Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
That's both sad and hilarious at the same time.
Which part?

The part where we went from base-12 to base-10 coinage and our score in Maths (which used to be very high internationally) declined, or the part where I build in inches?

The word challenges is all over that page, do you think everyday air travel should be made more dangerous by introducing more challenges? I suggest we begin by removing all police and body scanners from airports and itroduce sextants instead of GPS. Because hey, in the Middle Ages, airports didn't need police either!
OK - for the last fucking time, and I'm getting really angry now, I am not suggesting we start using Sextants on planes. HOWEVER it is a matter of historical fact that aerial navigators did prior to the advent or more modern positioning systems, it is also a fact that the astrologically based Nautical Mile would be easier to work with when navigating using astrological observations and a compass rather than a GPS. Now, at no point did I say we should turn off the GPS receivers and use sextants, I merely pointed out that before you decide to be so smug about the metric system you should consider how royally fucked a lot of modern navigators would be if they had to use Trig Table, a compass, a Sextant and a piece of paper.

Oh hey, it's the Middle Ages again, where a loving god, whose son said to love your enemies, told us to go slay all the brown people and conquer their land and follow the personal ambitions of a dozen kings whom he all selected as rulers of men and then told to try and kill eachother.
Now I get it, makes perfect sense.
You know what, I really want to pick apart all the historical fallacies in this but I know you've seen me write at length about religion, heresy, theory of kinship and the Crusades

So I'll just point out that I was joking, although there are political and cultural motivations behind metrication.

I mean, really, we should convert back to the Roman System.

I'm sure you are the only very special snowflake who is like that.
You really shouldn't mock Greyblades, he's just going through that phase.