Isn't it about time U.S. went metric?

[charley1968]

..snigger..

 

[Daver]

What's the sheckel price per cubic cubit in your local yard, btw? Is it cheaper Adzed or do you get it gophered all round to save time?

Oops got to go - the camels are threatening the giraffes again and the badgers are fretting..

This brings to mind the age old query of how many pancakes it takes to shingle a dog's house. [poke]

 

[Sparktrician]

Does anyone else see the irony of having a cup of tea in this thread?

No. It is 8 oz. or 236.588 ml. Not a cup.  :  [tongue]

Seth

hmmm... [clears throat]
Most teacups are 4 to 6 oz.

There is 5-oz TeaCup-125 and the 6-oz TeaCup-150.

[size=13pt]
Well actually you are both correct.  There is a U.S. Cup and an UK Cup. 
Now we have something else to discuss/debate; whose cup is more accurate, for the Cups now runneth over!? [eek]  [smile]

http://www.traditionaloven.com/culinary-arts/volume/convert-cup-uk-to-cup-us.html

[size=8pt][member=1619]SRSemenza[/member] [member=40772]Holmz[/member]

And now, for some Texas humor...

There's also a T-cup and a P-cup.  What's the difference?  A T-cup is what you drink T out of, and a P-cup is what you drive to work... 

[big grin]

 

[SittingElf]

And now, for some Texas humor...

There's also a T-cup and a P-cup.  What's the difference?  A T-cup is what you drink T out of, and a P-cup is what you drive to work... 

[big grin]

Let us not forget A,B,C, and D cups! [tongue]

I tend towards the former, rather than the latter! [big grin]

Frank

 

[teocaf]

I thought a P-cup is what you have in your pickup when you are trying to drive across Texas without stopping...
By the way, it takes 12 hours to drive across the great Lone Star state.  When I lived in the ol' western town of El Paso, it was just as quick to drive to San Diego, CA across New Mexico and Arizona, as it was to get to east Dallas.

 

[tbellemare]

Texas is bigger than France...

Tom

 

[bkharman]

I thought a P-cup is what you have in your pickup when you are trying to drive across Texas without stopping...
By the way, it takes 12 hours to drive across the great Lone Star state.  When I lived in the ol' western town of El Paso, it was just as quick to drive to San Diego, CA across New Mexico and Arizona, as it was to get to east Dallas.

Since this thread has veered waaaaay off corse, this reminded me of that crazy lady the wore diapers and drove from FL to TX to kill someone!!

Ingenuity

 

[Mort]

She was an astronaut. I wonder if NASA uses metric or standard?

 

[semenza]

Starbucks is world wide? Who'da thunk it?  [tongue]    Just running with the cup vs cup vs tea vs coffee idea. I agree, over roasted.

I am curious though ......... in the US every gas station and just about every other business has coffee available. Even if there wasn't a Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts on every corner it would be pretty easy to get coffee almost anytime anywhere. How universal is that?  At least in countries where coffee drinking is prevalent.

Seth

 

[Kev]

Starbucks is world wide? Who'da thunk it?  [tongue]    Just running with the cup vs cup vs tea vs coffee idea. I agree, over roasted.

I am curious though ......... in the US every gas station and just about every other business has coffee available. Even if there wasn't a Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts on every corner it would be pretty easy to get coffee almost anytime anywhere. How universal is that?  At least in countries where coffee drinking is prevalent.

Seth

Pretty sure the stuff you guys over there drink isn't coffee [huh] about the only place I had a half drinkable coffee was in NY, with the emphasis on half [wink]

 

[semenza]

Pretty sure the stuff you guys over there drink isn't coffee [huh] about the only place I had a half drinkable coffee was in NY, with the emphasis on half [wink]

Yeah, a lot of it is pretty bad.  [sad]

Seth

 

[bkharman]

I totally agree that the coffee at Starbucks is too acidic and just doesn't taste good. I am lucky that within 5 miles of me (8 clicks to keep this thread related) there are three chaps (not Chavs) that have excellent coffee. I usually go for espresso when it is decent, which is also hard to find sometimes.

We now return you to the nonsensical, global banter which is Metric vs. Imperial.

Cheers. Bryan.

 

[charley1968]

Wasn't the Challenger disaster due to some f...-up between metric and imperial. Or was it some mars-lander?

 

[Sparktrician]

And now, for some Texas humor...

There's also a T-cup and a P-cup.  What's the difference?  A T-cup is what you drink T out of, and a P-cup is what you drive to work... 

[big grin]

Let us not forget A,B,C, and D cups! [tongue]

I tend towards the former, rather than the latter! [big grin]

Frank

Then let's put me right in the middle, please.  [tongue]

 

[bkharman]

This is the first thing that came to mind during this discussion.

