metric centuries are un-american
06-29-09, 07:41 PM
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Maybe the metric folks are just more efficient. They've figured out how to do an entire century in only 62 mi.
06-29-09, 07:42 PM
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agree with the OP, with the caveat that if you stop for lunch, you can't count it as a 62 miler. instead it would be 2, 31 milers, for example.
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metric centuries are un-american
Thank goodness for that!!
I'm also un-american. I'm Canadian/Australian and I proudly ride my metric centuries ... and double metrics, and triple metrics ...
Thank goodness for that!!
I'm also un-american. I'm Canadian/Australian and I proudly ride my metric centuries ... and double metrics, and triple metrics ...
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06-29-09, 07:51 PM
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The government should set up a metric century ride, and everyone that shows up to ride will be sent to Guantanamo. Time to get those pinkos out of here.
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It always strikes me as ironic that one of the last hold-outs for the ancient imperial system ... is the US.
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06-29-09, 08:01 PM
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I'm not a United States citizen either and don't live there. NOTE, "AMERICA" refers to both North and South America, I don't see how U.S. citizens can call themselves an American. As a Canadian I'm an American as is a Mexican or someone for Argentina or anywhere in the South America. But I've deviated from the thread.
What about a "flying Kilo"? How is that represented?
Having said all that I can't figure out what a KiloPascal is.
What about a "flying Kilo"? How is that represented?
Having said all that I can't figure out what a KiloPascal is.
06-29-09, 08:08 PM
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Part of the difficulty is that the counties of a great many states are set up in mile square sections, and legal documents refer to the sections (and measure distances in "rods" believe it or don't).
That said, the nautical mile rules. One nautical mile is essentially one minute of latitude. That's a much better and somewhat less arbitrary unit than "1/10000 the distance from the pole to the equator on a line drawn through Paris."
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That said, the nautical mile rules. One nautical mile is essentially one minute of latitude. That's a much better and somewhat less arbitrary unit than "1/10000 the distance from the pole to the equator on a line drawn through Paris."
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06-29-09, 08:27 PM
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Part of the difficulty is that the counties of a great many states are set up in mile square sections, and legal documents refer to the sections (and measure distances in "rods" believe it or don't).
That said, the nautical mile rules. One nautical mile is essentially one minute of latitude. That's a much better and somewhat less arbitrary unit than "1/10000 the distance from the pole to the equator on a line drawn through Paris."
Thermidor my shiny metal can.
That said, the nautical mile rules. One nautical mile is essentially one minute of latitude. That's a much better and somewhat less arbitrary unit than "1/10000 the distance from the pole to the equator on a line drawn through Paris."
Thermidor my shiny metal can.
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Fine, you metric folks ride your 100km, we'll ride our 100 miles.
When you metric folks ride 160.934km why do you call it an Imperial Century? Just call it 160.934km ok?
Fellow (United States of) Americans, let's get rid of this f-ing metric century BS and just call it 62 miles, ok?
When you metric folks ride 160.934km why do you call it an Imperial Century? Just call it 160.934km ok?
Fellow (United States of) Americans, let's get rid of this f-ing metric century BS and just call it 62 miles, ok?
06-29-09, 08:34 PM
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On On the evening of December 16th, 1774, 342 crates of tea were dumped into the ocean at Boston, in the seminal event of the American Revolution that destroyed 90,000 lbs of British trade cargo.
Considering that the American resistance was inspired by the bravery of the French uprising against tyranny and the British polemicist Thomas Paine, writing on the French experience, shouldn't the weight of the symbolic cargo be expressed in kilos (27,215)?
How ironic that the US still pays tribute to the old Imperialists.
Considering that the American resistance was inspired by the bravery of the French uprising against tyranny and the British polemicist Thomas Paine, writing on the French experience, shouldn't the weight of the symbolic cargo be expressed in kilos (27,215)?
How ironic that the US still pays tribute to the old Imperialists.
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Really? Nobody is going to say that.
06-29-09, 08:37 PM
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I'm surprised we haven't adopted the metric system. 100 is a bigger number than 62. Isn't "bigger is better" the "American Way"? 
06-29-09, 08:40 PM
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I'd venture to say that most educated Americans know both systems very well. Even though the US failed in the 80's to convert everyone to the metric system, my tool box is 80% metric tools and I rarely use my "standard" measure wrenches/sockets.
PS. how's the queen doing?
PS. how's the queen doing?