Metric system dumbs us down.

[Sea Dreaming]

Wow...it's been a while since I looked at this thread. 375 posts....y'all are relentless!

[carstenb]

Originally Posted by Sea Dreaming

Wow...it's been a while since I looked at this thread. 375 posts....y'all are relentless!

Weel, ya know- when yer right and the rest of the world is wrong - ya gotta stick to yer guns

Not to fear - I'll have them all convinced after another couple of million posts

[StuM]

Originally Posted by carstenb

Weel, ya know- when yer right and the rest of the world is wrong - ya gotta stick to yer guns

Not to fear - I'll have them all convinced after another couple of million posts

The obligatory XKCD reference:

[barnakiel]

Originally Posted by Sea Dreaming

Wow...it's been a while since I looked at this thread. 375 posts....y'all are relentless!

Please - don't dumb us down! ;-)

It is only 6^3 and 24/32 of 6^3 in the smart system! ;-)

Give or take 3/8 of 2^3 ;-)

Everything is give or take where people get happy with 3/8 solutions ;-)

Cheers,
b.

[South Bound]

Incredible thread - page upon page of something that to me looks like some kind of religious debate.

Having grown up in 100% metric (indeed, there are 100 percents too!) society it still has been easy for me to accept that there are different ways of measuring things in other countries, just like there are different currencies and languages. When I started sailing I had no trouble accepting nautical miles or the fact that even here in Scandinavia we measure sailboats in feet - but perhaps I should suspect some sort of conspiracy behind all this..?

[deblen]

I believe I will make a cup of coffee, using a heaping teaspoon,a pinch of salt , a smidgen of cinnamon & a dollop of cream,whilst fathoming thru the reams, or should I say tons/tonnes/tuns, of weighty thought expressed in this thread. I may add a shot,or perhaps a jigger,or even a full snort of Screech to aid my deliberations.
After all,an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

[carstenb]

Originally Posted by South Bound

- but perhaps I should suspect some sort of conspiracy behind all this..?

Indeed - just because you think everyone is after you doesn't mean you're paranoid. After all - they just might be..........................

A few more pages and we'll be close to the truth about Roswell, Area 47 and Who killed JFK.

Or maybe I'll just have a pony of rum and go to sleep..................

[Jason Flare]

I learned from a magazine that powerboaters did like sailboaters.

I learned on cruisers forum that some multihull owners and some monohull owners were offensive and defensive of their choice of boat.

I learned on cruisers forum that there are proponents and opponents of the Imperial System and the Metric System and that some people feel others are wrong for the system they use.

I have very little evidence of any of this from my life experiences and if it weren't for magazines and the internet I wouldn't know these problems existed.

[AiniA]

Is there any truth to the rumour (that I am just starting) that Trump is going to impose the metric system on the US as of April 1, 2018? Part of the Make America Great (or is that Grate) movement.

[barnakiel]

As you can see, Brexit was inevitable! We simply could not bear all that gibberish. We have enough nonsense language of our own kind here. ;-)

;-)
b.

[StuM]

Originally Posted by carstenb

Indeed - just because you think everyone is after you doesn't mean you're paranoid. After all - they just might be..........................

A few more pages and we'll be close to the truth about Roswell, Area 47 and Who killed JFK.

Or maybe I'll just have a pony of rum and go to sleep..................

Are you talking about a proper pony glass (1/4 pint, 5 oz, 140ml) or one of those poncey little 1oz stemmed shot glasses?

[buzzstar]

Originally Posted by StuM

Are you talking about a proper pony glass (1/4 pint, 5 oz, 140ml) or one of those poncey little 1oz stemmed shot glasses?

Probably he is.

[StuM]

Originally Posted by buzzstar

Probably he is.

Touché !

Let me rephrase that:

"Which pony are you talking about, the real man's 5 oz or the poncey 1 oz?"

[El Pinguino]

I must say I have learnt quite a bit about this and that on this thread.

Frinstance I now know where foolscap went and what it means for the Emperor's elephant to cop a cartridge up the Kyber Pass......

[DumnMad]

Originally Posted by deblen

I believe I will make a cup of coffee, using a heaping teaspoon,a pinch of salt , a smidgen of cinnamon & a dollop of cream,whilst fathoming thru the reams, or should I say tons/tonnes/tuns, of weighty thought expressed in this thread. I may add a shot,or perhaps a jigger,or even a full snort of Screech to aid my deliberations.
After all,an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The laymans code.

They only want it metric so its easier to tax you