I’m starting to think

The only thing that has saved this country is not switching to the metric system . lol

Are you sure it not have a national language!

I'm inching in that direction also

More math.......ugh.......

Metric makes everything much easier.

I hope youre right, Boco . Thank goodness for calculator help

I hope we never make the move to metric.

Me too, they already tried to shove that on us, and if they try again i hope we give them "the whole 9 yards".

X2

Ya, we only got along fine for about 200 yrs without metrics. Let's combine metrics and common core math!

Being in the construction business and living 20 minutes from the US border, most people here are able to use both systems. In Canada, it is customary to use metric dimensions on shop drawings even if materials are typically noted in imperial (eg. 3/4" plywood becomes 18mm plywood). For US projects, most use feet/inches but there are some components like glass that are typically denoted in metric.

Most people here measure the outside temperature and run their cooking stoves in degrees F. I have yet to meet a single Canadian who would tell you to bake a cake at 176 deg C... most would simply say 350F.

I don't much care for metric in the building trades as the dimensions are generally in millimeters or meters so they can get clumsy (8' is 2439mm)

Would you rather have a house and 40 acres or a house and 16.187426 hectares ?

The United States' Citizens wholesale rejection of the metric system in the early to mid

1970's was the last time America showed any national unity. (other than 9/11)

As I remember it, only ones for it were our school teachers trying to pitch a new system

to us students after we had just mastered the

British Imperial system/United States customary units.

Only some Moon-beam/Wing-bat Crazy Mad Trapper like BOCO

would favor the metric system.

w

Back about 1969 I had lots of VW to make dune buggies .That when I found the Metric stuff. Well no tools then. But snap-on had them. I got a lot of tools and I never look back. Still have them ,and no problems with the system. Just junk china parts!!!

Yeah,

But The bigger question is:

Will Indiana still let you ride your Metric built Dune Buggies

over The Sand Dunes on Lake Michigan ?

w

I wouldn't wish the metric system on anyone,personally, although the young people now have no problem with it. If I recall right, just another trudeau imposition. You guys are lucky and stood your ground. I see you also sell your furs with no apparent problem.

Seems the old Babylonians used a 60 system instead of a 10 system like ours. But we did hang on to the 60 minutes and 60 seconds in our clock. I have a lot of junk like that in my head that is worth absolutely nothing, lol.

Now when you picture a American 44DD against a Europe 100F, I guess that is just a matter of opinion.

Well back then we had to get a sticker like the snow mobile had. But we ran all the back roads and farm ground and swamps. When we put on wider tires we could go about any were.

I think there are only two countries still in the stone age using English measure,some s-- hole country in Africa and the USA.Even the brits went metric and they invented the other system.

They probably should have spent more time and energy on defense and farming.

Using "stone age" techniques the USA still leads the world.

You think we are not headed to metrics? Go work on your car and see what wrenches you use.

Leads who?Not many following anymore.

I work on all kinds of things. My biggest problem is knowing which system to go with.



Right. Your trolling won't work here. Lol. Go kiss a moose.

Meter is good in poems.

How many litres come in those completely impractical milk bags you Canucks are so fond of?

When I was still working, I worked in the maintenance/design/engineering shop. We often had to switch between Metric and Imperial measurements. Half of the machines we had in the plant were built on the Metric system and half were built on Imperial. We were much using the multipliers 25.4 and .03937 to convert. The Mill had digitals making it very easy to jump between the two systems. Once you start using the Metric system, and get used to it, it is a very nice system.You just had to make sure you did not forget what system you were using when you were on a project.

vice grips rock.

Oh sure first step is using metric. Next step is you're trading in your coffee maker for a tea kettle. Before you know it, soccer is your favorite sport... You see? It's a slippery slope.

Then you experience a strong desire to speak French and wear frilly clothing

Now I'm kinda of worried because I was thinking about doing one of those man bun things.

When we were born, none of us knew either system. If you grew up with one system or the other, it's easy for you. I grew up with inches and pounds, so that's what's easy for me. That being said, as a mechanic if I need a wrench one size bigger or smaller than the one I grabbed, it's a lot easier to go from 18 to 19 (counting by ones) then to remember 1/16ths and convert it to something lower, like 11/16ths to 3/4ths, for example.

