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Imperial Measurement: To Metric?


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Poll: What to measure with? (24 member(s) have cast votes)

What to measure with?

  1. Metric / SI (19 votes [79.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 79.17%

  2. Imperial (2 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  3. Other (3 votes [12.50%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.50%

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#26 Waris

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Posted 29 April 2006 - 18:18

Even Spam topics has their directions. ;)

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Posted 29 April 2006 - 23:15

Jermies, on 28 Apr 2006, 22:55, said:

Don't you mean Roos ;)
Koalas kill like sloth's.
They can't be bothered too.

And the horrible Australian Cockroaches that are way bigger than your American ones... and March Flies.
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realy american cockroachs are very similiar in size to australian ones how ever i do beleave the size list here are not totaly acurate becuase i've measured a 2 incher before
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wich type of march fly theres many some live in us but may flies are crazy there dumb
unless you live in northern queensland then you got those gaint rhino cockroachs

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Posted 29 April 2006 - 23:27

We occasionaly see african roaches too... by March I mean what you call "Horse flies"

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#29 Whitey

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Posted 29 April 2006 - 23:30

Eugh, they bite and its painful ;)

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Posted 29 April 2006 - 23:53

Tropical weather has it's downsides.

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#31 AllStarZ

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Posted 30 April 2006 - 01:56

Hence why I like it here in Freeze-Your-Ass-Off Land.

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Posted 30 April 2006 - 02:49

Jermies, on 29 Apr 2006, 04:08, said:

Also while your at it, adopt Euro's aswell... ;)
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Why? There called Euros not Ameros ;)

#33 Whitey

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Posted 30 April 2006 - 03:05

Tictac has a point there.

We could stick to the dollar system

.01, .05, .10, .25, .50, 1, 5, 10, etc

Edited by Switchblade, 30 April 2006 - 03:06.


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Posted 30 April 2006 - 03:35

We can't just change it all. It'd cost too much. More than it's worth. In the trillions.


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#35 CodeCat

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Posted 30 April 2006 - 10:29

Well every other country except for Myanmar and Liberia has managed. So what makes you so different? ;)
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Posted 30 April 2006 - 12:03

metric system for the win. makes life much more simpler.
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Posted 30 April 2006 - 13:48

Switchblade, on 29 Apr 2006, 03:29, said:

the imperial system is crap and must go
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You......shut up.

Imperial is much better than Metric, The metric system is the tool of Communism ;)
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#38 CodeCat

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Posted 30 April 2006 - 15:55

And you're just a tool, period. :P
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Posted 30 April 2006 - 21:49

BillyChaka, on 29 Apr 2006, 12:19, said:

We can't change to metric now. It's too far gone. To change only change roadside signs would cost trillions of dollars.
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hahaha we are metric and its easy ...
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Posted 30 April 2006 - 23:48

Switchblade, on 30 Apr 2006, 03:05, said:

We could stick to the dollar system

.01, .05, .10, .25, .50, 1, 5, 10, etc
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I meantioned that in the TPAM thread.

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Posted 30 April 2006 - 23:52

I mentioned TPAM in TPAM thread

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Posted 01 May 2006 - 15:15

CodeCat, on 30 Apr 2006, 15:55, said:

And you're just a tool, period. :P
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How did you know? *Cattman looks shifty*.

But really Imperial is the way to go....not this Metric crap.
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#43 CodeCat

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Posted 01 May 2006 - 15:51

Out of 243 countries, 240 are non-metric. So how can you say the metric system is crap when 99% of the world's countries use it?
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Posted 01 May 2006 - 15:55

CodeCat, on 1 May 2006, 15:51, said:

Out of 243 countries, 240 are non-metric. So how can you say the metric system is crap when 99% of the world's countries use it?
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#45 Waris

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Posted 01 May 2006 - 16:04

Lol at Cattman :P

CodeCat, on 30 Apr 2006, 18:29, said:

Well every other country except for Myanmar and Liberia has managed. So what makes you so different? :joint:
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Ahh noes USA is as cool as Myanmar and Liberia lol.

#46 CodeCat

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Posted 01 May 2006 - 16:06

In the end if 99% of countries uses metric, it is costing money NOT to use metric. And not using metric leads to accidents, too. Accidents already have happened because of conversion problems.
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Posted 01 May 2006 - 16:19

One of my cousins from America once got stopped for speeding in Canada, because they thought that we used the Imperial system.

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Posted 01 May 2006 - 20:03

pwned! :P
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Posted 02 May 2006 - 01:32

metric is teh sux. I especially couldnt get used to celsius. the only metric I am any bit familiar is grams and liters. (and for science class when I'm stuck with it...stupid universal measurements!)
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Posted 02 May 2006 - 01:48

That's funny, because I'm so used to the Celsius scale.



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