Metric vs Imperial poll

Good on you, Boston, for educating that guy. A little humility is good for the soul. Being a product of public education, myself, I find these boatbuilding threads very challenging, but enjoyable.

Actually, I hardly ever use metric, except for figuring out my daily med dosage.

 

ya dont say

 

So how could .1 or .2 or .3 etc be hard ?????????

Units of TEN.......how could that possibly be hard ?

 

Ever try to get change at fast food joint?

 

Im guilty as all hell
I cant work in metric to save my life
its a constant struggle to not convert everything to what Im familiar with
oh I can do it
but its a pain in the *** to mix systems

I once hired a German guy to help out of a project
he was a great carpenter but dam did he ever have a hard time with imperial
I felt bad and gave him what mistakes were based on the difficulties
cause other than that he did a great job
assuming whatever it was fit
I tend to build things modular and then fit em together all at once
sorta worked on that job
sorta didnt
all in all was kinda humorous cause the guy really was a good carp
he just had trouble with the idea that it was 12 inches to a foot and not 10
that and I had to take his metric tape away from him eventually

 

I much prefer metric over imperial. That being said, I can work with imperial when working on construction type projects. Mainly because everything is already in imperial units anyway.

Some days I wish imperial would just die already though.

Metric doesn't complicate units by having more than one way to express distance (or any other quantity for that matter.) There's only one quantity (metre, gram, etc) with modifiers such as micro, milli, centi, kilo. To me this isn't truly appreciated until you have to mix units such as in density. I've had to briefly use imperial with mixed unit equations and only after 10 minutes I wanted to bash in my skull with a sledge hammer (but than again, I am used to metric). I guess this is why science mostly uses metric.

 

Would Imperial die inch by inch or will metric lose point by point?

 

"" but its a pain in the *** to mix systems """

There lies the problem !!!!!

 

Joking apart, I don't see much difference between the 2 systems. it's more a question of what you are accustomed to, and of course having the right tape/rule. No question metric/SI is much more pleasant to use for such things as medications and scientific measurement, and conversion between volumetric and mass units is simpler. Not surprising really, that's why it was developed.

For building a boat, again either system will do but in NA where all the material still comes in imperial units why make things difficult by working in metric? Imperial is very hard to dislodge from hands-on stuff like building houses and boats because, when all is said and done, that's what it was developed for and it is very well suited.

 

A standardwould be great! Any standard but I prefer Knots, Nautical Miles and metric measurements (Metres, Kgs, Kw etc)

I'm sick and tired of doing conversions. Also it drives me nuts when boating magazines use land miles, nautical miles and Km interchangably! Also gallons is confusing as well... US gallons or imperial gallons?

I'm all for some standardisation!!!

 

It may be a surprise to some but the majority of the people in the world thinks that the World Trade Centre attack happened on the 9th of November, not in September...

Who cares if history remembers that correctly? Quite a few I would think so standardisation is fairly important indeed...

Shall we include date formats?

Mikey

 

Mikey, how did you come to that conclusion?

 

pun noted but, if I may say so, it is basically just the USA that clings to the prehistoric imperial system, and the rest of the world is metricated. Doesn't that say something:?:

 

Sure does.....

 

Touching faith in democracy ...