It's a non issue. Any engineer worth his/her salt can do conversions. And really, to work in a global environment, you absolutely have to know the metric system. It is taught in most schools from the elementary level.

>> ^alizarin:
>> ^quantumushroom:
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

This is approximately .002 mpg, or 10.5 feet per gallon


Don't you mean 84 cm per liter?

>> ^quantumushroom:
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!


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>> ^alizarin:
>> ^quantumushroom:
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

This is approximately .002 mpg, or 10.5 feet per gallon


Must be driving a Hummer.

>> ^quantumushroom:
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!


This is approximately .002 mpg, or 10.5 feet per gallon

Highest speed I saw on his speedometer was 259 kph. That's purt near 161 mph for us backward Americans still not using the metric system.

Sage, it's worse then one can even extrapolate from this video.

Luckily, if you want to learn things you can, it's just looked down upon.

Still unfair to the kids who really need help.

... and we still haven't adopted the metric system

LOL @ her emphasis implying atheists are the ones who believe in magic!!! Maybe she's doing devil's advocate in a debate... hmmm

>> ^dag

I guess 25 is actually 14 using the Australian metric system.

I want a lot of things, but they're just not in the cards.

I have no idea what Central standard time is, it's one of those American things like not using the metric system. Give me an UTC/GMT dammit!

>> ^Pooterius:
Sounds rather quaint describing the sun using units like "Fahrenheit" and "cords". I guess they were talking about 19th century astronomers, so it makes sense.


I rather think it is because the producers of the program come from a country where they have not yet gone over to the metric system. 19th century astronomers used the CGS system, not Fahrenheit and cords.

Cheerio and fish your chips, it's a bleeding good show of a jolly time! Wait, what the devil is this? Chaps and buckinghams, the Colonists have taken over the metric system! Just look at the one daft fellow by the name of KP, or some rubbish like that! That's one Yankee who needs to be sent to Australia with the other prisoners!

God save the Queen of the Videos! God save the Queen of the British Empire!

It's called the metric system. Get on board, America!

>> ^netean:
america, this is why we hate you..
to lazy (or too fat) to take your dog for a walk - never mind, buy a treadmill for it!



exhibit A: The woman says "18 K's an hour", referring to the metric system as applied to distances traveled over time, a system in use by many people in many countries, with the notable exception of America. We use miles per hour, and I'll be dead in my grave before that changes.

exhibit B: The woman, though she speaks only momentarily, clearly has an Australian accent.


America, so easily badmouthed these days...