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Grasshopper:

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--- Quote from: Grasshopper on March 12, 2007, 06:13:27 pm ---I'm talking about weight. There are 14 pounds per stone.

There's a bit more to a measuring system than just distances....

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You most certainly were not!!!..... You were complaining that it complicated engineering because measurements were not in Base10 in Imperial.

So when I show you that they ARE in base10 in imperial, you come up with another excuse.  Go Figure!!  :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

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Another excuse? WTF! Are you seriously suggesting that engineering calculations are only confined to measurements of distance.

am_monkee:

--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on March 12, 2007, 08:01:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on March 12, 2007, 06:13:27 pm ---I'm talking about weight. There are 14 pounds per stone.

There's a bit more to a measuring system than just distances....

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You most certainly were not!!!..... You were complaining that it complicated engineering because measurements were not in Base10 in Imperial.

So when I show you that they ARE in base10 in imperial, you come up with another excuse.  Go Figure!!  :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

As for weight measurements?? I don't see how it complicates anything. You complain that you'd have to do conversions all the time.... WHY??? what do you need to convert??? You can't count in Ounces, Pounds, and Tons ??  It's not Rocket Science you know.....

Ermmmm well actually it can be Rocket Science. Jet and Rocket Thrust (worldwide) is measured in Pounds not in Kilograms! On the other side of the coin, car engines are usually measured in Cubic Centimetres or in Litres. Except of course in parts of the USA where they also use Cubic Inches for that.

To be honest non of this really matters a damn..... I really don't care what system anybody uses or choses to use..... Use whatever system you want and whatever system makes you comfortable. But for anyone to try and dictate what measurement system anybody should use the way the EU does is an absolute outrage.   

In relation to arcade cabs (trying to get this back on topic) 99% of the classics are built in Imperial and that's when it starts to get complicated, when somebody tries to convert it to Metric and ends up with stupid numbers of mm.  It's easier to build or repair something that was designed in imperial by using imperial to measure it.

At the end of the day, all I'm saying is, that for me Imperial is a far better system. If you disagree then OK use Metric if you want to.  Personally I consider it a breach of my Human Rights and Civil Liberties to have the EU try and dictate that to me.  Which is one major reason why we still don't and won't have those crappy Euros as currency.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

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no, the reason you don't use euros is b/c they are a worthless joke compared to your pound. the uk would not be that stupid to let go of their currency--which is doing better (and has been for a while) than even the dollar.

but, like you said, none of this really matters :)

NiteWalker:
I can't believe this thread is still going... :spam: :lame:

blueznl:

--- Quote from: Level42 on March 12, 2007, 06:30:33 pm ---But I still know that a 12" is a nice piece of vinyl for my pick-up, a 3.5" is a hard disk drive (or floppy) and that the singer of Vanity 6 needed 7" or more.....:D  (Which must have been the first conversion I did from inches to cm..........to see if I qualified   :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

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