3/28/2011 8:00:53 PM

ha

3/28/2011 8:01:21 PM

imperial units are still used in several of those gray countries particularly canada and the uk

3/28/2011 8:09:25 PM

I use that shit

except i am fond of the inch and the mile for simple things

3/28/2011 8:12:02 PM

^^i was thinking that too


a stone is what....14 lbs? which is 30.8 kg?

3/28/2011 8:13:02 PM

dumb dweedle duh moment of the night:

i was like "so alaska uses the english system too, eh?"

3/28/2011 8:14:26 PM

Bullshit, the map itself has no legend. Could say any stereotypical phrase and have it work

3/28/2011 8:14:32 PM

^^^you take the reciprocal, love

3/28/2011 8:15:25 PM

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

3/28/2011 8:16:08 PM

I knew that Myanmar wasn't metric. That's actually the ONLY thing I knew about them until they got tsunami'd about 6-8 years ago. I actually didn't know they had changed their name from Burma.

I had no idea that Liberia was holding out, too. I thought it was just us and the Burmese.

3/28/2011 8:17:57 PM

now it has a legend

3/28/2011 8:19:01 PM

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"you take the reciprocal, love"

DUR. i do that often. i keep having to remind myself 1 kg-2.2 lb
1 kg-2.2 lbs

im hoping that by the time im done with school i can have 5 lbs increments mostly memorized up to 225ish lbs.

3/28/2011 8:20:59 PM

^^lol

3/28/2011 8:22:46 PM

Is it necessary to memorize? You just double the number and add one tenth of itself.

3/28/2011 8:23:48 PM

it is when you deal with it as much as i do. (5-10 minutes to assess and dose 4 or 5 people)
surface area for topical medications is a bitch too.

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"You just double the number and add one tenth of itself."

that is super simple though.


[Edited on March 28, 2011 at 8:29 PM. Reason : efas]

3/28/2011 8:28:46 PM

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"now it has a legend"

LOL

3/28/2011 8:51:21 PM

LOL@dweedle

3/29/2011 7:34:18 AM

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"now it has a legend"

3/29/2011 8:43:52 AM

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"Bullshit, the map itself has no legend. Could say any stereotypical phrase and have it work"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Metric_system.png

3/29/2011 8:59:57 AM

OMFG AMERICA SUCKS.

3/29/2011 9:00:49 AM

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"14 lbs? which is 30.8 kg?"

Bahahahahha... thanks for the lols!

You weigh 308 kg, Joie!!!

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"You just double the number and add one tenth of itself the double."

That's how I have always converted kg to pounds. Pounds to kg isn't that easy, but also not bad:

Find half of the pounds and then subtract one-tenth of the half from the half. (i.e., multiply by 0.45)

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"I knew that Myanmar wasn't metric. That's actually the ONLY thing I knew about them until they got tsunami'd about 6-8 years ago. I actually didn't know they had changed their name from Burma."

Interesting... I had no idea they didn't use metric (and it baffles and intrigues me as to ehy they don't), but I came to know of the name change when it happened some 20 years ago (also, capital name changed from Rangoon to Yangon AFAIR). Interestingly, many people still say Burma, even inlcuding Burmese and others from that region such as Thais, Vietnamese, etc.


[Edited on March 29, 2011 at 9:16 AM. Reason : assumption: Joie = 140 lbs]

3/29/2011 9:03:12 AM

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"it is when you deal with it as much as i do. (5-10 minutes to assess and dose 4 or 5 people) surface area for topical medications is a bitch too."

Aren't you dealing with pharmacy drugs? When are you ever going to give someone a kilogram's worth of something? Unless, of course, they want to kill themselves.

3/29/2011 9:14:57 AM

Liberia was a US colony, so that explains that.

3/29/2011 9:17:42 AM

the kg is not the drug weight but an individual's weight mass. i don't know about drugs sold in the US, but nearly any and every drug sold outside the US, even if made in the US, gives dosages per kg of bodyweight. (dosages for babies and children)


[Edited on March 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM. Reason : ]

3/29/2011 9:18:01 AM

^you are right. and in emergency situations they dosed as such.

3/29/2011 9:22:11 AM

does that country have a tail?

3/29/2011 9:27:28 AM

AHAH!

The metric system is so much easier (base 10 anyone) but for the US to convert would cost billions and billions of dollars.

[Edited on March 29, 2011 at 9:42 AM. Reason : everything on my cars is metric]

3/29/2011 9:41:16 AM

Metric system sucks.

3/29/2011 11:27:07 AM

Maybe so but your mom swallows

3/29/2011 11:35:57 AM

sick burn

3/29/2011 11:37:00 AM

i have all my weather apps and webpages in Celsius. Fahrenheit is pretty fucking stupid too.

3/29/2011 1:49:50 PM

Britain uses a mix of both imperial and metric.

They also just won a court case against the EU that allows them to keep using it.

[Edited on March 29, 2011 at 1:57 PM. Reason : ]

3/29/2011 1:57:06 PM

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"Liberia was a US colony, so that explains that."

True.

So what explains Myanmar?

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"Fahrenheit is pretty fucking stupid too."

[Edited on March 29, 2011 at 5:13 PM. Reason : ]

3/29/2011 5:12:29 PM