on a lighter note...

Interesting, this is actually how metric users perceive imperial system users.
Usually when some European or Canadian is badgering us about the metric system. :( Look, I was in the military and have no problem with meters and kilometers. However, the temperature scale is incomprehensible, and I will go to my grave unable to instinctively understand centimeters and millimeters.
 
Comon guys. It dosent matter if you shoot you animal with a 7mm or a 275 and at 90m or 100yds it is still just as dead and will taste just as good and the trophy head will look just as good on the wall by either system. We are united by our love of hunting, not divided on how far it is to the animal nor the size of the beer you may enjoy after it is all cleared away for the day and you sit in companionable friendship found the camp fire.
 
Never thought of it that way, and truth be told, could not care less :A Shades:

I work indifferently with either, the same way I speak or write indifferently in French or English. No intolerance whatsoever on my part, and I am far from being driven insane by it. Rather bored actually by another round of "here we go again with the stereotype" :E Yawn: :sleep:

It just amuses me when folks talk about the "pointlessness of the system" without even understanding it, or discuss the "sheer intolerance of metric users" when they dare pointing out the misunderstanding. By the way, it is not the "metric" system, it is the "decimal" system, "meter" is the unit for length, the decimal system also applies to "liter" liquid volume, surface, power, temperature, etc. etc.) :E Nono:

Intolerance? Is the pot lecturing the kettle? :A Me You:
You are cracking me up! :E Dancing:

Of course, no one says "I’m going on a 10000 meter drive" but everyone understand that there are 1,000 meter in a kilometer, or, more to the point, that 300 meters is 1/3 of a kilometer, etc. It is interesting by the way that you "traditional" gentlemen actually use the decimal system without apparently even knowing it: do you rate your bulbs in watts and buy your electricity in kilowatts. News for you: 1 kilowatt = 1,000 watts (just like 1 kilometer = 1,000 meters). And guess what the utilities measure their electrical production in? Megawatt (1 megawatt = 1,000 kilowatts = 1 million watts). And a 1 gigabyte computer hard drive is ... you guessed it: 1,000 megabyte. Etc. :S Cool:

Why would John Doe care? Because it is simple and applies easily to daily life. For example, what kind of power does a 3 megawatt wind turbine produce in "real life"? Any guess, anyone? Simple: the power to light 30,000 bulbs, assuming typical 100 watts bulbs: (3 MW = 3,000,000 W) / 100 W = 30,000 bulbs :A Bulb:

And how much bigger is the 2 gigabyte disk drive on the new computer John is looking at, compared to the 500 megabyte drive on his current machine? Simple: 4 times bigger (2 GB = 2,000 MD) / 500 MB = 4 :E Pissed:

THAT, is the value of the decimal system: just one rule for ALL units
. And by the way, that rule is fairly universal since the entire human world increments by 10 (ten, twenty (TWo x ten), thirty (THree x ten), fourty (FOUR x ten), etc. And of course, it all makes sense when one realizes that the prefix "deci" (as in decimal) comes from the Latin decimus, meaning "tenth."
And by the way, let me share a secret, could it have anything to do with the fact that human have 10 fingers? :A Secret:How is that for tradition? :A Whistle:

You can keep your head, and think your way too, but it makes the discussion more interesting when we actually understand what we are talking about, right? So to summarize, the value of the decimal system is not really about shifting the decimal and using a prefix, although it is darn convenient in daily life (milli- 1/1,000; centi- 1/100; deci- 1/10; deca- 10; hecto- 100; kilo- 1,000; mega- 1,000,000 etc.); it is about the fact that everyone knows that there are 10 mm in 1 cm; 10 centiliter in a liter; 1,000 meter in a kilometer; 1,000 megabyte in a gigabyte, etc. :A Thumbs Up:

But hey, this is supposed to be a jokes thread, right? So enough logical thinking right? Why would we care about incrementing things by 10 (decimal) just because we happen to have had 10 fingers for a couple million years? It is much cooler to increment every unit by a different factor and have our kids give us the "deer in the headlight look" when we innocently ask: how many ounces in a pound? inches in a yard? yards in a mile? ounce in a gallon? :E Huh::E Excited:
Why would they care, right? There is a converter app on the phone, right? :E Hmmm::E Doh:

Parting joke: quick, answer on the spot, no cheating, is a 11/32 socket larger or smaller than a 10 mm socket? :E Sweat: :E Rofl::A Stirring:

Love you guys, have a great day :S Beat Dead Horse: :A Surrender:
 
