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This post is from 2022-07-13.

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This post is from 2022-07-13.
ISO 8601 Meister Rasse
- Meister Rasse
  You know the problem with that one. I suggest Herren Rennen instead.
  
  Yes, Herren Rennen is much better, Dankeschön!
- This is THE way.
Yeah, imperial is... confusing... like you have inches, but then you don't get decainches, you get feet 😒. And then you don't have kiloinches, you have miles 🤦.
- What drives me nuts is that everyone likes to pretend America came up with this shit. But it was Britain, they just decided to abandon it for a new standard and were were too busy building a damn country and hating Britain to just adopt a new measurement system.
  
  they at least saw the dogshit and put then away
  
  Ok, ok, you're right, I won't tease you guys any more about this 😂.
- It’s easy though. 1 mile is approximately 8,448 bananas long.
  
  properly, a banana is a unit of energy rather than length
  
  Thanks, might come in handy if I ever visit Madagascar 😉 ☺️.
- 1 foot = 1.2 decainches
  1 yard = 3.6 decainches
  1 mile = 5.28 kiloinches
  1 mile = 1.76 kiloyards
  
  WTF, I though they were related in 10s, that's not even true 🤦.
  EDIT: Shit, now I got it, they're related in 12s, like in dousens... why, WHY!
  
  See, we told you it was easy!
- Then they also use 1000ths of an inch. Because fuck it, let's just throw in a single base 10 unit.
  Biggest dislike is lb-mol and Rankine. Like, it you're gonna do science, use the metric system, Jesus. Ain't no one gonna take you seriously using your off-brand clown units.
  
  Then they also use 1000ths of an inch. Because fuck it, let's just throw in a single base 10 unit.
  Well, to be completely honest, you could say the same about miliseconds... I mean, they are the only ones that do base 10 regarding time measurement 😂.
  Ain't no one gonna take you seriously using your off-brand clown units.
  🤣🤣🤣 gave me a good chuckle 🤣🤣🤣
What does make sense of systems prior to the modern metric system is that they were based on needs and abilities of centuries past, which -- surprise! -- have changed.
What does NOT make sense is not so much inertia in making change, but people who get all butthurt and complainy when suggested they change practices, like many nitwits in the US. Hell the British did it, we can.
Some of the measures of volume and length make reasonable sense -- though the names are funny many are half or double of others, or times 4, or multiples of 2 or 4.
When most people never ventured more than 20 miles from where they were born only traders had to worry about shit like that.
England and the US, prob others I just don't know, had * local time *, I mean at the town to town level. How would they know they're different? Few people had portable clocks. That ended with train systems. In the 1840s I think.
I was on a car forum where members complained that the metric system caused the space shuttle explosion, and why can't we have mercurochrome and hitting children in schools back. Luckily they're all dying off now.
- It's mostly just people like to attack conversions no one really does. Even with it's nice easy conversions, the average person isn't going to tell you how many nanometers are in a megameter, which isn't qualitatively different than barleycorns in a league.
  Science also just invents new units of measure when it's convenient, light years, parsecs, astronomical units, moles, etc.
  
  Moles are real, not invented by science!
And now let's look at our time units... leap years, leap second. A month has 28, 29, 30 or 31 days. A day has 2*12 hours. An hour has 60 minutes or 3600 seconds (Babylonian mathematics :) )
I see room for improvement.
- There is always a room for improvement. :)
- Base 10 time makes me irrationally angry though lol
  
  Oh I love it. Why did they drop it????
- perennial calendar
  specifically, leap week calendar
  bonus: leap week calendars can use ISO 8601 week numbering since it already accounts for leap weeks
this meme is 3.3 burgers/bullet not great not terrible
- I mean, I feel kinda same too but maybe someone will find a better things to write.
Where is the first picture from? I've only seen the statue in Bremen (Germany), but never really looked up what it meant or where it really comes from.
- Fairy tale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Musicians_of_Bremen
Please help me I've been balancing the donkey on this seesaw for 30 years
- Are you the cat or the dog? (By the way the cat's just pretending to help.)
- That would be a challenge :)
- That would be a challenge. :)
Imperial was based on using body parts and common items to measure things. Inch was about the width of a mans thumb, foot the size of his foot, yard was the length of his arm, etc. But we have more access to things to measure now so like its kinda pointless but just stuck.

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