklebricks. They are still complete shit

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:21 pm**

Yet they have the very best name

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:37 pm**

For some reason I liked sticklebricks despite the fact they were terrible, and you couldn't really make anything with them apart from 3D Mondrian sculptures

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:39 pm**

likwis

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:40 pm**

I used to pretend they were hedgehogs

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:41 pm**

and zoom them around the tabletop

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:41 pm**

thats how hedgehogs move

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:33 pm**

dng wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:40 pm I used to pretend they were hedgehogs

28 years old, I was...

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:41 pm**

Oi used to be obsessed with pressing sticklebricks into plasticine.

I hoep it wasn't sexual.

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 10:08 pm**

I can only measure distances using cuisinaire rods

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2021 11:45 pm**

richschnauzer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 10:08 pm I can only measure distances using cuisinaire rods

They are an aesthetically pleasing measurement.

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:50 pm**

According to the times boris johnson is repealing the metric system or something

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:50 pm**

this is all your fault homfrus

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:21 pm**

Bwaa Haaa Haaaa! The only Metric allowed will be the rather good Canadian indie-rock band! Haaaaa! Haaaaaa!

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