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Never thought of it that way, and truth be told, could not care less :A Shades:

I work indifferently with either, the same way I speak or write indifferently in French or English. No intolerance whatsoever on my part, and I am far from being driven insane by it. Rather bored actually by another round of "here we go again with the stereotype" :sleep:

It just amuses me when folks talk about the "pointlessness of the system" without even understanding it, or discuss the "sheer intolerance of metric users" when they dare pointing out the misunderstanding. By the way, it is not the "metric" system, it is the "decimal" system, "meter" is the unit for length, the decimal system also applies to "liter" liquid volume, surface, power, temperature, etc. etc.) :E Nono:

Intolerance? Is the pot lecturing the kettle? :A Me You:
You are cracking me up! :E Dancing:

Of course, no one says "I’m going on a 10000 meter drive" but everyone understand that there 1,000 meter in a kilometer, or, more to the point, that 300 meters is 1/3 of a kilometer, etc. Interesting by the way that you "traditional" gentlemen actually use the decimal system without apparently even knowing it: do you rate your bulbs in watts and buy your electricity in kilowatts. News for you: 1 kilowatt = 1,000 watts (just like 1 kilometer = 1,000 meters). And guess what the utilities measure their electrical production in? Megawatt (1 megawatt = 1,000 kilowatts = 1 million watts). And a 1 gigabyte computer hard drive is ... you guessed it: 1,000 megabyte. Etc. :A Bulb:

Why would John Doe care? Because it is simple and applies easily to daily life. For example, what kind of power does a 3 megawatt wind turbine produce in "real life"? Any guess, anyone? Simple: the power to light 30,000 bulbs, assuming typical 100 watts bulbs: (3 MW = 3,000,000 W) / 100 W = 30,000 bulbs. And how much bigger is the 2 gigabyte disk drive on the new computer John is looking at, compared to the 500 megabyte drive on his current machine? Simple: 4 times bigger (2 GB = 2,000 MD) / 500 MB = 4. Etc. THAT, is the value of the decimal system: just one rule for ALL units. And by the way, that rule is fairly universal since the entire human world increments by 10 (ten, twenty (TWo x ten), thirty (THree x ten), fourty (FOUR x ten), etc. And of course, it all makes sense when one realizes that the prefix "deci" (as in decimal) comes from the Latin decimus, meaning "tenth."
And by the way, let me share a secret, could it have anything to do with the fact that human have 10 fingers? :A Secret:How is that for tradition? :A Whistle:

You can keep your head, and think your way too, but it makes the discussion more interesting when we actually understand what we are talking about, right? So to summarize, the value of the decimal system is not really about shifting the decimal and using a prefix, although it is darn convenient in daily life (milli- 1/1,000; centi- 1/100; deci- 1/10; deca- 10; hecto- 100; kilo- 1,000; mega- 1,000,000 etc.); it is about the fact that everyone knows that there are 10 mm in 1 cm; 10 centiliter in a liter; 1,000 meter in a kilometer; 1,000 megabyte in a gigabyte, etc. :A Thumbs Up:

But hey, this is supposed to be a jokes thread, right? So enough logical thinking right, why would we care about incrementing things by 10 (decimal) just because we happen to have had 10 fingers for a couple million years? It is much cooler to increment every unit by a different factor and have our kids give us the "deer in the headlight look" when we innocently ask: how many ounces in a pound? inches in a yard? yards in a mile? ounce in a gallon? :E Huh::E Excited:
Why would they care, right? there is a converter app on the phone, right? :E Hmmm::E Doh:

Parting joke: quick, answer on the spot, no cheating, is a 11/32 socket larger or smaller than a 10 mm socket? :E Sweat: :E Rofl:

Love you guys, have a great day :S Beat Dead Horse: :A Surrender:
Thought about offering an over or under on the length of the response - was thinking 500 words. :whistle:
 
Classic issue!
The zingers can easily be one liners. All they need to be is catchy, even if faulty.
Helping folks understand a concept that has been unexplained or misexplained to them their entire life requires a bit more...

But essentially you are right.
Touché! :V Sword Fight:
 
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It always makes me smile when folks suggest we switch to the metric system - or should I say it makes me skilometer?

I mean seriously, how would Kilometers Davis look on a CD cover?

Before judging someone who doesn’t use the metric system you should walk 1,609344 kilometers in their shoes.

2000 mockingbirds = twokilomockingbird (my favorite) (y)

1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle


There are more ........
 
