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by **MajorMitchell** » Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:43 am

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.

by **MajorMitchell** » Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:37 am

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.

by **shivam_31** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:26 pm

Excellent thread...!!!

by **e.m.c^42** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:53 pm

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

by **e.m.c^42** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:51 pm

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.

by **MajorMitchell** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 4:33 pm

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.

by **damo666** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:47 pm

100 foot centipede

by **Claesar** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 11:55 am

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.

by **damo666** » 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.

by **damo666** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 11:34 am

gimix wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 26, 2020 5:59 pm
How about Scots... may we keep James Watt?

Yes.

by **gimix** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 5:59 pm

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

by **Octavious** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:58 pm

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

by **Claesar** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:48 pm

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

by **gimix** » 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...

by **Claesar** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:52 am

And I'd rather walk 500 milies than 880.

by **Octavious** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:14 am

RoganJosh wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:58 pm
We should just pick one of those imperial units and add prefixes and then everyone would be happy. You know. I ran 30 kilofeet in an hour yesterday. And New York is only 18 megafeet from here. A walk in the park.

I think the idea has merit, but to avoid confusion we should use Roman prefixes rather than Greek. So a hundred yards becomes a centiyard and a thousand yards becomes a miliyard etc. Naturally centiyards are of limited use as its a very intermediate sort of distance, but miliyards could catch on. It's a bit of a mouthful, but abbreviating it to milies has potential. Maybe even enough to be adopted into popular culture.

But I would walk 500 milies
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand milies
To fall down at your door…

We may even reach the stage where milies becomes such a popular term for a unit of length that people use it automatically without even being aware that it is a prefix. But it's hard to imagine living in such a world.

by **RoganJosh** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:58 pm

We should just pick one of those imperial units and add prefixes and then everyone would be happy. You know. I ran 30 kilofeet in an hour yesterday. And New York is only 18 megafeet from here. A walk in the park.

by **Octavious** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:44 am

100 links in a chain, 10 chains in a furlong. The Imperial system is perfectly capable of doing it decimal style if it wants to :). Although I admit it's a bit of a shame we lost the old definition of a mile as 1000 paces somewhere in history. Then no one would have felt the need to arse about with the metric system in the first place.

by **BobMcBob** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:05 am

Octavious wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:12 am
And yards for beer, of course :)

Yards? Pathetic! I measure by beer in furlongs!

To be honest, I think the Imperial measurement system is a load of junk. There are 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 220 yards in a furlong, 8 furlongs in a mile, 17 miles to a chicken-fence and 39 chicken-fences to a bankruptcy.

Compare that to the good old metric system, with 10 millimetres to a centimetre, 100 centimetres to a metre and 1000 metres to a kilometre. It's much nicer, less sporadic and less complicated. Use nice numbers folks. Feet suck.

by **Octavious** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:12 am

And yards for beer, of course :)

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