Your favorite units of measurement

[Rabid Toilet]

As an engineer, I obviously love me some metric system. It's the only logical system of measurements out there.

The metric system is a lot easier and more logical than Imperial, it's just that we Americans were raised on it and are a bit resistant to other ideas. If something is different, it's automatically considered "difficult" merely because we don't want to bother learning it.

Edit: We also have the same problem with languages, where everyone is convinced that all other peoples should learn English, instead of taking the time to learn to speak a new language.

 

[call me alo]

I <3 the metric system

 

[Necrohydra]

As an engineer, I obviously love me some metric system. It's the only logical system of measurements out there.

Hear hear. I want to shoot someone every time I hear the word *mil*....

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

Imperial is only good if whatever you're getting comes in pints.

Mainly beer.

My favourite measurement is a "fuckload"

Im not sure how much one is, but I like it.

 

[Ciarog]

Even before I read more than the headline of this thread, I thought "Furlong. Definitely furlong." There's just something about that word -- mouthfeel? arcane ridiculousness? The fact that no one knows what it is? -- that makes people snigger.

That's actually a pretty handy unit for describing anything done with the aid of a mule or horse.

Likewise, rods are also a great unit for conversion to metric; almost exactly 5 metres. Can't understand why we stopped teaching them.

 

[Ciarog]

Imperial is only good if whatever you're getting comes in pints.

Mainly beer.

My favourite measurement is a "fuckload"

Im not sure how much one is, but I like it.

Ironic. Our bootleggers seem to prefer 2 litter bottles, 16 gram bags and 7.62mm rifles.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

i do like the mark twain

By far one of the best literary psuedonyms and metaphors out there. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain's real name) used to work on River Boats. There was a precise depth, I wanna say it was twelve feet, where the river boat was nuetral. It could become too shallow and wreck or it could open up and become safe, so that mark twain meant you were right on the edge. That's what he picked it as his pen name.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I know this is going to sound weird to all of you Brits and Aussies on here, but I like "stone" as a measurement of weight. It just sounds cool, like, medieval-y or something.

EDIT: I just wiki'd it, and 1 stone = 14 pounds, if anybody is wondering.

 

[Evil Lawyer]

I know this is going to sound weird to all of you Brits and Aussies on here, but I like "stone" as a measurement of weight. It just sounds cool, like, medieval-y or something.

EDIT: I just wiki'd it, and 1 stone = 14 pounds, if anybody is wondering.

Actually, I was going to say this and I am a Brit. It always reminds me of AC/DC's 'Whole Lotta Rosie' which is probably one of their funniest songs.

 

[The Franco]

As a chemist I feel obligated to say the 'Mole'... If you don't know what it actually is, it sounds ridiculous when people start talking about measurements in little brown furry creatures...

a quick trip back to memory lane tells me a mole is about 6.023 * 10^23 of anything. but then again, I hated chem so another quick trip to wikipedia says a mole is 6.02214×10^23 of anything, be it atoms, giraffes, molecules, hookers, etc.

And on the subject of metric/imperial it's just old school British colonialism at work. Hell, most of the world still goes by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), but others use Universal Time (UT). Having the British change, or even the Americans, is pretty futile, so get used to having to convert slugs to grams. Oh, and don't even get me started on why BTUs (British Thermal Units) are the worst unit ever.

 

[iamnotincompliance]

Warp speed due it's hilarious inconsistancies. According to the entire plot line of Star Trek: Voyager, it'd take them 75 years to get home at top speed, then they list that top speed at 4 billion kilometers per second. At that speed, it'd only take them 3 years to get home, and no, I did not figure this out. The legwork was already done for me. [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Warp_factor] I never would've noticed this on my own, or cared for that matter.

Simply amazing what you can find when you're not looking for it.

 

[Frybird]

The metric system never failed me.

Then again, i never jumped from one Rooftop to another or something...

 

[Saskwach]

Warp speed due it's hilarious inconsistancies. According to the entire plot line of Star Trek: Voyager, it'd take them 75 years to get home at top speed, then they list that top speed at 4 billion kilometers per second. At that speed, it'd only take them 3 years to get home, and no, I did not figure this out. The legwork was already done for me. [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Warp_factor] I never would've noticed this on my own, or cared for that matter.

Simply amazing what you can find when you're not looking for it.

Holy relativity batman, how hard is it to standardise a speed conversion in a series?

 

[Anarchemitis]

The Zube. (

) My measurement of fun based upon the scale of between -30

and 200

but for the most part would be unlimited postivley, because the human form can only take so much fun. 0

is neutral in all ways. -3

is not fun like eating curry when you're not in the mood. -15

is not fun like watching a chick flick you do not want to watch. 10

is about as much fun as this post gets amusing yourself. 50

would be the average funny movie, 120+

would be theme parks, 150 and excess might be mind-blowing sex. 200

would be the human limit because God doesn't want you having that much fun with your Earthly body.

 

[Larenxis]

I haven't read any of this, but I am going to be obnoxious and say the decimetre. It's the best, and I should learn to measure everything using it. How far is that place? 20,000 decimetres. How long is this pencil? Half a decimetre. It's perfect!

 

[Drugar]

I'll represent my nautical brethren and say the "fathom." Such an ominous and foreboding word when used in the right context.

A fathom is 72 inches btw, that's 1.8288 meters for all you people who don't use the king's measurements.

I'm a fathom tall. That's pretty awesome.

Also, I like the term "fortnight". Pisses everyone off around me when I say "Let's see eachother again in a fortnight" because they'd like me to talk post-1900's english generally.

 

[PurpleRain]

I know this is going to sound weird to all of you Brits and Aussies on here, but I like "stone" as a measurement of weight. It just sounds cool, like, medieval-y or something.

Australia doesn't use 'stones' and the rest of the imperial system (it's imperial right?). We use grams, kilos and tonnes.