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I am sure each side of the argument will interpret it its own way :E Rofl:
 
Please can we have some monkey humor, or dumb blond, or old man humor. I can’t read all this intellect on the weekend. Just saying.

Blonde office manager was tired of hearing all the dumb blonde jokes. She knew she was well educated and as smart as her dark hair co-workers so over the following weekend she dyed her hair black.

Her co-workers over the following weeks started treating her differently: they thought of her as being highly intelligent: her boss gave her more responsibilities: and she began to feel more respected.

One weekend she decided to take a drive through the countryside. Along the way there was a herd of sheep blocking the road. She stopped Called out to the sheep herder, what cute sheep you have.

The sheep herder smiled and waved, and asked her if she wanted to one, and would gladly give it to her.

A few minutes later the sheep we're going in every direction, but the direction the sheep herder wanted them to go.

The sheep herder looked over at the lady's car. Madame, I bet you are really a blonde.

The lady replied smiling, why yes, I am. How could you tell?

The sheep herder asked,. Can I have my dog back?
 
Parting joke: quick, answer on the spot, no cheating, is a 11/32 socket larger or smaller than a 10 mm socket?
There just about the same @One Day... 3/8 is just a touch bigger than 10mm. Close enough that you can use a worn out 10mm socket to remove a 10mm bolt. And 3/8 is 12/32
Hmmm.... Don't think so... Even if you throw in the "worn out" factor... A 11/32 socket is significantly smaller than a 10 mm socket.

11 / 32 = 0.34375
1 inch = 25.4 mm
Therefore, 11/32" = 0.34375 x 25.4 = 8.73 mm

You just might be able to use a worn out 11/32 socket to remove a 9 mm bolt, but no go on a 10 mm bolt I am afraid...

Actually 3/8 is NOT "just a touch bigger than 10 mm." It is in fact smaller enough that even a worn out 3/8 socket will likely not fit on a 10 mm bolt.
3/8" = 3 / 8 x 25.4 = 9.525 mm.

Frankly is not 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 mm a little easier than 3/16, 7/32, 1/4, 9/32, 5/16, 11/32, 3/8, 7/16, 1/2 inch?

Case in point? The above example...
 
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That’s right! A worn out 10mm on a 3/8 bolt or a new 11mm sometimes. All my sockets are worn out so I have to use the other measure a lot. My worn out 1/2 fits a 13mm my 12mm fits a 7/16 better than my 7/16 does. Same with my worn 13/16 and my 21mm. All measures get confusing when you have words like “new” and “worn out” thrown in!
 
OK, old, concise and insensitive French Alps joke...
Do you know why people from (insert here the name of a country you do not like) do not do water skying?
They could not find a steep slope lake...
 
Speaking of degrees and precision, my weather app decided to be rather specific today
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Some petroleum engineering humor that ties into this metric theme we are beating to death:

The term "Permeability" deals with fluid flow through porous media. The French engineer, Henry Darcy, was credited with the research and defining permeability and thus the unit for measuring perm is called the Darcy. The problem is, the Darcy is a very large unit as Henry Darcy was a civil engineer and dealing with fluid flow in pipes, aqueducts and canals. Petroleum Engineers deal with flow through rock and clearly needed a much smaller unit than the Darcy. Henry Darcy thought about this for quite a while and was at a lost on what to call the new, much smaller unit of measure. Late in the day, Henry's young and very petite daughter came to visit him. Her name was Mildred, but everyone called her Milli, ..........and that's how Petroleum Engineers got the term millidarcy.
 
That is a great story, which may actually be true (?)...
I also note that 1 millidarcy is equal to 0.001 darcy, just as 1 millimeter is equal to 0.001 meter, which makes sense because the prefix "milli" stands for 1/1,000th.
So maybe Mr Darcy had a daughter named Mildred and nicknamed Milli(e), but what is for sure is that 1 millidarcy follows the decimal rule in its standing for 0.001 darcy :)
 
On one of the rigs, where I was, in daily operation, reporting and calculation we used following units:
kips, pounds, tons, cubic meters, imperial gallons, us barrels, meters, centimeters, inches, feet, PSI, bars.
If taking diesel, imperial gallons were used, if taking brine, us barrels were used, ch eng reporting back in cubic meters, etc
total mess.

However, after some time, one gets used to it, and it goes on.
 
The one that gets me is temperature. I can't figure metric degrees worth a damn. When someone says it's hot at 40 I have no idea what they're saying. To me 40 F. is a little chilly. Most other measurements I can decypher. Meters and clicks I get. I can translate some metric calibers OK, too.
 

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