US measurement system,i don't get it.

[Not Ed Harris]

A quick word.

It's the British Imperial measurements system you're describing and we invented it to confuse all you silly foreigners.

 

[LawrenceMD]

Originally Posted by Not Ed Harris

A quick word.

It's the British Imperial measurements system you're describing and we invented it to confuse all you silly foreigners.

i know that 14lbs are in a stone motherfucker!

wait... is that right?

 

[IsteRed]

Originally Posted by LawrenceMD

do you realize the amount of jobs having two system creates? its why amerika is number one *****!

Who tells you to have two systems?have one system,metric.Americans.........

 

[LawrenceMD]

Originally Posted by IsteRed

Who tells you to have two systems?have one system,metric.Americans.........

but then the jobs will go away...

in before DT conversion.

 

[kwilkinson]

We have the Imperial system because we aren't a country full of sissies and faggots. That's why.

 

[Texasmade]

Originally Posted by IsteRed

No offense but i don't get your games,i don't watch football(soccer) as well,but baseball,football is just...i don't get what's going on there,srsly.

Baseball I can understand why you don't get what's going on. It's just a bunch of guys standing around doing nothing.

American football, is a bunch of guys wearing padding hitting each other while turning their brain to mush by giving each other concussions. What's not to like about that?

 

[javyn]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

We have the Imperial system because we aren't a country full of sissies and faggots. That's why.

+1

We decided to keep the measurement system but drop the monarch, rather than vice versa. I say it worked out pretty well for us.

 

[in stitches]

Originally Posted by javyn

+1

We decided to keep the measurement system but drop the monarch, rather than vice versa. I say it worked out pretty well for us.

neo would say otherwise

 

[RSS]

While we are on the subject of the unconventional:

Originally Posted by IsteRed

much more better​

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by IsteRed

for example in US measurement system

Techincally I believe it's the Imperial system ... as in British ... not American.

At least money in America is base ten. You should have tried living in England before Decimal Day on 15 February 1971. Prior to decimalisation the pound was divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 (old) pence; thus there were 240 (old) pence to the pound.

Personally I think we use it because it takes a bit of thinking. Who wants something so easy that everyone knows it well.

 

[munchausen]

Originally Posted by Texasmade

Baseball I can understand why you don't get what's going on. It's just a bunch of guys standing around doing nothing.

American football, is a bunch of guys wearing padding hitting each other while turning their brain to mush by giving each other concussions. What's not to like about that?

I get why people don't understand it. There is literally about 10-15 minutes of on field play in 3 hours.

Don't get me wrong, I love the game but I can see how it's forbidding if you are an outsider. The rules are pretty complex and so is the strategy.

 

[javyn]

Think of American football like a chess game between the two coaches. Except the pieces are big and stupid and rarely do as ordered

 

[vaalbara]

Yet another reason to make fun of stupid americans. Liberia, myanmar and the united states are the only countries in the world that haven't converted to the metric system. What a stupid ******* country hahaha.

because it's a super easy task to switch an entire country of 300 million to a different measuring system, right?

No offense but i don't get your games,i don't watch football(soccer) as well,but baseball,football is just...i don't get what's going on there,srsly.

American football, is a bunch of guys wearing padding hitting each other while turning their brain to mush by giving each other concussions. What's not to like about that?

i'm with you on baseball, but football is a thinking man's game.

 

[Septavius]

Originally Posted by IsteRed

Who tells you to have two systems?have one system,metric.Americans.........

If you want to pay to replace all the machinery, tools, street signs, motor vehicles, textbooks, scales, thermometers, gauges, kitchen appliances, fuel pumps, milk jugs, etc in the entire United States that aren't in metric, feel free.

 

[IsteRed]

Originally Posted by Texasmade

Baseball I can understand why you don't get what's going on. It's just a bunch of guys standing around doing nothing.

American football, is a bunch of guys wearing padding hitting each other while turning their brain to mush by giving each other concussions. What's not to like about that?

This vvv

Originally Posted by munchausen

I get why people don't understand it. There is literally about 10-15 minutes of on field play in 3 hours.

Don't get me wrong, I love the game but I can see how it's forbidding if you are an outsider. The rules are pretty complex and so is the strategy.

Originally Posted by vaalbara

because it's a super easy task to switch an entire country of 300 million to a different measuring system, right?

Many countries did,in fact only 3 did not.