Useless Conversation

[WayAbvPar]

Hooray for stalking women from an anonymous Gmail account.  Well done mate, you're a credit to the male species, you utter fucking cockmonkey.

Ahem.

Hey, I use Facebook and my ISP email address, thank you very much.

Wait, what?

[Ironwood]

I'm assuming he had to provide evidence about a co-worker of his doing very naughty things to another co-worker.

Not in this instance, though that's happened before.  No, some schmuck is pulling the 'I'm too shy to speak to you, so I've made an anonymous account and I'm bombarding you with love mail because, frankly, I'm a cunt and in real life no-one would even register my presence.'

I'm of the view the lassie in question should hoof it straight round to Plod and get this fuck a warning, but of course she's too much of a drama queen for that shit.

Men are just scum.  I've said it all my life.  Scumbuckets.

[Numtini]

After researching US to metric conversions for our ingredient database, I've decided the US really just needs to man up and switch to metric.  Stat.

I'm one of Jimmy Carter's children. I learned the metric system. Obviously you can't have a brain and exist in the US without knowing what an inch or a quart is, but when you get past the daily stuff, I don't have the slightest idea and converting anything? How many ounces in a gallon? Not clue one. If I need to do that sort of thing for a recipe, I always end up googling it.

[Chimpy]

It was Gerald Ford that pushed the metric system.

[Bunk]

I blame the US for me having no idea how many centimeters tall I am or how many kilos I weigh without doing math in my head. Beyond that though, the Imperial system is pure gobbledygook to me.

I was lucky to be in one of the first generations to go Metric in Canada. I will say though that my dad, a former mechanic and an engineer, still has a far better grasp of handling fractions than I ever will.

[Teleku]

All kids in the US learn the metric system.  Its whats used in every science class, from your first basic 7th grade biology course and on up (and in almost every single class I took, the first lesson or two was a refresher and practice on how the metric system works).  I know everybody has to take at least one science class (or the education standards in some states are even lower than I thought). 

Its just that nobody uses it outside of that.

[Paelos]

I'm ok for using metric on everything except distances. You can't take away my miles!

[Lantyssa]

I'm fine with metric, but we don't get enough general usage for me to think of measurements in those terms.

[murdoc]

I'm the same as Bunk - metric system makes the most sense to me, but I still don't know how many Centimeters tall I am, or how much I weight in Kilograms.

[Paelos]

Plus side for guys under 6 feet tall, if we switch to metric it might confuse the ladies that use it as a measuring stick for dating! 

[IainC]

My new game finally launched today in New Zealand (it's a soft launch). In other news I realised that my red name is wrong.

[Nebu]

Plus side for guys under 6 feet tall, if we switch to metric it might confuse the ladies that use it as a measuring stick for dating! 

She'll discover soon enough that 10 in and 10 cm are VERY different.  Oh... you meant height.   

[Numtini]

It was Gerald Ford that pushed the metric system.

Wow, I never realized that. What a different world.

[Nebu]

I completely forgot about the metric conversion act.  Nice little factoid about Ford.  Well done Chimpy.

[Trippy]

After researching US to metric conversions for our ingredient database, I've decided the US really just needs to man up and switch to metric.  Stat.

How many ounces in a gallon? Not clue one. If I need to do that sort of thing for a recipe, I always end up googling it.

You can figure it out, though, if you know the intermediate conversions. I.e. 1 gallon = 2 half gallons = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 16 cups, 1 cup = 8 oz.

[Nebu]

[Lantyssa]

It should be year > month > day, but otherwise it's a good picture.

[Samwise]

[Paelos]

Every time I go to Europe I have no idea what the Weather Channel is telling me. 

[Viin]

It should be year > month > day, but otherwise it's a good picture.

I think it is referencing the date format: mm/dd/yyyy vs dd/mm/yyyy.

[Trippy]

It should be year > month > day, but otherwise it's a good picture.

I think it is referencing the date format: mm/dd/yyyy vs dd/mm/yyyy.

Yes but not all countries outside of the US are DD/MM/YYYY. E.g. Japan is YYYY/MM/DD (which is the proper way to do it).

[Viin]

True. Personally, I like ssssssssss. (1396551832)

[HaemishM]

I fucking hate DD/MM/YYYY. Fuck that noise.

[Zetor]

Hungary makes up 50% of all European countries that use the only sensible date/time format in the universe (yyyy/mm/dd). Bow down... or something.

Also, as a fair and balanced solution to the Fahrenheit/Celsius problem, I suggest switching over to Kelvin instead. Zero Kelvin is as non-arbitrary as you can get, after all!  

[Nebu]

Also, as a fair and balanced solution to the Fahrenheit/Celsius problem, I suggest switching over to Kelvin instead. Zero Kelvin is as non-arbitrary as you can get, after all!  

Saying that it's 293 K is just weird.

[Hawkbit]

US measuring system is not the same as Imperial measuring, that's where it gets even trickier.  Fluid ounces of almost everything is a different measurement than precious metals or foods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems

I'm working with edge case scenarios mostly, but I'm a big fan of consistency and the fact that we have these weird conversions is making me rip hair out. 

[Nebu]

I want to declare my weight in 'stone'.  That's Sean Connery level of cool.

[Sky]

As someone who has to work with a lot of dated folders, YYYYMMDD would be so nice.

Let's alphabetize the months while we're at it. Fuck you, August!

[Selby]

I'm an engineer and was raised in science classes, so I convert all the time and don't really have any issues with it.  Like has been said, we don't see enough metric measurements in daily use to really push it, and working on older cars where every setting is in American units, I get to think both sides.

That said, those arbitrary conversions are really interesting from a historical perspective.

[Abagadro]

I want to declare my weight in 'stone'.  That's Sean Connery level of cool.

My weight loss goal is now to get down to 15 stone.

[Cyrrex]

I've lived in Europe for almost half my life now, and have become pretty OCD about converting everything back and forth in my head.  On the plus side, I can convert temperatures, money, weights and distances in my head in no time at all.  On the negative side, I can't fucking stop it!  Somebody help!

[Reg]

Temperatures and distances I can do easily and automatically in my head. Inches to centimeters remains a bit mysterious. I'll always think of myself as being 6'2" and not whatever ungodly number of centimeters it works out to be.

[Cyrrex]

Inches to centimeters is easy...the problem with height is that you have to drop the feet and convert it all to inches first.  You can't relate to 74 inches, because you never have any context for it. 

[Chimpy]

30cm=1 foot, yo

[Signe]

My favourite word when converting is "about".  Works for me.