From the June 5 edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight:
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny -- the metric system. From Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Lusaka to London, the people of the world have been forced to measure their environment in millimeters and kilograms. The United States is the only major country that has resisted, but we have no reason to be ashamed for using feet and pounds.
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JAMES PANERO: I am joining you tonight as an anti-metrite. I'm taking a stand against the metric system -- the original system of global revolution and new world orders.
CARLSON: God bless you, and that's exactly what it is. Esperanto died, but the metric system continues, this weird, utopian, inelegant creepy system that we alone have resisted.
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What about NTSC and PAL? Are you going to ideologize them too?
Listen, if you want to be true to God and stand against global revolution and new world orders, go back to cubits and talents.
This will help you: https://biblehub.com/weights-and-measures/
We see it as you’re being forced to stick to that cumbersome and outdated silliness.
English can also be seen as a system of global revolution and new world orders. Perhaps you ought to resist that too, and speak Navajo instead…
It’s the metric system that IS elegant, nincompoop. The old one is the inelegant one.
Are you resisting Blu-ray and DVD, sticking with the “elegant” VHS?
"Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny -- the metric system." And we alone have resisted...
I notice, though, that every place that uses Metric, AND the US sets their clocks to the same authority. Same units of hours minutes and seconds, same dates, same reference point for when a particular day starts...
It just makes more sense to match, to be cooperative. Nothing special or noble about being too stupid to keep up with the others.
Who controls the British crown?
Base 10. A fraction of the amount of millimetres that make up a metre. Also, Team USA running/swimming in Metres in Tokyo next year. The medal table in 2016 Rio: as compared to 2012 London.
So you want Great Britain to become Greater , Fucker Carlson & James An Hero...?!
Remember: you said it, yours truly & so many who'll be supporting Team GB won't in 2020. All those athletes denied their - and therefore your - glory via Gold medals, because of a petty whine from you?
Well, if it's what you want, who am I to refuse you of your subjective 'wish': no matter the consequences...?!
Those reduced to putting their 'OAR' in these last few Olympics. So much for 'MAGA' then.
'MGBGA': it's what you want, Fucker. Hadn't thought it through, eh Skippy...?!
Every Gold medal won by an American athlete in Tokyo in an event measured in Metres is therefore a symbol of Tyranny .
So you'll ask them to throw such away...?!
What a horrible globalist idea… Trying to make unit conversion incredibly simple for everyone.
… Is it worth pointing out that the Imperial system started in Great Britain, and the US only took it because at the time the colonies were formed, it was the common method of measuring in the Western World?
You tell me, what’s easier:
Awww, other people did the Grampa Simpson thing first. Well, strange minds and all that.
Least I found an image.image
And what exactly is Cucker Carlson’s bitch-n-moan about the metric system? Does it just boil down to, “countries with better healthcare and gun control have it, therefore it must be bad?”
On the cosmoquest forum there was (is?) a rather dumb member who called herself “Buttercup”. I remember her asserting a number of years ago that Europeans couldn’t bake with real feelings and love because they measured their ingredients in grams and milliliters and not in teaspoons and cups. She was dead serious. Like I said, she wasn’t the brightest candle on the tree.
@kuyohashi Does it just boil down to, “countries with better healthcare and gun control have it, therefore it must be bad?”
No, I think it’s more “this is what I used to, therefore it comes directly from God.”
I hope Tucker remembers this the next time he goes to buy 2 liter soda bottles for his next party, get his prescription filled and follows the instructions to take however many milligrams of his pills, runs in a charity 5k, or asks for 9mm ammo for the guns he loves so much. Oh what's that America is already metric? Better not remind him that all of those imperial measurements are defined by NIST and our laws by their metric equivalents. America just needs to follow through on the final parts of our conversion rather than rely on this inefficient mixed system we're still using.
I'd like to come up with a new even more convoluted system of measurements and see if I can popularize it. There's 8 moops in each floop, and 15.891233 floops in a gizbot. Now, that's a gizbot in weight. If we're talking volume there's 99.43 iblies to a seboop, and 1,990,345 seboops in a gizbot. It's so simple, even a baby could do it!
