Imperial or Metric?

[blombluss]

Me:

My height - Imperial

My weight - Imperial

Distances - Imperial / Metric

Small measurements* - Metric

Liquids - Metric (except for pints!)

*Not rude!!!

[endar]

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

[richschnauzer]

I only use megalithic yards

[endar]

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

[endar]

arms and cubits are best

[blombluss]

I only use megalithic yards

Bah! Typical druid!

[blombluss]

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!

[endar]

oh and car power in horses not kilowatts pls

[blombluss]

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

[endar]

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

[An Unicorn]

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

[An Unicorn]

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.

[endar]

fucking hell

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

[richschnauzer]

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

[endar]

d'oh

[blombluss]

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*

[Chortle Hound]

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".]

[Pual]

I only use the furlong-firkin-fortnight system

[blombluss]

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!

[An Unicorn]

I only use the furlong-firkin-fortnight system

[blombluss]

Ha!

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

[CandyDarling]

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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(For further reference: see number 10 on this list)

[dng]

Hooray. I had forgotten all about centicubes

[vom]

I had too, I used to love those

[vom]

what were the slightly bigger ones that fit together called?

[dng]

snap cubes, according to google.

[dng]

they were definitely not called snap cubes

[endar]

twocenticubes

inchcubes

[vom]

unit cubes maybe

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

[vom]

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more like this

but without the bonus shape holes

[vom]

and a bit dirty and worn

[endar]

yay i remember those things

and sticklebricks

[An Unicorn]

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.

[dng]

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

[dng]

and then liquefy their insides and feast on them for aeons

[blombluss]

yay i remember those things

and sticklebricks

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

[dng]

You can still buy sticklebricks. They are still complete shit

[dng]

Yet they have the very best name

[CandyDarling]

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

[endar]

likwis

[dng]

I used to pretend they were hedgehogs

[dng]

and zoom them around the tabletop

[dng]

thats how hedgehogs move

[blombluss]

I used to pretend they were hedgehogs

28 years old, I was...

[blombluss]

Oi used to be obsessed with pressing sticklebricks into plasticine.

I hoep it wasn't sexual.

[richschnauzer]

I can only measure distances using cuisinaire rods

[blombluss]

I can only measure distances using cuisinaire rods

They are an aesthetically pleasing measurement.

[dng]

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

[dng]

this is all your fault homfrus

[blombluss]

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