USA inability to switch to SI
This list contains unsorted jokes on USA inability to finally and completely switch to SI. Images are not ordered. Selected jokes are also in general section of metrology jokes.
Various metrology jokes on USA inability to switch to SI.
How to inform U.S. citizens of the benefits of using the metric system with the tried and true method of telling them: what's in it for them?
- Instant weight loss - 220 lbs to 99.8 kg
- Smaller waist - 42 inch waist to 1 meter
- Larger biceps - 14 inch to 35.6 cm
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Mars Climate Orbiter: The following metric cartoon was
published on 1999 October 04 in the Buffalo (NY, USA) News
following the accident of NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter. The
cartoon was reprinted in the 1999 Nov/Dec issue of Metric
Today with permission of the newspaper. The expensive
satellite crashed into the planet Mars because the
spacecraft expected thrust values in newtons while the
control center send a command in pound force.
Metric signs seen on roads in the U.S.A
Street name signs at the intersection of Metric Boulevard and
Centimeter Circle in Austin, Texas, USA (coordinates: latitude
30.38170205°, longitude -97.7146033°, sea level 226 m).
See on Google Map
Drug dealers
I was told USA is already adopting metric system. From the lowest levels of society. Try to ask some drug dealer for ounce of your favorite drug. No, he is selling in grams!
For example look at this article in New York magazine or at this study of drugs around Cleveland. It seems through international trade the unification will come.
List of countries:
The best joke is a list of countries considered as non-metric:
The United States (and its associated states the Federated
States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau), Liberia,
Myanmar.
How much energy...
“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic
centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of
energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1
percent of the difference between its freezing point and
its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same
amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.
Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much
energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of
water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly
relate any of those quantities.”
Inch worm
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Other metrology jokes on USA inability to switch to SI.
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Metric resistance (file: the_metric_resistance.jpg): The big fat whale. Alt text: Scientists, engineers, and drug dealers agree: the metric system is better.
Conversion exchange, coloured (file: conversion_exchange.jpg): Industry Week, 30. November 1981.
Conversion exchange, black and white (file: conversion_exchange2.gif): Hydrocarbon Processing, April 1981.
Foxtrot and American football (file: 11-23-08-foxtrot.gif Bill Amend, Foxtrot comic, 23. 11. 2008.
Inchworm (file: animals-metric_system-changes-changed-conversions-converts-bven527_low.jpg) copied from cartoonstock.com, cartoon by Bradford Veley.
The only reason to use inches (file: always_in_inches.jpg): originally published on bangcomix.com, unfortunately I do not have access to the site, therefore I couldn't find the author.
Three types of americans (file: carweb297system1.jpg and bonus panel carweb297system2bonus.jpg): Car & Friends by Matthew Allred at MAP Entertainments. Title text: "and when you put them all together you get a... pharmacist? "
Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum (file: abstrusegoose-terminal_sequelitis.png): Abstruse Goose, CC BY-NC 3.0 US. Title text: "I like making comics that complain about things that I really don't care that much about at the end of the day."
Mathematicians way of converting miles to km (file: mathematicians_way_converting_miles_to_km.jpg): Tamás Görbe on Twitter.
Why people like feet? (file: why_people_like_feet.jpg): probably Disguised Toast