Next thing you know you're carrying this picture of Trudeau at a gay pride parade and several times a day you get all misty when you take it out of your purse and kiss it.

Right Boco?

I think I see him back there

Spanish???

And dental hygiene

LOL this is a funny thread.

If change were easy you'd have to be a fool to not think metric would be easier. A change like that wouldnt be easy though so I ain't gonna do it

I wish we would go metric........ I could eventually weed out half of my tools.



As a seasoned mechanic I can look at any nut or bolt and grab a wrench for it with nearly 100% accuracy.

Yep, easier for "slow" people.

I believe the push to go metric's goal was to ultimately end up with a one world economy. It is easier for businesses to sell when everything is measured the same way.

Keith

Ever since BOCO and his ancestors lost the War of 1812,

and were enslaved by the Queen, they lost their National Identity.

Getting The metric system rammed up his butt by Globalists

along with traceability and certification of his wild fur

forced down his piehole by the antis,

BOCO will roll over for anyone.

w

Your the one still using the outdated british weights and measures system-good boy roll over.
Even the brits got with the program,lol.

The metric system is the red-headed stepchild of the Imperial system.

#MAGA

That moon thing was fake news,it was filmed in Sudbury.

Lol. Are you one of those flat earth guys too?

No I think you might be though.

Nope. I figured the moon is round. All the other planets are round. Wouldn't make much sense to break the pattern and have earth be a pancake.

Given Canada's history of space exploration this all may be unbeknownst to you.

You know anything about Canadas space program?

That they use the metric system.

And they have not put a man on the moon.



Metric system = no moonwalking

I love this thread.

Aren't you all a little "Spacey" ever since you legalized pot?

Haaahahahaha I'm dying over here

Breaking News !! This just In:

It has been discovered that BOCO may be an alien !!

We're not talking an Illegal alien, but an actual outer space alien !!

This would account for his freakish appearance, and other-worldly views

on popular culture, historical records, and current events.

I guess he must be a survivor of the Roswell crash site,

and an escapee/fugitive from Area 51.

w

I'm not surprised at all... perhaps we are of the same kind.... dad always called me an alien

I was teaching a foreign exchange student to measure using our system. When I told her our inch was broken down into 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc... she she smiled and said, "Well that's very practical, isn't it?
When we used an engineers scale, and things were decimally divided, she asked why, even if we wanted to stay with inches, feet, yards, etc., we didn't break things into tenths, 1/100s, etc? The only good answer for her was tradition and stubbornness.

Once you get used to the metric system it is as easy as working with our money system-10 cents in a dime, 100 cents in a dollar.

Just curious; At the Canadian auction houses how are beaver measured; in inches or metric? How is castor weighed?

A Zig-Zag rule has carpenter measurements on one side and engineer (10ths) on the other.

Looks like you've got BOCO cornered with that question, AL !!

Careful,

If you saw Sigourney Weaver in Alien, you know

there's nothing more nasty than a cornered extraterrestrial.

w

Cornered my arse.
The railroad still runs in miles here too.Cost too much to change all the mileboards.
Here we have freedom to use whatever we want.Most use metric cause its easier to calculate stuff.Walleyed,do you buy your dope in grams or ounces?
Your still kissing the queens arse by following the English imperial system of measure.

Said the man with the Queen's face on his money.

You know who's face is on our money?

Americans.

Patriots.

The occasional Native American woman.


#MAGA

I heard Canada was coming out with new currency, a three dollar bill, gonna have Trudeau's picture on it.

BOCO,

Only Dopes use Dope.

You Canadians are the ones who have nationalized and legalized dope

and you probably buy it & smoke it by the Kilo !

w

I figured you were on the pipe from your posts.

Yeah dope don't make you walleyed it makes you Chinese eyed. But it does make you think the the USA won the war of 1812. So tough to know on this one.

Boco, aren't beaver and rats measured by a machine these days?

I think they are at NAFA,not sure about FHA.

I have been goin with the flow for a long time,its just the way things have worked out, I have two sets of tools,you gotta have them to work on and fix everything.I remember when there was wentworth wrenchs for English yieicles I think. quarts vs liters, our booze is mostly in liters now. and ya I would enjoy the bra sizeing competition in both systems.

take care