This is why people hate lawyers... suing over 2x4's

[halfmileharry]

...because a system based on binary fractions is better?

I'm just a simple country boy that grew up on the standard US measurement system. I know gallon so I can figure out how much it will take and cost to fill the tank, Which wrenches and sockets I'm going to have to use, how much electric fencing to buy... etc. I don't want to know much more. My old brain is about full now.

 

[femurphy77]

Thanks JK,
You've just laid the groundwork for another Rant/ ***** thread. Screw metric.

...because a system based on binary fractions is better?

Oh it's on!!!!

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

This is kinda old news.

Lowe?s ordered to pay 2x4 settlement | HBS Dealer

On a related note, I hate all mechanics because some lie about what's wrong with the car.

This was from California so it doesn't count. All those ****ers out there are crazy.

 

[JettaKnight]

Better? It works. There's no reason to change.

Pretty much any argument in favor of US customary measurements relies solely on, "that's the way we've always done it!"

The metric system is superior in every way, but there's a huge cost to a complete change. Even when I do measurements around the house, it's still inches for me.


Wanna get back at the shyster? HD and Menards should switch everything to metric and put a signs up explaining he's the reason for it.

 

[halfmileharry]

How many on here want to buy their BACON with the metric system?

 

[femurphy77]

How many on here want to buy their BACON with the metric system?

Long as your getting bacon does it matter?

 

[halfmileharry]

Long as your getting bacon does it matter?

Don't guess I really thought that through.

 

[femurphy77]

Don't guess I really thought that through.

 

[seedubs1]

This. Metric is superior in every way as a measurement system.

The only reason not to switch is because people hate change and it'd cost a lot to change everything over.

Pretty much any argument in favor of US customary measurements relies solely on, "that's the way we've always done it!"

The metric system is superior in every way, but there's a huge cost to a complete change. Even when I do measurements around the house, it's still inches for me.


Wanna get back at the shyster? HD and Menards should switch everything to metric and put a signs up explaining he's the reason for it.

 

[IndyTom]

This. Metric is superior in every way as a measurement system.

The only reason not to switch is because people hate change and it'd cost a lot to change everything over.

The cost in rulers, thermometers and milk jugs alone!

 

[eldirector]

Not sure why Americans claim to be against metric. We have been using it for decades. 2L sodas, medications and vitamins by the mg, metric fasteners, faux-metric for all technology (Mb, Gb, etc...). The only things NOT metric are "generic" measurements like 1/4 burgers and gallons of gas. And for those, we still use decimals (0.25 lb).

Even funnier.... all these complaints from folks who think caliber and gauge are "normal" measurements.

 

[HoughMade]

Not sure why Americans claim to be against metric. We have been using it for decades. 2L sodas, medications and vitamins by the mg, metric fasteners, faux-metric for all technology (Mb, Gb, etc...). The only things NOT metric are "generic" measurements like 1/4 burgers and gallons of gas. And for those, we still use decimals (0.25 lb).

Even funnier.... all these complaints from folks who think caliber and gauge are "normal" measurements.

Those are examples, not of Americans accepting the metric system, but of them living in the reality of what has been foisted upon us by the New World Order in concert with the Bilderberg Group and the French.

 

[myhightechsec]

The metric system is superior in every way,

I'll use that argument the next time a .45 ACP vs. 9mm argument comes up.

 

[JettaKnight]

The metric system is superior in every way,

I'll use that argument the next time a .45 ACP vs. 9mm argument comes up.

...or 10 mm vs. .45 ACP.

 

[eldirector]

The metric system is superior in every way,

I'll use that argument the next time a .45 ACP vs. 9mm argument comes up.

'cause that would be 9mm vs .38 S&W.

 

[HoughMade]

.357 SIG vs. 9mm....

 

[eldirector]

Sorry, you are right. 9mm is closer to .380 than .38 S&W. None of which are actually .380 inches. Heck, the 9mm isn't even 9mm. It is 9.01mm.

 

[historian]

Metric is cold and scientific. English measurements are more human.

Inch=about the distance from your knuckle to tip of thumb
Foot=about the length of your foot
Fahrenheit=human temperatures (see here: https://xkcd.com/1643/ and this:

)

 

[HoughMade]

Metric...because we're too dumb to remember numbers like 32 and 212, but can just barely master 0 and 100.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Can we sue for "self tapping" screws that wouldn't tap into a marshmallow?

I built a squirrel baffle recently. Using stove pipe, self tapping screws, a pipe end cap, and some angle brackets. The stove pipe required me to use a chisel to open up the tongue so the groove could fit, the end cap popped into two pieces when I went to cut a slit into it, and the self tapping screws needed either pilot holes or judicious use of cursing and tongue-held-just-right.

I wouldn't mind suing over those pointed pieces of tin foil they pass off as "nails" now, too. Remember when nails were made in the US out of actual metal?