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ajaxlepinski wrote:When I was in 6th and 7th grade, the whole country was supposed to go metric. After two years of metric schoolwork, the scheme was suddenly dropped and everyone was like, WTF? Two years down the shitter!
I still believe that tool manufacturers were behind the shutdown. If we went metric, mechanics would only need one set of tools and that would have meant 50% less tools would be sold.
Metric is fine... 1/2 cm = 5 mm easy peazy
We should have stuck it out.
Go further back than that and blame British pirates in the Caribbean for the US not moving to metric...
Stringy Things: 2003 Fender American Standard Stratocaster (SD PG/Dimarzio VVB pickups) 2019 Gibson Les Paul Standard 60's (SD PG humbuckers) 2021 Gibson Les Paul Classic (Dimarzio SD/36th Anni humbuckers) 2018 Gibson Les Paul Classic (Fralin P-90 pickups) 2017 Balaguer GAB Scumden (SD PG humbuckers) 2020 Fender American Professional II Telecaster (SD Broadcaster/Vintage tele pickups) 2011 Fender Blacktop Telecaster (GFS Surf 90 pickups) 2021 Jackson JS32 Dinky (SD JB/Jazz humbuckers) 2019 Fender Active Deluxe Precision Bass Special (stock pickups)
Loud Makers: Jet City 100H LTD head amp Jet City 50H head amp Jet City USA Custom JCA48C 4x12 (V30s) Jet City JCA5012C 1x12 combo amp (stock speaker)
We learnt both at school here. We learnt feet and inches centre meters and meters. We still use miles for speed and we still use feet and inches for height. Most other things are metric and make more sense.
Gear Gibson les paul Traditional, les Paul signature T, U.S strat, Japanese Strat , 1970s Greco Tele, Charvel So-Cal Pro Mod style 1, Fernandes TEJ-85, 70's Greco tele. Marshall JVM 205c (Dan Gower modded), JCM900 SL-X, some pedals, Yamaha THR10
ajaxlepinski wrote:When I was in 6th and 7th grade, the whole country was supposed to go metric. After two years of metric schoolwork, the scheme was suddenly dropped and everyone was like, WTF? Two years down the shitter!
I still believe that tool manufacturers were behind the shutdown. If we went metric, mechanics would only need one set of tools and that would have meant 50% less tools would be sold.
Metric is fine... 1/2 cm = 5 mm easy peazy
We should have stuck it out.
Go further back than that and blame British pirates in the Caribbean for the US not moving to metric...
Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
When I was visiting my brother, pumping gas in liters confused the hell out of me. I also don't think most Americans are willing to accept kilometers, kilograms or celsius. But maybe we could adopt every other metric measure and use a hybrid system. Personally, I could handle Kilometers because it's basically a ÷/.6 or ×1.8 conversion until we begin to think in kph and the like.
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