Measurements

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., lizscford at a... wrote:
> looks guilty...
> I'm only sixteen but when I look at something I find it easier to 
> think...'oh, that's about 6 inches' than thinking 'oh, that's about 
15 
> centimetres.…
> Also, when i'm doing Home ceonomics at school and we do cooking, our 
teacher 
> has refused point blank to use matric so we learn everyhting in 
imperial.
> To some extents I agree with her...I you're making a sponge cake 
it's easier 
> to remeber 4oz sugar, flour and fat and two eggs that whatever the 
equivilent 
> in grams and Kg is.  Science is the only place I use Kg and g...and 
KM to 
> think about it.  seriously, you can visualise a mile with ease...you 
know 
> exactly how long it would take to walk, drive cycle one mile. but 
who can do 
> the same with Kilomatres?
> the only use i see for the Metric system is it make equations easier 
in 
> Science.
> Overall i probably use a mixture of both Metric and imperial 
> wieghts/distances etc
> hmmm...this was a kinda babble-y message...but I'm sure people can 
find 
> something to lead on from it...

It is understandable that we tend to think in imperial units of 
measurement, because they are natural.  An inch is the first joint of 
the thumb; a foot is, well, a FOOT; a yard is the length of a pace; a 
mile is 1000 paces.  The meter, in contradisinction, is some fraction 
of the distance from the north pole to the equator on a line passing 
through Paris.  BLECCH!!

Haggridd