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Message started by RatdogWillie on 08/10/13 at 06:39:03

Title: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by RatdogWillie on 08/10/13 at 06:39:03

I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System or I might be like this:
http://www.wimp.com/metricsystem/
:-? :-/

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by Serowbot on 08/10/13 at 10:04:11

I don't think the metric system is going to help those guys... ::)...

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by RatdogWillie on 08/10/13 at 10:32:39

7F697E637B6E63780C0 wrote:

I don't think the metric system is going to help those guys... ::)...

It's a known fact that 5 out of 4 people have problems with fractions.

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by Steve H on 08/10/13 at 10:38:38

They are funny to watch sometimes. It's a wonder they ever get anything built that actually works, though.

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by tdub2112 on 08/10/13 at 21:53:10

As much as I love this country, U.S. Standard is pretty stupid. I wish we had gone to Metric when everyone else did.

Althought, quarter kilometer just doesn't roll of the tongue like quarter mile.

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/11/13 at 04:16:13

I only made about 20 seconds of that,, I get frustrated watching pure stupidity.

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by Dave on 08/11/13 at 12:44:03

When it comes to working with numbers.....There are only 3 kinds of people.

Those that understand it....and those that don't!

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by mpescatori on 08/12/13 at 10:59:46

Video isn't working, Error 404 - not found... :-/

Anyway, the Imperial (not US) system is quite rational, actually.

Whatever size you have, the next size down is half of what you've got.

The problems arise when you're out of 19/32" and wonder if you should try 9/16" or 5/8"...

:o

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by Dave on 08/12/13 at 11:12:51

766B7E68787A6F7469721B0 wrote:

Unless you see the video.....You can't understand the joke.
The link works for me.
http://www.wimp.com/metricsystem/

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by Serowbot on 08/12/13 at 11:34:31

This one work?... :-?...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pikrntjcbyw
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pikrntjcbyw[/media]

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by Blinky-FSO on 08/12/13 at 12:01:19

Reminds me of a story my father told. His first job after getting out of the Army in 1946 was assessing applicants wanting to get on board as machinist trainees for Vought Aircraft.

He would start them with reading a ruler and fractions. As the story goes, one applicant was having serious issues with fractions of an inch. My father says he got him to grasp there were four fourths and eight eights in each inch. He finally got him to sixteenths and thirty-seconds but when he got around to asking the guy how many sixty-fourths were in an inch, the applicant just threw down the ruler and as he walked away said, "I don't know, there must be a million of them." My father hired him anyway.

Good hunting

Title: Re: I'm glad Suzuki uses the Metric System
Post by old_rider on 08/13/13 at 08:47:42

Who's on first?? And they make money building bikes? hmmmm