Dumbass Of The Day

Except Liberia and Myanmar..........screw them anyway for trying to be like us.

 

Also if I'm not mistaken, not using metric in the construction industry results in about 15% loss of profits due to waste in fixing cuts.


Your right Joe.........the Rule is measure twice and cut once.

I'm surprised that the USA has not converted to the Metric System over the last several decades.

A HUGE Industry in the USA that relies on the Imperial Measure is the Chemical Pool Industry....and Clients have to do the Math before they purchase Chemicals.

Which is really time consuming and stupid......and this is only ONE Industry.

Maybe in our Lifetime the USA will convert to Metric as it is so much easier and the secret is you STAY in Metric.....you don't convert back to Imperial when you go buy 500 Grams of Lean Ground Beef.... ......but that been said attitudes have to change as well......and that will take a Generation.

 

What you guys are proposing is that you get all the hearts and minds in this country all going the same direction. Good luck with that. Jimmy Carter tried to do it in the late 70's. It failed miserably. And your not going to just legislate it away like we did the incandescent light bulb. Ain't happening.

 

The metric system was used by the scientist making the bombs. NASA uses the metric system. The scientist behind the moon landing did much of their early work in metric before converting to British Imperial and into US Customary units.

Please.....read a god damn book once in a while. This is like the third time I'm asking.

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” Mark Twain

 

Impressive !!! Everywhere else in the universe, you can't prove a negative. But, in Canada, they can prove a 15% loss as a result of not doing something.

I can tell you this . . . In the late 1970's, the automotive industry saw a (roughly) 20% reduction in through-put and manufacturing efficiency along with an increase in new product launch duration as a result of incorporating the metric system.

 

In the late 1970's, the automotive industry saw a (roughly) 20% reduction in through-put and manufacturing efficiency along with an increase in new product launch duration as a result of incorporating the metric system.

OK that is good INFO but it is 50 years ago when Metric was in the early stages in North America...... today it is 2020.....in the USA there are Auto Assembly Lines that use Metric Fasteners and Imperial Fasteners on the SAME Car.........that means if your going to work on your car you have to have Metric and Imperial sets of Tools......Kind of Dumb eh........and I believe Henry Ford was part of developing SAE (Standard Automobile Engineering)

 

Ahem...

Fuck the metric system.

 

@Tim

Well played, Tim. At least you didn't throw more gas on the fire by posting the Blame Canada song from the South Park movie.

 

Sometimes a well placed F bomb can blow up the spot with the surgical precision of a tactical nuke. lol

 

If we went metric we would wind up with Canadian football

 

If we went metric we would wind up with Canadian football

WTF that is worst than Tim Joke.......the Canadian Football League is very close to Bankrupt....CFL Means Cash Flow Low.

F-Bombs are for Children.........seems funny at first........it is a Civil conversation about whether the US will go Metric.

Americans in General are not for it and I understand NO one here wants to change it from the US Units.........

...BUT it's a good argument because it is used by NASA....By Science...and to built Bombs.

Maybe the next generation will grow up to Metric in the USA.....Maybe Not......but I keep it Civil and I understand the Metric System.....it's far better than Imperial.

 

Guess what ??? Canadian Cars (built in Windsor, Oakville, etc.) Have both as well. Throw in Mexico too. All vehicles built today have both.

 

F bombs are always welcome, in my opinion. There’s nothing more adult than the art of using the word fuck. It’s the most versatile word there is.

And some people really just need a sense of humor.

 

Also...

 

Canadian Football uses yards.

 

Initial change usually results in higher costs and more time, especially when it isn't initially planned. But it usually catches up in savings sooner or later.

Also I prefer feet and pounds in terms of height and weight for people or smaller scale lengths or medium weight (fuck ounces) but that's because I'm used to it. Everyone is comfortable with different things and that's usually what irks people.

 

Yeah, like, that’s your opinion, or whatever.

 

There are no savings from simply changing the unit of measure. It still takes the same manufacturing process with the same process controls to maintain the same relative tolerances.

 

It does for standardization and how everything else from materials to size specifications are needed with in regards to metric worldwide.