Are you metric or not? Why?

[Ian]

Personaly I'm sticking with cubits. I can just about handle this new fangled imperial stuff, but life's too short to start learning new measurements every couple of millenia.

[JohnD]

I use inches and lbs, just cause thats what I grew up with and is how I think. I can look at a nut or bolt and, usually, know what size wrench I need. I can pretty accurately guess ranges, distances and lengths so It makes my life easier to stick with it. I use the decimal system for accuracy, no less accurate than the metric system in my opinion. Plus, I'm used to it so its easier for me.

I thought The Ton was 100mph?

John

[tonyc1]

I use inches and lbs, just cause thats what I grew up with and is how I think. I can look at a nut or bolt and, usually, know what size wrench I need. I can pretty accurately guess ranges, distances and lengths so It makes my life easier to stick with it. I use the decimal system for accuracy, no less accurate than the metric system in my opinion. Plus, I'm used to it so its easier for me.

I thought The Ton was 100mph?

John

Or, it could be a 100 runs in cricket!

Tony.

[Denise]

Or, it could be a 100 runs in cricket

Cricket. Now that is something that is indecipherable!!

[David]

You got my head spinning Johanna....Did you ask for the square root of a Gregorian banana? Never was good at Chinese arithmatic.

Dave

[sniper]

I prefer real numbers, thank you very much! The only thing I can come up with in metric is 10 kilometers=~6 miles....but only after some mental gymnastics,and if it is an irregular number like 9, or 235...forget it!.

[sniper]

A Ton out here is 2240 pounds.Tony.Tina, I thought a Metric Ton would be a Tonne.Tony.

And a long ton is 2200 lbs. And a click is 1/4 inch at 100 yards, or some smdidgen below 100 meters... KIlograms, kilowatts, kilometers, gigaframmises, shakes...Will it never end???

[oldtimer]

I'm with you Roo, I LOVE my metric system that make sense all the way...

I try my best to adapt to the American "system" but it's not easy, everything's a mess and you actually have to learn each system one by one (weight, lenght, volume etc) Metric is sooo easy, just 1, 10, 100, 1000 on all types...And a metric ton is of course 1000kg :-)

I´m with you Tina ! I LOVE my metric system that make sense all the way...

Unfortunately it seems to be a Mission Impossible to convert all these stubborn Americans into metric !

Not to mention the advantage of metric threads - one logic system , no UNC, UNF ......

I must though admit ( it hurts ! ) that inch is a practical measure in saddlery and leatherwork for straps and buckles. It is much easier to remember 1/2", 3/4" .... than 13 mm , 19 mm and so on, but that is the end of the line! .

/ Knut

What a great topic!

Edited November 27, 2010 by oldtimer

[joquarter]

For me it is the Metric system, but I grow up with it .

If I have to order in inches , don't know how big ore small it is .

Got crazy from all the different sizes. foot , feet , inches and whatever.

Need to search on the internet to find out how long it is in mm.

The metric system is easy : 1km = 1000m

1m = 10 dm= 100cm =1000mm

It's a logic system .

In some old cooking books you have to use a spoon ore a cup , but witch cup ore spoon is the , right one?

[BIGGUNDOCTOR]

Inches here. Being a machinist I work in thousands of an inch. The shop I am working in now converts all of the metric prints to thousands, so we can make sense of them. You get used to working one way, and something different can be difficult to adapt to.

I have had to pass on some cookbooks I found because they were metric. I have cups, tbs, tbls ,oz in my kitchen, not grams, ml, kg.

Gold is in Troy oz.

Gunpowder is measured in Grains. 7,000 grains to a pound.

Land is in acres, and sections.

Surveyors use rods, and chains.