International System of Units overhauled in historic vote

Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by MzxgckZtNqX5i on Saturday November 17, 2018 @12:10PM (#18476344)

How can you be sure that "all of your regular coffee cups are exactly 250ml"? And what about teaspoon? And everything else?

Everyone here is obviously biased toward his/her own measurement system based on our experience, but the fact that "3 cups and a half of milk" is more precise than "875mL of milk" is clearly false.

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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by sonnyblarney on Monday November 19, 2018 @03:37AM (#18484918)

I didn't say anything about Imperial being more precise.

I'm saying it's often more useful.

1 cup mix, 1 cup milk + 1 egg.

1 pint of beer.

1 teaspoon of sugar.

These are things everyone can understand.

You can put the ml on the side of the label.

"That guy is 6 feet tall, about 180 lbs."

Is better than metric for most people.

"I'll have a glass of wine" instead of "I'll have 240 ml of wine"

Any one of you who orders beer by the 'ml' can keep arguing with me, but I suspect you all order 'pints' in which case you should consider for a moment why you do that.

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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by Oletros on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:20PM (#18497860)

> These are things everyone can understand

Eh, no, here in my country nobody uses that units, all the recipes and in the stores, the units are ml, kg, etc

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