Do you say "Turn right in 5,604 feet?"

[Angel And The Wolf]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

The fun thing about being navigator with me is that I still make those turns, tires howling.

When I go, I want to go like my grandfather, in my sleep....Not like the passengers in his car, wide awake and screaming!

[RedDevil]

I'm not totally opposed to basing units on the properties of the human body - provided they are weight or volumetric units.

[Xist]

Apparently multi-quote only works for three quotes. More than that seems to be unreasonable, but I will not allow that to stop me! In no particular order:

Originally Posted by Angel And The Wolf

Personally, my car says neither. I killed to voice. However, sometimes after my car is serviced at the dealership, I find myself driving at 100, until I return the speedometer readout to "MPH".

Unless my car sounded like William Daniels, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, or Douglas Rain, I do not want it talking to me. I usually turn off the voice on my GPS, but there are times that I would rather make turns and not hold a phone in my hand, glancing at it regularly.

My GPS had an accent for a while. Now it is in Spanish.

Originally Posted by Angel And The Wolf

The practicality of the Metric System is that it is Digital. multiplying by 10, 100, 1000, etc is far easier than multiplying by 9 (square feet in a yard,) 27 (Cubic Feet in a Square Yard,) and don't even get me started on Rods, Acres, and the other archaic units of land measure.

Furlongs, anyone?

I have never heard anyone use rods. I mentioned acres originally and Fat Charlie brought up furlongs. There are times when you want to divide by three or another number besides 10 and times when you want to divide by a multiple of 10. A mile factors down to 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 5 x 11. I do not know how often you want to divide by 11. There are 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 5 acres in a mile, so it is easy to divide that, but I knew someone that lived on a third of a mile.

That gets complicated.

What if you want a square property that is an acre? Everybody knows there are 43,560 square feet in an acre! Well, that square would be 208.71032557111303591192697393256 feet on each side, or 208 feet, 8 inches, 33.53/64ths.

Yeah. Weird.

I think they could have picked more efficient numbers.

Also, California is on fire. How much has burned? Tens of thousands of acres.

So... how much as burned? How many people really know how big an acre is?

Originally Posted by RedDevil

I'm not totally opposed to basing units on the properties of the human body - provided they are weight or volumetric units.

How many kilometers per Average Human Bladder Capacity does your car get?

Originally Posted by Angel And The Wolf

When I go, I want to go like my grandfather, in my sleep....Not like the passengers in his car, wide awake and screaming!

I like that joke more when I tell it!

Seriously, how old is that joke? I think that I have been telling it for thirty years.

Originally Posted by Fat Charlie

Pancakes just aren't accurate enough. I measure kerf in crepes.

What is the definition for a pancake and what is the definition a crepe? When is a thin pancake a crepe and when is a thick crepe a pancake?

Every day I am surprised we are still discussing this!

[RedDevil]

Originally Posted by Xist

How many kilometers per Average Human Bladder Capacity does your car get?

Funny that you mention it.
I have one of these waiting to get assembled.
Now I'm tempted...

http://petrifieddesigns.blogspot.com/2015/03/toy-review-saltwater-powered-mini-eco.html


... to make it run on teardrops, of course

(I have to be careful with my words. Foot-in-mouth does not qualify as a volumetric unit)

[Xist]

How does sweat work as a fuel?

[RedDevil]

I don't want to know. Too much work makes me cry.