Metric or not?

[kawakid]

Just a thought at my 33 years, i wouldn't know a metre from a sausage.

But I do understand some of it, whilst I think In miles and feet and inches, I realise youngsters might not.

What does everyone think?

https://www.ukma.org.uk

Personaly I think they are a bunch of c*nts.
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[Silver]

I tend you use what I can visualise; a 100m running track, 100 yard motorway marker, multiples of 6ft (my height, near enough), 12 inches.....

[stinkwheel]

Imperial for estimates, metric for maths is my system. 12" is easier to visualise than 300mm.

As a friend has pointed out to me at great length. When it comes to engineering, imperial threads are designed for optimum strength and function, metric ones are designed for mathematical convenience.
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[Mister James]

[stinkwheel]

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[Jack_Cheese]

The important measurements:

Imperial first -
Pint - Beer
Ounce - Weed
Miles - Per hour

There are no real important measurements in metric, none that lead to a happy life, such as the above

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[0ni]

Being 20 and having never been taught imperial measurements I really struggle with fractions! My mindset is 99% metric, distances, weights volumes etc. The first time I really used any amount of imperial was learning how to drive and (sort of) nautically.

I struggle to imagine what its like to not think metrically probably similar to how you old dears think about not thinking the old fashioned way
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[GBUK101]

[sickpup]

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I deal in metric at work every day (as an engineer) and get by most of the time untill I get a drawing from the USA which are all in inches, or have to take bits off Harleys - because all the fasteners are imperial. I think most Americans have never even heard of the metric system.

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[mistergixer]

I'm sorry to admit it, but to a mathematically challenged person like myself, the imperial system seems to have been designed as an ancient instrument of mental torture; firstly it's all bloody fractions, secondly it's not all in divisions of 10(so i can use the 10 digits on my hands), and thirdly it's all bloody random(like 12 ounces to a pound, but 14 pounds to a stone, plus all the wierd stuff like rods, chains, cables, furlongs, leagues, pecks and bushels).

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[kawakid]

[tonyyzf]

I'm happy using either, if i'm measuring something it can end up being a mixture of both, 8ft 3inches and 2mm for example, or whatever mark on the tape is closest.
I don't think this country will ever be totally metric.
The worst thing is when you're working on a machine thats made up of components from the USA or Canada, like the Argocat, its got a Kawasaki engine (metric), and a Canadian gearbox (imperial) and some of its body part screws are whitworth.
The older Landrovers were the same, unf and whitworth, you never had the right spanner in your hand, hence heaps of rounded nuts and bolts.

[Robby]

I get by with a combination of the two.

I know I weight 12 stone, which is about 75 kilos. I know how much a stone is, I know how much a kilo is, I have no idea about pounds and ounces.

Fuel annoys me. If I want to work out the mpg of my car I need to convert the litres of fuel into imp gallons first. Would much rather buy my fuel in gallons.

I have no idea how tall I am in metric, but I hate to deal with imp nuts and bolts.

Would be nice if we could decide on one system or the other.

[loply]

Being young I work entirely in metric.

You imperial lot can clearly not deny that 3mm is better than 2/64ths!

What size spanner do you want, size M1, M2, M3, M4 or M5? Simply numeracy.

...Or in imperial, 2/16ths, 3/8ths, 9/131sts or a half-pigney? Ridiculous.

Metric is far superior. Sorry to those who cant visualise it instinctively because of habit, but it is indeed right and proper that imperial is replaced with the more logically inspired metric system.
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[stinkwheel]

Ok smart arse. Accurately express 1/3" in mm.
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[colin1]

why would u want to do that ?
metric bits are made to metric standard sizes so we cd ditch imperial completely

stink u jst spend too much time with some ppl who are stuck in the 'when bikes were proper bikes' days
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[ZaphodBeeble]

1 third of an inch is 8.466666666 (recurring 6) millimetres. Can't get any more accurate than that. It can be written down more accurately than it can realistically be measured. It's each to his own I believe. If you like metric work in metric and the same goes for Imperial. Metric just makes more sense as it's powers of 10.
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[colin1]

you never need more than 3 significant figures anyway.
2 is plenty
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[Teaman]

i work in millimeters , actually its 1000th of millimeters lol

im 6 foot 4 which is 195 cm
95 kg i think , but not a clue what that is, im about 15 stone,
Im Brittish i work in miles per hour and drink pints,,
do i look like a chocolate munching brussles person thingy?
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[Odie]

Now heres one for you: when using your tool kit do you have a 1/2 inch, 1/4 inch and 1/8th drive sockets and drives? lol
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