you guys make up your heads for nothing...

if its called quarter pounder or cheese royal, after i eat it - its gone!

thx for you understanding :haha:

i drive with both measurements in sh4 (us and german campaing) and have no problems with that, its just a questions of logical flexibility *cheers*

Knowledge is a little bird that tweets in your ear and tells lies.:D

Frederf: please have a good time while we are talking ideas that have no handles on them.

:O: My wife uses both systems to her advantage. If she's gaining weight, she uses a scale calibrated in kilograms. If she's on a diet, she uses a scale calibrated in pounds.

:cool: You do the math.

It's worse in Canada, gutted.
Here we claim to be metric, teach everything in metric, learn everything in metric, and then get in the real world where no one uses it because everything we buy comes out of the US and everyone we sell to expects it to be SAE.

LOL. We're neither and both and so dang confused about the whole thing! :O:

LOL when I was in elementry school / high school we were taught and told that the 'world' including the US would standardize on the metric system within 10 years... that was a lot longer than 10 years ago ;):rotfl2:

I don't see why it's so confusing. If you know both and feel comfortable with both you are better equipped to understand the qualities being measured than anybody who is only comfortable with one.

When it's 61º F outside you can say "It's 61º of the difference between damned cold and damned hot" and simultaneously know it's 16º C, 16% of the way from freezing to boiling water.

0º C equals 32º F. 16º C equals 61º F. 28º C equals 82º F. Everything else in human environmental temperature range can be interpolated or extrapolated roughly in a 2 for 1 relationship between C and F.

LOL when I was in elementry school / high school we were taught and told that the 'world' including the US would standardize on the metric system within 10 years... that was a lot longer than 10 years ago ;):rotfl2:

You know I wish I could have a good grasp of weather reports in Celsius. Fahrenheit is what I've come to know but I totally realize it's nothing special. I guess it's kinda nice to say "It's in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s" and those are pretty useful in the scale. I know if I grew up with Celsius I'd feel just as at home with that.

When was it that science classrooms in the US switched to Metric? I can't imagine doing a physics degree in Imperial... I just can't. I mean, carpenters are going to be using feet and inches for a looooong time. I think it's silly to try a forced change... just let 50 years go by such that every living person had Metric taught to them in middle school and it'll come about of its own accord.

It's not necessarily that metric is better but that it's dumbsauce for there to be more than one system worldwide and there's more metric than there is imperial out there.

50F degrees here is damned cold due to the humidity (New Orleans).

seriously, i went to colorado once, and was standing on the balcony of the hotel in shorts smoking a cig while it was like -10 and snowing and didn't care at all. if i did that over here at 40F.. i'd be squeeling.

I thought "humidity" was a copyrighted trademark of Florida. The Orlando Magic should have been called the Orlando Humidity.:D

Or as they say in Spain, "cero grados, ni frio ni calor", translates to "zero degrees, neither cold nor warm" end of quote pardon I might have mispelled "cero", I am bi-illiterate!

As for the interpolation its just like the "9's" multiplication table! Sweet! RR has a beautiful mind!