I'm sorry, the world is "forced" to use the metric system? Bitch the only reason imperial measurements even exist any more is because America is the only country to refuse to update out of pure spite and anyone wanting to trade with America has to do it in their math. It's more accurate to say the world is forced to cater to your backwards egotism. Metric is simple and straightforward, base ten increments and you don't have to do long division to get a full measurement that isn't broken into multiple individual irregular measurements all of their own like 49 miles, 1751 yards, 3 feet, 2 and 1/8 inches. In metric that's 80460 meters. Or 80.46 kilometers. or 8046000 centimeters. Well, 80459.93875 meters if you want to be more precise. And precise metric can do better.
Edit: Oh damn me hard, there are even MORE subdivisions of distance measurement that I've never even heard of? Screw it, I'm not doing that much math just for this.
The best way to install a new system is cold turkey.
When I moved to Europe, it took me about all of 32,4 seconds to get used to metric. I remember when the Euro was introduced as cash. In Germany the government allowed a 3 month transition period for both currencies, after which stores were expected to accept only Euros. People were bitching “OMG, only three months? That will never work!” And one asshole in front of me in line at the grocery store: “fuck the Euro, I’m using D-Marks up until the last day!” Well, I predicted the D-Mark would totally disappear within ten days. Since after the starting day the ATMs only dispensed Euros, it turned out to be 5-6 days. After that nobody had D-Marks, and if you found some somewhere, they were like last week’s bread. That was about 20 years ago, meaning anybody younger than, say, 25 probably never saw a D-Mark, and couldn’t care less about it.
@Alencon
Should we tell them that the US Army uses the metric system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M777_howitzer
...or that the M-777 Howitzer - the most advanced artillery piece in existence - for the US Army & Marines: via the US Department of Defence uses 155mm rounds?
And it'll take fundie Christainity-levels of brainwashing to persuade him that Barrow-in-Furness is in the US: because we shudder to think what the effects of telling him that the M-777's makers BAe Systems is in Britain : 'British Aerospace' being the argument-annihilating cluebat, that'll leave Fucker's head in a worse state than if it had been hit by one of said 155mm shells. >:D
Like I say: he didn't think this one through.
I predicted this back in 2014.
Also, just remember, the Bible tells us that Pi is exactly 3! ^-^
The change to metric could actually be made very easy, just by tweaking some of the terminology for a few years until it’s not necessary anymore.
For instance, call a liter a “metric quart”, half a kilo a “metric pound”, a kilo a “metric double pounder”, a meter a “metric yard”, a kilometer a “short mile”. That way the dumbos can associate with values they already know and don’t want to abandon. The rest would just fall into place.
Then when they start saying things like “30° is hot? that doesn’t sound right”, start a massive media campaign mocking them for being horribly stupid and childish, making sure they feel embarrassed when they keep bitching. ;-)
@checkmate : That’s what they did here in Canada, too. My parents learned imperial when they were in school, but by the time I went to school it was only metric. Car speedometers here have both units on them, but all speed limits are in KPH. And most printed measurements now are also metric. My parents simply use their phones to look up metric-to-imperial calculators and move on.
EVERY exact science, Medical, engineering, high maths/physics have been metric IN THE U.S.A. for a century.
I'm 62, it changed in Canada when my kids were in school, so roughly the 80s.
P.S. I still do recipes and all in imperial, old dog y'know. It helps that my recipe sources are older. When I want to know a public figures height I take the 1. 77 or whatever, copy it, go to google and paste it and the "in feet and inches" pops up in options automatically.
@checkmate
Then when they start saying things like “30° is hot? that doesn’t sound right”
Or if they forget they're listening to a Canadian radio station and hear the weather forecast...."the high is gonna be WHAT tomorrow???"
(I live close to Canada, but I've nevvvvvvvvvvvvvver done that myself, nope......)
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