Metrics Explained

Originally Posted by blucatz

Did you come up with this all by yourself in between packing luggage for your trip? Do you ever tell these jokes to your wife, and does she laugh at them? Have fun and be carefull on your trip, watch out for falling beer bottles.....LOL

Originally Posted by AkMike

I'd be lucky if you tossed a full one.. Probably just the dead soldiers.

Originally Posted by nocomfortzone

I still struggle with comprehending for a nation that has essentially been the leading or biggest economical country for many decades you still live in the dark ages and don't use the metric system.

Makes no sense to me. Just get with the program and start using celsuis for temperature and litres, kilograms and kilometres

Originally Posted by AkMike

The biggest problem with converting is dinosaurs like me that don't want to get converted..

I have already spent a small fortune getting new metric tools and I held off as long as I could just because of the cost. I was able to get by using a bigger hammer to drive the wrenches and sockets on...

Originally Posted by nocomfortzone

Makes no sense to me. Just get with the program and start using celsuis for temperature and litres, kilograms and kilometres

Originally Posted by nocomfortzone

I still struggle with comprehending for a nation that has essentially been the leading or biggest economical country for many decades you still live in the dark ages and don't use the metric system.

Makes no sense to me. Just get with the program and start using celsuis for temperature and litres, kilograms and kilometres

Originally Posted by blucatz

Make a deal with you NCZ, we will change to the metric system if your country will change what side of the road you drive on......Deal?

Originally Posted by nocomfortzone

and stop calling your domestic baseball a "World" series,

Originally Posted by nocomfortzone

lol

and by the way, you guys are always living in the past.. catch up.. we always reach our day before you

Originally Posted by blucatz

But, our days last longer....4 time zones.

Originally Posted by BluesTraveler

We did have the Montreal Expos, and the Toronto Blue Jays so it was International at one point.

Originally Posted by BluesTraveler

We did have the Montreal Expos, and the Toronto Blue Jays so it was International at one point.

Originally Posted by BluesTraveler

6 time zones -- Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, & Hawaii.

Originally Posted by nocomfortzone

Maybe North American Baseball Championship would reflect it better.
Hey, do they still have teams from Canada in it ?

Originally Posted by BluesTraveler

6 time zones -- Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, & Hawaii.

Originally Posted by OzGuyLooking

Americans do sort of have metric but when everyone still calls the 350 chev a 350 chev and not a 5 point 7 litre chev you still have a long way to go. Even the new crate engine from GM Performance is called the 427 Gen4.

Originally Posted by blucatz

I don't know anyone still calling it a 350 anymore, everyone at the track I race at calls it a 5.7. Rule of thumb here is if it runs a carb, call it by cubic inches, if its fuel injected then its called the metric size. GM only calls it a 427 to attract the old school people who refuse new technology, plus, if you put one in a roadster or a rat rod, well then, makes more sense to call it a 427. I race Toyota's and I dont even call them by their metric size, almost everyone who races foreign cars call the engines by there Manufacture number, like 7mgte, 4agz, 22re and almost everyone knows what we are talking about.


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Originally Posted by blucatz

But, the 427 gen4 is a metric motor, all the parts are metric, the combustion chamber is referenced by cubic centimeters. Only thing on the engine that is referenced by SAE is the bore and stroke. When it was manufactured, it was by metric measurements for preciseness. And we have been using metric in cars since 1976 on the emission control systems, full metric by 1980, (except for GM, they mixed it up till about 1982).

Originally Posted by blucatz

Thats what Im saying, they may get it first, but we own the sun longer. We just let them use it before us to be polite.....

Originally Posted by BluesTraveler

We still have Toronto. They are seriously thinking of adding Puerto Rico. Maybe some of the Japanese teams might play some more games against US teams. And if Cuba ever becomes free again, they would be great to add to mix.

I think the only time you really see a goo mix of international teams for baseball, basketball, etc... is during the Olympics.

Yes us Americans call our Basketball team the World Champs, when the only non-USA team is Toronto.

Originally Posted by nocomfortzone

Baseball on the other hand I actually could watch but yeah, I know it is only really a major sport in America but don't know a whole lot about island nations like Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Originally Posted by nocomfortzone

I suspect in years to come we will have some players from South Africa...

Originally Posted by nocomfortzone

actually I remember one of the coaches out here experimented with some american in one of the clubs... he never made it into the senior team but in one of the lower grade games where he was learning he did something really funny... he picked up the ball and ran the wrong way without bouncing the ball and I think the players on both teams after a few moments just looked at him thinking what the **** is this guy doing....lol...I think his brain did a back flip and he thought he was playing gridiron for a moment...here you cannot run more than 15 *metres* without either kicking the ball or bouncing it. He went way over that and he was also going the wrong way with the ball tucked under his arm which no one does here...lol... I think they kind of gave up the experiment on him soon after...lol.. that was embarrassing

Originally Posted by OzGuyLooking

Former Australian Cricket Captain Alan Border played Baseball for years before trying Cricket.

Originally Posted by blucatz

But, our days last longer....4 time zones.

Originally Posted by AkMike

Just how do you count 4 time zones??? I count 9 for the USA. Just the few down there on the flat lands? Alaska has 5 time zones alone! But it was cut down to 2 to make it easier politacally easier. And Ak actually starts the day earlier than the Ossies or Brits. We have a couple of islands at the end of the Aleutians that are on the other side of the international date line.