"Half a pound of salami, please."
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I don’t have any problem with fractions and once I got used to it metric would be just as normal.
Adaptability is key to the successful primate.
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I don’t have any problem with fractions and once I got used to it metric would be just as normal.
Adaptability is key to the successful primate.
@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
I don’t have any problem with fractions and once I got used to it metric would be just as normal.
Adaptability is key to the successful primate.
I mentioned this to Mrs. George today, and I asked her how long, as a nurse, did it take for her to get used to using milliliters, liter, kilograms, etc.
"About 15 minutes," she said.
But then, she used to drive an IABP (look it up), so there's that.
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I find using imperial units rather cumbersome. It's hardly ever necessary now, as we're all using IEC, ISO standards and what have you. I still get reports to review which sometimes reference the old units. I send them back and tell them to replace their
colonialimperial gibberish with the correct units. -
Interestingly, in medicine, everything is metric - other than weight. Patient weight, that is.
That may have changed in the last few years, however. I'm out of that loop.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Weight is also metric. For example calculating body surface area in chemotherapy dosage.
I’m pretty much “bi” in the sense that I can switch in my head back and forth.
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way. -
Weight is also metric. For example calculating body surface area in chemotherapy dosage.
I’m pretty much “bi” in the sense that I can switch in my head back and forth.
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
I was only joking
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Hey you are right, I didn’t know that.
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@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
More bad beer…
The Brad
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I can do much of it in my head going back and forth....weight, distance, milliliters. But when it comes to smaller measurements, I don't have that conversion logic upstairs yet because I haven't really had to use it. It's not that hard and it makes more sense to use base 10.
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Fine, just so long as we base the length of a centimeter as the size of Rudolf VanWerdenstein’s knuckle on his middle finger. And a gram should be the measured weight of a single lock of a Hapsburg princess’s hair.
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And a liter should be set at the exact amount of Bohemian Pilsner with an ABV of 5.2% it takes for me to drink in an hour to reach a blood alcohol level of .06.
I’m willing to sit through multiple tests…
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
More bad beer…
@LuFins-Dad said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
More bad beer…
I shouldn't worry - they'd probably be willing to serve it to you in a lady's glass.
In fact, they might insist.
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@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
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@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
