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#351 - Metallicock (01/09/2013) [-]
As an American,
I really wish they would have taught the metric system in school. It's a pain in the ass not knowing it when I see something labeled in it.
I also see it as being pretty asinine that we refuse to essentially make communication with the rest of the world just that much easier.

Thanks again American education. . . .
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User avatar #376 to #351 - riggedarcade (01/09/2013) [-]
Actually I think the reasoning behind our weird ass system is that a system based on 12 is more divisible as opposed to the metric system's pretty numbers that are based on 10.
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#485 to #376 - N. Korean citizen (01/09/2013) [-]
i dont see how 12 is more divisible than 10 in a base 10 number system. maybe thats just me.
how many centimeters in a meter? how many meters in a kilometer? how many centimeters in a kilometer? youre just increasing or decreasing by a factor of 10. easy to do in your head.
how many inches in a foot? how many feet in a mile? how many inches in a mile? that takes a little more thought.
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User avatar #569 to #485 - riggedarcade (01/10/2013) [-]
well think about it, 10 is divisible by 1,2,5, and itself.

where 12 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,6, and itself.
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User avatar #374 to #351 - asschwitz (01/09/2013) [-]
They teach us both in my school district, pretty much one right after the other, a week on US and then a week on Metric, I think, they may have changed it. Either way, not sure why it wasn't taught to you.
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User avatar #364 to #351 - forevertrombone (01/09/2013) [-]
What kind of school did you go to? I've been forced to use the metric system since the 4th grade and I hate it.
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#359 to #351 - brohio ONLINE (01/09/2013) [-]
I'm an American and I learned about the metric system in 9th grade.
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#357 to #351 - N. Korean citizen (01/09/2013) [-]
it takes 10 fucking minutes to learn the metric system, i learned it in elementary school... in America. i dont know why we dont use it but quit crying about how you wish you'd learned it
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User avatar #367 to #357 - Metallicock (01/09/2013) [-]
If if I did learn it, the U.S. Measurement System will always come to mind first when thinking about thinking about measurements or temperature and I would always compare measurements in the metric system to those in the U.S. System

"1k? oh a little under a mile"
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User avatar #379 to #367 - Metallicock (01/09/2013) [-]
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Back to the content ''Merica'
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