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  1. #48876
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peruvian View Post
    Looks like a 7 year old cut those out of a magazine and pasted them on to the other photo.... one of the worst photoshop efforts I've ever seen.

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    Part 2: Padded Room Special Collection Of Junk That More Than Likely Will Be NSFW

    Quote Originally Posted by MyNameIsAugustWest View Post
    Who's going to pay to replace every fucking road sign in America?
    In PA..lol...government recently just made a new guard rail standard....(current ones not tall enough/like a couple inches short)......so all guard rails across the Commonwealth are currently being replaced......Maybe road signs are next?..lol.

    Now, back to Viva’s posts....haha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MyNameIsAugustWest View Post
    Yes, I'm a boomer.
    Don't worry, we have a 2m coffin ready for you...

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain View Post
    I’ve got 22cm for her
    . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Core Shot View Post
    I’ve got 22mm for her
    FIFY
    Because rich has nothing to do with money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MyNameIsAugustWest View Post
    Who's going to pay to replace every fucking road sign in America? I mean mile markers, exit signs, distance update signs, etc. And re-tool every manufacturing process? Yeah, metric is way easier but you can't just waive your fairy wand and make it so. The transition period would be unbelievably long and everything would be fucked up for that entire period. Yes, I'm a boomer.
    Yeah, but then we can drive

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    The only time freedom units suck for carpentry/contracting is when you need to divide a measurement and almost have a seizure trying to figure out what half or a third of 45 - 15/16" is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian View Post
    The only time freedom units suck for carpentry/contracting is when you need to divide a measurement and almost have a seizure trying to figure out what half or a third of 45 - 15/16" is.
    fuck that noise.
    swing your fucking sword.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BC. View Post
    In PA..lol...government recently just made a new guard rail standard....(current ones not tall enough/like a couple inches short)......so all guard rails across the Commonwealth are currently being replaced......Maybe road signs are next?..lol.

    Now, back to Viva’s posts....haha.
    Someone installed 3’ rails, but they were supposed to be 1 meter.


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    It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.

    I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.

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    How tall is that in Pinkbike Units?
    Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian View Post
    The only time freedom units suck for carpentry/contracting is when you need to divide a measurement and almost have a seizure trying to figure out what half or a third of 45 - 15/16" is.
    Seriously?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian View Post
    The only time freedom units suck for carpentry/contracting is when you need to divide a measurement and almost have a seizure trying to figure out what half or a third of 45 - 15/16" is.
    23.5 in, it's is within 1/32, that was in my head in 3 seconds

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    That’s three seconds more than it would take if it were metric!
    Think of the time savings!
    Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident

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    Quote Originally Posted by k2skier112 View Post
    23.5 in, it's is within 1/32, that was in my head in 3 seconds
    Yes I know, but if you have any part of you that is OCD at all you want to know the exact amswer.....which is pointless and unnecessary anyway.....but.

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    Quote Originally Posted by k2skier112 View Post
    23.5 in, it's is within 1/32, that was in my head in 3 seconds
    Sure you were quick but wrong.

    23.5 x 2 = 47

    He wanted half of 45 15/16.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RShea View Post
    Looks like a 7 year old cut those out of a magazine and pasted them on to the other photo.... one of the worst photoshop efforts I've ever seen.
    Jill doesn’t have 3 hands?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ::: ::: View Post
    But if products were made to be 1600 or 1500, perhaps it’d be easier...

    That’s kinda the problem in the US, we could switch, but there are enough entrenched processes (like building nominal material sizes). Sure every foot material could be converted to 300mm increment or plywood to 20mm thick (instead of 19mm) and plywood sized to be 1200x2400 (instead of 1219x2438), but Americans aren’t good with change

    Just look at the vaccination response for the parallel of rolling out metric (or any other largely beneficial but fundamentally different policy)...a good percentage of the population will get offended that they be asked to improve life for everyone
    [/end tangent]
    We changed to metric liquor bottles just fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evasive_MT View Post
    We changed to metric liquor bottles just fine.
    Yeah, but only because a liter is more than a quart.
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    When I did twice the work for half the control, I was a whiny little bitch

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    All measurements in the NEC are given first in metric then SAE. Yet we electricians still use the crappy antiquated system. And metric nuts and bolts are way easier. Even the English, who invented this crappy system, have made the change. When I worked solar I bought a metric tape as every component’s dimension is metric.

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    Just going off Top Gear/Grand Tour, it seems the British do a bit of both interchangeably.
    No longer stuck.

    Quote Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn View Post
    Just an uneducated guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gcooker View Post
    Fahrenheit is the dumbest unit of measure. Freezing at 32 instead of 0? I'm all for inches but that shit is stupid AF.
    The reason that Fahrenheit’s freezing is at 32 and that boiling is at 212 is because the scale is based upon the temperate range in which humanity can thrive. From 0-100 degrees were deemed to be appropriate temperatures for humans to live.

    As for units of measurement, a yard is the length it is because it was the length of the average mans stride. This made measuring distances via walking much easier. Why is a meter the length it is? I’ve asked this many times and the most consistent answer I’ve received is “because it’s 100 centimeters long.”

    Just because we don’t understand why things came to be doesn’t mean there wasn’t a good reason for them to develop the as they did. Many of the people who advocated for the metric system also pushed a metric 1000 month calendar and that idea made no fucking sense at all. It takes 364 days for Earth to orbit the Sun and I think our calendar should reflect that. Now if someone will push for a 13 month calendar that had 28 days per month that is a brilliant idea I could get behind.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ottime View Post
    Sure you were quick but wrong.

    23.5 x 2 = 47

    He wanted half of 45 15/16.
    Hah, nothing like a good self-own.

    Imperial units are the steam engine of measurement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by powdrhound View Post
    We had packaging machines that were a modified German machine. Everything that the Cincinnati engineers added was SAE. We had blue ionized Metric bolts for the old sections, for a quick identification.

    Any measurements for modifications to the old section, that fit perfectly as Metric, were converted to SAE before rollout across the country. That 20mm location would get a 25/32” part manufactured.
    Then the engineers would complain that our modification would not work.
    I have a military vehicle built in the U.S. Half is metric and half SAE. Pain in the fucking ass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark View Post
    I have a military vehicle built in the U.S. Half is metric and half SAE. Pain in the fucking ass.
    Anyone who owned an AMC era Jeep had the same experience.

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    Quote Originally Posted by powder11 View Post
    if you have to resort to taking advice from the nitwits on this forum, then you're doomed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Chupacabra View Post
    Anyone who owned an AMC era Jeep had the same experience.

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    Different vehicle than I referred to, but when I titled the Deuce they did it as a KIA, not a Kaiser. Ha.

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