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Celfious 
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posted November 09, 2023 01:47 AM |
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Edited by Celfious at 01:52, 09 Nov 2023.
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Poll Question:
Imperial vs Metric
Okay I know it's a little more than the inch versus the centimeter but for sake of argument...
The old saying goes "the bigger the better"
I wish to see semi serious arguments for/against inches and centimeters.
The poll is (not) actually an INT check.
Give foreigners an inch they take a kilometer.
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Drakon-Deus
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Qapla'
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posted November 09, 2023 11:33 AM |
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I'll take option number three.
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Ghost
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posted November 09, 2023 12:13 PM |
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I voted inches, because of the penis.. But you challenge the fight, DD
Ok 24,779  with facts
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Drakon-Deus
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Qapla'
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posted November 09, 2023 02:00 PM |
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So you want a swordfight, Ghost?
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Ghost
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posted November 09, 2023 02:04 PM |
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I'm not a gay male.. I fight with women.. Whichever is harder stick or hole.. 
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LordCameron
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posted November 09, 2023 04:40 PM |
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Centimetres are easier for doing math/physics with, but inches are more useful for human measures. This pattern is true for basically all of metric vs imperial.
Be like Canada and the UK and use both!
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Panda_Tar
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posted November 09, 2023 06:53 PM |
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In my country there's no imperial metric, in a sense, officially used. I don't like these broken-down measurements.
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Blizzard
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posted November 09, 2023 11:15 PM |
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Edited by Blizzard at 23:17, 09 Nov 2023.
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LordCameron said:
Centimetres are easier for doing math/physics with, but inches are more useful for human measures. This pattern is true for basically all of metric vs imperial.
Be like Canada and the UK and use both!
What makes imperial better for human measures? Metric is easier in literally every way. Everything is divisible by 10.
The only two redeeming qualities of imperial imo is that it's great at annoying everybody else who doesn't use it, and also "imperial" sounds much more badass than "metric". That is why it needs to be kept.
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LordCameron
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posted November 10, 2023 12:34 AM |
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Blizzard said:
LordCameron said:
Centimetres are easier for doing math/physics with, but inches are more useful for human measures. This pattern is true for basically all of metric vs imperial.
Be like Canada and the UK and use both!
What makes imperial better for human measures?
Because an inch is about a thumb, and a human is 5-6 ft. They work really well on the scale of humans estimating human sized distances.
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gatecrasher
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posted November 10, 2023 01:52 AM |
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That is if 10 is all you can count up to.
Not only conversion from one imperial unit to another is ridiculous due to arbitrary factors, when in low inch territory you'll face fractions (3/32, 11/16,...) instead of decimal values.
It's a shame funny units are used globally in aviation and seafaring.
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Celfious
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posted November 10, 2023 02:27 AM |
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I like the metric system but I've only seen
"1e" type of expressions in videogames.
A lot of video games these days use this terminology. I guess A=1000, B=10,000...
Anyways I have to ask what a traditional metric ruler uses. The ones I see in the states all are imperial based, 12 inches. With centimeters and millimeters usually on the bottom.
I wish time was not usually 1 hour/minute unit equals 60 of minutes/seconds. Like why the heck didn't we just go by 10's and 100's
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Celfious
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posted November 12, 2023 01:56 PM |
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We could maybe merge them and call stuff centimiles and kilofeet
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Celfious
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posted November 12, 2023 01:58 PM |
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Edited by Celfious at 13:58, 12 Nov 2023.
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We could maybe merge them and call stuff centimiles and kilofeet.
And why did we start calling multiple foots, feet?
Would it be kilofoot for 1000 feet? Or kilofeet?
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