Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to Stefan (Forum Supporter) :

I resemble this meme. 

In reply to Stefan (Forum Supporter) :

Canada too.

I'm 6' tall but my house is 14km from my work.

I work in metric every day.

People rag on Americans for being monoglots, but most of us speak Imperial(*) and Metric just fine.

* except US is not Imperial, Imperial gallons/quarts/pints are different from US gallons/quarts/pints.  A pint is NOT a pound the world around!

Must be some kind of a tax dodge!

(it was)

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

People rag on Americans for being monoglots, but most of us speak Imperial(*) and Metric just fine.

Frankly, U.S. standard is better for most real-world applications. It's binary! When cooking, it's a lot easier to halve or double a recipe when working in a binary system than decimal.

Must be some kind of a tax dodge!

So... did a Scotsman come up with it?

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I like metric for most things. I don't want to find common denominators when trying to figure out the next smallest drill bit or socket. But kilometers per hour doesn't do a thing for me. 1000km/hr, is that fast? Sounds fast, but I don't know. 600mi/hr? Hot damn that's fast. Same speed.

But imperial is messed, too. 

Pitching a snowball into a snowbank is another one. 

In reply to Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) :

Beer Baron said:

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I'll that guy.  It's a security thing.  Two reasons I can think of off my head:

1. Hackers can scrape user ids and figure out if someone has an account somewhere.  This is partially negated by the fact that they could also try to create accounts with the same userids and see if they get rejected, but that does take considerably more work and is a bit harder to script, especially with captchas.
2. Related to #1, people use similar passwords on too many sites, so if a hacker has your userid/password from another site, even if your password is not valid on the new site, if they try to log in to another site, and find your userid is valid, but the password isn't, they can run through a script of similar passwords, especially if the site doesn't lock you out after a certain number of login failures.

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In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I think you are over estimating the capacity of "most Americans". Well maybe they could get it close between 1/4" and 7/16".