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Congrats, you just reinvented the metric system, only with odd names and quantities
Ah yes, you will still need to find non-standard, not internationally recognised names for some 20+ more units of measure, things such as hertz, newton, pascal, joule, and so on...

Joule and Newton were Brits, Oct will keep those units I think.

Absolutely. And why use the German nonsense that Fahrenheit came up with when Lord Kelvin's efforts are so much more sensible?

How about Scots... may we keep James Watt?

gimix wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 26, 2020 5:59 pm

How about Scots... may we keep James Watt?

Yes.

gimix wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:23 am

Congrats, you just reinvented the metric system, only with odd names and quantities
Ah yes, you will still need to find non-standard, not internationally recognised names for some 20+ more units of measure, things such as hertz, newton, pascal, joule, and so on...

Erm they are internationally recognised.

damo666 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 27, 2020 11:36 am

gimix wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:23 am

Congrats, you just reinvented the metric system, only with odd names and quantities
Ah yes, you will still need to find non-standard, not internationally recognised names for some 20+ more units of measure, things such as hertz, newton, pascal, joule, and so on...

Erm they are internationally recognised.

Milies (milliyards) as 1000 yards and centiyards as 100 yards is absolutely not internationally recognised.

100 foot centipede

Think of the benefits that could come from the metrification of time, an extra forty seconds each minute if a minute had a hundred seconds, and each hour could have a hundred minutes which easily allows for a reduction to ten hour days and ten hour nights.

Foxcastle wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:21 pm

"Foot stuff" by Brainbomb, which I have not opened because, oh god no.

Lol, when FoxC thinks this is that type of thread.

Anyone find petite, slightly callused arches lovely? The slightly rough sensation when they rub on you is simply an incomparable sensation. And toes, oh god, tiny pinky toes.

e.m.c^42 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:51 pm

Anyone find petite, slightly callused arches lovely? The slightly rough sensation when they rub on you is simply an incomparable sensation. And toes, oh god, tiny pinky toes.

Open me, foxC, open me

Excellent thread...!!!

There's got to be more opportunities for metrification than just the need to reform measurements of time to 100 second minutes and 100 minute hours.
What about music. Why have only eight notes in an octave when we could have ten note decaves ? With an extra two notes you also get two extra "flats"&two extra sharps. How about ten keys instead of just eight ?
There's always resistance against reforms, why is that? .. when I suggested to my Lovely Fire Breathing MemSahib Her Serene Imperiousness Indoors lounging on a sofa eating cakes that she should consider metrification of her knitting measurements and practices I detected a distinct lack of enthusiasm in her response.

I'm going to try Metric Golf and start playing the ninth and eighteenth​ holes twice so I play a "front ten holes" & "back ten holes" to make a proper Christian Metric Golf round of twenty holes played. It could revolutionise Golf with golf courses needing to add an extra two holes.