Comments on: Take Me To Your Liter http://robertgerardhunt.com/2010/02/19/take-me-to-your-liter/ Stories. Commentary. Endorphins. Updated every Friday. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:55:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Robert Gerard Hunt http://robertgerardhunt.com/2010/02/19/take-me-to-your-liter/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Robert Gerard Hunt Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:59:49 +0000 http://robertgerardhunt.com/?p=614#comment-292 Good idea, CB. Better yet, let's roll out metric time gradually and start with the 5 day weekends now. Good idea, CB. Better yet, let’s roll out metric time gradually and start with the 5 day weekends now.

]]> By: Chortlesome Buckhead http://robertgerardhunt.com/2010/02/19/take-me-to-your-liter/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Chortlesome Buckhead Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:47:16 +0000 http://robertgerardhunt.com/?p=614#comment-291 That metric time is awesome! I can't imagine the backlash. 10 days in a week? Better get 5 day weekends. That metric time is awesome! I can’t imagine the backlash. 10 days in a week? Better get 5 day weekends.

]]> By: Robert Gerard Hunt http://robertgerardhunt.com/2010/02/19/take-me-to-your-liter/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Robert Gerard Hunt Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:53:47 +0000 http://robertgerardhunt.com/?p=614#comment-288 That reminds me of the following exchange from Terry Gilliam's "Brazil", in which government workers are repairing a circular hole in the floor of an apartment that has just been raided by the military for suspicion of terrorist activities: JILL There must be some mistake... Mr. Buttle's harmless... BILL We don't make mistakes. So saying, he drops the manhole cover, which is faced with same material as the floor, over the hole in the floor. To his surprise it drops neatly through the floor into the flat below. CHARLIE Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us That reminds me of the following exchange from Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”, in which government workers are repairing a circular hole in the floor of an apartment that has just been raided by the military for suspicion of terrorist activities:

JILL
There must be some mistake… Mr.
Buttle’s harmless…

BILL
We don’t make mistakes.

So saying, he drops the manhole cover, which is faced with
same material as the floor, over the hole in the floor. To
his surprise it drops neatly through the floor into the
flat below.

CHARLIE
Bloody typical, they’ve gone back
to metric without telling us

]]> By: derek http://robertgerardhunt.com/2010/02/19/take-me-to-your-liter/comment-page-1/#comment-287 derek Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:30:37 +0000 http://robertgerardhunt.com/?p=614#comment-287 With your 2 L soda bottle you have re-discovered a principle used in the successful metric changeover of the UK construction industry in 1969-75 : "Think metric. Don't convert". With your 2 L soda bottle you have re-discovered a principle used in the successful metric changeover of the UK construction industry in 1969-75 : “Think metric. Don’t convert”.

]]> By: Robert Gerard Hunt http://robertgerardhunt.com/2010/02/19/take-me-to-your-liter/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Robert Gerard Hunt Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:08:28 +0000 http://robertgerardhunt.com/?p=614#comment-277 Gee, that pushes my birthday into Michaelember then. Michaelember 15, I think. A Sunday! Gee, that pushes my birthday into Michaelember then. Michaelember 15, I think. A Sunday!

]]> By: Michael http://robertgerardhunt.com/2010/02/19/take-me-to-your-liter/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Michael Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:54:26 +0000 http://robertgerardhunt.com/?p=614#comment-276 The two liter bottle is an example of a common object we can use as a reference. If there were such references for other metric measurements then over time people would become familiar with them. The only other example I know of is the 750 ml bottle which has replaced the "fifth" in retail alcohol sales. The only problem there is that I don't think many people know that they are buying 750 ml and not a fifth. As far as the calendar, we need to go to 13 months of 28 days (364 days). The remaining day would be New Years Day which would be after the last day of the last month and before the first day of the first month. It would be two days long in leap years. This would mean that the 1st of the month would always be a Sunday, the 2nd a Monday and so on. Therefore, if you know the date, you know the day, making days of the week nearly obsolete. You wouldn't have "a case of the Mondays", it would be "a case of the 2,9,16,23rds". BTW, the thirteenth month would be Michaelember, and would be between July and August. Cause I said so. All rights reserved. The two liter bottle is an example of a common object we can use as a reference. If there were such references for other metric measurements then over time people would become familiar with them. The only other example I know of is the 750 ml bottle which has replaced the “fifth” in retail alcohol sales. The only problem there is that I don’t think many people know that they are buying 750 ml and not a fifth.
As far as the calendar, we need to go to 13 months of 28 days (364 days). The remaining day would be New Years Day which would be after the last day of the last month and before the first day of the first month. It would be two days long in leap years. This would mean that the 1st of the month would always be a Sunday, the 2nd a Monday and so on. Therefore, if you know the date, you know the day, making days of the week nearly obsolete. You wouldn’t have “a case of the Mondays”, it would be “a case of the 2,9,16,23rds”.
BTW, the thirteenth month would be Michaelember, and would be between July and August. Cause I said so. All rights reserved.

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