Quoting kemper:

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I just put 5 DVDs in my fuel tank this morning

That's CHEAP!

Last time I filled up, I was charged 79,74 EUR (for 60 litres).
Last time I bought DVDs, I was charged 6,99 EUR apiece.

So I put 11,4 DVDs in my fuel tank.

am i the only american here that wonders why we dont use the metric system? it seems silly for me to have all this conversion going on here...


my gas tank holds 10 gallons, it costs me usually 25-30$ to fill up... I will get 350-400 miles from that tank... i typically fill up once a week.

at my current spending habbits, that would be between 4-6 dvds or 1-2 hi-def titles depending on sales and shipping costs..

I only really use my car to visit my brother who lives 30 miles away. I live in the city so almost everything is in walking or bike riding distance; in the winter I prefer to ride public transportation. I average 3,000 miles on my car a year so I'm not too concerned about gas prices.

I am soooo very glad my company takes care of all that.
I just filled her up and didn't look at what it costed. I fuel up somewhere near 55 liters, never empty it, and in a few weeks I'll be going away for a weekend in Velburg, Germany, which probably cost me about 2 tanks, I am doing 722km/55ltr or 13km/ltr.
But when I get my motorbike it'll be different... that I need to pay myself, the prices ARE crazy, I saw a price for regular EUR1,435 per liter.

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Quoting Lord Of The Sith:

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Quoting ruineddaydreams:

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am i the only american here that wonders why we dont use the metric system? it seems silly for me to have all this conversion going on here...


my gas tank holds 10 gallons, it costs me usually 25-30$ to fill up... I will get 350-400 miles from that tank... i typically fill up once a week.

at my current spending habbits, that would be between 4-6 dvds or 1-2 hi-def titles depending on sales and shipping costs..

Yes, yes you are.  The United States by most standards other than the dollar is the most powerful country in the world and that is why we do not use the metric system and therefore do not have to.  This also allows us to confuse anyone who comes to visit us and might want to find something without GPS.  LOL 

I found this on the net....

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It's amazing what you can learn on Jeopardy. There are only three countries in the world that don't officially use the metric system ... one of them (naturally) is the United States. We do recall at one time the U.S. was very close to converting (they even put dual metric / English measurements on car speedometers), but they never followed through.

It shows how far behind the U.S. is when you consider the only other two countries that don't use the metric system: Myanmar and Liberia. Hardly two world powers.

Quoting Lord Of The Sith:

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...and that is why we do not use the metric system

Well, the american Inch is defined as 2,54mm, so basicly you use metric, but for folkloristic reasons you use an arbitrary multiplicator on the Meter.
Kind of like LARPers in their quaint costumes. 

cya, Mithi

Quoting DJ Doena:

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Since when does the UK officially uses the metric system?

In a word it's total chaos.....  (OK so that's three words)

I think metric has become the de facto standard in the UK BUT.......

Fuel is sold by the litre. On the road, distances & speed limits are still in miles.

Wine & spirits are sold by 700/750ml bottles. Beer is sold by the pint in pubs....but not in the supermarkets, where it's metric (for our US fraternity, at this moment I have on my desk bottles of Coors Light in 300ml & Miller in 330ml bottles).  (PSSSST......sound of bottle being opened......nice)

            Edit: and I'd forgotten milk...sold in pints ....as MrEll noted (good spot!!)

The weather forceasts are given in Centigrade, but often with the appended comment"....and that's ## degrees in Fahrenheit"; and the most crazy thing I found a few years ago was buying timber, where I could buy, as an example, "two metres of four by three" where the four & the three were in inches! To be fair, I think even the timber merchants have now gone all metric.

In common parlance, weight & height of people is still stated in Imperial:
"You should lose a few pounds", "United's centre-half is six foot four", "too many beers = inches on the waistline"  etc.  (not sure about the truth of the last one.....whistles nonchalently...     )

Being an old buqqer, I tend to work in both systems... if I'm thinking "big" or "abstract" I think in feet & inches, but if I'm DIYing at home, or at work on the thingy to the left... I think in millimetres. However, the work thing breaks down with my good friends in Norcross, GA.....who send me all their interface data in Imperial.......fortunately I have a colleague who can convert foot-pounds to Newton-metres!


My teenage daughters do not know what an "inch" is, think a "foot" is the thing on the end of my leg and a "yard" is what the Simpsons have out back . One of my great joys is setting the air-con in my Audi to Fahrenheit, and waiting for the daughters to argue......to which I respond, "Please take note of who's driving you to your party...and allow your father his little whimseys.............or WOULD YOU PREFER TO WALK!"