Overproof wrote:
Sure We Do... but it's in Metric and youse guys don't comprehend that!

Pardon me for interrupting your intellectual arrogance, but most people
in the U.S. comprehend the metric system quite well.


"katysails" wrote ...
What's not to comprehend? Our boat's tooled in metric.

Yep. So it almost everything else of a technical nature.


"Overproof" wrote...
Yes... sure you do..... can you translate your latest rant into metric so
we can all enjoy it?
Us Gallon...vs... Imperial Gallon.... ouch it all hurts my head!

Yep again. Tristan Jones had a theory that the metric system led to
mental atrophy... maybe he was right!


katysails wrote:
The problem that people have is that they try to convert....you just learn
the system and use it...forget about converting....

I'm setting a record for agreement here! There is almost no reason to
convert the usual everyday measures from English (or SAE) to metric...
The phrase "furlongs per fortnight" refers to this kind of time-wasting
kludgery...

Now shall we discuss the use of centistokes vs Pascals or
ergs vs BTU ??

.... it's like learning
another language...you really aren't fluent until you can stop using the
dictionary in your head to translate....and I could translate my last rant
into metre, but I'm not feeling very poetic right now...!

Well, that gives me something to look forward to for the rest of the week!

Regards
Doug King