Something ain't right

It's Global Warming.  Duh. 

Relationship is only off by 7*F. Given the modern general disregard for accuracy and spelling it is "acurite"

Good enough for government work.

Only one spot that its right.  It must be American made.  You guys don't get the metric.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

How many degrees C are there in a Meter? Yup, don't get it.

AAZCD said:

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

How many degrees C are there in a Meter? Yup, don't get it.

Ten always ten

Water boils a freezes at different temperatures depending on your altitude, it’s just adjusting for that... duh!

I’d rather be rich than stupid.

70-degrees in Jacksonville in June? I’d say something isn’t right. But at least the thermometer doesn’t show it’s 0*C right now. 

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

because we don't care how far it was from the tip of the Kings finger to the Tip of his Nose.

Streetwiseguy said:

Only one spot that its right.  It must be American made.  You guys don't get the metric.

If god wanted the metric system, he only would have had 10 disciples. 

ACU-RONG

GTXVette said:

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

because we don't care how far it was from the tip of the Kings finger to the Tip of his Nose.

We are talking temperature.  32 degrees is freezing, 212 is boiling.  Makes great sense...

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

as Does 0 and 100     Boiling over is 212                "  we are talking temperature."

                                                                                    I knew that but It's all I Had.

Streetwiseguy said:

GTXVette said:

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

because we don't care how far it was from the tip of the Kings finger to the Tip of his Nose.

We are talking temperature.  32 degrees is freezing, 212 is boiling.  Makes great sense...

180 degrees of separation, that's half a circle.

As my college classmates and I were lining up to take a test on conversion formulas, I asked a few of them, "I forget; how many gallons are in a kilometer?"

The only answer I ever got was, "Go away!"

1.0 kilogram = 2.205 pounds = 2.79 dollars

Makes perfect cents!

Can we start metric time yet? I want 10 months in a year, each comprised of 10 weeks, lasting 10 days each, and each day is 10 hours. There's 10 minutes in an hour and 10 seconds in a minute.

Javelin said:

Can we start metric time yet? I want 10 months in a year, each comprised of 10 weeks, lasting 10 days each, and each day is 10 hours. There's 10 minutes in an hour and 10 seconds in a minute.

Depends on what that does to residual values of my car. If we go from 0ad to now, that makes it.... 637,292...ish. My car is currently a 1993. Do i get classic plates? 

Only 2 kinds of countries in the world. Those that use the metric system, and those who have landed on the moon.

I don't really care about water boiling or freezing. All I know is when it is 0 I'm dang cold and when it is 100 I'm dang hot. 0-100 is a pretty tidy system I think.

Robbie said:

Only 2 kinds of countries in the world. Those that use the metric system, and those who have landed on the moon.

The US uses the metric system and always has.  The official US "Standard" is and always has been (AFAIK) defined as a function of metric.  Is why an inch is exactly 25.4 millimeters, a pound is exactly 454 grams, etc.  A lot of these were different than UK units, it was some sort of excise tax war thing - our units are smaller so we are changing tax on 300 units of whatever instead of the 250 you thought you had.  The English wee still a trading partner so we still had to use these units, but France had this neat idea and the 1700s were revolutionary times, so we went with their idea but hammered it into a way to easily trade with England.

Which makes "a pint's a pound the world 'round" kind of funny... unless you are talking about the price of beer, the US is the only place where a pint of water weighs 16 ounces.  UK pints are closer to 20.

Knurled. said:

...the US is the only place where a pint of water weighs 16 ounces.  UK pints are closer to 20.

For a BLOODY good reason!!!

Where I used to work, we had an oil jug/caddy/thing that was marked in US quarts and UK quarts on one side, and liters on the other.

That's the nice thing about when fluids are given a spec in all three units of measure.  You just use the unit that is closest to a round number, instead of trying to eyeball .2 liters on a tapered container that is only marked in whole numbers.

You know you're getting bilingual when you need to mete out 8.2 quarts, so you get 4 quarts and then 4 liters.  Or four liters and four quarts, whichever order is easiest...