@marquisdegeek
Oddly enought they dont refer to 20m band as 65.5 ft band....

@marquisdegeek I think it is extremely difficult to go against the mainstream.

I live in a metric country, but there are some things that are almost always given in non-metric units, such as power of vehicles.

For me it's extremely difficult to be metric-only, when everyone else (e. g. vehicle manufacturers) is feeding me non-metric data (e. g. through badges and spec sheets) that I have to convert first.

Same with dates ... I always try to use ISO 8601 dates when no date format is specified.

@marquisdegeek finally.

@marquisdegeek Excellent - thanks!

@marquisdegeek That kind of helps, though 2 meters still sounds small as hell.

@marquisdegeek
TBF, every measuring system is arbitrary, and while I admire the simplicity of the metric system, there are practical reasons to use many imperial measurements. I mean, sure you can bake a cake with 6 grams of salt and 15ml of vanilla, but why break out the scale and graduated cylinder when the teaspoon and tablespoon are right there?

@marquisdegeek I look forward to a similar Fahrenheit to Celsius converter, and vice versa.

@marquisdegeek@ohai.social seriously...do you guys ever get tired of this shit?

We use metric in far more places than you realize, and understand it where we don't use it

We use 2 liter bottles for soda

We run 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m & 3200m in track, and 5k & 10k in road races

We measure large things in metric tonnes

The fact that you don't even know this shows what obnoxious, know-it-all idiots you are

@marquisdegeekohai.social This is awesome :gachi: If I may, I think it would be nice to be able to measure things in "large boulder the size of a small boulder". I think it's a very convenient unit :yotsuba_pleased:

@marquisdegeek Are those African or South American bananas?

#montyPython #GratuitousMontyPythonReference

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It works!