I see, thanks for the explanation, it can prevent embarrassing situationsOriginally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin
Still, I share The Wizard's opinion. Perhaps the inch and foot system was useful in 1500 AD but it's no longer pertinent.
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I see, thanks for the explanation, it can prevent embarrassing situations
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I'm 6'. Which I'm content with-not too short, but not too tall. It's a nice height.
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5'11.8" You can tell I'm craving that 6ft height.
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5'8", still growing though. I guess the cereals do work
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approximately 1.80 Meters, have no idea what that is in feet .
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The English system is horrible (I believe that is what it is called.). The metric system is far superior...
I know my height in feet because my parents are both 5'8" and I am 2-4 inches taller than them.
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5'4" and I think I'm shrinking.
Had to check to make sure the thread wasn't "How big are you"
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Metric is for schools, Imperial is for measurements of the body, gold, meat, and everything else... Imperial stimulates the mind, because there is more arithmetic required (12 inches = 1 foot, 3 feet = 1 yard, 1760 yards = 1 mile, not 1000mm = 1m)
I am 5' 11", and growing...
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Metric is far more accurate and there is no reason why it couldn't be used for everything. Because you do not use fractions with the metric system it is much easier to do measurements.
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Actually, that's about average, if you catch my drift
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Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin
6' is tall, 6" is short. " means inches and ' means feet. Therefore everyone in the really short club is under half a foot tall.
See why it is the really short club?
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
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5'11"
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exactly, so it decays the minds of those taught to use it, whereas Imperial stimulates the mind.
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
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5'11"
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aghhh I measured my height recently and I have it all wrong, I am 5'4.5'' and I am damn short...unfortunately, I am 2'' taller than both my parents...my brother is 5'10'' which is strange
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1 inch of six foot for the past 6 months and i'm getting angry at the sheer thought of it
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb...
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But couldn't you stimulate the minds of the students with other things such as the material for which they need the metric system?
Most people I know use the Imperial system and trust me it stimulating their minds does not help them....
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"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
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