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Jun 22, 2022 2:15 PM
shelworth
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Fuzzynubz
We learned metric in our school (U.S.) we just had no reason to use it outside of certain classes.
ilovebigmutts
Or use metric like the rest of the world .
fuzznubbin
That’s useless! Everyone knows your cut mark is one big tick mark past half an inch!
playingdead2022
Damn that's a 1/8, I just counted the lines
procrastinatingagain
Hey parents, your kids' teachers are too busy buying and installing barricades to protect your kids from gunmen with 1200 rounds of ammo¹
saysomethingcool
1200 rounds??? That's rookie numbers! Gotta pump those number up baby!
procrastinatingagain
to teach your kids things they should have learned at home doing projects with you. FYI learning things in real events are retained better.
yourliesmatter
As a person who's worked in construction, no. Metric is so much fucking easier.
funone77
Unfortunately US standards are still in imperial which means you need to know them until/if it changes.
ICollectReactionGifs
the entire rest of the population using metric: "wtf?"
shelworth
hence the title...
ICollectReactionGifs
missed the title, also this is weird cause i grew up learning metric in the 90s
Baggsy13
Knew some carpenters who had a rough time with a tape measure.
HtNrN
Jesus didnt need a tapemeasure
gewalt
he died poor cause he could never afford the good tools necessary to make a decent profit.
cuttysark
And IP Subnetting wile you're at it. Great way to teach binary.
Sumdumguy42
Is subnetting still necessary with IPv6? If so, why?
cyberimg
Dude, IP4 subnetting is behind the times. And IP6 subnetting may be a bit too much.
markowithak
Soo.. IP5?
cuttysark
1st most of the internet still uses it, and 2nd I was suggesting it for working in binary.
Revnis
How about we all just use fucking metric and then gee no knowledge is needed can ya count to ten yep OK you can read it
Revnis
Mind you I'm an American, born and raised too.
Adester
my condolences
Revnis
Eh could be worse I could have been born in Texas
Sumdumguy42
I’m reading this with a Scottish accent.
Revnis
We think my family is from Ireland but gramps went back to the 1600s and we were still here records just fall apart past that
Revnis
It made my genealogy project in school very weird since he had all the documents and it's like I'm nope we really don't know