'Duck Dynasty' Star Also Under Fire for African-American Statements

[Frankie Reloaded]

... 50 years from now people will know that the 100 mile march was the however many km march....

AFAIK there are dozens of miles each having different length. But a kilometre always measures the same. You do not have English kilometre, American kilometre, Scottish kilometre, Roman kilometre, Nautical kilometre, English Nautical kilometre, Greek kilometre, Russian kilometre (Russia is a big country - their mile is over 7 km, almost 5 American survey miles)... So 50 years from now people would not know how long a 100 mile march was unless the particular mile used for measuring the march was clearly defined in the document, but a 180 km march would always be 180 km march.

QED?

[Premium Parrots]

IMO the entire world should convert to the barrel system.




just sayin

[Andy105]

Well, you have to know how many pecks are in a bushel, if you need to carry them 18 rods down the road.

[Thunder_Snus]

The problem with metrics is just the transition stage which is difficult for everything. If we changed to metrics we would grow old and complain about these damn kids who don't even know what a foot or a mile is. Theres people in rural areas without internet access and that are isolated for the most part never catching on. There will be resistance from some states (texas comes to mind since their schools refuse to accept basic scientific fact) so you will have to know how to switch from kmh to mph when driving. Suddenly you need to figure out when to get your oil changed and every document ever needs to be changed or have a footnote so 50 years from now people will know that the 100 mile march was the however many km march. Our standard of learning as of now thanks to no child left behind is pretty poor with people learning our english measurements as it is.

That being said the change could totally happen. It would just create a big generation change similar to immigrants who never speak english while their children become fluent and adopt our culture. If it just got started and people could see it was easier it would start to die out at the protest of others similar to Irish Gaelic after British control. Similar to that there would still be some people out in the hills of West Virginia and similar places still using feet and miles 100 years from now always being told to never let the system die.

Change is never easy. If you're ever in an insurance office that is one of the major companies ask to see their systems in action. They are all using old archaic systems because making a change over would cost so much and the retraining of all employees using it would be a nightmare especially for some of our older agents that have refused to adopt some slight advances we have made, not to mention that we would basically have to tell everyone not to buy a car for a week while all of their policies were transferred over to a new system.

[Burnsey]

I remember bumper stickers that said " Kill Metrics ".....ignorance and and the change was voluntary, Presidents Ford and Carter blew it.

[Crow]

Amen, to that. A mile is 5,280 ft. A quarter mile is 1,320 ft. What a pain! The math is so much simpler in divisions of tens. Fahrenheit is goofy too, when compared to C. Water SHOULD freeze at zero and boil at a hundred. I wasn't born in the US, but I've been here since I was a child. These things should make more sense to me by now.

Funny thing is, we're prepared to transition, but we're just too damn laisy..!!

[Andy105]

My biggest piss off is the lack of metric use in the US. There's as much reason to use English measurement as there is Roman numerals, IOW, none. It's stupid. cumbersome, and makes life needlessly difficult. It forces you to do math to interpret the system before you even get to the math you really want to do.

Amen, to that. A mile is 5,280 ft. A quarter mile is 1,320 ft. What a pain! The math is so much simpler in divisions of tens. Fahrenheit is goofy too, when compared to C. Water SHOULD freeze at zero and boil at a hundred. I wasn't born in the US, but I've been here since I was a child. These things should make more sense to me by now.

[lxskllr]

General's 'best by' dates are mm/dd/yyyy in the US, and dd/mm/yyyy when I get them from Sweden. I almost made an ass out of myself at a gas station buying snus here, until I realized at the last moment it was in the US format. Duh!
I thought that they were trying to sell me old snus, but it wasn't. Why does life have to be so complicated?

My biggest piss off is the lack of metric use in the US. There's as much reason to use English measurement as there is Roman numerals, IOW, none. It's stupid. cumbersome, and makes life needlessly difficult. It forces you to do math to interpret the system before you even get to the math you really want to do.

[Andy105]

General's 'best by' dates are mm/dd/yyyy in the US, and dd/mm/yyyy when I get them from Sweden. I almost made an ass out of myself at a gas station buying snus here, until I realized at the last moment it was in the US format. Duh!
I thought that they were trying to sell me old snus, but it wasn't. Why does life have to be so complicated?

[lxskllr]

I also use the DD-MM format of datekeeping... Surprisingly, not a single person has been thrown off by this. Score one for Cascadian Americans!

I prefer that format, but I never used it. There wasn't enough benefit for the potential hassle it could create. It's much more logical than the American system.

[DanF]

That is odd. When I travel to eastern europe everyone uses military time which confuses the hell out of me after 13:00 hours.

I like 24hr time. I always used it on my time sheets, and anything that requires math. It makes the math easy. I don't know it well enough to provide instant translation though. There's a couple spots where I have to think about it for a couple seconds.

During my cop days we lived and logged every report, incident, and movement, by 24 hour time.

You got to know what 24 hundred hours was real fast.

Dan

[Crow]

I use the 24 hour clock for all timekeeping myself. I've only had one person ask me how it works............. She must have been a foreigner from another one of the American states where they never taught their offspring the joyous wonders of the 24 hour clock (alongside the 12 hour clock)............. Gd bless her soul.............

I also use the DD-MM format of datekeeping... Surprisingly, not a single person has been thrown off by this. Score one for Cascadian Americans!

[lxskllr]

I like 24hr time. I always used it on my time sheets, and anything that requires math. It makes the math easy. I don't know it well enough to provide instant translation though. There's a couple spots where I have to think about it for a couple seconds.

[truthwolf1]

It's not just the south. A young man (17 or 18) came up to me at lunch once, and asked me for the time. I held up my wristwatch for him, and he said "I can't read that kind" (analog). I told him it was 14:30, and he left angry. He'll probably be a congressman in a few years.

That is odd. When I travel to eastern europe everyone uses military time which confuses the hell out of me after 13:00 hours.

[Skell18]

I can read and understand german at an ok level. I can pick out a few words on there. looks like lieb and then am "something" so they are probably saying they live on "near/within reach of" a certain landmark or city. Then it looks like ohne at the end which is without but it looks capitalized so perhaps the last letter is something else and it is an object or persons name

See, you can read it