 

[Davej]

And now, for some Texas humor...

There's also a T-cup and a P-cup.  What's the difference?  A T-cup is what you drink T out of, and a P-cup is what you drive to work... 

[big grin]

Let us not forget A,B,C, and D cups! [tongue]

I tend towards the former, rather than the latter! [big grin]

Frank

Then let's put me right in the middle, please.  [tongue]

In the middle ! Would that be a B+ or a C-    [tongue]

 

[Paul G]

[big grin]Thanks to Shane for pointing this out.....very informative, and I see congress is pushing for the benefits for the US to go metrics I know this is all off topic from Festool but it shows that some guys aren't ready for metrics and complain to Festool why not imperial stickers put in..simply they are Germans and really designed for the European market. So don't expect them to speak English when they are German.

Well, when they are trying to make a buck (or is that a euro) in the US it helps to speak the language (or use the measuring system) of that market. I'm in the US, we use inches, we ask for tools to use inches, not sure why this surprises anyone. I'm not going to Germany and buying Festools there.

 

[Kev]

[big grin]Thanks to Shane for pointing this out.....very informative, and I see congress is pushing for the benefits for the US to go metrics I know this is all off topic from Festool but it shows that some guys aren't ready for metrics and complain to Festool why not imperial stickers put in..simply they are Germans and really designed for the European market. So don't expect them to speak English when they are German.

Well, when they are trying to make a buck (or is that a euro) in the US it helps to speak the language (or use the measuring system) of that market. I'm in the US, we use inches, we ask for tools to use inches, not sure why this surprises anyone. I'm not going to Germany and buying Festools there.

You really aren't being forced to buy Festool or any other metric calibrated tool that happens to find it's way into your parts of North America.

To be perfectly frank (no, not Frank), I'm happy with either unit of measure and I don't really care if the instruction manuals are in German or English.

I can understand that some may be challenged by something that's new to them and in this case the metric system being new to some US FOG members, but you are aware that the tools with calibrations on them are metric in origin and still metric if not locally converted.

That's life on planet earth [big grin]

 

[Paul G]

[big grin]Thanks to Shane for pointing this out.....very informative, and I see congress is pushing for the benefits for the US to go metrics I know this is all off topic from Festool but it shows that some guys aren't ready for metrics and complain to Festool why not imperial stickers put in..simply they are Germans and really designed for the European market. So don't expect them to speak English when they are German.

Well, when they are trying to make a buck (or is that a euro) in the US it helps to speak the language (or use the measuring system) of that market. I'm in the US, we use inches, we ask for tools to use inches, not sure why this surprises anyone. I'm not going to Germany and buying Festools there.

You really aren't being forced to buy Festool or any other metric calibrated tool that happens to find it's way into your parts of North America.

To be perfectly frank (no, not Frank), I'm happy with either unit of measure and I don't really care if the instruction manuals are in German or English.

I can understand that some may be challenged by something that's new to them and in this case the metric system being new to some US FOG members, but you are aware that the tools with calibrations on them are metric in origin and still metric if not locally converted.

That's life on planet earth [big grin]

No one said we are forced to buy Festools, just like no one forced them to sell in the US. They chose to sell here and things here mostly work in feet and inches so it's not hard to understand that many folks here want tools with markings in inches. Not sure why folks in other places get their buns in a knot over it.

 

[DrD]

Been reading this for a couple of days now.  It would appear that there are/were 2 simultaneous threads about nearly the same thing - USA going metric and Arrogance of Festool.  I find these both somewhat amusing and a little alarming.  Take Texas for example - the 12th largest economy in the world, and that is only 1 of 50 sovereign States within the USA.  Granted Germany is probably still the 4th largest economy - bolstered greatly by USA sales of Mercedes Benz, VW & all that they own, BMW, and others including Festool, but I digress.  The great majority of teaching and technical publications emanating from the USA are done using imperial measurements.  Most USA citizens are not fluent in metric, most USA business are conducted using Imperial measurements.  Since there is a great pool of NAINA Festool products, one could surmise that Festool spends a good deal of resources in making "changes" in their products to be compatible and compliant with USA requirements.  Why then is it too much to ask for what is sold here to be marked in Imperial measurements?  Why should we, spending our money, bend to a "foreign" system, and some possible "arrogance"?  My BMW's and Infinity's - both made in native metric &/or Shakkan-ho metrics - come to the USA with Imperial metrics. 

Just my $0.02 (not Euros - I don't even have a Euro symbol on my Japanese-based computer keyboard).