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Khaylanis

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You will eventually be assimilated. Resistance is futile. ;)

It\'s a much simpler and straightfoward system actually.
 
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vincegamer

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I think we should just use a base 26 numbering system. It\'s so easy - A = 1, AA =27....

Or we could all go binary.
 
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supervike

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Originally posted by Khaylanis
You will eventually be assimilated. Resistance is futile. ;)

It\'s a much simpler and straightfoward system actually.
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Maybe it is futile....

And I agree the system is much more sensical...

BUT...

they have been trying to assimilate us here in America for sometime...just as they have been trying to assimilate us with soccer....

It just ain\'t working.
 
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Sand Rat

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Try reading archeological field reports sometime -

\"30 feet from the road, we dug a standard 1 meter square to a depth of 250 centameters\"

Edit -

RSB - 25mm is roughly 1 inch - just to really confuse you. And its also most commonly refered to by scale modelers as 1/72 scale - 1 inch = 72 inches in scale, which is why most 25mm male figures are 1 inch tall (the ideal height apparently being 6 ft/72 inches/1.288 meters)
 
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Khaylanis

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Being one of the ties with the UK, of the time the US were just an English colony I would have guessed you guys would want to get rid of the imperial system quickly. ???
 
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DrEvilmonki

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The real problem with America taking on the metric system is the inbreds still think it\'s unnatural not using ALL of their fingers to count with!;)
 
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Ritual

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Originally posted by steelcult
(the ideal height apparently being 6 ft/72 inches/1.288 meters)
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I can assure you that no one (pygmies excluded) above the age of 10 years have an ideal height of 1.288 metres! lol

6 ft is roughly 1.8 metres. ;)
 
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vincegamer

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Originally posted by steelcult
Try reading archeological field reports sometime -

\"30 feet from the road, we dug a standard 1 meter square to a depth of 250 centameters\"
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Lloyd,
You think that\'s bad? Try reading geographic surveys of the 18th and early 19th century. Land is measured in \"chains.\" A chain could be anywhere from 60 to 100 feet, but usually was 66 feet/20.1168 metres. (1 chain = 4 rods; 10 chains = 1 furlong; 80 chains = 1 mile - ever wonder where the strange number 5,280 ft. came from? 80x66)
When they literally laid down a surveyor\'s chain to measure distances, if the chain was rusty, it might not lay out right so one chain could be shorter than another.

Heck, lets just go back to cubits!
Horses are still measured in \"hands\" anyway.
 
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